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to to to to to to 333 NILES' WEEKLY REGISTER-JULY 22, 1837-DOMESTIC CHRONiCLE. DOMESTIC CHRONICLE. of congress to be elected. The of the states that save yet to elect Island, election in August, July, Carolina, August, do. do.

ers, and a few others, who have bestowed particular attention upon the subject. An Indian chief sentenced to We learn from the Milwaukee Advertiser, that Ash-e-co-boma, a chief of the Menomonee tribe, was tried in the U. S. district court sitting in that town, third week in June, and convicted of the murder of Mr. Ellsworth Burnette, in November, 1835.

The chief was sentenced to be hung on the 1st of September next. He heard his doom with calm indifference. Ash-0-ma, a son of the chief, was tried as an accomplice, but acquitted. He was, however, convicted afterwards, of an assault with intent to kill James Clyman, and was fined $300, and sentenced to jail five years. A boat of a novel and useful description is about to be introduced on the Pennsylvania canals.

Its object is. to obviate the transhipment of goods which is unavoidably required from the canal to the Portage railway over the Alleghany, and again from the railway to the canal. The Pittsburgh Gazette says that the boat is so constructed, that, on its arrival at the railway, if can be divided into two pieces, and on regaining the canal may be speedily reunited. Two boats of this kind have already passed from the eastern to the western division of the canal, one of which had about eighteen tons of freight. Its performance, both on the canal and railway, is said to have been perfectly satisfactory.

Domestic industry. In the vicinity of Middletown, Connecticut, is a nev: and flourishing establishment for the manufacture of locks, and the various ornaments for doors, The great excelleuce and beauty of the articles here manufactured, are such as will be likely to command the attention of' architects and builders. Argentina is the name given by the manufacturer to an alioy that resembles silver, which is made into knobs and furniture for doors, shutters, It has all the whiteness of silver, does not tarnish by exposure. The ornaments made of this material are now greatly es teemed. It will undoubtedly supersede, in a great measure, the use of brass furniture; and prove to be a cheap and elegant substitute for silver.

Y. Journal of Commerce. Indians. A New York paper of the 14th inst. says Two families of the aborigines of our country, consisting of two men, their wives and "papooses," have within a few days located themselves on the shores of' Staten Island, near the Narrows, where they have erected their huts and employ their time in shoaling porpoises and making baskets.

They are now from the shores of Lake Champlain; but they belong to the Penobscot tribe. They came the whole distance from the lakes in their frail bark canoes, are perfectly harmless, civil and well-behaved. A large number of fashionables from the city have paid them a visit, and made purchases of their baskets, New Hampshire. The legislature adjourned on the 9th inst. after passing 101 bille, resolutions, The attempts to suspend the operation of the law prohibiting the circulation of small bills, was voted down by a large majority.

The Patriot resolutions introduced at the commencement of the session by Mr. Hadley, instructing our senators and requesting our representatives in con- I Alabaina, do. 5 I Indiana, do. Mississippi, election in November, Arkansas, do. do.

In all, 65 Purchase of the Chippewa country. We learn from the St. Louis Argus of the 30th ult. that governor Dodge, of Wisconsin, arrived there a few days since, with the view of holding, in conjunction with general Smith, of Pennsylvania, a council with the Chippewa Indians for the purpose of purchasing that country, which is about. the same extent as the states of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.

The inain object of the government is, doubtless, to secure the immense body of white pine growing in that region. The great importance of this acquisition to the valley of the Mississippi, now supplied with pine lumber by N. York and Pennsylvania at extravagant prices, can be fully appreciated only by mechanics and build- gress to oppose a national bank in all shapes and Members is a list of congress. Rhode Maryland, North Tennessee, Kentucky, following members 2 00 13 13 13 under all circumstances, came up for consideration in the house on Thursday last, after an animated debate, were adopted by a 'vote of 136 to 60." The New Hampshire law against the circulation of small bills took effect, as far as regards the bills of other state banks. on the 1st instant.

The small notes of the New Hampshire banks may pass for a year to come, but no new ones of the smaller I denominations could lawfully be issued, after that date. The penalty against the importation of the small bills of foreign banks, with intent to put them in circulation, is not less than $100. Rebellion. Our city had almost become the theatre of a foreign invasion on Saturday afternoon--or perhaps we should rather say that a foreign power having obtained entrance to the very heart of our dominion, under peaceful guise, had assumed a hostile attitude, and threatened war upon us withont a I previous formal declaration, contrary to the established usages of international politeness and civility. It seems that a certain captain Newbold, master of a British vessel lying at the foot of Beekman street had been mulcted by the marine court for some violation of the dock laws; and that a constable was deputed to levy upon the vessel for the amount of the judgment.

Upon going on board, however, he was resisted, vi ct armis, by the captain and his myrmidons, who hoisted the British flag, and arming themselves with pistols, sabres, handspikes, ropes' ends, broom handles, and such other weapons of war as they could muster, declared vengeance upon any who should set foot on board their vessel. The officer was fain to retreat--but making application to the police magistrates, captain New bold and his merry inen were discomfited, and the former was made captive. This will do for a set-off to the imprisonment of the agent at Madawaska, by order of the governor of New Brunswick. Y. Com.

Adv. The Ben Sherrod. The Natchez Courier of the 8th inst. states, that the bodies of 21 persons were picked up at the mouth of the Butfalo Creek, one mile and a half above Fort Adams, by some of the citizens of that place. There is no doubt but that they are a part of the large number that met their untimely and horrid end at that awful catastrophe, the burning of the Ben Sherrod.

