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THE GAZETTE.
By EDGAR SNOWDEN.
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EIGHT DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Important News.—Great success oj Donna Ma -
ria's cause—Settlement between Don Miguel
and Don Pedro—Don Carlos fied to England.
By the packet ship Sylvanus Jenkins, Capt.
Coffin, which sailed from Liverpool on Sunday,
the 11th May, the editors of the New York Dai
ly Advertiser are put in possession of London
and Liverpool papers to the 11th inclusive, be
ing eight' days later than any previous date.
The news is of a most decided character: it ap
pears that the long contest between the two
brothers in .Portugal was about drawing to a
close, ah<rtftat Don Carlos, by his flight to Eng
land, would no longer keep Spain in a state of
agitation. The Liverpool Journal of the 10th
Mav savs:
We have great pleasure in announcing the
probable cessation of hostilities in the peninsu
la. The Lord Nelson, in five days from Lis
bon, has arrived at Dartmouth, with news that
the Pedroites had taken Figuera: that Coimbra
had declared for Donna Maria: that the whole
of the road from Oporto to Lisbon was open to
the Pedroites; and that Don Miguel and Don
Pedro had come to a settlement, an armistice
having been agreed to. Nor is this all: a tele
graphic despatch was received at Paris on the
6th instant, stating that Don Carlos had em
barked for England; it also corroborates what
we have above mentioned respecting Portugal;
for the despatch says, “ The affairs of Portugal
have been arranged between Don Miguel and
Don Pedro.” These letters by the Lord Nelson
confirm the fact respecting Don Carlos, and say
that he had placed himself under the protection
o( the English.
The news reached Paris from Bayonne, whi
^ ther it had been brought by the French secreta
** ry of legation, who had left Madrid on the 3d
instant. Coming to us from two sources, be
sides its extreme probability, we are inclined to
give it every credence. We understand that
i t the ratification of th$ convention between the
four Powers would be immediately and finally
executed.
The Irish Tythes Bill, as it is called, came up
for discussion in Parliament on the 6th, and on
deciding for a second reading the vote stood
288 to 52; majority in favor 196.
- ^ • The letters from Paris, of Tuesday’s date,
bring the prices of the French funds very firm,
the five per cent. Rentes having closed at £105
45c., and the three per cents at £79 25c. Spa
nish Cortes bonds, which closed at 30 8-4. The
Portuguese Regency bonds were at 77.
Reduction of the Four per Cents.—Public an
nouncement has at length been made of the
plan for the reduction of the 4 per cents.*
Of this plan, in the form now proposed, a fa
vorable opinion is generally expressed in the
city, as a plain, straight-forward measure,“ma
nifesting a proper confidence in the resources
of the country, and not threatened with any
serious objections or difficulties in the course
of its execution. It is obviously indispensable
to its success that the 3 1-2 per cents, should
rise to par at the least, as all persons would
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Ulllvl v> lOU vv-if VI JiVlij UI1U
V in this there are some persons certainly who
anticipate difficulty; but we suspect that the
measure has been prepared with too much fore
sight to leave any probability of it, and that a
command of money is in reserve far greater
than there are likely to be dissentients to call
for. At present there is an actual advantage
to be made in the sale of 4 per cents, and by in
vesting the money in the existing 3 1*2 per cents
of about 3-8 per cent.; but a few operations of
this kind would soon do away with that advan
tage, and bring the stocks to the same level.
The union of the new stock with the large mass
of the existing 3 1-2 per cents, though the divi
dends are payable at a different quarter of the
year, is held to be a judicious feature of the
measure, and has been adopted, without doubt,
because the other class of 3 1-2 per cents are re
deemable at the will of the government; while
• the others, with the 4 per cents now converted,
are not redeemable till the year 1840. A fur
ther conversion, therefore, and on a much
larger scale than this, is^Doked for early in the
next year,— Times.
The Dublin papers report that Mount Tren
chard, in the County of Limerick, the seat of
Mr. Spring Rice, has wilfully been set fire to,
and burned to the ground. We hope, “ for the
honor of old Ireland,” that the report is with
out foundation.
