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it Hi i i I I ft i 5 11 til 1( if i 1 1 1 i AN 1K18H Arrab. Paul." raid ooe of them. will too tell us the story about the time yon wint buy tb port pi ana for Colonel Edraondson's daughter, lone ago TI.aL i i 1 rfiw; bmrrsssterFmnkRJmeon. that pm me note Ig oat Amnrigh wickado. Awouh toot.

IS I' V.11 "lT i Jl i irS I'fTZlUyOmbtamAi for it aundd lik. ih. kiU oTdMth. Sii ST" lV to tT? y. Ulm5 1 vii hrp rforbS? 22 if louo' my war ia that bur place bain' cheatrd, or mavba raoin' mimei into raoL W'alL' aaid be, 1 could aarve you, if you'd keep a Tbry me arid it sara Mr father's throw in' away money udodi Diansr 5rt.

so' be knowa no more whether one is good or bod than a cow doe of a bolyday neither does my atttitner;" air be winxea Enownimy at me. It's Mid he. 'that it wasn't a piana bity or a rana i ity that he ordthered he' too lavish entirely of km says lb cute too or shaver: aa 'its a thsms tir a man of hw veara to be bOTin' a musical cof rtn, when it's ooe of oak he ought to an' winked so wisely at me af in, that sora on o' mc ever sosnected he wasoolv raakjn' a hare o' me. 'Throe for your says 1. it's makin his sowl he ought to be.

sura At. an' all of savs he, vrj aolemnlr: but. Panl. in re card of what I'm spakin' a fceut; 1 believe you're to pay tuny pounds for this in aaya he, it's from U.nt it's named but, il on take mv ad vita, you buy a Diana thirty, says he. an' put the odd ten pounds in your pocket tor the benefit your wife an' chiiuher.

I've been very wild my aelf, says he. 'an' lavished a great deal money an it a lull time lor me to begin to oe cnaruaoie nera hem Accordinslv we made it up betwixt us. that 1 should buy a piana thiny, and porket the differ but I got a writin from undher his hand, that he should pay the money for me, if we'd be found out. says he, as he finislwd it, you may as well save twenty pound a ten. for if you show this to I he musical cof man, he'll lake it in place of ten pounds an' be sides, it gives you good correctnur, an that a very useful thing in this world.

Paul hem. Accord ingly, when I came to Dublin. I went into a bouse where they aowld them, an inquired to see a pinna thirty. The man looked at me. Who is it for says be.

You won tell to morrow, nabour. save bar rin I chanee my mind. Have you a musical coffin a good, stout, beneficial piana lhirty, that a man will get the worth of hi money of waar out of it He seren ed his mouth to the one side of his face, and winked at a man that stood in the shop, who, it seems, was a fiddler; but, by gor, if Micky M'Grory bad ceen him why, I tuck him for a eintlemon Are you a muci ns orr aays the other. 1 do a thrine that says I afiher the Murph hem I mane ailher atin my says myelf, puttin' an the bodagh, because nobody knew me but I never resave payment for il I'd scorn How long are you out says he. Since last vrinsday.

says I. irom home. An where is that, pray? Behind Tullymuclewrag, in the pansn ot Teeroarancklao ghalumkunla bes. 1 sup pose, says my customer, 'your list waistcoat was a great deal too alhrait for you Not so tthrait as your own is at present, says I (he was a small, screw up cralhur. like a whitthrit.) Will you show me trie article I want Do voo see that shop over the way.

aaid he. 'at the corner You'll get the article you want there I armrdinslv went over, and inquired of the man behind the otinisr.il he could sell me a piana thiny sell nolhin' hi re but says he' thry over the way. 1 thin went back to the tellow you tnievin says 'did you mane to make a fool o' me I never carry coals to INewcastle. savs the vasabone go home to your friends, my honest fellow, an' you'll ase thrra of a great deal of trouble on your account they mia your music afther dinner, verv savs he. said the fiddler, 'tis better to direct the man properly he's a writin' down at the same time a direction for me.

Go to this house, and inquire tor the owner ot it say vou re Irom the counthry, an have pertecklar business that you can tell to no one but himnell an pind upon it you II get tcnut sou watt. Oif I set an' at Ions last found a ereni house, cn' gave three or lour thunderm' cracks at the door. I want to see the masther, very bad entirely," says I What's wrong said a fellow, all powdher, wid tail growin' from his head down his back. I have news from the counthry for him, says that I can only tell to himself. The fellow looked frightened, an' runnin' up the stairs, brought down a gintl.

man wid a wig an black apron upon him. Are you the music says that has thepiana lhirty for sale 1 want a musir cofTin to Kick this scoundhrel out, says the ould chap how dura you let him it at all at all Out wid him into the In three minutes we war in one another's wools but foix, in regard of a way I I soon sowed the hall wid them and was attackin' the ould fellow himself in a corner, whin a lot of gintlemen an' ladies came to his assistance, hcarin' the mtllfa munhers he ris at the first dig in the ribs I hot him. Von dam on says layin' on him, i this any threatment for a dacent man, that wants to gi ve you the preference in dalin' wid you, an' to lave you good value tor what I get, you murtheriu' ould rap "At last I was seized hand an' fur, till the otiishcrs would be sint for to lake me to jail. But, tliinkin' of the correcthur that Mast her Frank caved me, I pulled it out, an' put it into the hands of one the gintlenun. Here, says ye ill conditioned vacrnnts, read thar, an' yon'll find that I'm no bird for the crib it 'ill show yees what I Sure says he lookin' at it, "it describes you to a hair, you villian an' he read it out This is to sartii'y, that the bearer, Paul Kelly, is a big rascal an' any person securin' him will resave a reward of thirty.

pounds, as he has broke out of jail, where he was confined for sheep He is a man that squints wid one eye, an' wears a long nose, turned with a sharp look out towards his left May all kinds ot hard fortune settle down upon him that wrote that savs I but he has fairly desaved me, the limb o' the devil that he says it's all but a mistake. Let me go, says an' I'll never heed the snusic for this day, any how that I may never he a bishop, but it was all a Howsomediver. you'll find it a bad mistake to bate a said one them. Uh, man iUoses says 1, was the black rintleman a bishop Paul, you're done for now Oh, raurther, gintlemen dear, it's all of our own roguery, or it wouldn happen to me. have a consolation on me, bishop jewel, an' forgive me; sure, if I knew it, when I was peggin' you up agjn the comer in the ribs, I'd suffer all kinds of visitation before I'd give you a wnacK at an at all, piase your reverence.

It was all useless I was hitrced off to the crib an' '(wasn't till the second day that Masther Frank, who was in Dublin afore me.though I didn't know it, readin' hit own correcthur of me in the papers, along with the accours) the whole ruction, enmo, nn by en an explanation to the bishop, got me out but he paved me nve pounds tor the joke, any how tor the cash as flush with him so that I was very well ped for it an' says he, as he put the money into my hand, the thnck 1 played on you was because vou consinted to be a chat agin my father, that often bf (rinded Method of Catching Bulls in Spam. The grand entrance to the circus fronts the slfivl in an open space. On one aide of thi entrance run a wall, which encloses a large yard and the oiiiIioukc for the reception of the animals and the people employed in their management A large gate divides the wall and opens into the yard. From this gate to the opposite side of the street a temporary palisade is thrown, so as to impede the bulls in their progress, and oblige them to turn into the yard To manage a dozen of these horned sons of the forest in a city promenade, and induce them to present lhemele in a civic circus before five thousand people, is no very easy matter unaccustomed to civilized society, they pum alike man and his manners, despising every thing assimilated to order or ceremony, and will carry their headstrong opposition to all rule, even in the preseace of royalty itself. It is an enterprise requiring no ordinary degree of contrivance ingenious and curious as it is hazardous and courageous: for the very means adopted increase the animal's ferocity to the highest pitch.

But the accomplishing of it shows bow immeasurably superior to brute force is the power of human cunning The bolls are first decoyed from their native woods by tame cattle placed amongst them for the purpose. On the night before the combat, they, along with their more gentle associates, are driven into the town, where, as soon they find themselves enclosed by houses, they become furious, and run at all they meet. In order then, to induce them to follow the right way to the circus, a mounted picador, armed with a spear, rides up close to the raging animals and feigns to attack them. The bull dah at their assailant, who, on the instant, expertly wheels his horse and gallops away towards the circus, pursued by the whole prancing and bellowing troop. The picador, thus leading his desperate foes over the rough pauement to within a few yards of the palisades, turns sharply into the gates of the yard, the bulla at hi heel then darts through a small gate at the op posite side of the yard, which, as soon as he enters, closes after him by dropping from above, and thus stops the progress of his pursuers.

