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MAUMEE CITY EXP1IESS.
SATURDAY, MAY 1ft 1h.;9.
Our Local Claim. In our last we
compared the situation of Toledo and Mau
nieewith that of the towns having anala
gous positions nn'the rivers of the Atlantic
coast from tho Penolscot to the Hudson,
Inclusive, We now pursue thecomparisnn.
The Passaic has no town at its mouth but
Lis Newark with a population of '20,11(10 nt
the head of sloop navigation. It in due
however lo candor to say that the growth
of Newark hna depended very little on tho
navigation of the river. Tho Iturilon has
Perth Amboy at its uiouth with a popula
tion of some two or three thousand, and
twelve miles t hove, at the highest point of
(loop navigation is Now Brunswick with a
population of about ten thousand. It will
Dot be malapropos to remark (hut Ambov has
periodically put forth loud claims to become
great city, wiiile JBrnusvick has kept on
growing without faying intic'.i about it. A
mere glance at tho imp will show llint the
Delaware river furnished us with no cvi
dence either wav. Abovo Philadelphia it
nny be navigated with sloops to Trenton;
but instead of this up-iivcr navigation gn.
ing to meet the interior trade, it goes off
nearly ata right angle from it. liul Phila
delphia is 40 miles above the mouth of the
Delaware. Washington and Georgetown
are at the head of oil kinds of navigation on
the Potomac, and are flourishing, whil
Alexnndi ia, nine miles below, i6 rapidly sink
ing to decoy. Fre.lericlisburgh, Richmond
and f'eleri burg, are they at or near the
mouths of thoir respective rivers! Look at
a largo man ol Virginia and see .low long
and how crooked are the channels, along
which the pilot has to tune tho winged mes
sengers of commerce before they cm reach
either of those towns from tho Chesapeake
bay. Th?y areas high up the country as
ocean vessels can go. And where are their
rivals at or near tho mouth of the Rappa
hannock the Jiimea ami the Appomattox?
Wo will resume the subject here after.
We are sorry to sco so much apathy man
ifested on the part ol our citizens towards
the plan of forming a junction with tho To
ledo and Adrian Railroad. When wo wit
nessed the silent and persevering enter
prise that carried a fine bridge across the
river at this place, completed almost in a
day, and before its commencement was
known to some of the residents of the town,
we were stimulated to the belief that the
project under consideration would be the
next one taken hold of by those with whom
to undertake is to complete. When it is
recollected that for four months in the
year, our bridge furnishes the only certuti
means of crossing the river, the tinpurtnuce
of this road for winter travel can not be
questioned; and when we consider that the
transit of produce from Michigan to Buffalo
may be made as cheaply through this place,
by a branch railroad, as through Toledo,
who can doubt but our forwarders eon drive
a fair and equal competition with those of
the towns below, fir tho trade of the sec
tion through which tho road p asses.
Cooktebfi ito. Aii old man man who
called himself Lathnn Ames, was yesterday
arrested in Perrysburg mid brought to thin
place on a charge of passing five dollar
notes of the Dank of Romeo, Mich. ulteroi
to Rome, N. Y. On being searched J4'2
dollars of the same were found in his pes
session. Protestation ol'innr -ence on his
lart, was, however, deemed by me good ten
der hearted people who had him in bands
littler evidcrc; than proof positive of his
guilt, and he was allowed to run, after hav
ing received back 10 dollars in Wild Cat
Genessee, which was nearly all lie had be
sides the counterfeit.
We are informed by D C. Do an Esq. con
tractor on the canal, that ho will, this day
have completed four miles of work, ready for
navigation. Had all the contractors 011 thp
line been as enorgetic nnd persevering ns
Mr. Doan, wlili the exception of a few
heavy sections, the work would h ive been,
by this time nearly complete, from Maiunec
City to the beatable waters above the ra
pids. The Black 8 .vamp road, ouderthc stiper
intendaiicoof Gen. J din Patterson, is last
growing up to be one of the very best rinds
in the state. The process of ju licintis
diaining and cle iriug has already rendered
; the road not only passable, but pleasant,
and when the stone shall be added on the
excellent plan adopted by the siiperinlen -ent,
there will be -no road in the country
more delightful from the ease of tho pass
age, and the rich and rapidly improving
country through which it runs. ,
We are happy to learn that the young la
dies school of Mrs. Peters, in this place is
in a highly flourishing condition, and gives
audi prospects of success as are satisfacto
ry to the accomplished instructress. The
people oflliumee should cherish this in.
'itution with all their hearts. Nothing
uuuer neaven is so interesting as an in
telligent woman, while no creuture can be
imagined mora stale, flat arid unprofitable
than a female whose powers have never been
awakened up to think, and whose curiosity
baa never been turned into any other chan
nel than town scandal and profitless small-
talk. ' ' ':
We have received a letter from a gentle
man at Napoleon, to whom our paper is sent,
0 abominably written that we can neither
make out head or tail to it, except the sig
nature. But as the note is of about the
usual length of those that are written re
questing papers to be stopped, we have in
ferred that such (s the tenor of the note,
and have acted accordingly. If we h ive not
,,,, ,t, ,.,,) i,.n ,.- ptons inform
Ci.kveland Thr Canal 4ic The atu
itiated and business appearance presented by
the city of Cleveland, the present season;
i lie great concourse of the vessel that arc
seen lading and unlading at wharves,
and the crowd of all kinds of crafts every
day entering and leaving the port, has
it'ten been a subject of remark iu otn
hearing within a few days past. Th' I
Ohio canal is sail to be in admirable order
for boating,
nml ; ,lilu ,.; n..t ilu
J , s
iiioulh immense quantities of the products
of the rich counties of the interior, furnish
ing any quantity 0 freight for the lake ves
sels that are engaged in that trade; while
the interiorand the river country, rich, in the
luxuriance of its' surplus productions are cal
ling upon the cities of the cast for propor
tionate supplies of articles of use and luxu
ry thus keeping up en niiiinatcr1 circulation j
though all the channels ot trade, and render
ing Cleveland one of the most busiuesss-like
places in the whole great west.