Trades' Union.—The tailors, as well as jour
neymen of other trades, are becoming dissatis
fied with the unions. Six, who lodged in one
house, returned to their work on Wednesday
morning, after having lost, by their strike, two
pounds fifteen shillings each man.
The king of Denmark has issued an ordnance
abolishing all distinction in his colonies between
the whites and men of color; the latter, having
proved himself of irreproachable character for
three years, is to be declared free, and allowed
all the political and civil lights as the white po
pulation.
Mr. Audobon was at Liverpool, where he vis
ited the Zoological Garden.
An incident of a serious nature had occurred
at Toulon, during the celebration of the King’s
* Fete. A general salute was fired—two of our
frigates in port paid the same compliment to
the day. In firing from the Constellation it
was forgotten that one of the guns was shotted,
and going off the ball entered the Suffern—one
of the balls passed through a port hole, killed a
sailor, carrying away the leg of another—some
of the shots also entered the hull of the vessel,
wounding and injuring several by the splinters,
who were obliged to be sent to the hospital.
Mr. Humann intended to resign his office
as Minister of Finance, but had been prevailed
upon to remain until the new elections were
over.
The Earl of Burlington died, in his Slst year,
on the 19th ult.
Gen. Goblet has been refused to be received
as Minister from Belgium at the Prussian Court
—they considering him a deserter from the
King of Holland.
The Ottoman Government were about to
commence a strict blockade of the Isle of Sa
mos.
Mr.- O’Connell expresses a desire to retire to
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private life, on the condition that pacific meas
ures be extended to Ireland.
Death of the Catholic Archbishop of Tuam.—
Died, at Albano, near Rome, on the 18th A?
pril, the Most Rev. Dr. Oliver Kelley, the ven
erable, reverend, and pious Archbishop of Tu
am.
It is reported in Paris that the new Spanish loan
has been taken, but there does not appear to
be any positive information from Spain that
such is the fact.
Extraordinary News from Van Diemail's
Land.—The legisiative council, by a majority
of one, the Lieutenant Governor being that
one, has passed an act, by which the duty
of ten per cent, ad valorem on goods and mer
chandize imported into Van Dieman’s Land,
has been changed to a duty of ten per cent.,
not ad valorem, that is to say, not on the in
voice or cost price. The greatest agitation pre
vails among the merchants and inhabitants of
Hobart Town.
In the Commons, on Thursday, Lord Althorp
made an announcement which was received
with great applause by the house, and will be
hailed writh satisfaction by the country. He
stated that government had determined to
grant pensions of £70 a year to the widow of
Mr. Richard Lander, the African traveller, and
of £50 a year to his infant daughter.
IRELAND.
Investigation at Newcastle—Disgraceful pro
ceedings.—Sunday last the Solicitor-General,
Mr. Crampton, arrived in this city from Dublin,
and proceeded to investigate the circumstances
attending the recent conflict between the mili
tary, police, and country-people, on tythe duty,
in which three lives were lost at Fehoonagh.
Monday, the inquiry commenced in the Session
House of Newcastle, the Solicitor General pre
sided, assisted by Alfred Furlong, Esq., and Ma
jor Sullivan, magistrates. It was an open court,
and the investigation perfectly free. The town
was full of country-people, and the circumstance
of Monday being the fair day of Newcastle, if
possible added to the multitude, which crowded
the streets, and surrounded the court. At the
adjournment of the court on Monday, Mr.Vokes,
Mr. Smith, police magistrate, and a few of the
constabulary, proceeded towards the hotel, and
in passing Bridge st., where dense masses of
country people were collected, a volley of stones
was let fly at Mr. Vokes and his attendants, and
continued without intermission until, by the
greatest good fortune, he was enabled to gain
the hotel, pressed upon in this desperate crisis
by a ferocious mob, who surrounded the house,
and momentarily threatened to rush in upon
their victims, and stone them to death. With
great difficulty, Mr. Vokes contrived to send a
private message to the officer commanding the
military force in the town, acquainting him of
the danger, and he instantly hastened to the
scene, drawing up a company of the 85th on
the quay before the hotel; reinforced by an offi
cer and sixteen men of the 7th Dragoon Guards.