In this ride the picador is in great danger. Should his horse trip he must lie destroyed; and, considering the baldness of the pavement, it is wonderful that he escapes without a tall. The Spanish bridle, however, is calculated to support the horsut 'and the picador is always a perfect rider. It is yet necessary fix each bull in his particular stall. These tails are situated on the ground floor of an oblong building adjoining the circus.

Each is a cell of about eight feet long by six and placed opposite each other, at the sides of a long passage that leads from the yard to the arena, into which it opens by folding doors, and through which the bulla rush to the fight. To get the ungovernable tenants of these cells fairly in, and then out. appear, to one unacquainted ith the mean of managing them, an impossibility, ne tact is, every stall is in itself a trap, into which the bull having once entered, only leaves it to meet hi deadly foe. Once within the passage to the cells, he ha no choice but to proceed onwards, and resign himself to bis fate. At intervals in the passage are partitions that slide upwards by pulleys these are all raised while the bull is entering, and, as he passe onwards, they are one after the other dropped behind him, so that be is forced onwards, at it were, per fdium.

Whatever cell ia intended for him is left open he walk into it, seeking, no doubt, to escape, and at once the door of the cell, which is constructed like those of the piusage, drop down behind him, and he is enclosed. Duiing this operation not a human being appears before him. The force that secure him i erected by machinery on the floor above, where the multiplicity of ropes, and block, and wheels remind one of the complex cordagenf a ship. The bull no sooner finds hinuelf thus entrapped than he gives way to the most unbounded rage he roars, froths at the mouth, team up the earth with his hoofs, and butt with hi bom at the doot and the wall but resistance is all around him. while hi masters calmly look down upon his impotent efforts through holes made in th floor for that purpose.

My frieud who accompanied me from Gibraltar declared to me. that to look bull from the floor above, and observe the rolling of inetr glistening eye in uie uuu niui tu mara me brist ling of their tail, and listen to the half suppressed bellow of the brute, was a great a pleasnre to him a the fight itself. For Ay part, thought the light worth a lew moments, but no more however, my friend wondered aa much at my taste in this matter as I at his. would have stayed all day gazing at these favorite object every gesture of the unconquerable animal, every glance of their wild eye teemed to he understood uc not he the an to by him, and to Rwaten hi brent a pare' ts delight I 1 1 i iui sensation noil DOWriuljrsrJUara sVmtsXtBV ad association In stirring xip our iwM and feeling1 Combat wiih Bull. All waa in readiness.

Akxwoj TI Tm." ITtri MJSS Pbed Hamet. Thon GJ bVthr Mm. tou iww' aid Alo(l. m. be raid bu arm W.tca bnl.

truapet nve on clear and hollow hlaM. Ii cur .11 bu, th. obdum, Er. 0 ko of tnounUHM bad bnvhrd mmimc the wful cUnoo he b.rrieni were thrown opr; and wiUione bound lha baret Wilh unwed pawed the ground with hi broad boob, but did advance to the combat. He was black in color and therefore bad be been named WhiUt thus stood, Ud cries arose from the circus, The were trange and mingled, aom teemed ottered in joy that animal showed tittle symptoms of being willing lor id mure brutal rortuguese.

However. those true lover of the game, who ouuld fucgec even humanity in their anon. creeled the creature with yells, boots, and hissing since it was always deemed infallible mark of cowardice in the bull if he did not instantly attack bis foe. Hsmet was ready to receive him hi wood knife in bis hand, hi eye fixed on his enemy. Hi fine person drawn to it utmost height, every muscle in bis slender limb seemed to swell and show lis power, a he stuod, like a greyhound on the slip." eager lor the hardy encounter.

The bull hav uig been irritated by fuming dog out upon him. (a usuai practice wnetiever the animal allowed sot delnv in the attack,) now sufficiently convinced all tbespec laiurs lost acn oelay waa not irom want or spirit with an aspect full of savage fury, he lathed his ud. With hi kfnal I I I. hoof and horn, and darted forward toward Hsmet. I good, it mere is any uenciency ii rauw The youth, by leaping with an agility alone to be com 1 cribed to the system itself and not to those upon pareo to we nimme looted chamois, a it spring irom I rock to rock, endeavoring, but in vain, to avoid the rontinoed pursuit of the bull his eye ever watchful or the moment ot attack Io such moment occurred and it seemed evident that his life would terminate with the time in which he should become spent and breath less from the violent exertion he made to preserve it Hassan saw this.

He classed hi bands together in a pony he looked up to heaven he uttered fearful cries, that mineled even with his prayers. He ill die he will die!" exclaimed Hassan. "Oh.fbr an angel's win to waft him hence in safety Mortal aid is there none to save him. But see. prophet of Mecca what a daring art! He has seized the terrible animal by the horns; he sutlers himself to be dragged round the arena, now he bangs by one hand he stabs him in the throat the hlod spouts like a fount of waters but the brute still live.

Iiok Hsmet rails from his hold God save thee. He is up again! he is on bis feet Oh. Allah, how I thank thee He flies he flies 'but look the brute is mad with fury, gored with wound. See how he tears up the sand. He follow he follows: bow will Hametescape He bss driven the youth close tn the barrier there i no escape, no hope he most fall Me talis not.

he tails not exclaimed Usui in. un noble Hsmet At this instant a loud, continued, and deelening shout of applause shook the arena; fir Hs met. hold, active, quick ot eye, and vigorous ot limb, with one hound, the very instant the bull was about to toss him on his horn, sprang on the animal back, and leapt over him. He ran forward. Nero bad already received more than one stab from the knife.

None of them, however, reached any mortal part still he bled last, end there was hope. couM Haraet but keep him at bay till the creature was somewhat spent by loss of Diooa, ne might even yet despatch him. so great was the interest excited in the breast of the spectators, that many called out to him to make for the extremiiy of the arena, under tlie king's pavilion, as being furthest remo ved Irom his enemy. The bull had, indeed, turned gain to the pursuit; and that with so much fierceness. the last ettnru ot his rage, that the sight of it impressed horror, tin blood streamed from bis Hanks he bounded, rather than ran, forward with dreadful bellowing tie shook his neck and sides, tossed the sand in his career, whilst volumes of smoke arose from his mouth and a wtrilu Htmet.

as a final effort, determined tokpnng upon turn and lor that purpose, when within a lew yards of the bull, turned to confront him. His lout slip ped he tell and Ue kmte dropped rom his hand. All hope fled for at that instant he stood ciose to the barrier, which cut off all retreat, and the wild bull was making towards him, wilb liead bent to gore him to death with his horns. A cry of horror arose from the arena. Hsmet sprung up.

There as no escape. Ines de Cas tro tat immediately above the spot wliere the youthtul moor was in so much danger Quick in feeling and in thought, she tore from her shoulders the crimson man tle in which she was wrapt, and threw it into the arena with so true a hand, that Hamet caught it cast it over the bull's head as he prepared to gore him and ere the heat could disentangle himse 1 from the blind thus thrown over him, Hsmet recovered his knife, that lay closeat his feet, arid struck it into I he spine His migtitr enemy fell, a convulsed corps. From the Moore Por 2T21TI2JG POST. FK1DAY. FEBRUARY II.

Mr. Ccanbi rime's vole on the Judiciary Bill. The enemies of Mr. Cambreleng have attempted to raise a cla moragaitiKt him on account of bis vot? on the hill from the Judiciary Committee, fur repealing that section of the judiciary act which allow suits to be carried up by writ of error from the state cou to the Supreme Cburt of the United States. Thinking highly as we do of Mr.

Cambreleng' service as a representative from thi city, we should be unjust both him and the community, were we to permit any misrepresentation on this point to pass without contradiction and exposure. We have the best authority for saying that Mr. Cambreleng ia not in favor of the repeal of the 25th section of ihe judiciary act. On the contrary, he is decidedly against tuch a repeal. Neither did be vote in taor ot the passing of the bill brought foward by the committee.

He simply voted against rejecting it without inquiry. It is his opinion th: the friend of the Supreme Court ought desire some amendment which might save it from being comvelltd to issue citations to stats in castas where no state in the union will obey them. Such, foriustance.is the controversy between the state of New York and "Yew Jersey, in which Now York has refused to take any notice of the process such is also the case of Tassels, in which the process was abated simply by banging the Jeiinq ent and such might be the cae if any attempt were to be made to interfere with tlie laws of our own state in relation to the Senecs. Oueidas, Ac. The tendency of this neglect of the process of the Supreme Court is, in Mr.