But while it is with aglow of pleasure that
we contemplate the prosperity that hovers
over Cleveland, the iinlurul.ri .-ult, as it is, of
the completion of a work undertaken by this
state in tho vigor of its youth, it is with
feelings of pain, that we turn 10 the contem
phtion of our own del ivod prosperity ainf
to tho dilatory uiniemtnts ofthrstulc in re
gird to this, the great public work of the
western country. Here, Ohm Iris not seized
uponthorj,,itous tune for the completion of
lis 1 .burs. The time of times was a lowed to
slip by unimproved, and although thero may
be nothing to compl lin of in the present
movements of the state, there is much to
regret, that the proper opportunity w is nm
seized, before a general depression of trade
hid chnn0'td difficulties to impnss.bililies,
niid tho most trivial impediments into diffi
culties of 110 ordinary magnitude. We can
now contemplate a trade diverted from its
natural channels; a large surplus shin up iu
the interior, for tho want of the mean-, for
its vent, and that general lassitude of dis
couragement that heart-sicltness of hope
deferred, which beats dow n the aspirations
of enterprise, enchains the wings of I nula
ble aiu'nit inn, and consumes all the energies
ol the country.
We are informed that Judge I.add of
Perrysburg is miking arrangements to start
immediately for New York, for the purpose
of negocialing a lo in on the credit of the
counties of Wood and Hancock, for the
building of the Perrysburg and Bellefnn
taitie Railroad. P. Carlin Esq. is to be
associated with Judge Ladd, on the part of
Hancock county.
The Maumee Kxpress is certainly in some
degree rabid. Toledo Blair.
Well, well, bo it so. If you are i'iwo
hove no more to siy. By the way, wo did
s ty some hard things about your corres
pondent W." We are sorry for it,
though not convicted under your preaching
Spontaneously so. W.'' writes a ready
pee, and means well, but Good Lord deli
ver us! in puffery he is a very child. Now,
we cou t ourselves good at it. Wo pull'
like a steamboat short but very id: he
pours away with a continual stream, like
the hissing of a safely valve, that tares and
'ires all tho ears in the neighborhood.
"That Reed of tho Express is a ' cunnin
feller,' if he au't careful some one will steal
him."
Tho man that would steal ycu, would
steal a grave stone.
Wo were mistaken in saying that the dai
ly pnper at Niagara Falls was published
twice in a week. It is pu blished once in
two weeks, aB we learn from the Buffalo Re
publican. The Bowery Theatre is open and playing
has commenced under the management of
Mr. Thos. S. Hamlin.
There has been a new arrival of
books and periodicals at the Library, from
New York.
The Buff ilonians have been making Gov
ern.ar Seward a present of a beautiful pair nfi
blankets, of home manufacture. A more
appropriate present, on the part of the do
nors at leisl, would have been a pair of buf
falo 1 'is.
Here's a Bull-lit-in, .as Sammy Medury
said nf John Alexander B . van's paper.
Hope it will he a BuliUin, thought the
editor of the State Journal.
We don't care whether it is a Bullet-in
his (editorial) head, or a BuH-let-in to his
china shop; either would he well enough, so
it kicl s 1 p a dust between them.
" Here's the banisters, but where thcD 1
is tho stairs," as the drunken fellow said
when he felt his way around the bedstead in
the dark.
Military Elhction. On Thursday last,
elections wereholden in tins place and Per
rysburg, which resulted in Ihe choice of
' Osborn Esq. as Colonel, & Alford U.
Hamilton as Lieut. Colonel of this, and J.
W, Smith Colonel, and S. C. Sloane Lieut.
Colonel of the Wood County regiment.
'As far as we have been able to learn, all
the fruit in this section of the country has
been entirely destroyed by the late frost.
This is the second time within five years.
(jr We would invite the resptrlful at
tention of the editor of the State Journal lo
an article upon our first page, written at his
especial request. '.
We have heard of a mon living in this
country, who lies so immensely that he
turns every greasy thing he touches to snap.
He is supposed to be the person who first
learned the art of applying soft aoap to the
ears of his neighbors. " '::
Widows are in soch demand in Texas,
tint 'hose who emigrate to that country
lire bailed with spekinrr trumpets, aud mar-
NiDnuNUh. Tho editor of the Manhat
tan Advertiser may his shadow never be
'ess than 7 by 0! is most indubitably a
nost savagely happy fellow. How sweetly
lo the bright buds of hope swell and burst
forth iu their gayest colors before his vision !
How gaily does he dream thut his stinted
meal of anticipation that especial food o
rioters is transformed into a substantial
, repast of the solids of life!
