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FOREIGN. I... ^ From the Y. Ev. Post, July 15. FROM FRANCE.—By the packet i k p Sully, Capt. Macy, files o f the Paris Con- stitutionnel and of the Gazette d,e France have been received, to the 1st o f June inclu sive, from which w e have made the abstracts jihd translations which follow :— The German journals have much to say o f engagements which are supposed to have taken place between the Russians and the Turks. The direct correspondence with the ports occupied, by the different divis ions o f the army contains nothing to confirmi the news. It appears that the Russians will attempt to pass the Balkan by directing their course to Sizeboli, and effecting a disembarkation at Bourgas. The troops are at this moment concentrating upon Sihstria, and Rutschuk. An Odessa article o f the 8th of May says, that the latest advices from the neighbour hood o f Varna speak of the attacks o f the Russians on Ballschick and Kaourna, orKa- varna, but do not confirm the reports o f an unfavourable result to the Russians. At Varna and Sizepolis every thing is in the best, condition. The latter place is well garrisoned and fortified. Several vessels had just arrived at S izepolis with some hun dreds o f Bulgarians, who had sought refuge there from the Turks, who had ravaged the country as far south as Adrianople. The same article says that the Russian fleet is probably at Sizepolis. Letters from Trieste say that the Greeks still blockade Prevesa. The Constitutionnel contains a Frankfort article o f the 27th of May, stating that ac cording to late letters, from Vienna, there was a rumour on Change in that city, of an irruption made by the Persians on the Rus sian territory. It was even said that the Persians had succeeded in taking by assault several strong places, making a part o f those which, by a treaty o f peace the Shah had ceded to the Muscovites. This nevvs had an effect on the funds,. Speculators saw in this another chance in favour o f the Turks. There was also a report in Vienna of pe cuniary succours furnished to the Porte through the officers o f two powers who have the greatest interest to maintain the empire o f the Crescent, and without which it might be difficult to imagine how the Grand Seigu-\ or could not meet the enormous expenses 'occasioned by his armaments^ The funeral procession o f the Queen of Spain left the palace with the body on the 20th of May, for the Sscurial, which is seven leagues from the Capital. At the monastery o f the Escurial the'funeral ceremonies were to be performed, after which the body was to be placed in the tomb of the Infantes Spain. I t is not allowed to be placed in the tomb of the Kings, she having borne no children, -it appears by the will o f the Queen, that her. jew els and other effects \were bequeathed to the persons who com posed her household, including in these even some persons who had been dismissed on account o f their opinions. She has left -$20,000 to the ministry o f the Escurial, to say mass for her soul every day.^nd cele brate divine service on the anniversary of her birth and that of her death. If they neglect this obligation, the legacy passes to the Convent of Antocha, and in case o f their •’neglect.; to the Capuchins. There is a private letter from Madrid 'which says, that Spain is about to carry into .effect the plan concerted with France and England to recover Mexico—that 20,000 men will be sent to tTr'at '.province, for which re cruits are rapidly fii'akipg, particularly in •Galicia—that a regency to be established at Havana until the proper time for tbe'remo- val to M exico had been.nominated, composed o f ‘2lf. Vivds, President; ‘ Arango, Counsel lor o f the Indies ; Finillos, actual-Tntendant o f Havana; Lavalle and Genero, ex-depu- lies to the Oortes in Spain f and that 20,000,- ■ 000 o f dollars had been advanced by opulent persons in Havana to defray the expenses o f the expedition. From the N. Y. Ev. Post, July 17. From Colombia .—The brig Athenian, Capt. Sullivan, arrived yesterday from Car- thagena, vvith advices from the port to the 25th of May. Some attempts were making at Bogota by means of scattering seditious papers to e.xcite an insurrection against the power o f Bolivar, who was then in Quito, but expected to return to Bogota in June.— A body o f 380 troops had sailed from Car- xhagena to protect Panama against an at tack apprehended from the Peruvians, iVho have renewed their hostilities against Co lombia, and concerning whom there is a re port that they had obtained some advantages over the Columbians. In the mean time Gen. Santander has been sent a close pri soner on board the Colombian frigate Cun- dinarmarca to Porto Cabellp in the fortress o f which iplace he is to be confined. The French Commissioners were at Bogota.