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THE GAZETTE.!
By EDGAR SNOWDEN. __
Terms.
Daily paper $8 Per annum*,
Country paper . - - 5 per annum..
The ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE forthe coun
try is printed on Tuesday, Thursday, and
Saturday. . ...
All advertisements appear in both papers, anil
are inserted at the usual rates. _
OPIUM EATING.
Evils of Opium in South-Eastern Asia.
Batavia, March 25th, 1834.
Dear Sir,—A few evenings since, I accom
panied a friend to town, called on a respecta
ble Chinese merchant, and under his guidance
visited some of those places which are such a
powerful comment upon Jer. 17: 9. I wfas in
duced to this from a desire to witness a little
something of the degradation to which human
nature unchecked in its depravity, will stoop;
and also to learn, from actual observation.w-heth
er it was possible for the habitual use of any
other substance to be more deleterious on the
system, and more debasing to the morals, than
ardent spirit. . , ,
We first stopped before an open shed where
the gaping multitude were deriving gratifica
tion from witnessing the turnings, and twist
ings, and courtesyings of the body, and of the
arms, and ringing the hands, and writhing of
the countenance, and murdering of singing, of
a Malay “ dancing girl,” (so called.) Like all
of the craft she was decked out in gaudy, tin
sell’d finery, and accompanied with the small
Java drum, gongs, and other kinds of music.—
There are many who follow this mode of life,
and may be seen any day walking about
town, with half a dozen or more men and boys
as musicians in their train, with as much un
blushing impudence as the same depraved be
ings, under a different name, parade your own
city, and they exhibit their powers whenever in
vited. Although we often hear their music from
our house, yet the term “dancing girl” is here
only another name for that by which the refuse
females of the United States are designated.—
They are here the “filth of the world and the
off-scouring of all things,” and by way of
obtaining a livelihood, have no more than one
string to their bow. * * *
True it is, that none but the lowest class of
the native population attend these exhibitions,
but so frequently are they, that one can scarce
ly ride to town without seeing or hearing one,
two or more of them.
Not far from this place we found one of the
opium shops. And shall l tell all I saw in these
dens of vice—these anti-chambers of hell. 1 am
aware it exhibits the worst side of human na
ture, which at the best is bad enough; but the
truth must be told—not for the sake of shock
ing the sensibilities of the refined, but to show
the dealers in this drug how they are degrading
degradation itself, adding fuel to the evil passions
that are consuming the spark of goodness in
the human heart, hurrying souls by thousands
where the smoke of their torment will ascend
for ever and ever.
in a mue irom suop, cuumj
other parts of the building, were two counters,
behind which four Chinese men were dealing
, out the poison, ready weighed and folded up in
parcels, as rapidly as they could count the mo
ney. The crowd was great. Here a fine look
ing half cast Chinese woman, who ashamed
shrunk back into the shade as we came in: there,
a ragged, miserable object, with all the bold
ness 'and alacrity of promised sensual gratifi
cation, seized the precious parcel as if it con
tained a life lease. Here a hard laboring me
chanic, who seemed to be laying down in the
handful of silver the purchase of a kingdom:
there another, who a stranger would suspect
would have dried many a tear, had he expend
ed his money at the baker’s or the butcher’s.