Doth his Dolly
1 wax till ?Ht rat! wnv lin i reaoiot b nt steam,
I
v
ing pork steaks most nrdonferous to the
smell and most tasteful to tho palate. Doth
his gaiding flourish? -furthwith feasts his
imagination on the mealy richness of fra
grant roast potatoes! .He standeth in the
door of his shantco and loukclh forth upon
his dominions, and forests of twiYi'is start
up before his mental eye! Ho surveye h
his growing bullets and falleth to counting
future chicklings of mothers innocent of a
cackle! Sweet, sweet delusions of a fancy
as yet unchained by the cold iron of experi
ence! Bright , bright offspring of a he art ul
unhackneyed in the ch.lly ways of a bleak
world! Hippy, hippy illusions of 11 joy
ous soul whose dreams arc till beautiful and
all reality.
The editor has lately had an especial
windfall and as the said windfall was
the means of giving an additional til
lip to his imaginative powers, we have
amused ourselves in piclnring the pro-
t"c! of events that ushered into the world
the following epitlmlmatory effusion, which
wo shall give, illustrated with uur own
notes parenthetical.
View him seated on his cdito.ial stool
now lie stretches out his leg now he
scratches behind his car now nibbles a lit
tle of the frosting on a beautiful piece of
brides cuke siezes tiio bottle of wine in
one hand and his pen iu tho other lips the
former, dips the latter and begins
, I.viKiiKsnivo Ivri Li.iui5.vcr:. 77e .!'
question 11 till dsigi at victory ift.vpid
two weduiugs, and two puuuds of pound
cake, fresh, fine and frostvd. (.Nibbles ut a
piece of the cake.)
M RIMED At Watorville, or, the 7th
in t. lit the Rev, Wesley ISnok, Mr. I1KN
HY L.'WO l, of I'oh do, to Miss SAit All
VAN Fl EET, daughter ol J.hn Van Fieri,
Esq. of I ho former place. (Takes a heavy
j uiliit the bottle, and draws a long breath.)
It is good, friend W ood,
Thus lor Kindred souls to meotj
For though not iu the J.atny,
Yet you've surely joined tho Fleet.
And beside, to the bride,
We send n hcurty greeting,
And a wish that her joys,
Like her name, may not be FLEF.T-ing.
(Feels very much exhausted and dives
into the solir'saud fluids tremendously.)
At Wnvnesliehl, on the Mh, by the same,
Mr.CtiRNlLIUS VAN FLKIOT, son ol
Col. .'l.'n'i a Van F.eil, to Miss JULIA
AN N RIJ.N Y AN, of the same pi ice.
With b jib of the above notices we receiv
ed a liberal allowance of assorted specimens
from the bridal feast, iu cousidiirutii 11 where
of, we do hereby ten or unto I lie respective
pirties. laiteral and coll .literal, severally
and collectively, our most sincere and hour
ly wish f ir ihoir luluru and abiding prosper
iiy and happiness. (Begins to feel ver) lib
oral of A t vo d wi his, hot rather woniers
what makes the good thinrs disappear so
rapidly ;deleriiiiiio.-,bo cver to do something
very philanthropic.) M,ta Be . For 'he
taud.ible purpose and intent of piomutiug
the further con mission of matrimony in this
vicinity, and thereby extending the empire
ofCupul, nnd liicilititing t.ie final over
thrown!' bachelorism, w e had made elabo
rate and philanthropic arrai gem' uts for an
indiscriminate di tribution of .the above
n med symbols of the least of Love, to the
young I idles and youi g bachelors of our
place generally; (Hero he makes a finish of
his pie it mid the irimd ihinirs tocether, thou
wipes his mouth and raps out the following
biire-faier; windiig off with a tail as poeti
cal as the last sighs of a broken bellows,)
but confound the mice! Before we had
time lo-matiiro a regular and equitable plan
nf apportionment pritli! there wasn't a
piece left so big as the little end of tint fjj.
Ilowbeit, we may sny to those who did re
ceive purl and parcel of these mUrimoninl
offerings may their dreams be of happi
ness, aud their b-ightest visions fulfilled.
O brother Smcad! Enter no more into
the dusty arena of political warfare throw
aside dirty types, and besmearing printers
ink buy thee a sheep-skin port folio, and
a pocket inkstand of horn put thyself on a
dyspeptic diet wander by Ihe light of the
pfogsoflako Erie, around the s.eelbogs of
Manhattan, listening lo the music of the
frogs of .heMu'lnee, and if thou dost not
make thyself u poet and live in fame through
all after tune, then is not the sweet q leen
of be 1 en's night made of green cheese, nor
con the forks of the eleciric offspring of tho
thunder cloud be rendered more brilliant by
aiming their points with seed cucumbers.
Wbathf.r and Watkr Dp to Saturday
last, we had a heavy and almost uninter
rupted blow from down tlm lake, lit which
we were disposed to attribute the unusual
height of the river. But the wind has
censed partially, and reversed its notation
Dot sun the waters do not materially sub
side. Maiihaitaii Mv.
Is the water too high for you, neighbor
Smead? If it i, we hope yon will lend your
dredging machine to the Toledo folks, to dig
out the place where the Vermillion lay
aground the other day and nigh'. 1
The Toledo Bl ade does not seem to under
stand the difference between a vessel being
aground and being sunk. We will try to
teach the editor philosophy by example.
The "Ohio". lies in front of Toledo, sunlt,
though the Water is mt exactly up to her
guards; the " Vormillion" lay in front of
tne Blade office, aground, with tho water a
considerable distance below her guards, on
ly a few daysM"Lcjv
The Adrian Watch Tower promises to
support our candidate for the piesidenc.,
the honorable John rjinith Esquire pro
vided be is regularly l ouiiuated by a Dem
ocratic Convention. No doubt; it would
support the devil himself on tho same
terms. . - .
