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EDITED BY
WM. M OYtRTON, CH. MAURICE SMITH,
AND BKVJrUiili^ TUCK.LR.
THURSDAY MOK-K1KG, V?V. Jttf, le*55.
tCf* We have sent bills to such of our subscri- j
Ixiri as are indebted to the Sentinel newspaper,
rendering tlieir accoujils to the 'J-lth September,
at which time the second volume of the Tri
weekly edition will close.
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from the beginning, sustained our enterprise, we
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as they are over a wide surface ol country. Our
friends will, therefore, see the necessity of com
plying with our terms. No offence is intended to
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the same category.
Subscribers not renewing by the first of Oetol>er,
their names will be stricken from the list.
BK1T1B11 WEST l&DIA. AUltON.
We apprehend, from all that we have road,
that the object of the London Times, by its
startling articles, was by a vigorous attack on
public attention, to engage the general mind
in consideration of the objects mentioned by it.
mid thus create sj complete a diversion of
watchfulness to tlx- wrong point, that England
may be able to accomplish her purpose, what
e t it be. before that purpose be su?pect?;t1.
The conduct of Great Britain in its effort
to gather soldiers by illegal recruiting in this
country was characterized by all the meanness
of smuggling; and the more the details are
brought to li^'ht. the more exceptionable does
h'-r conduct appear. Her whole transactions
in this recruiting business were e.irried on pre
cisely in the manner in which a confederacy
of bur.'lars would t-arry on their conspiracies
against unsuspecting people. I he sinuosities
a>id pitiful r,-sorts of her officials coming to
light were likely to expose them to the whole
world in anything but an enviable position.
Not only has the English Government offi
ciallv been plotting against our neutrality, but
it .has also in our midst a secret police upon
our own j>eop!e, and without even seeking to
obtain reasonable evidence, a chief officer of
the British Government accredited to this
countrv, upon oath, assails oue of the most
respectable firms of the country, charging upon
it dishonorable and illegal conduct. A private
individual uttering such a plunder would be
held to heavy legal responsibility. All of these
matters the press of Europe hat! in full view
for commeut. To avoid these comments from
all quarters, the Times seeks by a violent con
cussion to converge upon the subjects con
tained in its editorials the common attention of
the wcn-ld, and thus let pass the opportunity or
occasion for Btricturea on the course of the con
duct of England. The object of the Times
mav be this, or it may be someting else. It is
certainly a tub thrown to the whale, whatever
may be its purpose.
If the following extract, from a Washington
correspondent of the New York Daily Times,
states correctly the facts alleged, it would of
itself account for the noise and confusion
caused bvthe London Times,that in the uproar
it raises the new and aggravated cause of of
fence may escape due notice.
We will place reliance on our (lovrrnment
in vindicating its outraged dignity in this mat
ter. and that, too, most promptly.
If it should be found that the English dov
ernment has proved fwlse to its statements
and promises, we shall expect our Government
to make the proper exposure. But the offence
is one of such turpitude, that it should be made
very clear before we give our credence to an
act so unworthy of the great English nation.
It is due to ourselves and to the world to
have the fact made clear as to the extent of
the violation of our national sovereignty by '.he
orders, dictation, or connivance of the British
Government or British officials in this country:
??Great Britain *1111 Itccrultlng.
''But again, although in June last the Bri
tish Government promised to desist from their
enlistments, and Lord Palmerston declared
that they Jia<l desisted, one Wagner hns since
been convicted in Xctr York of recruiting for
the British army on the 'Jul of August lost?
long after the date of the 'satisfaction' which
the British apologists hold wa* tender.^} to
Mr.. Marcy. And to show that the British
Government has proceeded regardless of the
rights and sovereignty of neutral nations, in
this foreign enlistment scheme, I assert?what
can be jiroven if disputed?that she is to this
day diKturbing all of Germany by her enlist
ments against the will of the Government, and
despite its efforts to stop it. And the better to
accomplish this object, she keeps man-of-war
transports hovering at the mouths of the Weser
and the Elbe, smuggling off the recruits thus
obtained day by day. Will any one dare to
say that she is right in this, in face of the nu
merous authorities, English and otherwise, who
declare the recruiting of soldiers in neutral ter
ritory to be violative of national law, and justly
punishable with death ?
OUUAMZftTIOS OK COR?RCi?.
The chief t?pic i f conversation in |>olilieal
circles is the organisation of the House of Hep.
resentalives. Conjecture and speculation are
as varied and conflicting as the political com
plexions of the various parties and factions
that compose the incoming Congress. As for
ourselves, we ha\y no theory on the subject.
We belief* it to be utterly impossible to predi
cate with accuracy anything i f the organization.
We content ourselves wiih expressing the hoj?e
that all things may work together for the good
of our country, and that there may In; enough
of discreet and patriotic men in that body to
hold in check all the dangerous factions that
unluckily have found admittance to the Hall of
Legislation.
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PRKPIDKNT'* MRMAGK.
It is announced by the all knowing gossips
of the press, from whom nothing can be kept
secret, that, according to the present determi
nation, no copies ot the President's JMessage
will be sent abroad for the newspapers, as here
tofore, in advance of its delivery to Congress
THB NEW IOHK. '1'HIUI NK.
