the messenger will wait for any directions you may more study, more experience, and laboriously acquir-along the coast, or desired to enter by night. It was have to give, and for the line which I am sure you ed information, were necessary to form an Acestes, called Pharos, from the island at the mouth of the will write, if you should not be coming home in the or a Palinurun, than are now required to furnish forth Nile, where the first tower had been erected. Here evening. a La Perouse or a Parry. The master, or pilot, of the vessels were not hauled up, but simply fastened Lewis, who has been a very good and pleasant ancient times, who had the command of the sailors, to the rings, or pillars, provided for the purpose, companion, sends his love, and his sorrow that any and directed all the evolutions, was not merely re- while at the inner ports were docks and stores for thing has arisen to make you unhappy. quired to know whatever related to the management building and reparing. In this port, too, were temples Farewell, my dear father and mother. May of the sails, the oars, and the rudder: he was to be devoted to the Gods, and especially to the patron of God support you, and bring blessings out of the familiar with all the ports that lay in the track of his the place, where propitiatory sacrifices were made, misfortune with which He has seen fit to visit you! navigation, the landmarks by which they were desig- and vows fulfilled and recorded: here, too, were nuWith His permission, your children shall make you nated, and all the rocks, quicksands and daugers of merous taverns, and places of more licentious grati happy yet. Your dutiful and affectionate daughter, the intervening deep: he was to know the course of fication. Whether, however, they stranded their the winds and the indications that preceded them; vessels on the beach, or moored them in the harbor, "P. S. No one has been so anxious about you as also the movements of the celestial bodies, not merely the mariners, before repairing to these resorts, fulfill. Henry Craig. If he thought it would be any com. for the purpose of directing his course by them, but ed the vows made before departure, or in seasons of fort to you to see him, he would go over to Dto understand the winds and weather, which some of peril, offered thanks to Neptune, and sacrifices to on the instant. He said so when we were only in them, as Arcturus and the Dog star, were believed Jupiter, for having granted them release from the dufear. I am sure he will now be more earnest still. to portend. Moreover, he had to be skilled in read-rance of their ships. Upon those who had escaped As soon as Horace is gone, I shall write, as he de-ing the various omens, which were gathered from shipwreck, gratitude was more deeply incumbent. sires, to Reading, and Manchester, and Richmond. the sighing of the wind in the trees, the murmurs of In addition to other sacrifices proportioned to their If there are any more, let me know to-morrow. the waters, and their dash upon the shore; the flight means, they usually offered the garment in which hope you will not exert yourself to write to anybody of birds, and the gambols of fishes. A voyage was, they were saved, together with a picture descriptive at present, except Fanny or me." in those days, a momentous and awful undertaking. of the disaster. If nothing else remained to them, When the time arrived for the sailing of a ship or the hair was shorn from the head, and consecrated POPULAR ESSAYS ON NAVAL SUBJECTS; by the Au- fleet, the masts were raised, the sails bent, and all to the tutelar deity; hence offering the hair was the thor of A Year in Spain.' New York: GEO. DEAR-made ready with solemuity, and great parade of pre-last vow of the distressed mariner. BORN. These Essays, dedicated most appropriately paration. If, as was most usual, the ships were There is much that is beautiful in these simple "MELEA BERKELEY. to the junior officers of the Navy, by one who is hauled up on shore, the mariners placed their shoul. acts of piety; but, except in some Catholic counders at the stern of the ships, and, at the word of tries of the Mediterranean, where pictures of rescue himself an ornament to that service, appeared origi- command, pushed their bows forward into the sea, and garments are still hung before the shrine of an nally, though not, as at present, connectedly, in the leaping aboard when they floated. Levers were invoked intercessor, and where processions are still Encyclopædia Americana. In their present condensed used to move the heavier vessels, and in later times, made, after escape from shipwreck, none of these form, they furnish information useful to the young had invented for that purpose. Before putting to beautiful than the grateful sense of divine inthe helix (probably jack-screw.) which Archimedes touching customis now remain. What can be more offieer, and valuable to all, in a style easy and polish-sea, the Gods were ever solemnly invoked and pro-terference with which Columbus and his followers ed, and, at the same time, unambitious. The extract we subjoin, on the origin of the art of navigation, will witness for us how well the volume deserves our praise : pitiated by numerous sacrifices; thus we find all hasten to return their vows after their safe return to Palos? Snch piety, if it availed not to avert pre. sent danger, at least served to inspire confidence to meet it; and, when past, the gratitude which it oecasioned must have tended to refine the sentiments and ennoble the heart. Horace has well said, that his heart must needs Nor did the voyagers alone supplicate protection have been bound with oak and triple brass, who first the crowds of friends and countrymen, who thronged SKETCHES AND ECCENTRICITIES OF COLONEL DAVID committed his frail bark to the tempestuous sea. No- the shore, joined fervently in prayers for their dething, indeed, conveys a higher idea of human daring liverance from danger, and like the Venusian poet, CROCKETT OF WEST TENNESSEE; N. York, J. & J. than the boldness with which man rushes forth to en- commended their departing friends to the presiding Harper.