Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1839 : Weekly), 1839-09-11, WEEKLY.

              0ttttlftt COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1839. WEEKLY. VOLUME 30. NUMBER 2. atdte PUBLISHED BY CHARLES SCOTT, At three Dollere s year, Invariably In bItoik. Yuic4 a visa during tht Station of tht Ltgitlotnrt, and Weefcl the remainder of tht year. JAMES ALLEN, EDITOR. OIBm on Sun etreet. Two doors West of tin Clinton Bank FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1830. THINGS AS THEY ARE. No, t. A long time since we promised our readers a full, comprehensive, and explicit dissection of the Bank Reform party of Ohio. Wo delayed its commencement for two reasons: First, we wished to seize a favorable moment, when the farmers of the State would have leisure to give us a portion of their attention; and, secondly, we were so well aware of the difficulty that attends on long editorials, and the disrelish with which they arc viewed by the very class of persons for whose edification we wish to write, and knowing full well that we could do the subject no sort of justice in the squib lino in short, we procrastinated and that is the whole of the matter. To-day we begin and though our first essay has something of an ominous length as it, stands in type, it is, nevertheless, worth the serious attention of c very honest citizen of Ohio. We ask not for charitable criticism we simply beg the favor of a perusal. " Strike, but hear meT' exclaimed a gallant Grecian of the olden time. " Read us, and then lecture us," say we" but fail not to read us!" With this short preface, somewhat more on the apologetical order than is our wont, we submit to our Ohio readers the first number or THINGS AS TIIEV ARE. There is one tiling which we wish the People to look at and consider with attention. It is no new thing; .wo would merely refresh their recollection as to matters which they all well know, and which they cannot fail to remember. Ohio has embarked largely in public works. She is deeply in debt, and the Public faith is pledged for the punctual payment of principal and interest. The property of every man in the State, who has property, is mortgaged for the payment. When the State engaged in her public works her credit was good very good. The currency of the country was just what every business man wished it to be it had been the subject of no tin kering, no experiments. Neither Thomas H. Benton, nor William Allen, nor Jack Brough.had discovered any defects in it, or attempted to reform it. Our Slate stocks were sold at a premium of from 13 to 22 per cent, and that, too, not owing to any excess of money in circulation, but it arose from a sound and wholesomo condition of credit and currency. But a change soon camo over us. Benton, who " solitary and alone had set that ball in motion," induced General Jackson to veto the bill for rechartering the Bank of the United States. That institution was permitted to expire, and the country was deprived of the most efficient agent in regulating exchanges at home and with foreign countries, and the best check to the over issues of State Banks. The tendency to such over issues which arose from the removal of this check, was excited to excess by the withdrawal of the public depositee from the United States Bank and the placing of them in a few pet local banks, selected, for the most part, not on account of their solvency or credit, but because of some political interest which it was supposed they could subserve. The surplus money in the Treasury of the United Slates had risen very high, and was still increasing so that by the fall of 1830 it had reached the enormous sum of foety-rioht mil i.ions. Every body who took tho pains to re- fleet on the subject, knew that this amount of money had no business in a few pet banks, selected as they had been and still were. So said the Whigs, and so said a very large majority of Congress in the session of 1835-0. A law was accordingly passed to take the surplus money out of the hands of those banks and distribute it among the States. Would any man who docs not know and re member the fact, believe it possible? Mr. Ben ton, Mr. Wright, Mr. Polk, Mr. Grundy indeed all the most intimato and confidential friends of Mr. Van Huron those who were in the secrets of the Cabinet, opposed the Distribution Bill They preferred that this 18,000,000, for which the Government then had no use, should remain in a few pet banks, somo of them of doubtful credit, rather than to placo it in the treasuries of the several Stales!! Can any one tell why! W e can- not but wo know some facts which existed at that time, and which may havo had their influ ence on the counsels of the