— W e find the following translations in the Daily Advertiser o f this morning. “ The latest news from the armies was brought by the Bogota mail, which left there on the 8ih o f June. Gen. Flores oc cupied Samborodon, after having beaten a detachment o f 200 men, by which it was de fended, leaving 140 on the field ; and Gen. Iliingrot occupied the .Daule. Flores’ po sition commands a communication with the interior, and confines the enemy to What they occupy. Guachapepe Lamar had em barked at Paita, on the 16tb April, for Guay aquil, with 1200 troops, and 200 horses, on which account orders have been given for the whole army o f the south to march to that point. W e regret to announce that hostilities have re-commenced in that quar ter. Dr. Henrique Roderiguez has been pro nounced, by the high court of justice, of Blagdalena and the Isthmus, indocent of the crime o f participation in the affair which occurred in Cartfiagena in March 1828. Senor Pedro Gual, minister plenipotentia ry, of Colombia for P.eru, has been taken prisoner on his return to his own country. The pae^efir mission on which ha was sent, might have been expected to be sufficient security for his safety and free passage. PerM.-^lnformation was brought by a master o f a vessel from Paita, who was at Tomaco on the 19th of April, after a pas sage of 16 days, that parties of 200 or 300 men were marching about the streets in Li ma, fighting and shouting in favour of the Liberator. Three couriers had gone with the news; and there were no troops at Lima lo secure order.'’ Expedition against Mexico .—By the po liteness o f Captain Correji, o f the brig Ma ry Jane, whq arrived on Saturday evening, in 8 days from Havana, we learn that the long contemplated expedition against Mex ico sailed on the 5tb inst. consisting of one 74, two frigates, three corvettes, one brig and one schooner, o f war, and seven trans ports, with 3500 troops. Six of the trans ports were American vessels, which were Chartered for two months. The fleet lay- to, off the Moro, waiting for the 74, which met with some accident in getting under way, and was detained until the 6th. The day before the M. J. sailed, his B. M. schooner Monkey, Lieut. Cole, in com pany vvith the Spanish brig Providence, ar rived with a cargo o f 350 slaves, w h ich the schooner had captured a few days previous, after an engagement o f 35 minutes. The schn mounts I gun, with complement of 26 men, and the brig is pierced for 18 and mounts 8 gnns, and 56 men. Many o f the slaves: bad died of the spiall pox, which pre vailed on board, and about 60 jiimpqd over board and drowned themselves, in prefer ence to having their throats out by the Eng lish, as the Spaniards told them such would be their fate in the event o f being captured. Official accounts o f the death o f her Ma jesty the Queen o f Spain, bad been received at Havana on the 8th. All publick amuse- monts,.4tc. had been suspended for three thonths, and the usual court mourning or- dered.—-Cdwr. yb Eny. _________________ • C A T S K ILI^. T H H R S B A Y , J U L Y 3 3 . H aku T im e s .— -It is an old saying, and one that proves well founded, that “ all signs fail in,dry weather.” There is very good reason for the credence of such an article of faith, when we consider the fact that the failure of the rule rather produces its confirmation,—or in other words, when prognosticks of rain, in a drought, are literally fulfilled, it is usually wet weatheri hence the rule holds,good,,that all signs fail in a drought. We have had a Strong con firmation of this doctrine, in the course of the long drought, and the subsequent succession of rain, which marked our weather journal during the month of June past— But this is not at all <0 our purpose. We commenced with the sub ject of hard times. In order to proceed understandingly, we will m the first place inquire, whether any or one of our subscribers—or borrowing readers if you please,—any one who is noW reading this arti cle, ever knew a time that there existed no complaint of this e^verlasting, omnilo^uent, thre- nographick monster, ycleaped hard time^l If any one know o f such a time,—-let him he na tive or foreigner, whether he come from the land of pumpkin pies or the region of cotton.' bags and alligators,—we advise him to depart from this civilized and enlightened land, forthwith. He knovvs too much to associate with the good people of the state of New-York. He must look down on the long-faced and anxious hearted human beings around him, with as much con sciousness of mental superiority, as the physi cal difference would create' between a grenadier of \Brobdignag and a Liliputian dwarf. He, and he alone. Would be able accurately to de scribe this hitherto indescribable incubus, which has laid so long and so heavily upon the works of charity and publick spirit we so much ad mire. We had thus far spun out our thread of cogi tations, hoping some how or other, (by mere accident o f course,) to hit upon a proper method of description, by which lo convey our ideas of the.subject of hard times, when we found our senses sinking under the soothing influence of sleep. Our lamp burned dim, our paper changed to different colours, shapes and appearances, till it at last vanished quite away. Still we found our ideas toiling on through the tedious wind ings of months and years, at a tremendous pace. Years rolled on years knocking down and build ing up, like the'balls pflignum vita in a tenpin alley. Yet every event was dearly defined in our mind, and the same crowd of living ones seemed 4o sjir around us, and to the same ge- neral inquiry after mutual weal, we heard as in cessantly the same monotonous reply of hard times. But at last a change seemed to approach, and such a change, too, as none living can hope to escape. We found ourself lying upon that bed from which we. can only arise invisible, to leave the visible and time-worn form we cany with US, to its undisturbed rest. Our friends were looking upon our face for the last time, and eagerly inquiring the nature of our sickness; and even then. While the light was departing from pur eyes, and the last breath was issuing from our Hps, and the organ of hearing was fauitcring in the performance o f its\ last effort, we heard the same gloomy grating response— hard times. 