The clothes on some of the bodies were much burnt. In the number were two ladies, one of whom had a child, which a mother's fondness and a mother's despair had so encircled with her left arm, that even in death it remained pressed to that bosom where it could no longer find protection! An extraordinary case is mentioned among the coroner's inquests in the N. York Journal of Commerce. A man named Andrew Corey, aged 35 years, while sleeping on the string piece of the dock, at the foot of Canal street, on Friday, 7th instant, fell into the river, where he remained nearly half an hour before he was extricated.The immersion had such an effect on him that he remained in a lingering condition until Wednesday, when he expired. Verdict that be died from injuries received from falling into the water.

The wonder is, not that the man ultimately died, but that he lived so long. Somnolency. A curious instance of prolonged somnolency, or suspended consciousness, is related in the last Schoharie Republican- which approximates in kind, if not in duration, the case of Rip Van Winkle. A Mrs. Sidney, living near that village, fell asleep in her chair soon after tea on the 18th ult.was carried to bed (it being found impossible to wake her), where she slept soundly and quietly until the 24th, when for the first time she appeared to notice what was passing.

During all this time (six days), she took no food. Benjamin Rathbun. A nolle prosequi has been entered upon nine of the old indictments against this individual-four yet remain to be tried, one as accessary, and the others as principal, in January next. Three new indictments were lately found, which will also be tried at some future period. The testimony of Lyman Rathbun, who is supposed to reside in Texas, will be taken by commission.

Good furming. Mr. Rey bold, an enterprising and highly intelligent farmer of the state of Delaware sowed on the 17th of March last some spring wheat that he obtained from Rome, N. Y. from which he expects to reap from twenty-five to thirty bushels to the acre.

The Delaware State Journal says that the same gentleman had in 1835 one hundred bushels of corn to the acre, and that he has at present fields which promise even a greater yield, With such lands no man should even dare to whisper a word about bard times. Shreeveport" is the appropriate naine, on the per Red River region, of the site of a town up. on banks made of familiar that celebrated the tributary astonishing of the Mississippi, of 100 captain miles of Shreeve, natural in cutting which a passage raft blocked up its through the navi. the gation. highest It is 225 of miles above It Natchitoches, is hitherto the Sabine, and point from navigation.

40 miles from The Caddoes 90 Nacogdoches, in held 1,000,000 acres in this part of' for Louisiana, and lately sold accessible it to the United States Shreeve's labors, and the by captain most valuable body of cotton land in the world. Y. Star. Matthias, the prophet, formerly distinguished in the state of New York, for his impositions on a number of credulous people, who were attached to him from a belief that he was divinely inspired, re. I cently passed through the northern part of' Tuscarawas county, Ohio.

He stopped over night with a citizen of Sandy township, who being a Yankee, was of course curious to know his business in Ohio. Matthias informed him that he came in obe. the dience to the injunctions of a vision, to regulate Mormonites, at Kirtland, and spread his new doctrines among the benighted of the west. The Tuscarawas Advocate says that he was well dressed, and from what he could learn, had fleeced his flock of a good share of their wordly inheritance. Major Gales.

The Alexandria Gazette of Tues day have received a copy of the proceedings of the court martial, in the case of' major William Gates, who, after having been stricken from the rolls of' the army by the late president, was afterwards, allowed a trial, and unanimously and honcrably acquitted. The evidence fully confirms the finding of the court. Maj. Gates is an old and respected officer of the army, and we congratulate him and his friends upon the result of the investigation into his conduct as an officer and a soldier. Emigration.

On the 13th inst. 956 emigrants arrived at the New York quarantine ground, in different vessels, from Harve and England. Grog shops. There are nearly three hundred coffee houses" (grog shops) in the city of Cincinnatti. The native are estimated at less than fifty.

Domestic cottons. There have been large sales recently of domestic cotton manufactures, at Bos. ton, to the extent of ten or fifteen thousand bales in all, for shipment to China. The prices are such as the sellers call fair, and such as yield a liberal profit on the present cost of manufacturing. There have recently been sales of domestic goods here, brown, white, and printed by auction, for cash, at low prices; but yet such as we think at the present low price of cotton must at least refund the cost of making.

of Commerce. The Baltimore and Philadelphia rail road was formally opened for travel, as far as Wilmington, Delaware, on Wednesday last. The venerable ex-president Adams has entered his s-ventieth year. He was born on the 11th of July, 1767. In the case of James Gordon Bennet, editor of the New York Herald, who was indicted for a libel upon John Haggerty Sons, and others, in publishing their names as having failed, when such was not the case, he pleaded guilty, and was allowed until this day to produce affidavits in mitigation of sentence.

corn," now cultivated to so profitable an extent in this country, owes its introduction to Franklin's acute mind. A lady in Philadelphia held an imported cloth's whisk in her hand, and whilst examining it as a novelty, he found a single grain still attached to the stalk; this he planted, and a large and increasing article of usefulness has been thus perpetuated in the United States. Gen. Memucan Hunt was, on the 6th inst presented by the acting secretary of state to the president and delivered his credentials as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary of the republic of' Texas near the government of the United States. Bishop England, being a guest of the Washington society of Charleston, at the celebration of the 4th, gave the following excellent and appropriate toast: Admired by the civilized world; why should his own people ever hesitate to be guided by his admonitions, to walk in his footsteps? Let his maxims be our rule, until we shall receive better from some one more conspicuous for wisdom, more devoted to his country.".