I liis paper gives, almost daily, evidence in
Us own columns, that its readers consider it*
editorials as an encumbrance to the paper,
which they take lor the sake of the informa
tion it collect*, its original matter is nauseous
to all.
We have an evidence of this in its issue of
the 20th. The Jribuite quotes the following:
I he Buffalo Courier (Dem.) truly says:
" It is self-evident that had the ' Fusionists' '
been able to convince the people of the State
that tlie isaue tlu-y presented was a true one,
one. that the principle of freedom was at stake,
and l hat they were the proper champions of
that principle, they would have succeeded in
carrying a majority of the freemen with them."
And adds: '"Hut the people?that is, a great
many of them?did not believe this."
The Tribune is right?"the people did not be
lieve it"?nor the Times, nor the Post?nor the
Albany Journal.
I? the city of New York, where that whole
ilk is known, the discredit of all their asser
tion was universal. Probably none but rabid
Abolitionists and Freesoilers voted their ticket.
An lione.it and intelligent mind cannot but re
\oli at the muQMi'ous propositions continually
geneiaied by that pre?s, out raging not only
truth but the very semblance of probability.
Its columns never give utterance to a gene
rous sentiment, except as an abstraction, or
in the very sequel to recommend action in
direct antagonism to every high principle.
Its column* abound in low malignity. Its
great ambition appears to aim at being a fluent
extempore scold. Its columns never lead the
public to engage in any matter for the welfare
of mankind: and, although it is the very hot
bed ol isms, which spring from ils prurient
columns like maggots, and alioui ah worthv of
liit as such insects. Vet, forgetful of the hid-'
ioustiis* and deformity of its own progeny,
it- v.hole power is wasted in attacks upon the
more comely offspring of its neighbors.
i lie public verdict w hich annually condemns
the Tribune, instead of reforming this harden
ed f! i iniiiij, (Mily makeH it the more furious
t e more wicked,
A L);TTMIl FROM .JOHN VAX BUREX.
We publish, as a part of the history of New
\ orlc politics, the following letter from Mr.
John Van Rareii.
To th. Editor* of f.ft* Albany Atlas :
G*:.\ti.eme.v: As 1 anticipated, a systematic
effort is now making to establish the fact thr.t
the democrats of the State of New York were
defeated at the late election through some act
of omission or commission of" mine. To this I
donor object, but I desire the democrats of the
State to understand v. ho are the parties engaged
in it, and I shall take my own time and way of
meeting il. You have copied with silent ap
proval, two assaults of this kind?one from the
Rochester Union, and the other from the Ulster
Republican. Both are founded on my letter to
the Washington Union, which you re-published
xW .euc0,mums at the time it appeared.
J he ashington Union and the New York Day
Book are also engaged in this Effort. ,
Will you do me the favor to publish this
note? Also allow me to add that the Da,, Book
(lately shrunk and half its size under the
withering approval of the Washington Union)
earns a scanty subsistence at the New York
Custom House, aud the editor of the Ulster Re
publican is closely affiliated with the same in
stitution. j. VAN BUREN.
New Iouk Nov. 10, 1855.
To the allegation in the above letter that the
Day Book "earns a scanty subsistence at the
New York Custom House.the Day Book re
plies at length in its i-sue of the 20th, and in
that pungent style which prevails in the politi
cal contests ol New \ork. It pronounces the
assertion as not only" false in fact, and direct
ly, but false in insinuation and in spririt.'' It
declares that the whole profit of all the patro
nage it has received would not pay the ex
penses of our (its) establishment one day."
The New York Custom House 1 Iu? influ
ence on the politics of the Empire State can
hardly be measured. It is the fruitful scource
of the unhappy distractions and divisions that
have paralyzed the Democracy of that State.
Scarce a speech is made, a letter written, or an
editorial penned in that State, that does not
make mention of the "Custom House."
Ml?Mlkiilpjii (election.
The Missisnippian of the 13th instant thus
announces the glorious result of the recent
election in Mississippi: *
"We salute our readers to-day with the tid
ings of the overthrow of the enemies of ihe
Democratic party in Mississippi. Thanks to
tfie intelligence, patriotism, and virtue of her
citizens, they have decreed that the foul blot of
hriownotliingism shall not stain her escutcheon.
4 he great fundamental principles of our repub
lican government, State aad national, have
been triumphantly vindicated. Mississippi
stands erect, side by side with her patriotic
sisters of the South, and has said to the advanc
ing tide of fanaticism on which the corrupt
authors of the Know-nothing conspiracy sought
to ride into power, 'thus fisr thou shalt go and
no farther.'
'? I he victory is the more to be prized because
it was not purchased by any humiliating com
promise of principle, or of concession to the
hungry, fanatic, and revengeful horde who
rallied under the black flag of Know-nothing
'<r"; democracy boldly met on every
field the issues tendered?ay, they carried the
war into the enemy's camp and made it a
struggle of victory or death. They have come
out of the fight with flying colors, while the
followers of 'Sam' have been completely rout
Tbe same paper claims the election of the
entire Democratic State ticket by a majority
, which will not vary much from nijr thimnand!
