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public t.JLZ& bnara. TupDAY'JUNi: "Stop my any man who professes to be an American citizen, will insist tthat the best preservative of liberty is a free press, he will insist upoutbefuU rjghVpfexprcssing his own views, both in speech and writing about any subject of publio and; he" will resist any encroach mentupoii this "right by 'taking Dp arras, if milder measures Wiould iiot awil. requested to state the fundamental principle upon which, all American institutions' are founded, lie will say It is equals VifAi and as a corrollary from this, he will admit that erery, other Vember of the community has the same right with himself, of freely expressing opinions. If called upon to sty whether these principles be or be not correct, his answer will be affirmative and' he will almost think his under atanding insulted, by being'applied to for answers to propositions so plain. We will now ask him how the freedom of the press Is to be preserved? lie will say, first, by eon-titotional provisions; by forbearance from all restraining legislation; and thirdly, by imposing no social restraints.

The American press is sufflclenlly protected constitutional provisions, and Is tery little restrained, in any of the States, by legal enactments. Yet the press, in these United States, this democratic republic, where every man is so jealous of his liberty, is far, far less free flan in the monarchy of England, that land of privileged orders and sedition The American press is under a social restraint, infinitely more tyrannical, and iufinitely more capricious in its tyranny, than 'the sedition laws of England, or the censorship of in England, an editor may publish Iwhatever lie thinks proper, provided, he will riskthe consequences of fine and imprisonment Ifolly," This system places the English' pn tirel beyond the control of subscribers; ren lucrative, and therefore enables it to pay liben the highest talent in all departments of a ne puhlication; anil renders it independen therefore1 enables to' laugh to scorn the a ior ha- kof moon is inferior in brilliancy to the sun at i i- day. More to-morrow. Coutiterfcits, and arrett of Counfercicrj, I)u ring the past week the police of -New York -have arrested three individuals, named Henry Waters alias Thomas Jones, Isrtel Lewis and Jacob Henderson, for passing counterfeit five dollar notes on the United States Branch bank at Nashville, and counterfeit $20 notes on the bank of On the person of Waters alias Jones, was found several of the Nashville bills, consecutively numbered 4376, 4377, Sec. a circumstance which goes to prove that he Is implicated in their manufacture as well as circulation.

Death of Oicebla. This ferocious and 'bloodthirsty Seminole Chief, has, it is stated, been killed in a personal recontrr, with a young chief named Ho-pa-to-pha. The friends of Osceola were about to slay the latter, when he made his escape, -j The late faUl duel which recently took place near Washington City, is another melancholy instance of tlie lengths to which unbridled passion will urge the young and thoughtless, as well as the aged and reflecting. A young officer of the Navy, U. M.

Key, perished in mortsl conflict with an other a few days since, Mr. Sherburne, of the same service. When we find grave legislators re sorting to the argumentum ad hominem, we can hardly expect rash and hot headed youth not to fol low their example. 4 X3r A friend of ours informs us, that iu coming from Kensington, yesterday morning, he1 counted 76 unmar zlcddogs. We will relieve his apprehensions 'of hy drophobia by informing hira that the Dog-Catchers," under the direction of a vigilant police officer, are carry ing on a war of extermination against these animals.

Nott's new steamboat Novelty, the largest boat on the Hudson river, Qi one hundred and tendoUdrs per day, by the use of coal, instead of wood, making a saving of about $20,000 the season. No. LXXV1II of Ha rnpp'i Fnmilr l.thrarv vp fc" I mmm I a prosecutionior libel or sedition 1 in trance he find on our table. It is to be had at Perkins' book-mayldo the same, provided he even obtain perrais- store, Chesnut street, between Fifth and Sixth. aion of the censor appointed by the government; in This highly useful and justly popular' work of the the United btates he-may do the same, provided lie Harpers deeds no commendation, will, risk pecuniarrruin in the loss of subscribers.

I We admit that an American editor cannot be easily JcqitittalG. R. Myers, the projector of the fined imprisoned, and that he is not obliged to P1 -Union Agency at Washington, which had in obtain the permission of public officer, before he tne eiemenu 01 a great uuraDug, nas oeen inea can issue his But when we consider that a Washington on a charge of swindling, and ae-coovicUdn does not always follow a prosecution for 4uitted -of unsound Our readers may re- libel or sediticn. that ft lirMe nnhTic. rpnsnr mtv 1,.

member that he cut his throat, but not effectually 1 1 I neither, tyrannical nor capricious; and when we nen Pa aay A i. 1 1 I 7 uiat every uuscnoer is a censor in CharmrcauM.k woman rnnviMwl at tl corner snape, mat may cxerc.se ins censorship cent Alb SeS8jons foP bitinJf tne mb of a con- u. wc wmi summary manner, mat a lai-e noay 01 talle and fidjed fire (olIar8 for the ofrencc subscribers, of whom no two aeree. must constitute I a very capricious and uncertain censorship, and that oorae burgla recently entered the oil store of the mode in which it is exercised destroys' the rfe. u' vest strectrew and means Vv whirh tl.enrpw J.