4 : « « Our intercourse with mortals was then re duced to the single function of receiving,— Ideas which originated with ourself we could not communicate to the inmates of clay taber nacles; but all that they could do or say or think, needed not the formal dedication to the disembodied world, to be comprehended. Years rolled on and found us in our invisible form, wandering from object to object, in the good village which a hundred years before had been by universal consent, named Catskill. As near the site of our quondam editorial labours as could be expected, after such a period, we found a wight, seated in the editorial arm chair of a newspaper establishment, which shall in this narrative be nameless. Through the win dow, which let in the cool calm atmosphere of a summer evening, no object but the moonlit spires, and the shining roofs of the compact blocks of buildings, and the busy crowd around the termination o f the great western rail road, were seen, and no sound but the tramp of nu merous pedestrians along the white marble side walks, cariie upon the breath of evening, ex cept the hissing of the steam engines of several rail road packets, which had just come in with passengers from the city of Ithaca, and whose safety valves, like the growl of rival mastiffs which will not cease when driven to their ken nels, kept up an occasional din, long after their steamy force was needless for the purposes of propulsion. The wight afdifesaid was seated at a table, having a sheet of paper which was erewhile de nominated foolscap, but which the genius of re- finementhad long since discarded as a foolish appellatioir, lying under his lifted pen, in the act and attitude of lucubration. He was not one of those “ laugh-and-grow-fat” tenants of the graphick closet, whose gibes and puns were wont to cheer the solitary hours of the jovial disciples of Knickerbacker and that ilk; but his more sober ambition extended no farther than the desire to enlighten, by diving into the dark est and most doubtful questions of antiquity, and bringing up to the attention o f his contem poraries, hypotheses, to which, as if fearful that they would not be quick enough in their doublings, he was accustomed to afford the im portant addition of his own ready-coined scep ticisms to any computable amount required.— The subject under the combined weight of his braih ahd pen, was the long exploded and doubt ful meaning of the ancient term “ hard times.^’ To prepare him for his task, he was poring over the works of the class of writers cotempo- rary with Halleck and Neal, and also the files of tracts from th.e Richmond Enquirer, and other publick journals printed in thofee days,-r-wbieh Ihtter consideration afforded .us some satisfac tion, as it proved that some at least, who fol-\' lowed us on the stage of action, had been more careful to preserve the labours of editorial lore, than, we had ever before any hopes of witnessing. After refreshing his mind by a pluhge into the cold water o f antiquity, he drawed his sharpened goose-quill from behind his ear, with the digni ty of a judge, and wrinkling up his forehead with an air betoking the supreme of self-satisfaction, he began forthwith to ehdite, in manner and form followeth, to wit:-—,, “ Much is it to be lamented, that, considering the preservation \of the purity of the ancient and classick Language of Britain, even as far back as the age of Shakspeare,so many of the ex pressive and familiar terrns of ages considera bly later, have been suffered to fall into oblivion. It might be proper and perfectly natural, that such phrases as the subject ot these remarks, should fall into disuse with the able and philo logical writers which have given their works to the world sihee.the period when this.term was in use; but it is very strange that its meaning should also be utterly lost, even if the idea it was intended to convey has no longer an exis tence in the state of affairs. But it is a fact, as incontrovertible as it is strange. All that in vestigation could do, we haye done; and the meaning of this once hackneyed and now obso lete term, is, and must necessarily remain, a mystery,—soluble only' by the inadequate and unsatisfactory demonstration of conjecture. ” We called it an evil. We conceive it pro per to tdrm any clause of complaint an evil __ ^ True, it may Be only an imaginary cause of complaint;—if so, it is an imaginary evil; but nevertheless an evil. Whether the state o f af fairs to which our ancestors gave the appellation