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In the course of the trial of Samuel I.. jGouverneur, now going on in the United oiates circuit tourt, several singular devel operaents have come out as to the "fair bu siness transactions" and operations ol the The defendant had cited several witnesses to prove that he ought to be allowed a com mission of five per cent, on all the extra-official business he did for the Department such as negotiating accommodation paper, making loans, borrowing, raising, mortgaging, and other needful operations. One witness said he thought five per cent, was a very reason- 1 able allowance; and being asked to give his reason, he said that other parsons had re ft ew Work -A correspondent of the New York Evening Star, gives the fallowing notice of a new Work, just published in Paris: As I know that you, my dear Sir, have some office-holders of the United States Govern- jcunoslly alout lhe Antiquities of Mexico, 1 may i as well let vou know concerning a new work of nienw . -. . . . . ... .. . i awn mem nnu g'eai interest. It is called '"Voyage pittoresque et Archeologique dans la 1 lovince cT Yucatan (Ameriqua Cenirale) pend ant les Annoes 1S34 et 183(5, per Frederick de Waldeck, dedie a la memoiro du Vicomte Kingsborough." This is a folio work, published here by Belizard, Dufour aud Cio, and in London by T. ct W. Boone, New Bond street. The- cot t f the work is the same in Paris and in Loudon . That is, a folio copv with the 22 plates, plain, 120 francs, or with the plates colored un- A it. i rt -ii ,i i uer ine aumor s eve, uu irancs or o guineas. ceivea it; and then Heine called on by the lt r. Court to give an instance, he said that W. ,ife t3 lha itudv of America ,;;,;.. IIe has Cojtocqal Harmony. A man in Gerrotny advertised that h bad an organ that woald pl&y any tune out of an numerated eet, at the command of any one of the audience. Tnia made a great noise at the time, and puzzled ail the conjuror and philosophers of the place. The organ was placed on a tab!, with its back against the wall ; the com pany were iaritirl to examine it, then ask for a tone, which was immediately played, and if any one deired it to slop, it was instantly silent! This went on for a long time, and the ingenious inventor was making a rapid fortune, and the secret wojid have been buried with him, had he sot behaved most inharsaoniously towards his loving wife one day, just ! bafore the performance wa about to commence The room was crowded, as usual, and a tune was called for, bat not a note was neard ; the owner became u:easy, and said, in a soothing, coaxing tone. Do blay, my coot organs;" still not a sou.td was heard : he got out of patienee, and threat ened to smash the instrument to pieces, when a hoar?e fe male voice was heard to growl oat Ay, do, you tjval, From the New Orleans True American, May 7. DREADFUL STEAMBOAT ACCIDENT. Thirty lives lost about txeniy persons badly scalded others slightly injured!! The steamboat George Collier, which lay at the wharf opposite to the Custom House, to undergo repairs for some time past, left this city on Saturday evening last, between fiv and six o'clock, for St. Louis. When near the mouth ot lied Kiver, about 80 miles below Natchez, at half past I o'clock j ''h" a. m. a serious acciaent occurred, wnicn proved dreadfully destructive of human life. VERY LATE FROM THE PACIFIC. Br the nrrival of the ship Natchez, Capttin Ilavnes in the very short passage of sixty-eight days from Valparaiso, the editor of the New York Gazette has been put in possession ef Valparaiso papers to the 20th of February, lie is also in debted to a mercantile friend for the annexed extract from a letter of the 2d of M trch. "Valparaiso March 2, 1S30. lew days since we had a reoort from PALLADIUM Uncompromising hostility to the re-election of Martin Van Karen." Talmai;. an quired arrived Irom ureak de organts as you proke my bead dis morning." This . Price received $674 98J, as his COmm.S-! ,na reputalioi; of hkin an accomplished arli3t ! was too mu.h for the choleric German; he took a chalr, and BlOn On the purchase of a SWOrd and a look- ; wllicl. Atrtio. wha diA th iUn-trtion. of Lord ! S instrument tuch a whack, that it drove it through ing glass as a present for the King of Siam. S Kmgsborouzh's irreat work, scarcely is and he is i PaPer partition i! the ail, carrying th it another organ. In one of the letterf, read as evidence on ! a clover and sensible writer. Ho alxa has the the part of the Government, written by Col. Keside in 1834, when he was under the ex amination of tho Committee of Investigation, there was a passage that excited quite a live ly movement in the Court and audience: "1 hope," .writes the gallant Land Admiral, 'to get out of the hands of this damned inquisi tion in a few days then PI I be in New York, &c." At this the Cour: looked giave Mr. Southard smiled, and Mr. Butler turned up the whites of his eyes. New York Herald. Good Nrws.