Cambreleng' opinion, to weaken the respect which that tribunal ought to be regarded and he therefore thought the practice bility of such an amendment as we have mentioned worth enquiry at Itast. Il it could he made, consistently with the preservation of the ordinary forms of process, he thought it necessary, and voted against the peremptory rejection of the bill in order to get at the question in like manner, as although decidedly against he reptal of the sugar duty, he yet voted for the consideration ot Mr. Haynes's resolution, in order to obtain a reduction of the duty. This explanation of the matter we do not address to party zealot, but to the candid and just of all parties in this city, with whom it will have it due weight. Supply of the Poor.

The Commissioners of the Alms House, ho ere charged by the Corporation with the duty of administering relief to the poor of the city, have recently had a very arduous duty to perform. The number that have applied for relief since the 19th of January, is almost incredible. It is dated upon the authority of official records kept by clerks who minuted down the names of individuals who applied for and received relief from the commissioners, that the number on Tucd ly lat. exceeded tventeen hundred. It is also stated lhat on the Saturday previous, the number of persons personally applying for relief, exceeded fifteen hundred.

The Commissioners during the week ending on Wednesday last, distributed among poor applicants, seven hundred and twenty loads of wood, besides potatoes and donations of money. They have altogether since tho commencement of the late severe weather on the 9th of lujt month, distributed among the poor of the city, upwards of three thousand loads of fire wood, besides two thousand five hundred bushels of potatoes, and about fiftocn hundred dollars in money. They have during the same ume, provided an asylum in the Alms House for upwards of six hundred persons, who were without families and could better be provided for in that public institution, than supported out of doors, The wood provided by the commusiouers, of which they estimate that they have enough on hand to last them until the first of March, was purchased by them in the summer at one dollar and thirty seven cent per load, and ia represented to be of the beat quality of oak that could be purchased in that region of country through which the Delaware and Hudson canal passe, and which constitutes the best wood for fuel that i brought to our market. When to the relief which is thus extensively afforded by the public authorities, we add the voluntary aid which ha been extended by every ward in the city toward the relief of the poor, and for which purpose probably about twenty thousand dollar has been raised and expended in thi city during the preceding month, we rasy form some opinion of the great distress which generally prevail among the poorer classes of our citi zen at the present time. The severity of the weather has been snch as to close our city upon the introduction of fuel, which in now at a price entirely too high to be obtained by the poor unless by the aid of charity.

Although these verity af the weather ha somewhat abated. our city is inaccessible to vessels with supplies of wood, and the subscription which have been voluntarily raised in the wan! have been in a great measure expended, while the necessities of the poor are a pressing and as urgent a they were when the subscriptions were first undertaken. Several of the wards are reconvening public meeting, for the purpose of obtaining the fund ojeceawry to the continued relkC of their poor. It ataied by he Coouxuauooef of ti AluwMMiae, I that them are now betwaen twnty and twenty eveo hundred peraona in that inititutkm, betide vp ward of aeven ondrad the penitaatiary. Sihj Crima.

From the returns of the keeper! or the Bridewell or bouse of detention, it appears, that I during the year 1830, there were 5550 persona commit ted to prison, of which number 664 were subsequently sent to the penitentiary as vagrants, and 33 to the House I of Refage; 414 were taken in charge by the commis loners of the Alms house; tt54 were turned over to tne court tor trial, and the remainder 2I6 were di 1 charged from imprisonment by the police magistrate. With respect to those whose eases were sent to court for trial, it appear from the return published by us a few day since, that there were 773 sentenced to impri sonment upon their conviction, independent of a great number who were discharged on the payment of fines, security for their good behaviour, 4 c. Whatever may be aaid of our present system of criminal jurisprudence, it must be confessed by every candid individual who disposed to give an examinatiun to the subject, that it is conducted with great propriety, and an especiil regard to the interest of this growing community. The individuals, with probably sot a single exception, who are charged with the administration of the criminal law from the incipient stages of the proceedings to their final termination, appear to be actuated by the best of motives, and conduct their investigation with great assiduity, and an unwavering regard to the public waon th duty devolve of carrying it into effect. Perhaps the time has arrived, when, from a rapidly in creasing population and the necessary increase of crime in our city, some revision ia called for in the organisa tion of our criminal courts, as well as in the department of the police.

The present system has been in prac tice many years, and however well it may have been accommodated to a comparatively small and com pact population, such aa existed thirty years ago. it is admitted be inadequate to the exigencies of the present day. The three individuals who are now dis charging the duties of police magistrate, together with their clerks, are constantly engaged, from the discharge of the watch in the morning until they are again put on duty in the evening, without the relaxation permitted to other officers occupying official stations lea distinguish ed and less important to the public than the one assign ed to them. The accumulation of bus ines has been such as not UDfrequently, in the course of the day. to require each of the three magistrates to pursue the exa mination of a different case at the same time; and it must be evident to the most casual observer that it can not well be otherwise, when it is considered that the number of persons committed to prison during the past year amounted to 5550, nearly all of whom, if not the whole, underwent an examination by the police roagis trates.

hen to these are added innumerable state idhiiI of cases, frivolous a well a real, on the part of compiuii iits, it must be obvious that there are few of ficers in the state whose duties are so arduous, or re quire so constant a devotion of time to public business. as the one of which are speaking. The number of person discharged from imprison' ment by the Police MagUtrates during the year, being 2186, may appear to one but superficially acq usiitled with the subject, a unusually large. Upon a closer in vestigation however it will be found, that these are persons who have been committed uuder some of the following circumstance 1st. Suspicion of crime.

which a subsequent examination removed. 2d. The commission of some offence, such as unaggravated as saults and batteries, and disobedience of apprentice to their masters, for hich commitments are allowed, and which by law the complainant can discontinue. 3J Vagrants or other brought up in a state of intoxica tion, aa they may be found about the wharves, markets, streets or other public places, and who are discharged when they become sober, either upon promise of reformation, security to be of good behavior, or other vise in the discretion of the Magistrates. These classes of case comprehend much of the lea important character of business transacted in the office, and are altogether irueperable from the present state of society Although nineteen twentieths of these cases are eora parativelyglrivolous, yet they are not entirely, so as to justify the Magistrates in refusing to entertain them.

They conseq tenlly look large in the aggregate of num ber at the end of the year, ithout adding any thiag materially to the catalogue of crime. It is in contempla km to remove the police office from its present location in the City Hall, to more commo dious and convenient apartments, now fitting up in the inalitution which front on Chamber street. When this removal lakes place, it is intended by the magis trate to make sundry improvement in the govern ment of the office, and the transaction of the public bui which the present illy contrived and inconvenient ac cemmodations wdl aot admit of. Our Hint." We are much pleased to be informed of the increasing influence of our old and respectable neighbor, the Mercantile Advertiser, particularly as its influence is directed to such worthy objects. If the Cor poration or the rascally lamp lighters neglect their duty and leave our benighted city in total darkness, a gentle hint does but appear in the Mercantile, and lo, the next night a blaze of light extends over the whole lamp district.

So, alter a heavy fall of snow, the Mercantile merely recommends iu readers to clear off the side walks, and the next morning we have the gratification to perceive in it columns a notice from the editors stating that the community had very generally taken their hint. An ignorant person might impute the clear ing away of the snow partly to the effect of the law and the penalty attached to neglecting to do so, and partly to a sense of obvious propriety and spirit of mutual accommodation, were it not that the Mercantile is so prompt to set the matter right, and let every body know that it was all owing to our hint." Since the hints of our contemporary are so potent, we are glad that it perseveres in giving them. The following ia from the Mercantile of this morning Cold and biting weather mill prevails, and firewood continues rce and dear We are glad to observe that yesterday our lnenda the termers, residing in the vicinity, took our hmt, and exhibited in Broadway many fine team load of excellent wood fuel, which brought a very high price. VY recommend them to persevere. A our neighbor of the Mercantile publish no coun try paper, the above announcement must be considered aa a striking evidence of their wonderful influence Although the same Ain( was previously given in at least half a dozen paper having an extensive country circu lation, it produced no effect till printed with the magical types of our neighbor, when the farmers immediate ly took the bint, though they do not take the paper, and Broad yvay was next morning Tilled with wood.