-We hardly know whether this is a bur. counter the elements; nothing speaks louder in deities of the winds and waves. All omens were lesque or real history of a man quite remarkable in praise of human ingenuity than that wonderful art by carefully regarded; the entrails of the sacrifices exwhich he is enabled to forsake the land, stretching amined, with every possible prognostic of good or our annals, and in some sort the type of a race, which forth until it fades from the horizon, and nothing visi-evil; and a very small matter, the perching of swal. steamboats and the rapid extension of civilization in ble remains but the hollow heavens above, and a lows on the ships, or an accidental sneeze to the the far West are fast extinguishing. It is in this trackless waste below; driven from his course by left, was enough to delay departure. As this, how-sense a curious book, which we have read, we conadverse winds, yet, by dint of perseverance, weary ever, never took place without the most favorable fese, with some interest and much incredulity. ing out the elements; and at length arriving, with auspices, it was always joyful. The ships were unerring certainty, at the haven where he would be. adorned with streamers and garlands of flowers; And if the daring and ingenuity of the navigator de- and, when the signal was given from the admiral & Cooke's cheap edition are before us. They CORserve our admiration, the result of his efforts will not ship, by sound of trumpet, a shont of rejoicing rang tain the Talisman, Woodstock, the Highland Widow, appear unworthy of the means. It is to the exercise through the fleet, sent back by the responding of his wonderful art, that we are indebted for the im-blessings of the friends that remained. After ad. the Chronicles of the Cannongate, and Anne of Gierprovement of our condition, which arises from the vancing a short space, doves, which the mari.st.in. exchange of the superfluity of one country for that of ners had brought from their homes, were releas another, the whole world being penetrated, and eve-ed, and their safe arrival-not unfrequently chargry clime made tributary to every other, until the ed with the last adieu of a departing lover-Jas. Herring of New York, and Jas. B. Longacre of whole globe is reduced to one common country. was considered auspicious of the return of the fleet. Philad. This number farnishes the portraits and biAbove all, to navigation are we indebted for that The admiral led the van, conspicuous by his painted|ographies of Daniel Webster, Bishop White and Chief higher and nobler advantage,--the interchange of sails and streamers, and opened a path in which many Justice Shippen of Philadelphia. The first and the sonse and sentiment, which makes wisdom common followed. In moderate weather, the ships often sail. SCOTT'S WORKS.-Four numbers more of Conner THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, Part VII; by Harrisburgh, Pa. Oct. 22. to the world, and urges man onward to perfection. ed side by side; but, as the wind freshened, and the last portraits are good—of Bishop White we have Yet it has not always been so. Time was when sea grew rough, the order became more open, to seen a better. The memoirs are brief and well the canoe, or the raft, constituted the only ship of the avoid contact. At all times, they kept close to the written. sailor, and when the narrow precincts of a lake or ri-land, following the indentations of the coast. When We conclude, as usual, and as we hope now reguver set bounds to his roving disposition, and confined night approached, it was customary to anchor, or else him within view of familiar objects. Advancing a to beach the vessels, that the crews might repose,||larly to do, with No. 3 of our correspondent H. step farther, we find him venturing from headland to each rower sleeping on his bench, ready to renew headland, or from island to island, with a view of his labors with the returning sun. If the amenity of I write to you from the banks of the Susquehannah. A gratifying his curiosity, or bettering his condition, the weather, the friendly aid of the moon, or the full steady rain prevails out of doors, and after wading until a gale, driving him to some unknown coast, in- open nature of the navigation, admitted of sailing through the mud about the purlieus of this place for an creases at once his knowledge and hardihood. Mean- during the night, the plummet or the sounding-pole hour, I am glad to be housed at last for the rest of the time, his bark adapts itself to nobler functions, en. directed their course, or it was shaped, as by day, tay. I see the capital of Pennsylvania under every dislarges its size, and improves in form; the rudder is from headland to headland. If the land were not advantage, but still am pleased with it. Although a city in added, the mast is better sustained, and the sails re. visible, the known direction of the wind continued, niniature (and this contains only four or five thousand inceive a more favorable application. And thus the with the aid of the stars, to guide them. Cynosura abitants) is generally odious to one who as resided in a art by which the ship is made, and that by which it is was the favorite of the Phoenicians: the Greeks metropolis-reminding him perhaps of Goose Gibbis in conducted, advance with equal steps. Deprived of abandoned themselves to the direction of Helice. jack-boots, at the Review of Tuliietudlem-there is much the aid of surrounding objects, the land withdrawn Having escaped the multiplied dangers of such a in the appearance of Harrisburgh to reconcile the most capfrom view, and nothing within the verge of the hori-navigation, and having accomplished their object, the tious to its assumption of civic honours. The manner in zon but a waste of trackless water, the marine: casts ships returned home with songs and rejoicings. If which the place is laid out and built, the substantial in his eye in despair to the overhanging heavens. Aid they were to be stranded, the sterns were turnedrements going forward, and the degree of wealth and is granted to his prayers: the constellations assist towards the shore, and the vessels forced back-enterprize manifested in those already made, and above all, him in his course: among many revolving stars, he wards upon it with the oars, until the crew landing, its beautiful scite, make it an exception to the generally unfinds one steadfast, and makes it his perpetual guide. drew them beyond the reach of the surf. Some interesting character of country towns. Sach do we find the actual state of navigation among times they were taken into the beautiful moles, or land about 41 feet above the level of the Susquehannak The chief part of the town lies on a piece of Champagne the savage tribes of our own day; and such was also artificial harbors, which the ancients constructed, he handsom st street in the place, though occupied chiefly the progress of the art among the earliest nations with great labor and ingenuity, within the natural by petty tradesmen and mechanics, verging on the waters that improved it. Not the least of the improvements ones. These were in the shape of crab's claws, of that lovely stream. The other streets run at right which we have made in this art, is that simplification or horns, the ends, which formed the entrance, so angles to, and parallel with, the river which is nearly in practice, by which it is rendered available with overlapping as to exclude the swell of the sea.raight, when it washes the town with a graceful bend near little study and capacity. Castles defended their approach, and a light-tower, he suburbs of either end. Facing the Susquehannah at placed at the entrance, guided those who sailed the upper part of the town, and only a few hundred yards Anomalous as it may seem, yet it is true that FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. LATER FROM EUROPE.