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i I I 1 4 1 4 H' I 1 NILES' A 1 ri NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER---NOV. 1836--- 1 0 0 0 I 0 1 i 0t 63 0 1 i 4 1 trict, now represented by Mr. Everett, there was no choice. I ted the cause to the jury without argument. The jury gave the verdict above stated which was of the following items: Twelve hundred and fty-one dollars and three cents for the value of the Foods; eighty-six dollars and seventy-three cents interest; and three hundred and seventyone dollars forty-nine cents damages as a decided mark of their disapprobation of the conduct of the defendant.

ted the ca jurYfave pose i Bftyaone Foods; eig interest; a fortynine disapprob2 situation, suffocated by the smoke and flames, he sunk. down on the floor. At this moment a young man prang through the crowd and rushed up the burning stairs to rescue him. 'rho moment he reached, the the stairs fell, leaving no egress but ti leap from a second story window among the burning 't brands beneath. Nothing daunted, he caught up my son, and sprang from the blazing building 'unhurt, bearing with him the object of his noble efforts! With the trim modesty of his daring spirit, the preserver of my child' appeared from the crowd, and' not until last even ing could I learn his name.

And it was then with admiration that I learned my son is the fifth fellow being he has been the instrument, in the hands of a gracious Providence, of saving from a', Tiolent death. "If there is an individual possened of the noble and lofty attributes of man, that being is Henry Moore, of Ferry street." situation, nearly. suffocated by the smoke and if Sou Es or THE MISSISSIPPI. From a letter written by the scientific traveller, Mr. Nioolkt, to the president of St.

Mary's college in Baltimore, dated October at St. Peter's, Upper Mississippi, we have been kindly permitted to publish the fol- lowing extract. (Bait. 641 have just returned from a long journey to the sources of the Mississippi. I owe to the politeness and enlightened liberality of col.

Davenport and the other officers of Fort Snelling, and of major Taliaferro, all the facilities and the protection which I needed to perform this long, painful and dangerous expedition. The result of this adventurous Journey is, that I have completed the knowledge of the sources of the Mississippi, and have traced a detailed geographic and topographic map of an interest- ing region, two-thirds 61 which has hitherto been unknown. The numerous researches which I have made are founded on two thousand astronomical and barometrical observations. I have spent fifty-nine nights in the forests of the north west, or in the marshes of the Mississippi and yet my health is at this moment better than it has ever been. Uniting the observations of this campaign with the result of my labors for three years in the whole extent of the valley of the Mississippi, and in every direction in the far west, I find myself enabled to write the physical and civil history of one of the greatest nvers in the world from the height of its sources till it empties into the Gulf of Mexico." SOURCE written b3 the presid dated Oct( we have lowing.

ex 641 have sources of and enlizh other ottic ferro, all needed to expedition ney is, tha sources of ed geogral region unknown. made are barometric nights in marshes oi this mome the observ ray labors valley of the far we sical and in the IVO' empties in SHOOTING STARS. Most persons will rememe ber to have seen or heard of the splendid phenomee non of those brilliant meteors on the morning of the 13th of November, 1833. Various and discore dant themes have been formed and published, to account for these shooting star: as they are come monly denominated. One of these theories make them asteroids, and contend for their annual return.

In a New Orleans paper, "The Times," public at. tention is called to the heavens on the nights of the 12th and 13th of this month. A look into the heavens on a clear night is always rewarded, even if nothing else appears but "the eternal lamps," the steady 'members of the upper regions; therefore we add our recommendae tion to that of the New Orleans writer, though we differ in tot from the opinion which gives a planetary character to those scintillating sparks. We may, however, remark, that their noneappeamnce at any given place, affords no conclusive proof of their non-existence, as they may pass over in day. light.

