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M E E T I N G O F VH thing, but IE SEM P S T R E S S E S . The United Benevolent Association ol Ladies heitfa'nother meeting' In W ashingtonian Hall y es terday afternoon. After calling the soc'ety to or der, the lady president opened the proceedings by reading an appropriate portion of the second chap ter o f ttfe E pistle to tne Philippians, viz :— ' ; *• l . If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any coin fort jof love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any hoWels' nnd mercii’s. ' FbtRl y e my jny, that’ye be like minded, ^having the same lovej being o f one accord, of one mind. I . S. Let nothing t e done through strife or vain glory, b'ul ip low.linesja of mind let each esteem ^ e t^ l^ lie r ith a 'n themsedv'es. e«ery .piad oft Wa own man: algd oh the things of dtfierfe.’* f J H $ lSg& id down |he Bible, the president offer- eS fervent and affecting prayer to heaven, that tne ‘Father of Mercies would touch the hearts ,«ftd eonB^ietfcei o f the employers anti incline t hem *n«l vt r a l they may no longer op p r e s s e d grind the poor widow and the needy tjdw fistliedajst. j ’ ' I 'h e secretary now}read the outline of a consti tution, which had been formed, tho first article de* clarjng that the metiers shall pssist each other in an endeavor to obtain a jjst compensation fof tlieir la- , 605 *,' tgtai^ituti&ii'was »'dopted-. : '..VShji praspnt next bailed upon the members to ‘ * 13,6 in .thejr places and st ate each facta as were W§|)i^E'th^r. '^tain lhowledge in relation to the wades.. jessing over the Rtaterhents concerning the com difion of the\ families of the* relators— w hether large or small, sick or well— it was clearly estab lished, that Ihey had to work from IQ to 18 hours . fo ea*a,gO eonts, and ihat they did not average 15 \ cents a flay, taking the week through, although they forked'from morning till bed time, without atteh%ihg to any thing else. The following .special facts were stated and attested ; OntT'third present worked for ordes. ♦^6 pairs, o f Overhaul pants, with pockets, and but tons down the side, were taken for ten cents a , p air. The.employer deducted two cent3 a pair \lor cash, when he paid\for the job—being a de duction, of forty cents oi^ iwo dollars. ‘ 20 cents to be pai&for pants, the m ater because she had not pants with two 3Ckefs; pirn in ' tap e ; b u ttbepay found straps. 8 .cents to be paid for hut pay leAiagd. because ihe maker put no the tack.„ ---- .. JPour cents ^aid for utjder shirts*by several, Soinewero'paiii o ffat the end o fthe week whol ly in dents, which the employers purchased at the 'toli-bm lg e s at the rate iff 105 for a dol'ar. . _ T o some who had complained of the prices, 'jqij>pi|oyerVliad a n s w e re ijl^lf you; can’t live as you ,%|L«KtO' Qtf4$!ejuices 1 pay youi you 'knoiptliere iM d M u sm ctttt goto and live,” [Meaning ^ K o ^ s o f itr lim e.] 1 • *, Several gentlemen addressed the\ meeting, but w e fiavehnly space t o ’ lay to notice the most striking of tjie facts detailed by the females who Ira ve suffered by the Abominable system which _tliey are endeavoring td abolish. ” The proceedings wer6 conducted in a solemn .and impressive manner. Another meeting will be 'held oii T uesday evening .— Boston Post. -• From Iho St. Lawrence Republican. W o published some weeks since, an account of the death o fa n unknown individual and the subse- qtient.di8coveryofhi8 remains in the wilderness in the southern portion o f this county. Since that time a letter has been reiceived by Doct. Clark, of Canton, the Coroner wiio attended a t ihe inquest, % licfegd?sj to identify the unfortunate man be yond a d o u b t. The letter we publish below : R e x fo b d ’s F lats , Saratoga C o., N:. Y. > e ^ September 20,1843. . $ ^Ifoet, Darius C :ark : , S. S i r ^ l saw in theptiBjic paperB an account of an .unfortunate fellow being found dead in the woods in. S ’. L awrence county,, on the 2d of A ugust, ult., wiio was hurled under jfour directions,* F rom tlie description given of his person, manners and hab- its^thcre ia litt le doubt that the body the hunters ^iaeoVered was that of William Larkin, who stray- Vd aw»y from this place Bome three or four. years agp^‘l& the state o f rainH that he exhibited in your ,{ P u r a y ear previous io his final departure, he *’ftatfbeei!J liyttig: m 08 l l | with a sister (since deeeasi. ^jj'ifelfose hiifband resjidea here.*. and , in whose was umfofml^ treated with kindnessv— came there from Capton, Onondaga co,, where W b a tf a wife and two l^rcthers living. His broth-* er-jiri'ia.w here has forwnfded to them a.newspaper \containing the account jof hts melancholy fate. 1 'am unable tb^ five all ^ p a r ticu la r s o f his history, ^tti^qn£efst«,i(id he married about seven o r eight ’Hfee his malady (if it exi|i< fed% aH before;) greattly increased upon him.— H e had been coufined in the lunatic asylum at Hudson, and hopes .wer» ®t one time entertained ireat^atioh to 'rettfirin^ Such expectations were trnt realised, ‘H i| friends here did not un- <leriafee(to rostrain him of his liberty, as<he never to.ifiJur^ any one. W hen hiflong absence occasioned anxiety respecting ins Me* they made diligent inquiries a lter him Without-effect and supposed h e was dead. H t s con n e x io n s here a r e resp e c tab le and th e y in tjommoft w iih every (riejnd to humanity duly ap- ' p reptate th e kind and b e iievolen t e x e r t io n s o f your- !isiffjiril£i‘! o th ers in discpvering the naftie o f the iffriMj^^r, 5n feHeving h»s w anis when livingj and pertorming the rites of sepuliure with such *ing. olar propriety. For yourself and your associates who performed an arduous journey through the -wood? on this philanthropic errand, you will pfease receive the acknowledgements o f tbe friends of tlie unhappy man in t(his vicinity, at whose re quest I make this communication. Respectfully vouts, ' ' GEQ. T . W R IG H T , P. M. ' J P a r is , S e p t . 