The Democratic majority in the legislature on
joint ballot will be between thirty and forty.
In regard to the congressional delegation,
the Mi*si*si])]>wn says:
"W right, dem., is elected in the firs? district;
Henuelt, dem., in ihe second; Barksdale, dem.,
in the third; and (Quitman, dem., in the fifth.
In the fourth district the vote will be very
close. The counties of Clark, .Jasf>er, Issa
quena, and Washington are yet to hoar from."
It will be seer, from the above that the defeat
of Mr. Singleton is not yet cerlain, although
telegraphic despatches of a later date elect his
opponent, Mr. Lake.
Storm ox Lake Michigan.? A severe gale
from ihe eastward visited Lake Michigan, on
Friday night last.
rhi. schooner Reindeer wait driven ashore
about halt a mile north of the piers. She had
.i cargo of luick, and will probably prove a
.total loss. Her owners are Captain Oilman
and Benjamin Phelps, of Milwaokie.
The schooner St. Lawrence went ashore at
Orosse Point, but will probably be got off.
The schooner Wm. A. Small, Hooker, is also
ashore just north of the pier.
OSIU DAY LATJCK KROfll KIKOPK.
The Havre steamer North Star arrived at
New York yesterday morning. She left Cowes
on the* morning of the fourth instant, bringing
t,he second edition of Saturday's London Times,
and one hundred and aeveutc-eu passengers,
but no political ne.ws of importance later than
that receutly received.
Among the passengers are Colonel Carr, of
the United Stales army, and Mrs. Scott, wife
of Lieutenant General Scott.
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Tlie Vuft of Jew VuiU
We have at length the full vote cast at the
late election for Secretary of State. 1 his
county and Kings are not yet ollicially de
clared! but the result can be but slightly varied.
The aggregates are as follows:
Joel T. Headley, 'American' I...140,001
l'reston King, 'Republican' 135,962
I. T. Hatch, Soft 99,518
Aaron Ward, Hard 58,394
Total Democratic 148,912
lleadley over King 10,039
Joint Dem. over Headley 2,911
Ajfgre^ule vole for Couiptroller.
Cook, Kepub 150,030
Mitchell, Hard 48,642
Stetson, Soft 07,410
Burrows, K. N 145,850
Marrows over Cook 9,188
Mitchell and Stetson over Burrows... 190
Appeal Judge (Full Term.)
B. R. Wood, Repub 133,807
Samuel L. Seidell, Hard, Soft 149,702
W. W. Campbell, K. N 141,957
Campbell over Wood 8,150
Seldeu over Campbell 7,745
Partial Term.
J. Mullin, Repub 135,097
N. Hill, Soft 105,430
G. F. Comstock, Iv. N 141,094
J. Wiilard, Hard 1 43,730
Comstock over Mullin 5,997
Hill and Wiilard over Comstock 8,000
From the above, it will be. seen that the to
ttil Democratic vote exceeds even the Know
nothings, who have over 10,000 majority over
the Black Republicans.?N. Y. Day Book.
&ar"it it: not true, as stated in some of the
opposition papers, that Colonel Forney has re
moved to Pennsylvania, or that: he has ceased
his connection with the Union, us assistant
editor. He is absent from Washington at pres
ent, but will return in a few days."?Union, of
Tuesday.
This, if we mistake not, mid we are not apt
to be mistaken in regard to anything that con
cerns our neighbor, is the first announcement
or admission by the Union of the editorial con
nection subsisting between it and Col. Forney.
While this connection has long been known to
ail posted politicians hereabouts, there seemed
to be a constant effort on the part of our neigh
bor to conceal it. For doing so, the Union
no doubt had good and sullicicut reasons.
Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens, and
John Foster have addressed a letter to the
public through the London Times, in behalf of
the god-daughter of Samuel Johnson, who is
living with her sister, in a state of great poverty,
at No. 5, Minerva-place, Newcross, Deptford.
The letter is evidently written by Carlyle, and
it is in his very best manner?manly and un
mistakable. The object of the letter is to ob
tain ii sum of money?about ?400?just suf
ficent to purchase an auuuity for the two living
representatives of Johnson. There cannot be
a doubt of the success of the appeal. The
elder sister, Johnson's god daughter, is men-j
tioned bv Johnson in his will.
United States Senator from Alabama.?
The two brauches of the Legislature of Ala
bama went into joint convention, November 19,
and proceeded to the election of, a United
States Senator, iu the place of Hon. Mr. Fitz
patrick, whose term expired on the 4th of
March last. On the first ballot, Mr. Fitzpatrick
was decUred re elected for a termof six years
by a majority of thirty-three votes. The vote
stood: Benjamin Fitzpatrick, 79; Luke Pryor,
46.
Hnrlnl and her Proflli.
The exit of Rachel?with the dollars is noted.
The Tribune figures up that on her twenty-nine
nights here, averaging $3,000 each, her portion
is $1,200 per night, $34,800 in all, and M.