We have met with but one instance of analagout in fluence. The author of the Heiress of Bruges, which the Harper have just published, states in a supplementary note, that after he had sent his work from Brussels to London to be printed, he discovered that one of the incidents wa almost identical with an incideut in Scott's Old Mortality, a book which he had never read till some time after his own had been transmitted to England. In apologising for thi accidental resem blance, Mr. rattan ssys, Such incident a thi may, however, tell him Sir Walter Scott of the deep influ ence hi writing have excited, even in those who are not his intentional copyists, but who catch, unknown to themselves, the reflection of hi tone, and (if I may so express it) the echo of his The influence of our neighbors of the Mercantile seems to be mewhat like ascribed to Sir Waller Scott. The farmers, without reading their paper, "catch the reflec tion of their tone, and Ihe echo of their imagination or, in other words, take their hint.

In the hope to be humbly instrumental in the same good work, we have copied above the cabalistic words of the Mercantile, which may not, perhaps, loae all their virtue, transferred to our column. Great Eclipse of Feb. 121. The great solar eclipse of 1831 will take place to morrow. We have placed on the first psge of ibis paper an article, from the Bor ton Daily Advertiser, giving a history of the different appearance of this eclipse, from the year 803 to the present time, and a table of the time of it future recurrence up to the year 2063.

It will be next Visible in this country in 1883. The eclipse of to morrow ia annular in eleven of the United States, of fvhicb New York is not one. With us, therefore the eclipse will not be central, about Hi digit being obscured on the un' southern limb, and a mall Qres cent on hi northern edge, consisting of about one twenty fourth part of the disk remaining uncovered by the interposing orb ot the moon. The eelipse a observed in thi city is the greatest since 1783. and somewhat larger than that of 1806.

We advise all who wish. to observe it to be careful of doing it with the asked eye. Many eye were Injured in 1806 by want of caution in this respect. Smoked glasses hould be procured for the purpose. Hit.

Pike, the optician, ha publwhedaneograved pn jection of the eclip, showing the proportion of the disk oflhesun which is obscured. The Southern. Review. are glad to leant lhat the Southern Bevien i to be coroiaued, with the uterai th km TonJy ndmbef. tbat on fid fiiat of Pebns ary.

TbsT pablisber bos' informed ane uDennera to work'that th thirteenth rrimber will be tasned on tba sttat af Mat ihif the publicatioa) will lb he pla ced on a permanent basis, and will be punctually issued every qnartwr. "This intelligence. says the "Southern Pstsnt. wiir hs saliva! with much aatatfaction. The Southern' Review has already taken rank with the beat a uanerf periodical, and ha been justly apprecuv herever the English language is read, and science literature ComeWgr Philadelphia rorrespon 1 jun.

inCmn that the testimony in lb ease of Com modore Creiehtoo eked day before yesterday, and the witaee. after upward, of five weeks attendance, were discharged The defence will be read on Monday next. after which the Court will probably it a few day to de liberate on the immense mass of testimony given by nearly sixty wiinessea. Wo have been Irom time to time advised of the proceeding of the Court, and the particular of the evidence, but have forborne publishing Jm, I any thing on the ubiect. a manifestly improper during I the pendency of the trial There are nwim wiumi iub i rnima, performed the excursion oi wanting irom nor personal knowledge of the writer of this paragraph, a I wich to the top of Ascnlney Mountain, in one day, in statement of which would fully rebut the tendency of an article which we were sorry to see in a respectable Philadelphia paper, and which wa obviously calcula ted to produce the impression that Commodore Creigh ton was an injured and persecuted man.

The telf taught Grammarian or Fam'dy Grammar. This ia the title of a large printed sheet which ha been left with a for a notice. The object of it is to teach grammar at a glance. The author or inventor atates that "for reason the most self evident, the Family Grammar is what every family needs." If thi ia so. it will command an extensive sale without our recom mendation.

It is printed in a sheet form instead of that of a book, in order that it may be bung up in a room in the manner of a map and by thi economical contri vance a whole family, old and young, may aet them selves to studying grammar at the same Height of our MimnfamM. The Vermont Republican contain a table of the altitude of the principal moun tains iu New England and the slates of New York and New Jersey, furnished by Capt. Partridge. This gentleman has announced his intention of recommencing his Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy at Nor wich, in Vermont, on the first of June next, and has ad dressed a letter to the pubhc, giving an account of the principle on which he intends to eondur: hi institu tion, the principal peculiarity of which is the education of the physical aa well aa the intellectual nature of his pupils. The following is the account given by Capt.

Partridge of the method adopted by him for dtarmining the heights of the White Mountain, and the other emi nence situated in the interior, above tide water. I first determined the height of the Military Academy at Norwich. Vermont, above West Point, by taking the mean of about 2500 observations, made at the latter place, and of about BOO made at the former. The height of West Point, above tide water, had been previously determined, which addep to the height ot the Academy above tide water. Having established the altitude of this position by such a number ot observations, made it the standard, and commenced my observations from it, which were extended to the summits of the various mountains and eminences to be measured, by which means their altitude above this point were determined.

and consequently the altitudes above thei ommon stand ard, tide water, were Known. A table containing the altitudes of mountains and emi nence, determined irom xtarometrical and 1 herrao metncal observations, bv A. raruidge. IN LOWER CANADA. Fret above tide water.

Mount Royal, above the St. Lawrence 676 Do. do. ab 'vetliesiteoftheManstonHouse. 629 Th" Heiifhts of Point Levi, opposite Quebec, 310 mount Koyal is situaied near the city ot Montreal, 1 Cannda, which it commands.

The Mansion House is one the princip.il hotels in the city. "Above the surface of the St. I awrence. NEW BRUNSWICK. Gxand Fourche Mountain, 1,336 Paradise Mountain, 1,309 Boar Mountain, 1,320 These mountains are on the Grand Portage, between St.

Andre, on the St. tawrrence, (about 1 17 miles below Quebec 0 and Lake Teniiscouali. They divide the water flowing northerly into the St. Lawrence, from those flowing southerly, into the St. John's and the Atlantic Ocean.

MAINE. Mars Hills North Peak, Hills, I Peak 1,501 Mars Hill is an isolated eminence, situated abont one mile and six chains due West from the East boundary of the United States, within the limits of the state of Maine COUNTRY FROM POINT LEVI TO HALLOW ELL. IN MAINE. Monument on the Highland, 2,002 1st height S. of the Monument, 1,952 1st heights, of Moose River, Sd height of Moose River, The Monument ia situated on the height of land which divide the water flowing northerly into the St.

Lawrence, from those flowing southerly into the Atlantic. The altitudes are estimated above the St. Lawrence at Point Levi. The altitude across tirand Portage were estimated above the Sc. Lawrence at St.

Andre. NEW HAMPSHIRE. Mount Washington. 6,23 Do. do.

above Crawford's House, 5,022 Io. do. do. Crawford a Encampment, 33 Oct i. anove the toot ol the bald part ot the moun tain, 2,352 Mount Pleasant, 4,713 Do.

above Crawford House. 3,501 Mount Washiniton is the most elevated of the White Mountain, which are situated in the northeast part of iew Hampshire. It is probably the highest mount iiu on this side of the Mississippi. I have ascended it three times, and have been amply rewarded for the fatigue by the extent and grandeur ot the prospect, itiount lea sant is a beautiful eminence lo the south of Mount Vv ashington, towards the Notch. Moose HMNonSK 4,536 4,636 Mount Kearsaree.

8,461 Mouse Mountain. IJarunouiii College. VERMONT. Mansfield Mountain, gj. 4G0 3,933 4,034 Camel' Rump, Shrewsbury Peak.

Measured trigonometrically in June, 1823, by pro lessor Lhinbar, ot the A. Is and M. Academy, now one of the principals of the New Jersey Scientific and Military Institution at Orange. KUlington Peak, 3,924 Manchester Mountain, 3,706 Ascutney Mountain, Highest part of the Green Mountain range on the Turnpike. Do.

do. Peru Turnpike, 1.944 Do. do. Keves Turnpike. 1,883 Sawyer' Mountain.

853 Fairlee Mountain, 808 American literary. Scientific and Military Academy at Norwich, 430 Vermont University at Burlington, 245 Above the surface of Lake Cbantplain. Gregg' Hill in Norwich. 1,507 IN THE STATES OF N. YORK N.

JERSEY. Round Top, 3,804 High Peak, 3,718 These Peak are situated about 20 miles nearly west from Catskill village. They are probably the highest in the Catskill range of mountains, as well as in the stale of New York. Catskill Mountain House, 2.S14 This establishment is well worth visiting. The scenery is grand and beautiful.

