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THB REECLECHOR 18 published an Friday Mornings. at Ro. L1G State- atrtet, (second story.) ABRAUAM A. KCEBYSEE, Proprietor, D. C. Sammic and A. A. Editors, Traustne=To sutbsertbers In the city, 'I' wo. Dollars a year. payable sommbanoually, Fogubsertbers out of the clty. Taro: Dollars a year, It pout within six monthe from thecommentes ment of the autseription year; othorw iis Two Dols lars and twonly five rents wiltbe charged, Subscriptions for less than a yeat, In advance. LOBHNMEEE IDU a OiMEYWT. CST X Hit o nvr nt atmberen me werent anton orem PHYSICIANS, &o DOCTOR 0, SQUIRE, Physician and Surgeon, Rotterdium. Dit. WM. H. SNYDER, Jr. Physletorw mnt Surgeon, West Rotterdam,. ATFOLNEYS AND COUNSELLORS, ie enna on 1. co mere e ny eir nr com r a ABRAHAM VAN NGEN & JAMES B. VAN VORST. ATEORNEYS A1 LAW, Office Nocd, Washington Hall, Stute atreot, ~~~ C CJAMBS BULLBU, 4 ATTORNEY AT L AW Oflee No, 130RS\1\$e street; Srhcnétmlm. JAMES M. BOUCK, _._ .No 150, Statesty PLATT POTTER, No. 4, Union«st. . DAVID CADY SMITH, <A torney at Law, and Solicitorand Master in Chan- cary, Nu, 30 Sate street, - JOHN HOWS, Atlorney and Counsollor at Law, Seticilor and Commsellor in. Chaneory. No«TA, State streek emmm - WIM. CUONNINGITA M & Co., Donlora In Staple, Fancy, and Domestic Dry Goods, No, 08, State-atreat, nmern o nnme GRoCRHIRS, &o. © namie JAMRS WALKER, Denlorin Flour, Provistons, Woodenware, Gardon Semfu. &o. No, 100 &, lfim. Stato-ntreet M a Dealer in Q@rvcertes, Provisions; &c,, Colonnade, No, 190 State street, \__ HARDWAIRiS STOVES, «c. ABM. A. VAN YORS'T, Donalocin HMardwato, Tinwato, Cutlery, &e., No, 51, CABINET AVARE,. nile As ko B. BROWN, Upholsterers, Chats ant Cabinet Makers, No. 58) Statostreat. TATLORING. Wh ith Pr aet Arca roms u vean as -s N JOHN S. BONNY, Merchant Tallory No G0, Stntosstrret. R COMPANIES,. ur ce mone must tom SARATOGA MUTUAL INSURANCE CO, Squire; Agent, Rotterdam, WIREMEN'S INSURANCE COMPANY Peter Rowe. Agorit, ALBANY INSURANCE co J. Brodeci¢lt, Agent, No. wost - coule w =. PANY, 20 and 187 Stute-street, MISCELLANEOUS. L ANDREW TRUAX, \Wholeinle and Reut Dealer tn Drugs, Medicines, Uge Woods, Olle, Glass, %o. No, 117, State-street, C. J, SWORTRPIGUCER, Denlet in Glocks, Watches, Jewelry, Spectacles, Silver Ware, &e, 94 Stat street, SCHUBNECTADA LYCEUM, Or Claswslont School for Males, A. B. Van Zandt, P inclpal; Gomor af Uutlon and Yates streets. , JAMES WISE, I mbrellas and Parasols repaired and covered, corner of State and White streeta, STBNKY ROSS, Goagk Mukar, (kit 64, Maden:Lana, wes re Coeimine eme viven: womens JOHN BROGDERIGK, Draker, &e. No 147, Hinta=ntroot., tar extn ot con too omumine J. CNANDLBR, Dontlat, &o comutof Perry and. Llborly-atroot, wane cnt me ins h oem ss ios men rnin R DOCTOR COOKRG Continttes to us comulted ounttdouthiliyat the Albas wy Looks No. if Norton atrout, Albany. . DR, V. B. LOGKROW, Old Chalon's Lock Diapmruy. Nu. 5G Bonvor atroet, tiv. HENRY C. YATES, iPloue and Read store. 150 State street, fn msszet JSAAQ K. Denler and Manufacturer of SPANISH CIG A RS, &c. HTD mysStract, Schenectady. 8, tL. LUNDLIDY & UE, -__ anu tetall Dbealees It STAPLE, FANCY, & DOMESTIC DRY 60208. No. 408, State-street. D. L. POWELL, Grocery & Fruit Store, Cour of State: and. Ferry street. CUBA for CASH. lg. MM ~ AMP: prossed pure Sperin Oi, . Fall do. do. Bleaghed, a handsome article to burt in glass tuups, for sate by -. WALKER & wromerimonmmentee vyOL., VII.] Froin the Montreal Gazcite, Eport on the Prairies. war ; In the Gogette of Isst Tuesday, we alluded to the return of the parry of officers of the Ariny, who, in August last, took then departure from this place for n‘i’issonri und the Projries of the Far Weat, to enjoy the port of Buflato hunting. . We have since, in frequent conversations with one of the enterprising sportemen, obtained a more pure | ticular account of this interosting expedition, und ; have much pleasuse in Inying it before our read- Cres 22. : The party consisting of Lieut, Col. Greenwood, Cupt Ridley, Capt, Loicceter, Grenudier Guards; Capt, Windham, Capt. Vansittart, Goldstreim Guards ; Mrs Pritholme, #4st Light Infantry ; and: Mr. Warre; Aud-de-Camp to the Commander. of { the Porces, which had been originally formed at Quebec, atusted. on the Ist of August from, Mon- treal. ~ 'They proceeded by the usual route,up the St. Lawrence, to Prescoit, where they crossed to Ogdensburgh, and took the American. steamboat to Niagara, From thence, they went by rail- road to Buffalo, where they again took steam, through Loke Erie to Detroit, ana through Lake Huron to Michilimackinac, which is described as having much the appearance of Quebec, on a smaller scale, Entering Lake Mishigan, by the Straits of Mackinraw, they continued ull the severity of the weather drove the steamer into the Manitou- lin Eslands, where they were detained thirty-six houre, in consequence of which they did not reazh Chicago till the 18h: of Angast, On that and the following day, having been out on the beaut1- [rul and: extensive: Prine» in the neighbothood, they succeeded in thirty six brace of grouse ot prairie chicken. On the 14th of August, the paty took an Sextra\ to Peoria, where they again taok stean» passing down the beautifal river 1th» [nols, Into the magificent Mississippi, and arrived at St, Louis on