Even this military display did not intimidate
! the riotous assembly, and many stones were
thrown at the soldiers, which struck their caps
and frequently their legs. Showers of missiles
were also directed at Mr. Vokes and the police.
This audacious outrage was committed with
impunity under the eyes of the Solicitor-Gene
, ral. The dragoons were pelted with stones in
I the streets and from the windows. The win
dows of Chief Constable Gi ant’s house were
dashed in with stones, and the military were
obliged to go there for his protection. Major
Sullivan, the Magistrate, had his hat knocked
olF in the streets.
The Solicitor-General repaired, with Alfred
Furlong, Esq. to the Castle of Newcastle, and
returned the inquiry yesterday morning, when
Lieut. Todd, 85th, was again examined, who
proved that the firing at Fehoonagh village com
menced w’ith two policemen, and the military,
after Mr. Smith, police magistrate, had told him
that if driven to that unavoidable necessity by
their assailants, he should only fire by a front
rank from the section, which was strictly adher
ed to; and he added that the instant the escort
had passed the crossroad with their seizure and
prisoners, Mr. Vokes at once gave the word to
cease firing. The Solicitor-General’s investi
gation terminated yesterday evening.—Lime
rick Chronicle of Wednesday.
FRANCE.
The effects of the insurrection at Lyons have
, been felt at a great distance in France. At
Calais and Boulogne the net manufactories
have suffered severely. The goods sent to Ly
ons have remained unsold, and the bills drawn
in consequence have not been accepted. The
manufacturers, overloaded with goods, have
ceased to employ their men, excepting only one
for each machine, as necessary for keeping it
j in order.
Two grand camps are to be formed, one of
j 80,000 men, for manoeuvring in the environs of
j Lyons, and the other for the same purpose,
! near Paris and St. Omer.
| An opinion has been for some days prevalent
in Paris, that very serious differences had ari
i sen between the great European Powers. That
the late treaty of France, England, Spain, and
Portugal, and the tone taken by Switzerland in
reply to the representations of the Holy Alli
I ance, had determined the northern Sovereigns
to hold out in return menaces of hostility, which
neither France nor England would be tound
unprepared to resist. The opinion of the best
informed political circles in Paris was, never
theless, that war would actually take place.
PORTUGAL.
Don Pedro has informed the Pope that if the
excommunication of himself, the Queen, the
ministers, and their adherents, be tnot with
drawn, he will stop the revenue of the papal
see, £40,000, and cut off all communication.
Mr. Chester, the resident at Madeira,- has
written to declare that he has an order from L.
Howard de Walden to open all letters sent by
the Ringdove, and requests that the merchants
may not write politics. Is this English?
A correspondent of the Times writes that as
sociations are so frequent in the streets of Lon
don, that Englishmen cannot go out at night
without loaded pistols “ready primed.”
SPAIN.
The Queen has circulated to her diplomatic
agents at foreign courts copies of the statute
for the regulation of the Cortes, with a defence
of her liberal measures as necessary to prevent
Carlos from accomplishing his usurpation.
Carlos, in the meanwhile, addresses the peo
ple of Arragon from his palace at Villa Real,
urging them to defend his title to the throne.
There was an affair between the Carlist in
surgents and the government troops on the
27th, on the road between Colosa and Pampe
luna. A dreadful conflict is said to have taken
place on that occasion. The insurgent forces
were completely defeated and routed, and the
government, troops headed by Quesada and El
Pastor, entered Pampeluna.
UNITED STATES.
By the last accounts received from America
it would appear that the difficulties of the com
mercial world are not yet over; indeed, that the 1
height of the commercial crisis is not yet reach- 1
ed. The Senate lias decided, by a great majo
rity, that the conduct of the President, in with
drawing the government deposites from the
United States Bank, by which the embarrass
ment was first created, was illegal and uncon
stitutional, -while the House of Representatives
have come to a totally different conclusion. The
subject has occupied both Houses for the last
three months, and there is scarcely a town, a
district, a county, or a division of the Union
from which a petition or remonstrance has not
been sent to the government or to the legisla
ture on one side or the other. In the meantime
numerous failures are daily taking place. Great
enterprises of national improvement, such as ca
nals and rail roads, have been interrupted from
the difficulty of realizing their funds—manufac
turing industry has been arrested in its career,
and commercial credit in New York and other
large towns has been shaken to its basis.