-The packet ship Virginia, Harris, from Liverpool, brings us London papers to the 7th ult. from the river, is a sudden elevation rising into a level plat-|| with thanks what I conceived to be an officious act of po- the lofty landmark which, before you read this, will be placed form about 60 feet above the surrounding plain. Upon this liteness on his part. The young Vrouuties appeared to re-betweeen us. H. eminence, fronting the river through a broad street, stands gard our interchange of civilities with particular interest, the Capitol and State buildings containing the chief public and I am half persuaded that had I not struck my flag to offices. The centre edifice and one standing detached on the gentleman-usher just when I did, the womankind (as either side, are all ornamented with Grecian porticos, and Jonathan Oldbuck presumes to call the suzerainos of the their size, their simple design and just architectural pro-lords of creation) would have risen to a man (Hibernicé) in portions, would make an imposing display and impress a my favor and insisted upon keeping me among them. stranger favourably until he ascertained the paltry material I shall keep open this letter till to-morrow evening and of which they are built. But I defy any one, unless he add every thing I have to say on this side of the Alleghamay have written sonnets to Time in the ruins of Babel, nies-For the present, good night. From Portugal, the news is not so late as we have to have one respectful association with a structure of brick. October 23.-The rain still continued when I left Harris- direct by the way of St. Ubes and Boston. There are Putting the perishable nature of the material entirely out burg this morning, and the view I promised myself from the some details supplied, however, which, if true, may of the question, though a sufficient objection to its use in a Capitol was not to be had. My disappointment at not public building, its size alone is fatal to effect in a struc-having seen more of the Susquehannah is not slight, and be deemed important to the cause of the Queen. No ture of any pretension. For it is massiveness in the details the feeling is enhanced by a delicious glance I caught of its new attack on Lisbon had been made, but the defeat as well as in combination, which impresses the beholder in waters in the sunlight as the clouds parted for a moment of that of the 14th, on a particular point of the lines architectural form and the pyramids of Egypt themselves just as a turning of the road shut out the view behind us. I if reared of boyish marbles, though they might be so almost grew melancholy, while recalling with a sort of home of defence, is magnified by the Pedroites into someingeniously put together as to awaken curiosity, could feeling the delight with which, years ago, I first beheld its thing so important, as, with other causes, to have led never inspire awe. The disciple of Malthus perhaps sources, to remember now that it was the last stream that to the resignation of Marshal Bourmont and the might busy himself in calculating how many urchins it took ran eastward I should see for a long time to come. French officers who accompany him. It will be seen supposing every one in the dominions of Cheops capable And then those calm, gentle waters, which flow as smoothof bearing marbles to have contributed his mite to completely as the verse of him who has immortalized them, once that the fact of this resignation is strongly averred in the fabric-bat where would have been all those ingenious seen are never to be forgotten nor passed again without in- the extracts we subjoin, but there may yet be error surmises with which antiquarians, since the days of old terest. The Susquehannah has its birth in one of the love-in it. If it be true, it must, we apprehend, have a deHerodotus, and who knows how many centuries before, have||liest of lakes, and it bears with it the impress of its parentpuzzled the brains of their readers where would be that re-age wheresoever it wanders-the bright green surface and cisive influence against Miguel. verence with which mankind in every known age have transparent depths below, the winding current which, regarded these monuments of the power of their race in unbroken by cascade or rapids, whether it steals through the the early vigor of its creation-where would be the awe with rich fields and beautiful glens of Otsego, or smiles on the which we now regard these artificial mountains that rear storied vale of Wyoming, loiters alike beside its fertile their stupendous forms in proportions that mock at banks, as if reluctant to pass them on its long journey to the modern art; and, rivalling in their heaped up rocky masses ocean. For grandeur of scenery, indeed, the Hudson far the masonry of Nature herself, speak of the labours of a surpasses it; and where is the stream that can match that race for whom the Mastodon of our own continent would lordly river! But there is a gentle beauty about the Sushave been a fitting beast of burthen? quehannah which touches without striking, and wins while you are unawed. The one, like a fair face lit up with glorious other, as with features softened with tenderness, you leave intellect, commands and exacts your homage; with the your heart as an offering. What a singular perversion of taste is that existing in the the inhabitants to make their barns and cow-sheds of solid towns and villages through which I am passing, which induces stone, and their ornamental buildings of brick and stucco. I sometimes see Gothic churches of the first and Grecian tains. Donna Maria arrived in her capital on the 23d of September, and was, as of course on all such occa. sions, received with every demonstration of joy and attachment, such being a regular part of the performance, let who may be the object. It is however to be borne in mind, that as yet on manifestations have appeared in the interior of Portugal, friendly to Don Pedro and his daughter, whose armies only possess Oporto and Lisbon, and a narrow strip on the seaboard. Although, therefore, the forces of Don Miguel may discontinue their attacks on Lisbon, it does not seem to follow that the war will be speedily concluded. If, indeed, the attempt himself the crown of Spain, be at all successful, his which Don Carlos will undoubtedly make to gain for We are now, you will observe, on the main road from cause and that of Miguel will unavoidaly become fronts of the last; and these not unfrequently planted in the Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, and as our stopping places, in-united, and together may draw all Europe into the midst of a cluster of gray mansions whose towering gables, stead of being in those mongrel establishments, half inn, vortex of the family quarrels of the Peninsula. huge stone buttresses and deep cut narrow windows, make half farm-house, will