the 17th, Tt was not till the 221 thit all the arrangements were compteted, though they were kindly assisted by severit American gou toman resident at St, Louis, as well as by Gen. Patterson, of Philadelphia, who was mvited und consented to fon the party, On the 28rd the en« valeatle moved forward, up the banks of the Mis- wourk 'The party now consisted of the French Canadien voyageurs, who lind been accustor ed to this sort of life and a half-caste as cook, who had formerly been with General Clark during his vny- ages, and a capital artiste in his way ; geven Brn- ish. and one Amertcan officers, each having three horees and three wagons, with about tweive mutes, presonting a goodly appearance, ne they moved through the beautiful forests on the banks of the Missouri, At Jefferson city, Cupt. Leicester, who had heen very unwell for some time, to the regret of nll the party, gave up the idea of pro- ceeding and returned to Quebec. Mr. Fairholme was tlso extremely ill hom tever, and took the steamboat as for as Westport. In consequence of che excessive rein, and the badness of the roads, the party were delayed eighteen days muking the three hundred and fifty anles to Westport, and i was not till the 15th of September, thint they found themselves on the vast and magnificient Prairie of the West, Beiog reluforeed with two ox-wagons containing corm for the horses, und some little luxoricnfor themselves, they continued their course ta sow howeet direction, for about three hundred niles, be ng partially delayed by the extreme ill- nosw of Col, Greenwood. and Mr. Fairhoime. On the evening of the 20th September, they came in ight of some tew of the long looked for fiutfilo, They:coutinued on nearly the same route tor fitty nuler, when they steuck the broad and rapid river Arknnisas and 'theu they lind the satistmetion of weeing the vast plaing, to ail appearances, cover ed. with theso savage-looking brutes, Nothing, it is suid, can exceed the excitement of the sport --gulloping at a. very fur buntiog puce over the roughest possible ground, covered. with holes, af ter these un'mals, and when in the chase of hon dreds, or atone time, as the party were, of nearly three thoneand. 'The duat, the roisc-tike the \ falling watera of Nmgara-and the pace, com- bined, completely obliterated any slight degree of annoyatroe which might have been occasionei by so long a jonrney, and hying, in all wouthors, an completely to the apen air. \Phe cows are nearly twice ay last, nod dieirmfushro much better, thit they ane consoquentlyy imnme sought after, but nee nut neue #o savage as the old bull, who. when wo nded, will trim upon hie opponent y bat his effarty uro vait, the hoteo being so much ewiftor, Should the «portenied notineer with. an rgeidon', from the numerous inequalities of the ground, there is no real danger, Bavit requires two or three days trimming, to make 'the hore go neare- to the formidable looking aontmel, and to bear the firing off his back. 'The party was very successful and none: more so. than the American gentleman, General Patterson, The anmber kills [ed was about one huadred ; but there were many others doomed to. die a lingering death trom the balls not hitting the right spot to give the mortal wound. Bevides the buffilo, they had more or legs success in the chose of eck, antelopes, wolves, deer, turkeys, prairie-chickeny and wild few) of every description, in great abundance,. 'Phey al- [ so saw a faw wild horses. On: the 14 huf October, they tarneil their (1+ ces onee nore towards the settiementa, and keep- ing rearty the samo track, they arrived at West- port, on the $0th ; haviog narrowly escajred log | ing all their things, by a tremendous prairie fre, winch. burnt arverely two of Captain Windtiam's horges, and a mule y the rest of the horges, aud the tents, wagons; &c., being saved with grent difficulty, It was a mugnifeent eight, but not a pleasint one, at such close quarters, 'They met t * city: constantly on haud. nudfor enle “£15k PIONARY.-Tho best in the (se the cause of their isuaters the next day, consist- ing of a party of the Kansas and Shawnee Indinns who. fired tho prairie tor the purpose of driving the game into the narrow creeks.. | They continu- (L, 4, STRYKER,O7 State st, Al l} Nov. 2, 0, W, VAN ABRNAM, ¥. (gnu—mun lis. Honey forsale by A M. R, CASK, May 31. AVID: CADY SMITIL, ATTORNEY [yr P LAW, axp SOLIGLUOTR ano. MASTER IN CHANCGELY, No 80 Stato streat, »Schoucetada , Nov. 2%, 1888. -ne p \PlI HANuANUS, BORDERS, «FIRE l Buard Prints &e-A naw guppy juat received graf fer wate by - Lh Bo 97 State at. I; URLALO ROIE §.-Just received a. few > halex of No. 1, ruben ; for eale by the Bate or stugle ons D. W. VAN AERNAM, 1 im DOWEN OLIVER AMES' No. & 01, BACK STRAPSHOVELS. Forsale wholesale and -gotail by C. C. CLUTE & CO. Apo 12. No. 142 State st fl‘AKM Tho subscriber takes this & inothod to inform the public that he is appoint« ed Surveging Agont for the Snratogn Mutual Fire In- surance Gompany . 