Each came and went as rapidly as a desire for
a tuste of “ the good creature” could impel
them. It was not unlike a scene which every
inhabitant of Massachusetts has in former years
witnessed, who has spent hall an hour about
the time of sun rise at a country grog shop, ex
cept that the impatient eagerness and the wick
edness of appearance were as much more as
the crowd was greater. Close beside this was
another front shop, rather larger. The walls
were black with smoke, and all was as filthy as
unmitigated nastiness could make it. The smo
ky, dingy atmosphere, which almost suffocated
the lamps and prevented their rays from ex
tending across the room, together with the no
less dingy countenances and half naked bodies
of the natives; would have precluded the neces
sity of imagination, had Virgil been there, in
painting a “ Descensus Averni.” Near the door
were some dozen Chinese cleaning the pipes
which had been used in the house, and selling
the vile trash to those who were too poor to
procure the pure and costly poison. From this
__nnrrrtu/ arrhed wavs lead back
into the more private recesses. These consist
ed of rooms about sixteen feet square, dimly
lighted, black, dark, smoky, dirty, connected
by the same small arched ways or long narrow
passages. Each contained from two to four
bally bally’s,* a few of which are enclosed. In
these were from one to four men, with a “ girl
of the house” to prepare the opium, light -the
pipe et cetera. Through the whole range of
apartments there was no circulation of air—foul
as it was, it remained from day to day and from
night to night unchanged, save but by the fumes
of the intoxicating drug, as it poured from the
mouths and nostrils of the congregated multi
tudes, after having been retained on the nerves
as long as respiration could bear. But darker
yet were the minds and hearts of these votaries
of sensuality, and more foul and polluted the
words they spake. Malays, Chinese, &c., men
and women, old and young; in one heteroge
neous mass; some just entering upon the sha
dowy dream; others unconscious to all around;
others just rising from their stupor only to again
annihilate existence; others still engaged in
deeds that dark walls and darker hearts should
never pollute the pure light of day and purer
hearts of the upright, by revealing. Here some
tottering on the brink of the grave; there others
in the prime of life and the heat of youthful
blood. Here some loathsome in disease; there
others ruddy in health—all mingled in one com
mon herd, wallowing in their filth, beastly,
gross, sensual, devilish. Oh! it was seemingly
an anti-chamber of hell! It was human na
ture in the utmost loathsomeness of depravity,
given over to delusion in life, and rushing on to
(but let them settle their account with their
Judge) after death.
* A bally bally is a Malay sleeping place, ge
nerally bamboo, and raised two feet from the
floor or ground. They are from five to eight
feet square.
CALCULATING MACHINE.
The 120th number of the Edinburgh Review
contains an article of 65 pages on the applica
tion of machinery to the calculation and print
ing of mathematical and astronomical tables.—
The inventor of this wonderful machinery,
which however is yet incomplete as to its con
struction, is Mr. Charles Babbage, Lucasian
Professor in the University of Cambridge,—the
chair formerly occupied by the immortal New
ton. The reviewer states that notwithstanding
the interest with which this invention has been
regarded in every part of the world, it has ne
ver before been embodied in a written, much
less in a published form. He therefore takes
some credit to himself for being the first to make
the public acquainted with “ the object, princi
ple, and structure of a piece of machinery,
which, though at present unknown, except as
to a few of its probable results, must, when com
pleted produce important effects, not only on
the progress of science, but that of civilization.”
He appears to have entire confidence in its
eventual completion, and triumphant success.—
The delay which has been experienced in bring
ing it to its present state of advancement, he
thinks is by no means discouraging, when it is
considered that only the improvements introdu
ced into the steam engine by the celebrated
Watt, occupied a period of not less than 20
years of his life, and involved an expenditure
of r.anital amounting to £50.000.
The first part of the article is taken up in
showing the immense importance of any me
thod by which numerical tables, absolute accu
rate in every individual copy, may be produced
with facility and cheapness. In illustration of
this point allusion is made to the great number
and variety of tables which have been publish
ed in different countries, and the prevalence of
errors, to a greater or less extent, in the best of
them—even those on which national resources
have been prodigally expended, to which the
highest mathematical talent which the most en
lightened nations of the world could command,
has been unsparingly and systematically direct
ed. A catalogue of Tables contained in the li
brary of one private individual in England,
comprises no less than one hundred and forty
volumes, none of which are duplicates. In for
ty of these volumes, taken at random, it was
found that the number of errors acknowledged
in the respective errata, amounted to above
i three thousand and seven hundred! A set of
! numerical tables prepared under the patronage
! ofthe French Republic,and in which about 100 of
I the best mathematician- in France were engag
' ed, occupied in manuscript, seventeen folio vol
umes. The printing of them was commenced
by Didot, and a small portion was actually
stereotyped, but never published. Soon after
the commencement of the undertaking, the
sudden fall of the assignats rendered it impos
sible for Didot to fulfil his contract with the go
vernment. The work was accordingly aban
doned, and has never since been resumed.