probably be at the stage offices along the former show like some pert poplar thrusting his dandy the route, but little opportunity will offer for observing the figure among a clump of hoary oaks. Still one cannot but manners of the residents. Thus far I cannot speak too admire the air of comfort-I might almost say of opulence-warmly of the civility and kindness of the people among which prevails throughout the country I am passing over. whom I have passed the last week; with the exception of This, in the village of Reading, through which we passed the amusing little incident detailed in my first letter, not a yesterday, is particularly the case. It has a population of circumstance has occurred to qualify this opinion. The about 7000 inhabitants; and the numerous stages filled general appearance of the country east of the mountains, The death of the King of Spain is also reasserted, with passengers which pass daily through it, the wagons you have already gathered from the two previous letters. loaded with produce that throng the streets of the place, Latterly we have ridden so continually in the rain, that I and with a probability, greater than heretofore, of its and the rich display of goods and fancy articles in the shops have had no opportunity of seeing it to advantage. But the truth. The Queen Regent is said to have assumed give Reading a most flourishing appearance. It is prettily only change I observe in the face of the country is that, in- the reins of Government, without making any change situated on the Schuylkill, with a range of high rocky hills stead of being broken up into small hills, where forest and in the rear; but its position wants the picturesque beauty of cultivation are most happily mingled-as around Bethle-in the old Ministry. Don Carlos, if he hopes to Harrisburgh. Here the Susquehannah is, I should think, hem-here the vales spread out into plains, and the high reassert his claims to the crown, must strike soon. full half a mile wide. It is studded with wooded islets, and grounds receding, swell off till they show like mountains in The speculations on the late meeting of the sove. flows between banks which, though not very bold in them- the distance. I miss too those fine barns upon which I reigns of Russia and Austria, seen now to have reselves, yet rise with sufficient dignity from the margin, and have dwelt with so much pleasure, nor do the better fencing blend with the undulating country, until its arable slopes and and spruce looking dwelling-houses compensate for the loss solved themselves into the conclusion, that a Consunny orchards are bounded by a distant range of moun- of the imposing appearance of such huge granaries in angress of Ministers is agreed to be held in Vienna agricultural country. I thought when first observing the during the winter, in which the state of Germany, change and marking the herds of cattle and droves of sheep that sometimes throng the roads, that we had got at last particularly as to the freedom of the Press, is to be completely into a grazing region. But the delicious wheat discussed and proper bonds are to be contrived bread met with at the humblest inns with the little stock to against too much liberty of discussion. be seen in the fields, seems to indicate that such is not the The Cotton Market at Liverpool had revived, and case. It seems odd in a country so thickly settled, where Yesterday I had, for the first time, the gratification of one meets a hamlet at every two or three miles, with scat-prices are quoted at a half penny advance on the low. hearing a sermon pronounced in German-the common tering houses at frequent intervals between them, that wildest previous prices. language of this part of the country. I walked some dis- animals should be yet abundant. But I was told at Bethtance through a pelting shower to the Church, in Wornels-lehem that it was not uncommon to kill bears upon the dorf, and though the preacher was prevented by sudden in-neighbouring hills; and a gentleman informed me this morn- Foreign. The Conference of Munchengratz is redisposition from giving more than the exordium of his dis- ing that they frequently drove deer into the Susquehann ahally over. The Journals are nearly silent respecting course, I was sufficiently delighted with his clear mellow within a few miles of Harrisburgh. I can account for it its objects and its cause, and, perhaps, for the best of eunciation, and the noble sound and volume of the lan- only by the fine forests which are every where left standing reasons, that there was, in fact, nothing important guage which he spoke in all its purity, to regret most deep- isolated in the midst of cultivated tracts, making so many belonging to its determinations. The daughter of ly an often deferred resolution of mastering that manly links in the chain of woodland from mountain to mountain Prince Polignac is dead. She had frequently implor. tongue. One must think more strongly in such a muscular across the country, and tempting the wild animals, while it ed permission for her father to pay her a last visit, language. I have frequently had occasion to admire the extends their range, to venture near to the settlements. In well guarded, and on giving his parole d'honneur, but expressiveness of the German in poetry when Goethe or New-York you may be aware that owing to the wholesale it was refused! The Archduches Maria Lonisa has Schiller were quoted by others, but I had not till now a manner in which clearings are made, the deer are swept off ceded to Madame Letitia, the mother of Napoleon, conception of the effect in oratory of that language which with the forests that sheltered them, and retreating into the whole of the property of the late Duke de Reich. gave energy to the torrent of Luther's denunciations, and the mountain fastnesses of the northern counties, or the rude stadt including the legicies left him by his illustrious richness to the flow of Melancthon's eloquence. I listened, wilds of the southern tier, are there crowded so thickly as father. Madame Letitia has since executed a formal it is true, not understandingly, but like one who admires the to be butchered for their skins. In the former region, act, granting the arms of Napoleon to the Museum compass of an instrument though ignorant of the air that is while fishing, within a few weeks since, among the pictu- of France, and the fortune of her grandson to the produced from it. I conceived however that I could follow resque lakes which there stud the surface of the country, French hospitals. the preacher in his preliminary address; and indeed the have seen the deer grazing like tamed cattle on the banks. It tone of fervid feeling and unaffec'ed solemnity in which it was a beautiful sight to behold a noble buck calmly raising was made would have impressed, if it did not bear along, the his head as the skiff from which we trolled approached the inst ignorant listener. The congregation, owing to