Felix, the manager, $23,200:
"Of the remaining twenty nine thousand
dollars appropriated'to expenses, a consider
able portion is doubtless divided among the
family. This estimate does not include the
profits of the Boston season, where nine per
formances were given with about the same
average result as in New York. So with those,
and making a generous deduction for incidental
expenses, Mile Rachel may be safely supposed
to have lodged in bank, as the result of the en
terprise thus far, a sum exceeding forty-five
thousand dollars in less than two months.
This we can sav, from a pretty accurate know
ledge of M'lle Rachel's receipts at the capitals
of Europe, is far away the largest amount she
has ever received for h similar number of
nights' performance?confirming the fact which
the experience of every really great artist who
has visited the country attests, that in no other
is genius so highly appreciated or magnificent
ly rewarded."
Rachel opens in Philadelphia to night?then
goes to Baltimore, Washington, Charleston,
Havana, and New Orleans, where she is to be
at the commencement of February, to return
to New York in the spring.
[?V. }*". Erpress of the 19th in.fi.
Cork Tree in the United States.?The
coik tree, which flourishes naturally in the
south of Europe, is an evergreen about twenty
or thirty feet in height. The substance denomi
nated cork is the outer bark, which sometimes
grows two or three inches in thickness. From
the Patent Office the seed has been distributed
to a number of States', to test its adaptation to
our climate.
Corn in the West.?The Madison (Indiana)
Banner says everybody iu that region is en
gaged in building corn-cribs. The like of the
crops in Indiana and Kentucky was never seen
; before. Farmers hare their hands full.
A Remarkable M?n.
A correspondent of the Kentucky Statesman
I gives the following sketch of an old citizen in
| Pulaski county, named Elijah Deny, who is
I perhaps th? oldest man in Kentucky:
"He wan 118 years of age on the 10th of
; September, and is as active as many men of
forty. He works daily upon h, farm, and
throughout his whole life he has been an early
riser. He informed the writer that he had
never drank but one cup of coffee, and that
was in the year 184H. He served seven years
! in the war of the Revolution, and was wounded
at the siege of Charleston; he was also at the
siege of Savannah and at the battle of Eutaw
Springs; he was also present at tbe battles of
Camden, King's Mountain, and Monk's Corner.
Lie served under Col. llorry and Col. Marion,
and was an eye-witness of the sutferiugs und
death of Col. Isaac llayne, of South Carolina,
an early victim of the revolutiou. He is
sprightly aud active, and would be taken at
any time to be a man of middle age. He is u
strict member of the Baptist Church, aud rides |
six miles to every meeting of bis church. He .
has four sous and live daughters, all living, the
eldest being now in his seventy-eighth uud tbe
youngest in his fifty-first yeai Such is a brief
sketch ot this aged toldicr uud republican, who
is perhaps the only surviving soldier of Francis !
Marion, Sumpter, and Horry."
MARYLAND KLUC'l'ION.
The following is the full vote of Maryland i
on the State ticket:
Comptroller. Lottery (Jomin'r.
Bowie. Purnell. Gale. McPhail.
Baltimore city..12,502 13,074 12,58*2 12.931
Queen Anne's... 09> b.'?0 700 $43
lit)ward 652 b'JO 057 ' (519
Carroll l.tjl'J 2,252 1,811 2,250
Kent 198 800 524 708
Harford 1.130 1,998 1,121 1,983
Cecil 1,017 l,7sfl 1,008 1,783
Baltimore county. 2,07b 3.279 2,003 3,272
Calvert 301 389 302 391
Anne Arundel.... 8b2 983 891 901
1 rederick 2,8>>3 3,039 2,897 3 002
Worcester 1.35-1 1,238 1.405 1.179
Somerset 1,2vi 1,474 1,286 1,400
Prince George's.. 777 772 904 787
Washington 2,557 2/4'?2 2,550 2,637
St. Mary's....... 929 192 907 195
Caroline.. 75-1 570 75-1
Talbot 871 071 872
Alleghany 1.987 1,910 1.970
Dorchester 1,047 1.229 1.050
Moiitgome ry 1,097 1,6*0 1,097
Charles 651 390 017 389
572
39,100 41,901 39,212 41,750
Pumell's niaj. 2,80). McPhail's maj. 2,538.
The next House of Delegates of this State
will consist of 14 Democrats, 0 Whigs, aud (52
Know-nothings. The Senate will consist of 5
Democrats, 9 Whigs, and 8 Know-nothings.
The Know-nothing majority on joint ballot
will be 28.
A Cabt-Irou Shot Tower.
A tall cast-iron shot tower has recently
been erected in Centre-street New York, aud
is the only one of the kiud in the world. It
is under the superintendunce of J. McCullough,
who for thirty years, has been celebrated for
the manufacture of shot. The editor of the
Scientific American furnishes the following
description of the novel structure:
The designer and builder of the tower ia
James Bogardus, the original inventor of cast
iron houses?his fact ory on the corner of Duaue
and Centre streets being the first entire cast
iron house-story upon 6tory?ever erected.