Under the next head, the reviewer explains
the mathematical principle on which the calcu
lating machinery is founded, and the manner in
I which this principle is brought into practical
'operation, both in the processor calculating
and printing. This part of the article occupies
no less than 39 pages. Of course it would be
idle, w ithin the limits of a newspaper paragraph,
to attempt an illustration of that which, in the
hands of an adept, requires the compass of a
moderate .volume. All we can say is, that the I
starting-point of the invention wras the discove-:
ry or adoption of a common principle pervad-1
ing numerical Tables of every description; so
that by taking such a principle as the basis of
the machinery, a corresponding degree of gen
erality would be conferred upon its calculations.
The principle related by Mr. Babbage as the
basis of that part of the machinery which cal
; culates, is the Method of Differences; and he
has in fact, says the reviewer, actually thown this ;
mathematical principle into wheel-work. For j
an explanation both of the principle and the
machinery on which it is brought to bear, we
must refer the reader to the article itself. The j
infallible printing selected, is by an appendage
to the calculating machinery, which moves si
multaneously with it, and punches in a plate of
copper underneath, the figures indicated by the
calculating part.
In the last part of the article, the reviewer in
forms the public what is the actual state of the
machinery at the present time, and what pro
gress has been made towards its completion.
Some idea of the extent of labor and thought
expended on its production, may be gathered
from the fact, that the drawings executed previ
ous to its construction, cover above a thousand
square feet of surface, and that some of them are j
! of the most elaborate and complicated descrip-:
I tion. The calculating machinery, the reviewer ,
states, has now attained a very advanced stage
towards completion. A portion of it has been
! put together, and performs various calculations, j
j —affording a practical demonstration that the
i anticipations of those under whose advice the
i Government acted in encouraging the under
taking, were well founded.—N. Y. Jour. Com.
| TO JOURNEYMEN CORDWAINERS. |
ONE Journeyman Boot Maker, one upon
Shoes, and one upon Ladies’ work, will find
employment by applying to
| sept 25_J. H. WHITE.
TIMOTHY SEED! TIMOTHY SEED!
THE subscriber has just received from the
upper country a supply of New Timothy
Seed, very clean and heavy, which he offers for
sale, sept 24 JAMES D. KERR.
$300 REWARD.
ESCAPED from Fairfax Jail, on Sunday
night last, three Negro Men—GEORGE, i
a mulatto, 32 years old, about 6 feet high: JO- ■
SHUA, a dark mulatto, 22 years old. about 5 |
feet 10 or 11 inches high; has lost a finger from
one of his hands: BILL, or BILLY STEEL,
30 or 35 years old, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high,
dark complexion, stout made; a cook and gar
dener by profession. Bill was recentiy pur
chased from Daniel F. Dulany, of this county.
George, who is a good carpenter, cooper, and
rough shoemaker, we purchased from Mr. John
Dulin, also of this county: George has a white
wife living in Alexandria, where we think he
will make some short stay, and then endeavor
to get to some free State, perhaps accompanied
by his wife. Joshua was purchased from Col.
Wm. Elzey, of Leesburg, Loudoun county.
The above reward of 3 hundred dollars for all,
or one hundred dollars will be paid for each or
either of said negroes, if taken in any free State
so that we get them again; or twenty dollars
for Bill, and fifty each for George and Joshua,
if taken elsewhere. C. P. POOL,
JOHN H. POOL,
Fairfax Court House, Va.
I sept 24-tf [Nat. Intel. 4tl__
FOUND,
ABOUT two weeks since, near West End, on
the Turnpike Road, a small SILK PARA
SOL; the owner of which will please apply to
1 sept 23 WM. D. NUTT.
TAXES IN ENGLAND.
The Westminister (London) Review abounds
in searching articles on the abusesof tthe B -
tish Government, one of which, in the ****"“ ”
ber, No. 41 for July, is entitled Aristocratic Tax
ation, whose object is to show that the landed
Aristocracy who have always had the making
of the laws, have so laid the various taxesi that
they fall lightest on the wealthy. The article
contains much curious and valuable informat.on,
showing the great injustice and oppressive
effects of graduating taxes by quantity and
not value. . . . , ,
The revenue of Great Britain maybe classed
under three heads, viz,—customs and excise, or
taxes levied on consumable articles foreign and
domestic; the direct taxes, and the stamps.