Crow5 Nest, 1,418 Butter Hill. 1,529 1,484 1,471 1.5S5 1,350 1,187 935 866 598 Bull Hill, Old Beacon, New Beacon, Bare Mountain, Break Neck, Anthony' Nose, Sugar Loaf, Fort Putnam. West Point Plain, 188 These are the most celebrated eminence of the High land of New York, itnated between Peekakill, on the South, and Fishkill on the North a distance of about 16 mile. Thev are generallv huge masse of rocks, pre senting a precipitous and craggy front towards the South while on the lonn sines, tne aspect is less loroiooing, and they are on this side generally covered with timber. Their altitude were determined during the year 1810, '11, and '12, by mc, accompanied by toe Cadets of the Military Academy, at West Point, Mount Mitchell, the Highest of the Neversink, 282 Candle Hill, the second highest of the same, 275 The Highland of Neversink are situated Monmouth county, New Jersey.

They are a eelebrated landmark for vessels coming into New York from the South. They were measured by me in 1816, previous to which time they had been estimated to be 600 feet high. Tompkins' Hill, on Staten bland, 307 Hempstead HiH, on Long Island, 319 Hempstead HtU i aaid to be the highest Und on Long Island, and is a land mark for vessels coming in from the Eastward. The Craggy Cliff, nesr Weehawk ferry, Fort Lee, Fort Constitution, near Fort Lee, Lydecker'a Bluff, a Utile below Spiten Devil, The Bluff, a little below Spiten Devil, BomDev Heoks mike above Gioster Dock. 175 311 20! 407 479 517 549 The high Bluff, north of Bompey'a Hook, utocesier mountain, a tittle south et the territorial New York and New Jersey, latitude 41" South Peak of the Hook Mountain, a little North ofNyack, North Peak of tho same.

539 668 640 698 852 South Peek of the High Bluff, near Haventraw, North Peak of the same. Toum Mountain, near Judge Pierson's Factory, at luuumauuu, loi Fort W'asbington. on York Island, $38 Fort Try on, a Utile of Fort Washington, 229 These eminences are situated hetwrv Now York and tkttn the Highlands, and with the exception of the Toum Mountain, are visible from the Hudson River. Mount Defiance, near Ticotuleiioga, 720 Above the surface of Lske Champlain. Lake George, above Lake Champlain, 843 Note.

Mount Defiance is the terminatsna nfa mrki ridge, extending on the sast side of Lake George, between which and Lake Champlain. it fbixa an Inso perahle barrier. It at a huge pile of rocks, steep and precipitous otT the ert Vtowords lake Champlahy but of more gradual and eqsy ascent on the north and west mica, xne roue ia many places entirety Dare, while in others, it is covered with a thin layer of earth, and oveietuwo with ban he. The prospect from the summit i extensive ana muuiuk uu ro limited tho Green Motmtaine. which rue tn tun view.

with majestic grandeur. To the north ana soutn were an extensive view' ot Lake tjnampiain, ana oi a ncn and well cultivated tract of country while to the west the view is terminated, abruptly, by the rocky barren ndge to the west ot Lake ueorge. i ne out iurunca tioas at 1 imnrterora ana mount loaencnaence, appear almost under the feet of the spectator. Mount Defiance cannot fail to be an interesting object to every American so long a the event of the Kevolntionary war snail ne nmcmbcrcd remembered." The nossesnonoi una eminence in juiy. 1777, with a few cannon planted tn it summit, gave fn.

Burgoyne the compW croand of yoof "ur iminediaw and necessary abandonment by the Americans. 1 ne remains oi uie Hntish Blockhouse on the summit are still to oe seen. It Anem nnr unnmr tn he mora than 20 feet sauare. Kote. The allitude of Jlars; mil is osiimatea aoove the snrface of the riVer St.

Johns, at the mouth of the riwr De Ohnte. Nnt It shnnlit have been stated that Hiram r. ooawonn, rsq. nowuniienor oi miuioiiuu' tu. birMRH SchooL in South Ca Woodworth, Esq.

now professor of Mathematics and company with Mr. Horton. The following singular incident is related in the Boa ton Patriot of Tuesday. A Surmise. Some time laid week, a family in thi city received notice that a present from a daughter re cently married and sett led in Charleston, (o.

was on board a packet which had just arrived, it was procured from the vessel, and appeared to be a pretty stout box. (In onemnsr it thev were almost netnned at nna ing it con tained a corpse, which at first they thought that of their daughter. On enquiry, it was ascertained that two boxes were on board, bothot which were marKeu mus the mistake occurred. The corpse is believed to have been sent hither for bunal, to some afflicted lamny Extract of a letter from New Orleans, of 22d Janua ry, received by the Alabama. "Since mv residence in New Orleans I have never experienced such a long continued spell of cold weather ice has remained in our street tor ten days wiinoin melting.

A friend told me yesterday, that he had been informed by a gentleman of hi acquaintance, that the Bayou St. John was frozen over, that they were obliged to cut through the ice a passage for the boats. Our Orange. Lime and Lemon trees are all. we fear, entirely destroyed The trees yielded abundantly lost fall, for the first time once 1822.

when we lot them all by the frost on thenight of the 22d February it will take ten years to reinstate them. From the TVasJungtcn Telegraph. Feb. 9. Congress In the Senate, yesterday.

Mr. Benton ask ed leave to introduce a bill repealing the duty on alum salt, which he prefaced with a speech containing va rious tacts and arguments in support ot the measure; but before any question was taken as to granting leave. a question of order arose whether this bill could be con sistently introduced, theie being already a bill on the table for repealing the duties on a number of articles, among which was thht of oalt. Thiaqoestion was then. at theV'ggestion of Mr.

Hayne, laid over for eotwidera 4 'ton. The from the House of Kepreae tives. for the settlement of the accounts of James Monroe, waa read twice, and referred to a select committee, consisting of M. Hayne. Sanford.

Frelinghuyxen. Bel), and Iredell. The (senate then went into the consideration of executive business, and when the doors were opened adjourned. In the House of Representatives, a number ot bills from the Senate were received and acted upon subse quently tit which the Speaker laid before the Honethe annum report the coiumsioneraol the sinking und; which, on motion of Mr. M'Coy, was ordered to be print ed.

he speaker aloo announced the receipt of acorn nvmicstion from the War Deprtnent. on the subject of the United Elites' army, which waa referred to the Co.nmittee nn Militiry Affair. the motion of Mr. Drayton. The general appropriation bill was taken up and the amendment of Air.

stanberry to expunge the item ot 19000 lor the piyment or the salary ot the Minister to Russia, was ays in considered and debated, by Messrs'. Alexander. Penrce. Blair, of South Cnrulina liwight, Sturrs. of New York, Carson, Stauberry.

Buchanan, and Bates. At five o'clock the House adjourn ed. Mr. Archer has the floor upon this subject for tj day. LEGISLATURE OF KE YORK.

IN SENATE Wednesday. Feb. Mr. Tallmadge presented the petition of inhabitants of Ulster county for a bank at Sangerties. Mr.ce'ard.on notice, brought in a hill amendatory of article Zd, title zo ol the 1st chapter.

ine 34 part ot ihe revised slat ntea. Relative to certain proceedings in the court ot chancery. IN AS. EMBLI. Wednesday.

February, 9. Petitions. presented To prohibit hawking and pedillu.g domestic manufactures from other states to aaoliBh imprisonment lor dent; lor a bonk at sauna. Mr. BoCo rt, from the committee on trade and manu facture, made a report concerning tlie repjrt of the in spector ol Hour in the city ot rew I ork, which wa ordered to lay on the table.

Mr. Jennain. pursuant to notice, brought in a bill re lative to proceedings surrogate's courts and the settle ment of estate. Referred lo the committee on the judiciary. Mr.

Stillwell offered a resolution that the committee of ways and means, be directed to inquire into the propriety smendinf lb laws relative the assessment and collection of taxes, so as to provide against double taxation in cases of mortgaged property. Agreed lo. mil pessea in committee ol the whole Respecting cases in hicb judge of court are dis qualified from acting. The committee of the whole. Mr.

O.i in the chair, had under consideration the bill to abridge the terra of service and extend the privileges of firemen in ihe ciiv of New York, but rose and reported without taking the question auu naa leave to sit again. AOjoumed From the Savannah Georgian. Jan. 31s. FROM NASSAU The schooner Pomona arrived yesterday from "Nassau, has brought us the Gazette to ine ivin insi.

inclusive. The brig Margaret. Gissc master, from Bremen, hound to Havana, ha been wrecked on Harbor Island Part of the cargo, consisting of Dry goods has bean saved, in a damaged state, and carried to Nassau, where slso the master and crew have arrived. Tlie American brig Comet, Staple, master, from Alexandria. D.

