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-aver 'v-rfc a ntxwaii ttgturt 7 4r ByW 5 i Medical. The Boston Medical Journal entered anon its 49th volume, on th 3d of August. Th Editor says that vWd be started it, 1m waited on every practitioner is Boston, soliciting subscriptions, stating that it was to published weekly. One subscriber only was procured in that city. All thought th old New-England Quarterly occupied all the ground.

He thinks the days of Quarterlies and even Menthliee in medical literature are about numbered, and he prophecies that a medical daily will yet some day be projected and carried on. Perhaps, better than that, the profession will prefer to Ind a well-sustained medical department in their daily paper, costing them no -more than so much room filled with advertisements would have done. 1 They have atsrted a County Medical Society in La Salle, Illinois. Dr. C.

Hard has been elected President Dr. E. 8. If out, Vice-President; Dr. J.

C. Harris, Secretary Dr. P. Kir-: win, Tressurer and Drs. Hat, Kirwin, Morrt, Harp, and Harris, Censors.

This is well. To meet, to organize, to consult, to' get acquainted is exceedingly desirable for all classes of men, for physicians particularly so. From lack of acquaintance come half the hard words concerning each other that disturb the harmony of professional intercourse, and' bring a scandal upon the profession. Out on the prairies, especially, where, without omething like society to suggest it, meeting of doctors would seldom occur, such organizations do essential service. Dr.

E. C. Hood, of WhiteTille, Harris County, reports a case of a black woman turning completely white. At 11 years of age she was black as any African; never was sick, except slightly, when 10 years old. White spots began to appear soon after that on her body, and when 16 years old she was entirely white.

She is now 39 years old. Her eyes and hair are like a negro's, but her skin is white, easily blisters, and freckles. She has had ten black, full-blooded African children. At a meeting of the American Medical Society in Paris, held June 28, Dr. A.

B. Hall, of Massachusetts, was' elected President Drs. J. F. Mason, of Virginia, and -Wm.

E. Johnston, of New-York, Vice-Presidents; Dr. E'. E. Wilson, Pennsylvania, Corresponding Secretary Dr.

E. Williams, of Ohio. Recording Secretary Dr. John A. Mcrpht.

of Ohio, Treasurer; and Dr. S. Gomdiio, of South Carolina, Librarian. 1 1 A New-York Physician, in the Boston, med-ical paper, tells of removing a ring from a lady's I finger, when the finger was much swollen and abraded. He polished the ring prepared chalk, then rubbed quicksilver over it.

Quicksilver amalgamates with most metals, if clean, and, ehrystallixlng, makes them brittle as glass. In this ease, the ring was easily broken by pressure in less than three minutes after thus treating it. Dr. A. H.

Thompson, of Orange County, New-York, relates, in the Boston Medical Journal, i a case where a child got half a peanut (the outer shell removed) into the windpipe, which remained for eight months, at the end of which time it was I coughed The child had remained welj, with 1 the exception of an inflammation of the lungs, soon after getting it! in, and with occasionally distress-; ing dyspnoea. i The Committee appointed for the purpose, by the. American Medical Assocition in tise that essays, contesting for the prise of flOO, must be addressed to Dr. Cms. A.

Pops. No. 123 Locust-street, St. Louis, on or before the 30th of March, 1854. Two prizes of.

$100 each, are to be given for the two essays that shall be adjudged the beat. Boston is highly faTored. There are now on i exhibition in that modern Athens, a Miss of 17 years, who is 7 feet and 4J inches in height; a mother only 31 inches high, who has three children, all growing finely, and likely to be as large as other folks' and a Miss, aged 7 years, who weighs 209 pounds. Mr. Brnnrtt, of Lyons, has recently em-i ployed the paste of the chloride of zine in ritms.

It acts as a gradual cautery, destroying and healing, so that when applied to small arteries they have not bled. The 'use of caustics for such a pur-; pose is not new, that of of zinc; is. M. Vblprav has been trying, unsnccessful- ly, the injection of per-chloride of iron into aneu-j risms. At first it coagulated the blood, and made the tumor hard but it waa necessary to tie the ar-j tery after all.

M. Lrnois has tried it once, but did not succeed. 1 The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal I. saya that Mrs. Tamar SreeLkt, sged sixty-four, 'wife of Jacob Sheslet, aged ninety, residing at Never Sink, ie said to have become the mother of a I living child, during the present ir i riUl.

JOHN m. TV 111 1MB Muisuureu before the Tennessee State Medical Society, ex-'presses the opinion that in a better state of society honest medical men will practice only specialties, 1 leaving quacks to practice in all departments. The New-Orleans Journal relates a case of milk-leg, successfully treated by pouring on it, twice a day, cold water for some half an hour at a time, and keeping it wrapped in wet cloths, for the same length of time after the pouring. Vrlpsau's sulphate of iron solution for erysipelas is a favorite prescription of those who havelried it, Others think well of collodion for M. Xan proposes to combine the two in equal proportions in weight.

Over 593 have been collected toward erecting the monument to Jenhkr. The amount collected in the United States, as reported by the Committee, is twice as large as that gathered from Great Britain and Ireland. The claims of Dr. C. W.

Lono, of Athens, to be the first person who used ether as an anaesthetic agent in surgical operations, have been unanimously admitted by the Georgia State Medical Society. The tax on lawyers, physicians and dentists having been pronounced by Judge Lov ax, of Virginia, unconstitutional, the Town Council of Fredericksburg have directed auch taxee for 1852 to be refunded. Drt Socrates Maupin has been appointed Professor of Chemistry in the University of Virginia. Mr. Smith, of Loudoun takes the chair of Natural Philosophy, and Dr.

J. Stage Davis iaVs the chair of Anatomy. Dr. Striruno has postponed the date of the time when his resignation of the Superintendency of the Western Lunatic Asylum of Virginian, shall tske effect. Professors-Ives and "Silmm an having resigned their Chairs in the Medical School of Yale Hknrt Bronson and Dr.

B. Silli-Man, have been appointed in their places. Edward Ridgerille, Ohio, was bitten by a mad dog last March. Hydrophobia lately was developed, and ia 48 hours from the observance of the first symptoms, he died. The American Institute of Homoeopathy is to place a stone with Hahksman's name on it, in the Monument.