EAST INDIES, &c.
The Governor General hks assumed the com
mand of the army in India by special appoint
ment.
The over-land despatch inform us, we regret
to say, the failure of Messrs. Cruttendon & Co.,
of Calcutta; and the Madras papers announce
the failure of Messrs. Frank, Cole, & Co.
Accounts were brought to St. Helena, by the
French ship Lydie, of a dreadful hurricane in
the Isle of France in the middle of January; the
crop was injured, and many vessels wrecked.—
The Intrepid, from Bengal, left St. Helena for
London on the 7th of March.
We have Canton Registers to the 5th of Dec.
They are full of the proceedings at home on the
India Company’s charter, on which subject in
tense anxiety had been expressed. Their latest
intelligence from England was by the Fairy, to
19th June.
We have Hobart Town Couriers to the 4th
of Oct.—The colony was laboring under a too
great plenty of emigrants, and a too great scar
city of money.
Late accounts, of an authentic nature, receiv
ed from Cochin China, state that kingdom to be
in a very disturbed state at present. An exten
sive insurrection prevails now at Saegen, the
capital of the southern and most fertile district,
and the Tanguenese are said to be in open re
volt against the King, who is reported tube a
m-o'if hrr'int
TURKEY.
Mehemet Ali, yielding to the advice of the
French and British Consuls at Alexandria, has
consented to recall the exiled Candiots, and to
restore to them their sequestrated property. A
conspiracy against him had been discovered at
Aleppo. Twenty persons, said to be implicated
in it, were, with a promptitude digne d’envie in
Europe, immediately executed. Two St. Si
monians, who had gone to Egypt in search of
the “ free woman,” and failed, had entered the
service of the Pacha.
SWITZERLAND.
A letter from Berne, dated the 29th of April,
,states that the Directory was about to convoke
the Swiss Diet, in order to submit to its consid
eration the ultimatum of the Austrian Govern
ment, relative to, political refugees, and the
measures which that power has deemed it ne
cessary to adopt in consequence of the asylum
granted to the refugees in some of the Swiss
cantons. The letter adds, that it was likely all
refugees would be ordered out of Switzerland,
if it was known that they would be received in
France.
BELGIUM.
General Evain retires from the War Depart
ment, and is to be succeeded by General Bazon,
who will have a seat in the cabinet, which was
not possessed by his predecessor. The resigna
tion of General Evain is entirely an act oF his
own will. He has long been disgusted with the
fatigues of office, and the various tracasseries
in and out of the Chamber, with which he had
neither inclination nor energy enough to grap
ple. General Bazon is active and intelligent, a
man who has risen rapidly, and seems fitted to
rise. He is, moreover, a Belgian, and one of
those “ Dutch deserters” whose best claim on
the country is the compliment paid them by the
calumny and hatred of the King of Holland.—
This appointment will be officially announced
as soon as the formalities for nominating the
Minister at War to a seat in the cabinet are
completed. There are no other news whatever.
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A GLANCE AT THE SENATE.
^ From, the Knickerbocker.
We have re-threaded the cork-screw galleries,
and are in the Senate Chamber. Here is a dif
ferent body from the one we have just left. The
senators seem older than the representatives;
but so many of these bald seniors exchange grey
heads for black ones, that it is difficult to deter
mine. They sit with their hats off—that’s bet
ter. They bustle about less—that is more agreea
ble, if you would hear a speaker. “Show me
the lions,” said I to my cicerone: “Where is
Van Buren, where is Clay, and Webster, and
Calhoun)” My first query was answered by
pointing to the Vice President’s chair. I should
have much to say of Mr. Van Buren; but they
have elevated him to a high office, which, like
all office^, has its drawbacks, and its disadvan
tages. “ He cannot figure,” said my guide, “ in
debate, his mouth is shut, unless opened to say,
‘the ayes have it,’ or ‘ the memorial is referred,’
or something of the like.” His manner is calm
and bland, and he presides with ease and digni
ty. And there he sits, with no opportunity for
display—thumping with his mallet, when the
galleries are out of order, having occasion on
ly to remark, now and then, ‘the question is so
and so,’ &c. The newspapers talk of his
shrinking, cowering, blushing. This is all the
veriest romance in the world. He lives in the
Senate like an embodied abstraction. He takes
. Clay’s jibes, and Webster’s thrusts, as the ghost
of Creusa received the embraces of iEneas. He
heeds them not. He leans back his head—piles
one leg upon another—and sits as if he were a
pleasant sculptured image, destined for that
niche all his life.