- We are gratified to learn that the Fund Commissioners of Indiana have fair pros pects of success in negotiating for the loans necessary for this State, on better terms than were expected that they have had offers for the the six per cent., at par, which they refuied, be lieving ihey could do better. The friends of internal improvements, of the true interest of the State, and the public press should arouse, and not allow another legislature to be constituted of such loitering, lingering spirits as was the last. Wo have the power to command funds immediately to complete the works com menced; and shall wo drag along for years, let the portion of the works completed go l j decay, paying interest on the m ney expended, and have no facilities and reap no income from what hits been done 7 What would be thought of the econ omy and good management of a manufacturer who had it in his power to borrow money on twenty years credit, at 5 per cent, to build a factory and put it in operation immediately, and receive from it an anuual income of 20 per centum, but who would dig for the basement story the first year; the second year wall it up, and before that was done have to expend half as much as the cost of putting up the wall in clearing out the earth that had washed in; the third year gets his timber on the gound; the fourth erect the frame, by which time the wall would be in a dilapidated state; the fifth enclose it, and so continue to linger along,and all the time, paying interest on the money first expended, when he might have completed it in one year, and received a profit fiom its opera tions, ere the time he actually did complete it, sufficient to pay all the expenses of its construc tion? Or what of a farmer who, having a creek running through his farm, should, in bridging it, pursue the same lingering course in its erection, and, consequently, bo obliged to go a mile further every day in passing from one side of his farm to the other, in transporting his produce, or in taking his teams to and from his fields of labor, and sus tain a loss of more time and expense than would have been sufficient to build, the bridge the first year? We wish the political economists of our grand inhedrim would make a practical application of these simple illustratioos,in prosecuting our works of internal improvement to completion. Econo my and the true interests of the Stato say "go ahead!" Evausville Journal. character of being an excellent architect and mathematician. His publication on the ancient monuments of Iizalane is well known in France and England. For this work, the London fie. ographical Society elected him a member: the Ge ographical Society of Frauce did the same, and voted him a special medal. Yucatan is a province hitherto almost wholly unexplored. There are 000,000 souls in this Peninsula, in 240 villages. It is filled with an cient ruins. M. de Waldeck discovered five large ; cities in ruin, of which the Yocatans had scarcely j any knowledge. These cities are fuM of ancient monuments and ruin. Tnatof Ytzalane is one ! f these. His drawings were taken on the spot, j Much of the work I havenamed is occupied with accounts of the manners, the customs, tho arts of the Yucatan! the history, statistics, and agri culture. There is a poem or bllad as old as the Conquest of Mexico-this throws much light on the days departed of what was a great empire, there are proofs of the Christian faith having boen preached by the high priest Chilam Ba'Iam, 100 years before the Spaniards arrived, and there is a vocabulary of the tongue. Sum is the work. I have gone about it as much in detail as my brief space allows. With the authors Historic Ancienne de Mexico and his llecherches snr les Ruines de Vnlenqw-, it com pletes M. de Waldeck's publications on Mexico. which had been placed close at the back of the at which sat the obstinate grinder his wife! saam one, July From the Newark Daily Advertiser. Potato Soap for VVasuixo It was discover ed by a French chemist many years ago, that po tatoes, only three parts boiled, make better soap for washing than the troublesome, caustic, and expensive article usually made use of by our wash women. They make the clothes cleaner and without injiry. Let me give you the result of the experience of mv family, which is a large one. The soiled clothes are first soaked io a tub of water about an hour. They are then transferred to a copper of hot water; from which they are taken piece by piece, to be thoroughly rjbbed with the potatoes, the same as with soap. The whole thus prepared, after having been well rub bed, rolled and wrung, are a second time plunged From the Bo? ten Daily Times. A REMARKABLE HISTORY. ZebahColbur. No phenomena in the whole history of intellectual man, have been more re markable than those attending the life of Zerah Colburn, whose death has been recently announc ed. j He was born at Cabot, Vermont, on the 1st of i September, 1801, and was the sixth child of j poor, but respectable parents. His father was a farmer, and he first discovered his son's peculi ar faculty in August, 1810, the boy being then about six years old. The child had been at a dis trict school only about six weeks, which com prised all his opportunity for