'Thowe wishing thoir property in- agreddnsatd Company, may call at No, 16 Union atrect Schonactadn« RICIEARO FREEMAN, Agent, July 31, 1840, 126 State street UU‘IfiVlfiUIHfl-J ust received and forsate by wl ta meot different parties of Indiana: tor two or tive days, moving to the west to take up their winter quarter among the buffiloes. Nothing can exceed the wild appearance of these crizens of the woods, dressed, or rather half covered witht buffalo hides, 'Phey were perfectly: friendly till the last party had passed,ond then one might,they made wn attempt to steal the horses, which was tortunutely frnxtrated, with the exception of one poney, (Mr. Warre's), which they succeeded, at- ter a short clase in escaping withs 'The praine was burnt, and they were obliged to pass through parts still burning, for the remainder of the jour» | ney, 150. miles, ull they reached the settlements, | where they. sofd off al} their horses, wagons, &e,, und: paid off most of their men, As there was no steamer, they embarked on the Missouri, in a large flat boat, and encceeded intenching Glas- gow, 210 miles from Westport, in 82 hours, with» out neeident ; there they found a steamer which took them on to St, Lonis. - Here the purty broke up with mony r. grets on all gides, - Captain Role ley proceeded to the West Indies, G meral Pa- terson was detained by business; and the remum- dee toul the steambont up La Belle Riviere, the Qhio,which laithfully deserves ite nome,to Wheel. ing; from thence, cressing the Alleghany Moun- tamg, they proceeded to Baltimore, Philedelphin, and Now Yok. t . was ngain divided ; Col. Greenwood and Captain saum - IEN GTIAN He poneralissortment of VENETIAN BLENDS, iinighed in a style trault parehasor; and ofthe latest fashion, for sale nt No, 68 State«st., by A. & R. BROWN, Schonvotuln, Aug. 18 199%. s (fiEN TLEMbN'S FUR COLLARS-Just re- tod and for sate by: Row 4\ \*\ biw, var aenaan. Vanaittart going to Boginud by the British Queen 'and Capt, Windbam, Mr, Fartolne and Mr. Warre: returning to their different duties in Can- ada, all much gratified with the expedition, ind more particulariy obliged to those gentlemen at St, Louis through whose kindness their views were much forwatded, and at the hospitality and kindnows they met with among the rough buck- At the Inat place, the party - FRIDAY IORNING, Balloon Adventure at Night. Mr. Holignd, a gentemin of scientific habits, projected the enterprise which has strikingly sig- nalized the of our day. On Mon. day, Nov. 7th, 1886~at half past one in the af. teruoon, the balloon rose from Vauxhall Gurdens, Loudon, with a moderate breeze from the south- east. It passed over Kent. 'The weather sin- gulorly fine. At five minutes past four they saw the sea, After passing Canterbury, the course «lered towards the north. which would have ! carried them into the Gerrain Ocenn, 'The point was now to change the course in the direction of Pais, Ballast was now thrown out, the halloon tose in ruother curent, recovered her direction to the south-eart, and crossed the Straits of Do- verin exactly au hour, about 8000 feet above the level of the ses, It was fitty minutes pnat five, consequently the balloon rapidly plunged into the night, The as- pect of the world now becnme curious in the exe treme. 'Fhe whole plane 'of the earth's smface for leagnes round, as far and farther than the ive could distinetly eabrace, seemed absolutely teem - iog with the scattered fires of the population, and exhibited a starey spectacle below, that alinost ri- valled the lustre of the firmament above, Inces- eantly, during the early portion of the night, be- fore the inhabitants had retired to rest, large sour- ces of light, exhibiting the pesence of some more exclusive community, would appear just looming above the horizon in che direction m which they were advancing, bearing ut fist no faint resem- blance of some vast conflagration, By degrees as they grew higher, this contured mass of illu- mmation would appear to increase in intensity, extending over a large portion 'of the view, and assuming a moe distmct appenrance, uniil at length as the bulloon presed direcily over the spat, it suddenly itself iito s'reers and equates +xinbiting the perfect model of a town, bur the musshed into curious minuteness by the height From which it was seen, In this manner the ro- rajpatly traversed a largo space of the conte nent, embractieg a vost succession of towns ard villages solely distinguished by their nightly illu» mination, One of those views singularly cupti- vated their attention, 'Phey approm hed a district which seemed actually to blaze with immurmerable fires, studdingrthe w hote horizon. As they «wep: wong, they saw a centcol city in the midst of this circle of flame, with every line of its streets murk» ed ont by its particular range of iflnminet ron. The theatres ond othe: public buitdings,ce squares sud all the more promment features of the city were indicated by the larger accummimtons ol hight. 'They could even hear the busy mi imur of the population--the whole forming an earthly pic- ture of the most striking contrast to the darkness, the serenity, iof the vast region rbove which they were moving. was the city of Laege, whose surrounding iron foundries formed the her zon of fame. 'This was the Inst spectacle of the tind which met their eyes. '] benecwrth it was ail every sound was hushed, every light died, and all was golemn and awlul obscurity.- from the earth, which was buried 'in the profoundest stilliess they looked to the hex- vene. 