Wst a.lmli wdeavored to blow up' an iron chest by fillinjr the that the American editor is by far the greatest wura inPovaer yave of the three. Nearly all the hrido-es on the James river, be In England, newspapers have no, subshribers. jtween the Blue It'ulge and have been I lie papers are published and sold to carriers, and carried away by freshets. soiU; py ma carriers to any persons wno wm ouy Ninety steamboats arrived at Detroit during the them, Ifany purcln ser should find in any number of his paper what did not please him, and should to the editor- "stop my paper," the latter every one heavily laden with passengers. pa would reply 1 did not know that you took my pa-1 A building, intended lor a private residence, in ler, and it is perfijclly indifferent to me whether Canal street below Carondee, New Orleans, was you stop it or continue to take it'; By stopping it, blown rfown on the 10th a gust of wind, you will' take sixpence put of my pocket, which I nd several of the workmen seriously injured.

shat regard, because others will take the paper newly born infant, packed in a sugar box! has JOtt uo not; and thus, without injuring mc in the bcen found at lhe foQt of Jay 8trcet New York "II .1 If 1 1 .1 I I uu.w,u ucPrvc ourseil, W1 doubt; placed there by its unnatural parent ges accruing irom 1119 paper, in an aDoruve attempt to Injure me, yon will only injure yourself, and instead of terrifying me by the loss of your ronage, you will excite my pity and derision' The goods taken from the great fire, New York, and remaining; at the police office, were sold on Saturday at auction. i 1 1 A bible formerly the property of Charlemagne, was recently sold in London for $7500. The number of sheep in the. United States is es-' timated at $30,000,000, producing about 108,000. 000 lbs of wool.

stopmy i Mr. Darlin, of Blue Hill, Vt had his pocket 'The American press is on a verjr different foun- robbed of $350 while going on board the Provi dation. It is dependent upon subscribers; it js at dence steamboat, then lying at the wharf New their mercy; without, their permission, it cannot York. tci I uj wy my paper," Hie X. An'tnfant nn Af.

Simnon pecumary means of its existence are wiU.drawn; yorkf ag vearS hlis4 died in consequence of -r www int0 a kettie of water, no discreet men will invest capital" with the cer-L tainty of loss, the consequence is the entire subjec-' A' large brewery in Quebec, has been destroyed nun ui me press to tne viums anu caprices of sub- by urc loss i wiiwiu iiw hiinc upon toll rr. i II o. things, aud of whom very few think consistently up. d. iiTL Louis, Miss.

there is also erecting a splendid on any tiling. What is the consequence? The very I minds which" ought to guide it, the bold, fearless, independent minds that are capable of instructing There is a new counterfeit in circulation, on the and willing to instruct, aiid from vhom a coramu- Jefferson coun-BankrNew York, it is said to be in tmeriaimng just views wouiu receive instruc- 1 "vr won wiiiingij, because they could repose confidence Mr. Green, postmaster at Boston, has translated 10 Uie honesty of the instructors, are very unw illing Sforzose's History of Italy. to meddle widi it Tlu A nrpss ii' there-1 fore generally in the hands of nartizan hireling, of henefit in New York, at the Park Thea- secondary Ulentsandj)artial views; and it is as far tre, yielded him $1700 behind tne press of England in, taleat, spirit, inde- A young woman at Lowell, has presented pendence and just influence, as the clflud-obscured I her, husband with, ire. children elerien months.

tinly rcn. f. the small signs' 1 in the United SUtes iC.i market houses be en- street, and that some of and covered with shambles and vegetable shed vV We commend the rfirst part of this suggestion to our readers, and wU suggest an 4 improiemeDttpon Jhe second. Now tliat the market houses are prostrated, every one must be struck with the iranrovement in the aftftcar- ii ance and cohvenience of High street It is indeed the most magnificent street in the Union 1 so long, so wide, so strait, and lined with such beautiful buildings. The view up or down, as far as die eye can reach, is superb, and it really seems like Vandalism to encumber it again with awkward and unseemly We might as well disfigure our pub-lie squares with rope walks.