Executive. The fever of speculation ran high, and many of those pet banks lent large sums of tho public money which they held in depositc, on long cre dit, to purchaso up the best of tho public lands. These loans were chiefly made to powerful com- panics, with some Executive officer, or some bro ther or cousin or son or nephew of somo Exccu live officer at its head; and so long as these pet banks kept this enormous surplus in deposile they could extend this credit to the land specula- tors and increase their loans, but the moment this surplus was drawn by the States this business was at an end. Nor was this all. Tub Ex-pkrimknt" consisted in this very depoaito of the public money in the pot banks. The People had been assured that their money would bo as safe and better administered for tho welfare of the community, than it had been in its old legal depository. These men, who wcro in the secrets of the Administration, knew that the experiment had been carried in i wild and reckless spirit, and that it must fail, and many of their party pot banks must break, whenever the public money should be required of them. If the Distribution Bill passed, the States would demand this money f the pet banks, and those banks could not pay until they could collect the money which they had lent to land companies to buy up public land, and all who were in the secrets of the Administration knew very well that it was not convenient for those gentlemen to pay just at that time. These facts existed, and the Distribution Bill was openly condemned by Mr. Van Buren, and violently opposed by his most confidential friends. But the bill pissed, and the crisis approached. Tho downfall of a goodly portion of the pet banks and the connexion with the Government and its officers, and its electioneering agents, was about to be exposed. What was to be done! The bold est and the safest step was to involve all the banks and the whole currency of the country in one common catastrophe puts and all lot them all fall together, and then impute the mischief which was brought on the country to the banking lystem generally, and then the workers of the mischief would stand a fair chance to escape re- ponsiblity in the crush and confusion of the ge neral shock. The Specie Circular was the in- stnuncnt used to effect this object. This caused an unnatural drain for gold and silver : it drew it from the vaults of the banks and locked it up in land offices and in the pet banks to which it was carried, and after a struggle of eight or nine months compelled the banks to suspend specie payments. But it was not the Specie Circular alone and unaided that effected this result. ThcGovernincntdid all in its power to discredit the moneyed institutions of the country a cry was raised against the banks down with tub banks and a I.ocofoco deposite bank in New York, high in favor with the Government, was the first to shut its vaults. That bank lost no favor by doing so. Six months after its failure, the Government deposits with it were larger by several hundred thousand dollars than they were the day it failed. And why not? Things had just then reached a point, in the dis- ordcrdcrcd condition of the currency and the agi tated slate of the public mind, that the slopping of one bank of standing (although it might be a pet) in ouo of our great cities, would cause a run on all banks which they would be unable to withstand. This was the very thing, and the only thing that could possibly save the experimenters a while from ruin; and why should not the pet which led the way in this matter be more than ever in favor secretly rewarded openly con-demur J! In the next place, the banks, especially the pets, were all very kindly handed over to the Wltigs, and immediately the Globe and the Hemisphere and the Eagle emblazoned them as Wma banks, and the Locofoco orators, from stumps and platforms, shouted at the tops of their voices, Wma banks. Pets as they were gorged with millions of the public trcasuro, wantonly or wickedly lavished upon them by the party in power, it did not require time for the ink with which their editors had written the praises of those pets and of the experiment to become dry, or for the echo of the voices of their stump orators which had been raised in their praise to die away, before the paragraph was as glaring, and the shout as loud Wino banks 1 Down with the banks! Let us have a hard money currency! Givo us a Sub-Treasury!Mr. Van Buren and his advisers knew that the Whigs would oppose the Sub-Treasury, becauso of tho enormous power which it placed in his hands, and because it exposed the public money to be plundered by every knave to whom ho might choose to entrust it whether to be laid