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pensioners, the oldest 93 years of age, and the youngest 75; six of them are widows of revolutionary soldiers. There are 20 cotton mills, containing 30,000 spindles, with a capital of $270,000, employing 600 operatives, and turning out goods to the amount of 230,000 DEATHS. At Philadelphia 114, of which 43 were un-dollars per annum. In all kinds of manufactures the der 2 years; at Baltimore 56, of which 26 were under capital invested is $402,200. 2 years of age, 13 free colored and 3 slaves; at St. Louis, Mo. 27.

I condition will exclude the necessary influence of the AFRICA. There has been an import of 4,000 bushels sun and hence the consequent destruction of the bolls of corn from Africa into the port of Salem. from rot and disease. Even now, whilst we are writAMERICAN INTREPIDITY. Scott, the American diver,ing, the country is deluged with water and the rain still who leaped from the Falls of Niagara without personal inconvenience, amused the visiters to the Brighton suspension pier, several days last week. by climbing about the rigging of the flag staff on the pierhead like a man monkey, and ultimately leaping from it into the sca.

THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE. The thirteenth annual

exhibition of American manufactures will be held at Niblo's gardens, New York, on the 15th of October

next.

ANTHRACITE IRON. The Philadelphia Inquirer exults at the arrival at that city of the first cargo of Anthracite iron as an era in the trade of that city.

CAPTAIN THOMAS OXFORD, who during the late war was captain of the privateer "True Blooded Yankee," died in that city on the 17th ult. and, pursuant to his but who for many years past had resided at Marseilles, dying request was wrapped in an American flag for a winding sheet.

DEDHAM. The population of this town in 1837, was 3,532. By the census just taken, it is 3,157-being a decrease in three years of 375. The prostration of the manufacturing business, and the consequent reduction A PATRIARCHAL PLOUGHMAN. A foreign paper states in the demand for mechanical labor, account for the decrease of the population. [Dedham Standard. that a short time ago an inhabitant of the village of THE EXECUTIONER. It is stated that the situation of who is seventy-nine years of age, to have the horses St. Dunnet, in the Creuse, desired one of his sons, HON. S. H. ANDERSON died at his residence, near memorial sought after. Notwithstanding that execu-put to the plough, and went into a field with it, accom public executioner has been in France from time imLancaster, in Garrard county, Ky. on Tuesday, the tions have become comparatively rare in the country, when he had worked for some time, said, taking off panied by his family. He then held the plough, and 11th inst. Mr. A. was elected to congress in August last, and during the short time his health enabled him the candidates for the office of borreau are incredibly his hat, "my children, let us return thanks to God. Tell to attend to the duties of that station, he won the esteem numerous, and, it would appear, are generally speakand regard of his colleagues, by his amiability of cha-ing, men of substance, if not of consideration. "Out of racter, gentlemanly deportment and transcendent ta- National, "eleven were backed by the recommendaforty applications for the place of executioner," says the tion of deputies."

lents.

BILLAUDEAU CABBAGE. Messrs. Landreths, of Philadelphia, advertise the seed of the cabbage tree, which they say attains the height of ten feet!

BLACK HELEBONE. Cockroaches and beetles are said to be so fond of the root of this plant, that if strewed on the floor at night it will be found to have destroyed

your friends that your ancestor, after his hundreth
yesterday reached my hundredth year."
year, ploughed the field which gives you subsistence.

RAILWAYS IN ENGLAND. Of 262 rail road bills asked of parliament, 192 were granted, comprising a capital of £62,786,931.

road for the last six months, amounted to £126,474;
The receipts of the Liverpool and Manchester rail
the expenses to £67,003, and the net profits to £59,491.
There was a previous surplus of £10,584.
dend of five per cent, was declared, amounting to
A divi-
£60,445, leaving a balance of £9,809 to the credit of

number of well written and valuable publications, TIMOTHY FLINT, distinguished as the author of a amongst them, the "Geography and History of the Mississippi valley," left his residence on Red river, La. in May last, in feeble health, in hopes that a visit to his native state might be beneficial. The Salem Gazette states that his disorder soon assumed symptoms of a BRENSMADES ISLAND, is the name given to a newly dis. Speedy and fatal termination. He wrote to his family the next half yearly account. covered island, situated in lat. 15, 37 S. long. 174, 25 W. It is large, wooded and apparently thickly inha

whole families by morning.