It comes from the towa ef Hahnrman's birth. Dr. Jvhn M. tells of a boy, whose jaw having been exsected by a surgeon, is now be-irg reproduced, and new teeth growing out from the new bone. They have a medical school fully organized in Keekak.

Iowa, and entitled the College of Physicians aad Surgeons. A monthly medical journal to be published at Keokuk, Iowa, at 2 a year, tobe edited by Dr. P. L. McGroiN.

1 The Madrid (Spain) Medical Herald urges the erection of a monument to Orpila ia that city. Ospila was a Spaniard by birth. It is announced that Dr. J. G.

Joxiswill publish, at Columbus, Ohio, an Eclectic treatise on Theory and Practice, ia October next. N. R. Mosilt, M. of Philadelphia, has discovered an additional muscle of the eye an antagonist of the Tensor Tarsi of Horner.

Dr. W. Williams, author of the Medical ogrsphyj going to remove from DearfieU, Mass to RockloVd, 111 'W The law fur the registration of births, deaths and marriages, in Virginia, went into operation oa the 1st of laat July. Dr. O.

Armor has been appointed Professor of Physiology and Pathology in the Medical College of Ohio at Cincinnati. The petition circulated in New-Orleans, "recommending Dr. Bsnnbtt Dowler for a Foreign Consulship, was signed by all the City Council. Dr. Arthur P.

Hatnr has received the appointment of Special Examiner of Drugs, dec, at Charleston, S. C. Dr. Massib, of Texas, is writing a work on Theory and Practice. The works of Dr.

Morrow, of Ohio, are to be published. RAILROADS OF THE Ballroade of Ohio Tbo Great Gateway -Claclaaatl Cenrrallxatfea. Cmrrttf 4mca Ktm-Tmrh Dmlf Tmt. EieiLAJin Park, Okie, Waaaasdart Aug- 4, 185J. If there be anything in which yoa of New York should feel an interest, it is the Railroads of Ohio.

For this, there ars commercial, financial, and sound reasons of the utmost importance. If you do not share largely inUhe trade of the greatest producing State in the Union, your commerce will decline if you do not get a fair return for the immense capital you have there invested, your money market will soon feel a shock and if you do not cultivate a friendly acquaintance with its people, you will lose your influence in the Valley of the The Railroads of Ohio are, therefore, a matter of moment and magnitude to you. I propose to give you a little sketch of the position and progress of that great movement in Ohio. Railroads not only move others, but they, are now the best m-dieator of the social and financial movements of society. Ohio, then, within fares years, will be entirely ahead of all the other States, in the quantity, importance, and business of its Railroads.

This may surprise some persons but I speak advisedly, and I saesk within limits. But this is not all. If the Ohio Railroads be taken in the aggregate, either now or then, they are, and will be, the profitable. I repeat it. In the aggregate they will be the most profitable of the Railroads made in any State of the Union, not excepting Massachusetts or Nsw-York.

New-England was the first to engsge largely in the construction of Railroads, but the profit of them will bear no proportion to those of Ohio-All this will be much better understood three years hence, than it is now. But I shall anticipate nothing. Existent facts are enough. The following are the actual net profit, disregarding the declared dividends, of the principal lines, of which two have had but one year's complete operation Cleveland and Columbus line. Lake Shore line.

Little Miami Railroad Xenia and Columbus Da ton, Hamilton, and Cincinnati Ohio and Pennsylvania ad River and Sandusky Mansfield and Sandusky .16 per cent .16 per cent. .13 per cent. .11 per cent .10 per cent. 7 per cent. 7 per cent.

10 per cent. I am not sure that I have not underrated the three last, and I have not overrated any. The Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad has scarcely been a year in operation, and promises to yield immense results There sre now (at the date of this letter) fifteen hundred miles of Railroad in operation within Ohio. There are five hundred miles more that will be in operation by the 1st of January. 1854.

Of this two thousand miles, (by January 1), no part of it will probably ever yield less than 10 per cent, dividend All the financiers of the world may put their heads together, and they cannot point out two hundred millions of dollars, (the cest of these works.) yielding such an income, in any State or Kingdom of the earth. I do not say there may not be half a dozen schemes, or ill-managed roads. which may prove comparatively nor that competition may not reduce the profit on some of the best lines. I think that will be the case. I think some of the Northern (Lake) lines will be reduced in their profits.

But, in the main, I repeat, there are no investments in the world will yield more net profile than Ohio Railroads. Let me now give you some of the reatona which will be. at once, obvious to enlightened minds why Ohio Railroads must be both the mo (Mmeroui and the most profitable of any, section of the country. Firet Ohio is the Gateway of the American Union geographically and commercially. Cast your eye upon the Map of the United States.

You see that Lake Erie is a part of the northern boundary and that is shared with a foreign country, and innavigable one third of the year. On the south side, you see that, above the mouth of the Scioto, the great chain of the Appalachian Mountains comes down to the Ohio River, and extends southwardly 200 miles to Abingdon, where the Virginia Valley finds an outlet to the southwest, through East Tennessee. Across this vast breadth of con tinuous mountain ridges, from east to west, there is no railway paaaags, except at mn immense expense. The rivers which flow from thence into the Ohio River, flow from the south, but afford no passage from the The way from the east to the west, therefore, lies between JLake Erie and the Ohio River. Ohio occupies the whole ef the space, and is, therefore, the Gateway through which commerce and population must pass.

Hence New-York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, are all pressing to get a passage through that gateway. From the Muskingum River west, even to the foot of the Rocky Mountains, extends that immense; fertile, beautiful, wealth ci-ating plain, which is now, and for ages to come must be, the great granary of the American nation. Once passed the gate, and the railway arteries from the east may ramify and diversify their' course as they please but that gate they mturpass Secondly Ohio is the greatest producing State of the Union. I speak of turplutee. She has the most to export ef the products of the soil.

Hence she has the most to carry off. Here is the great secret of that vast local traffic, and consequently great profits of the Ohio Railway. Take for example the amount of Wheat, Wool, and various other agricultural products, carried to the port of Sandusky by the Mad River and Mansfield Road. It will startle any one not intimately acquainted with Ohio, to see how overwhelmingly great, compared with shipments from many of the ports North and South, are the imports and exports, even of Sandusky. These resources are sufficient to have caused all that we see, and much more that we shall see, in the Railroad progress of Ohio.