'There was no muon. The hue of the sky was intensely black, but the etars tedoubi&@ in their lustre, sheve like sparks of the whites! ailver, Occasionuliy flashes of lightning in the north, to a situation, which it was vever in the power of man to describe before. the skeseb of ought gri« ven by Mr. Maron, has ali the interest of a new avuree of ideas, ** Nuthing,\ says this clever de- aeribers ~' uvuld exered the density of fi' which prevailed during thia part of the voyuge Not a single terfesutal object could any where he distinguished, An unfarhomable of dark- ness visible seemed o encompass ns on every side. And, ns we looked tforwind mto its black obscuri- ty in the direction in which we were proceeding, we could scarcely resist the impression that we were cleaving our way through an interminable mass of black marble, in which we were imbedded aud which, solid a few inches before us, seemed to soften as we approached, in order to adinit us further within the precinets of its cold and dusky molowure, Bega the lights, which ut times wore lowered trom the arr, dusted af dls‘polling. scone» ed only to augment the lotonaity of the surrounds tng darkness. and as they doecendad despor into its hozen boaom, abgotutaly to meet thelr way downwards,\ 'AMhe cold was at the potut of cons gelation, - 'Phe oil, thp water, nnd the coffee wore completely frozen. Yet the suf rings af the mea- nouts was not severc, in consequence Of their being enthely exeimpt from the action of the wind, While they were thus rushing on with almost whirlwind rapidity througa the ocein of darkness, yet almost unconscious of motion, an incident ac- curred calculated to wiarm thein in an ext-rordina- ry degree,. By the discharge of bal ast the balloon had suddenty risen to an clevation. of about 10,+ 000 feet, (about two miles.} In a few moments uber they heard a vislent binst from the top of the balloon; followed by a load rustling of the silk, and at! the «igus of its having buen torn suddenly open. Iinmediately the car began to toss, as t severed from the ropes, and appenred to be sink. ing to the earth, A second and a third explosion fillowed rapully, evidently giving the voyize a the impression thnt they were upon the point of beng dashed to pieces. . But the nlarm wis brief. Phe great machine suddenly recovered its sullness, and all was calm agnim. 'The concussions were subsequently ac- counted for by the snetching of the network on the urthce of the ballop», which lind become fro- zen during the night. When the machine sud- denly »hot up into the higher atin sphere, it sive}- led, and it was the resistance of the frozen net- F with snow, giving the rather startling impression that they had passed the bounds of eivitized Ru- rope, and were hovering over the deserts of Po- land, or the Steppes of Russia. However they now resolved upor descending; and afer two attempts) baflled by the fhilure of the wind, and the vature of the ground, alighted in safery, at half past gix in the morning, is the Grand Dutchy of Nassau, and about two leagues from Wellburg. The voyage occupied about eighteen hours, an}: was in extent about five hundred British miles. Thelang low Black Schooner. 'The following is an extract from a letter to the ediiors of the Brother Jonathan : You remotber of course; \ (re long low Oleck Schooner,\ which was hovering nbout the Now Jorsuy Coust, some mouths 150, and was guspec» ted of having attaeked the preket ship Susque- banah? Seme ten days since, Mitchell, the cap- twin ofthat same schooner same into this;port in a Baltimore Clipper, with a captain, and a crew of five men, - Mitchell stared that they had been at the Bahamas to dig for some iwoney, which he said hag been buried there about twenty;years ago -but that he had overheard the crew resolving to kid him when they had ootuined possession of the money and divide it among themselves ; in conse- quence of which he had retused to point out the spot where the money was buried, and they had for this port. 'Plig crew has since Hitelled the Clipper, and imprisoned the coptin for deficit of wages : while Mitchell has been gonl- ously at work to obtsin assislance to pro- secute auother voyage of the same clnracter.- He says that he was never a prrate-but only a privateer; that he has been engaged in that caparity for many years, chiefly under the nu thority of the Brmiziinn flar-and that on one of whe Koys of the: Balmimas, which he Bull Key, lies buned ireasure to the amount ut acten millions and a hetlf of doltars ! Ot this a- mount, seventy-five thousand doltars isin Spanish coin, and the bulk ot the remmnder in bar gold. There ig aso a cross of pure gold, mu ufactured tor a Church in Haviom, weighing seventeen pminds-a diamond as large n ** haoby's ogg \- and two watches made tor the Queen of Porty» gul. He aflered ot all his den wealth one hl} to any firm in the city, which would advance moun- ey to fit him outy and ten thousand dollars to any young men who would accompany him as com- pations in the voynge, His endeavors have finally been successful; a firm in good repute, of which the senior member 18 a comumunicant of the Baptist church, and the jumor a quendem Methodist preacher, (1 spare thiit num«s tor their reputation's stike; although the trinBactin is conimon inlk here.) has char» tered a lint Sarlug schooner, hired a enptrin at seven hundred dollars per month, and prevaied on a clerk of their own (1 rebgious mav), and one or two other young. imen, in addi ion, to ae> company ims ln the mean time, Mitchell has joiged the church, and promises