The massive forehead: those prodigious eyes:
those heavy shoulders: that iron built frame,
point out at Webster. How like Satan himself
he can look, and what a malicious smile! He
talks as if he were telling a plain story; not en
thusiastic, but concise and clear. His arm
comes up, as it lifted by a spring. He speaks
like one from the grave—so solemn and so se
vere. Anon the lion is aroused. What a voicet
The sentences leap into life—with well timed
metaphor, skilfully interwoven—all perfectly
wrought out. Yet Webster is a man of no ima
gination. He has a well disciplined taste; and
give him a clue to a figure, and he will trace it
out with force and beauty.
i nai sienaer-Duiu man, apparently aDout nrty
years of age, in a blue coat, with bright buttons,
a frizzly head, and an eye like a hawk, erect
and earnest, with mouth partly open—that is
Calhoun. He is not an orator—yet few com
mand so much attention—none more. His voice
is bad. His gesticulation is without grace. He
is zealous and enthusiastic, but without being
frantic. His apparent candor, earnestness, and
sincerity, command attention. His voice strug
gles in his throat, and you almost understand the
thoughts swelling there; and they soon rush out
as fast as words can convey them. He speaks
in debate, as a farmer in earnest would talk to
his boys, or a merchant to his clerks. He steps
about, stands here and there, looks at this man
and that— and ifa man looks inquiringly at him,
he asks, ‘ I am rigid, am I not?’—‘ But as I was
saying, this conservative principle.’—1 It hurts
me to talk to-day; I’ve got a cold,’ &c. This is
much the manner of Mr. Calhoun. If an idea
comes into his head, out it comes, without re
gard to rhetorical polish. Mr. Calhoun’s power
is in colloquy—animated conversation. Men
are willing to listen to a man who talks well,
whose declamation might be insufferable. Cal
houn links words together, bites off the last syl
lable—and oftentimes eats up, as it were, whole
sentences in the rapidity of his enunciation.
That tall, well-formed man, with a wide
mouth, and a countenance indicating every
change of thought within, is Clay. He has been
so often described, that I shall dwell upon him
briefly here. Nature made him an orator to
figure in a free government. In a despotism,
his. head would have reached the block, for his
impudence, before he was thirty!! He is good
at every thing: Nihil tetigit, quod non ornavit.
I have never heard such a voiee. It is equally
distinct and clear, whether at its highest key or
lowest whisper— rich, musical, captivating. His
action is the spontaneous offspring of the pass
ing thought. He gesticulates all over. The
nodding of his head, hung on a long neck, his
arms, hands, fingers, feet, and even his specta
cles and pocket handkerchief, aid him in de
bate. He steps forward and backward, and
from the right to the left, with effect. Every
feature speaks. The whole body has its story
to tell.
i riai is r orsycn wuri ins arms a-Kimoo, neaa
thrown back, spectacles on, laughing at what
somebody has to say, who is speaking over the
way. I cannot describe his figure, but it is a
handsome one. He is all ease and composure;
is never thrown olT his guard. He is ever rea
dy; and the less prepared, the better for the
fight. He eludes with the utmost skill all man
ner of weapons. No member of Congress is
better at the reconnoitering and skirmishing of
debate.