C. bound to New Orleans, was wreck ed on Abaco. in the nutht otihezd inst. This vessel hsd on board 164 slaves who were going to Louisiana, and ho, together with several other passengers, hsve been saved from the wreck and arrived at Nassau previous to the 1 2th. Under the idea that there would be do difficulty in taking away person who had been ship wrecked, and allowing them to proceed to their own country, the agent purchased a large vessel for the purpose hich was ready for their imusediate accommodation, but on application at the Custom House lor per mission to transnip tnem.

mis was reiused, and they had to remain crowded in the little vessel that brought them from Abaco. during which a number of them es caped to the shore. A good deal of excitement wa created among the inhabitant, for fear these negroes would he let loose in tlie colony. On the 13th. the Speaker of the house of Assembly in his rolsss followed hv th Members.

wii. ed on the Governor with an address praying that the staves might not be detained from their owner, and particularly that so large a bodv of so dangerous a class of negroes, not at once be thrown in a state of newly acquired freedom upon the country, and tl.at the people mignt ne relieved irom the general panic existing for fear ot their manumission. The Governor in his replv say i What further measure it may be judged advisable to take with respect to the American Slave lately brought into thi port, by three of our wrecking vessels must depend upon the opinion of the Law officer of ine thrown, loundeu upon the evidence which will be iaio oeiore mm. i am confident that you will not ask, nor expect of me to act, in so important a matte otherwise than with all the ire urns pccliap the case appears to me to require. Whatever may be the opinion of the Crown Law yen: or whatever may be the decision of the tribunal to which the question concerning these slaves mav ul timately be referred, the House may depend upon my uutossjii cuuruiM tue preservauonoi inepuouc auilitv." Our latest paper' is of the 19th, which says" The Antenao negroes lately wrecked on Abaco, ere now under seizure in the Court of Vice Admiralty, having been taken out of the wrecking vessels that brought them to port, and removed on Saturday afternoon to Hog Island, opposite the town, where, we presume.

mtrjr etuevm su rciiiuiif uqut uieir case is aeciueu on in the Court." The negroes were shipped and probably owned by franklin oe A in held, ol Alexandria. A passenger of me isomei, no come in toe roraona, continns the lorn going statement. From the Charleston Courier, Feb. 2. From Havana.

The schr. Hitty Tom. CsDt Rich. ardson. arrived this fnreuuon, made her run from the castle to Charleston lsight i louse, in 74 hour.

having been on our bar since Sunday. She sailed on the morning of the S3th ult. Letter by ber, mention no particular news. Coffee ia said to be by mean abundant and the demand continue good. Thi was expected to be the case, until the orders for the t'nitsd States should be filled, slter which it could not be calculated on.

as the European prices did not warrant the going rates at Havana. The crop was expected to prove a vrry snort one, oaiea ot prime were made on the 26th at 81 a 9 dollars. In Sugar, there wa little doing 51 91 rial were only offered for the article, lor Europe. The crop would be large. There has been no cargo sale of Rice, sine our last account ot the Zia ult.

From th National InUllireneer. Feh. 9. We have been permitted to take a copy of the following letter, from Mr. Adams to a gentleman of this citv.

for publication. The subject iteelf is interesting, but that interest is greatly enhanced by the scientific and instructive manner in which the subject is treated bv the distingusshad writer. The letter, it may be proper to mention. ws euciiea uv louowing circumstance. Several year ago, the gentleman referred to, had the pleasure of passing a day with Mr.

Adams, in Massachusetts, during which, some turn in the conversation led the latter to speak of the pro pert ie of platina, and the advantages which that metal possessed for coin. fcc. The appearance a lew day aguofan article in a New York paper, motioning the recent coinage of thi msi by the Raeaiao Goveniraeot, reminded the gentleman of tne observation ot nr. Adam ne sent him the paper, and the following letter was the consequence. We have not a copy of the artiale seierred to.

or we would insert that also, for the better understanding of the subiect WAaHtrroToir. Ifebruary 7, 1831. Dear Srr Accent my thank for the kind mssmV ion of the Evening Post, oonuimnf the very interesting' article upon the new Russian Platina Coin and also for reminding me of one of the most pleasant day that I renumber to have passed, although the conversation ivspectuig the us of Ptaljn for cotuageuad escap I ed my rocol lection. The project of coining PlaUna was, it not or, giswJly conceived, lunt eageri? pursued by lb I late very ingenious) Dr. Erick Bolhmsa.

Jo the year 1815, be presented a Memoir upon this subject to several of ihe Governments of Earope to France, Great Brf" lam, and Austria, as 1 think he fumselt imlorroed roe. Thoapeeinc gravity and hitense solidity of Platina, render it in some degree unmonaseable for coining. The usual instruments employed at Mint tor gold and silver not being of sufficient power tn stamp distinct impression npon the metal. Dr. Bohlman bad ineoled an in irttraent adtqante lo that purpose and at the Mint in raria naa caused to he struck impress km is ol several ot the medals of Napoleon, some of which he exhibited to me.

The peculiar advantages to the general commerce or tne world which might be derived from the introduc tion oi rialina In coinage, appear to toe to be so great, that I have been surprised that tlie nronosals of Dr. Bohlman had not been successful in but applications to tne enlightened governments ot those great and commercial nations to which they were addressed and it is wiib greuisatisiRCliun that I have learnt that the Imperial Government of uuia has at length carried this idea into execution. There are two points of view in which it appear lo me that the coinage of Platina must be emi nently useful. As an intermediate coin of propor tional value neiwecn gold and silver. Without pretend ing to precise accuracy, we may assume lite proportion al value of gold and silver to be of 16 to 1.

TLe value ot rlstina as an article of merchandize is as nearly as possible a geometrical mean proportion between these two quantities that is to say. one pound trov weight of Piatina is worth in the market about four und of pure stiver, ami one quarter ot a round ot pure gold The advantages A such an intermediate coin between the two precious metals heretofore ued for a circulating medium, are so obvious, that I necl not expatiate upon them. 2d. The specific grav ity oi Platina si cures to it aa vantage lor tho purposes of coinage not even posse. ed by gold and silver.

It cannot be counterfeited In the article iu the Evening Post, it is mentioned that the six rouble piece is about the size of a cent. Iu specific gravity is not mentioned, but it must be nearly about the weight of a dollar add if so, you may readily conceive how impossible it would be to find a metal upon which to counterfeit a coin which would impress iu purity upon the hand of the receiver merely by its weight. Another property which render this metal peculiarly fit for ooinsge. is the durability of its impression. Gold silver rm 1 a Fi a In Inss) thai, alum rw j6 ninsk rtf substance by circulation; from the impenetrability of D1i L.

1 i i .1 i i.ii,, i. luuvu uh usuHHiuia ui ueiug il vis wvru out and wasted by passing from hand to hand. Under its highest polish, it is difficultto discern from the color alone the difference between platina and silver. The standard measure of length and of weight of the modern French system, the metre and the killogramrae. are oi piatina exact rac smules ot them are deposited in our Department of State and it would require the eye of a practised silversmith to distinguish them at once from silver; but no person can take them into the band for an instant without perceiving that thev are a far different metal.

Tlie specific gravity of platina being nearly double that of silver. There ia an error in the article of the Evening Poet with regard to the value of the Russian silver rouble, which, by the weight of pure silver that it coruaim, is worth a small fraction less than seventv five cents. The six rouble piece therefore, instead of 4 dollar and 62 cents, ia worth a fraction less than 4 dollars and a half. The present silver coinage of Russia is regulated by an ukass of the Emperor Alexander, of the year 1810; and the silver roubles have stamped upon them not only their specific weight, but the exact quantity of pure silver which they contain. It ia to be presumed, that the inscription upon the nlatina coin, mentioned in the Evening Post, is of a similar character.

The value of one grain, troy weight, pure gold, is about 4 cent Hist 01 one grtin ot silver, ot a cent; in the relative proportion before mentioned, between these metals, one grain troy weight of platina is worth as nearly as possible, 1 cent and a dollar coin in that metal would weigh precisely or very nearly 100 grains troy weight allowances an? of course to be made for alloy. Our silver quarters of dollars should weigh 104 grain each but a dollar in its specific gravity, would of course not be oi' so large a size it would probably not much exceed that of a 12 lr cent piece. The introduction of Piatina as a coin, any considerable extent, would probably increase its relative value in the markt How far this Deration might be anticipated, I am not able to foresee. The metal itself of recent discovery, and hitheito.it appears, that, in the production of it, nature has been uncommonly parsimonious. But a a new mine of it has been discovered in the Ural Mountains, it is uot improbable that the rise in value hich would follow from the extended use of the metal, would be counterbalanced by a corresponding increase of the sunolv.