The writer begins with examples from the cus
toms and excise; and first Tobacco. Virgin
inia ordinary, and fine, and Maryland fine yel
low oay each the same duty, viz: tluee shillings
per pound; while the price of the first per pound
is three pence; so that, the man w ho can afford
to buy Maryland fine yellow, pays to Govern
ment a tax at the rate of two hundred and forty
per cent; he whose means will not allow him
to go beyond Virginia fine, pays at the rate of
six hundred per cent; while the poorest of the
three, who can only buy V irginia ordinary, pays
twelve hundred percent; and finally the epicure,
who indulges in a fine Havana segar, pays only
one hundred and five per cent.
The next article cited is sugar. All colonial
sugars pay a duty of twenty four shillings per
cw~t. The finest quality costs seventy one slifl
lings, and the common twenty-five, so that the
man who uses the cheapest pays to government,
in proportion to the cost of this article which has
become a necessary, nearly three times as much
as he w'ho uses the dearest.
The tax on soap operates with similar ine
... .1 .1 . ,, __ii
quamv, su sap uiv ** •
Trades’ Unionist who washes his face with
brown soap, pays double the duty of the fine
lady for whom he keeps a carriage out of his
bread.” But in addition to this, the raw mate
rials of which soap is made are taxed, and also
unequally. Truly, a government must be hard
pushed which lays a tax on soap. “ It is,” says
the Westminister in one of its pungent com
ments, “a tax on cleanliness,—a bounty on nasti
ness,—imposed by those who are pleased to
designate the peole ‘the unwashed.’ ”
The excise duty on glass and the duty on
timber are graduated on the same unjust princi
ple. The specific duty on wines from France
and Portugal is five shillings and six pence per
gallon, the operation of which is, that the man
who drinks inferior port, pays at a rate of one
hundred and sixty-five per cent., while he who
enjoys ‘ very superior old,’ pays only seventy
eight. On claret the difference is still greater.
The same with spirits and with tea.
The direct taxes are regulated on the same
principle, in proof of which it is stated that the
land tax is only a little more than one million
sterling, less than it occasionally amounted to
two centuries ago. Of all sources of revenue,
says the Review, the least oppressive is a tax on
rent; and in Germany, France, Belgium, and
Italy, it never constitutes less than oue fourth of
the public income, nor its rate in those countries
estimated at less than one-fifth of the actual ren
tal; while in England, at present, the rent-tax
being two millions and the rental fifty, the pro
prietors of real property contribute in this form
but one twenty-fifth: in early times it was much
higher. In the house tax, the principle operates
in the same way. Twelve of the finest country
palaces of the nobility are enumerated, belong
ing to eight dukes, two marquisses, and two bi
shops, the combined rent of which is assessed at
only two thousand six hundred pounds, and the
tax at three hundred and sixty-eight: while, if
they paid according to the real value, the rent
ot one alone, that of the Duke of Newcastle,
would be sixteen thousand pounds, and the tax
on it two thousand three hundred. It is now
assessed at only one hundred pounds rent, and
pays a tax of fourteen pounds, three shillings,
and four pence.
Houses in town, it is shown, are taxed much
higher than those in the country, and farm hou
ses are totally exempt, “ in older to increase
the rents of the proprietors.”
The taxes that fall on luxuries are compara
tively small in amount; these are taxes on male
servants, on riding horses, on race horses, on
dogs, on game certificates, on armorial bear
ings, on hair powder, on post-horses, on gold
_.1 nn/1 flico nnH rtn car.
riages used for luxury.
lu stamps, the inequality exists in the same
degree and tendency. The stamp for the re
ceipt of five pounds is three pence, and for
double the amount thesame; that for the receipt
of five hundred pounds is seven and six pence, !
and lor one thousand the same.