ins stare of the spoils-to the amonnt of seventy five thousand dollars. Ou Thursday last, he saw n young French gid, a communicant of the same chureh, ind smarried her on Saturdsy ; he being sixty odd years of age, and she but tweittyy She lins probab v caught the Captain AFI infection, aod fills her with dreams of luxury and weal h, Mitched is a tall man, with grey hair, and a very Simster and Torbiding aspect. He has lost alie sight of oneceye, and is lame, from an injury to one of his feet, in a conflict with a mob in Mo- bile, - 'These are not his. first effnts after the busied money, - A schootier left un- der the same ciretins tances, two. or three years #80, landed ar the designated spot, and commen- singular and suspicious, that they became alarm- ed, forced him on board. and returned. The chartered schooner, the * Magnet,\ sail ed on yesterday morniug, will seven men, beside Mitchell on board. | 'There are various views en- tertuined in relation to the enterprise. - Some imigine that the old fellow is derauged, und that the i hote matter will end in smoko. - (Bthors ous tormin serious fears that he dostros to get poussins alur ofa vessal, that theso mon wilt be stuprised by wretches in on the key, or counts ingin the vineimity, and that Suyianuati will never scethem more, 'Phe Captain gous well armed hogever, fot such contingouey, ' | 'The worst aspect of the sfthir is the conuect- fond? church members ard a church with this a- banloned wretch. Admit that he be nothing wose than privateer-yet he who takes advan- tag of a conflict betwBen nations other than hisown to prey upon his fellow men. is no better -9, not a whit-than a pirate ; and there is an oléand a true saving, that \the partaker is as bacas the thiet.\ \ Such cireutnstances afford tri- umhant material tor those who are disposed to out at relizious effort, and louk upon prbfessing Clstians as hypocrites. inst Careo or Tes in Ca ncurra.-We chan- cee arrive in India almost supultapgously with onof the firse importations of ice from Ameticn; it is nlmost amusing to gee the anxiey with whhait was sought after. | 'The deposites were on open for a short time before sunrise, when eréds. of coolies were in attendance to cairy off thpartions required by their employers ; these poons were fimmediately enveloped in thick blmets and enclosed in baskets, which were card off with wil speed; but a very considera- blsaanfity mvarmbly dissolved before they could vrea their respective destinations, -I watched twor three Ayahs crowding round a- busket I work to this awelling. which produced tue sue» cessive explosions. 'Phe stsking uf the car was an illusion occasioned by the surprise and sud- denoe«s of the nchon, When the network hud tnke its proper shupe, all was calm and regular ance more. plexed with sounds from either earth or tur, i strongly resembling the benving of waters ngninst | some vast line of shore, tint they were tempted : to think themselves speediog along the shores of the German oteany or hovermg over the B cue, Prom this upprehension, however, they were re-} heved by their receliection that their course wns‘ unchunged, At leagth they saw the days but saw! it under the most novel and interesting circum- | stances; About six o'clock niter crossing the Rhine, the balloon rose to a considerable eleva- tou, and showed them a gla idening glympse of the gun. 'The view «as now magniticeot; the balloon occupying the cemre of a hornzon of three thousand miles in diameter, and comprising in a elg'e vast view scmrcely lees than eighty thousand square miless The country that spread below was rich, undulating, boundless randscape, with the Rhine dividiag it; and loging self among the vapors Vhit stifl clung to the hills, or covered the valleys. | 'The ascents and descents o: the but« looa sud} woe varied the prospect, - A rapid dees i cant first h'd the sun from their view, und they were wrappod in the. night which sull shadowed the low oer regions Of the nir. Again they bose within sight of this splendid display : agnin los it. regiurnt day | light as complete on the miglnty ex- punse betow. | Phey now thetight of making their final descent, | But the question nrose-* whure were they 7\ They snw below thetnt ranges of beei relieved nnd the balloon was thus suftered to | Daring the dirkness they wore sometimes per- #0 i win had just arrived : they wore all eager to | tow the novelty ; but inrmedirely on feeling its | exng catdness ran nway that it wit busrah guriam,\ very hot, A clnld, too, on vinlenth, and told his mimma that the eld sh gluss had burnt his fingers.