In the southwest of Ohio stands the great central city of the Ohio Valley Cincinnati within sight of whose steeple-clocks are nearly two hundred thousand people. Certainly within five miles of its central market there are that number. There is the concentrated commerce of three-fourths of Ohio, Indiana, and packet on the ocean every steamboat oa the rivers, and every mile of railroad adds new numbers to this mart of commerce and more than commerce untiring industry. It follows of course that there will centralize the Railroad system of the Ohio Valley and it does. I have now only space to mention the general fact, and will hereafter sketch some very interesting features, in those artificial works rivaling Roman grandeur which are gradually, silently, and almost unknown abroad, rising around the growing and prosperous Queen of the West.

It is enough here to say that tuenty-five Railroads, comprising, within the limits of Ar own influence, throe thousand miles of road, will soon be wholly completed, and will bear the commerce, society, and wealth of 200,000 square miles of territory into her bosom, and within her grasp. Viator del Occidents. in i Hal tread Cetsnalalar. Te te ZJitor of the XeYor Vmlf TWi 1 The writer on this subject in yesterday's Tinue could hardly have known that Veritas means truth, or he would not have made his statements over that signaturo. His first complaint, that the train from Morristowu was detained at the bridge across the Hackensack, from the fact that the locomotive was unable to draw the train over the curve just before you reach the bridge," cannot be so, as there is no curve of any consequence near that bridge.

Again, he In the month of August we were detained at Newark soavJ one or two hours, from the fact that the looocnotivff was unable to draw the train up the hill at that lace, and were forced to remain until a loeomotrr-i was' procured from Jersey City." is also incorrect, as the Morris and Essex Railroad have their own engines at their depot in Newark, and hare never sent to Jersey City for an engine to aid them. Equally fallacious, we presume, is his four hours' passage," and other detentions. The directors will want some other statements, which can be corroborated by many that daily or weekly isit places on the line of the Morris aad Eeeez Railroad," before they can be called on to correct the distortions of an unhappy temper. The dog-days will soon be over, and Veritas had better be true to his title, and Keep Cool. Tne Haase with a 8 track by IJahtalasj AdalUaaal Partlealara.

Te tXe Zixtwr the JVnr- York Dmilf 7W. This is one of those Tery rare cases in which the lightning eame up from the ground, and, as I obj served before, our confidence should not be shaken in lightning-rods, as this is a very unusual case, against which they were never designed as a protection." -v A -correspondent of the Ncw.Yore Times saysj "To this most remarkable statement we take exception. It is a commonly received fact, among all Electricians, that upward discharges of lightning frequently take place." I suppoee that the community generally knows very well that my statement is not most remarkable." The supposition is, that lightning-rods are to protect us from lightning in the clouds. All the books that I have read, and all persons that I have ever heard, speak of them in the same way. Says the Encyclopedia Americana, lightning-rod or conductor of lightning is an instrument by means of which the electricity of the clouds the cause of the lightning is con-, ducted without explosion into the earth.n.

Some intelligent correspondents and professional men seem unable to believe that even this ease is one of an explosion from the earth upwards and hence in answer to their inquiries, the additional particulars are given in the present communication. I deny that it is a commonly received fact, among all electricians, that upward discharges of lightning frequently take place. If I am in error I will be very happy to have the writer of the Times give some half dozen quotations from among all electricians" for our enlightenment. He may give them, saying they take place rarely, butlnot frequently. The chief volume in the English language on this subject is that of Snow Harris oa Thunder-Storms from that he can get no such quotation.

His next assertion is this From actual experiment by means of an apparatus arranged for that purpose, we have found during the last two Summers, a downward discharge of lightning to have been of very rare occurrence. That is, in the great majority of an examination of the clouds, immediately previous to the storm, has shown them to be negatively electrified, or in ether words, possessing less than their natural share of electricity so that when a discharge of lightning occurred, it was the passage of a quantity of fluid from the earth, to make up the deficiency in the cloud." This is very unfortunate. His facts derived from an apparatus designed for that purpose" are all wrongly interpreted. Their bearing is just the contrary from what he supposes. A large amount of positive electricity in a shower-cloud would, by induction, cause the clouds in front, those immediately previous to the storm," to be" negatively electrified." This must of necessity almost always be so in front of the storm, and no discharge may there take place, either upward, or downward while at the same time downward strokes are falling quick, thick, and heavy," in the storm itself.

The writer referred to, says "The rod on Mr. Armstroko's house is stated to have been insulated by glass in the most approved style." That statement was not made nothing was said about the most approved style, or 'most disapproved style. I spoke of a single thick glsss ring, or tube, about two inches long, put around the lightning-rod as a non-conductor, to keep it from touching the outer rim of the wooden gutter at the roof." Of the propriety or impropriety of this, not a word was written. I may now, however, state that as a means of preventing the fluid from following the iron fastenings into the interior of the building, such glasses are recommendable. Whether the rod should communicate with other parts of the outside of a building, is a different question.

I suppose it should, though others msy have another opinion. Since writing the above, a second letter has appeared, from the same correspondent, in these columns, making strictures on this case, and on my statements. He says, No generml rules can be laid down, enabling any one to erect reds, each separate building must be examined, and considered with reference to its peculiar features." But Franklin did lay down general rules, and so have scores of the very best philosophical writers, and never before have I seen aught written against them by any sensible man. These rules are very simple, and do not require a person to be known to possess a thorough knowledge of the laws of electricity," to understand them, or to put up a good lightning-rod. They are these 1.

Let the rod be elevated well above the building, say. 10 or 15 feet. 2. Let the several sections be well screwed into each other, say an inch or more, so that its continuity be not broken. Let the lower sections screw into the upper ones to keep out the rain and rust.

3. Let it enter the ground deeply, communicating with moisture below ia all times 4. Let it be placed on the most prominent part of the building. 5. If the building be large, increase the number of rods and have them connected.

6. Let the rod be at least three-fouths of an inch thick. 7. Have glass isolators, to keep the lightning from following the metallic fastenings into the building. There are different opinions whether the other parts of the rod should be isolated from the building or whether there should be one tip to the rod, or more or whether the tips should be gilded "or end with platina, or have either.