The improvement we suggest to the projtct of erecting shambles and sheds upon some of the small squares, is to erect substantial, commodious, and handsome buildings, three or four stories Ugh, and to appropriate the ground floors to market houses, and the other stories to offices, warehouses, halls, and any other purposes. The rent of such upper stories would render such buildings valuable It would more than pay the interest upon the cost of the buildings, and thus fqrma sinking fund for extinguishing the principal, and ia a few years, have a large nett income. For convenience, profit, and ornament, such buildings would be far preferable) low sheds and shambles. In every part of the city, suitable for a market house, land is too valuable to be thrown away upon buildings of one story. XT One of the Dog-Catchersn was most severely beaten, and put completely iu combat, yesterday morning.by a fellow whose name we are unable to learn, and who is held to bail to answer the offence.

General Scott being? absent from Florida, and General Clinch having resigned, the command of the troops there devolves on Call, the Governor of the Territory. The crops in Upper Canada promise to be Tery abundant A great many cows have been purchased tlrtre for the American market A conspiracy of young men, some of high family connexions in Russia, has been discovered in Lith uania. '); The New York Sun gives the following estimate of its weekly expenses, in reply, to a few splenetic remarks of that big lump of indolence and ignorance, the Philadelphia Inquirer. The large papers are by no means ignorant of the 'act, that thejr are completely distanced by their smaller cotemporaries in every thing that can im Lart interest or intelligence to a newspaper, and aware tpo, that they area serious thorn in their own sidesj they sometimes, and but seldom, condescend to give them a notice, by way of provoking another Of themselves frOm thill informing the im- merous readers of penny papers, that there is such a large sheet of stupid nonsense, published by such and such a dolt and blockhead. A Small Mistake.

The 'following paragraph is from the Philadelphia Inquirer of Saturday Several of the penny papers 01 Pie xorx con tinue to asitate the case ot uobinson. Having uis- posed of a jury and judges, they are now engaged in reviewing and "picking flaws" in the speech of Ogden Hoffman. ThJ Thomas street tragedy been a profitable job lor the penny lias None of the penny papers except the oun have been encased in reviewing, or "picking flaws" in the speech ot Mr. Ilonman, and consequently the Inquirer means to say rue have made a profitable job of it Can the editor of the Inquirer count dol- larsanu cents: 11 mm peruse uic ionowing table of the weekly expenses ot publishing the Sun. and then judge whether, in reviewing the speech ot jir.

xioitmaii, we nau in view mc uumuer ui nies we should gain thereby: WEEKIT EirEXSES OP PUBLISHING THE SrX. 1G8 reams paper, double size, at $5,50 per miam ftn 0C QfVl AAntOI (tool Art ICitiii, jui JHling UUW vitinj 100 lbs. ink. at 30 cts. 1 30 00 3 boys to lay sheets on the machine at night, $5 each, 2 boys to 'fly' the theets, A Foreman 01 the press-rooija and engine, Man to cut and count the sheets after printing, and mailing the weekly pa-.

pers, Foreman of the composing room, Two compositors at $12, Four, do. Two apprentices. Clerks in front office, Paid in the editorial department, Rent of building (owned by publisher) worth at least $800 per annum, Gas lights fuel for engine 9, Foreign otlier incidenials, 'Total, Receipts per day for 26,800 papers, at G6 2-3 cent? per hundred, $178 67 6 days Loss on circulation, 1 18 00 7 00 20 00 12 00 15 00 24 00 40 00 8 50 6.00 28 50 40 00 16 00 13 00 10 00 $1,212, 00 $1,072 02 $139 98 The above is a correct list of our weekly expenses and receipts for papers, to which each and every individual in our employ can testify and let those who would hereafter attribute mercenary motives to any of our bear in pind that whether our listwere to. increase or diminish a few thousand subscribers, we should neither be gainers or losers in consequence. It is unnecessary to add that the profits ot thispaper are exclusively from the advertisements, which.

its immense circulation, naturally secures to tlteported for ths Public Ledger. Wayor'a Monday, June James MTarland and Michael Glenn, two braw-' ny Irishmen, were arrested by one oil the watchy between 11 and 12 o'clock on Saturday night, at the corner of Fourth and Filbert streets. The prison-, ers were engaged In quarrelling and fighting witiV--each other. After a severe, admonition from, thcjw Mayor, they were discharged from custody. Adam Johnson and CharlckMarshall, two young men were charged with riotous and disorderly coin duct, early on Sunday morning, being both Tery drunk at the time-rUiey entered no defence and -were each fined and bound- over to keep the peaae In die sum of $200.