education, and the first indication be gave of his uncommon coin mind of numbers was by running through the multiplication-table, while sitting on the floor of a carpenter's shop, and watching chips as they were thrown off from tho tool. Ho was taken to several places in Vermont, and was examined by distinguished men, who were astonished at his power, which was no less incomprehensible to them than to himself. By the advice of friends, his father was induced to take Zerah about for exhibition, though sever al capital offers wore made (especially by Pro fessor Adams of Dartmouth college,) to take him in charge and give him a complete education. All the oilers were refused by the mercenary spirit ol the father. In Boston, the father received a munificent offer to educate the boy, which hisHBcenary temper induced him to refuse. James Perkin9, Dtniel Sirgeant, Josiah Qjincy, Isaac P. Davis, Wm. Sullivan, and W. S. Shaw, agreed to con tract with tho father to raise 5,000 dollars bv A Season in Lapland. The quickness of veg etation in hot and cold climates is so astonishing as to be perfectly unaccountable, were we not a ble to refer it to a most exalted wisdom. The following is a calendar of a Siberian, or Lapland year; June 23 Snow melts. 1 Snow gone. ' ft ! wlila mule crreen. - t 9- 17 Piants At full growth. " 25 riants in flower. Aug. 12 Fruit ripe. 10 Plants shed their seed. " 18 Snow. From August IS to June 23 snow and ice. Thus it appears that from their first emerging from the ground to the ripening of their seeds, the plants tako but a month; and spring, summer, and autumn are crowded into tho short space of fifty-six days. ine piston roU, winch works in the cylen-j ltim , sutin? that an action hid taLen nl . der, and by which the engine is propelled, ; Yungav, on the 20th January, bewten the Chil- ' ocing atiacnea Dy a Key or Doit wnicn pas- lan and i'eruvnn armies of about 5,000 men ses through the tea head, ave way, at the jeach, in which the latter was totally destroyed; rent which received the bolt, and being re- j 90 ; completely had been the defeat that our Lima lieved from the immense weicht against friends consider the confederation nt an end. jUeneral tvinta Cruz escaped with some of his j officers, and has gone to Bolivia for the purpose of raising another army; but he is so fallen we j think he cannot rise. The castles of Callno are j in hi9 possession, and commanded by his favorite, Ueneral Moran, who his in them 1,500 men, well FOR PRESIDENT IVriJ.TAM inWiyA' XT A T Ts tern.. inPeruo that a battle had been fought ' -wviviOUII, h the ChilM.ns were victorious! but h 7e- 1 f th confirmation. Last evening the B-.zer tton to be hHd WHpof the V. Stmt. Cdllao with Luna dates to ih 5th I subscription, and without exhibition, one half of which should be given to the father, and the other half applied to the education of the child, under the direction of trustees, although the fa ther should be allowed lobe with, and have the personal charge of his son. This offer was re fused. Zdrah was soon taken to England, where he excited as much wonder as he had done here. The desultory character of his father, however, ruined his prospects, and made enemies. After travelling through the United Kingdom, received much money, and borrowing more, the wicked father took the boy to France, whore, in 1S14, into the copper, together with a quantity of pota- without giving any intimation of his name, per toes in the above. Alter boiling tor about halt an , .orl. OP character, ha waa taken to Dr. Gall, the hour, the linen or clothes are then taken out turned, thoroughly rub well over, and wrung; and afterwards again thrown into the copper for some minutes. The clothes are then well rinsed in clean col j water, and then hung up to dry; the whole process occupying two hours and a half. Then linen thus washed, is perfectly clean, the kitchen garments free from all grease, and per fectly sweet, though in the old way they usually retain a greasy smell. A Housekeeper. Slanderous Publications. To so great an ex tent is the vilo business of private slander car ried by certain jiurnals in London, that measures ; have been taken for organized defence against them, by invariable prosecutions, at tha expense and under the conduct of a society established for the purpose. The number of Loudon papers en gaged almost exclusively in this detestable busi ness, and relying upon it for support, is astonish ing. We have seen specimens of more thin a dozen, among which the Satirist and the Age, vile as they are, were the least offensive. In some of these specimens, the grossest accusations were brought, in the grossest language, against indi viduals of known unblemished character, both men and women; and even the highest person ages in the kingdom were spoken of with the most disgusting indecency. At (he meeting held for establishing the society, one of the speakers j stated that within his own knowledge, six highly respectable families had been plunged into deep distress, in consequence of these infamous publi cations; and it is notorious that in many instan