Green pons are getting lube a drug.. -A.
O. Times.
Then you can sonk them in liquorice and
sell them f rr Brandelh'a pills. Thal'a the
Important it Successful. A Mr.
James Simpson of Baltimore, is now exhi
biting iu the room of the Miscellaneous Li
brary at the Capitol, a steamboat for towing
a train of common canal boats, in quite u
rimilar maimer to that of a locomotive tow-
ng a train ol curs upon ruilruuds. The
.learn power is placed on board of twin
mats of small capacity.
The following is a description of it taken
rom t lie Albany ravening Journal.
Ho uses tho tubular Doilers and a double
engine acllllg Upon one sliait, Willi two
cranks, "lie at right angles with the other;
the shaft extends across one boat and to
the centre of the sp ice between the boats,
and upon the inner end of the shaft ho fas
tens an iron wheel four or five feel in diam
eter and about four inches thick. This
wheel is so constructed Uomi its periiihery,
that a chain, if rightly undo, when passing
over the wheels, cannot render; he lays a
chain loosely upon the bottom nf the canal,
extending from lock lo lock, and there made
lest lo the abutments of the locks. The
wheel shift, not extending across the space
between the bonis, permits the chain's be
ing r ihed iVoni the bottom of the cana: and
placed over the wheel or cast off at pleasure,
in l: i"i pi'situm it is on a balance, the
wheel I.' i! g put iu motion by the power of
the s'vu. The wheel draws the boat
Ihroueli ihe water with equal velocity with
that uiih which the periphery of the wheel
is driven hy the power of the etc 1 111 , so th it
Ihere is 110 wasle of'steiiin or fulse motion ;
iu oilier words, the ho it passes through the
water as fast ns the wheel revolves, and the
adhesion ot'lhe chain to the boat is appa
rently as certain or secure ns are gears to
gears, and by using the double crank helms
always the power 10 start a tram, the wheel 1
being in the centre of the boat, ami the train
mule fist to the stern ol'ii; the whole is'
moved by the centre of gravity, and the
tie its b'-ing lustetieii close to cteii oim,r n.
is said they cannot rui.-o a swell, and he
can apply as much pow?r as 111 ly he requir
ed tu effect ny velocity that would ho plu
dent or desirable. There can be but little,
if any doubt, hut that he ran double or tre
ble the usual speed obtained by horses; and
he says that, with a pisseuger boat he can
run or m quireany spaced usuil upon rail
roads, or more, w itlnut can ing a swell upon
the banks. He makes the low-boats with
both ends alike, nm! has rudders at bolh
ends, nnd so connected that una Balances
the other ill all positions by which means
he can steer with great accuracy and ease.
The water being as good as oil to prevent
friction or wear and also the nxydntion of
the chain, it will he a gre it savieg in tow
ropes, tow-path, Ac.; and, take it altogeth
er, it is the most simple and secure thing or
contrivance immutable, and we wonder
that it should be a new thing at this laic day.
It is ceriainly highly worthy the attention
of the government and all concerned in the
f'ui warding business." Lvjf- Jour.
We understand that thestoam frigate Ful
ton has been assigned to particular service,
as a practice and experimental ship, under
1I10 command ol Capt. .U. U. Perry, anil
with an additional number uf officers attach
ed to her.
Captain Perry is instructed by the Secre
tary ol the IN ivy to cnmliict 11 course 01
urnclicoin the use of the P.dxham eun, nml
the virions des Tiptions of hollow and ox
plesiie shot. Ho will also experiment in
rcferen e to the practical operations of the
steam engine, with a view tu) well to ill
struct the officer recently nllaehed to the
ship, ns to bring fi.rivnrd us futurt engineers
nml gunners a milliner ol youth, selcclcu
from iniuing the mo.-t intelligent of the an-
'rent icc on board t .o Frigate Hudson.
JY. Y. Giz.
Ant iiracitk coal licomotivf. Du
ring a recent visit to 1'iiiluilelphia, wo hail
the pleasure of seeing a new locomotive,
expressly deigned for the use of anthracite
conl on the Columbia, Railroad. We were
assured lb it it worked admirably, and drew
very large trauis ol cars, with the grunted
ease nnd expedition, Tho only de'ect in its
opera I inn is tho want nf a sufficient dral'l
occasionally in keep the steuui up This
objection, it is believed, will be w holly nb
vi ited by nn nppnratus to increase the draft
nnd ex'inguish tho sparks of locomotives,
invented by Mr. Junius P Esny, of Phila
delphia. Mr. Cameron, the effi lent super
intendent, is making arrangements to have
this simple but valuable invention fully test
ed. Should it succeed a weli as is conli
dently hoped it will, the use of anthracite
coal for locomotives wdl ho securely esta
blished. This will beaneweruin Pennsyl
vania, and will impart to our staple mineral
production a value far above all former esti
mates. We trust the praiseworthy efforts
of Mr. Cameron in this undertnking will he
crowned wilh complete success. Key
ito it.