The plan of the tower is novel. Its base is 25
feet, in diameter, and 18 feet deep below the
surface of the ground?resting upon a hardpan
of sand. The walls of the underground foun
dation arc of solid masonry, four and a half
feet thick. Tbe cast-iron tower above is
anchored to huge stones in the wall, each hav
ing two holes bored through it near the centre,
and eighteeu inches apart. These are twenty
in number, and extend eighteen feet down i
through the wall. A wrought-iron shaft, two
inches in diameter and 18 feet long, is secured
in each hole. These shafts terminate above !
the stone foundation in holes at the base of the !
lower tier of cast-iron columns, which are
firmly keyed to them. There are ten cast-iron
columns on each tier; each-of the lower columns j
is anchored to two of the wrought-iron shafts. ;
lhe lower tier of cast-iron columns support the I
entire superstructure, and they are of sufficient
strength to sustain a weight of 28,000 tons.
L pon the tops of the first ten of the columns
there rests a cornice made in ten sections
meeting over the centre of a column. Upon
the lines of juncture stand the succeeding tier
of columns, in the same line with the lower
tier. ,
All the cornice pieces are bolted together,
making them, as it were, one piece, and each
upper column is bolted to both the cornice
sections on which it stands, aod also to tbe
column underneath. Upon the second row of
columns rests another cornice, and upon it a
third row, and so on to the height required,
pach ascending tier of columns standing and
bolted on a cornice, and supporting a cornice
above. The columns are 13 feet 3 inches long
each, making, with a cornice, 18 feet as the
height of each story of the tower. There aru
eleven stories composing the entire structure,
which, with the extra top cornice, makes tbe
whole height of it above the ground 174 feet,
with the eighteen feet depth of well 192 feet;
this allows of a sufficient altitude for casting
the largest sized shot.
For the first two stories of the tower the
spaces are left open ; the remaining nine are
filled in with brick, four inches thick, in which
are inserted five windows in each story. This
brickwork is only a panneling, not intended to
add to the strength of the building, but merely
to shelter the workmen from the weather.
The columus have flanges on them, with cor
responding sections of cornice, so that each
pannel of brickwork is neatly and fifmly in
serted and cemented into the cast iron work.
Each pannel has, therefore, great strength in
itself, and does not depend for security upon
another part of the builing.
The outside diameter of the tower is 21 feet
at the ground. It tnpers at the rate of six
inches to the story. The outside diameter at
the top is 15} feet?the inside diameters are
two feet less.
The total weight of the iron employed in its
construction is 208,300 pounds. Its entire
weight is less than the 170th part of what the
first story columns can sustain. Indeed, such
is their strength, that the tower might be con
tinued with safety until, with the same taper,
it would terminate in a point?over six hun
dred feet high. We really would like to see
such a tall tower or steeple erected.
The columns and cornices?it will be noticed
j from the description given of their method of
' fastening and combination?are so united as to
render the tower equal in strength to what it
would be were it a single easting of metal.
This is the principle on which all Mr. Bogar
dus's buildings are erected. Every alternate
column may be broken, and the stability of
the remainder not endangered.
A Ktmnlr Volunteer.
Her majesty's steam troopship Simoon, Cap
tain Sullivin, left Spithead on Tuesday, the
30th ult., for Balaklava, with the 1st light
infantry regiment of the British German legion.
I A rather romantic circumstance has attended
the departure of these troops. On Monday
night one of the privates was discovered to be
a woman, and a very fine, handsome, young
woman, too, French, the wife of a soldier of
the regiment, who is a Swiss. This gallant
wife regularly enlisted, and passed muster, it
would appear, afterwards. On the discovery
of her sex the fact was reported to the colonel,
who ordered her to be landed, but she begged
so hard, and her appeal was so heartily and
generally supported by the comrades of her
husband, that she ha?-been allowed to accom
pany him in her capacity as a soldier, pro (cm.,
as she expressed her determination to fight
and die in the same service as her husband.
The enthusiasm of the regiment is universal at
this unlooked-for episode in the outset of their
martial career. So pleased were a number of
visitors to the ship, officers and men, with her
spirit and prepossessing appearance, that a sub
scription was speedily raised of upwards of ?20
for her. She shoulders her rifle and has
performed her military evolutions admirably.
The Mound Duo.
The Journal of Commerce, ou this sub
ject, furiii&bea uu explanation of what Den
mark meant) L?; the capitalization of the Sound
DueH. It appears that the annual average
receipts of Sound dues on merchaudiue (exclu
sive of legitimate taxes) amount to 2,103,500
rix dollars, which, capitalized at 5 per cent., or
twenty years' purchase, would produce 42,070,
000 rix dollars, or a little less than $30,000,000
United Stales currency. Of this suin Russia
is expected to pay 29 per cent, or $8,700,000;
Great Britain, the same amount; Prussia, 12
per cent, or $3,000,000; France 3 per cent, or
$'J00,000; Norway, 1 percent, or $300,000:
Hamburg aud Bremen, about $250,000; the
United Slates about $250,000, &c. The amount
which would have to be paid by the United
States is very nearly the same as wus actually
offered by this Government some time ago, as
a gross payment to Denmark, if American
vessels might thenceforth be permitted to pass
into the Baltic free from toll. Hut the Court
of Copenhagen replied to the effect stated in
the present circular, that" such an arrangement
could not be carried ou without the simul
taneous concurrence of ull the respective
Powers. The formal and positive engagements
which exist between Denmark and the other
Powers with regard to the Sound Dues do not
allow of any special arrangement on that subject
between Denmark and any other Power." The
proposal now made is probably intended to
meet the wishes of the United States, at the
same time that it invites the other Powers to
join in an arrangement, which it may conceive
to be virtually the same as was once proposed
by our Government.