2 0 , 1848. . W a shington Irving,; our distinguished^Minister •to Spain, who had been seriously ill a t ‘ Madrid, •hassufficiently recovered to make a visit to F rance iior, the benefit of his health. He arrived at ¥ e r - -isaifleffijdn the t6th o f S'eptember inst. where, and in P afis^he wiH pass several weeks. - .. T h e King g o es from .St, C loud to Versailles in * fear-diys. | • The warm, pleasant 1 weather continues. This li h elping’ the \Vintage which, in consequence of 'he cold and wet fprifff, will produce less than ofie tK!r3: of last ........... - received Letters by the Great W e stern'w h ich induce’his return to America this fall. H e had not intended to leave Paris until next summer. • - : ' : 1 met many Americans a t Mr. L edyard’s at tea lost evening. The Minister brings his conntry- men'thus pleasantly together very often. Among tb£re last evening, were the widow and daughter; of the late T heodore Sedgwick, Esq. _ These L adies have been sometime in Paris. But tlie Miss Sedgwick is not in Europe.— Car. Mb. Journal. £ Gen. Henry Dodge is of W isconsin, aukie Courier says, of W isco n s in E l e c ^ iom elected de lega’.e fropn t h b f a ’majority, the Mil, from 1300 to @000. \ : A lilw a u k ie g a v e th e w a r w o r n veteran 4 0 0 m a jo r i t y . ■ B .acl*e eou n iy £p^ m a jority. T h is is c o n * :Mi.iecedian .extraordinary trium p h . It will be recollected that Gen. Dodge was ap pointed by Mr. Van Buren* Governor of W iscon- Bin, and was removed on’ the accession of the whig ad m inistration. But'the people have stood by the old soldier, and s eie^te^^h^ uj he their re - J j es that the home con ark amounts to twenty four m ilions g a llo n s ,) 850,000 adult males, hagen paper sta sumption o f spirits in D entr million quartp« (or about which, with a population of ^ a c c o r d i n g to th e la s t een iu s , would g i v e an nv- erage of fifty seven quarts ]er head, or about four tim e s a s m u c h a s th e average Great Britain and Ireland. is not abroad there. nee then, have twice presentative in Cong*- FO U R DAYS LATjER FROM EUROPE. The steam ship Great W estern, arrived at Ni*w York on Saturday morning. S h e ; brings Liver pool dates of the 2*1, lier day o f sailing—four days later than were brought by the Acadia. Tlie markets were brit-k, though not quite as much so as for a few days previous to the depart ure of the Acadia.\ S ill (lie demand was both uniform and large. W ilmer & Smith’s Tim es says that the Corn market has exhibited some firm- neas, apd an advance of a penny to two pf’nee per bushel has taken p’uce. I'he harvest has been tolerably good. It is t-boUght probable that a con siderable quant tty of flour may find i>s w a y from panada through the act of the last session* Du ring ihe liist few days an immense quantity of wheat and flour had been released from Ubnd at tlie duty pf fouiteen shillings\ per quarter. The weather continues very fine—the finest, indeed, for the season. Considerable alarm existed in consequence of there having been no tidings received of the long missing Indian mail. It was now more than a fortnight, nearly three weeks beyond its tim e ; and commerce, by the interruption, sus'ahis a serious injury. O’Connell continues as active as ever. AU his energies appear to be nbsoibed in his present agi-* tation, which leaves him no time for rest or retire ment. AU,parlies admit the herculean energies which he brings into nctinn. lie made a spoei' at a great meeting at Connemara on the 17th, which is said to he one of the moat beautiful and: eloquent he has delivered for many a day. F rance .— The Moniteur publishes a report, ad dressed by Vice Admiral De Mack.au to the King, giving to lus Majesty an account o f the situation of the Department o t the Marine, and demanding an extraordinary credit, intended to cover unfore- seen expenses. His Majesty acceded to the de~ mand by an ordinance dated St. Cloud, 16th inst. Among the items enumerated by Admiral de Mac kau is one of l, 700,000 f. fot tbe miesion |o China, which is to consist o f two frigates and three cor vettes. Queen Victoria has returned to Belgium after an absence cf nine days. Nothing could exceed in warmth, in genuine and unaffected heartiness and manner, her reception by the kind and hospi table people amongst, whom she has been sojourn ing. The visit of the Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the King of the B elgians and his amiable consort and their suites, to Ostend, Bru ges, Ghent, Brussels and Antwerp, is said to have resembled an ovation. The Queen, it is said, tra versed in her journey, five hundred miles of rail way in Belgium. The new Government of Spain has issued its manifesto tp the nation. I t is a long document, be ginning wiih the late melancholy events a t B arce lona ; and while professing to treat of the princi* pie of representative government, attacks the cen» tral junta with g reat bitterness. I t AtT .