CitANon of Fortckr. The Court Reg
ister nt Vienna, thus acknowledges certain
taili n persons 01 tne nouruon nyn isty. ut
the urn ml v
resn,
Bnnr
resa,-H;s II gl ness Louis, Antoino de
( oiopiudii Maine. M id .in l,aiiv, ,.,l ,i .:,'
uchesifi do Brry figures ns he Countess ;
osny widow he Due de Merry, au.iu.g
the ladies ol the Order ol the 8 nr. In re-
verse of this, weseo among the last prcsen-
anons at the Court of the Autocr i, the
Countess of Ksa.. ( late voc ilist, M lie Sou-
,ig,) jvile ofthe A assador of Sardini i, nt
that Con it. In tne one case, the scion ora'
royal house that hasoccnp led for 1 100 years,
and still partially does so, nearly nil the
thrones of Europe, obtains wilh difficulty
r.n obscure aslymn ill every vnpitnl of the
Holy Alliance of legitimacy. In the other,
self-made g tl from the poorest ranks of I
fii..iM. nu nun ..flltu ..!.!. .Li.
Germany, figures ns one of the princip il-per
sonigesut he most exclusive and powerful
Courts ut Jvirope,
Alabmua. Hern the wings will be de
feated. Nullilicilion, and the sub-Ire isiirv
hern, are the same, and the friends of both
now fight together. The union is all right.
None will prohibit the banns. Still the ef
fect of this union will be t 1 e it c Al ib una
to the administration. But we hope our
friends will act. An effort to defeat the
foe nn, si do good; lot it be earnestly made.
and it may win for the whigs, an opportuni
ty to gain power, if not their opponents.
Cm. Rip.
An ArrsAT. An assault and battery
was committed in this citv, nn Saturday
last, on the person of Dr. Robert T. Rey
nolds, of the British Army nt M aiden, by Dr.
E. A. Thaller, of this city. The provoca
tion wns, we understand, that this individ
ual had robbed Dr. T. of ..is watch, breast
pin and eighty-three dollars in money, be
sides various papers, at the time he was ta
ken prisoner at ihe capture of the patriot
schooner Ann." A hearing of this case,
we believe, is to be had to-morrow, before
one of the Justices of the peace. Detroit
Adv. . "
A sliiple is to be erected iu Philadelphia,
upon a iiew church at the corner of Thir-
tcemh And Snruce streets. 2011 feet hitrh on
the editee nrovided the cum ot f 7,000 be I
conlrihiitcdfortho purpose, fl,(IOUol'hichj
'" hl 1 'ill, '
A aooo Jokr if tiiue. The following
story has been current in this town for a
day or two past, and without vouching for
its truth, wo give it nil insertion;
It is well known that tho steamboat Lex
ington wne prepored hist winter lo run
against the John W. Richmond, on the
route between New York and Providence,
us soon us the latter boat should commence
iier trips in the spring. The story runs th 11
the TransDortatiou (Jommnv. who have al-
most moved heaven and earth to procure a
Dual Hint noli beat the Richmond, went to
Cipt. Vanderbilt, tho owner oflhe Lexing
ton, and proposed to him that if he would
put his bout in order and beat the Rich
mond every trip for one month, thev would
then purchase tho Lexington of him, nnd
pay a far greater sum than she wus really
worth. Alter he h id cot his boat readv
no. icaring she would be unable to surpass
the Richmond in spend, went to Captain
Towu.-einl, oflhe Richmond, and proposed
to him that if lie wouiu allow him (Vander
bilt) in heat the Richmond every trip for one
mouth, he would pny to dipt. Tnwnsend ifrl
500. To this proposition Capt. Tnwnsend
agreed. Well, the hunts commenced run
ning, nnd the Lexington led the Richmond
nt almost any distunce she pleased. (She
beat her every trip, nnd theC panv were
in centuries 10 think ibat they had nt'length
found lint long-sought and fervent ly-pruy-ed-for
object a bout capable of beating
the Richmond; and even ihe friends of the
Richmond believed that tho speed ofthcir
favorite bout was eclipsed. Hut behold! us
soon ns tho monlh expiree, and Capt. Vun
derbilt had sold U boat at an exorbitant
price, noil (.'apt. Townsend had received
bis sJ 'OOO,1- keipug t'le Richmond lack,
the deuce got into the Lexington, and all
the tar, pilch and turpentine that grow iu
the pine woods, could'nt moke her keep
within hailing distance,
even witlnn
sight, oflhe Richmond! The Comiinnv
were all down in the mouth again; they had
been ' tuk in"' most essentia ly "come
over;" and this list, and probably most ex
pensive contriv nice, to ruin the Richmond,
resulted, ns all their previous ones hae
done, in injury, shame and confusion to
themselves, ami to nobody else.
As we mill before, we do not vouch for
the triilh of the preceding; hut there are
some circumstances which induce us to be
lieve it is substantially correct. It is well
known that for a long time alter the two
boats commenced running, the Lexington
invariably bent the Richmond, but more re
cently the Richmond has invariably shown
her stem lo the Lexington; nnd tho latter
bo it hnving been nrenared and set iinon the 1
route fortiieso'e pmpos of beating the for
mer, thif would not be allowed it it could be
prevented. Wo learn tint the compnnv,
tne L,exiugton luivinir proved herself not
" whut she was crack'd up to be," have de
termined to put her on the Stonninglon
route a sort of Siberia, where they send
all their boats after they have been beaten
and disgraced. Pawtuckel Gaz.
ORiniN of thr word Quiz. Very few
words ever took such a run, or were sad
dled with so many meanings, as this mon
osyllable; and however strange the Word,
itis still more strange that not one of our
lexicographers, from Hnley to Johnson, ev
er attempted an explanation, or gave a de
rivation of it. The reason is very obvious.