\ I was not a le smpised, too, on several oreasions, to soue ice brought 10 table as the greatest pus» { silluxury, and handed round to persons to mix I 1 ced digging : but the conduct of Mitchell was so ! TIE WOMEN OP CHINA. There is a pompous and pedsutic land, which boasts snpremacy in wisdom nud in science from au epoch anterior to all human record save its ewn-China, the land of many letters, many lun- terns, and few ideas. Peopled by the long-eared, eliptic-eyed,; flat nosed, olive colored, Mongolian race, it offers a population singularly deficient in intellectual phystognomy ; though in its alisurd ugliness, the women of the higher classes ceca» sionally offer striking In China, po- lygamy prevails virtually, if not by name; and the sovereign, sélfimpr.soned in his golden-roofed polace, with his one empreas, six: queens, and three hundred (or if he pleases, three thousand) concubines, reflects, on the great scale, the do- mestic establishment of those amerg his subjects whose wealth may permit the irrmional indul- geuee of their pride, 'The female slave, who at the hevl ol a baud of intenor slnves is dignified with the name of superior, {adequate to that of wife.) who has been purchased with gold, and tiiry be e urned, if on trii} not npproved, is not dermed worthy to cat at her masted's table. Crippled from her cradle, morally and physically-ignorant of any one of the mauy thousand letters of her hus- band's alplisbet-referred to the futile amusements of infoney for all resources ngainst wiper tedium- to dress and to smoke are her highest pleasures ; and to totter on the flat roof of her golden cage her sole privilege. Sue, tou, feeble us she is, is cutruged in the only feeling that natare may have rescued from the wreck of man's oppression 3 for the Chinese wite, like the adolisqne of Turkey, yields up her offspring a sacrifice to the murderous policy of her ma ter. If such is the destiny of the Indy ol the cosestial empire, the woman of the middle and lower classes submits to a yetise~ verer fate, Sho it is who feeds nod rears the silk- worn with &n attention to detmis of which the temale orgamZition is so- pre-eminently capable; she reels the produce, aad works and weaves the silk. ltis the woman, too, who cultivates the most tender ten-piants, and whusg delicate fin- gore ure alone fitted to roll the finer ten leat; baving rhus Tormshod her quott to the common means of natinal wealth, she works that ex- quisite gold mid silver firlagree, and prepures those lights to adorn the poodrous and puerile divine viglited ruler of the celeste empire. - Descending yet lower in the social chum, the female peagant of China presents a still mure extraordinary example of plodding industry, - Exposed to the melemency ut the seasang, with tlie infant tred to her back, which she may have rescued frum the wild beast, or from the devouring wave, she ploughs, sows, reaps, and performs the thodsind offices of toil and drudgery attidhed to the catuva ion of the soil from whuch she derives so little benefit and enjoy» ment. | Denied, too, all moral tights, she incurs, nevertheless, a (ital responsibility lor her husband's delinquencies ; sho suffers death with him, as his dependent; tor crimes in which she could hive no moral participation,. | 'Phe natural death of her husband gives her over to the family, who to re- { cover the money expended in her may l re-sell her to the highest bidde?; while her own ig very frequently the work of her own hand.- Suicide, it is asserted, is of frequent occurrence amoug the Chinese of the lowest classes ; and well niay they seek death, to whom, trom the crudie to the tomb, dife holds forth not one soli- tary sood.-Lody: Morgan's \ Woman and her Muster,\ > Women Market in Turkey, An English Pruveller-in Turkey gives the: fol- lowing account of the sale ahd purchase of (e- males : But a market where-thoriid idea !-women are { sold like beaste. - Gad forbid that I shonld defend it 1 - At the same time the pretty creatures seem so content; that I cannot pity them. Perhaps I should follow the example of most writers, who whenever they touch by chanee on such a subject; give sent to a deal of sentimentalisin and vapour- ing about weeping innocence, nud dishevelled lugksmud torn garments and beaten breasts, Such exists only in the imagination, and T beligve that many who describe the lays markets, in such moving terms, never 'sine ong. - Occasionally I will not douy, hears rending egones occur, in the ense of edpuives of wur, or vieums of revolt, wrenolod suddenly from all that is dear; but thore are rave neeusrencer. The Cirenssinns and Georgians who form the trade aupply, are only victims of custom, willing victims; being brought up by their mercenary parents for the merchants. _ If born Mahammedan they remain so ; if born Christian, they are edu- cated in no faith, and therefore they suffer no sa- crifice on that score. . They live a secluded life, harshly treated by their relations, never seeing a utranger's face, and therefore form G ties of friendship or love; preserve no pleasing recol- lections of home, to make them regret their country. | Their destination is tonstantly before their eyes, painted in glowing colors ; and so far trom dreadiog ity they Took for the moment of go- ing to Aftapa, or Poti, whence they are shipped for Stamboul, | with as* much eagerness as a parlor bourder of a French of Italian convent for lier emancipation, - In the market they are lodged in sepmalé npartments; carefully secluded, where in the hours of the hours bf nine and rwelve=--they thay be visited by aspirants for possessing euch delicate ware, I need not druw a veil over what follows. Decorum prevails. The would-he purchaser may fix his eyes on the lady's tove, and Bis hand may receive evidence of cher bust. - 'The walty Allows rearly as much liberty before hundreds of eyes, - Of corse the merchant gives big warront}y on whuch and the preceeding duta, the bargin is closed. - 'The common firicz of n tolerable tooking mud is 1001. - Some ferch butiireds, the value dopending as much on accom- plhshmettts us on tenuty ; but such are generally