—Bologna is again in a state of agitation. Some time since the Government announced that the insurgents were beaten and dispersed J but on th*- 3J, it was ascertained |hat ’.hey had re-assem bled in the. mountains, ft is said that the Gov- ernment_Jjltid made propositions to the chiefs of these guerillas to give them passports to foreign countries. It appears that these proposals have not been accepted, nnd the guerillas have return cd to their former position, where they have a great number of partisans. The letters from Rome are not o f a more trahquilizing description. Revolutionary proclamations to a great extent have been distributed among t be people.— Tribune. S erious A ccident . —-The brig Effort,, Koop man master, of Boston, sailed yesterday, bound to Port L eoa with a general cargo of dry goods and liquor. She came to anchor about three o’clock in the afternoon, off the Owl's Head and lay there alt night, and this morning at 6 o’clock she was dis covered to be on fire in the hold under the cabin. All hands immediately made tho attempt to ex tinguish it, and many from both L ong Island and Staten Island Went to their assistance. The steamboat W ave also went offto her and succeed, ed in towing her ashore on L ong Island ; and at 81 o’clock she blew up making a tremendous re port. There were about twenty five men on her deck at the time of tbe explosion, all of whom were thrown into the w ater, three of them were very seriously injured, to wi', Capt. John Bennett of L. I., and J. Magie and J. Selvie of S. I. The m o s t of th o s e on board w e r e m o r e or le s s injured, but fortunately, no life was lost. There was one passenger, Mr. T . JB. Nathan, who had on board about $3,000 worth of goods all of which will be a total loss. The captain am his wife also lost every thing in the shape of wear ing apparel, &c., he not even 6avin.g his chronom eter. The cause o f the explosion was caused by the fire corning in contact w ith the liquor on board — JV*. Y. American o f Saturday. D eath fro&i t h e b ite of a C a t . —The Brock port Sentinel mentions the death of a Mrs. John son, with distinct and aggravated hydrophobic symptom?, occasioned by the bite of a domestic cat. Mrs. Johnson was passing through the yart of her house, having no shoes on, and seeing the cat following her, turned and gave the animal a kick. T h e cat instantly fastened upon her left foot, inflicting two severe bites which laceratoi the skin about the toes ; and soon after datted up on her again ahcTbit the right foot over the ex ten sor tendon. This was in May. The wounds soon healed, and no serious inconvenience was felt un til late in September, when sharp, darting pains occurred in the right foot, extending upward to the body. These increased in vijlence, and final ly, in tho course o f a week, the usual symptoms of hydrophobia supervened, and continued with accelerating force until death closed. The cat was killed immediately after the bites were in flieted, consequently it is not known whether it was rabid or not.— JY. Y. Com. Adz 1 . consumption in Truly F ather Mathew R a i l r o a d t r o u b l e s w e s t. — W e understand by a gentleman who has just returned from the west that there was trouble on the line ofthe Toledo and Adrien Railroad,'growing out o fa claim helt by some o f the farmers living on the line o f the road. A few nights agosomp fifteen rods of t he roai were tom up, and logs piled up to prevent the progress of ihe fears. The railroad agents en deavored to remove the obstructions, but the neigh boring farmers beat them off, as they did the po lice posse from Toledo. W hen our informant left, measures had been taken to carry out the T oledo volun teer corps. I they went, as the farmers numbered about a hun dred, and all armed, there was trouble.— Roches ter jDeniocrat, W e learn from Mr. Pomeroy, who came in from the west this moruing, that tiie anticipated “trouble” dy£ not occur, 'piie Sheriff,* accompan ied by the Toledo Guards, proceeded to the ground andarrested tlie parties implicated without meeting any difficulty or encountering the least resistance.— Mb. Journal. D emolishing T oll G ates . — W e understano the g a trs oh the Woost&r turnpike between this city and Medina county have all been destroyed by the “ sovereign people,” and we notice by the Statp Journal that the gates on the Columbus and Sandusky turnpike between Columbus and Dela ware have ajeo been demolished, and near Column bus the toll house as well as the g ate. In demol ishing the gate near Delaware a serious affray occurred; the defenders of the gate fired into the crowd who had assembled to destroy it and dan gerously wounded one of the assailants .— Clever land Herald. • ______ ____ B a l tim o r e C o o n ty C o u r t — C a se o f D a m a g e s. — A Qose of considerable interest ftas been pro gressing in the above court since the 30th ult. which was decided this morning. The action wa6 brought by Mr. Lra F rye, against Lucius W . Stockton, Proprietor of the National road line of stages, for damages sustained by the upsetting of one of Mr, Stockton’s stages, in which plaintiff was a passenger, between Hancock and Cumber land, in the month of September, 1S39. „ The case, after having been fully and ably argued by Reverdy Johnson and Lemuel Williams, Eeqrs., counsel for the defepdant, was given to the jury, who returned a verdict this morning,, awarding to Ithe plaintiff $3000 damages .—*Bullimre Falriot. D readfui. E x p lo sion.