Several pages are devoted to the so called
Taxes on Knowledge, which are, the excessive
postage on letters, newspaper stamps, adver
tisements, almanacks, stage coaches, (being fa
cilities for communication,) excise on paper,
customs on foreign books, on quills and galls,
on rags and on paper—amounting to more than
three millions sterling. The Post Office, it
seems, besides sinecures, is burdened with pen
sions to the amount of upwards of thirteen thou
sand pounds, thus described by the Review:
“ Of these, in one state or another, there has
been paid to the Duke of Grafton £4,700 a year
since the death of his reputed ancestor, Charles
II., who died near 150 years ago. Without in
terest, therefore, this illegitimate family has re
ceived upwards of £700,000 of the money ofthe
people, and in the existing state of the represen
tation is likely to receive a good deal more. The
heirs of the Duke of Schomberg, (who they are,
no one can tell,) a Dutchman, killed, as is sup
posed, by the mistake of his own men, also
Dutchmen, at the battle of the Boyne, 144 years
ago, receive £4.000 a year from the British Post
Office. This foreign family, therefore, has on
ly pocketed £576.000 of English money, omit
ting interest. The family of the Duke of Marl
borough has been a drag upon the revenue of
the same Post Office since the year 1702, to the
extent of £5,000 per annum; of course, in the
lapse of 132 years, it has received £600,000, not
to mention the manor of Woodstock, the palace
of Blenheim, and the great John’s great appoint
ments and greater peculations. Thus these
three ducal families have received of the peo
ple’s money near two millions sterling; while it
would take half a million more to buy these pen
sions out. Here are strange but veritable ex
amples of taxes on knowledge.”— Halt. Am.
NOTICE.
THE person who took from the window of
the lower front room of the Oity Hotel, on
the night of the 24th, a Dark Sill^UMBRELLA,
fluted handle, tipped with gold, with a cord and
tassel attached to it, will leave the same with
Mr. Augustine Newton, otherwise he will be ex
posed. sept 26—3t
BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER.
AVERY superior invoice of the Book of
Common Prayer, just received, and on
sale by sept 24 WM. M- MORRISON.
JACKSON1SM.
H7lo would not be a Jackson Man?—“ It cov
ereth one all over like unto a blanket,” as San
cho said of sleep. It is a panacea for all moral
ailments, and cleanses a political leprosy as
brimstone cures the itch. Do you want to raise
the wind—or to find a new way to pay old debts
—cry hurrah for Jackson. Have you been
crossed in love, or lost your law suit, or failed in
trade—come and dive into the pool of Jackson
ism, when the muddy waters are troubled—
Would you be a great man in spite of nature—
a patriot without virtue—a statesman without
knowledge—a philosopher without talent—cry
hurrah tor Jackson. Are you a federalist of the
blue light and black cockade order, steeped in |
the wool of the sedition act, and hung up to dry
on the hooks of the proclamation and the force
bill—cry hurrah for Jackson two or three times
of a windy day, and you are a leader of the re
publican party. Did you approve the treason i
of Aaron Burr or Benedict Arnold—have you
been kicked and cuffed like a wet dog, by every
whipster, from Calendar to Tom Ritchie—prac
tise the fa sol la mi of the Kitchen chorus the
Bank or no Bank of the Jackson-Van-Buren-]
Benton-Taney-Kendal school, and you are a i
statesman, “ ripe for stratagem and spoil.” I
Were you a dunce at school, have you been
seven times spurned by the people when you
offered to serve your country, and are you in
want of the wherewithal to make the pot boil,
try the hard money tact, and jingle a few “Ben- j
ton yellow jackets” at every body but your ere
ditors, and its odds ifyou don’t rise to an embas-1
sy or a department. It is the short cut to fame, !
to wealth and power: and one has hardly time
to put on a clean shirt, or comb his head, before
he writes his name with Kendall, and Whitney,
and-Blair, and Lewis, &c. Ac. on the milky
way “ of glorv.” Doth it surpass your compre
hension how two and two make four, cry hurrah
for Jackson, and two to one if they don’t make
a dozen. Are you puzzled at the learning of the
books, yet ambitious to be wise without reading
them, get the Globe to puff you ever and anon,
and your wisdom fits like a pair of inexpressi- .
bles.
This Jacksomsm is a crucible, wmcn ime
that of the astrologer, turns all baser metals to
gold. It is the Procrustes bed, which, if your
conscience be too long, will dock it at the knees
—if it be too short, it will stretch it to orthodox
standard, even to the tearing asunder of joints.
It is a dictionary, which spells economy and
extravagance—retrenchment and corruption—
reform and abuse—principle and interest—right
and wrong—with the same letters. It is a great
political Steam Kitchen, where public opinion,
Ministers Plenipotentiary, Senators, Presidents
and Vice Presidents, are nil cooked to order,
from the rawest materials, just as the wench
dresses beefsteaks and apple dumplings. Oh!
what it is to be a Jackson man.— Virginia Adr.