singled ont by the Kosar Agn. A coarser article lrulu. Nubia afd Abyssmia, i% exposed publicly on platforms, Beneath vernudalis;, before the cribs of the white china. A more white toothed, plump checked, merry oyed set I seldom witnessed, with ' 8 Moco Prices for Advertising. For one square of 20 lines or less, 50 eenis for the: first, and 20 cents fer every sutseduent. maerion, if continued for leus than, (hiree. months, For three months, §3¢ forsix months $5. Louger monts ib the aume projortJon. f Yeq rly advertisers wilt be charged for one neloding the paper, $10, for byo quares, $15, with lu'l privilege of renew ing ther advernsements quur- erly, © lgusincfis cards will be inverted gratuiloualy fur yearly advertisers; for others, 83 a year. . Legal advertisements will be inserted at the rates prescribed by law. 12 mmm - yom ne - I.’ Rem From the New Orleans Picayune. Extraordinary Recognition. A most singular any extmordmary ' inchirni took place in this city last week. Twi. brothers have been living for twenty years within. a®hun- dred yar's ot ench other in neighboring streets, and the consinguimty was never known & most trivial accident a tew days ago developed the story, | 'The particulars are of too -reruutkaBle a vature to escape publicity, alffongh:thediames we must withhold. | The brothers were - borm in Paris, and were orphims at so early an nge ns to have no recollection of their pateuts. - While yer children. an accidentabes plosion tf gunpgw- der, with which they ware playing, maked un indelible sear upon the chook of ana and rendered useloss Cor li'e a finger of the other, ' *. 'They were separated while still infantgand tak- on care of hy afterwards following the sea as a enbiu hoy tor muny ypearsy the otlier 16+ matting an apprentige in Paris, © The cibin Boy- when fifteen years old found Intésell in thig tity, and ubtaining employment more to his faney than roving the waves, he abnnduned salt water and ap- plied Inmself to another pursuit, Even at this time his, brother was residing in the neighiborhnod,; and they became arquaivted and have conversed with each other daily almost from then ti} now. ~Baoth were industrious and have gradually imprive. their condition in life, until now thry 'are wurrounded by the. comfortable rewards of thrilt, Bech .re- membered the accident which occured during childhrod, and knew that he had then a brother, but this was all. ; The other evening one of these brothers collec- ted asciicle of friends to witvess the chriateniog uf his first grandehitd, and his old familiarneigh- bor round the corner was among the fuestes-= Accident brought the mwilated finger into notitey and the'history of it was of course told. when the deiight whit surprise of the whole\ party muy be imagined ut the old neighbo? abruptly giving the history of the sour on ls chek and claiming dia fong lost brother, Bach bad retanied the origi- val finnly name, bw it bad been eo nltered <in »polling that neither ever the. similnvity, There was quite a drawatical devenement, when the old trieads imatoiliy explained Gecame convineed of the relationship, and Fushed duto eact other's arms as brothere. ' i t t wk , 0 4 ck The Great Missourian, The following extract of a letrer is from'a gen- teman formerly of the city of Troy, tow on & tour through the wastern states, andut present at St. Gouis, trem whence he whes, . = went the ocher mght to look at the preateat curiosity that I have ever seen. | It was called the Great Missourian, and is the skeleton of the greatest animal ever konwn. It was found about tn0 hundred miles west of. this place; in this Stait, by. a German. It meastitB to the top oft the ribs 16 feer high, is 82 feet longs lins. two tusks that are frm ten to twelveinches in divme» ter, and are 16 Jeet uport, 'The and tusks weigh eleven hundred: pounds.. ~The joins of the knee in the fore legs aie inverted, so thatthe bends the kneethe contrary way from any other animal, | Me appeared to been: web has no hoof, but toes about 8 or 10 inches long. 'he owner has computed its size, in comparison to an ox hote that. weighs one thousand pounds, and he is just one hundred times larger than tho ux, so that he must have weighed «live, me dun» dred thousand pounds, (Glty tons.). 'I shoul think be would have required five: or six 'hnffuloes exhibition of the aninal; set up in his ribs\* ~ ¥ The awner has been offered ©20.000 cash for him. - He leaves in a few days for New (O.Jeans, froin thence to New York, therce to Europe.~- It is worth a good fortune for any six men; but the owner will not gell it.\ Uf Trick of a Ventriloquist, * Blitz, the ventriloquist and msgician, recently played a fueny trick upon a-couple of horse Joc- keys at Bengor, \ way down east.\ 'One of them, so says a Bangor was exainining a horsa's ;r:nulh, and s@sked the other how ofd he called Ht « Seven this spring,\ _ 9No, I'm vino,\ hoare ving his lips, * Ha 1\ supa the jockey, 4 Mul\ responded the horeo. ® AVill be go 7\ inquiredithe Jockey, . .. . “INN a peg,\ replied the horeé, or rather Bilt% for him, ' The jockeys by this time thought they were in strange company. Down went thé.reing and they - scattered leaving Signor and thé horse to finish the bargain. ee - ixnid‘t‘he niall oly replied the horse, mo» New Lock. . A Mri Williams, of Bristol, England, Has ins. vented a lock without a keyhole. 