— W e leiirn from a p as senger who came up laat n ig h t in the Meamboat South America, that a powder mill at High F al's, about 7 miles west from Catskill, was blown up yesterday a f ernoon abour 5 o’clock. There were s'x persops in the building at ihe time of the ex plosion, all of whom weie blown tn atoms ! Some 300 kegs of powder are said to have been in the mill when the accident occurred. The foreman was indisposed, and the pe> son having charge of the packing and drying house is supposed to jiave been intoxicated. The repnjt of the explosion excited Considerable alarm at Catskill, many per- spns taking it for an \prtbquake. A similar ac cident occurred at this same place three or four ypars ago,, w hen four persons were killed.— Eve. Journal. W e are indebted to a gentleman from Catskill for the names of the persons killed, as follows :— John Cash, H . Norcutt. Virgil L o w n , ----- H o tch kiss, a son of Charles Cash 12 years of age, ar.d a Swiss whose name we could not learn. The lar gest part o fa body that has been found is the leg of a man from the foot to the knee.— Jltgus. D r e a d f u l A c c id e n t.— On Friday, the 22 c! ul timo. Eliarda Baldwin, eon of Timothy G. Baldwin, of Chill, climbed a tree for the purpose of procu ring honev. When 85 feet from the ground, having first put a rope around h is body and fastened it to the tree, he commenced cutting the branches containing the honey. The limb on w hich he was standing gave way. \ He made a spring, in order, a\ is supposed to grasp another branch ; but the rope slipped over his head and the unfortunate man fell. lie struck 20 feet from the tree he had climbed, between two trees growing from one roof, forming a trian gle, his head strik in g a lo g . It is wonderful that he was not instantly killed, and still more so that he y et survives ; yet such is the fact, and there is a prospect of his recovery. No bonee were bro- UQfi.—-Rochester Democrat. v T h e M iddletow n M urder .— The examination of Bell, Roberts and Hall, the persons charged with the murder of Mrs. Bicon, o f W estfield S o ciety, was had at Middletown on the Sd inst. Roberts, who is said to be very respectably con nected/ though brutalized by intemperanc*, is 57 yearsjold* has a wife and several children, and is conh/cted, by marriage, with the murdered wo mans His house is a mile and a half northwest of Mrs. Bacon’s. Bell has lived many years at W e st- fluid about three fourths of a mile northwest of Mrs. Bacon’s—is 47 years old ; has a wife, and a ?on by ti former’ Wife. Occasionally intemperate. Hall, who is a native o f Meriden, but who has re sided, since 1st August, about a quarter of a mile northwest of Mr. Bacon’s, is about 37, and has been an inmate of the state prison. The three have been committed), CANAL T O L L S AND LOCKAGES. Account ol T pljs received on all the Canals 0 ! this state, and of tho lockages at Alexander’s lock, three miles w est of Schenectady, to the l9t Octo ber, v iz .: Tolls. Lockages. 4th week, in Sept. Total to 1st Oct, To 1st Oct. 1B30 $$4,555 ^ 1,127,999 16,635 18-10 7i),HfiO 1,185,281 18,7$2 1841 85,315 1,432,493 21,309 1*42 75,644 1,170,548 14 981 1843 97;7o9 1,444,831 15,931 $274,283 ED ITO R IA L CORRESPONDENCE. . . . . . . \V CHICAGO. The increase over last year is Of this increase there is at Buffalo & Black iloek &119,815 “ Oswego 16,834 “ Albany and West Troy 136:649 90,450 2-27,099 “ Other offices $47,184 The $ 227,099 represents the increase of produce from and merchandize to western states. The $47,- 184 represents the increase over last year ili the busi ness of this state—being nearly equal tothe bounty on silt, coal, &c„ paid back to'the transporter, out of the General Eund. It will also be perceived that though the tolls o f ’43, to the first of October, exceed-even those of ’41 by $12,338, the lockages of ’41 exceed thoso of ’43 no less than 5,378, nnd though the tolls of ’43 thus far exceed thoso of ’40 by tho targe sum of $259,550, Iho lockages aro less by 2,851. These results prove that the character ofthe cargoes on the canals are becoming steadily more valuable.?— A less number of boats pay a greater amount of toll. Lumber and other coarse and bulky articles are gradu ally being displaced by dour and other products, which pay a heavier toll. It is also unquestionable that the thorough cleaning and bottoming out of the canal, which was done jn the spring of :42, has added not a little to the capacity of lhe canal. As the boats carry from 15 to 20 tons more than the canal would bear in ’41, a less number of lockages will suffice to pass a greater quantity of products.—^irgtts. S r i j c n c i t a b ! ) t t r i l c c t o r . FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1843. A B arr B ank .— The Ontario Bank of C anan daigua, which for the last twenty years has been under the management of H. B. Gibson, Esq., as Cashier, exhibits a strong contrast, when compared with mkny others, the difference between the fate of a well conducted bank, and one ill conducted. For the last fifteen years, Mr. Gibson has paid the stockholders regular dividends, of 10 per cent, the year. During thfe whole period of his cash- iership, he has paid ££5>1 per c e n t; and now he has, in addition, declared a dividend o f surplus profit payable the ist of next month, of 20 per cent on the entire capital of the corporation ; though the p art from which he has made the said profits, is only one half the capital) the other half being employed at Utica. W e are told that there is not a bad or a doubtful debt due the bunk, and none under protest.—JV*. F. Journal q f Commerce. - __ ■ , 1 T ub M issouri.