the margin, and then, after standing a moment at gaze, toss his weather, was but small. The two sexes sat apart from antlers high in air and with a snort of defiance bound into each other and had a separate entrance to the building. I the forest. was not aware of this at my entrance, and as a matter of Farewell. You shall hear from me again so soon as we good taste took my seat among the ladies, when an active pass the Alleghanies, the first purple ridge of which I can master of ceremonies, probably the sexton, insisted upon already see limning the sky in the distance. In the mean-St. Anna had then a force of 10,000 men, which was showing me to another place, and after a while induced me time I will note down anything of interest which catches | amply sufficient to overcome his opponents, Arista to change my situation, after having once or twice declined" my eye, and endeavour to give you hereafter some idea of 'and Duren. The prospect from the Capitol is, I am told, uncommonly fine; but the thick mist which limited my view to a very narrow compass while walking along the banks of the river an hour ago, has hitherto prevented me from trying the view. I shall visit the spot from which it is to be had in the morning. [Fuom the Liverpool Albion of the 7th.] Letters from Tampico to Oet. 9th, were received yesterday, via. New Orleans. The conducta, from Zacatecas, was expected to arrive in a day or two. The Rob Roy would be despatched for this port immediately after the arrival of the conducta. The last account from the seat of war, stated that SUMMARY. It was only necessary to witness the great trouble and expense of heaving down this large ship, to have satisfied any one of the great importance of a Dry Dock at this naval station. We hope that Congress will, at its approaching session, make an appropriation for this object.—[Gazette.] [From the Globe.] York: and was, in consequence, much more liable am happy to say there is a great improvement in to injury. Mrs. Bartlett and family are out of dan. this respect, to which may be ascribed, in some ger, with the exception of one of her children, who measure, the greater share of health enjoyed by our [From the Daily Advertiser.] crews at present." A singular phenomenon was exhibited in the lies in a very languishing state, at Congress Hall.U. S. FRIGATE BRANDYWINE.-We understand that heavens, on Wednesday morning, which excited The remainder of the wounded are said to be in a the admiration of all who witnessed its extraordinary fair way of recovery. They are Miss Whitehead, orders have been issued by the Navy Department, appearance, and is well worthy the investigation of of Newport, R. I., one arm broken; Rev. John for the equipment of the United States frigate Brandy. scientific enquirers. About 4 o'clock in the morning West, R. I., leg broken, and bruised; Mr. King, wine, now lying at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn. She a large meteoric body, resembling a globe of fire, R. I., severely bruised; Mr. Dreyfous, of this city, has recently been hove down, thoroughly overhauled, bruised, not dangerously; Mr.Charles, injured severe- and recaulked, and will be ready for sea by the first exploded in the zenith of the heavens, and poured a continuous stream of flaming particles on the sky ly in the thigh; a medical gentleman from Philips of February. beneath. The increasing scintillations from this burgh, Pa., name not ascertained, ribs broken, and luminous globalar body were showered down like bruised.--[Philadeiphia paper.] Law of Patent.-Yesterday afternoon, an impor drops of falling rain, illuminatng the whole visible horizon, and scattering rich rays of light on each airy tant case, which has occupied a week, was decided in path as they fell. After this meteoric shower of fiery the Circuit Court of the United States for this Dis. rain had some time descended, a luminous serpentine trict,-John Ames, of Springfield, against Charles figure was formed in the sky, which, on its explosion, Howard and Wells Lathrop, of South Hadley. The produced a shower of fire equally brilliant and inces-action was brought for the infringement of a patent sant. The inflammable particles then apparently cohe- right, and damages were claimed for the unlawful ring in one ignited mass, rolled up in a ball to the ze-use of two of his patent Cylinder machines for ma nith; and from this lofty elevation burst, and shot out king paper, from October 26, 1832, to April 9, 1833 streams of electric fire from its luminous orb, which The defence rested on the alleged invalidity of the A crowd of witnesses continued to fati until the hour of six in the morning, patent for various causes. when the dawning day put an end to their glory and were examined during four days of last week, on be. their flight. The cause of this splendid and unique half of either party. Counsel for the plantiff, W appearance of the heavens, and the magnificent Bliss, of Springfield, and B. Rand of this city; and phenomenon, with which we have been visited, is Geo. Bliss, of Springfield, and R. Fletcher, of this left to the wise to interpret. From them we invite a city, for the defendants. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff for $412 50, which being tripled as solution of this wonderful visitation. the law requires, is $1237,50 damages. It is stated that the result of this trial is of very great importance to the paper manufacturers; about 500 of the ma chines being in use by them, who will each be liable for damages, in an amount of nearly half a million of dollars. RUMORS AND COMMOTIONS.-Our city to-day is full of strange rumors, concerning a phenomenon in the heavens, observed about five o'clock this morning. It is related by certain milk-men and market people, who were up and stirring at that early hour, that several stars were observed to leave their stations in the space above, and fall to the earth, scattering their brilliancy in a thousand particles of light and heat. Some allege that strange noises were heard, and others that meteors and comets sailed through the air in majesty and splendor unexampled. A piece of falling star is said to have been picked up, in the neighborhood of the city, by a milk girl, wearing a green calash, which was about the size of a piece of chalk. We note these matters on hearsay evidence, not having risen this morning until fifteen minutes after the strange phenomenon was observed.—[Phila. Gaz. 13th inst.] The defendants, we understand, have decided on having it go to the Supreme Court of the U. States, and Daniel Webster has been retained by the plaintiff.