now under consideration, was a real or imagina ry evil, we have little to form an opinion by, except the speculations o f writers who have since, like ourselves, covered it with conjectures of their own forming. These,we may say, give strongest evidence that it was altogether imagi nary,—a subject, like the weather, made use of to keep along the movements of conversation, when little or nothing else could be found to talk of, and silence would be taken as an evi dence of ill breedihg. Such ideas of good or ill breeding, we are grateful to own, do pot ex ist in this improved state of society. The march of intellect has established it as a principle of politeness, that it is the height of ill breeding to speak or write a single sentence without con veying some useful and desirable lesson of phi losophy. lEcce signum J —cogitated our dream ing self.] “ But let us for a moment inquire whether it could be any thing real, without involving every idea of the subject drawn from ancient writers, in difficulties and absurdity. Some, and for the greatest portion of modern antiquarians, have contended to prove that this incubus of con jecture was nothing more or less than the want of money. To this portion we have only lei sure to oppose the evidence drawn from three absurdities, consequent upon such a presump tion. Firstly, it is absurd to presume that the term *‘ hard times” originally signified a scar city of money, because the complaint was per petual. Is it likely' that bur ancestors were always in such desperate wantofmoney.? Were there no seasons when it might be said that the money market was full? If not, why did they not find some substitute, which should effectu ally drive away this dread of the empty pocket- book? Secondly, it is absurd, from the fact that individuals known lo possess treasures to an un told amount, were never the last, and pften the first to raise the cry of “ hard times.’^ This is of itself sufficient to set aside volumes of proof from any other quarter. But the ffeVef absurdity following the presumption is worthy of notice, and we will give it. It is more than absurd lo suppose that editors, authors, and poets in ge neral, who were in those days proverbial for their thread-bare, coats and empty purses, should always treat a subject so very interesting to them, as would be the scarcity of money, with such practical indifference and shrewd reckless ness, as we find was their custom, by consulting the writers and the journals of the day, “ The first lif these absurbities is enough to prove almost every real evil that^did exist, to be something wholly and essentially different from the monster called “ hard iimes;”—to wit, that the complaint was perpetual. In the face of this absurdity we must reject all evi dence which may be brought to prove that it had any connexion with lucrative pursuits __ Bad markets, poor crops, inhospitable seasons, and all similar causes of temporary depression in the activity of business, are here proved, simply by being temporary, to have no claim to the legitimate name of “ hard times,” The same may be said of depressions of business resulting from the jealous policy o f nations,— such as wars, embargoes, tariffs, blockades, and a host of exploded systems, which are, all but their names, long ago gone to oblivion. “ But there is no reason after ail these eviden ces, to declare an immediate conviction of a be lief, that the evil was wholly imaginary. All these evils, however temporary, may have been but the medium through which the real perpet ual evil was most keenly felt. If our conjec tures are true on this head, (which we are not willing to avouch for,) the evil was real, and has been permanently eradicated by the march of improvetnent. We can find no single epi thet in our modern vocabulary, to define our ideas o f this real evil more clearly than the term JYationalExtravagance. That this term is the probable solution of the long unresolved pro blem of hard times,” we shall produce some Struck with surprise at the apparent rational ity of this idea, we could retain our sleeping in visibility no longer. We were wide aWake in a moment; and as there was every indication of a want of copy before any remarks could be drawn from our confused ideas, we barely fin ished our crude lucubration, by penning down our dream for the reader, G. T he MAiLS.—It is an inconvenience which we conceive to be a just cause of complaint, that the papers and letters from the South, com ing through the post office of New-York, al most invariably pass on to Albany instead of coming directly to the post office in Catskill __ Every northern mail that arrives here, has a proof or two of this practice. We know not how long many of these papers lie in the post office at Albany; but we frequently have ex southern papers, coming to our office in the, Al bany papers, ttyo or ijiree days before the pri- .ginal paragraphs- appeSar in their o-wn columns. It ought to be no wonder that mailskent so far out of their proper latitude 5 should be detained in any strange officef butit is really remarkable that they should ever get out of their direct course so far, when other mails, coming through the same offices seldom fail of arriving in proper time. The vexations attending such a state of things are not easily described. C ase of WiCKiiirFE.