BUFFALO has a population of 18,356.

that before they received his letter he should be no lon
ger among the living; which intelligence was so taken
to heart by Mrs. Flint, that she was seized with a fever,
and died just four weeks to a day before her husband,
whose death took place on the 17th instant at Reading,
Massachusetts.

town, were burnt at Green Bay, a few days since.
FIRE. Seven buildings, in the business part of the

FLOUR, has declined somewhat-Ohio, flat hoops,
dull at $5 in New York. Sales were made in Balti-
more at $5 12 from wagons, $5 371⁄2 for Susquehanna
and $5 50 to $5 62 for city mills. At Charleston, S. C.
$61 to $63.

RAPID TRAVELLING. The Liverpool Mercury says that the engine and tender of the North Midland rai way lately run ten miles in eight minutes, being at the rate of seventy-six miles an hour.

THE GEORGIA RAIL ROAD. The late annual report says: "The aggregate of our business for the eleven months shows an increase over the whole of last year of increased $6,884 20-100. Our net profits on the road, $49,873 12-100, while our expenditures have only been and machinery in use which is estimated at $1,300,000, is nearly ten per cent. per annum.

The engineer, J. Edgar Thompson, esq. in his reExports to Rio Janerio. Lyford's Commercial Jour-port says: "The nett revenue on our whole expenditure nal says that 40,000 barrels of flour will have been dis- about $700,000 of which is dead capital, is at the rate patched from Baltimore to Rio from the 1st August by charges for passage, and the general stagnation of the of six per cent. per annum, notwithstanding our low the 1st September, which is 10,000 barrels more than in business of the country. the two months of August and September, of any previous year.

BUNKER HILL MONUMENT. Forty-five thousand dollars is the sum required to carry the Bunker Hill monument to the height originally contemplated, 220 ft. The NewExport from Quebec. The quantity of flour shipped buryport Herald says, that two gentlemen, Mr. Amos from the port of Quebec this season up to the 8th inst. Lawrence, of Boston, and Mr. Trure, a wealthy and li-was to Great Britain 32,613 bbls. to the West Indies, beral citizen of New Orleans, have pledged themselves &c. 7,573 bbls. to give $10,000 each, towards it, if the remaining $25,000 is raised during the present year.

COD FISHERIES. The Quebec Canadian confirms the account of the failure of the fishermen in their pursuit on the whole of the south shore this season.

COTTON. New crop. Tallahassee, Aug. 15. A bale of new cotton was brought to this market on Tuesday last, from the plantation of Wm. P. Craig, esq. and sold for ten cents. We have heard of several others of our planters in this vicinity who have already picked from five to ten bales each. This is certainly early for our staples, considering the almost incessant rains for the last month past, which has greatly retarded the opening of the cotton.

The weather in this section yet continues rainy. Scarcely a day has passed since the 1st of July, but we have had more or less rain. The cotton crop has been somewhat injured in consequence. The corn is first rate, although a less quantity of fodder has been saved than usual.

Cotton. 600 bales sold at New York on the 24th at full prices.

FISH. The Middletown (Conn.) Sentinel says, that
on the 12th inst. at Saybrook, 222,000 white fish were
taken at one haul, and sold for $222.

the proposed removal of the remains of his great bro-
GOLD. Joseph Napoleon, in a recent letter respecting
ther from St. Helena to Paris, says "gold is in its
last analysis, the sweat of the poor and the blood of the
brave!"

INDIAN FRONTIER. The St. Louis Republican of the
8th instant, says that the 8th regiment, col. North, now
stationed at Jefferson barracks, below that city, have
received orders to repair immediately to Prairie du
Chien. The cause of this sudden movement, it is said,
grows out of the conduct of the Winnebago Indians.
A short time ago they were removed by general At
kinson, to the west side of the Mississippi. Since the
troops left they have all returned to their former lands,
and refuse to return back to the lands assigned them.
It is quite probable that some difficulty may yet grow
out of the unwillingness of some of the chiefs to mi-
grate.

