item of half a million sterling, paid by France, as the last instalment of the 125,000,000 francs which she was amerced in, in 1815, to remunerate Great Britain for the expense of the war occasioned by the return of Bonaparte from Elba.-It appears that the large sum which France was compelled to pay to the allied powers, besides the expense of the army of occupation, has nearly all been paid by her, without any sensible distress being experienced by her citizens. Bost. Cent. -- of the English navy, and two sailors, were dangerously wounded. GERMANY. Discovery. Mr. Leinberger, of Nuremberg, has solved the problem of giving horizontal direction to balloons, and offers to make a journey from Nuremberg in that conveyance, as soon as the royal society of London shall have guaranteed the payment of 20,0001. offered as a premium for the discovery. [France has paid this mighty imposition, and the Economy. At the close of the Waterloo war, the king has recommended a diminution of the taxes! army of a sovereign German prince, amounting to How is this? It results from the acts of Napoleon! several hundred men, was ordered to be disbanded. He established French industry, and its fruits appear The coats having lost great part of their original in the ease and comfort of the people. "Louis the splendor, the infantry were suffered to retain them, desired" would risk his crown and probably lose but the buttons being in full number and in good it, if he ENCOURAGED the introduction of British order, the military department ordered all these goods as we do. They are mainly prohibited, not-glittering ornaments to be cut off, and the soldiers withstanding he owes every thing to British in-were sent to their respective homes without a buttrigue, wealth and power.] ton on their thread-bare garments. Ecclesiastical establishment.-It is calculated that there are at present in France 2849 curates, 22,244 temporary curates, 5301 vicars, 1462 regular priests, and 873 almoners of colleges and hospitals. The number of priests regularly officiating, including those who do not receive pay from the treasury, amounts to 36,185. 1361 French priests died in the year 1819; and in the same year there were 1401 ordinations. There are 106 female congregations, possessing altogether 1721 establishments, which contain 11,752 sisters. It is estimated that these charitable women administer relief to nearly 69,000 sick persons, and gratuitously instruct 63,000 poor children. PRUSSIA. The number of persons who have died of the hydrophobia in the Prussian dominions, within the last ten years, is stated to have been one thousand six hundred and sixty-six. TURKEY. By an arrival at Baltimore from Smyrna, we have some additional items of news from that part of the world. The affairs of all Turkey are represented as being disturbed. Great excesses had been committed at Smyrna, many Greeks, &c. being murdered by the Janissaries-the vessels in the harbor were filled with fugitives; but they were overhauled previous to sailing, and all the Greeks taken out. Jeanne d'Arc.-The works which have been un- A British sloop of war, passing the castle, was fired dertaken at Domremy, for repairing the house of upon by the Turks, but the commander did not reJeanne d'Arc, erecting a monument to her memo- turn it, fearing the effect it might have in the cityry, and establishing a school for the instruction of yet a British frigate has captured a Greek vessel. female children, are proceeding with great activi. The patriotic flag is flying on most of the islands, ty. In front of the house in which the heroine was and the Greek fleet is reported to amount to 150 born, a neat and simple edifice has been raised. sail. They had captured a large number of TurAn avenue separates the building into two grand kish ships, among them three men of war; all the compartments, one of which is set aside for the crews of which they had beheaded and cast into school, and the other for the governess' apartments. the sea. They had also taken 2000 soldiers bound The avenue leads to a court yard, and on the left to the Morea, which they likewise slaughtered. is the old door of the house of the Maid of Orleans, While one squadron was blockading four Turkish with its curious bas reliefs. Fragments of wood, ships in the harbor of Preveya, the most of their stone, and other relics of the age of Jeanne d'Arc, ships were collecting at the Dardanelles to watch are deposited in the principal chamber of the the Turkish fleet. house. Fronting the new edifice is a square, in the centre of which a statue is to be raised to her ho-Turkish into French, and from thence into English The following state