---The acquittal of this young man of the charge of manslaughter, but what we should think strange if called by any milder nathe than murder, in our neighbourhood, has justly, we think, called forth the wonder of every-honest print in the union. As would be naturally supposed, by those who are acquainted with their course, there afe yet some papers, who cannot so far disguise foeir unwarrantable political prejudices, as to treat the subject with any thing bearing the impress of candour. It is needless to say that among these are to be counted the New-Yofk Americah and the Com mercial Advertiser. Is it possible that men pre tending to impartiality, can so far enlist them selves into the quarrels of Mr. Clay and his par tisans, as to take sides with his clients, and justify the most flagrant violations of the law ? Why should such a question be made a political one? Is the life o f an independent editor to be set so lightly by, that any one may enter his of fice and shoot him to death, and then be upheld, and acquitted, and even applauded by such men as Charles King and William L. Stone, merely because the quarrel was Mr. Clay’s, and that Mr. C}ay was counsel for the murderer ? We give below two extracts, one from the Albany Argus, the other from the Kentucky Argus, which we conceive will place the matter before the can did reader, in its true bearing. G. From the Albany Argus, July 20. The case of Desha excited the special indig nation and comment of the political editors in this state and in Kentucky who stand ready to excuse if not to justify Wickliffe, and to ap plaud his acquittal. Of this class, of course, is the N. Y. American. There is at least this dif ference in the cases. The guilt of Desha was circumstantial. It was by many doubted. In the case of Wickliffe it was open, publick and flagrant. That both were guilty, and very fit subjects of punishment, all unbiassed men be lieve. Desha was driven from society, by the common instinct which produces hatred and loathing of the murderer. Wickliffe is screened by powerful political friends, and is permitted to go udpimished, and to offend the sight of the widow and kindred of him whom he shot down in open day and before witneses. From the Frankfort (K y .) Argus. Wickliffe^s Trial. —The case of the com monwealth against Charles Wickliffe, for the killing of Mr. Benning, was tried last week in the Fayette Circuit Court. It resulted in a find ing of not g u ilty by the jury, which was com posed entirely of Mr. Wickliffe’s political friends. The publick mind had been prepared for this result; it had been generally admitted, that a man who had the control of money, aided by the political excitement of the times, could with impunity commit almost any Offence __ These remarks are made under the universal concession that Wickliffe went into Benning’s oivn house, where he was engaged in his ordi nary avocation, and there shot him, of which shot he died the day after. If there are any extenuating circumstance^, amounting to any justification, we have not heard them. To ena ble the publick to judge of the case for them selves, we intend in successive numbers of this paper, (commencing with our next) to publish the entire evidence given on the trial, as taken down by one of the editors, the correctness of which is vouched for. So far as the young inan is concerned we have no regrets. We hope he may mend his ways, and by his future deport ment in his life atone to some extent for his crime. But, sofar as the publiclcareconcerned, we announce the result ofi this trial as alarming to the best interests of society. It at once strikes at the freedom o f speech and the liberty of the press—every man becomes the avenger of his owu wrongs, or supposed wrongs. It is alarming, because it makes manifest the wide distinctions that exist and are sustained in soci ety, even by the tribunals called courts vf jus tice Where is the man who doubts but that if young Wickliffe had been a man in the ordinary walks of life his fate would have been differ ent ? None that we have heard of. But there was an additional novelty attending the pro gress and close of the trial, in our estimation most reprehensible. At the close o f each argu ment on behalf of the prisoner, unrestrained plaudits and clapping of hands saluted the ear; as was the case on the returning of the jury with the verdict, after having retired only from five to eight minutes to consult of its finding.