out in electioneering or carried to England to live in riot or luxury. And in opposing this project of despotism and profligacy, they knew the Whigs would place themselves in a situation, that they would seem to advocate the pet bank experiments, which, in truth, they always and at all times disapproved. Ono was bad the other worse. The unblushing effrontery of these men, in imputing to others their own acts and their own instruments, after the use they havo made of them, renders them detestable, and is fairly exhibited in the caso of Swartwout and Price. Swartwout was the cnnfidcndial friend of General Jackson, and by him appointed Collector of the Port of New York, and ho was retained in offico by Mr. Van Buren a long lime with an ac knowledged balance of more than (200,000 of tho public money in his hands. Price was ap pointed District Attorney, and was tho principal Locofoco orator and leader in the city of New York. Swartwout sent in his resignation and sailed fur England, with 1,200,000 of tho pub- lie money; and Price made hardly ten steps from tho platform in which ho was haranguing for Locofocoisui and the Sub-Treasury, right into tho packet which carried him to England, with 300,000 of the People's money in his pocket. But they were not fairly out of sight of the shore until Swartwout and Prico were boih Winus!! Like the pet banks, when they had become the worn out and despised instruments of despotic and arbitrary power, the Globe, Sic. Ac. at once "dubbed" them Wilms!! Whig pet banks and Whig Suii-TiiKAsfnEiisI But in several of tho States, and Ohio among the rest, these artifices and falsehoods have for a lime succeeded. Bold and unscrupulous assertion was believed. Tho People, honest and confiding and candid themselves, could not conceive that men who ought to bo honorable, could be guilly of such gross and unblushing falsehoods. The Slate Banks which had stood aloof from the Government and had yielded to nono of its se ductions, and touched nono of its bribes, were thus involved in ill tho odiuin, which should ave fallen alone upon the Administration and its pets the real movers and workers of the mischief. To fasten this opinion the more effectual ly on the public mind, the Locofoco Legislature of Ohio, at their last session, passed a succession of laws, the object and spirit of which was to obstruct the business of the banks, and cripple and ruin the currency and they appointed a set of officers whose whole business is to traverse the State, receive their per diein pay, and carry into effect these objects. We have not now time and space to enter into details as to the mode and manner but every one knows that under the system of restriction and espionage, banks can make no loans they can issue no paper all they can do, is to withdraw their issues, collect their debts, and save their own credit. If the present order of things continues, tho country will soon be reduced to the hard money standard in the payment of debts and taxes, and to foreign bank notes, such as Upper Canada and Michigan, Sic. cVc. for currency. This is the state of things which our pretended reformers arc bringing upon us. We all feel that it is coining to this. Every man who does a month's work, or sells a wagon load of wheat and wants his pay fur it in cash, finds that it goes hard that tho t'unos grow tighter and tighter that money comes harder than it did, though it is not hard money, when it cs. But the man who owes money and has to pay it, will feci this most sorely. If things go on as they are at present going if our currency be reduced to the specie standard, wo shall bo left with less than one third of our present circu lation, and the man who has debts or taxes to pay will find it will cost him two or three times more on that account to pay it. In that proportion must you, our fellow-citizens, farmers and me chanics, pay your debts and your taxes. Ohio has borrowed her ten millions and made canals and roads with it, when money was easy and prices high. She must pay the interest, and after a while the principal, at the hardest, in hard money times and who pays it? Not the Re formers, who havo brought this mischief upon us. They, who on the stump and in your legis lature, were loudest in vociferating reform, and most full of pretended zeal for your interests, pay no taxes. But wo will tell you what they do. They get their salaries and their pcrdiein in hard money which you in times that they are bring ing close and fast upon us, must pay in hard money, very hard earned and you must pay too in tho samo way the canal debt and its interest, So far as lhoj Stato is concerned, a short sum mary of the facts is this it is worth condensing and