That correspondent advocates the opinion, that what appears to people generally the mechanical violence of the electric fluid itself, is merely its heat, forming stesm, and the explosion of the steam causes the violence No idea can be more plainly unfounded. How could heat cause so much explosive stesm in a cedar joist, without blacking or burning the joist, or leaving mark ef fire somehow How can it do the same in a tree in the forest, without showing at least some scorching? When it forces its way through glass, there is clearly no steam in that, but the writer says it causes a perforation exactly similar to that which, from our knowledge of the nature of glass, we know would be produced by suddenly exposing it to intense heat." Just the contrary, in reality, takes place. 1 have now in my possession a large Leydenjar. perforated by electricity from and tearing the tinfoil outward, and the perforation is just's different oa con be from the effect of a small, intensely heated point on glass, as is shown by other jars per-ferated by small drops of liquid steel burning in oxygen gas in the jars. Often these drops fall directly through the bottom of the glass jar; and hence water must be -put in the jar for the experiment of burning ateel in pure oxygen.

The critic further says Such marks, as the direction ia which the splinters are thrown, are not generally considered good evidence of the direction of the discharge, among those best acquainted with the tubjectP On the contrary, I assert that marks of mechanical violence are perfectly legitimate for showing which way that violence directed. Every jury of twelve men in the land learned or unlearned would so regard them. Even the discussion among philosophers about the burr on the card, is founded on that supposition: else, why the discussion And it is seen in books written by those best acquainted with the subject." If these marks of violence be no criterion to judge of the direction ef the force, then plainly this critic has no means of judging for, as is showa above, he cannot do so by his apparatus designed for that purpose." He saya he does not find any feature remarkable in this case, and yet remarks on it ia his two letters more than a column He says it presents no feature absolutely new." Does he wish to intimate that I so represented it I said simply it was a rare My time will not permit me to notice any further communication which this correspondent may hereafter make. it is my purpose to draw ap a full and correct statement of the case ia question, so that it mav be deposited in one of the scientific journals, -and be added to' the very few cases of the kind an record. Aaaorlemst Party.

To the XtorefOeirw-York DrnOf Turns Having been reported ia the daily papersas a speaker at one of the recent meetings of the American Party, the public have a right to consider me as identified with that organization. I therefore beg leave, through the columns of your widely-circulated journal, to dissent in tota from the resolution passed at the Eleventh Ward Meeting last evening, whereby the cooperation of foreign bora citizens is invited. I I have no prejudice against the foreigner who comes to this country with a sincere love for our institutions, be he a voluntary emigrant, or forced by oppression into exile I desire that the protection of our laws, and the blessings of our free Government, msy be fully extended to him, and when he becomes a worthy and intelligent American citizen, his jartieipatioB ia all our franchises is right and proper but I look upon the dangers of foreign ia fluence in this country as a sad reality and, I believe, they have mostly grown out of the insane aad selfish desire of political demagogues to catch the foreign vote. It is this cause which has, in a great measure, nullified our naturalization laws which first caused the line of demarkation to be drawn bar tween native and foreign born citizens and which, by inciting the latter to band together for political purposes, under their distinctive national designation, first created the necessity for Native American organizations, as a means of Ia a word, all the evils connected with this question appear to have arisen from the importance attached to the foreign rote, and a disposition ia political parties to psy deference and court to our adopted citizens as tuck. Now, by the nam which they have adopted, and the manifesto which they vhave issued, this American Party pledged themselves to resist these evils.

In the second section of the Principles which they publish to the world, they declare themselves to be" In favor of reforming the Naturalization Laws, either by extension of the term of residence, or requiring additional qualifications, such as being able to read and write, or both." And when I attended one of their meetings and delivered an address. I believed them sincere in their professions but when I find the leaders of this party frightened in the beginning at the imputation of Native Americanism" of which they should rather be proud and which is sure te be east as a slur upon every patriotic organization which uses the trm American as its designation; and when I find them, under the Influence of such unmanly fears, not only timidly deprecating the opposition of the foreign born by an exculpatory resolution, but actually fostering the very evil which all true Americans desire to extinguish, by soliciting the cooperation of the foreign born, in opposition to the spirit of their own creed thus striking their colors without a blow I have a right to ask that I shall not be considered as belonging to that crew. RSDeetfny, J. W. BRYCK.

New Yoee, Tsesdsy, Asg. 30, 1853. Abates from Australia. The arrival of the Georgia put us in possession of our usual files from Australia, The papers are dated down to the 16th of May. The general news is not of much importance.

The commercial intelligence is worthy of attention. By a return from the convict department, it appears that 1,721 convicts arrived in the colony of North South Wales, from the 30th of June, 1852, to the 31st of January. 1853. The Melbourne Argus, of May 7, says "Rev. John R.

Dalrtmpls, who arrived lately by the Strathfieldsaye, was, on the 4th inst. received into connection with the Melbourne Presbytery. By the advice of the Presbvtery he proceeds to Warr-nsmbool, where he is likely to succeed Rev. Mr. McGillitrat.

Mr. Dalrtmpls was formerly Minister of Thornliebank, near Glasgow, but latterly of Hamilton, in Upper Canada. From the Board of Missions of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland, as well as from his former spheres of labor, Mr. Dalrtmpls brings the highest testimonials as to talents, attainments, fidelty, and usefulness aad his fellow passengers all apeak in the warmest terms of the religious services which he conducted oa board, of his prudent and ex-emplary conduct." The Geelong correspondent of the Melbourne Argus, writing upon May 7, says Since my last, we have had no less that four English arrivals the Panama, with male and female immigrants the Middltton, the Morning Star, and the Honduras. These vessels bring large general cargoes.

Several complaints have been made by merchants in this town of the non-delivery of their letters in London, which were dispatched from this colony by the steamer Formosa. The Post-Office authorities declare that the mail was dispatched to Melbourne. This is very unfortunate, as several publicans are complaining of the loss they are sustaining ia consequence of their agents not having received replies to their orders and not a few broadly charge some of our merchants with having burked the letters, ia order to avail themselves of the Melbourne market. Nearly all the porter and spirits brought -by these vessels will find their way to Melbourne. The non-arrival of the Tasmania steamer has again caused considerable disappointment.