paper, translated from the for the "American," has been published. nor. SPAIN. "Translation of the SAFTA of the Greek putriarck, It is the duty of all magistrates carefully to pro. tect the interest and happiness of those they go. vern. The patriarchs appointed to superintend the spiritual concerns of all who enjoy tranquility under the shadow of the imperial power, should not only be vigilant pastors, but faithful, sincere and loyal subjects. It is their especial province to become acquainted with the principles and dispositions of all who are placed under their pater. nal care; to ascertain whether they be well or ill affected, and by the seasonable exercise of counsel, reproof or chastisement, to evince their gratitude to the sublime porte, for the countless favors and privileges which have been heaped upon them for so many years. The Greek patriarch once was true, honest, faithful--but perfidy and dissimulation have recently *Safta, a Turkish word, signifying à summary et abridged history. COLUMBIA. Characterised him. He was certainly privy to the The congress was opened at Cucuta on the 6th of machinations of those who, following the phantasm of their own disordered intellects, vainly en-June, by the vice president of the republic, general deavored to overturn the Mahometan power, and Narino-After which the deputies took the cus. subvert the Mahometan religion; a religion that has tomary oaths and elected Felix Restrepo their pre. flourished for upwards of ten centuries; a religion sident. All things seem to work together in harthat will last to the great day of judgment, for so mony. we are assured in our holy books and prophecies. The patriarch, though aware of the plot, never revealed it; but, on the contrary, was the covert chief of the rebellion. By his insidious designs, the whole Greek nation, and many innocent and virtu. ous subjects, had well nigh become the objects of divine vengeance and resentment. Bolivar was severely pressing Porto Cabello, and its surrender was expected-he had possessed him. self of the suburbs. Nine sail of vessels from Spain had arrived there, having a new vice-roy on board; but learning the state of things, he bent his course for Curracoa, from whence he sailed for Jamaica, where he intended to remain for the present. There No sooner were the police made acquainted is a report that Bolivar has resigned the presidenwith the plot, than the sublime porte, with a view cy-his civil office, and that general Narino was to recall the misled, reclaim the ignorant and re-appointed his successor. establish safety, confidence and order, immediately issued a Bouyourouldoof to the Patriarch, containing some reflections upon the existing state of things. He was ordered to fulminate anathemas, if he considered it expedient, against all who con ́tinued in open rebellion; but the wretch was himself deeply implicated in these nefarious schemes: he was the author of all the disorders which have thus far troubled the public repose. A traitor, alike to his country and the sublime porte, he was condemned to die, and accordingly suffered by the hands of the hangman-- a woeful example to all, and an awful warning to rebels. The London Times of July 4, gives a report of a battle between Ypsilanti and the Turks, near Jassy, in which the latter were defeated with the loss of 1500 men. It is understood that the Russian minister has made a very strong remonstrance to the divan (to which he also demanded a catagorical reply) relative to the atrocities committed on the Grecks, to which he has received “a satisfactory reply." AFRICA. In page 406, some account is given of the progress and prospects of the colony of free blacks, which certain philanthropic individuals among us are endeavoring to plant in Africa, as a home for such persons in the United States as shall be dis, posed to return to the land of their ancestors. CHRONICLE. The U. S. ship Hornet, captain Read, arrived af New-York last week, from Pensacola, via Havana. The five schooners authorized to be built by a late act of congress, are all afloat, as follows: The Porpoise, built at Portsmouth, N. H.; the Alligator, at Boston; the Doiphin, at Philadelphia, and the Shark and Grampus at Washington. They are all built and fitted in the most perfect manner. The French frigate, La Duchess de Berri, of 44 guns, has arrived at Norfolk from Martinique. She brought to the United States midshipman Hossack and seven of the crew of the U. S. schooner Alligator, who were put on board of a French slave trading vessel, captured on the coast of Africa. The crew of the latter were suffered to come upon deck for the benefit of air, and re-possessed themselves of