1 George Clarke, lives In Myers court, Mulberry alley, and getting very drunk on Sunday morning, aroused himself with whetting an old case knife on the stones, and enacting sundry other 'Patrick Brown, a forlorn looking brought up, under no particular charge stance of a baker, named Patrick Hoffman presented the prisoner as being often lies, iined. 1 wight, mQj at the in- 1 an, who re, 1 jsiveto hit antics. Fined, wight, abusive wife, and a disturber of the peace, all which Mr. Brown imperatively and positively deniedj wifw not appearing against him, lie was discharged. a The three boys, Powell, Wade, and Mincer mentioned inyestcrday's paper, as having been ar-y" rested on Saturday afternoon, were this morning placed before the MayV, for examination.

They were detected in Schuylkill by officer Neagel, ex- posing rings, silk handkerchiefs, fee, for sale; keeping his eye on them, until he could secure assist tance, he succeeded in capturing all three. LceroanReed, sworn lives at 121 Market street. ''S between Schuylkill Sixth and SevrnuV-was not at home when his store was pilfered identifies the rings, which are not gold, as also some of the.stock- That these boys have been in the habit of traeti- sing theft of such light articles as could be easily -concealed and carried off, there can be no doubts and one reason of their success is the facility witia which they can get rid of goods after they are sto- len. Any person buying from such boys (the el dest is not more than 15) sliould be severely punished. An example is needed.

All three of these lads were committed to the House of Kefuge. A splendid sword, witn emblematic devices, got up by the citizens of New York, and intended to be presented to the gallant Worth, as a mark of their respect and esteem for Vis private character, and high military attainments, and for the very efficient services rendered his country in the late war with Great Britain. It is to be seen at the store of Messrs. Fletcher Bennett, in Chesnut, above Fourth street The hilt is surmounted bvahel-' met, on the hilt are tlie words fort Gcorgct CAryi- tier's furm, Chippiwa and Niagara. On one side of -the scabbard is a representation of tws battles, alsotwo femal the goddesses of liberty and the Latin motto Excelcior.

The initials I. W. of the distinguished soldier, is in cvpher also on the scabbard. The cost of thta elegant article of American manufacture, it is un-derstood, was seven hundred dollar 9. The steamboat Novelty performed her first trip from Albany to York on Thursday last in jibe short space of nine hours and forty-five minutes.

Distance 160 miles. Gen. Bugcaud, famous as a duellist, takes the commarid of Algiers, in the place of Marshall Churel, who goes to Paris. The family of Lucien Bonaparte, at his seat at Canimo, have been thrown into confusion, in con-, sequence of two of his sons having shot the game-, keeper. One escaped, but the other was STEAMBOAT ROB KOY.

Columbia, (Ark. June 10; 1836. Gentlemen I regret that duty requires from us an expose of facts most appal ing to human feelings, The steamboat Rob Roy, H. Finden, mastery left New Orleans on Sunday the 5th insL at 11 o'clock, bound for Louisville, and proceeded on. her voyage, performing well, touching at the difk ferent points when business required, until Thurs-.

day evening, the 9th inst at 6 o'clock, at a point four miles above this place, one ot the flues in the larboard boiler collapsed, tearing the lead from the boiler at both ends, the steam and water rushing out, fore and aft To give a description of the sufier-; ing and destruction would be impossible. The engineer on watch, Mr. Thomas Brown, says the water was above the upper cocks in of the side boilers, which is evident from the ner the flue collapsed, being from the side and not fc-om top to bottom.asis the case when caused by wan of water. The engine had been stopped to oil the. wrist and hip of the bilge pump.

Time from taking, pff and letting on steam, was, not. more than two' minutes. The boat was run ashore as. soon as Eracticable, and every possible exertion was used yt the passengers, physicians of Columbia, and boat's crew to relieve the sufferers. At 3 o'clock the came alongside, and towed us to this place.

The sufferers are all as comfortable as circumstances 'can render in good houses, five. doctors in attendance. The number now lost and dead is 17. How many more will: die we cannot say. Aparty.of Venerables.

A couple lately eele-y bratcd the 50th anniversary of their, wending ati Paris. Their united ages Of the 110. guests, the youngest was. 65 and the -person ap-' pointed to go through the usual 1 ceremony Qf steals ipg the brjde's garter, was 80. -y-; -r.