The Population of
According to an official report on the census
of 1851, by Air. Peter de Koppen of St. Peters
burg, the population of Russia has, in the pe
riod of one hundred arid thirty years, quintu
pled its original number. In 1720 Peter the
! Great ordered the first census to be taken, and
! since that time seven others have followed.
We give here the results of the same:
1722 14,000,000
1742 1(5,000,000
1702 10,000,000
1782 28,000,000
17% 3(1,000,000
1815 45,000,000
1835 (exclusive of Poland and
Finland) 55,000,000
In 1851 it was as follows :
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? rr - c ? :
? 5 ?.r IIS
? | -i\ fli
s ~ ?? "?
Europeau Russia..2,309,877 00,098,821 2(5
Asiatic do ..5,697,939 5,060,708 1.3
American do .. 020,688 51,000 0.08
I otal 8,634,504 65,213,589 7.5
Mr. de Koppen addj to this the Caucasian
nations living within the Russian borders, and
amounting to about 1,500,000, which would
bring the total number to 66,713,689. There
are thirty-four cities with more than 20,000 in
habitunts. Sr. Petersburg had in 1852, 532.241;
Moscow in 1850, 373,800; Wursaw in 1817,
167,000; and Sebastopol jn 1842, 41,155.
The Kirfct Telegraphic Mcnungc.
Professor Morse now returned to hid native
land from Europe, and proceeded immediately
to Washington, where he renewed his endeavors
to procure the p; ssage of the bill granting the
appropriation of thirty*thousaud dollars. To
ward* the close of the session of 1844 the
House of Representatives took it up and pass
ed it by a large majority, and it only remained
for the action of the Senate. Its progress
through this House, as might be supposed, was
?watched with the most intense anxiety by Pro
fessor Morse. There were only two days be
fore the close of the session, and it was found,
011 examination of the calendar, no less than
?me hundred and forty-three bills had prece
dence of it. Professor Morse had nearly reach
ed the bottom of his purse; his hard-earned
savings were almost spent; and, although he
had struggled on with undying hope for many
years, it is hardly to be wondered at if he felt
disheartened now. On the last night of the
session he remained till nine o'clock, and then
left without the slightest hope that the bill
would be passed. He returned to his hotel,
counted his money, and found that after paying
his expenses to New York he would have
seventy-five cents left. That night be went to
bed sad, but not without hope for the future,
for, through all his difficulties and trials, that
never forsook him. The next morning, as he
| was going to breakfast, one of the waiters in
i formed him that a young lady was in the par
lor waiting to see him. He went in immedi
ately, and found that the young lady was Miss
Ellsworth, daughter of the Commissioner of
? Patents, who had been his most steadfast
j friend while in Washington.
"I come," said she, "to congratulate you."
M For what," said Professor Morse.
" On the passage of your bill," she replied.
" O, no; you must be mistaken," said he.
; " I remained in the Senate till a late hour last
night, and there was no prospect of its ?being
i reached."
"Am 1 the first, then," she exclaimcd, joy
i fully, "to tell you ?"
] " Yes, if it is really so." m
"Well," she continued, "father remained till
the adjournment, and heard it passed, and I
' asked him if I might not run over and tell
! you."
"Annie," said the Professor, his emotion al
; most choking his utterance, "Annie, the first
| message that is sent from Washington to Balti
more shall bo gent from you."
" Well," she replied," 1 will keep you toyouf
| word."
While the line wan in process of completion
Professor Morse was in New York, and, upon
receiving intelligence that it was in working
| order, he wrote to those in charge, telling<
them not to transmit any messages over it till
his arrival. He then set out immediately for
; Washington, and on reaching that city sent a
| note to Miss Ellsworth, informing her that he
' was now ready to fulfil his promise, and asking
her what message he should send.
To this he received the following reply:
i "tWhal hath God wrought?"?words that ought
to be written in characters of living light.
: The message was twice repeated, and each
time with the greatest success. As noon as
the result of the experiment was made known
l Gov. Seymour, of Connecticut, who is at pres
ent United States Minister to St. Petersburg,
i called upon Professor Morse and claimed the
first message for his State, on the ground that
Miss Ellsworth was a native of Hartford.
We need scarcely add that his claim was ad
mitted, nnd now, engraved in letters of gold,
it is displayed conspicuously in the archives of
the Historical Society of Connecticut.
Anthony Ilnrna Again.