If she is not more regular in her trips, she may soon expect to lose all patronage. A man named Maberlt, convicted of a garotte robbery, undergoes the extreme penalty of the law to-morrow. This execution will make the fourth within one week in this colony. 1 1 have but little change to notice ia the markets. Flour, 32 per ton Wheat, 12s.

to 12s. 6d. per bushel Hay, pressed, 22 per ton Potatoes 12 and 14 per ton. Coasaaerclal latellfgeaeo. The Melbourne Argue of Hoy.

14. taas rafcrs to the stata of the market. Gold remains at jesterdaj's prke, asnslr, 3 16a. oases. S.

Gilbert at Co- sold at the Victoria Mart, yestar-day 8trng sailed Shoes 8s 6d. to 10s. pair; Port Wire, S7a. 6d, dexa do. ia Wood, 8s.

to 10s alios; Tslcatta Oats. 14s. bal: Chbbv Bbahby, Ita 9d. gallon Washes' RxvoLvaas, it. each Slops, 37 cent oa Stcbbs 4t Son sold, oatia Qusca's wharf, yesterday Jouts, 42a to 4fs.

Qaaitanog. 4ts. to 91s Battsis, Fslins- 57s to 60. Cedar, halt iaca and one inch, and lOd ff foot Potatoes, 17 10m. toa als.

at thir noma. OsiKi, Is. lb. Oat Meal, 8 Flour, JLti to i0 6d. Cah price ef FLOPS at the areata' stores, Portland, May 9 First Flaar, 30 lbs sseoad X7 do.

v. Laber Market. Satvxdat, May 14, .1653 Alt hoagh the saapty of labor baa sraatlj increased within th laat faw weeks, there is still plasty of eaploymaBt for all kisda of Laborers, lnsfbmea aad gaaaral hoase servants are aot ia daaaad, bat shopnea, are not want ad. Wgs rtmain without alteration at the rats aaaexed: Married cos pi (without family,) per annua, with rations, 70 to 100. Latest Gold Circular.

MELBOBB HE CIRCULAR. T) daw aad far Golu for tkipsieat per Harbinger, was risk ap till Fri ay, whan it eeaaed, aad the price inaeie-diataly faU f.oaa 76s 9d. to 76s. The lonr looked for aad aaxioaalv expected alaawer JHeloiit has at last reached Ilohtoa'a Bay, after a rag tf Itedars sduratioaof tim that wou diag race tas worst saiiisf craft that ever attempted to soma to the o-loay. We aaay exaeet one aaore of the same ill-aiaaaged veaselat bat if the Hoeae Goveraaaeat shetld attasapt to cob tin a to foist apoa as sack contemptible postal earn uaieatiou, a striae eat protest saart be made, aad aeat by a vessel that can sail, which will show them that the eoloaista are not to be trrilod with, aad afae to point oat aw a totter aught te be conveyed to ar froaa the colonists ia regard te tiste.

Among the aaay cases ef sscceaafal gold die fiat; hi las' to reported, the Ioliiaf exUaardiaary ens a' aad prominent A party of are mom eomaMared dieting; twenty months ago, and froaa time to time fo-ward-1 the prednre ef their joist labor te tha bank a for safe rasUMly. whi'h has aetamalated daring that period te the enormous amoaat of 11.43 oaneoa, which amoaat waa offarad for aae at this Ce, hat not perehaead, as tho price aakad was so far above the market rate. It ia their intention to take it home, aa the market price is net hke te csse ap te their Ideas of Ks valae. The three sh its law oSceis.has djae es-seatial ear rice to the fatare saecees of the Melixrarae Escort Com aaay. say taat the Carrorsauat waatd receive a eaaa'e fold at the eigg-'aa te eeavey to town, end when he receivae it from the Treasary it tars oat to te shot, aad taat they worn Id allow each a barefaced robbery te eeme is to a court of law, c-owna tae Ojveramtnt Iaetead of paviag-the man for the lorn of his a a common honesty would indicate, thayactaally tarn him eat of eoart thioagh a paltry qaibo'e ut the law after such a trick as this, digger wilt have themaotves to blame it they eoaateaance aa or other, that weald act ia the way that the Gjvernmeat hia A aitin- The Melbenrao Escort Company h.ve adoot-ad aa ezeollsat -plan for isnring the aafe arrival of fold in MaltKura, for which they charge the email premiam of 3d per eaxee, thus doing away with all aaxiaty about the gold after it leaves the digger's haada.

Three eacorta sre evereae two GovaraaMBt, aad the Melbourne the state of the roads being the eaaae. The epecis by the Adelaide tm reported te be sbrat Member at persons whs have arrived ia the coloay dariBg -he 566 Number ef persona who have 431 Addition to ear popmJatio this 37 The Gwvara-meat eacorta brought this weak froaa ex Tha OriiS 3311 Moaat Alex aader aad Bendifo i II 573 Geld kipped from Victoria in 1653 Or, tltoas, lOcwt 10 1 ml. Xachaage ea LeaAja oa drafts sgaiast gala kvpothe- ese4 I per seat, dieeomat. aad froaa Me. te Ma advanced by all the beak.

Freight of gold delivered a the Balboa Oatce, Leadoa. 4 id laseraane xl gataeas coat. IDWAID KHTTLL, Ballina Broker. Ne. Great CaUiae-at west, May 14, 1833.

eEELONO CIRCULAR. There has boon a einiiiirablo demand dariaf te week tag the preeteaa metal, for the purpose of remit-taaee. a even higher rata Uaa it eaa be cjaeidered safe to give, bis stOl decidedly the favorite modi am ef re-miaea. The aapply has no, kooa at all eaameasarate the demaad for a article for the Ust tea davs. at the emeonragi.g te report from ar mM4 nedo at preeent The prodaee, aa ehowa by eoeort, bat poorly repreaonu th aaaoont of pmUtiw vera.

The digf era gaaerallv are li iuJ aa fcaiag 'v TTZ, aneottiod mood, moving- fraa one place to Nothing porticalarly rich ia at present wroaght. aJcio4 se to the beat laeahtv toe the Mount Melvar ia eaid te he doing pretty wnlL ant Kerens is 'mproriag. aad it is believed that it will yet ied weU the foend there ie Urge aad eag-gety, very similar to ftret eamplea from Meant Alexander, and alee principally from the earfeee therefore the probability is that riefc4epoita are there yet to bo struck. omo new raahee are talked ef ea the BaUarat side, aeut or aear Little Beedigw. Some new white 1 ills have beea discovered at Bandit, and if they are at all like to the famous White Hill ef laat season, thev wi'l aooa give thatqeartav a start.