It is remarked in the article of the Evening Post, that there is no head of theEmperoT np these Platina coins. There bss been no bead of the Sovereign upon any of the Russian coins since the reign of the Empress Catharine. Her son and successor was deterred, as perhaps he uinagni, irom his head to appear upon his coins, by a religious scn.ple, and he substituted for it a legend from the Psalms Not unto us Not unto Whether the same scruple bas been inherited by his sous, may be matter of conjecture but neither Alexan der nor Nicholas could be actuated by another motive wnicn ine criiics ascnoea to faul, the consciousne that his head was not a desirable object of exhibition. J. Q.

ADAMS. From the Philadelphia Chronicle. A gentlemen ho came passenger in the stage from onmingwn. (uei.j yesieraay atternoon. states, that a violent concussion was felt there at about eleven o'clock on Tuesday evening, accompanied with a great light in the direction of New Castle he also say persons who went to the Utter place to aacertain the cause, mentioned that the shock was also fi lt there, whence the light appeared in tlie direction of Fort Delaware on the Pea Patch.

It is conjectured some part of that Fort wa oiown up. NEW ORLEANS, Jn. 18. The launch of the ship Pearl, arrived in this port on Sunday last, was lost in crossing the bar of Tampico, on board of which were the mate, three seaiaeri and twenty two passenger, all of whom perished. BALLSTON SPA, Feb.

8. Unfortunate Occurrence We are informed that a child of Mr. Henry Ruggles of east Poultoey, Vt. lost iu life on Tuesday last, iinik tlie following painful circumstances Mr. Jonas Lanuoa, a young man residing under ihe same roof, hsd some six or eight week previous, loaded a pistol, hich be subsequently, several times, vainly endeavored lo discharge.

At the unfortunate time alluded to. however, while making an effort to disengage the rod which was firmly fastened in the barrel, the pistol exploded, and its contents, rod passing through the hand of the father, Mr. Boggle, and the arm of Ihe little sufferer, were lodged in the child's body, and soon pa: an end to it life. CINCINNATI fOhio.) Feb. I.

Counterfeiters Detected. la consequence of information obtained from a prisoner, on Sunday last, the Jailor, ihe Marshal, and several other police officers, proceeded to a rendezvous of tho gang, about nine miles hrlow town, hich they surrounded, where they fouud and seised on a press, and arrested several of the suppo ed counterfeiters On oisa of the captives, a female, tlie sum of $2,800 was found, in counterfeit five dollar Dills on Brancbesof the United States B.ank. The plate oowrver, irom wotcn tne impression weie made, ha not yet ocen discovered, hacoMirr wa arrested, a mong other concecued ia this nefarious Long hland Sound Clsfd. Thursday. Feb.

10 A gentleman residing at Thing' Neck. Westchester, has obligingly given us the following information. He stales that the ice is solid, and several feet thick, across Ihe Sound to Long Island, and that loaded carts ia. great numbers pass and repass from the main land ihs island, at all places from Throg's Neck to Whites tone lerry, a distance of about two miles. Below Whiie stone, IuvyssiIm New York, the ice appear almost solid for several miles, occasionally open places are seen.

To the Eastward, the ice about a week ago waa so firm, lhat foot passengers passed from Sands Point lo Throg' Neck Light since lhat period rhe ice has becoiS more broken. There is but one vessel fror.eu in. which is a packet bound to Boston. Our difortuam states that the Sound has not been entirely frozen over, nntil the present lime, for seven years occasionally floating ice has lodged and prevented the passage for a dav or two, but lhat steam boats have passed and repassed" every week" He considers the ice more firm than il has been for the last thirty years, and at present there is not the least prospect of (he Sound being navigable fof tame time Daily Adv. AVsj Vort Marine tpital The comptroller baa made a report to the legislature, agreeably to the resolution of Jan.

10. from which the following ia taken. Received by the health cummistiiourr during 1330, from passengers and craws arriving at New ork from foreign port $47,663 00 From vessels coastwise 3.106 25 50,771 25 1.269 28 Deduct for collection fees 21 per cent. Am't collected by Jacob Morton, clerk of the common council of N. Y.

and paid to the health commissioner, after deducting 10 per cent, foi collection 1.307 70 Collected by J. S. Westervelt at quarantine ground. 2 16 75 Am't of expense lo be deducted, 113 48; leaving 103 27 Total receiut for ihn cms IRSn 50,913 04 There baa been expended during the year, for salaries, wages, medicine, Are 39.0S6 95 This last amount includes 83 rm row! i ik refuge. Common Council.

A snecial msstins mon Council was held last evening: Hi. Honor the Mayor slated that he had culled thi special meeting in consequence of a communication made to him hS individual, dating that be wa willing to dispose of rurolv sews i iuh iuK booui iaur miles tram the city. Hi Honor also taicd. lhat the application to the Commissioners of the Aim Hons to purchae wood, were very numerous. Since however, he called this meeting, he had learned, that the owner of the wood expected to receive about S3i per load, uncut, hich wa.

deemed much too high. Aid. 1, Brown said, that ia re an7 cause of present 'rra Ja Commissioner of the Alms House had on hand on Tuesday night 1900 loads of wood ami by tetr calculation there would be remaining on Monday next at least 1000 load He felt conBdent that before the present stock would beeThaw.ted.tho weather would become milder. Aid. Brown proposed that the subiect should be refi rred to a committee he.

for hi part, thought would not be prudent to purchase it at a higher rate than two dollar a load.if coukl he got at that price, then it would he an object to purchase. Aid. Seaman, saw no necessity lo. apjoolnt a Committee. Mr.

Mandeville said that Anthracite Coal might be in troduced among the poor citizen with great advantage. Mr, Brysntt said he irnderstoud that wood oould be bought for two dollar a load in the immediate vicinity and that offer had. been made to that effect Mr. Eog stated tha advantage of small grates for Anthracite which mishtSsssitv Kmwht in i. OsOtia; the poor he hotssd mnu means snnlil tvs ed to effect the end he suggested.

Mr. Towneend rose to offer leaolutiun to appropriate pot to exceed fttQOO, to be expended by a select among the deserving poor, when a motion lo adjourn, wa made, and cat nod almas unanimous.lv. Ths Rjosri ttv.r. ssJjTOrned till Mood7 next. Afr.

Adv. The desire to see Master Burk fa Boston is CL. that tbeboxe have been ditMxsad aim A1 Tuesday one half the boxes were sold at 22 forth eighth night of hi eagagement, aid btwumt luiiuiuuiu eiio aoovo tne naaat fane. SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED 8TATPO Sls.Sn.J.. 1191 Present as veaSerdav.

No et 1 Plaiatifts in Erro. Joseph b. aark, lo error It the Circa CWf.V; District of Columbia Mr. Chief Justice MjslHd livered the opinion of thi Court, tffimiis. tk.

mem of the said Circuit Court in this cause with On motion of Mr. Sedgwick, Andrew 8. Garr. of York, was admitted aa Attorney and CounsTL' No. 27.

Ja SheDpard.etah AeDslUnis Taylor, et al Tin argument of this cause wiTT UJ m. Major, IUI MM Appellant. Adjourned till Monday, It A M. Moxdat. Fkbbuaky 7, 1631.

Present the whole Court, No. 6. Townseod p. Pytnn.et. al.

Appellant, Joseph Stith. On appeal trot the Circuit Court aftk. United Smtes for the Dwirictei Kentucky. Mr.Justics Baldwin delivered lb opinion ot this Court svenias rhe decree of the said Circuit Court in thi causa, uj remanding aid cause for further rsroceedmgs. No.

27. James frheppard, et, al. Appellant, 1,. el Taylor, et. al.

The argument uf.ru. cause cuai. mencedbyMr Mayer for ihe Aprwliants. Adjourned 'till to morrow 11 o'clock A. Tuesday, Feb.

8, 1831. Present as yesterday. No. 103. Samuel Robertson's plaintiff, error, vs.

The Union Bank ol Georgetown In error to the Circuit Court of the United Stale, for the District of Columbia Mr. Justice Johnson delivered the opinion of thi Court, affirming the decree of the said Circuit Court in this cause, with costs. No. 87. James Sheppard.

et. al. Appellants, vs. L. moel Taylor, et, at.

The argument of this cause was continued by Mr. Mayer for the Appellants, and by Mr. Taney for Appellee. Adjourned tdl to morrow 11 o'clock A. M.

Communication. To the Editors. Gentlemen, I have been Dlaaacsl sec, in several of our daily urul.commaodtory a. iices oi ine new systssn oi ruing wnicn aa bean introduced into this country by Mr. Bristow.