— F rom the official statement it seems that the tJ. S. Steamer Missouri caught fire in this wa'y : A coal heaver named Sutton, in attempting to g e t a pair o f beam scales in the E n gineer's store room, knocked down a wrench, which fell and broke a demijohn containing spirits of turpentine, Which ran through and fell upon the canvass around tho eteam chest. Another man named Clum, who was below with a lamp, think ing it was water, attempted to wipe it. up— when the ppirits falling upon his lamp took fire, the felt caught, and in an instant the flooring of the store room above was in flames.— YW&wne.' ) The Petersham forger, W m . Goddard of w hose fo r g e r ies t o phe am o u n t o f $ 4 1 , 0 0 0 w e have h e r e to t’L tofore published the particulars, was arraigned last Friday on three B^parate indictments, and pletid guilty to all. i In mitigation o f punishment, Mr. A. Brooks, one of the chief sufferers by the forgeries, voluntarily testified to the previous excellent character of the prisoner, which the Judge took into consideration; and therefore only sentenced him to two years con finement a t hard labor in the S tate P rison, on each indictment.— ,^V. F . Jlmer, « M e la n c h o ly .— M rs..Susan Loveland, wife of Mr. Isaac L ’ o f D urham, was so severely burned, on S aturday evening last, as to cause her death on S unday. She had put her children in bed, and sat down to read a newspaper—and exhausted from severe labor during the week, and sickness in the family, it is supposed she fell asleep, her dress came in contact with the lamp, and before her cries hsd brought assistance, was injured be- yond hope pf recovery. She was a woman much respected by all who knew her.— A'ew Haven Register. ; _________ . ! S h o c k i n g D e a th s .—The wife of a M r. John Bulger, a citizen of of Marengo, Ala., in drawing water from a cistern, became dizzy, and fell into it, the water being seven feet deep. \ Every effort was made to rescue her, but in vain. As a last resource, her husband was let down by a rope, who succeeded in grasping the body ofhis wife; but'While their neighbors were raising them, the rope broke, and bolh were drowned. They left an only child, about eight morfths old. j F r o m C a m p e a c h y . —The New Orleans Republican of the 27th says “ The schr. Rosario, arrived here yesterday, with pews from Campeachy to the 18th inst. A letter Irom Campeachy to.a merchant in this city, announces the sailing of an armed brig, two sjun boats, &c. with 500 men, under the command of Ge neral Santamanat, for tbe purpose of renewing the war in the province of Tobasco, against the Mexican government. This movement plainly indicates that the rulers of Vncatan intend to recommence hostili ties against Santa Anna. | T h e Baltim o re Sun says, that for a day or two past, a rum o r h a s been p revalent in o u r c ity, th n t a d v ices of an important cha racier had been received at Washing ton, that at the instance of E s p a r tero , the late S p a n ish Regent, the British government had determined upon taking possession of Cuba, and had actually t^ ken measures to that end. W e have endeavored to learn whether there was any truth in theJJumpr, bul can learn nothing to justify a belief in it. ; B u r s t i n g o f a C r o t o n W a t e r P ip e -.— Last eve ning, about 11 o’clock, one of the Croton pipes in Car nal street burst with a loud report, throwing stones and earth srveral feet into the air, and in aXw niinj; utes the street presented the appearance of a lake.—i No one understanding how to turn off the water, ij continued to tun for half an hour or more, to the no small damage of the neighboring cellars .—Neio York American. ) i --- -• ----- - ---------- 9. iNTEMPisRASCE and Crim e.—Judge Whitman, of Boston^ states that seven tenths of all the crime brought before the Police Court in 11 years, is to be attributed to intemperance ; and that the num ber o f cases which he had tried himself, which weie directly or indirectly to be attributed to this; cause, was 5,061 i And i f the experience of the other judges corresponded with that of Judge W hitman, there were tried 3 719 cases charged and tried as common drunkards j and including these, 12.676 cases, whose crimes were caused by intemperance. L o s t M oney.— A n'elderly merchant from the country advertises the loss of eleven hundred and twenty dollars. A young merchant, by the o'd gentleman’s account, took him to a place where certainly the merchant had better never take his friends, Or go himself again.—JV. Y. Journal o f Commerce. _______________ ___________ The Rev. Dr. Hrownlee has had a relapse, and h s recovery is npw considered very doubtful.—-JV*. Y. American. ST A T E ELECTION, ONE DAY, TUESDAY NOVEM B E R 7. D E M O C R A T I C N O M I N A T I O N S . For Senator—Third District, STEPH E N C. JOHNSON, of Delaware. For Member of Assembly, PL A T T PO T T E R . For Sheriff, JO H N S. M. BARHYDT, For County Clerk. t M A R V IN STRONG. F o r Coroners, TH O M A S GIFFO R D . G E O R G E C A R N E R , JAM E S M. A L B R IG H T . COUNTY NOM INATIONS. The Democratic Couniy Convention assembled in this city on W ednesday the 1 1 th inst., and have pre sented lor the support of the electors, P l a t t P o tte r for the Assembly, John S. M. B a rhydt for Sheriff, M arvin S trong for Gounty Clerk, and Thomas G if- FORD, George Carkbr- and James M. A lbright for Coroners. The nominations were made w ith much unanimity ; and cannot fail of being confirmed by a gratifying majority, on the 7th of November next, if the Democracy shall only come out in its strength, The official proceedings of the Convention, togeth er wjth the correspondence between a committee of the Convention and P latt Potter, Esq., wijl be found in this day’s paper. VICE PRESIDENCY.