That tall, red-headed man, with a large man
ly figure, and full face, is Preston, the new
member from South Carolina. He looks as if
he had long lived under the rays of a Southern
sun. Preston is sui generis. He talks poetry
all in rich array, and gorgeous sentences.—
When there is a storm in the Senate, they hang
him out as a rainbow; and although the rough
clouds often darken his glittering hues, before
the storm is hushed, yet tempers are cooled, and
spirits are softened, by the dazzling arch, and*
the rich interlacing of it bow. His is unpreme
ditated eloquence. He does not, like Sheridan,
mark in his orations, the place to introduce
‘Good God! Mr. Speaker.’ The incidents of
debate suggest all his fine sentences. His ges
tures are admirable. No American orator is
more graceful—-few have more art; and yet few
understand so well the ars celare artem. Such
a man was necessary in the Senate. All the
kinds of eloquence that Cicero describes, are
now exemplified and illustrated in that body,
aml^no two are formed on the same model.
Felix Grundy is a happy man. There is not
a more jovial, benevolent face in Christendom,
than he wears. He was an actor upon the stage
of public life, long before my remembrance.—
His head is now all gray, and his step begins to
falter, and bears the marks of age, but his mind
has lost nothing of its vigor, and he none of
his humor. He is happy at a retort, skilful at a
thrust, and good humored, even in the angriest
debate. He has a mind happily tempered for
political warfare.
Leigh is a new-comer from Virginia; a round
thick built man, with a little sharp eye, that
snaps at times like a spark of fire. He is some
thing of a lion in the National Menagerie. Per
haps my metaphors may seem objectionable,
were it not that we ‘ Republicans’ have a right
>o talk of our ‘ Servants’ as we please. Wright
las a fine person and countenance. No one
exhibits more calmness and dignity, or more
larrowly wTatches the progress of debate.
BLANKS AND PAMPHLETS
Printed, with neatness & despatch, at this office
The first Exhibition of the Columbian w
ticultural Society closed on Friday Even’
with an excellent Address to a very crowd^f
and attentive auditory, from the Secret r,
of the Society, George Watterston, Esq. on ti ’
importance of Horticultural Pursuits, and v ‘
advantages, social, moral, and intellectual t
be derived from the study of nature, and a c„i
tivation of the various branches of NatUr
History connected with Horticulture. The nrr
moters of this Institution have much cause f
gratulation arid satisfaction at the success^
display they have thus made, almost at the yen*
commencement of their labors; and may h J
this first Exhibition as an earnest of the cellh
rity of future years. It will be left to the r
propriate Committees of the Society, to deta’i
the various excellencies in Flowers, Fruits a?!}
Vegetables, which the Society exhibited am] tG
award to those who produced them the meed of
praise for their laudable exertions. One thin r
however, must have struck the most unscientiff’
visiter, and that was, the beauty, good ta!te
and the fine general effect of the* Exhibition
The extensive and elegantly arranged codec
tion of Green-house Plants, many of them ran
and curious,- the beautiful Flower* displays
by female taste, in Pyramids, Vases and Bou
quets; the luscious and tempting Fruits; the Vc
getables of various kinds, and all excellent ft
their kind; the mellifluous warbling of the var
ous singing birds, appropriately placed ‘‘amid
embowering shrubs and close surrounding flo\"
ers;” the soft wailing of the Eolian Harp- t> f
occasional airs from the fine Marine band
and “ female beauty smiling o’er the scene”-’
all conspired to produce a coup d'azil perfect in
its kind, and which will belong remembered bv
the delighted visiters who thronged the Hall dur
ing the two days of exhibition.
On Saturday, the Society dined together at
the restaurant of Mr. Geusta—the President
Col. Towson, presiding, assisted by Vice Presi
dents Maxcy, Gales, and Mason; and, after
spending a social and agreeable afternoon re.
tired at an early hour.—Nat, Jut.
From the Williamsport (Md.) Banner, /<//>c 7
We have seldom seen the fields present a
more luxuriant appearance than they do at piv
sent. A few weeks ago the killing frosts and a
parching drought seemed to have cast a blight
over the vegetable kingdom; but the shower
and rains that have fallen with the last fortnight
have put a new face on-things. The crops&of
small grain promise an abundant harvest. The
fruit, however, is said to be generally destroyed
The Canal.—We have the pleasure of an
nouncingto our friends of the District of Colum
bia, that the Canal is open for navigation from
Washington to Hollman’s Dam, a point distant
from this place by land only 8 miles. The en
tire distance thus rendered navigable, is aboir
86 miles.