reprinting Ohio borrowed money to make her canals. She mado them when credit was good, money plenty, and produce and labor high. Now, when you, tho People, have to pay the interest out of tho produce of your labor and your fields, our Locofoco Legislature cripples the banks, destroys crcdil, makes money icarco and varies its price, so that you arc compelled to pay in value two or three for ono. Think of this fellow-citizens of all parties. Think of this while you arc raising money to pay your taxes think of it when you put your hands in your pockets to feel for the cash, and remember how hard it comes and do not forget it on the second Tuesday of October. THE GERMANS. Thcro is not, we believe, in America, a more honest, industrious, frugal and and patriotic class of citizens than the Germans. Wherever they arc, there you will find sobriety and prosperity, They leave their homes in tho old world and come to this, because hero they expect to find a greater degree of liberty, and the conscqucnco is, that when here, nobody is more strenuously and devotedly attached to our free and republican in stitutions. It has been supposed by some, that there is danger in giving tho elective frinchiso to a pcoplo so numerous, who have not learned our language and becomo familiar with our constitu tinn and laws. We aro not of that belief. We believe that every advantage possible should be extended to them that they should bo greeted with tho hand of fellowship, and made welcome to whatever there is in the Government, instilu lions, and hospitalities of a free people. They do not come hero for any but honest purposes, and their honesty cannot long be without suffi cicnt intelligence to guido it With their hopes all centered in American institutions, and their energies nil devoted to American enterprise, they should be made to feel themselves truly and com pletely American citizens. If sometimes led away from tho true interests of the country by skilful and corrupt demagogues, they will not bo slow to discover their error, and as they havo no sinister ends in view, they will ultimately bo found true to their trust and unflinchingly resolute in the support of correct principles. If here in tho time of the Revolution, they would have been Whigs with Washington and Franklin and Hon ry; if here in the last war, they would have been with Clay and Scott and Harrison, and being here now, they can hardly fail to iiuilo with their fellow citizens in tho support of the samo men and tho samo principles which governed Wash ington, and which aro now advocated by Scott and Harrison and Clay. A man attempted to drown himself in tho river lust night, by jumping off tho bridge. The plunge brought him to his senses, and ho swain In the shore. Tho Whigs must remember that to-morrow is the day, appointed by the Central Committee, to meet in their wards and townships to select dele gates, ic. THE SUB-TREASURY SYSTEM. No. 8. We now proceed to notice another fcaturo in the Sub-Treasury Bill, the arrogant and unjusti fiable treatment required towards tho payer of money for unascertained duties, or for duties un der protest against the amount. Such money, before it is ascertained whether or not it belongs to the United States, is immediately placed to the credit of tho Treasury Department. Should it afterwards appear that it belongs to the payer, how is it refunded? By the collector to whom he paid it! O no. The payer, poor fellow, must go or send, whether it be a hundred or a thousand miles, to Washington city, where he receives from tho Secretary of tho Treasury his unjuBtly extorted money! Not yot. He gets a warrant, which ho carries to the Treasurer and gets his money at last? Why, yes, if there is any thcro "not otherwise appropriated." During all this time the Treasury Department uses his money, for which it pays him no interest, nay, his necessary exponscs in getting it must consume a por tion of it. Now, the English of this is, legal ized swindling, Government robbing the people. A moro pointed commentary could scarcely bo found on that vile doctrine of the Administration let tho people take care of themselves, and the Government will tako care of itself. Great exertions aro mado to impress upon the minds o( the people the notion that this is a project for the security of the public money. This ob ject is made to appear in the title of the bill. It is declared by tho Van Buren press to be "something extraordinary, that a party in this enlightened day should place their hopes of success to tho Government of this Union, on their opposition to a law for the security of tho public trea sure, and tho punishment of robberies and de faults." And then iron safes and double locks and