ces, wealthy persons have been repeatedly attack ed in a most shameful manner, solely with a view to tho extortion of hush money. N. Y . Com. We havo heard end read much of the licea--tioufnest of the public press of London, but had no adequate idea of its infamous extent, until we received a short timo since, from a friend in Lon- j don, who sent them to us to enlighten our ignor ance, six or seven copies each.of "The Crim Con Qazette," and The Bon Ton Gazette," papers which are sold openly in the streets for a penny a copy, and of which thousands ere circulated daily. The contents of those papers are so dis gusting, that we found it next to impossible to read them. We do not believe we could have made, from the whole lot, half a column of ex tracts, that any Boston publisher or editor, would dare to lay before his readers. And this is the garbage on which the minds of tens of thousands of the inhabitants of London feed daily. Bos. Trans. - Sympathy Two rtoMs souls discover their relatioaah'p jvm hy the like lor that they bear to a third.. father of phrenology, who immediately remarked upon the prominence of the organ of number, and desired to take a mask of his face. Here, also, great astonishment was excited, and vast sums of money taken by tho exhibition or received in loans; but was all expended, and they returned in poverty and distress to England. In July, 1S1G, the Earl of Bristol, with a prince ly liberality, took up ihe patronage of the boy, with the hope that, in the course of a good ed ucation, he might be enabled to reveal the secret of his mysterious power of computation. He of fered to pay the expense ot his education at Westminster; and, in the mean time, to allow the father twenty-five pounds per annum. At this institutionthey had a quarrel and left on account of the practice of fagging, and went to theRev. Mr. Bulten, in Buckinghamshire, where the Eirl of Bristol consented still to defray the expenses of private tuition. Zsrah was taken from Mr. Bullen'i in 1S19, on account of some freak of his father, and was! taken to Edinburg to be prepared for the stage.-! After studying some time with several actors, with whom it was impossible for the father to a gree, Zerah was put under the care of Charles Kemble, and received lessons from him. He was taken round to Ireland and the provincial theatres without success, during 1S20 and 1S21; and in 1522, having been reduced to destitution, application was made to the Earl of Bristol for farther assistance. The Earl very promptly said he would do nothing for the father, but separate and independent of him or his control, he would assist the son. then IS years old. Compelled to labor by necessity, Zerah in that year took a small school in the country, which he coutinued until near the death of his father, which happened io Feb. lS24;and in Mav, by the re newed liberality of the Earl of Bristol, he sailed for this country. There is nothing more to relate of Zerah Col burn, but that he has lived in Vermont ever since, a Methodist Clergyman, with no distinction of j eminence of any kind. His talents were far be low mediocrity as a scholar and thinker. He had not even the gift of clear conception or strong ex pression of thoughts, but dwindled down into one of the lower classes of those, who, though pious and useful to a certain extent in the ministry, are not enabled to shine. His power of calculation was lost sometime be fore he left England. The secret of its origin and end rests only with his Maker. f)iary Hope Two perspective painters lead us poor bewitched mortal, through the whole theatre of life, and tbeee ar memory and hope. From the Pennsylvania!!. COSCERXIXO YOURSELF. You cannot find a more companionable person than yourself, if proper attention be p.tid l the individual. Yourself will go with you wherever you like, and come away when you please approve ;our jokes, assent toyour propositions, and in short be in everyway agreeable, if you only learn and prac-tice the true art of being really "on goodierms with yourself." This, how ever, is notso easy as manv imagine, who do not often try the experiment. Yourself, when it catch es you in company with no other person, is apt to be a severe critic on your faults and foibles, and when vou are censured by vour self, it is general ly tho snverest and most intolerable species of reproof. It i on this account that you are often afraid of yourself, and seek any associates, no matter how inferior, whose bold chat may keep yourself from playing the censor. Yourself is likewise a jealous friend. If neglected and slighted, becomes a "bore," and to ba left for even a short time "by yourself" is then regarded as actually a cruel penance, asmany find when youth, health, or wealthhave departed. How important is it thento know thyself, to cultivate, to respect, andlo love thyself warmly but rational ly. A sensible self is the best of guides, for few commit errors but in broad disregard of its admonitions. It tugs continually at the skirts of men, to draw them f.om their cherished vices. It holds up its shadowy finger in warning