'The meant by ~ which it is opened ean beanade in any of form-as a ring, a seal, a pencil case, or attached to a ebne-whipg or waich-key, or seal. . The Inck itself can be supplied at a much Jowers price than any other English patent lock, and its ad- vantages mre that it is to dust br Wey and cannot be picked. Wasras.-Th8 office of woman is a sustaining one. - Nor alobe is she conflvedto the sick cham- ber, soothing the anguished frame ond supporting the languished heav. - Her sphere of sution. is broader aiid varied. In the hour of adversity, when the boasted ettength bf man gives way, she comes like an angel of iight through a ark cloud, and cheers and buoys up his siting sphiit, Phoaes vo Dexiu.«-From the Arkansaw Ga- motte of Dec. #8 ly we learn that during the snow sturm whigh necured some three weeks before, six Cherokee ti tling Wire frozen to death in Bebl- ty's Prairie, Benton co. ** 'Phey were alf of them, beastly intoxicated when they Joft the settlement, Naw Genaran Dicrrosant.-'The lesirned lexi- cographere, the brothers Grimma, haye -begn indu= for . 'The six musicans « ho play a the. . ~ wi their wine , which, although eouled with had nut artained a i temperature thin that of new milli in question was brought out as n ineuns of servine 2 large quantity of American apples inad condition for the Calcutta market ; when thee uneXpectedly proved a more Iucrutive apts of morehaniise than the fruft.-Narigtive Maren in India, by a wite of govre and G auber salt«, my lowe Thre oPhree Moath's aulicer of the Sixteenth Poot, 1 900. wit32 eaved. 39'Phore are 17 eccles wiht clericul students, : Catvrcn is tu: U. Sratis.- TBalumorg Sun gives some information, copi- edn the Cin hiohe A manac for 1841, in rela- tio the Catanlic Church in the Uraved Sites. 'P[Jatholic population in the United States is The number of clergymin, 548, of are in the aninistey, ind 108: olin raise The number of churches ned chap. elg12 , malding 273 other stations astical institut ofis, The fede rehsious imticos number 31) fruntle acadenies 49.- 'Pre in the female adedemics 2782 pupils, a smil¥ and a whe for every ope, and audible © buy ime.\ 'They ore without trouble, tor domestics, girl gers u cloth round her loins, and trips, g ter her new mistress, who A sight inspection suffices. veils. - The price of one is about 162. , Tus Privsicras.-The life of a physician is a life of contradiction; - He is shindered, abused and derided, yet hie ig sooght with avidity, and freely received mto the bosoms of families: ~ His opinion ean blanch the clock, suffuse the eye with tears uf Joys; and his Hips nre as closely watched ss it hom them proceeded the issues of life; and whale he: would starve it constant health were the attri- bute. he is endeatoring to BaniSh sickness from cmong men, whtlo success in Ing dvoeation would ruin hrm for ever, He is always engaged in a war against his own bread and butter. 1 aften an sold easily and Ladies ure the usual purchasers AJ The p off the mound, gathers her coafse 1 bids her con-panions adien, aily, bare foored and bare herded, at- lllIHK‘llmlely (llflSSES her a 1a and hides her chony with white Aud it way nut vibil after they had made the sup rise three times, dud bet twice, that thgy could Titerary ifstitubions for young men number g4d the young men in them, 1 598. The num- be Catholic bishops in the Uni ed State, is 17. De 1840, the nceessions to the priestiy uffice haetn 82; t ve buried my best friend,\ as tho underiak- torests, wide plains, ard large space vovered | woodemen of the Far West ue gn when he interred the quack doctor, David Hume observed; that wll: the devout per- eons he bad ever met with were On this bishop LMorte remarked, this might very probably be ; for, in the first plite, i is most likely that he gaw very few, his friends tance being of another sort : F a ' sight of him would make a do I C and sequain- patterns, wht and secondly, the Store in this city, yout man look mel. O\ Stute and Ferry streets; ced by the King of Prassin to settle at Berlin, in order to undertake a dieuoniity of tho German lun- guage, * \Viurv - Goop.-The Boston Post tells a'story of a down east militia whoj on receiving a note from a: lady. requesting *s the pleasure of his compaty,\ understood It as a\ compliment to those under his and marched the whole of then to the lady's house. Faramn riews wirn figans.-A correapondent of Boston Mail; writing from St, Albans, Vi. furn-< felhes that paper with an account of a conflict “1m“ took placed on Monday week between two: citizens of that place and four bears, which reeul« ted in l‘he death of one of the map, namei J: men wens Who tak Sqneczell t death by one of the bears, and in the slaughter of two of (flee bears by\ Mr. Owen's associate in the fight, namo Jol C. Clark. 'The two men it nppears wero chioppiig+ woud in a piece of woods about tig: milrsq'mlfi the village, when they werd suddeily attacked by the bears. - Bears are frequently. in that ¢1. cinity, but have never Heldré -been known to ut tuek any body. , moa. vived i. Rrge il, Nutriog muskrat, > Caps, all of the latest as cheap as at any other call at VAN AERNAM'S;, comme? APS, CAPS, CAPS-Just rec / assortment of fine Orter, Sr; Hair Sealy Cloth and Seleite will. be sold aucholy at any time; j ud Genet Muffk-Beg, 1, Also, for sate afew very handstime bynz, Squirrel 1810,