It is because it has no meaning, nor is it
derived from any language ill the world ev
er known from the Babylonish confusion to
this day. When Richard Dalv wni natentne
of the Irish theatre he spout the eveniiitfnf
a aatunlay in company with many of the
wits and men offishion of the day; gam
bling was introduced, when the manager
staked a Inrge sum that he would h ive
spoken, although the principal streets of
Dublin, by n certain hour next day.Simday,
n word having nomcaning,aiid beingderived
from no known language wage s were
Inid nnd stakes deposited. Dily repaired to
the theatre d depatohod nil the snrv ints
ami supernumeraries with the word ' Quiz"
which they chalked on every door and every
shop window in town. Shops being bhut
no hum uny, every nmiy going toanU cool
ing from their different places of worship
saw the word, ami every body repeated it,
so tint ' Quiz-' was 'heard all through
Dublin; the circumstance of so stranpoa
word being on every door nnd window enus
ed much surprise, and over since, should a
strange story be attempted to be passed
curreni, it draws forlh the expression you
ui c itmg me.
Mklos. Iii northern latitudes we rec
ommend the treatment, b ith for water and
miiskmelons, which we suggested lor eorlv
cucumbers; that is, burying under each lull
a h ilt narrow lull or morool hoi dung. The
melon is sensitive to cold and tu inoisture-t-the
hot dung imparts heat and infuses
dryness. If the melons can have the bene
fit of boxes covered with glass, through
Jimp, these will greatly facilitate their
growth, us well as protect them from the
stri ied buir
Our boxes which h ive been
IsOUOPllt IMP. Ill ll.n n vr !. !....,
6m, are. six Inches .leeo in rnnV ! r,., i
sl containing six. 6 by 8 pnies of glass,
,hl, tho tP?.,, In Jkmn llke d
8,m,VH,. Th, hil ,,,,, be J
,t ,esf) ,,,, , mre ('w
be left to grow in a hill. The old
BpeclRS f lllllsknl9,1I arB far inferior to ina-
y llew varieties, as the citron, pine apple,
- n,,,.,,,,,,,, - , iv
cantaloupe, &ic. When you got a good
kind save your own seed, and plant no other
variety with it,
Absrkcr of Minii. The New York
Whur relates the followinir omnium, eien.
A clerk, whose breakfast mvari ibly consisted
1 l I I l
nf fried fi.-h nml coffee, happening to over
sleep nimseir on a late morning, found
himself obliged to forego the pleasuro of his
accustomed meal. He immediately hasten
ed to Ihe post office for tiio morning's mail:
but instead of naming the number ot box. his
ungr itilied piseiverous appetite 'oil him to
sing out most vociferously " Fried fish and
coffee, ijym please"
" A littlk BK8PonsiBii.iTr. A gentle
man went into Proctor's Coffee House on
Monday night, about U o'clock, to got a
glass or wine; and while waiting for it, was
suddenly started by the cries of a young
babe, which seemed to proceed from some
pnrt of his pereon. Ho ran his hand quickly
into one of the pockets nf his over-coat
and pulled out a little responsibility,
about four days old! Some one had thrust
it into his pocket in the Course of the even
ing, and lie knew nothing of it unlil the in
fant btgan to squall."
Emigration It is stated that all the
Havre packets are coming out full of Ger
man agriculturists, as passengers. One
thip alomf has four hundred passengers of
tins class ait bound Tor Illinois and Michi
gan. ' Any State may bo proud of iucu ac
cessions of her population. '.
"Martin Van Buren end a Constitutional
Treasury." is the name of the candidate for
the next f residency, which may be found at
the mast-head of the Philadelphia Spirit of
,bQ?ijneabr"hMaLgb''t - ri.ii,roo' - ATOJ
The folllowing extract from a recent Bri
tish publication shows the unlimited free
dom witli which the press may treat of pri
vate character as well as political instruc
tions: C iaracti r or Gkouok the Fourth.
Tho time is iihnntt gone when people wil
title of thut regal reptile, Oeorge the
Fourth, us of one who redeemed the faults o
his heart by his exquisite grace of manner
the time is almost goun when people wil,
bi found to accede to the iiidginent con
tained in those very absurb lines of a very
Home poet that he was
" without allow of fob or foe,
A finished gentleman from top to toe."
George the fourth was not a gentleman
in nny sense ot the word except that he wa
born to wear white kid gloves uud do notli.
ing. As to his ease of manner, it was no.
th Tig more than a beautiful and most cool
assumption of the fact ot his being imrnens
urcahly tho superior of every one about
him, and a most implicate belief that they
were all made to do liitn pleasure, and to
live for his service. A nun who entertain
eil his idea could not but be easy and unein
bnrrassed. Embarrassment arises from
suspicion of n man's own inferiority, nnd
such a thuiighi never occurred for a moment
to lieorge tho t ourth. In even thing be
ynnd this assumption nf superiority, which
no man who is eternally surrounded by Mat
tcrers can avoid, Ueorge the Fourth was
the meanest nnd most despicable of man
kind. Ho had not a sentiment of patriot
ism, generosity, or virluo to warm his
breast; ho was not, therefore, a real gen
tlemnii. He had not cither one spark of
that honor wlucii lonnsn very bail substi
tute for those, wlr ro these are wanting,
unil furnishes forth the conventional gentle
man. He w as the most reckless reprobate,
and the most unprincipled' swindler upon
town. He was the grxntest blackguard
that haunted the stews. , There is not one
among the lowest oflhe low blacklegs that
infest the metropolis, who possesses so per
fect a freedom from anything like restraint,
either religious, mural, or honorable, upon
his will, ns George the Fourth had. He
would contrive the most deliberate schemes
of plunder, he would make a man drunk, and
then clieithitnof his property us hcdul
the Duke of Dcvonshino No man
evet Iru-ted him as a friend, who wnp not
betrayed; no iniiii ever associated with him
ns a companion, who wus not ruined.