when you go astray, and it sermonizes sharply on your sins after they have been committed. Our nature ia twofvIJ, ami ia nohlcal fvt the self to which we refer. It stands on the alert to check the excess of the animal impulses, and though it becomes weaker inthe fulfilment of its task by repeated disappointments, it is rarely so enfeebled as tibe unable to raise up occasionally sheeted and pale, like Richard's victims, to over whelm the offender with bitterest reproaches. Study, therefore, to be on good terms with your selfit is happiness to be tiuly pleased with your self. Pleasures and successes cannot compen st f.ir tho loss of this 2fod understanding and amicable relationship between the parties who occupy "the house you livein." "One self-approving hour, years outweighs, Of stupid starers and of load hazzas.M Yankee Shoes. The way they shovel shoes together in Lynn and some other places 'down east,1 is any thing but the right way. The Bos ton TVinorrmt tells the storv of a negro, some where nt tlie South, who had sported for two or three hours a pair of Yankee made brogans. Whar dese shoes cum from, Massa?' said Cuffee. They grow on the trees down east,' replied the master. 'Well said Cuff, 'I guess dey pick 'em fore um ripe. Picayune. which it had to struggle, was driven through the cylinder head and pave free room for the steam to escape. The aft doors of the deck-room were closed, consequently the effects of the steam were unavoidably upon the locum tenentes. The sands were thrown from under two boilers, but the con cussion was not severely experienced on the boat were in boile;s. So soon as the accident occurred, many rushed forward unconsciously in the face of the danger, and inhaling the heated vapour, instantly perished, or lived to linger a few hours in indescribible misery. It is supposed that between 40 and 50 per sont were scalded. The clerk of the Collier rates them at 44, consisting of deck passen gers, and part of the crew who had retired or were stationed on watch. We crossed over yesterday to see the Col lier and examine the" extent of her damage. No explosion seems to have taken place, but the immense force of the sudden rupture of the piston at the key, thereby disengaging the whole propelling power from the ma chine!' by which the boat was moved, im pelled from the screws the cylinder head, and deranged the boiler stands, thereby caus ing a current ot heated vapor to escape, which was fatal to all who came in contact with and were exposed to it. We have scarcely ever seen a more heart rending spectacle than the dreadfully scalded yet leaking out their few brief hours of mad dening misery, who are yet on board the Col lier, and where every attention and kindness is paid them that could be expected, and which may tend to lessen their agony. There are aged mothers, with faces and hands and necks, and every portion that could come in contact with the hot air, dreadfully blistered and presenting a horrid spectacle, calling for the lost ones whom they will see no more. There were strong, stalwert men, calling aloud in their misery for their great protector to relieve them. How noble did the fortitude of some of the females appear! The fair skin had been curled and crisped, and the bright and lustrous eye had been quenched, or the irritation had closed up the swollen lids and shutout the world's liiiht. What must have been their agony the flesh falling from the red lins themselves becoming of a sudden soft and ready to fall and leave the "face di vine" a horrid spectacle. We cannot conceive how the accident might nave been anticipated. We do not remem ber to have heard of otic of a similar kind. The steamer Geo. Washington came down about an hour and a half after the accident, and towed her down. Every assistance in his power was promptly rendered by Capt. Quarrier of the Washington, than whom there is not a more amiable, attentive, high minded and honorable officer on the western waters. We take pleasure in according to Capt. Quarrier his just deserts. s said, fur five or six months, were daily expected in Lima. provisioned, it Trie Chilians Admitting thai Stnta Cruz has lost nil Pern, w The most of those killed and injured ! still fear it will be tho scene of civil strife for the berths, on the deck aft of the some time to come, fr already the party now coming m are quarrelling among themselves. The foreign property had been taken out of the castles, and deposited on board vessel in the bay of Callao, ready to be entered at Chorillos, should that port bo opened during the siege of the castles, which will probably take place. Thus stand affairs in Peru at our last date9; no busi ness, of course, was doing, nor would there be until affiirs were settled. Tho following is the official account of the battle fought at Yungiy, between the Chilian and Peruvian armies : "Clonel 1) Pedro Urriola, commanding the battalion Colchagua, which took a distinguished part in the battle of Yungav, has arrived here, the bearer of communications which announce a most glorious triumph of tho arms of Chili. C 1. Urriola left the field of battle ten hours after the victory. "3,100 prisoners, 2,000 killed, the whole park of artillery, the commiisriat witii rn ire than 30,000, the equipages, horses, fcc. of the Pro tector's army, are the fruits of this victory. Gen erals Moran and Urdininea were kiMed, the first in the battle of the 6di. Generali Herrera, Gni ros, Bermudcs, Otero, and Armaza, aro prisoners, the list mortally wounded. Stnta Crux escaped with twenty men in the direction of Junin. It is believed that his intention was to make for lea, and embark at Pisco, but a company of Chilian carbineers with horsemen, who had been kept in reserve, followed rapidly to overtake him. The protended protector abandoned the field an hour before the close of the battle. 