the vessel, treating our people very roughly. They were first taken to Cayenne and from thence sent to Martinique. The frigate belongs to the squadron lately from Rio Janeiro, and wants repairs. The Colosse 74, and frigate La Galatea, have arrived at New-York for the same reason. Gen. Jackson. The city council of New-Orleans have given 1000 dollars to Mr. Earl, of Nashville, for a fine likeness of gen. Jackson, painted by him, and a copy has been engaged for the city of Nat. chez for a similar sum. By the Sierra Leone Gazette, we learn that the Malignant fever. A few cases of this disease have coast is still infested by numerous slave vessels Our schooner, the Alligator, it will be recollected, appeared at Boston and Norfolk. At the, former captured four, three of which, it is supposed, have place they are freely put down as of domestic origin, but at the latter an attempt is made to trace been retaken. The British ship Tartar brought them to a certain vessel from Point Petre, Guada two others with her to Sierra Leone-the Myrmi-loupe, or rather to the foul bilge water discharged don had captured five, and the Morgiana two-one from her. There have also been some cases at of which was a privateer with a commission as if Wilmington and Fayetteville, N. C. and one or two from Artigas! It appears that a vessel called the Apollo, under command of a lieutenant in the Portuguese navy, was at St. Jago (Cape de Verds) bound for the coast, and calculated to carry from 6 to 800 slaves to Brazil, under a grant of the king, to a person named Pereira, to import four thousand DOMESTICS. The latter term being used to avoid a violation of the words of the treaty for the abolition of the infamous traffic. WEST INDIES. at New York. Ontario county, N. Y. contained thirty years since only 1,200 souls-the last census gives it 88,260!!! Transportation. A ton of merchandise may even now be transported from the city of New York to Buffalo, on lake Erie, for the sum of $37 50. A monster. A negro fellow, armed with a gun, seized upon a respectable married lady, near Car tersville, Va. and attempted to commit a rape on her. After a long contest, she succeeded in getting out of his clutches, when he fired at her, but missed A general rising of the slaves in Porto Rico ap-his aim. About an hour afterwards, he in like manpears to have been contemplated. Many of the ner attacked another married lady-not succeeding, chiefs had been arrested, and it was supposed that after a desperate struggle, he attempted to kill her with a knife, but she wrested it froin him, and getthe measures adopted would secure tranquility. ting released, ran away, when he fired at her and †Bouyourouldoo, the Turkish for ediet, proclama-lodged many shot in the back of her neck and head tion. and yet, thus wounded, she escaped. The fellow declared his intention of thus serving all the white | to have studied so thoroughly as to have it quite at women he could meet with. A reward is offered for his apprehension. their fingers' ends: "There went out a decree in the days of Claudius Caesar that all the world'should be taxed." More of it. A certain E. W. Milligan, who was second teller of the Phanix bank at New-York, ab- Jamestown weed, commonly called Jimpson. Foar sconded on Saturday last, taking with him about children, at Knoxville, Ten. having swallowed some 70,000 dollars of the funds of the bank, the pay-seeds of this poisonous weed, were all at once renment of certain parts of which, being large post notes, has been stopped. 1,000 dollars reward is offered for the man and 2,000 for him and the amount of his "breach of trust." We noticed, sometime since, certain defaults in the Farmers bank of Virginia. The accounts being recently adjusted, it appears that the accountant, A. Lithgow, had "doubly used" certain checks to the amount of 10 or 12,000 dollars. He has been arrested under a late act of the state, which make felonies out of breaches of trust. It appears that there were other deficiencies or mistakes to the amount of 17,000 dollars! It seems, by subsequent accounts, that the chief part of the money stolen by Milligan has been discovered and recovered-amount 55,600 dollars with the rest it is supposed that he has proceeded to Canada. A little war. From St. Andrews, N. B. we learn that some American property was seized at Schoodiac and deposited in a store, and that a party of Americans came over from Calais, some armed with guns and others with scythes, who, after a struggle, regained and carried off the property. It appears that this thing was provoked by a late similar attack by the English on the people of Calais. Home market. The neighborhood of Wilming