63 65 7 23 20 24 64 12 43 16 15 ,
23“ The above are the drawn numbers of the
Virginia Petersburg Lottery, Class No. 13—in i
which CLARKE sold the Nos. 12 24 43, a Prize
or500 Dollars, to a young gentleman of this city.
DR A WS T/I/S DA >
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 20 for 1834,
To be drawn at Wilmington, Del., on Monday,
September 29
HIGHEST PRIZE $3,000.
Tickets SI 00; halves 0 50; quarters 0 25
Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 18 for 183-4.
To be drawn at the City Hall at Washington,
on Tuesday, September 30
CAPITAL PRIZE 15,000 DOLLARS!!
10 Capital Prizes of $1,000! 10 do of $500! &c.
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
For sale, as nsual, in great variety, by
JOS. M. CLARK F,
(Sign of the Flag of Scarlet and Gold,) King st.
Alexandria. D. C.
DRAWS THIS DAY
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 20 for 1834,
To be drawn at Wilmington, Monday, Sept 29
HIGHEST PRIZE $3,0(H).
Tickets $1 00; halves 0 50; quarters 0 25
Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 18 for 1834.
To be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
Washington, on Tuesday, September 30
HIGHEST PRIZE $13,000.
Tickets S5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
On sale in great variety bv
JAS. RIORDAN.
Drawing Va. Petersburg Lottery, Class No. 13:
63 65 7 23 20 24 64 12 j43_ 16 15
DRAWS THIS DA)
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 20 for 1834,
To be drawn at Wilmington, Monday, Sept 29
HIGHEST PRIZE $3,0(H)!
Tickets $1 00; halves 0 50; quurters0 25
Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 18 for 1834,
To be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
Washington, on Tuesday, September 30 j
CAPITAL PRIZE $15,000.
Tickets $5 00; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J* W. VIOLETT,
Lottery and Exchange Broker,
Near the corner of King and Fayette Streets,
Alexandria, D. C.
’ i
Drawing Va. Petersburg Lottery, Class No. 13:
63 65 7 23 20 24 64 12 Ycf 16_ 15
DRA WS THIS DA )
Delaware and South Carolina Lottery,
Class No. 20 for 1831,
Will be drawn in Wilmington, Del., on Monday,
September 29
HIGHEST PRIZE $3,000’
Tickets SI 00; halves 0 50; quarters 0 25
Grand Consolidated Lottery, Class 18 for 1831, 1
To be drawn at the City Hall, in the City of
Washington, on Tuesday, September 30
HIGHEST PRIZE lo.OOO DOLLARS.
Tickets So; halves 2 50; quarters 1 25
To be had in a variety of numbers of
J. CORSE.
Lottery f Exchange Broker, Alexandria.
Drawing Delaware Literature Lottery, Class 39:
18 24 42 52 36 49 3 44 27
Ditte Virginia Patersburg Lottery, Class No. 13: ,
63 65 7 23 20 24 64 12 43 16 15 ,
WRITING PAPER.
"I A A Reams Cap Writing Paper
IvU 100 do Letter do
Of a superior quality, from the manufactories
of Ames and Gilpin.
Also will he received in a few days,
400 reams Wrapping Paper, of an excellent j
quality. AH of which will be sold low by
sept 2J WM. M^DRRISON.
ALEXANDRIA*
MONDAY MORNING, SEPT. 29, ISJl
Ship Launch.—The fine Ship Metamoia t|
launched from Hunter’s Ship Yard on gJ
day last, at 2 o’clock, P. M. She went off
beautiful style, gaily decorated with flags ^
streamers, amidst the cheers of numbers *.
had assembled to witness her “ taking t0 *
water.” This ship, of the largest class of ^
chant vessels, built of the finest materials.*
in every respect first rate, reflects much cre
upon the builder, Mr. Robert Hunter, on*
the most experienced and skilful ship build,
in the United States. She is owned by Ed**
Daingerfield and others.