— That the personal and political friends of the ac cused should have been gratified at the result of the trial is natural enough; but that the court, the bar, or officers, should have submitted to such a reproach on the sober dignify of judicial proceedings, is alarming to the lovers of order and supremacy of the laws of the land. The prosecution was conducted by Mr. T. P. Burnett and Mr. Cowan, (commonwealth attor ney,) Mr. Henry Clay, Mr. Jphn J. Crittenden, and Mr. R. H. Chinn, appeared as counsel for the accused. T h e B ea u S tor - k a g a i n ! —We-have re ceived another letter from our correspondent at Warwarsing, stating his surprise that his Bear Story should not be credited. He says that it is a little remarkable that a story so simple, should undergo 8 0 many changes,aiid in the arti cle lately quoted from the Friedensbothe,\w thinks the editor himself would be under the ne cessity o f splitting his tongue to pronounce his own composition. He says that the editor at Kingston must not be astonished that the news from Warwarsing should not come directly to him, like lightning from heaven; for the road is not so direct, nor are the mails conveyed at the same rate o f velocity. Yet, miraculous as the story may appear, it is seriously true, and can be proved by witnesses of unimpeached veracity; moreover by the bear himself. Any person wishing to become possessed of this ani mal, whose fame has already gone forth to the ends of our great republick, may, by enclosing a reasonable compensation to P. Donelly.El- lenville, Ulster Co. New-York, be satisfied that he is yet a living prisoner. The editor of the Bensselaerville Folio would no doubt be come a purchaser, if he did not dread a visit from some terrible “ heroine” or other, as soon as it should be known. G. “ Oh my bonnet!—My new fashioned bonnet! A horse has devoured my bonnet of straw!” Miss P a t ie n c e C eeanshoes has sent us a communication through the post office, com plaining of the practice of tying horses and leaving teams across the sidewalks and cross streets, and wishing to call the attention of the trustees to the enforcement of an existing law making it a finable offence. Miss Patience, __ we know it must be Miss, from a certain mis take made in the letter concerning “ Bache lors,” though her hand writing wonderfully res.emblgs the fikt of a certaib wdn we wot of —Miss Patience, \ye say, has been a sufferer from the practice aforesaid, abd makes loud ap peals to the gallantry of those who are devoted to reform, and particularly of the village trus tees. Many a time, she says, have prunellos been ruined and stockings soiled, and to cap the climax of disasters, in passing- before the mouths of a hungry span of horses, to avoid the destruction of shoes and stockings, her new bonnet o f straw was annihilated by the hungry jaws of one of them, and abandoned, not with out some danger to the head that ivore it. She assures us, moreover, that the bonnet was of a very moderate size,—not exceeding four feet and a half across, and hopes that the owner of the team will take the hint and send her a new one. We would publish the communication; but we believe it contains too much flattery to ourselves and the trustees— more than we choose to publish or than the trustees would be willing to read. 'We shall however take it all in good part, since it comes from a lady. We intend to do our duty if possible, and we believe the trustees are faithfully performing tneirs; and we have no doubt the ordinance making it fina ble to hitch teams in certain positions will meet their ready attention. G. A C u r io s ity . —A fountain of carburetted hydrogen gas has been discovered in the bottom of Catskill Creek, near the foot o f Main-street in this village. The water has been observed for many! years to be unusually troubled, and to emit an extraordinary quantity of air No ex periment was however made, until last Monday a -week, -when by the direction of Mr. A poleos C ooke , fire was applied to the surface of the water, and the result was an immediate combus tion resembling burning alcohol. We have wit nessed several experiments since, which are sufficient to satisfy us that With proper appara tus, a quantity of gas might be collected to an swer extensively useful purposes in lighting the village. There are said to be many ■ similar fountains in this vicinity; but we know of no other experiments to prove their inflammability G. N ew E ng l a n d R ev iew . —This paper, print ed at Hartford Conn, it is in contemplation to change to a semi-weekly publication, still to re main under the editorial supervision o f its pre sent editor, Gso. D. P r e n t ic e , Esq- Hart ford has never had a semi-weekly print,—and we know o f no man whose talents are better calculated for the enterprise than Mr. Prentice. It would however be advisable,'if there is any doubt of sufficient support, to adopt a neutral course in politicks. He is too bitter to expect support from political opponents, if he follows his usual course of “ rubbitrgdown,” as he calls it. Wonderif he will fill two sheets per week with original, as easily as he has one. He and Mr. Dawes, o f Baltimore, are disputing for the honour of having killed John Neal’s Yankee. “ Who JdUed Cock Robin,?” G. The bundle of papers done up in this of fice on Thursday morning last, directed to Mad ison, has not reached its place of destination.