ton, Del. though not more remarkable for cotton works than other manufactories, is furnishing a market for 2000 bales of cotton a year; and a great increase of the consumption will speedily take place, other mills being about to be put into operation. Steam boats. There are seventy-two employed on the western waters-several of them are of more than 400 tons; the "United States" is 646 tons! Twenty steam boats may sometimes be seen to. gether at New Orleans. Florida. It is stated that the St. John's river receives the impressions of the tide 150 miles from its mouth, and is twenty feet deep up to lake St George-this lake is sixty miles in circumference, generally ten feet deep, but there is one part where it is only five-above this there is a larger lake, which it is proposed to call JACKSON, its name not being fixed at present. "It is certain that five planters on Cape Florida make perfect crops of coffee." Methodists. From the minutes of the annual conference, just published, it appears that the total amount of the members of this society in the United States, is 281,146; giving an increase, after correcting an error in the minutes of last year, of 21,265 in the last twelve months. Bella. A New-Haven paper says "So long as our bells shall continue within the inclosure of green blinds, they will continue to be broken. The discharge of sound from a bell is like the discharge of sound from a cannon. Any obstruction placed near to the sounding body exposes the body to breaking or bursting. All our bells, inclosed as above, have broken.. Taxation. There is one passage in the scriptures to which the potentates of Europe seem to have given their unanimous assent and approbation, and dered distracted, and fell to fighting each other and biting themselves, like mad dogs. They were severely physicked; at last the medicine operated, they discharged the seeds, (when it was first ascertained what ailed them) and were restored to their parents. But it was 24 hours before all of them recovered their right mind. tle, to Miss Mary Bronson; Mr. Samuel Moss, to Married, at Wallingford, Con. Mr. Joseph Doolit Miss Betsey Doolittle; Mr. Roswell Doolittle, to Miss Polly Moss; Mr. Lemuel Doolittle, to Miss Duedama Mattoom. [These Doolittles have done s good deal.]Hartfort paper. GRASSHOPPERS. A letter from Fort Osage says that myriads of these animals are "over-running the country and literally eating it up." A total failure of the grain crops was expected in consequence of their ravages. The English tourist, Mr. Howitt, ought to have been at Fort Osage to ascertain the fact, whether, as the grasshoppers that he had seen did eat up a gun-stock, those might not have eaten up the barrel also. TOASTS. Persons warmed by a luscious feast of good things, oftentimes express themselves imprudently, and what they say is forgiven or forgotten as the ebullition of a moment--but when sentiments like the following are reduced to writing and deliberately printed in a public newspaper, they should not be passed over so lightly. The following toasts, we are informed by the St. Louis Enquirer, were drank at that place by companies celebrating the 4th of July-they do not require comment. "The state of Missouri-the last created member of the Federal Compact—may she, like the after-piece of universal creation, be the acknowledged READ of the union!" By the vice president. "The people of Missouri-Willing to contend for their just rights with moderation, ready to defend them at the point of the bayonet!" "The state of Missouri-a bright link in the chain of the union-her laws are mild, her sons brave: if any doubt it let them come and try!” Philadelphia. In consequence of the works of the steam engine being out of order, and no water pumped up into the reservoir, one day this summer, it was ascertained, that the consumption of water, in this city, from the water works, in 24 hours, was one million three hundred thousand gallons. Our supply of water is confined to about 60,000 persons. A late official statement from London, gives the consumption of water supplied by water works, att twenty-six millions of gallons, in 24 hours. The water thus supplied furnishes a population of 1,200,000. Thus it appears, that the quantity of water consumed in London, is twenty times as much as is consumed in Philadelphia, where the popula tion is to that of London, as one is to twenty. In other words, the average consumption of water in proportion to population, is exactly the same in Philadelphia as in London, It averages, in both cities, at the rate of twenty-one gallons and two thirds of a gallon, for the use of each individual. [Demo. Press. END OF VOLUME TWENTY. |