multiplied bolts and granite vaults are largely expatiated upon, to magnify this idea of security. Let us bo bold enough to look into this business of Sub-Treasury security, and ascertain in what it consists, and what it is all worth. Except in those small offices, which aro re quired to report only four times a year, the caso of any delinquency is merely communicated up to tho President. And this reporting of delinquencies up through one officer after another to the Chief Magistrate, constitutes the enormous sum total of security for the public funds afforded by this admirablo bill ! True, severe penal-tics are imposed for certain acts, but before these penalties can be inflicted upon the wrong doer, theao malpractices must be brought before the judicial tribunals and investigated ; but for doing any such thing, with the exception above mentioned, this famous bill makes no provision at all. All the subordinate officers are required merely to report cases of fraud or failure tip to the Chief Magistrate, and there tho bill stops. On him it imposes no duty, whatever. He, according to the true Administration doctrine, is left in possession of tho largest and most unlimited discretion. Tho Constitution requires him to "take care that the laws be faithfully executed." But as no part of this bill requires misconduct in the larger of fices to be brought within the notice of the judi cial tribunals, there is of course no such legal provision hero to execute. He can, if it be his good pleasure, cause these offences to be reported to the courts for prosecution, and, if it bo his pleasure, they aro shielded from legal scrutiny and punishment. If the delinquent be ono whose friendship has been doubtful, whose labors for the party havo been lukewarm, his case can bo forthwith prosecuted, and the grand hailing signal given to a hireling press to open wide its brazen throat and proclaim tho astounding disclosure of Federal fraud. If, however, it be a caso of pe culiar aggravation if tho felon be a prominent actor in the party ranks, whose exposure would reflect censure and disgrnco upon the powers that he, that omnipotent discretion can withhold his caso from the dangerous precincts of judicial investigation forever, or until somo devico can be invented to screen tho party from tho confusion and shame which would follow. The exception stated, has respect only to civil delin quencies by tho incumbents of small ofliccs their criminal acts como within tho boundless discretion of tho imperial head of all this arbitrary contrivance. And this is tho Administration's profound scheme of security, the "law to secure tho taxes of the peoplo from plunder after collection." Hero is power and hero aro motives, and before thrso combined, when or where did ever human liberty long stand? Better at onco call this bill of abominations by its truo name, a bill to chango the Government of the United States into an clcctivo monarchy. POWERKl'L DISCHARGES. Tho Locofocos of Perry county have had a convention for tho purpose of raising the steam for tho fall campaign. After screwing their courage up to a few degrees abovo zero, they let olf eighteen or nineteen resolutions in quick succession, somo of which are exceedingly ludicrous. They bid defiance to all power of faco. Tako a specimen: limlved. That our talented Buckeye Governor, Wilson Suinno, hut fully iiistaincd the principles upon which lie was elected, He hns our thanks, and merits the applauso of ill honest men, for the firm tnd correct course taken by him tgalnil tlis fraudulent banking system of our country. Talented! Well, let it go at that. Fully sus-tained the principles upon which ho was elected." Pray what wero llio principles upon which ho was elected? But what hns the said Wilson Shannon done can any body tell? To be suro, ho discharged a full length speech into tho faces of the members of tho Ohio Legislature, somo parts of which were particularly absurd can any body say more than this for him? The resolutions are-reported to have been generated in the brain of one Dr. William Trevitt, who has some reputation in the way of answering to other people's names, and'voting for absent members of tho Legislature. Ho said, however, he would never vote for Mr. Auditor Brough again. "We re-puhlisK the following extracts, from the Carrollton Jefiursonian, J"tm7A sincere jt"u."