Oa the Ovens, uiee-washiag has boea inreead, aad with very fair aaeseee however, those aelde are not likely te attract the diggers mah till the tetara ef Sam-mar. By the Adelaide a great deal of specie has beea received by ear saaka, wkese coffers now must he pretty wn stemed, as every arrival seeaas te add te taetr stack. Th haying ariee at this data ia bat is net en apposed that this figure can be maiataiaed, ae it is considered aa above the maximum. Since last circalar there has arrived by eecort aa follows Covers asaat Escort, Mat ....11.7 IS Goverameat Escort, Moaat Alexaadsr 9.W8 Govern meat Escort, Balaarat 4 396 Goverameat xUcort, Oveaa Ull 0 IS I Kxchaage ea London, drafts agaiast gold, 1 eeaC Fraight of Gold delivered in Leaden, 4 pr ox Karbiria-strbst, May 14 WM. PATTERSON.

R0BART TOWBT CIRCULAR. Victoria Geld eoatiaaea at 3 16s. 9d. aad 3 17s. accord iag to sample, sad ia great demaad.

Fiaral Gold, 2 lis. Xx caaage oa Loadoa, drafts agsiast gold, at par, ea 63s. sdvaace. Bank drafts coat pram. Freight to Loadoa by sailing vessels, 4d.

eaace. HOKACX BOWCROFT. Coin AexitcTARs Bulliom Orncs, I Xlixabeth-atreet, May 8. The Adelaide Register sera The staadard price ef gold at Adelaide ia fixed by the beaks at 3 lis 9a ounce of tt carats fine, baaed apoa a par rate of exchange on Loadoa, bat aa the exchange ia now one $7 eaat. pre-minm, it follows that 3 lie 64 is the price of standard gold, or ecual to 3 16a.

lOd. eaace for gold of It caiats fine, which is ths Banal average ef Victoria gold MELBOURNE PRICE CURRENT. Melbourne, May 14, 1853 The activity is trade notices last week has somewhat aWtod, aad assay gaods sie not so eagerly sought for. Pare has re haviag sap plied their immediate want, seem inclined to await the chance ef a favorable tern of the market. Moat artielee are more difficult of sale at former rates, aad ia some instances prices have slightly givsa way Tha imports of the week have act beea large, aad should expected arrivals keep out a short time, there ie bo doubt the aaarket will tegaia ita previoaa firmaess.

The extremely high prices given for pruveader have had the effect of briagiag sappliea into the maikat coBaeaneaL'y hay, aad those arttclss used for horse food, eaa be purchased ea more favorable terms. The kag looked-for arrival of the Adelaide has at leagth taken place, bat the advices she btiags will have no offset apoa trade, as al! her information has beea anticipated, aad much later datee leceived by the Harbin T. Flour has a downward tendeacy, althosgh the qaata-tioaa rsmaia the same, the advices of large shipments for hie port ceasing pnreharera te bay sparingly The good demand for cracked Maizb atUl eoatiBaea. aad laat week'a pries a are maiataiaed. There ie also a fair iaqairy for Oat Mbal.

Oats are lower, the large sapplv haviag fit tod the market. Hat has alee given way ia pi ice. taere being a better sapplv, aad sellers more inclined te realise. Bbab remains ateady. Beaks aie iaqaiisd for.

Cape Bablet ia ia great demaadt par-tiealarlv eleaa parcels for seed bat there ie vary little offering. Hams and Bacoh receive good atteatioa aad the price remains firss. For Cmekbb the iaqairy ie not so great, aad last week's aricee are hardly realized. Butter ie ia fair request aad prieea steady. For Groceries tks demaad coatiaaes good.

Fiae Sugars sre still wasted, aad high prieea are paid. Tea is also in good reqneat. particnlarly the fiaer daacriptinas Copper ia very scarce, aad pricee advanciag. FaoiTs msch iaqaired for, aad little effariag. Soap rather dalL, Casdlxs are steady Csroliaa Ricb maintains its high rate, aad Bast Int'i'a has met with mere A good inquiry for Pickles aad Oilmea'e stores.

Spices are takes freely at previoaa ra'as. The demaad for Timber ram alas steady, aad the article tspport its previous high figure Bbickb sell well, aad ao altoratioa ia price has takea place there is a good iaqairy far Slates, and Caw ia the aaarket. Cioabs ars firmer, aad ratier iacliaed advance Tobacco is maca wanted aad good brands scare. Thsre ie a good demaad for Bkib, aad pricee contiaae ateady Bottled Baer sought lor, aad com ma ads high rates. Bbabtbt rather eener.

bat eases aaaiataia thair trice. A 'air it qairy for WmisbT aad Gib. Bum eoa-tiaaee ia demand, aad better priea a eaa be obtained. Of Wi ks there lea god iaqairy for Port, bat very little effeiiag. Champagne haa met with some attea-risu Sherry ia fair reqaeet, at previeas ra ea.

Light Wisee sMglected. St-g Boors and Shoes are stil ia good demand, aad" recast imsortatione have moved off at very nigh prices. Blarexts, Fosibbt, aad Winter O-od alt kinds, sail freely at high rate. Cab-toe Oil la fair request. No aP 4tiee to aeciee ia Daces any offered are readily takea at re at Basra tire priest soms descriptions was tad Frrisbts to Lobdob Tallow.

40s. te Ms toa. aad coat. Gold, 4ld. oaacs.

delivered at the bullion office do. ai (tsamer, d. Wool, greasy tfd. B. do washed, lid.

St. H'dee, 10a. to 16a. Tp ton Tallow. 1 10a.

tea, aad 4j coat. Oil, 3 toa, aad cest. Aaother Haa Arrwsted far atteatptlaa; to Murder the Peddler la Graeme Ceaaty. -From tke Aloswy Express, Aug. T9.