'General Lafuente would march to Iluacho with two squadron of cavalrv and two Peruvian btttalions, and would bo in Lima and Calluo on the 23th and 2Sih January. General Ganaarra would march on the 2'2d January for Junin and tho south of Peru, vilh a division of the restoring army; and tha general-in chsel would toilow with tho remainder, leaving Gen. Lafuente the chief military in the north of Peru." there appears also to nave been a naval cn- i gagement ot which the following account is translated : "The naval combat of Casma has terminated in a manner equally happy to tho arms of Chili. Four vessels armed by General Santa Cruz at tacked tho division of commandant Simpson, consisting of the corvettes Confederation and Valparaiso and 1 ti r barque Santa Cruz, which were completely defeated, with much damage, and the loss of tho briantine Arequipeno, with a crew of 70 men. The enemy's vessels were the EJmond, of 20 gur.s, a barque with IS, the Arequipeno, of 9 guns, and a golette with 2 swivel guns." Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce. Valparaiso, March '2, IH'.IJ. We have just received advice from Lima of the total defeat of the army of General Santa Cruz, at Yungay tho 20th January . S tnta Cruz escaped with only a few men, and arrived at Lima on the 21th. He has gtrriooaed the Castle of C.iIIao with 1300 men under the command of CANAL SUBSCRIPTIONS. It is with pleasure that we state to our friends that about S 12,000 of the first instalment f $20,000 on the Cast Fork Canal Siock, has beCB paid in at this place. Some few have not yet paid in their subscriptions, but they must be -ware that upon their promptness all depends, as nothing further can be done until the 20,000 shall have been actually paid in. (rWe are requested to announce Jokuva Bat lexgkb, as a candidate for County Commission er. OT Collar Ratliff Boox, it i, ,aid, has re moved to Iowa. fcSrGov. Wallace, has appointed John Vaw ter, of Jennings county, Johnson Watts, of Dear born, and William Elliott, of Wayne, Commis sioners to select lanis under the grant of the general government, for the continuation of the Wabash and Erie Canal. (ttrThe County Commissioners at their late sitting appointed Thomas Dknis. Colloetor of the State and Countv T f..r th. - - - --. -.acu DQI . Mr. Dennis is altogether competent and a respon sible man. We hope, in his appointment of dep. uty or deputies, he will select such as will not use the advnntHges their business will give them in creating false prejudices in the minds of the credulous respecting the present rate of taxes, and tho use tho taxes are to be applied to. The) friends of Internal Improvement are nartinn!rl interested in having the people know precisely for what purpose their money is to be applied, and that no false fears should bo excited design ed for the advancement of men opposed to tha spirit of improvement. The friends of the East Fork Canal are deeply interested in the charac ter of the delegation to the next legislature from this county, and should a few designing men get tho collecting of the taxes, they might by a pe culiar ranf, which is not unknown in this county divide our delegation, and elect such men as have heretofore opposed different woika of internal im provement, and who would be unable to exert any advancing influence for our canal. Cy-On Monday week, the 27th, insf., we be lieve is the day at t apart by the Vanocracy ofthie county to meet io convention at Centreville, for the purpose of nominating four "Democratic mod ifiers', to represent Wayne County in the next legislature. "Democratic modifiers!" Oy-We are requested to announce that Gen. Jonathan M'Carty is a candidate for Congress. Cr- we are authorised to announce HIRAM MEXDENII AL, as a candidate io represent Ran dolph county in the House of Representatives of the next Legislature. (r Wo aro authorized to announce the Hon. James IlAuiDEN,as a candidate for re-election to j Congress, at the ensuing election in August next. are authorized and requested to an nounce George W. Whitman, Esq., of Cambridge city, aa a candidate for the lower branch of the State Legilature. A young lady in the mil inary line, was desert A ir hnr n.l.irer. and broke forth in this wav "Such a menial ought to be batteted to death with thimbles, and buried in a band-box." An old women once upon a time, had