Haho Timks. An estimate mny be form
ed of the stuto of things iu Mississippi from
the fact that on a single offering day upwards
of 5,1 HID notes were tendered the Union
liank for discount, amounting iu the aggre
gate to about $15,000,000. The New lor
leans True American says; " The great
est distress seems to prevail. The newspa
pers tueui to ovei flowing with legal adver
tisements. We heard lily oflhe sacrifice
of property, nnd credit is a thing which is
so uetiines talked of, but harJIy expected,
much less known.
" It will bo remembered tint prior to the
commencement of the great breaking up,
as the dark day has been designated, the
planters and merchants of Mississippi be
came largely indebted to New Orleans.
Since that period, when our mercantile com
munity became sntisfird that they had been
unfairly dealt wilh by some of the Missis
sipiians,"v.lio drew upon more than one
house for advances on the same productions
of the season which wi re lo be delivered,
ub nit tun thousand suits have been institu
ted, and judgments obtained. When col
lections worn attempted to be made by the
proper officer, the executions were staved
hy whit nro termed 'forthcoming bonds,"
giving addition ,1 security for the payment
agiiiiu-t a future dale. Tho time for pay
ment has come around, and we understand
lint a doclnriti 'ii of resistntico has been
made, threatening tne officers who may at
tempt to oiif'orcu the obligations. Besides,
our mere minis ure to suiter iinutlierucl ly; as
it is s lid that the bonds given were inform
al, and have to be taken iiucw." Cin IVh g.
An English lady and gjntlemin who, in
travelling through Haiti md, had came to
the neighborhood of Abbntxfnrd, wilhout
providing themselvea with an intror'tiction
io ir W a ter Scott, U wlr i'elt, when there,
an irresistible inclination to intrude upon
him, could think of no expedient by which
to gratify their curiosity but that of throwing
themselves upon his mercy, and begging the
favor of un interview. In their card to him,
they said that, in coining to .Scotland theii
chief object had been to see " the great Li
on of the North, Sir Wilier Scott;" and
they begged him to consider how hard it
would be if, alter all their travels, they
should have to go home disappointed, "iir
Walter immediately returned an answer,
cnuch d in the most polite terms, and con
cluding with a, request thit they would
come that day to dine with him, " as he had
some reason to believe the Lion, of the
North, like his friends at I'lxetcr Change,
was best worth seeing at feeding time."
Siip.ridan. An elderly maiden lady, an
inmate o(a country house, at which Sheri
dan was passing a few days, expressed nn
inclieaiiiin to take a stroll with him, but he
excused himself on nccount of the badness
of the weather. Shortly afterwards she
met him sneaking out alone. "So, Mr,
Sheridan, said sho " it Iris cleared up."
"res, madam, was the reply, "it has
cleared up enough for one, but not enough
fur two;" and off he went.
The Venetians, whom the late Lord By
ron broiiolll. with lorn intrt ttnirlniwl. warn ui
dreadfully attacked by optfiahiua, as almost
entirely to lose t leir. eye-sight. "What
can we do with these poor fellows! ' said
his lordship, when he hoird ot their mirtur
tune. " Why," said Dr. L., "at the worst,
we can set each of them up as a Venetian
Blind."
Itis said of Mi lame de Si re I that be
fore she was fifteen years of age she had
re nt six hundred novels in three months.
L'UisXVI. during the five months im
prisonment immediately preceding his
death, read one hundred and seventy-five
volumes, or one a clay.
A man was boasting tbout his knowledge
of the world, when a wag in company asked
nun it lie bad ever been in Algebra. " I
cannot exactly tell," said he, "but I think I
once passed it on the conch."
Trnkesshk. I'lie politicians are warm
ly nt work in thai, state, and' from all ac
counts, uo little excitement prevails there
of the result of the controversy we have lit
tle doubt, 'rltill the administration will ex
ert every nerve to carry its point, fur I'en
nessue is the home of the Old Hero, and
there his friends must nut be defeated, if it
can be prevented. Hut it cannot be. On
ly let our friends do their duty, and victory
will perch on the whig banner. Cincinnati
Rep. - . . . i ' '.
Nrver eivsj it rjp, oirls. Mr. John
Ayren stein, lately led to the alter in Phila
delphia Miss Rlioda Grayson, after a court
ship of only Si years! This shows what
maybe done yf we only stick to it. She
must.nvs..had. .the jatjence of Job.
Nkw Caricature. Robinson has just
published a capital caricature, entitled the
" Morning after the Election." The fede
ral locofoco itinerant voters from Sing
Sing, and the parts thereunto adj icent, are
taking up their lino of march homeward,
with old Hays hard upon their track to seize
them tor perjury. One shoeless mercenary
is signilic intlysh iking one of llenton's long
ilk pursej, well filled with stuff that
woiild'nt flow up the Mississippi. A". Y.
T.met.
Traob ako (Jommkiick. We are happy
in being able tu unnounee to our numerous
Western renders that Buff do never presen
ted so large an assortment of goods as at
this time, and there is sober truth in the
assertion that the bills nf country merchants
can be filled in this city, nn terms more ad
vantageous, all things considered, than at
any poiii' cast of us.