—The N. Y. Courier and En quirer suggests that Daniel Webster be run as the whig candidate for Vice President in company with Henry C lay for tbe Presidency. The Tribune and some other of ihe whig papers receive tbe proposition with ' favor. The ground is assumed, that Mr. Clay being already virtually uomiuated, and by acclamation, for the Presi dency, that nomination canrtot fai l of b«ing confirmed at the hands of the Whig Rational Convention that there is sufficient devotion to the whig cause among the friends o f the gentlemen named, lo make the necessary sacrifice o f feeling which sncli a ticket might require and that Messrs. C. and W. being at the disposal of the people, (?) “ it is not for them to refuse the use of their names.” Possibly it may be found necessary to consult Mr. Web ster as to the proposed arrangement. It is much doubt' ed whether lie will consent to play second*fiddle to Mr. Clay. Suppose the people the Courier speaks o£should, through iheir representatives in Cunvention, nominate Mr. W. for the h ighest office, and Mr. C. for the second: would it be “ for theta to refuse the use of their names' in that case ? J udge M c L ean has lately written a letter to a friend in Virginia, the concluding paragraph of which is as follows : “ N o ono who is named for the C hief Magistracy from a respectable source could feel himself at liber ty to say that he would decline a nomination for that office. But I beg you to believe, my dear sir, that this remark is not prompted by a vanity which leads me to suppose that my name could be favorably consider ed by the contemplated Whig Convention. The friends o f M r. Clay, in consideration ot Ms eminent- qualifications and long public services, are looking with no ordinary solicitude to his nomination. .And 1 assure you that I havo no wish, by the obtrusion ol my name, to separate my friends* if I have any., from i their present associations. I do not desire and would not receive the Presidency, if within my reach, as the instrument of a party. Indeed, I should count it.no honor to have my name associated with the downward coprse of oar Government, and such a course is accel erated, and only accelerated, by ultra-pariyism. To bring back the Government to its old foundations, to restore its lost character, its former purity, energy, and elevation, would be an achievement second only to that of Washington,—an achievement which would make an individual the favored son of his country Of this, who would not be proud 3 And short of this object, no honest man can desire the Presidency.” The phraseology of this sentence is very guarded, and so far as concerns the fact whether the Judge would accept a Presidential nomination from a “ re spectable source,” it will read aye as well as it will nay. It is well enough, perhaps, to talk about ultra- partyism, and to condemn it j but in this age of the world, very few men can be elected to office except as party-men > df some sort. If M r. Clay, or the Judge, or any other man shall be elected President, it will he by means o f -party. M essenger—E x tr a — T he friends of M.r. Clay will, no doubt, be anxious to learn whether his Eagle- ship, mentioned in the subjoined paragraph, has de livered his message : “ A Singular Omen .—About h alf past six o’clock last evening, soon after the election polls closed, and the glorious -whig triumph in Baltimore had been sealed, on Eagle was seen to alight upon the mainmast ofthe schooner Sally, Captain J. H, Davidson, lying at McEldery’s wharf. The noble bird perched there a Few minutes and then spread its pinions for the West. Its course was onward until apparently lost in a golden halo. A truly appropriate messenger was this to bear tl.e glad tidings, of victory to the shades of “ Ashland,’' where it may already have alighted, and communicated to Mr. Clay intelligence that must make his heart beat in the unison of joy with the thousands who shouted when his cherished name Was mentioned last night.” 1! ! M ilita r y .— T h e G uards w ill p a r a d e to m o rrow (it being th e i r last th is season*) for a targ e t e x c u rsion. T h e forenoon w ill be s p e n t in exercising With a six p o u n d e r field piece, and t h e aftern o o n w ith m u skets. T h e im p rovem e n t th ia' c o m p a n y h a s m a n ifested in every o ther b r a n c h o f m ilitary discipline, assures us jjthat in this ihey w ill not be deficient. * D b * r S ir I intended to have given a notice of Chicago in my last letter, along with the notices of Milwaukee, R a cine and Southport. It would have been better to have embraced all these places ia one letter, as, in many respects, remarks applicable to one are also applicable to the others; but the length at which I had spoken of the three latter places, precluded it. Chicago is situated on thfl west shore of Lake-Mi- chigan, about thiny miles north from its head, and on the Chicago river. T he river, like ail the rivers ot other streams that I have seen, that empty Into the lakes, is deepi stagnant and narrow. Its average width through the own is not more thatt one hun^ died and fifty feet, and there i» but pne place with in the city, 1 believe, where the I&rger steamboats can turn round. T h e . water fo'from 15 to 20 feet deep, and the shores are -so abrupt, that vessels can He up within a