I ban just finished a course of lesson under hi tuition, arid iiave become iu enlh'uiail in toe advocacy of hw pk a. Il is one of the simplest and most valuable that hasatr come under my observation. Until the last taunta I wa so indifferent a penman, that I have frequently made four or rive copies of an ordinary business Istier previous to sending to the Dost office Now rand I ham. attended but the usual' course, twelve lesmm) I wnte quite a respectable mercantile hand A Mr. Bristow' uj in the city ia limited, 1 smceraly advise all such ladies and gentlemen a cannot write with elegance and ease to attend a course of tuition without delay.

Many of the most respectable of our citizen have already' ranked themseves among hi pupil, and in no one in stance have I heard of a failure. His office is i 19t' Broadway. Fll lt C. U. GENERAL COMMITTEE OF DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN YOUNG MEN.

ffcT" A meeting of the General Commute of Dtcbo cratic Republican Yoong Men, friendly to regular nominations, will be held at Tammany Hall ou Friday evening, Feb. 11, at 7 o'clock. By older, wm. VAN ILK. Chairman.

A.vthoxt Haff, Secretary. 10 It EIGHTH WARD. Jt3r The Executive Committee for the RabWof Poor feel themselves ouostrained. in I has tins nf ssi ss. of unmitigated distress, lo make another anno I so tb hherality ol their fellow citizens.

Three ssarks base uow elapsed since the Committee commenced fartmb ing the indigent with nutritious soups and pro vinous, since which tim upwards of 400 families, consisting tsf I imu i more man wu person, nave oeen suppnaa suuxy. Jn addition to this, they have partially supplied Sit) faan liss with wood and in the distribution of tbew hsri tiea. great vigilance ha been observed, to avoid bxts. sUion. The Committee beg leave to express their lhariks Gsr the liberality of their fellow citizens, in affording tbetaT the means of feeding and warming th sick and destitute and particularly to the Committee of the First and Third Ward, for their generous coftttihutiura the First, $75.

and the Tbiid. $40. Liberal, however, as have been the contributions. yt unless the benevolent will again open their ears lo lb cries of the famishing poor, and aid the Conunilie ministering lo their wants, they will he under th necessity of closing their labor of charity, in this, a season of unparalleled distress. Most cheerfully would tha Committee continue to act as the almoners of your beaa ty and under a painful sense of the suffering that pervades our Ward, they earnestly look to their fellow citizens for further aid Relying upon ibis, the Cosnmittea have determined, even at the risk of personal liability, to continue their establishment.

At a meeting of the Executive Committee this evening, it was resolved that the Sub Conimitteet, now' arranged, visit the districts to which they are appointed, for the purpose of soliciting donations, and thai thev report to the Executive Committee at Richmond Hist House, on Wednesday evening next, at 7 o'clock rr, Broadway and Mercer street W. W. Cowan, TJL. Huntington, Dr. Forrester.

Greene Charles De Fore D. E. Del ran. U. BL Burke.

Wnoater and Lauren N. Cook, Wm. Hasse, Etrf dt Gore. Thompson and Sullivan Thomas Ls vvrmc, Jacsii Crane, J. B.

Scott. Yarick and J. T. Buia, John Pealuaa P. Hannaberg.

Dr. Gray. Hudson A braham Yaa Cssef, Joseph Tsjekar. Greenwich. Washington, ssrnt Wni J.

Kh J. S. Smith, S. F. Randolph.

Canal and Ken wick William Channcy, Davidson. Grand Dr. Dering.Thn. Fettseoden, N. M.

Browm. Broome and Clark S. Kip, Dc Weed, F. Waste. Van Dam S.

W. Washbnm. A. P. Hal.

A. W. Corey. Spring E. Gonnor.

H. Lock wood, John Dare, Dr. Vsn Hoeveubnrgh. Prince barium, and King Saml. Y.

Clark. Cass. Jones, Wm. Cox. 4nd Dominick A.

Ron. John Gait, G. H. Cortelyou. Houston Hamer.ley Seth Gear, G.

Bbyce. Vt. Uaraen. By order of th Executive Committee. WM.W.

COWAN, Chairmm. Leonard W. Kit, Secretary. February 9, 1831. NINTH WARD.

lO The EXECUTIVE CO.VMITTEE of the Ninth Ward, appointed for the RELIEF OF TBI POOR, acknowledge with gratitude the DoMtioot toads to them by the Committee of tho First Ward, of the sum of 75 and also of the Donation mads to that by the Comrmuee of the Third Ward, of 40. They, at the same Ume, express the grateful acktmwMg merits for the aid they have tfsxived from variom persons out of their Ward and beg leave to. solicit iroat their tellow mtireiiB. generally, anch further aM at they nay bn induced to furnish, and watch, the low sis Is i their Fund and the eoatinned distress of the Fear si their Ward imperiously require. The several districtCommittee am requested to eoa plete their 'Collection, and hand the seme to the Treasurer, at the corner of Bleeeker and Minolta street, soon as possible.

Their Store, at the corner of Bleeeker and Minem ned THIS MORNING, was DONATIONS will be received; or by Gen. Doughty, 90 Pearl street Charfe Oakley. 147 Front sueet) B. Murray. Washington aqnare; and Robert Grocie, 20 Broad trm.

THOMA8 MORRIS, Clssjrmaa. Robekt Gkacix, Secretary. It During a season of peculiar drstrssa when tn oriea for reue fnxn tha sulWiug poo as so nnsssro and urgent, the Orphan Asylum Society, bovcevsr reluctantly, ere compell to add theirs, bahaif of the destitute orphan. The Society have, from year to year, indolgei the hope that the time would arrive when rat spcetl ould bo no longer necensary. and the chanty of their kind friend be allowed to flow through other channels this hope is still deferred, and the orpisaa family isatsia as formely dependent for their daily bleed.

Happy they, whom when father and ra oilier hat fbTfcso" the Lord hath taken up' and placed in so eoreforfabW a home. More happy YE, who surrounded by your srnilmg offspring, enjoy the luxury of mnjing their comfort and when thousand ar (oflenag prorations or have their want relieved by the baud of charity, are priviiedged to raperiessee that "it is mm blessed to give than receive." More demands on the society than their foods can meet roust plead their cuso for this appeal. Duration and subscriptions will be gratefully ssesiv ed by Mr. Betbuno, Second Di rac trass, 147 Hudsoa at Mm. WaUh, Treasurer.

Wa ten et; and by ihe Secretary, Mr. Cod wise, 78 Greenwich si. By order of tte Board. alw BILES THia DAY AT TH TOCK KXCBAN6K. united state liank, jttf Merchants' Bank, Ki Bank of America.

ftfj Tradesmen' Bank, lltV Chemical Bank. 91 Delaware dt Hudson Csnal Co. do. do. do.

do. do. do. dow do. Dry Dock Bank.

0 Morn Canal ot Banking Cos 53 Ocean Insurance Co. ISA Neptune Insurance Co. 118 Firemen' Insurance Co. Md AtAKtllED, On Tuesday evening, the Sits inst by the R. W.

Gmsafshaioer. Henry V. Vullee. CouoJkt to Al is Phoebe Maria, daof bter Francis Fli. Esq.

all iif this city. rt At MistiP. Long Island, on th 8th inst. by th Kv. ttipg, XI.

Wlluam S. Robert, to Mis ntlMI DIKD. evening. Mr. P.

K. Mmn. PmAssn of If sie, and organist of St John Chorea. Th friend aod acquaintance of the family, and sssnitemsa of the less ton. are respect fully invited to attend his fttoeral.

a hi rate reside nee. No. 89 Varick et, on Satanler, 4 o'clock P. M. without further mntation.

At Washington. (N. on the 1st inst. Mr. Joha Bleeckes.

of tho house of BUeckar hi ncssdL sasrchaist of thi city. i A Charleston, on the Slat Jan. Mr. John Evcnnsh, aged 75 year, a native Allen town, N. J.

hot, fioat ny loom, a reamer ot South Csmdrn. AtKioSalado.Now 7 Tsuid1 rtit. seed 27 years. ETTER AND rOOistSCAP PAPER From the snilliofOw eflAHiii lh.pt Al Asj.Giloin, R. Donaldson.

W. J. Pnis Are rWrtuliuUs. which will be sold at th lowest price by 60 share 10 do. 10 do.

50 do. 27 do. 25 do. 35 do. 10 do.

20 do. 10 do. 27 do. 10 do. 29 do.

E. BLISS, UI Broadway. 11.