From present appearances emigration
bids fair In equal that uf any former year.
Buff". Jour.
Washington always kept Gen. Knox near
his own person; mid he not only honored,
him with confidence, but with brotherly af.
feolinn. Afier the defeat of Gates' urmy, at
Camden, G meral Greene was offered the
arduous command or the southern depart
ment. The brave general, with his usual
modesty, replied. " Knox is the man for
that dilticul t undertaking: all obstacles van
ish before him; his resources are infinito."
" True," answered Washington, and
therefore I cannot part with him."
A Nkw Bask im Nkw Your The Now
York Sun says: "The new banking insti
tution which we noticed on .tfond ly, and of
which one of the .Messrs. Josephs will ba
a branch of the house of Ihe Solomons, the
head partner of which is now, or was, -Sheriff
of Loudon. A capital of one million ster
ling will be employed and the business con.
ducted uotheinost liighminded principles."
Tho Journal of Commerce intimates that
some cunning trader, 11 vailing himself nf the
t lkwnrmfrver, has been supplying the
Jer.-ey market with sh id's eggs, at a con
siderable reduction in price. Sales were
made in M itiinnutli county tu the amount nf
seven hundred dollars. Next year we sh ill
expect to 6Ce shad growing on Mulberry
trees.
Fruit. Last week's frost has not entire
ly cut of the fruit as was nt first anticipa
ted; npples were injured, but our examina
tions ond mquiiies lead ns to believe, that
the prospect of this fruit is still very fair.
Peaches aro entirely k lled; cherries seri
ously injured. Sai'duiky IVhg.
" Do vnu want a ra'll prime lot of butter 7,
said a Yankee notion dealer, who had pick
ed up a load at fifty different places, to '
Boston merchant.
' What kind of butter is it?" asked th
buyer.
"The clear quill; nllmadebv mv wif.
from a dairy of forty cows; only twojehurn-
nigs.
' But wlnt makes it so many different col
ors?" said the merchant.
"Darnation hear that now. I guess you
woiild'nt nx that question if you'd seen mv
cows, for tliey are darn'd sight speckleder
than the butter is."
A chorister in M issachusetts is said to
hove pitched a tune so high lately that the
choir were obliged to adjourn to the belfry
in order to reach it!
The other part of the story is. one nf f lm
choir was found in the morning, without a
hnt, s'lling on a black of granite with his
bare feet iu a brook, trying to catch a cold.
so as to sing h iss. Sandmku Whin.
Rnonu IsLi.ND IOluctio.v. A Whig Sen
ator hns been elected in this stale." The
first Senator. Mr. Samuel W. King, (Whig)
will actus Governor. The Locofoco have
elected State Treasurer, all told. .
The Legisl iture rises to-day. Is it pos
sible i hat the Locutoco Senate line refused
to the list to appropriate any money for
the enlargement of the ErieCinal Buff.
Jour. May 6.
A frame dwelling w is des'royed by fire
at Black Rock this morning. It is said to
have caught from a spark which escaped
from tho Niagara Falls Locomotive. Buff,
Jour,
The Whigs of tho old Dominion are go
ing into the fight innnfuilv. The wil! de
serve success if they do not obtain it. It ia
at least certain that they can hse nothing
by defeat, so that the chances of the battle
are all in their f vor. Troy Mail.
Countryman and pretty daughter coming
in town large baskets of bluck-berries in
in the wagon daughter slipped and fell in
to the basket white cambric dreeB Ber
ried alive.
Short Diu.no uk. Good morninr.
steward, can I sell ytni some meat to-day?"
uiiusn not, majsa outciier; you dread
ful polite and obseekus since I nmmoto in
Aenteward; membade timn, when I no want
to buy, you sing out, 'git out de way, you
uracK snowoau you, nat "
A barrister observed to a learned brother
iu court, that he thought his whiskers were
very unprofessional. " You aro right," re
plied his friend; "a lawyer cannot be too.
barefaced."
A political editor, siyt the Uoston Times,
is like a parenthesis, in more senses than
one. He is enclosed at either end so that '
he cum it get out, nnd it is not necessary
that he should " in ike sense." Cin. San.
Fraud. ft is now stated that the amount,
of fraudulent issue of certificates of loan by.
Joseph R. Hassinger, late president of the
Morristown railroad comnanv. ia oven
$lij7,0U0. A very 'comfortable little ope
ration. ,
The semi centennial Anniversary of'
Washington's Inauguration tm k place in
New York, on the SUth, John Quiiicy Ad- -ams
delivered the oration, k is said to
have been a most splendid effort, worthy of
the orator and the occasion.
The secretary of war has forbidden, tho
sale of ardent spirits to the Indians on lha
frontier. 'I he editor oflhe Providence Jour.
article to members of congress might be pro
hibited without producing any serious evil."
The most pure and sublime thoughts, and - '
beautiful figures, are to be found in iheBi-.
ble, yel how seldom is it quoted by Ihe lite- '
rary writers of the day.
Jour Smitb aw apostate! An ex-
change paper says that John Smith Intely .
abiured Christianity, in the Island of Cey- m
Ion, and embraced the faith of the impostor
of Mecca. Who'd a thought that of John -
The Plitsburg Advocate states 'hat th ;
rate of tolls on passengers and packet boats
dos been increased by tne Canal Commis, r
sioners.
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