- John O. Miller. "It is the leading sentiment of the "universal whig parly" that the peoplo are naturally divided into two classes the rich and' well born, and the poor and simple people; and that the latter should be debarred any voice in the affairs of Government." It is pertinent to inform John G. Miller that if it affords him "sincere pleasure?' to republish the above extract, from the Carrollton Jefferson-ian, he is a contemptible dirty fellow an atrocious imp, taking pleasure in publishing what he knows to be false. Often have wo heard-Whigs complain of the injustice done them by just such puppets as the editor of the Confederate, in charging upon them sentiments and feelings derogating from the rights and interests of the poor, for the vile purpose of exciting prejudice against the AVhig party. That such "spoils men" as the Bulletin and Statesman should resort to such villainous expedients to prop their sinking cause-, excites in us no sur prise ; but, that John G. Miller; the pharasaical boaster of editorial dignity and justice, should express pleasure in slandering his neighbors, is what wo had no right to expect. If thy con science be not irrcclaimably seared, shame will yet crimson thy cheek for the outrage thou slanderer.We know tho force and meaning of the epi thets we have applied to Mr. Miller; though harsh, he merits them all, and we have no desire to abats their violence an iota, until he apologises for thd. 'sincere pleasure" ho took in libelling both pries and layman. For the Ohio State Journal. Mr. Editori Having been for several dayt entrap-ed in exnerimentine on that malignant and dreadful dis eae known as the "Milk Sichneu" or "Tremblet," on tho farm of Mr. Asburv, in Madison county, I begthrl privilege of making the remit known through thi columns of your valuable paper. 1 had adverlised that I would make some exporn ments at Columbus, but after advisement upon thil matter with several friends, it was thought best to die pense with the proposed experiments at Columbus and perform them in a section of the State where thel people are more familiar with the disease. Br thil annexed certificates, it will be seen that theexperil ments have convinced all who have witnessed them, that the disease produced on the cattle hv the feed in- of the weed to them, it the Trembles. It will alsoh. seen that these certificates are given by persons, who from their acnuaintance with, and experience in lb Milk sickness, are competent to Jurtire correctly I,' the matter. JOHN IiOVYU. Maditon Co., near London, Sept. 3, 1839, This it certify that Mr. Rows, of Favetle counlvl recently made an experiment on my farm, for the pur! Cote of ascertaining the true cants of the diseas) nown as ihe "Milk Sickness." That acowwiihj sucking calf three months old, were furnished for th experiment. That the cow wai fed with the weed) (which it believed to causa the Trembles,) togeth'j with common food, for the space of seven days, ani that Ihe calf tucked during that time, having retort li no other meant of subsistence. That on the tixll) day of Ihe experiment, the calf exhibited tymptonu' of the Trembles; and that on the ninth, it died wit all Ihe tgoniet of the diteaae, whiltt itt mother nl mained in apparent health. A yearlinir tteer wat also confined at the tametiml with the cow and calf, and fed wilh Ihe weed and otht) nccexaary food during aeven days, when ha alto tool tht Tremblet tnd died. I am fully tatitficd, that thj experiment! were made upon slock in good health and that the weed ueed in these cases it that whic produces thil fatal disease. MIANUIS ASUUKY. Willow Spring, Mudium Co., O., Sept. 3, 1B39. To all whom it may concern: 1 hit Is to rartiry, that on Ihe 1st Instant, I mite the farm of Francis Atbury of thiicouniy, to witnes an experiment making upon some cattle, for the puil poau ui naccrtnimnu;, n posaitits, ins cause oi uie uist ease called "Trembles, ' to fala) to ttock in manf Sartt of our country. This experiment wai made bj ohn Howe, of Fayette county, O. The cattle upoj which the experiment wai made, were a eow wilh I calf by her side, and a yearling iteer. 1 found till Hear and calf affected wilh the Trembles aa badly a any ttock 1 ever taw. I have teen the Tremblet frn quenlly,and believe it to he the lame will) which tit I above Lamed Hock were affected. WM. II. CRF.IGHTON. September 3, 1839. This msv certify that I hava been ocnuainied will the Milk Sickness or Tremblet for 20 yoart, tnd ha I CO cattle down at one lime wilh them; and that 1 sa t tho cattle upon which Mr. Knwe had been experiment ingnl Mr. Asburyt', and that they were affecled will the complaiDt which 1 have always tlwught to he ll 1 remittee. JUll.N JUUV, September 3, 1839. Thit may certify that I taw the cattle with whirl Mr. Knwe hat been experimenting; tod that they ha I what 1 behove to be the Milk Sickneat or Tremble i. . LOTSPE1CH. I certify that I have rstided in (hit county, f Mad- ton) for twenty-two yeart, and am well acquaint? I with the complaint generally known and deaignatel I reniniee m cattle, i taw notmng or Ihe maimer, i by Mr. Hows with Mr. Aahury'i entile, but I taw M,v Atbury cattle thil day, and know that they have tlx Tmmblos ai bad at any ttock I ever taw. Given tinder my baud, thit 21 day of Sept. 1839, THU.UAS JU,,3. N. B. We are well acquainted wilh Mr. Atbury'i paalure, tnd believe il to be perfectly free from Tren.