Weekly Ohio State journal (Columbus, Ohio : 1841), 1847-08-25

              WEEKLY OHIO nn ATE JOMM JLl, VOLUME XXXVII. COLUMBUS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1847. NUMBER 52. ' fUULlSIIKI) KVKIIY WKU.NKiDAV MDIIN1NU, 1SY WILLIAM B. THRALL Officii in the Juuranl Building, south-east comer of Higli street and hur 11IU7. '1' K KMri: TiiBi:r DnM.ARH r-KR anni'M, which may ho discharge! by the payment of Two Uoi.i. a u in advance, and free o' posing, or ol" per rentage to Agents or Collector. The Journal n aim published Daily nml Tri-VVcokW during the year Daily. per annum. il ; Trt-W-kly . ' i. WEDNESDAY EVKNIN, Aiigitmt 1H, IHI7. TelenrHih--Nti?iil Out I By Iho following not from Mr. O Rf.ii.lt, it will be Been that Telegraphic operation! at this point are suspended fur a few days. This, for the time being, shoves us off near half a day' dislnuco from the Atlantic cities ! How can wo endure it ? There is consolation in the reflection Hint it is but " for two or three days." For tlio Ohio State Journal. Tki-koraph. In consequence of some arrangement for working the whole line to Cincinnati, the Telegraph at Columbus will be suspended for two or throe days afler which its operations will be constant. ' I I WKU V t'll I.' I I . I . V A tic 11 At Flection, Posting tlio Hook. Elections have recently transpired in fivo Slates, for Member of Congress, etc., and the returns are now in. The account of loss and gain to the Whigs, stniids as follow : Kentucky, Tennessee, .... Indiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Loss, .. 1 ... 0 ... .. 0 ... (1 Gn in. 0 0 Hern is a nctt Whig gain of five Members of Congresswhich advantage inures to Hie Whigs of the whole country. Besides these there are local advantage achieved by our friends, scarcely less important to themselves, and in view of which we tender the 111 our congratulatory salutations. Among these latter , is thu pain of A Whig Governor of Tennessee, A Wing Legislature in Tennessee and A Whig Legislature in Indiana, Xj" It will devolve upon the Legislature of Tennessee to elect a Senator in Congress, to supply the ! place uf Mr. Jamngin, whose term expiies. No Extension ol Territory. A Urge portion of the American Press anil a large body of American Patriots and Statesmen have adop. j ted as a motto expressive of their views and senti- tnents, " ,'o tHrntinnuf ii.mk Territory." Various and weighty considerations operate to induce us so far to ctutige this declaration of lenlinieiit, as to make it avow our opposition to anv ai all i:tknbion or Ol R TIHR1TOK1AI. MM ITS. ' By excluding til further extension of our territory we remove a bone of contention fraught with all the I evils of i'andora's box, from among tho people of these States. By this course, we at once and effect u-: ally silence ill wrangling and discussion among our selves, as to whether territory which might be acquired kIi 1 1 1 be tlart or free territory. We might, (that question out of the way) continue t be an unitfd inn-pit. Viewed in this aspect, wo regard this as by far preferable to the Wilmot Prurigo. By adopting this maxim and acting upon its principles, we not only lake an important step towards maintaining tranquillity among ourselves, but wc show to the world tint wo were honttt when, at the time we commenced this present war upon Mexico, we declared in the face of mankind that (onqucst tru$ Hot our ahjret. American citizens may tlx n hold up their heads and look their fellow-men in thu face, without jusily incurring the imputation of being a nation of dissemblers and licentious plunderers. We prefer this to the Wit mat Proviso, because it affords common uuol'kh upon which the Whigs uf the Worth and the South can stand, and co.opt-rate harmoniously. Southern Whigs can, without any sacrifice of principle, go with ua against freign comments, and against the extension of our national limits; but they cannot ha brought to vote for a proviso which operates invidiously upon themselves slid their 11 institutions." Ought the alternative to be forced upon them of either doing Hut, or parting our company ? We think not. Wo prefer this, because we verily believe it would bring peace to our country, quicker and more durable, than any other course. And we are for peace an honorable peace. By this time, in all human probability, our victorious troops are in the capital of our weak and distracted foe. We may well afford to be mag-naniuinus if not generous. Let us then repeat to Mexico what we hav all along avowed to the nations of Christendom, that (hit it not on our part 4 war of con- qUltl Til AT W r. HO SOT tiMlltK THK MIX MV. M H T.KM KIT or that IlKM-iMc THAT WK WILL NOT CONSENT TO TI1K LXTKNSIO.N OK OUR OWN TLIUUTORIAL LIMITS. . Such avowala, made in good faith, would restore to ua the blessings of peace more speedily, more surely, .nd more honorably than all the armies we can send to burn and pillage the totvna of Mexico ; or all the CommisAioricrs we can send to treat for territory