It win be recollected that, on Friday, the 18th a brutal attack upon, and robbery of, a peddler took place on the road, some eight miles fiem Coxsackie. Efforts have since been constantly made to arrest the perpetrator, and we are glad to state that they havu succeeded. On Saturday, a young son of Mr. Buckingham, who keeps the Buckingham House at Coxsackie, was out gunning with another boy, in the woods, some two miles from the village. While there they saw a maa hanging some shirts uooa the bushes.

The strafge occupation, and the fact that the murderer was reported in the vicinity, alarmed them, and they ran back to the village, where young Buceimobam communicated the fact to his father. Mr. Buckingham with commendable alacrity, at once started in pursuit, followed by some citi-xens. They had not got out of the village, how. ever, ere they met a man coming in, whom Mr.

from his sppesranee thinking the, man, at ence made after and arrested. When the officers eame up, Mr. B. surrendered him into their custody. He waa shortly after taken to where the peddler was lying, who, the moment he was brought into the room, exclaimed That's the man who shot me," and turning over, wept profusely.

The peddler is said to be gradually sicking, and little or no hopes are entertained of his recovery. To Mr. Buckincham great credit is due, and for his promptness and resolution he is entitled to both rewatd and commendation. We have heard, since the above, from one who witnessed the arrest, that the prisoner is a maa of slight build, about 35 yean- of age. He made ao attempt to evade arrest, and acted as though deranged, expressing a willingness to go anywhere the officers chose to take, him, and avowed he had plenty of money.

On searching him he had not a cent. He gave his nsme tn John Hsndricksot, and spoke of Hendriceson now in jail here, stating that he intended to clear him." Our informant ssys we are miatakea ia saying he was identified by the peddler, as the latter wss too low to see him, and he was taken at once to Cats-kill. We give it, however, as we first heard it. Trial or Conductor Comstoce. In the) course of the trial of Mr.

Comstoce, Conductor of the train that run into the Norwalk drawbridge, now progressing in the Fairfield County Court, at Dan-bury, Cu, Prof. Olmstead, of New-Haven, daring aa examination, deposed 44 1 am Professor of Natural Philosophy and Astronomy of Yale College some years attention to the subject of mathematics has made me familiar with the sciences if the statements with reference to the distance which the locomotive leaped, and the distance from the rail to the water, were uniform, there would be no difficulty ia ascertaining the speed of the train. The Professor having been supplied with a blackboard, explained at great length and with clearness the method of ascertaining the speed of the 'rain. Assuming the draw to have been sixty feet wide, the surface of the water ten feet below tha track, and the centre of gravity ia the engine to have been fifteen feet from the front end of it, the speed of the train wss 23 810 miles per hoar. This statement must be considered in connection with the evidence of Mr.

Whistlee, Superintendent of tha Road, who says that if the engineer comes upon a dangerous part of the track at a dangerous rate of speed, it is the duty of the conductor to check the speed by mesas of the bell-rope. verdict will be looked for with great interest. Fuss trom Distant Pemrijia-' The Red River Caravan, whose arrival we announced a week or two since, brought down from that region three thousand nine hundred buffale robes, together with thirty packs and eight large boxes of furs, all the product of last year's chase, which were shipped oa board the steamer Clxrten, oa Fniay laat, for S. Louis. The Caravaa purchase their supplies from year to year of our merchants, nd their trade forms a considerable item to them, Pi.

neer. -f r. I. "The King of McKay's msmmoth ship of 4.CG0 tecs, will probably be launched about he 1st of October. i Another feUvw Can.

Free tka Ohio 6te4e JowmaZ. mere was, yesieroay, eonulers.V i meat produced ia Ciaetaaati, by the-trial, before fudge Flimw, of another Slave It that a gentleman from Uwiaaipii having purrhae! three slaves ia tha State of Virginia, delivered A them into the hands of aa agent, to be to his plantation ia Mississippi. The agent took pas- sage oa a steamboat at Catieuburg for himself aad tha slaves, and proceeded down tha river as far aa Cincinnati, expecting to land the negroes at Co-' viagtoa but the water being too shallow, he landed r. them oa the Ohio sh1, aad thence proceeded ho cross to Covington. Oa the next day he returned r.

aad placed the slaves on a Southern steamer, wheat it became generally kaowa, and the negroes were carried before his Honor. Judge Flimw, oa a writ of habeas corpus. The Court overruled the amotion for continuance until the next morning, and havis heard the ease, proceeded to give its decision, which deciaioa resaaaded the slaves to tha cuatody I CB Pn ground that the act of landing the alavea is the State of Ohio waa not voluntary oa. Prt of Menu The case did not coma within the acknowledged principle thot the voluntary bnmgtng of a si free State aonforrod freedom. the agent, contrary toUe command cf the owner, had brought the slave here would that VVf Fd fJdom 1 SArroM.

the eaptaia of the boat, haa.doae aa. Neither of these cases 5 would have givea him freedom they would hara been treated as cases of ordinary escape. The law was hot a trap it mast be interpreted by the ttrin- ciples of cotamoa sense. The agent was eoasriUai by the force of circumstance, to bring the bny to tha Ohio shore it was not a voluntary act. of.

the. cases read by counsel for tha slave were analogous to this. We have a deciaioa of our ewa courts very analogous to it the decision of Ju3-e Reed, and by that, tha boy must be remaaded to the care of the agent of his master. Tha arm of the law, that brought him here, is strong enough to -take him back. There could be no doubt ia this case.

The order of the Court was, that he be re-L manded to ths custody of ths agent, and placed oa board the boat. An order to this effect was blaced in the hand ef tha Sheriff. I i A bill of exeeptiea to ths decision in ths eass of the child, and also ia this esse, was thea filed by the counsel for the slaves. The Court adjourned, and ths boy was conducted to ths boat by the Sheriff. V' 'j; I Nsurs froaa Naaaaa, It I From the Charteston Courier, Aog IS.

The British schooner Dreadnought. CaDt. arrived at this port yesterday, from Nassau, N. F. Among her passengers are ths widow and family of Governor Greqoet.

of ths Bahamas, who died St Naaaau oa July 30, of aa. enlargement of the heart, and John B. Burnsioe, the late Governor's Privats Secretary. The only papers we have received are copies of the Nassau Royal Gazette, aad the Nassau Guardian, of the 17th inst. Tha schooner Ida had not arrived from New-York, nor had the schooner EUen Herbert, which had a cargo of ice.