-blot. T. JONES, J. MARSHALL. 7b the Editor of Ihi Ohio Slate Journal t Dear Sis: By Interring ths following from "Mo'-rii'iSilk Farmer," you will confer a favor on many cf your lubacriben, who will there find an amwer I the ohjrcliont which Ihey are now making to embark ing in Ihe tilk business. I thall .'endeavor to furnii' i other information of Ihe same niiurs, when ths am of your columns will admit of il. Yours retpocifully, ISAAC S. VAN VECHTEN. MULDERUIES AND SILK. The lemark it frequently made, by penoni not e, gajed In this intereiting bnaincit, that every body i i raising troet, but few or none are railing silk. Sui i remarks can only proceed from Ignorance of what really the condition of the silk business among us; and while great pains have been taken to inflame tl i publio mind respecting tht tnultieaulit, none whitevi , or comparatively very little,. have been taken to dif-fuie information as to the progress of the culture of silk. Hcnoe the remark above named being so general. But there are facts in existence Krone enough to satisfy the publio mind, if candidly stated, that the raising of silk is going on aa rapidly aa the nature of the business will admit; and' as the most- sanguine could possibly desire.. These faolaare well known to those interested in the business, and may be briefly stated. Ten cooooneries have been built (within ths writer's own knowledge) within a year- past, in the) neighborhood of this city, some of them large enough to feed two.millioni of worms, and others are in contemplation.' One eitabliihment near Philadelphia raised near 700 ounces of egga last season, which sold) last fall at ten dollar! per ounce, and the balance wnien remained on hand inn ipring loid readily at from twenty to twenty-five dollars per oance, and the demand was active enough to have absorbed three timet the quantity. The whole cost of producing this 700 ounces did not exceed $1200, while they sold for noi lest tnan jg ia,uw. ah inese eggt were purchased for actual feeding, and have been distributed throughout the country, there to be propagated, and to add fresh ttimului to the butinets. Besides these, many hundred ounces nave Been imported front f ranco, and have met with ready sale at g20 par ounce, even when, purchased in quantiiiet amounting to 1000 at a time. The article it in to great demand, that holder! con-aider it no object to abate ths price to securt a large tale. Still there ii a scarcity of eggs, and tht demand of thil ipring. eannot he supplied. It ii doubted whether the lupply produced in 1839, from domestic increase and foreign importations united, will be sufficient to meet the demand for 1840. It is believed that not leu than twenty millions of worms will be fed on the multicaulis thit summer, within thirty miles round Philadelphia. At Burlington, a large company has gone into operation, with the tola view of raiting silk. They do not own s tingle Ires, and have, therefore, no Hake in what is called the tree speculation. Thoir intention is to uie the large amount of leaves that will be produced the present lummer at Burlington, and to eonvinta the Incredulous that silk can be raited, to great profit, on a scale of the greatest magnitude. In addition to these facts, of which many similar might be readily adduced, there is a demand for silk reefs, and silk machinery generally, which is astonishing even to those best acquainted with the Dullness. These reels are furnithed by the makers at a cheap rate, within the meant of every tmall farmer, and are told at fast as they can be manufactured. A manufactory of the celebrated Piedmontete reel bts been established at Germantown, where the article is supplied at a low price. A- knowledge of the art of reeling it thut being rapidly and extensively diffused over the country at rapidly at any man ought to expect a new business to extend itself snd quite as much to at any other new enterpriae within the reader's recollection. Such il the beginning of the silk butiness in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. That (here is a solid foundation for it, Ihe Legislature! of nine States have emphatically asserted, by giving noble bounliet to stimulate and sustain itt From tht Cleveland Derail. BURNING OF THE GREAT WESTERN- OF THE LAKES. The steam boat Great Western of Huron, the largest and one of the