Opium Eating in Batavia is an appalling j
scription of the utter degradation of human n
ture w hen under the complete control of sen*
al indulgence of any kind. It is enough to
the stoutest shudder at the contemplation ofty
scene there presented. The opium shops ofB*
tavia are worse than the gin shops of London
than which we thought, before, nothing could*
worse. _ __
Babbage’s Calculating Machine.—Some «.
count is given in another column of Mr. Bis.
bage’s celebrated Calculating Machine. Th<
wonderful invention, though not completed. *
tracts great attention in Europe. The wort
notwithstanding the favor and patronage oftbi
British Government, appears to be for thepr*
sent suspended. It has progressed so far, thi
we should think its proprietor would be excitn
to apply himself closely to its completion.
i axes in r.NCti.a>u.—in me uiiicie uuuem
head, in to-day’s Gazette, will be found a p!a<
statement of some of the grievances emlur*
by the people of England under their systems
Taxation. The operation of the Tariff. a>:
branch of the system of taxation, was though
to be intolerably burthensome to a portiono
this country; but what were its effects compar
ed to the actual oppression of the English >n
tom? It is by a comparison of their own filia
tion with the condition of other nations that:*
citizens of the United States can only properi)
appreciate the blessings of theii form of got.
eminent, and the superiority of Constitutional
liberty and Republicanism over Monarchy tith
all its train of abuses.
The Recluse of Norway, by Miss Anu Mam
Porter—complete in one volume.
We have received a handsomely printed «
py of this standard English Novel from to
press of Duff Green, Washington City. Th
Recluse of Norway has pleased and delight*
thousands who have perused its pages, andu
continue to hold its place amongst the worksn
which it belongs. The present edition will roi
tribute by its neatness and cheapness to placet
in the possession of many who otherwise woui
not procure it.
Mortality of Musicians.— Braliam, who*
real name was Abraham, but being a Jew, »n«
fearing it might interfere with his profession!
success, made an abrasion of the A, died ont«
12th ult. of the cholera, in London. His talena
were of high order, and he sustained ane*b
muble character. Weipert, a distinguished p
anoist, also died on the 19th of the same monti
A proposition is now before the Council***
New York, for mounting on horses one hundred
of their nightly watch. It is warmly advocated
by the editor of the Star, as well upon the
grounds of efficiency as those of economy.
Eight hundred thousand sovereigns have ben
exported from England to the United State*
this season. As exchange has risen, the export
will cease. One million of sovereigns, it i*»c*r
culated, may be exported from England wr
out effecting the market.
Mr. Eugene Robertson, accompanied by an -
ther person, made a successful ascension m*
balloon from New York on the 24th. He
to make another ascension on the 25th.
It is gravely objected to the Whig Candid#
for Governor of New York, that he has
hair!—and the New York Commercial well an
swers the objection, by showing from hundred*
of illustrious examples that in all ages, and®
all countries, save only in Africa—from
dise to Dragon River,—has red or golden ^ ■
been held in the highest estimation! 1
We understand that the difficulty between^- I
Archer and Mr. Ritchie, Jr., has been satisfy* I
torily adjusted. _ I
Snow.—We learn, by a gentleman from
While Mountains, that there was a heavy
of snow in that vicinity a week ago last lhur*‘
day night; and for several mornings afterwar >
ice was of the thickness of a dollar at • raV
ford’s,— Boston Gazette.
Sickness at the House of Correction.—
five to forty cases of cholera morbus occure
on Monday at the House of Correction,
South Boston. The disease is slight, and tmr
tient is in danger. Similar occurrences are
quent in establishments of this kind, aixi r
no alarm.— Boston Transcript.
;l/en of Letters.—-A general writer >s
teously termed a man of letters, but suen ■
is a postmaster, or a printer. But Hillsne „
medy, called the “ Knight of the Golden H _
brought forth another sort of man ol i^tte ,
A neighbor, who was evidently very har ^
hearing, was very inquisitive of another reg
ing the plot of the piece; and so pcr»e< ■ j
w’as he in his inquiries, that the other tcstii) ^
him, he thought it as plain as the nose on
face. “That might be, my dear sir, s*‘‘ ^
deaf one “if it were as easy to hear ast .
But be pleased to remember, that tfl° f
simple to you as ABC, it is otherwise to nl
I am DEF.”