Numerous rafts of timber, and boats loaded
with Flour, Whiskey, Coal, &c. have passed
down this week, some bound to tide water, oth
ers for intermediate points. As yet, we have
not heard that any break in the banks have oc
curred since the water was let into the Canal
some weeks ago. The Aqueduct at this place
is nearly finished, as is indeed the entire 15
miles that were first put under contract near
this place. The entire distance of 7 miles be
low this, is completed, the contracts taken off
the hands of the contractors, and the Engineer
has let into it the small streams to test the secu
rity of the work prior to the general admission
of water from the river. We earnestly hope
that Congress will foster this great work; and
that we may yet live to hail a boat passing this
place, laden at Cincinnati, and bound to the
Metropolis of the nation!
Baltimore, June 10.
From France.—The ship Gulnare came up
last evening from Havre—sailed 30th April. An
intelligent gentleman, passenger on board the
Gulnare, states that it was currently reported at
Paris that Louis Philippe had pledged his pri
vate fortune to pay the American claims, shoulu
the Chamber of Deputies again refuse.—Chron.
Ilydrophiles.—A sect in Germany is about to
succeed the Ilomcepathics, called the Hydropbi
les, who hold to that part of Sangrado’s system
which pertains to the administration of water
All diseases are henceforth to be cured ba wa
ter—drowned for the salvation of the patient.
Charity, who resides at the public pump, wil
put up her sign, “ Drugs and Medicines,” “ ai
advice gratis.” ‘ Ho every one thut thirstrtii ’
Baltimore Oaz.
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count of the alleged discovei*y of the fossil rc
mains of a man of gigantic stature, in digging
the canal of Sopena, in that country. It i» said
to have been eighteen feet inlength, andtohav'
been found at a depth of eighteen feet. It wa
embedded in argillaceous earth and had become
petrified. The bones, veins and arteries were
distinguished. The account supposes these t *
be antedeluvian remains.
The existence of antediluvian human fossils
is one of the great problems of Geology, Spain
is the spot in which it is claimed that they hav»
been more than once discovered. Jn the pro
vince of Arragon, it has been contended tha
petrified human bones, and, in one instance,n
perfect petrified human skeleton, have been
found in a mass of animal petrifactions.
Among the numerous cases cited on thatsm
of the question, we do not find it stated that the
human remains were of any extraordinary size
The cellebrated Guadaloupe case, which ha
been relied on so strongly as proving the diluv
an theory of fossils by including the human race
among the remains, was of an ordinarily size
female, wanting the head, the right arm, ana
both feet, found embedded in a solid rock. I !■'
subject is one of much curious speculation
Those who, like ourselves, know little of the -*ci
entific traits of the controversy, yet like t“ re«v.
of the facts which are daily disclosed, concen*
ing the ancient constitution and changes of the
globe we inhabit, may find an account of the
principal instances of the discovery of supper11
human fossils, in the 13th chapter of a little: m1'
recently published by Key & Biddle,
phia, entitled, a “ General view of the Geo."g
of Scripture,” by Mr. Fairholme.
Bat into re A^eritC:
Nfrs. Clay, the lady of the lion. Henry
arrived in this City, from the Virginia sPsi:V~'.'
on Tuesday evening, and departed yr
morning for Ashland. We are sorry to ea1 ‘
that the health of Mrs. C., which was in 1 v _
precarious state when she* left \\ ashing/011’ ^
been but slightly improved by her visit to
Springs.—Maysville Eagle, June 9.
The Wayne county Herald says that the ^
Pigeons have made an encampment near«
mont in the northern part of Wayne eoun.
Ohio, which is at feast five miles in extent. *
said that the lines of this encampment are dia
with as much regularity" as if done by an exp
rienced engineer; and every tree and bush '' j|;
in them is literally covered with nests. 1 4
sands of pigeons are taken away dadv u
sportsmen.
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