plank’s length of the'banks with out wharf. A pier and break-water hare been rtrri out into the lake, for the purpose o f protecting the entrance into the river, which is the harbor of the town. Not having been carried out far enough, how ever, a bar has formed across the foouth, which makes the entrance difficult, and particularly so after the wa ter has been blown down the kite by a south, wind for a day or two. We grounded bpth-going in and coming out. It is proposed to carry th e pier out several hun dred feet further, which will permanently obviate this difficulty. In case of a strong north or east wind, the entrance now is considered somewhat dangerous. The channel is so narrow, and at the.same time so near the break-water, that in a storm from either of those points, it is barely possible that vessels can keep off the break-water in getting in'. In such cases, as an anchor will not hold in the sand, vessels generally put out into the lake a|ain>, until the wind subsides. There is no anchorage about Chicago, which will hold in a storm. The entrance into the harbor or river is from the south side of the pier. The lake at Chicago is about 45 miles broad* The land on which- Chicago is built, and indeet the whole adjacent c&untry for twenty miles round, ia » Wot La&e Street, which is the principa opeftiirg for ^ w > esriiisater? are at^obe add a .half per, centrdiscottnV a t £?lufe»gt>t and are redeemed b y ^ jn ithal his couujfer,ln (Stfieign* at tbat rate, ^ ^ i \*\< Most of the producevihnf iStaBes fBte' CWftP^**, im ’ braughtin wagons, having * box K m Ip 1 front and jrear, and low in B l o w u p .-— -The flue of one of the boilers of the steamer Muskingum Valley, collapsed, near Liver pool, Ohio, scalding three men, Two of them jum- pcd,or ivereblown overbourd, and were drowned ;and (.he other d ied from h is b u r n s . B o a t b u t little injured. Governor Soward declines the nomination to the ’Vke Presidency, made by his friend Col. Webb. is a dead level, business street, and is as high as any p art ofthe town, is not more than ten or twelve feet above the lake or river, perhaps not so much. Lake Street tans East and West, while the river runs South, South-W est erly, iu its course crossing that street. The business part of the town is on the southerly side of the river, although the north side would seem, from-appearon- ces, to have been first settled. The best private resi dences are on that side, and also Me church. A large public house, called the “ L ake House,” and wel adapted to the purpose for which it was intended, waa built cn the same sidd o f the river, but business be ing all on the other side, it has been abandoned. So far as I had an opportunity o f looking .aronnd, the; country to the north of the river is a barren, of loose and drifting sand, while on the southerly side, it is, in the town, of a richer sd!, and oat of It a: marsh. This is the nature ofthe coUHiry for a cir- cnit o f fifteen or twenty miles from Chicago ; it i» either a barren desert of sand or a marsh, and in it*S natural state is hot tillable. Beyond this distance,: the rolling prairie commences, which is very good. : Fort Dearborn. which is, or rather was, a stockade fort wiihblock-honses at the angles, boih many y ean since to keep the Indians in awe, is located on lhe south side ol the river, and’on the point oif land at the junction of the river with the lake. It has gone' to decay, but government has reserved the land and erected a lighvhouie upon it. The street! of Chicago on the south aide of the ri ver, are laid out at right angles to eacii other, and the lots in Lake and the other business street?, are 30 feet front and rear, and 100 deep. - The ground- rent on. some o f them which ttere pointed out to me,was $600. The leases were-takaen in 1 ^ 6 and buildings erected/ subject to that ground rent. The best stpres are built of brick; others o f none # |te n e . rl& a o i stone o r tim ber any where about Chicago, nordo-I know wheretthe M e k comfefioia. T h e » is-no ma- leriat to m ake them of there. I saw a frame boilding going up of oak, and on inquiry ofthe cairpente?,' came from inland,' about 20 miles, 'a tid^^^^gpT k ^ from G rand River, Michig«U)(, rt0re“tiiaii|% m a ^ : The sidewalks are made by laying hemtfljC.klplank? lengthwise from the buildings ; andthe gutters, which are bcoadand deep, a re in many places also cdvered with plank. • T h e streeti are not paved, “and in wet weathei* iSite nearly' impassable;j cbnslderable ^tist astir. _ ^ chants admit it. Thera J^e^averal large .w^^safls dry goods storas, as well as haisdirare stores. Retail stores of all kinds are in prbfttsioit, but, in the dry goodsUne, without that|[^eiif'a'fia well selected a s s o ^ p h t that characterTse our .stow#. Price* now are defcpjedly lo.w, ow |D g tp the gieat competition and thes&all demand. There is nothing, like the business doing this fall that there was .the last, or the fall preceding that. The most valuable trade that Chicago, has .heretofore enjoyed, was from the northern part of Indians. They enjoyed the trade of about 150 miles of that section of fc<^if£eyv ‘ Th« greatest and most valuable portion of tfcis beAi cut off by the, completion of the W abash’and Erie C anal, connecting tbe W abashriver at Lafayette in Indiana, with L ake Erie a^ S c i^ ia jC iy ^ '. good a market for w heat is now made a t Lafayette as' at Chicago, The trade, consequently, centreaaS ‘La fayette, and this cannot fcp regained b^ Chicago. The Illinois eana^-which was undertaken