Those of 1833 were seen on so wide an angle of the sphere, as to render their passage necessarily visible from some part of the earth. Time and more accurate observation will change hypothesis to science, on this as on all other subjects adequate. ly examined. The phenomenon of the morning of November 13th, 1833, was visible along the eastern coast of North America, from the Gulf of Mexico to fax, from 9 in the evening of the 12th, to sun rising of the 13th, and it is said, that in some places was after sun rising to 8 in the morning. In 1799, a similar phenomenon was seen in Anne rica, by M.

de Humboldt; in Greenland by the Moravian brethren, and in Germany by divers persons; and also in the night between the llth and 12th of November. The evidences of such appearances in the heavens between the 10th and 15th of November of each year, are so numerous as to de- mand attentive observation from all who are so situated as to give attention to the "WONDERFUL WORKS OF GOD. (Pittsburgh Ado. USEFUL INVENTION FOR THE SICK OF THB Anil Captain H. L.

Thistle, of New Orleans, who commanded a company of Louisiana volunteers during the last campaign in Florida, has invented a saddle for the conveyance of the sick on a march. The invention has met with great favor among the' officers of the armyand the war department, to testify its high opinion of it, has already ordered fifty saddles to be made for present purposes. It requires eight or ten men, says the Army and Navy Chronicle, to carry a wounded man on a litter, and then the progress is very slow. By means of cap. tam Thistle's saddle, a horse and a man to lead him are sufficient, and the patient is removed with less pain and inconvenience a i I It 441' 1-i 1,1 4.1 4 '1 1 engimmEnm I 0 34 C.

nd oaf of, ad it. at Y1 If. s. ul Id ra id DI' Le le Lr I 1 0 I NEW JERSEY. On Thursday the 3d inst.

Phi leman Dickerson, of Patterson, was elected by the legislature, governor. of New Jersey, in place of governor Vroom, who resigned that office in con. sequence of indisposition. The vote, on joint ballot was, for Dickerson 33, William Penington 25. Mr.

Dickerson is a brother of the secretary of the navy, and a member of the present congress. OFFICIAL. Navy department, November 8, 1836. The board of naval surgeons, recently convened in the city of Washington, has closed its labors and adjourned. The assistant surgeons, passed for promotion, rank in the following order: Jona M.

Foltz, John C. Mercer, Samuel C. Lawrason, Edward Gil. christ, Lewis Wolfly, Lewis W. Minor, Robert M.

Baltzer, William P. Powell. THE GREAT WESTERN ROAD. It will be recollected by our readers, that at the last session of congress, the sum of $100,000 was appropriated for opening, a military road from St. Peter's near the falls of St.

Anthony, on the Upper Mississippi, along the western frontiers of Missouri and Arkansas, to Red river. In conformity with this act a board of officers has been appointed by the secretory of war, consisting of colonel Taylor and major Smith, of the U. States army, and major McNeil, of the topographical engineers, who were ordered to rendezvous at St. Louis, (where, we perceive by the last papers, some of them had amved), to mature their plans of operations for surveying the whole route for the road. It is contemplated, (we understand by a gentleman of the army who has seen the instructions of the board), to establish a cordon of military posts along this road, for the more permanent and effectual protection of the western frontier.

The board of officers are instructed to have a special regard to the law, (also of the last session of congress), for the removal of the troops from Fort Gibson, and for the location of a new post at or near the boundary line, and the new road is yoss the Arkansas at the same point. Arkansas Journal. ommommome VERMONT. The following is the result of the official canvass for members of congress in this state as recently ascertained by the legislature. 1st districtHiland Hall 4,220 John S.

Robinson 3,023 Scattering THE GI collected congress, I for openir the falls ol along the sas, to Re( board of ol of war, Smith, of of the top( to rendezi by the last mature th whole roui understan( seen the it cordon of more pert western fr The boa special rel of congTes Fort Gibs1 at or near VERM01 official cal state as re( 1st district ACCIDENT AND LOSS OF LIFE. The steamboat Rhode Island on her passage down last night, run into the sloop Eliza Nichols, bound to New -Bedford, rendering the sloop a perfect and a Mrs. Howland- wa3 unfortunately drowned; Two persons were rescued from the cabin of the sloop by being cut out. When the steamboat ran foul of the sloop the main boom of the vessel struck the ladies' cabin and demolished a tier of berths. An infant was lying in one of the beds and was thought to have been killed, but on the crushed pieces of boards, Zic.

the little infant was found unharmed, and restored to its anxious parents. N. Y. Star. A GROWING ISLAND! The NewYork Sun 'states on the authority of a letter from a French geologist to the French academy of sciences, that an extensive island of solid rock will soon make its appear- ance in the The particulars of this strange geological fact are as follows: "The fishermen of the island of Panetorio, in the Grecian Archipelago, informed a visitant to the island, towards the close of the last century, that the bottom of the sea had lately then considerably at a certain place near- the port of Thera.