The Nassau Guardian says that the pine-apple speculation has been a losing one this season. Many fruit vessels have returned from the United -States, to the out-islands, and all make the same complaint. Pine-aDDles have been selling at New- York aa low as 2 50 ner hundred, and there can be i now scarcely a probability of an improvement ia i price, as the American fruit season is so fast ap- The extreme backwardness of the fruit, and the consequent detriment to its siae and flavor, haa had the effect of producing this unfortunate result, which wss, however, anticipated at the early part of the sesson. It ia stated that thsre has been a great failure in the crops at Grand Bahama, which will, ia all prob- -abilty, cause considerable privation to the inhabi- taats. i cy One or two vessels had arrived at Eleuthera from the United States, but the papers did not mention their names.

I Ysllow Fever Hatti. A. correspondent of the Boston Traveller, writing from Port-au-Prince, July 29, aays Sine mv return to Port-' au-Prince 1 have Buffered very considerably, both i personally and in my family front ill health. Tha yellow fever, which has raged here with unprece- dented violence for a year past," has entered our little missiosary circle; and takea one of our number, an interesting young missiosary, who aceom- Jianied us from New-York in January last. This ever is characterised by great violence of attack, its rapid progress and: speedy termination, fa very- large majority of eases th sufferers close their earthly career in four or six dsys after the The young missionary in Question, although apoar- i ently of a very vigorous constitution, survived the attack but four The same fever passed me in review in a short: time after the death of our brother.

Ths very next day after the attack 1 com- menced bleeding at the nose whirh ia the form i that this fever assumes here at present, is almost a certain sign of speedy dissolution- But by the uee 1 of extraordinary means, which had never befors been tried at Port-au-Prince, the violence of ths isver was soon nee tea out although more than three months have elapeed I Lave not yet recovered my usual vigor. I regard, as a very singulsr feature off this most fearful disease, and one that; merits ths at-attention of scientific men, the bleeding at the nose and mouth, and sometimes at the eyes aad ears, ao-eompanied frequently by copious evacuations of, blood from the stomach and bowels. It appears to be very similar to the effect produced by ascending to the top of unuaual mouataia heights, where per-; sons have been known to die speedily from a rush of blood from every opening of the body. It appears, then, that whether the mercury be elevated to 10O degrees, from tha heat, or sunk to 60 degrees below sero, from ths. cold, ths rarity of tha atmosphere alone is sufficient, not only to disturb the regular circulation of the blood, but to cause it to leave ita ordinary courses, and rua like water apoa ths ground, for want of a suitable pressure from without.

It is also an interesting fact in this connection. that even whea the sufferer is ia a dying state, th: blood which thus escapee ie generally of a remark a. ble fresh and bright red appearance. And yet, when dead, it is generally found tkat gangreea has already made such extensive progress as to render 1 3 it necessary to bury almost immediately. Judge, r- i then, of the distressing sights to which our eyes are daily subjected, in seeing oar countrymen coarsely boxed up, and carried off unceremoniously upon toe heads of paid bearers.

The burial of officers, however, is frequently an excep-tion to this rule, and is. often conducted with pro- priety and decency. I was, however, called upon a few weeks since, to conduct ths burial of mate," but which for the entire distance of over a mile, was attended with auch noisy conversation, that I was almost forced to abandon my position. I 1 would ask, is it right, is it svea decent, for com-, mercial mea who are reaping the benefits of this trade, or for the United Sta.es, whose interest and r' honor are essentially promoted by the toils of their seamen, to leave them thus without hospital, with-, out chsplain, or a aingle friend to interest themselves in their position to lesve them thus to die. almost unattended, and be buried almost Liu' brutes The law forbids, under a severs penalty, that they should be allowed to die on board the vessel ia the harbor.

Taken ashore, they must fall in the hands of lsnd-shtrks. who, with ths atteadirg physicisns, can always contrive to get more money when they die, than wbea they recover. It is. however, aa encouraging fact, that there are not as many deaths this year, ia proportion to ths attacks, .1 as last. Boston Times.

Ths Vebdict. The esse of the State sr t. Chas. H. Comstoce, which has been aa trial at Dan bury lor several dsys, has resulted ia a verdict of acquittal.

Mr. Comstoce was the conductor cf ths train that ran off ths draw; at Norwalk, and w. prosecuted for mantlaorhter, in causing tie dt .1,1 of Dr. AscniBALO Welch, Hartford. Th Jury went out oa Saturday, and at 11 o'clock yesterday they cams into Court with a verdict of i guilty, which was received mtth approbation ty audience and citixens, whoss Sympathies were vr: ths defendant.

The testimony of Messrs. pht-. lrs and Burs all, officers of ths road, proved c. i-cluaively that it was no part of ths cozdicicT'j business to look out for signals, or rove 1 movements of ths train, except to me 5 ths proper With suck know le''o ct tie facts ss the Sute should have obtaiaed, it li I -I to see why the ease waa pressed to tHK I't. stock was ably defended by Hons.

11. IT. of this city, and Chas. Hawlet, of jr We are happy ia being able to record this reau cf -ths trial, ia view of the fact of the evident rt responsibility for toe accicent oa pan ct x.r. C0M8T0CSAa-eeia Journal, 30O.

'Arrival or ths Mxilis. The British steamship Alertin, CapC Cronan, arrived yesterday, front St. Thomas, vid Bermuda, La vie; former port on the 9th, and tha latter on tie August. A. Our Bermuda files are to the 23d inst.

Tl 1 -Sarah, Captain Newman, from Nsw-Yoih i-r lost at St. Croix, on the l.h is" Ths mail brig Lady Seymour, wi t' i mailofthe23d ult, arrived from lUL.x ui lCthinst. Ths Spanish mail steamer ras f. i Havana for Cadix, put into St. t'eor-', I'srii" aa the 21st, for a supp'T c9a- 4 A violent storm was experienced at ei.

the 20th inst, tut it paased over to tls i without doing much dim-e to te -ipr in i 1 1 1 vThere is tol? a -rani Crcraen'3 Lowell on the prox. After a trial of ec thcrs will te dinner, aad levee ia Ct eve: iji it r. ii $0 i -t I it 1 i i a i a h-i;.