- It was sent by some private conveyance,—-and if it can be found, and left at the house of Wm. Schuneman Jr. or at this office, it will be grate fully received. It is our wish to furnish our subscribers as punctually as possible, and any one who detains the newspaper a moment, on its way to the subscriber, does much wrong, perhaps without thinking of it. G oing F iv e “ W' hole H ogs .” —One of the chiefs of thejSociety Islimds, has prohibited the use of ardent spirits, and made it punishable by a fine of Five Hogs. It is not unreasonable to suppose that this penalty was founded upon the belief that one drunken man, in point of brutality, is about equal to five hogs. G. M ela n c h o l y . —A case of suicide of a shock ing description took place in this village on Sat urday last. J am e s B eab I, a cooper by trade, under the influence of mental alienation, took a large quantity of opium dissolved inspirits, which Caused his death. IT E M S . Some of the military companies in Georgia, according to the Macon Telegraph, have dressed themselves in homespun, alias anti-tariff uni forms, and provided themselves with “ anti-tariff firelocks,” made of pine and leathe;;. They are far preferable to umbrellas or corn-stalks, for military operations. Early this month, 900 emigrating Creeks passed through Pike county, Alabama, on their way to Line Creek, lo join another par ty under the command of Captain Walker. The whole, it was supposed, would amount to 1500, atid were to proceed immediately to the West, under the command o f Captain Walker and Mr Blake.-Georgian25th June. The packet ship Sully brought out 137 Swiss passengers, who it is said have $100,- 000 in gold, which they decline exchanging here, but will carry it into the interior and expend it in the .purchase o f lands. W e hope they will find the land of this state such as to induce them to domiciliate here. There is laftd in New-York worth more than gold in the hands o f the industrious.—ilfer. Adv, Rketorick .—Daniel W ebster, in a late ar gument at Boston, alluding to an allegation in the indictment, rather derogatory to a person now no more, made the following re mark:—“ I f any two o f that man’s bones were held together by any ligament, and could be conscious o f his unhallowed indig nity, they would kick against the coffin !” Mr. Wirt, in his reply, seemed to think that i f such were the case wHh the remains ofaU men impeached “ there would be a terrible rattling among the dry bones I” ^ A little boy, in a country town, who valued him self much on his promptness in perform ing hiS) exercises at school, was asked by the teacher, “ What is the capital « f Massachu setts?” The boy, with countenance anima ted, figure erect, voice loud, and tone confi dent, thundered out Levi Lincoln I” A whirlwind took up a stack o f hay re cently cut in one o f the squares o f Philadel phia, and scattered it about in the upper re gions to the infinite alarm o f the hay mak ers, who had no idea o f the business! being carried on on so elevated a scale. Good.-The following 4th July toasts were given at Milford, Mass. The President’s Cabinet —Famous neither for talking nor eating, but minding their own business—the nation is proud o f such servants. . Removed Officers —Their unmanly railing at being turned OM? o f o'ffice shews o f itself how utterly unworthy they were to remain in. Look Out !—Detected at the box office of the Summer Theatre, on Tuesday evening, a $ 5 counterfeit note, purporting to be on the Phoenix Bank at Hartford—-latter F. pay able to the bearer, dated October 1st, 1817. Nt-w plate andwellexecuted.—Al&ffny Dai. Adv. W e learn by the brig Mount Parnaasua, airived last evening from Jerem ie, that a few days previous to her sailing, 18 men were taken in the mountains, near that place, charged with murdering the inhabi tants o f the neighbourhood and eating their bodies. They were shortly to be tried for the crime. A writer in the Vermont Journal recom. mends the use o f soap suds in destroying caterpillars, and says it will kill them as quick a.8 the flames o f gun powder. Apply the suds when they are in the web, which is generally at sunrise, and at one o ’clock P. M. A passenger in thfe ship Ohio, which has ar -1 rived,at Phil-adelphia in 11 days from New-Or. leans, says that there is no truth in the report of | the yellow fever prevailing in that city An eastern paper mentions that the buildings at Middletown, Conn, recently occupied by | Captain Patridge’s institution wHich has beeu discontinued, will be purchased by the Metho- dists,to be' converted into a 'VV’esleyan Universi ty— JV. V. Evening Post, July 21. The schr. John and Nancy, Haskell, from Thomaston, (M e.) with a cargo of lime, in com- iiig through Hurl Gate yesterday afternoon, was thrown by the current on the ledge of rocks called the Hog’s Back, and bilg^. In the course o f the night the lime set her on fire, and she was burning this morning when the steam boat Linnaeus from Flushing passed her. The ciew all escaped to the shore.— Id. The Fine'Arte.-y-WaWa excellent picture o f the Shipwreck upon the coast o f Ireland, was recen tly sold in this city for two hundred and fifty dollars. Mr. Inman has been se lected to paint for the Corporation a whole length picture o f Governc-f Van Buren for our City Hall Gallery. The ex-governor has sat to him at Washington, and the por trait gives promise o f a work which will add to the already high and well deserved repu tation o f the a itist.— Id. At the commencement at Rutgers Col lege, on W ednesday last, the degree o f L. L. D. was conferred On the Hon. Martin Van Buren, and o f D. D. on the R ev. Professor Mayer, o f the theological seminary o f the German Reformed Church, the Rev. Joseph M’Elroy, o f New-York, and Rev. Cornelius D. W estbrook, o f Fishkill.