bettboatt upon the Laket, was burned at Ihe wharf in Detroit on Sunday evening, ihe lit inst. She had- juat arrived from Chicago, and was making a Hop at Detroit of two or three hours, when, the wai discovered to be on Are. Before any thing-could be done to arrest the flames, they had spread over the boat, scarcely giving thoie on board time to get on shore. No livei were lost. Many of the passenger! lost their baggage;, and we understand that the books, papers, and . money in Ihe Captain's office were lost. The fire engines did not reach ths wharf in time to save any portion of the boat'i upper works; it it said, however, that the bull will be saved, ai well aa the engine. The fire eaught from the boiler furnaces. The Great Western wet-built for the upper Lake trade; the wai netrly 800 torn burthen, and had great room ai well at burthen for freight, and accommodation for about 300 cabin pasaengera, in her eabint and Hats roums. Her ton u said to have been from $80,000 to J 1 00,000. She wat not- insured, though some stockholder! hid effected Iniuraneei on their thtrei. Captain Augustus. Walker, who built and commanded thi Great Wealern, hai before built at leait lis boats; the Sheldon Thompton in 1825, Ihe Lady Washington, a large and splendid boat built in 1833, and wrecked on her aecond trip, the United States and tne uotumous, which, as well ai Ihe SheldouThomp-son, have been tnccetiful and profitable boats; the Vermillion, built last year, and Ihe Great Western, which wai new in May, now bumt. r.very one who knowi Ihe difficulties which Capt, Walker has contended wilh, and the enerei and oar- severance which he hai exhibited, will deeply regret a calamity which falls thus heavy upon him. We trust he may be enabled to rebuild the Great Western, and to eammand, next leaion, the belt boat in tht Unie led Males. Thltwae out Ant Itifnrm-tW, w- kvln k4 v. the books, be., In U Captain's office wwe saved. FLORIDA. The St. Aiiffutline (Florida) Herald, of the lSih instant, contains fall mums of the reesnt vote in that Territory on the idoptioo of a Constitution! by which it appears that the Constitution proposed by tht recent Convention hat been adopted the Tote in favor of it being 9,070 to 1,975 igiintt It majority 95. The Herald furiher says, that the returnt giving this result have been duly certified by Gov. Call, and forwarded to the President of the Convention, who it authorised to make official proclamation of the result. These proceedings, our readers will understand. sm preliminary to an application by Florida for admittion i,.u ma imiiuii, uui in una caaa, wo uiks is ror granted, the old cookery rule will apply "firit catch the hare," Florida it not ours and although tent of million! of money and hundred! of livei hive been qandered to make it to, the native lavafra Hill holds dominion over the southern portion of the peninsula. unuor incao circumstances, uongreit ean Hardly entertain the propotition to admit that territory Into ths union as oiaiu. While on tho luhiect of Florida, ws ana mAi curiout to know whether the delegation from that country, who have traversed the United Stalea nearly. in Kara or me uoternmeru, ntve yet lallen In with the travelling cabinet. Perhaps the Argut ean inform the publio on thit head. What Ihe special object of thil delegation it, we have not heard though rumor atatea that one propotition it hat in oharge, is to ask that the officer! ind troopi of the United State! may be withdrawn, and that the Inhabitant! of Florida be left to their own mode and meant of tubduing the mutatis, ma uenerai uovomixMnt, oi sparse, paying the eotu Thit, we repeat, it a rumor: but, if will founds. we tee no objection to Ihe plan, wilh thit one proviso, that the cost be agreed upon in advance; otherwise, the inducement to prolong the eontttt might be loo If the Floridiant realW think Ihsv nan. hv them. selves, accomplish what heretofore has been to una- vsilingly attempted, let them try And be paid liber al iy ior me mat bin itt tl not os converted Into peculation. Since the above was in type, we heart minor ' which, however, we cannot tatitfaetorily trace that Commander Mayo, in one of the U. 8. vessels, had succeeded in capturing, on the coatt of Florida, the Micanopy chiefs TYftCraiJ and lukenurrt, wilh their familiet, and alto tho family of Sam Juno in all 18 persons. An Epidemic of an alarming nature prevails among the rhickeni in every let-lion of tho country. They die in great nnmhers without any apparent cause. We ,,, nut iirmu suj nniim (ivvil If HIP UISUBbH, DUl teat if all accounts should prove true, that the usual number will not bt found in our market during thsiumirg fill and winter. iVorlA Jmtriean. , .