a daugh ter married off. Being asked shortly afterwards what kind of a husband her daughter had got, she replied ,'Oh 1 rather guess he's a tolerable sort of a bodv, for he's got a long tailed coat ana a rumeo shirt." Stove Cracfcs. To effectually close cracks in stoves, through which the fire or smoke escapes, apply a mixture of fine salt and fresh wood ashes, equal quantities, made into paste with milk. Force of Ilxbit. A toper ia New Orleans ta king a check to a bank to be cashed, was asked by the teller, "how he would have it?" Ho answer ed instantly, "cold if you please, and without su gar." ' The Whirs of the city of Philadelphia have appointed Frederick Fraley, and John Swift, to represent their congressional instrict m the National Convention. They are both friendly to the nomination of Mr. Clay. The Legislature of Michigan have passed a law prohibiting, under severe penalties, the running of any car or other vehicle, on any public road on Sunday, unless in cases of e mergency, which must be certified to by some public officer. The N. Y. Whig states that Wm. Leggett, Esp., late editor of the Plain Dealer, has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to Cen tral America. Mr. Webster, being about to pay a visit to Europe, has sold his elegant residence in Summer street, Boston, for forty thousand dollars. During his absence the magnificent vase, presented to him by the citizens of Boston, will be exhibited at the store of the manufacturers. Messrs. Milton Sz. Slocomb, merchant tailors of Boston, have presented Mr. W. a splendid suit of clothes, made of American manufactured cloth. This line fills out the column. Old Song. NEW COUNCIL, NEW YORK CITY. It is the invariable habit of our party to consiraiuiaie ubcit uwuu . r. , , .,,r.i,. ,i., ,.,,. power. It is doubtful, however, whether it I , '"."" liuvvci. ii a uuui.u , , months1 provisions, lie again left Lima on the is not, m most cases, a source ot party j 2Sth fo(, tha Sjutli, with the purpose of -e-orga-weakness, instead of party strength, as it j nizmjf a new army. We think, however, in this certainly is always attended by many cir-. he Wlij foil, ns his resources are completely ex cumstances that are calculated to mortify J hausted. We consider the confederation at an and discrust those upon whom devolves the ; end. The probability is, there will be a revolu- Hocnpnntinn of the natronanc which belongs tion in Bolivia to it. The whig Mayor and councils of New York went out of office on Tuesday, and yesterday their loco- foco successors took thir" nlar.es. And so irreat was the crowd Extract of a Letter dated. Vali'abaiso, March 3, 1830. Just imagine the astonishment here at the recent news from Peru the Chili armv entirely ! - c. - i - j ' ,. , ra .t . u lomnrra victorious 3,inis Vvruz 9 ooasieu one cut up ana of applicants for office that, in the language of a himPf a of the Commercial, fat men sighed, groaned wjlh a few men, Uow dlfrerenl a resut and grunted slim men complained in an- j frjm lhat predictej by his proclaims and the let- guish that elbows were forced through them j tera of al, lhe foreigners and the whole gained strong men affirmed that they should faint i by the Chili infantry. To be sure, Santa Cruz tall men stood on tipto and little men J charges one of his colonels with treachery, for shrieked in mortal terror, as the prospect j which he was shot down on the spot the moment of beinrr trodden under foot glared horribly 1 it was discovered. before them. Benches gave way-hats were Snta Cruz's previous advices to Garcia del hed into shapeless masses toes with i K.10, wnicn reacnea jL.ima on mo eve 01 me ;oru viiroiioa a utpaiiuia iui una )iav;e,au'j which was all we knew here until this last intelligence reached us, were, that he had chased the Chilinos from Hurras, and intercepted their retreat to the coast, and they were now his. Using "Talley rand's words," it is then commencement du " of Chili restoration. It will prove trulv crust .rn on hnt nancra ofnoxinv into their own ers' vitals "Old Hays" shouted with all the strength of his iron lungs and his sub ordinates braced themselves with all their micrht against the iron raiiing which seemed at every moment on the point of being lev elled It will be noticed that we have taken from our list of candidates tVe name of AI. M. Ray Esq. who has for sometime been before the people of this district as a candidate for Congress. At the time that Mr. Ray contented to have his name brought before his fellow citizens, it was expect ed that a Convention of the Whig party of thie district would be had; and that the people might have an opportunity of instructing their dele gates in regard to individuals presented for their nomination, it was at the earne st solicitation of a respectable portion of the Whig party that Mr. Ray consented to the use of his name. The Whigs of this district have now determined to dispense with a Convention, and as two ther gentlemen have entered the canvass for the same office, Mr. Ray has no disposition to endanger the success of the Whig party by remaining in the