— Id. Honest at all events. —A new editor, in the country tells his patrons that he is inexpe rienced j but that he will endeavour to avail him self of the talents o f others f This is candid— he does not wish to pass for more than he is re ally worth.— Cour. Enq. Types at Mischief. —A western paper asks “ When will every farmer take a caper?—does he mean a paper.—Id. Charcoal. — A fact, singular and new. One of the persons who supplies us with charcoal mentions, that, calculating from bis sales for the last three or four months, he will, during the twelvemonth terminating in the spring of the ensuing year, di.spose of three hundred thou sand bushels of the article— JV\ F. Ev. Post. We were yesterday shown a pitcher or cream jug, which holds about half a pint. It is made of wooden staves, hooped with silvei-, and a glass bottom. The staves were taken from the tree under which William Penn made his treaty with the Indians. We expressed some surprise when we were told that the pitcher had been taken to pieces in order to decide a wager of twenty dollars, and that one thousand and six staves were counted in it.— Press. Ordination and Institution. —At a special ordination held iu Christ Church in this city, on Wednesday, June 24th being the festival o f St. John the Baptist, the Rev. WittiAat C rosw E ll , Deacon, was admitted to the holy order o f the Priesthood, by the Right Rev. Alexander iGriswold, D. D. Bishop o f the Eastern Diocese. Morning Prayers were offered by the Rev. George W . Doane, as sistant minister of Trinity Cffiurch; the ser mon was preached by t he Right Rev. Bishop of the Diocese, and the candidate Was pre sented by the Rev. Asa Eaton, D. D. late Rector u f Christ Church, now Doroestick Missionary in the city o f Boston. The Rev. Isaac Boyle, Rector o f St. Paul’s Church, Dedham, the Rev. Alonzo Potter, Rector o f St. Paul’s Church, Boston, and the Key, Thomas W . Coit, Rector o f Christ Ghurcb, Cambridge, were present and assisting. On the same day, and at Ihe same place, the Rev. Mr. C roswell w»as instituted as Rector o f Christ Church, by the same Right R ev. Bishop, the same Clergy being present and assisting.—Best, Patriot. From the JYational Gazette, July 20, The Washington Chronicle, of Saturday, says in relation to the case o f Dr. Watkins— “ We pnderstand that Mn Southard, in the course of his examination on Thursday, read a confidential letter from Dr. Watkins to him, in which he confesses that his statement to Mr. Harris was incorrect, makes some lame apology for the act, and solids his friendly aid to screen him from punishment. Mr Southard’s reply to this letter was also read. We say, let guilt be punished in all cases, when satisfactorily es tablished; but we confess we could not have supposed that Dr. Watkins would have descend ed to such an act as the one with which he is charged, from the high character he has always sustained, and from his education and standing in society.” jVew Magazine — The Yankee a Weekly pa per published at Portland and Boston, is now erected into a monthly Magazine. It continues to be conducted by Neal, its former editor, and the first number a copy of which we have looked over is strongly marked by the character- istick manner of the editor, who, we think, wrote the greater number of the articles. It contains a spirited outline of the portrait of Jeremy Bentham, with some account of his character, from which it appears he has some odd weaknesses. He is unwilling to be left alone, especially in the dark, and is afraid of ghosts— JY. F. Evening Post. .Occident.—On W ednesday morning last, as some prisoners were carrying stone for the smith’s shop erecting at the north end of the new state prison at this place, a part o f the scaffold gave way, and William Woodbury was precipitated to the ground, followed by a stone o f considerable size, which fell on his breast, and terminated his existence almost instantaneously. The de ceased was about 23 years o f age, and we understand, has been convicted at Troy, o f forgery, and entered our prison only a few days before the accident occurred.— Ifesf- chester Herald, July 14. Astonishing Preservation.—One o f the most extraordinary occurrence's took place in this vicinity on Thursday last that w e re collect to have seen on record. W h ile tha family o f Mr. Alex. M’Crea were at dinner the house was struck by lightning, and al though no lives were lost, it is miraculous that there should not have been. T h e lightning first struck the chimney, and pas sing thence through the room in which the' family were seated, broke every article o f crockery on the table, tore the outer gar ment almost entirely off a young woman, dphed a large looking glass in a ^liousand pieces, upturned the floor and finally passed into the earth,—causing no other personal injury than a slight pain in some of the limbs o f the persons whose clothes were mu tilated.— Franklin Rep. co m m u n ica t io n . How much longer will the Trustees o f this village permit one or two loads of paying stones i- * V; ■