The famous Anthony Burns has been sent
by his friends, the . abolitionists, to Oberlin
College Ohio, "to study for the ministry." He
has applied to the church of Jesus Christ, at
Union, Fauquier county, Va., for a letter of dis
mission in fellowship, which was promptly
fefused?and the proceedings of the churcn
are accompanied in the Port Royal Gazette
with a letter from Elder John Clark, in which
Anthony is told many wholesome truths, and
the "law and the gospel" laid down very
correctly and severely upon his backers.?
I'iltnburg Post.
Susan Denin.?At the session of the court
of Marion county, setting at Indianapolis, In
diana, on Monday lost a divorce was granted
divorcing Susan Woodward from Fletcher
Woodward. The plaintiff is the actress known
as Miss Susan Denin.
ftlck?ujjc of the (iovtruur of Texan.
Governor Pease, of Texas, in his annual
message, recommends the acceptance of the
act of Congress tor ibe adjustment of the State
debt. This debt being settled, tbe Governor
describes Texas to be in a better financial con
dition than any other State of the Union. She
had in her treasury $1,592,742 78 on the liryt
day of the present mouth, besides the school
fund of over twu millions of dollars. She has
also public domuiu, the value of which can
scarcely be estimated. The value of her tax
able prop* 11 during the past year has in
creased aboul seventeen per cent., and he,
therefore, recommends a reduction of taxation,
lie also recommends a geological survey of
the State, a State University, and asylums lor
the insane and deaf and dumb, an improve
ment in the public system, and an increase of
the number of State judges, with increased sal
aries, and opposes the prohibitory liquor bill,
but favors a ''judicious law" on the subject.
[Baltimore Sun.
Printers can read Anything.
The above remark is often mude by correspon
dents and advertisers, as an excuse for half
spelling words, abbreviating technicalities, and
slovenly, unreadable writing generally. There
is no doubt that printers are better decipherers
of bad manuscript than any other cluss of per
sons, but when, for instance, a merchant writes
that he bus received five lits, ten pounds Cls,
it is somewhat difficult to tell whether the
merchant really means boots, biscuits, or butter
nuts; chalk cheese or churns; loves, clucks or
clams.
PruMMia and the United State*.
The Prussian and United States Govern
ments have entered into an agreement respect
ing the registry of letters forwarded by the
Prussian closed mail. For a registered letter
sent from Uerliu, not exceeding half an ounce
in weight, an extra postage of two silver
groschens is to be laid on, (fifteen groschens
is to be charged, and on letters of the same
weight, sent from the United States to Berlin,
an additional postage of five cents,) making
the total to be paid at New York, if franked,
thirty-five cents.
Dcntlt of l)r. licck.
The Albany (N. Y.) journals announce the
death of Dr. Tbeodric Ronieyn Beck, long
known as tiie principal of the Albauy Acade
my, and as an eminent man of science. 1 he
deceased for many years edited the American
Journal of Insanity. In the year 1821) he
gave to the world his work on Medical Juris
prudence. The work was received with great
favor in this country and Jiurope.
THE GLOBE:
The Official Organ of Congress and News
paper for (lie People.
I address my annual circular to tlie public, up
prising it that the Globe will renew itm reports of
the Congressional Debates at the next ses-ion of
Congress. It in hardly necessary to say that the
proceedings of the next Congress will be of vast
import to the country. The issues which have
been made in relation to slavery, connected with
the great interest which is always taken in Cou
gre.-s in relati >n to the nomination of presidential
candidates, will give intense excitement to the
i.oxt ces-ion, which will be communicated to the
public. Whatever is debated in Congress will be
debated every where. The importance of official
r.-ports cannot, therefore, be too highly estimated.
The country will past, upon the. proceedings ol
Congress a-, they progress and public opinion, it
properly informed, will have a bidutaiy influence
upon the result.
The Ljailv Globk will be printed on a double
tyyal sheet at eleven o'clock every morning, ex
cept Sunday, and will contain all the messages ot
the President of the United States ; the reports ot
the Executive Departments; tbe entire proceed
ings of Congress; the law? passed during the
session; and the news by telegraph and troni
other sources up to the hour of going to press.
Tne debates in Congress frequently fill thirty,
forty, titty, and sometimes more than a hundied
column.', a day. Whenever they make mor- than
twenty-eight columns a day, e\tra psheets are
printed.
Tuesday's Congressional Gloiie will be pub
lished every Tuesday morning, and contain the
proceedings of Congress in a condensed form; the
current news of the day, and such editorial com
ment upon the times as may be deemed suitable
to the character of the paper. When the debates
of a week 'cannot be coudeiised into twenty
columns, and leave eight columns of the sheet
tor other matter and advertisements, an extra
sheet will be printed.
The Congressional Globk will be the revised
edition of the proceedings continued in the Daily
Globe, and the laws passed during the session,
printed it; l>ook lorui on a royal quarto page, and
will, probably, make four volumes of nine bun
tired pages each. *1 he l.iM volume oi the lour
will l?* an Appendix. winch will contain such
speeches as are written out by the members them
selves, with such deferred proceedings as neces
sarily accompany them. Complete indexe? will
be made out and forwarded to iiibiriilicr* soon
alter the end of the session. If a sut>?criber shall
lose any numbers, they will !*? supplied at the
rate of ihrt e cents lor sixteen pages.