STEAMBOATS. The James Gibson, capt Skinner, literally exploded her boiler on the 21st inst, about twenty-five miles below Richmond, on to an ark which she had in tow. Her escape pipe was blown over into the woods. The captain's wife, two children and a servant were dreadfully scalded. Two of the hands six years old, died a short time after the accident. The are missing. One of the children, a little boy five or explosion is represented as most terrific.

a few days ago and totally lost-passengers and crew

The Miami struck a ledge of rocks in the Ohio river

saved.

The steamboat Medoc, was sunk on the 20th inst. about 18 miles below Cincinnati. (She broke her shaft, and the fly wheel was forced through her bottom, which caused her to go down.

by Mr. Koch, and set up at St. Louis, is believed to be a specimen of this species, whose existence was doubt

TETRACAULODON. The remains of the monster found

ed at the time Godman, the naturalist, announced it. Its entire length is thirty feet-its heigth fifteen feet.

THE THAMES TUNNEL, has been so far completed that the workmen are now beyond danger on the north shore. The wharf and aperture for entrance on that shore is now being constructed, and it is announced that the tunnel will be open to foot passengers early next spring.

The Republican adds:-The eighth was ordered to Jefferson barracks to recruit before going to Florida. VERMONT. The election takes place next Tuesday, We understand that a large number of them are on the sick list. They have had but little time to recover from It is for governor and other state officers, members of the fatigues they have lately undergone in the north, re-congressmen by districts, and sends five members.congress and of the legislature. Vermont chooses her moving these same Indians. Two of the present delegation are Van Buren men, viz: John Smith in the 4th district and Isaac Fletcher in the 5th.

LANCASTER, PA. A company is forming to light the city with gass.

Charleston, 25th Aug. A better feeling for uplands, has been manifested throughout the week just past, than for a considerable time previously; indeed there being more shipping in our port, buyers are coming forTHE LIONS. The two African lions, a male and feward rather freely, although we cannot observe any WHEAT. Prime Virginia and Maryland red is quotmaterial change in prices. The late ad ices per steam-male, which were presented by the emperor of Mo-ed in Baltimore at $100 to $109-old Pennsylvania, er president at New York, on the whole though favor-rocco to the president of the United States, are to be able for the staple, has not effected the markets to any sold at the navy yard in Philadelphia, on the 31st inst. A letter from Michigan says: "Our crop of wheat is extent as yet. fair, but there will be a larger surplus than ever before in Michigan, owing to the great quantity sown last fall. It was probably twice as great as ever before."

Caution to shippers of collon. A letter from a ship captain to his owners, dated Havre, July 1st, 1840, says: "There is a system practiced here on vessels, which it is impossible for the masters to avoid. All cotton from Mobile and New Orleans, this year, on which the marks are erased or are illegible, is taken

for cash.

MADAWASKA. The Bangor Whig states that colonel Parks, the marshal, has returned from the Madawaska territory, and that the population of the settlement according to the census which has been taken is 3,500.

at $1 10-Maryland white $1 16.

A WATERMELLON, sent by Charles Waters, esq. from the head of Magothy to the Baltimore market, weighed 50 lbs. and measured two feet in length and two feet eight inches in circumference.

WOODEN PAVEMENT. The London Times says a short time only will elapse before all the chief thoroughfares are paved with wood.

NATURAL CURIOSITY. A very singular and perfect and sold on the vessels account, and the loss deducted oak tree, in a fossil state, has been recently discovered from this was my ship has been subjected to a loss of Various branches have, during the last two months, from the freight. None of my cotton was damaged, in a sand pit at Calcot (Tilehurst), near the Bath road. been dug out close to the spot where the tree was found, Huntsville, Ala. Aug. 8. The cotton crops in this and about ten days ago the laborers employed there part of the state are believed to be irretrievably lost. brought the above singular production to light; it was Buttsland, east and west, with which the borough is The almost constant and incessant rains for the last only about four feet from the surface, where it must connected, has a population of 5,415. York borough,

$700,"

six or eight weeks has caused an unexampled growth of the weed, which already has the appearance of a solid mass over the whole fields, whilst their shaded

have been deposited at the deluge.

NORTH PROVIDENCE, R. I. is found to contain 4,207 inhabitants. There are in the town 12 revolutionary END OF VOLUME FIFTY-EIGHT.

YORK, PA. including the villages of Freysland and

proper, contains a population of 4,781. In 1830, the inhabitants numbered 4,216. Increase in ten years, 575, or nearly 14 per cent.