The soundings were then from 15 to 20 fathoms but previously the bottom could not be found. 1111829 that island was again visited, when it was ascertained that the rise of the submarine land had gradually continued, and that the depth of water was then not more than four and a half fathoms. Sound- ings were again made in 1830, when in a period of less than a year; the depth had decreased half' a- fathom. The form and extent of the rod( was also taken by which it was found to be 800 metres in length and 500 in breadth. The depth all around this anticipated island was very great.

Since this' time the place has been repeatedly visited, and the rock found gradually to rise, so that in September last it had come to within two fathoms of The surface. In four years, therefore, the rock will become a large island, and these arethe facts communicated by the letter referred. By the submarine volcanoes there; in 1712, the island of Kaimeni, in the same port, and near 'by, was but no eruptions have since appeared, though this rising of the land indicates the 'still active- power of internal heat which, Whenever the resistance shall be reduced, will burst forth in its wonted fury." OMMINEENENEO SENATOR, P017ER9 Or Lou. The Louisiana Advertiser of the 25th ult. states that alexander Porter, esq.

will not be a candidate for a seat in the U. S. senate at the approaching election by the le. He is said to be engaged in writing a his. tory of Louisiana.

hail's majority 2d districtWilliam Slade Jonas Clark E. D. Barber Scattering 2d district. 1,065 3,918 1,536 481 1,759 3,747 3,180 961 Slade's 8d districtItorace Everett Alden Partridge 'Martin Flint Scattering 8d district. BARON DE RONNE.

presented on the 27th ult. by the acting secretary of state to the president, to whom he delivered his ctedentials as minister re. sident of his Prussian majesty near the U. States. The secretary of the navy, who has been much indisposed from the beginning of the month, and for the last fortnight confined to his room, has so far recovered as again to attend at his office for the transaction of business.

1 (Globe. A DEED OF NOBLE DARING, Mr. James D. Gar. land, of Newark, publishes in the Daily Adver.

tiser of that city, the following account of the rescue of his only son during the recent conflagration: "My son, a boy of eleven years, led by curiosity or boyish hardihood, ascended to the second story of a wooden building in the rear of, I believe, a trunkmaker's shop, in Market Street, the roof of the building at the time being nearly destroyed, and one end in flames. Some of the bystanders told the boy to comedown, as the chimney, tottered. He iMmediately attempted it, but the flames had reached the stairs, and he pushed back the window. the garret floor had now burnt through, and the was falling around and upon him. "The now beckoned to.

him to 'jump, as the only means of saving his life; terrified at his No electionmajority against Everett 457 alth districiHeman Alien 3,522 C. P. Van Ness 2,203 Scattering No 41h distrid codiammommo MADAME MALIBRAN The funeral of Madame Malibran took place at Manchester on the 1st of October. Moret han two columns Of the London Morning Herald are occupied with description of the ceremonies. Mons.

De Beriot; her husband, was not present, having set off posthaste for Brus. sells immediately after her decease. This proceed. ing had given rase to many unfavorable reports, Which even went to such a length that the coroner 't was strongly urged to hold an inquest on the He waited on the committee appointed to direct, the funeral, and was satisfied that no grounds 4 isted far his official interposition. Dr.

Belluomini, to such a length that the comner rged, to hold an inquest on the the committee appointed to direct was satisfied that no grounds kis! interposition. Dr. Belluomini Allen's majority 1511i districtIsaac Fletcher. Henry F. Janes Scattering 15t1i district 1,101 3,765 8,324 Fleteher's majority 393 Messrs.

Hall, Slade and Allen i(whigs) and Mr. Fletcher (Van. Buren) are elected. In the ad dis Messrs. Fletcher.