field. Had the same spirit of compromise been held by the frien lsof the two candidates now be fore the people claiming the suffrages of Ihe Whigs, we would have been on equal ground with our opponents in having but one candidate, to which case success would have been certain. . - 1 - 1 1 with the floor. Laltimore tnronicie. : the commencement of his end, and I hardly think Humiliation of Public Office. Almost every day discloses some new fact humiliating to hold ers of public office. Disclosures are made, that degrade this class of citizens. We have said lit tle about them, in the Gazette, but a case occa sionally occurs, which we may not altogether pass by. One of these is the case of the Postmaster at Louisville. He has been guilty of contracting with his deputies for one price, and exacting from the Department a larger amount, putting the difference in his own pocket. He has effect ed this by fabricating receipts, which he contriv ed by taking receipts in blank from the deputies and fillin? them up with sums to suit himself. The subject has been agitated for sometime, but we believe the Postmaster still keeps his plac. We have j jst received information from New Orleans of strange doings in the Revenue ofhecs there and one of them playing leg treasurer with a large amount of the public funds. Every mail we have more or less of this degra dation, from every section of the Union. This is so common, that a Receiver of public money seems intimately affiliated with defalcation, tho' no special imputation rests upon him. Cincinnati Gaz. Strartxcoutizing The Little Rock (Arkansas) Times says: "A Sub-Treasurer, in the shape of a Postmaster, at Upper Red Hook, who had rng been engaged in pnrloining money from letters was lately detected, and held to bail in the sum of $1000; which he willingly paid with the tens of thousand he had stolen, and immediately Swartwovtized, as they say at the east." he will be able to hold up his head again, moral ly or physically. Tha "confederation" is done to all intents and purposes. Santa Cruz has left for Cuzco to bring down another army Mor an, in the mean time, charged with the cas.tls and 1200 men, and 'Vigil,' Prefect of Lima, 1500 men. The latter's orders, it is said, are, that, if the Chili army approach Lima, he is to retire un der the castles to await the return of the Pro tector, who will be down to support him in three months. In the mean time, instead of marching uoon marchinjr upon Lima, the Governor here toid me yesterday lhat Bulnes, Gamarra, and Castillo are in march for the interior via Jauja, and have no intention of going to Lima; that they intend following up Santa Cruz so that he will not be able to get up an army before they have gained the whole country, and thie, in my opinion, i decisive oolicv. Two thousand men are now ready to be embarked and sent to any point BjI nes may direct them to, and every thing here promises the greatest success in this Adminis tration's views. This last success has prostrated all opposition national pride is grateful and the Government relieved frmo a most painful situation. A letter dated London, April 12 1S39, savs The distress in Spain is beyond conception. Men dicity bad re-appeared in the streets under the most hideous forms. Since the reforms! made in some of the Government Administrations, the number of individuals thrown on public charity nao ingnuuiiy increased. mere was but one Theatre open in Madrid, and only twice a week. What a lamentable condition for a once prosper ous and happy nation to be reduced to! t ROBBERS DETECTED. On Tuesday morning last, between 1 and 2 o'clock A. M., two men were taken up by the night watch of this place, under very suspicious cir cumstances, and on examining their persons, the following articles were found upon one of them: a variety of large door keys, and some amaller ones, a large London made smooth bored pistol, well charged, silver but-piece and an iron guard, percussion lock, a few finger-rings, &lc. The other had in his possession a large number of dif ferent sized keys; a rifle-barrelled pistol, percus sion lock, silver guard, and some silver ornaments, with a cap box in the but, London engraved ee the barrel in small capitals; a large variety ef common jewelry, worth about 30, consistiag of large breast pios, finger-rings, ear-rinf, &c.; a pocket book containing some counterfeit money and some defuced Michigan bills. They had in their saddle bags a large spike gimblet, three pocket books, with all names erad, maps, &c. baddle bags nearly new. Tbe first mentioned is about 25 years old, 5 feet 11 inches high, spare made, sandy complexi m, large sandy whiskers, doi w hair forming them not very loog; tne nairot um head long and bushy blind of tbe lett eye, though the eye is not much disfigured, untamg countenance, supposed to bave a jcod ede" and writes a superior hand, has on a jes 'roek coat with a velvet collar, brown easei" Pa" loons, black silk hat, monroe shoes. The ether is about the same height and age, Ter7 -T long hair, no whiskers, but black heavy more slender in form than the fil