It is admitted by every vomi etent judge, whose
opinion I have heard expressed on the subject,
that the debates of Congress are better reported,
and sold lower than those of any other legislative
body. A calculation which I made for the Senate
of the I'niled Slates in April, 1S54, shows thai
Congress pays ine for reporting and publishing
its debates in the Daily Glolie. and then in the
Congressional Globe and Appendix, only one
eleventh the rate charged in England for publish
ing the debates of Parliament, and about one
seventh the average rate paid by the States of
Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Kentucky, (which
are all the Slates in w hich the prices paid had
Itic*ii been ascertained.) for publishing their de
bates in book f >rm only- The tlebates of Con
gress are ofl'? red to subscribers, in this Prospec
tus, for al>out out half the price paid for them by
Concress?the expense of reporting, nnd then
publishing them in the Daily Glot>e lo enable
members to revise their remarks for the t onjrea
sionnl Globe and Ap|tendix, are all paid fur l>v
Congress, and do not form any part < f the $'">
which an individual pays for them Calculation*
showing the prices paid for debates ire printed on
the lourih page of the paper.
To facilitate the circulation of the < uni' ual
Globe nnd cheapen it to subscribers, Congress
passed a joint reaolutiou making it free of postage.
1 annex it. as the law may not be accessible to
postmasters generally:
"Joint Resolution providing for the distribution'of
the Ijttw of Congress and the Debates thereon.'
"With a view to the cheap circulation of the
laws of Congress and the debates contributing to
the true interpretation thereof, and to make free
the communication between the representative
and constituent bodies:
'??Jit it resolved by the Senate and Hone* of Repre
sentatives of the United States of America in Con
gress assembled. That from and after the present
session of Congress, the Congressional Globe and
Appendix, which contain the laws and the dclnttes
thereon, shall pass free throngh the mails so long
as the snme shall be published by order of Con
gress: Provided, That nothing herein shall be
construed lo authorize ihe circulation of the I'atly
Globe free of postage."'
I commenced publishing the Congressional
Globe and Appendix in IS.13 They now make
| thirty-seven volumes. The first edition of many
of them is exhausted, and I am n<>w reprinting
and stereotyping them. They cannot be afforded
for le?s than S7 f?0 a volume. Should any sub
scriber wi*h the back numbers, they will (*? fur
nished, well bound, at that rate.
TRHII|
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" " during tbe session 6 00
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" during the session...... I Of)
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in next December, the day fixed for Ihe meeting i
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Heretofore I have sent the Daily Globe to tho?e
papers that published my Prospectus. I cannot
afford lo do so any longer, a* the papers sent for \
several years past cos? me more than all I received
for subscriptions out of this city during that time
JOHN C. RIVES.
Washington, October 2, 1835.
Blank hooks and stationery.
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IJOK TilL SPRING THADE, Cent's llo
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variety of Gent's Undershirts and Drawers. Also,
a large assortment of silk and cotton Half-Hose,
plain and fancy. STEVENS'S
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i used to accomplish her pupils in that language.
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REFERENCES:
The Right Rev. ALONZO POTTER, D. D.,
LL. D..
Right Rev. G. \V. DOANE. D. D., LL. D.
Professor A. DALLAS BACHE, Supt. Coast
Survey.
Protestor JOSEPH HENRY, Secy < fSmith-*
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lion. G. W. WOODWARD, Associate Judge
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- lion. GEOllGE VAIL, M. C. N.Jersey.
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U E W A It I).?Strayed from the C'oui
mons,about 2 weeks since, a small speckle
iC'tund white Cow. with one horn half broken
oil ? llie oth :t i cinijip jio n. She lias a wen or
wart on her side, ne r the liauk, about lh- si 'e of
a man's fist. Sh.- i* marked, but not recollccted
The above reward will be paid by returning her lo
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Sweet Isabella Wir.es. and Catawba Brandy.
These Wines are made from (lit pure juice ol the'
grape, and pronounced to be the most wholesome
beverage in use. B. JjOST, Agent.
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Jan. 30?2aw3m*
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fg'MIE next >e*?ion of this Institution will com
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The Preparatory Department and Collegia!*
course are both conducted by able and experi
enced Professors, who devote themselves lo the
moral and intellectual advancement of those con
fided to their care. A large and spacious build
ing has just been computed to l>e use.il exclusive
ly lor Ihe accommodation ol the younger students.
! Their dormitory, play-grounds, study-hull, class
rooms. See., will l?e entirely distinct frotn those of
the other students, and officers especially nssigned
tX'ill attend them in their pastimes and preside
1 over their studies. A complete separation will
I thus be effected between the younger and older
students, Ihe advsntages ol which must he appa
rent to ad those who have thu least experience in
the education of youth.
The Observatory of the -College, its extensive
Philosophical apparatus, rich and varied Libraries,
and Cabinet ol Minerala, Geological Specimens
and Shells, nfTord to the students of this Institu
tion advantages rarely to be met with.
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