-[Boston Centinel.] We understand that the Arcade Bunk at Providence, R. I., and The Farmers and Mechanics' Bank at Hartford, Conn., have been selected by the Secretary of the Treasury as depositories of the public money at those places. [From the Daily Advertiser.] Preparing for publication in a volume, The Letters of Major Downing, originally published in the New York Daily Advertiser, ornamented with engravings illustrating some of the most interesting scenes described in them, from designs by the most distinguished artist in the United States in this species of drawing. This edition will be corrected, improved, and enlarged, by the illustrious author;-an advan tage which no other edition can enjoy. It will contain no letters, except those written for, and published in, the above-mentioned paper, and such as may be added to the number by the same author, who, we are happy to say, has kindly consented to continue his labors occasionally for the benefit of his country. Much has been said about the "original Major Downing." We have taken no part in the controversy, We are glad to see that there is some prospect of being perfectly satisfied that our correspondent has a peaceable termination of the difficulties in Alaba.shown more originality than any other writer under ma. The Mobile Commercial Register states that that title, or almost any other; and no man's works the Marshal has given public notice that the settlers have received more decisive proofs of public approon the Creek lands will not be disturbed before the bation, and universal popularity. 15th of January. This will afford time for the present excitement among the people of the State to cool in some measure, unless the Governor should persevere in his determination to render the United States officers accountable to the laws of the State for past proceedings, without waiting to ascertain the sense of the Legislature, or until the matter is brought before Congress. The Marco Bozzaris.-The steamboat Marco on the night of the 25th, but did not sustain much is principally directed to the writings of Mr. Morris The publication will be forwarded as soon as the illustrations can be prepared. Accident.-The Steamboat North America arrived yesterday afternoon from Albany considerably disabled. We learn that on Monday evening about seven o'clock, when opposite Catskill, the North America was run into by the sloop Gen. Livingston, bound to the latter place. The bowsprit entered the side of the steamboat about 50 feet from the bow, carried age. The sloop lost her bowsprit and mast, which away one of her chimneys, and caused other dam. fell upon the steamboat. No person injured.-[Mercantile.] The beautiful new ship HAVANA, Capt. Correja, is now in her berth on the west side of Old Slip; and as she is to sail for Havana on Sunday next, those who admire perfection in ship-building will do well to visit her. There is a combination of strength, beauty, and accommodation, seldom, if ever exhibited in a vessel of her size. Nothing to our eye, is wanting, nor is there any thing about this vessel superfluous, unless it be the splendor of her finish. stand her state-rooms are all engaged, which accom. modate twenty-four passengers.-[Gazette.] We under [From the Sacket's Harbor Courier of Nov. 7.] GREAT FIRE AT KINGSTON, U. C.-We learn that on Friday night last, at about half past ten o'clock, a fire broke out in a small back shop in the most central and business part of Kingston. It immediately communicated to other buildings, consnming in all rising of twenty valuable buildings, and among them, WATER. The report of the Engineer who was we regret to learn, the Printing Office and Bookstore appointed to examine the best route for supplying of Mr. Macfarlane, Editor of the Kingston Chronicle this city with pure and wholesome water, was pre- and Gazette. Value of property destroyed, from sented last Monday in the Board of Aldermen, and 80,000 to $100,000, upon which there were insur-launched from one of the ship yards of Baltimore on ordered to be printed. It is voluminous and aceom,ances to the amount of about $40,000. panied by many plans and maps of the ground between this and the Creton river, the only unfailing source, whence a sure and adequate supply can be drawn, In a matter of this primary importance and magnitude, we hope the decision will be taken at once to do whatever is undertaken upon a scale adequate to the wants and means, present and prospective, of this great city. There will be no economy, NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 24.-We take pleasure in sta. and certainly no credit, for the sake of diminishing present expenditure, in adopting temporary expediting that the account of the loss of the steamboat||sentatives, Oct. 30th, the following resolutions were Let the work be done for posterity, as well Rapide, which was published in some of the morning She arrived at this port this as for the existing generation; and posterity will not papers, is an error. then have reason to complaja of being burdened with morning. a portion of the expense its proper execution may require, ents. Flatbush Property.-Several acres of woodland at Valley Grove, three miles from Brooklyn, adjoining the turnpike, were lately sold by G. L. Martense, at five hundred dollars per acre. Two acres owned by Mr. M, Clarkson, in the same neighborhood, three and a half miles from the ferry, sold for one thousand dollars per acre.-[Brooklyn Star.] Naval Department.-Extract of a letter from Doctor Wm. Turk, the fleet surgeon of the U. S. naval forces in the Mediterranean, received at the Navy Department, dated the 13th July, 1833, on board the Frigate United States. Another new ship, named the Caledonia, was Saturday last. She is 140 feet long and 550 tons burthen, and is intended for one of the packets to ply between Virginia and Liverpool. Messis. J. J. Bran. der & Co. merchants of Petersburg, are her owners. We rejoice, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, at these evidences of Southern enterprize in the way of com. merce. They will in their results, prove excellent antidotes to nullification.-[Gazette.] COLONIZATION.-In the Tennessee House of Repre adopted : Resolved, That the select committee on the sub. ject of the American Colonization Society, be instructed to enquire into the expediency of memori. alizing Congress to make an appropriation of $100,000 annually, to be applied by the said Colonization Society in transporting to Liberia the free coloured population of the United States. The Rail Road Accident,—The particulars of the dreadful accident near Hightstown, as given in the We have since papers, were in the main correct, "One year has elapsed since I entered on the du been informed, that Mr. Lex, of Lebanon, Pa., who was so shockingly mangled as to render it impossible ties of Fleet Surgeon: during that period only one to bring him to the city, expired at Hightstown, in a man has been lost by disease on board this ship. few hours after the accident. Capt. Vanderbelt, "It was formerly too much the practice to wet the also left behind, is doing well. le had been previ- decks, without sufficient regard to the weather, or ously hurt by the oversetting of a gig, near New||the opinion of the medical officers on the subject. Ithe free colored population of the state of Tennessee, Resolved, That said committee inquire into the expedieney of making an appropriation by this gen. eral assembly of $500 annually to aid the Tennessee Auxiliary Colonization Society to be applied by the said society in transporting to the colony of Liberia I. PROMOTIONS. 