some jfjew, yeaTs since, but is now tetnporatily discontinued for the want o j funds, cptomences a t C ^ c a g o ^ n d tSn- necte it w ith the IllinMB,river a t the highest point at which that stream is navigable. The canal is seven feet by seventy, and about 100 miles long. When completed, itnill be of great advantage to Chicago,' as it will make a railroad and water communication from the eastern states to the Southern, place. The transportation of p ^ e n ^ e i^ a ^ d ' by this route is now very from Chicago to the Illinois river is' extremely.bad. The fare .and necessary expenses^ in the best conv.oy- ances, between New-York and St. Louis by this route, are not to exceed °$40; time required, ten or eleven days. Taking second class cars and deck passage'on the lake boats, the expense would not be more than $25. , . V.v There being no Banks in Illinois of any credit, the currency is made up of coin or shin plasters.^— The shinplasters, as I call them, (for they are nothing better,) are issued by a Marine and Fire Insurance Company, chartered by the Territorial legislature of Wisconsin, They are in the form of a certificate of deposite, which recites, “ It is hereby cfrtified that” John Doe or some other man of straw “ Ifas deposited one dollar (or ten dollars as the case may be) injeurr. rent funds to his credit, which is payable to his order on the return of this certificate at this office i n ’205i!-r' waukic,n These certificates are put in .cjrculatioh at Chicago, ninety miles off, by George Smith, who. re sides there, and who is the “ Insurance Company,” I am tqld. They pass current at all-? the stores and places of business, and for stage or steamboat fare.— Smith is reputed to be a wealthy man, but as there is no individual liability clause in his charter, in case of any misfortune overtaking his “ currency,” the assets. [TJ of the establishment might be appropriated, while h is private fortune would escape scot free. Nothing having' been pi iid in, it m a k p s a rich system of b a n k in g a n d *re satlc and sometitOC^iit;ewD,('Thej wheat, ahd «annot, they fell XM/VMgr ; than Ironraf* ^-•g’nver of ihe ownersj.y»ir|k>x M « P |fM ] marketj in thiiisray.. Stx^ o r usually come in company nfecessafy for tM ‘voyager camp and cook thsir wagons, which, 4 r e ^ o v # * e d ^ ^ ^ S g inst.v L ake street VM liieraltyiiiliei wfcli ^ g^ns, o n e j o f the commissidn m erchants ef t h e place, th a t ] o n e day last f ^ l , 700\'bf;thet»,';^ag9B# |lMd t i m r l l H fall. . For 'several shipped from Chicago for^ tha w h e i t l 't e ^ 30,0» yectth pedjrtm iKtikr s ^ ^ . sent on. Previous io that * ti^,fap in it as. a liusineas. . Thw falt there i j falling off, as a rival market has openedat Lit Fayette on the W abash and gone Will jiOtHaow «v 'Stag * ctaS», 8 propell|irs> and ar] vet?,. & iThei®. N o .Q c h th in g n .th is h a .e atiShicago 'befoie? great, tai Buffalo for six ceriCs aj^shel^the; The price last fall ^ .. jF o r 'p t ^ ^ ^ o f a g w d l t u r e j ^ l w e o p i f t f ^ Inlc««Ung,,therefore, abootChicago, into the inUlrior thaidistancej and^ir,. that distance irom m arket Under theMi; ces, it may be tupi^ied. thaUew:- indiHd coming to take up land as far fbjHth ' \Chicago. Not' five in a h u n d red' Who, .lftnd on CbScagoisanincoi population, : of 7 ,5 8 0 .' I doubt very much Whether lltm f « a ..... aa’thafc. Thie-tavcrhrailkdvothw boarders. f- . cattlei hones, jnjrprecediag1i|^ft isiiealthy. less, SaUpW;lGpilt rStioni tof the coni^rative^adfantjagca tok> m •grieuitD ra la ftllc^ the northez^parUjof lhdiaiH and U o a iH : ^ r n - and mildle p a ria o f ^ w h i g ^ Territory/on “the liakej X' the t ^ y j ’ that other grains, the, parts named o f ^ inessi-yand.'it#M |efli.8^*i^^pi ^ __ 'J pn!8™ * ; , Milwaukie to fifteen the northern p art o f Pndiana‘«i* | | | many atdp in Ohio o r gb td lllinois, gobd graia coantrylther^ w^hia aw i P d 'm broughtinto'cultiy' and tfae-RUpplyiaf .g rai^l i ^ ^ dine, - a u d '- lh e n 'f h l^ f ^ a id * ^ those p a rk ttfe otis a n d heslthy grants, before moving, on, ^will goj fully, the section, o f dtantry' ifanyrofthem: ,ia»I: I p i e t ^ ^ ^ e i t i % a a ^ i i | portin W4S£onsin,lisnotto^exceed eight doQ*n4» ■ lara. ^ ^ I may stale; t j ^ t l saw by the .days ;since|. iih e l d al' TbjBPft from two to three cents a bUsfie] higher than ol^er 'western wheat: ltia?qttW d L 4 l||ii^veiy as^fkeel^F- port cents,. V.' -' ,vf* vrtiere I 1 trsat i i M t t d«y or iwo. : Dr QfU* \ Cleaveland, Ohio.-Sept. 27th, 1843. . ■ ' '* ■■■ ' - J ' ’■ ' ..... - » Colonel R. M-.*J ohnson- visited New Haven, last ^eek, by request of theJDeiiiociatlc Geb&at r tee.of4hat.,:.t9||j|}r l^e/i^ifSectfdially spdee in the^fg^st^gpj^ ^ p & m RT, Glassbrookfi, ^re!iidin^ in land, has lately received inte.ilijE e n c e ^ who died three, y e a r s since In E n g landf jhaa left, i i a £47,000 sterji^g, ice formne^vhat; w for senators GEORGIA.--Rfltufnsfrom 64 counties, for Goren)c«r, present the foll^wlo^*ggj#gat£:; v - ^:counti|S® majority o f 12, It c l a p l ^ l r f e l e c t e d to 35dWfto- crats^ and a ll the couatielJL lp^ ^ iiai. Th«s*,f~ ** having before a tnaj46t? f t f i ^ | i l w n a t in j oint ballot. . H igh W a t b b .- night and Sunday, •T h e h e a y y rain o f Every thing in the way of easternfunds is picked u p ' height.. A i ilk U m 4 « « M 4 in6tantl|y by the agents of this shin-plastec concern; pier we;e not for that, Chicago would afford a great ^ and the water still rising. -~Jl!b. Ar-<*u3t 10th Jj&tZ Were it: 1