1st Lieutenant Giles Porter, to be Captain, 30th September, 1833, vice Smith, resigned. 2d Lieutenant John McClellan, to be 1st Licutenant, 30th September, 1833, vice Porter, promoted. 2d Lieutenant John Williamson, to be 1st Lieutenant, 30th September, 1833, vice Prescott, resigned. Brevet 2d Lieutenant William H. Pettes, to be 2d Lieutenant, 30th September, 1833, vice McClellan, promoted. Brevet 2d Lieutenant Lorenzo Sitgreaves, to be 2d Lieutenant, 30th September, 1833, vice Williamson, promoted. Third Regiment of Artillery. Brevet 2d Lieutenant, Edward Deas, to be 2d Lieutenant, 31st October, 1833, vice Pendleton, resigned. First Regiment of Infantry. 1st Lieutenant Jefferson Vail, to be Captain, 11th July, 1833, vice Harney, resigned. 2d Lieutenant Joseph H. Lamotte, to be 1st Lieu. tenant, 11th July, 1833, vice Vail, promotedBrevet 2d Lieutenant Ingham Wood, to be 2d Lieutenant 30th September, 1833, vice Covington, resigned. Third Regiment of Infantry. 1. Eustace Trenor, 1st Lieutenants. 2d Lieutenants. 1. James W. Shaumburg, 3. W. Bradford, 4. John L. Watson. Brevet 2d Lieutenant John S. Van Derveer, of the 1831. Brevet 2d Lieutenant Lus. B. Northrop, of the Brevet 3d Lieutenant Gaines P. Kingsbury, of the 3. Brevet 2d Lieutenant Benj. E. Dubose, of the 3d Regiment of Infantry, a graduate of 1833, having failed to join his Regiment on the 1st day of Octo. ber, is, in conformity with the Regulations, dropped from the rolls of the Army, to take effect from that date. By order of MAJOR GENERAL MACOMB. R JONES. Adjt. Gen'l. MISCELLANY. Mechanical Ingenuity.-M. Droz being at Madrid, he exhibited to the king of Spain a clock, upon which were figures of a shepherd, a dog, and a ne. gro. The shepherd played six airs upon his flute, the dog in the meantime approaching and caressing him. The king expressed his admiration of this, when M. Droz, replied that the gentleness of his dog was but the least of his good qualities. If, he added, your majesty will deign to touch one of the apples in the basket by the side of the shepherd, his dog will evince his fidelity also. The king did so, when the dog flew at his hand, and barked so loudly, that a living dog, which was in the room, gave tongue; and the courtiers, with the exception of the minister of marine hastily left the room, not doubting but M. Droz was a sorcerer. The king, who, of course, was in the secret, desired the minister of marine te ask the negro what o'clock it was. He did so, and obtained no answer. M. Droz, informed him, that, as the negro was ignorant of Spanish, the question should be asked in French. The minister asked it accordingly, and the nergo answered so much to the consternation of the minister that he took flight, vowing it was the work of no one but the devil.— [Agassiz's Jeurney.] Remarkable Women.-It is worthy of notice that those women whose excellences have obtained the more remarkable qualities the gentleness and deesteem of posterity have invariably united to their licacy characteristic of the sex. Had they not done so, they would, indeed, scarcely have been Brevet 3d Lieutenant James M. Bowman, of the loved; and love is the sentiment, with regard to Mounted Rangers, to be brevet 2d Lieutenant, 1st the future as well as the present, which ought to July, 1832. be the chief ambition of a woman to excite. She Brevet 3d Lieutenant Asbury Ury, of the Mount-should desire to be remembered, not only with ad. 2d Lieutenant Wm. R. Montgomery, to be 1sted Rangers, to be brevet 2d Lieutenant, 1st July, miration, but with tenderness; and, therefore, in Lieutenant, 31st August, 1833, vice Walker, pro- 1832. moted. 1st Lieutenant Benjamin Walker, to be Captain, 31st August, 1833, vice Webb, resigned. 1st Lieutenant Lewis N. Morris, to be Captain, 31st October, 1833, vice Green, promoted. 2d Lieutenant John Archer, to be 1st Lieutenant,|| 31st October, 1833, vice Morris, prometed. Brevet 2d Lieutenant Albert G. Blanchard, to be 2d Lieutenant, 31st August, 1833, vice Montgomery, promoted. Brevet 2d Lieutenant James H. Taylor, to be 2d Lieutenant, 31st October, 1833, vice Archer, promoted. Fourth Regiment of Infantry. 2d Lieutenant Timothy Paige, to be 1st Lieutenant, 17th October, 1833, vice Trenor, appointed Captaiu of Dragoons. Brevet 2d Lieutenant Bradford R. Alden, to be 2d Lieutenant, 15th September, 1833, vice Harford, resigned. Brevet 2d Lieutenant Frederick Wilkinson, to be 2d Lieutenant, 17th October, 1833, vice Paige, promoted. Fifth Regiment of Infantry. Brevet Major John Green, Captain of the 3d Infantry, to be Major, 31st October, 1833, vice Bender, resigned. 1st Lieutenant William E. Cruger, to be Captain, 1st October, 1833, vice McCabe, resigned. 2d Lieutenant Alexander S. Hooe, to be 1st Lien. tenant, 1st October, 1833, vice Cruger, promoted. Brevet 24 Lieutenant William Chapman, to be 2d Lieutenant, 1st October, 1833, vice Hooe promoted. Seventh Regiment of Infantry. 2d Lieutenant Washington Seawell to be let Lieutenant, 12th July, 1833, vice Morton, resigned. Brevet 3d Lieutenant Albert G. Edwards, of the III. CASUALTIES.-Resignations. Walter Smith, 1st Artillery, 30th September, 1833. 1st Lietenants. Alex. H. Morton, 7th Infantry, 12th July, 1833. George E. Chase, 3d Artillery, 31st August, 1833. Eras. F. Covington, 1st Infantry, 30th September, 1833. Brevet 2d Lieutenants. 1833. Joel Riggs, 1st Infantry, 9th October, 1833. Surgeon. her nothing can compensate for the absence of those qualities which call forth affection. In look. ing back, then, upon our celebrated women, it is with pleasure that we remark, that kindness and sweetness gave the polish to their characters. They were not the stern mentors of society; on the con. trary, they were as distinguished for mildness as for any other virtue; and we feel that besides being the objects of our esteem, they would have been, had we known them, the companions of our choice. Their humility is no less deserving of praise. There has always been an absence of pretension in superior wo. men, which is consistent with our our preconceived notions of what they ought to be, and with our own actual observation. The position which they occupy is conceded to them, not because they as sume it, but because it naturally belongs to them. And the influence they exert is of a quiet and gentle kind. In considering the lives of the most amongst them, we cannot but be struck with the power they possessed of swaying opinion, Contrast, for instance, the influence of Lady Russell and Mrs. Hutchinson with that of ordi. Mary women. The latter may be, indeed, allow. ed the control in all minor matters, may be supreme in their domestic arrangements, may be petted and indulged; but if their minds can take no higher range, they will either not be consulted in things of greater moment, or their opinion will have no weight. Yet lady Russel and Mrs. Hutchinson never obtruded their advice, or made any show of their power: their counsel was asked because it was needed, and followed because it was found to be of value. The influence of such women has not been confined to domestic life, but has embraced and adorn illustrious Robert McMillian, to take effect 1st December, ed an ampler sphere. To say nothing of the effect of 1833. Assistant Surgeons. DIED. 2. The officers promoted will join their proper their example, the success that has sometimes attended them as authors may be considered a gratifying tribute to their usefulness. Society will acknowledge the debt it owes to those of them who, as moral and religious writers, have attracted public attention, and so materially affected the tone and habits of their sex. Of this, perhaps the most eminent example has shed its lustre on our own day.-[Mrs. Sanford's Female Worthies.] Dr. Chalmers and Robert Hall.-On the day he preached a sermon in reference to the Ludditea, a circumstance occurred which disconcerted all his feelings, and unfitted him for his public engagement. Dr. Chalmers, then of Glasgow, was on his way to||must be regulated so as to lie on the bottom, where led to her words and committed them to paper,London, and informed him by letter that he intended the fish are always engaged in this species of sub- Strange to say, though quite hard of hearing when onthat day to be one of his auditors. Unfortunately marine war. addressed by others, he caught every sound from the the message did not arrive till Sabbath morning, the abilities of this unexpected visiter that he was The consort of the Emperor of China died at Pe ship. Mr. Hall had formed so high an estimate of been ordered in consequence. The Mantshur em-a low and plaintive voice. It is probable that a col. within an hour of the commencement of public workin on the 15th of July. A general morning has lips of his loved child of sorrow, though uttered in actually deterred from entering the pulpit; nobody playés are for 28 days to wear garments of coarse lection of her poems will ore long be published. could persuade him to it, and a member of the church white linen, and caps without tassels or buttons; The present one appeared in an eastern paper, but was obliged to supply his place. Mr. Hall did not during a hundred days they must not shave their probably has not met the eye of many of your rea. recover his tranquillity the whole of that day. At heads. The mongolian employés are to assume the same mourning, with the exception of the white gar- ed for the same period, and are to wear no tassels their caps for seven days. The right of nominating the Empress belongs to the Emperor's mother, who solicits, within three years, one of the five spouses of her son for that office. the close of the morning service Dr. Chalmers call. Polly of Objections to Education.-It is not easy POETRY. [FOR THE NEW. YORK AMERICAN.] The author of the following lines, is one deeply tried in the furnace of affliction, a young and inter ders. ODE TO THE POPPY. 1825 Tho' fragrance sweet exhaling blead And gentle zephyrs, wafting wide, Bach flowret laughing blooms, Its incense of perfumes; No odors sweet proclaim the spot Nor mingled hues of beauty bright, Fresh as the roseate morn displays, To Misery's wand may hopeless bow. And bleet experience kindly proves Its own bright hue the sight can trace, The misery veil the weeping eyes, In desperate hour, A balsam mild shall yield; And every gate of hope forever sealed, And its all healing power shall respite give. Shall own the rovereigu remedy and live. Pass o'er the aching hrow, The lowly accents of soft Sommus' call: L. C. T. SONNET.-A VILLAGE TOMBSTONE. AN INTERESTING AND USEFUL MAP. A friend of ours has now in a state of forwardness, a Map upon which will be delineated nearly all the Railreads now chartered in the U. States. It is designed to show the present contemplated connexion of the different lines, as well as where others may hereafter be constructed to connect with them. It will be completed in a few weeks, and may be had either in sheets, or put up in morocco for pocket maps, in any quantity, by applying to the subscriD. K. MINOR, 35 Wall street. New-York, August 14, 1833. of excruciating, uncompromising disease, deprived of The Banks of Newfoundland.-These banks ex. nature's sweet restorative-sleep--unless obtained by tend over a space of forty thousand miles, and are artificial means, and of most of those comforts whieh from thirty to forty-five fathoms below the surface earce serve to alleviate the sufferings of many more of the ocean. The shoals are inhabited by innumer. able tribes of maseles and olams, to which it is a fortunate, tho' perhaps not more happy, who recline favorite residence, as they can easily bury their on beds of down-she is a christian. shells in the soft sand. They have enemies to con. In the restless watches of the night she composed tend with. The codfish resort to this coast to prey many pieces of poetry, touching from their strain of on them. They keep a constant watch, and swim about a foot above the sub-marine sands; when a muscle simple pathos, and extraordinary, as the productions opens its shell, it is immediately seized and devoured. of a secluded, self-educated girl, whose reading has At other times the fish do not wait: they are provi-been quite limited, her favorite author Cowper. did with a horny protuberance round their mouths;Unable to endure the fatigue of writing, she at some with these the burrow in the sand, and capture convenient time, perhaps after the lapse of weeks, tions, French, English, and Americans, who resort to dictated to an amanuensis, her aged and most vener. these banks, take annually from eight to ten millions able father, these effusions of her innocent mind. of fish; on opening them they find the remains of twen-It was a beautiful sight to look upon. The poor girl, ty or fifty muscles in each-sometimes the muscle- from her bed of suffering, repeated her verses line by shells are found either wholly or partially dissolved. The first care of the fishermen, after taking their sta. line to the patient old man (now in his seventy-eightheglect this easy improvement, deserve to be neglected and deerted by the public as unmindful of safety. Apply, post paid, tions, is to ascertain the depth of water the lines year and rapidly declining) while he carefully listen- SIR JMM & F the muscle in its shell. The fishermen of various na. ber. TO STEAMBOAT COMPANIES. PROFESSOR RAFINESQUE, of Philadelphia, offers is services to render steamboats incombustible, and not liable o sink, even by the bursting of boilers, or striking against roparty, and the lives of hundrede every year. hags, sawyers and rocks. This will save many boats, RIUCH Those who |