which their functionaries are bound not to c-de; and winch our best policy requires we should not rcerive. Let 11s then have .NO KXTENSION OFoUlt TLUUI-TOKV.The lion. IlKmv Ci.tv arrived in Baltomore, and took brings at Itanium's Hotel, on the )!Uh inst. He is on his way to the sea-side, for health andrecreation. H7" The alliens of Hridgep irt, in Mel mint county, are liking the incipient stops for procuring a Branch uf the State Bank ul Ohio at that ptce. Pxinsilvanis. The Philadelphia (mpiirier, speak. ing of the prospects of the Wing in Pennsylvania, says Our political intelligence from the interior is 1 iiiosleiicnuraging. Our friends every where through nut the State are thournughly united, and are making effort every way worihy of the cause. HiBsr.itv at Nkwahs The American Hotel at Newark, Ohio, was entered nn the night of (he llth instant, by false keys it is supposed, as all the doors were found unlocked in the miming, and some eight large trunks were taken out and nlled of their con tents. One trunk was represented to contain live hundred dollars. A quantity of wearing npparel, tallies' jewelry, Ac, was taken from the trunks. I'. S. We learn thit since the robbery, circumstances induced the suspicion thai the gentleman claiming to have lost l lm iJVli', was a party to the robbery, and he was accordingly arrested. Two persons supposed to be his accomplices, were also overhauled at St. Louisville, and imprisoned, and the ulUcers were 111 pursuit of two mure. O P The annual exhibition of the Columbus Horticulture Society lias been fixed for the 7th and tith uf next month. Q7 The Untied States Circuit and District Courts adjourned yesterday, after a patient and laborious sea sion of thirty days the longest ever held in this city. A large amount of business was disposed of. Camp AUktinu. The camp meeting tor thu Frank-linton Circuit uf tho Methodist Episcopal Church, will commence to-morrow, on the ground heretofore occupied lor the same purpose, about four miles southwest of this city. lUflctrlcity Telegraph Wire. Professor Olmsticii, of Vale College, has addressed a note to tho Editor of tho New Haven Palladium, under date of July 'th, in which he says: The idea tlut we shall have no heavy thunder showers, or hear ol lightning striking, as long as wo have telegraph wires spread over the earth, could not, I should suppose, be entertained by any one who reflects luw small a proportion such structures of art bear, in extent, to the grand operations of nature. Although a line of telegraphic wires sometimes undoubtedly facilitates the poH.go of electricity from the clouds to the earth, (not by attrarting the fluid, but by diminishing the remittance always experienced by electricity in pacing through air,) yet nothing appears to me more improbable, than that structures so limited in extent as these are, and always must be, compared with the dimensions of the whole atmosphere, should, to any great degree, prevent the accumulation of electricity in thunder storms, One opinion, however, which I publicly expressed through the medium of this paper, a year or two since, may bo worth repeating, namely, that on account of the tendency of a thunder cloud, which approaches near to u line of Wires, to discharge its electricity through that channel, care ought to be taken, when the poles give warning of thu approach of n thunder cloud to some part of the line, to complete the conducting commu-mention with the earth, and thus to prevent tho charge from exploding through the person of the operator. Without this precaution I have for some time believed that the consoquencos would sooner or later be fatal. From the New Orleans Pieayime, Aiifmt,f!th. Letters from MhJ. linings, mid t'npt, CM. Clny. Letter from Major tint net to hit ilrutticr. - Muxiro, July ii-, 1HI7. Dear Brother I have been lately favored with the perusal of a letter in the 1'icayuue, dated New Or. leuus, May I I, .il7, and signed Knritpie M jii, representing himself as the aid of (ten. La Vega, and undertaking lo vindicate that ollicer against the charge of ingratitude towards thu American prisoners confined in that city. In tins letter it is sinteu tint the raiace during mo revolution was brsicevd by the party of the church and its mlhcrents, uinl that no one left it for many days who whs not nhot down by Hie populace. Tint three day u In fore the arrival of Siiil Anna (the revo. lution being still active) Itiey left ill haute, to meet the Americana, and us tue castle 01 untiao, where the prisoners were confined, was within the lines of the enemy no intercourse could beheld wttli it. 1 have rarely reud so sijort a parugrupii containing so many filsehond. Tuu Pal.ice was never besieged by thu revolutionary party their p isitiou being near the iiurch called "the rrotussor, some lour or live hundred yards distant ; not more than two or three per- nulla were snot tleiir it ; operations lud ceasi d before La V ega lell in haute: the e untie ol ntutiago was no more within the enemy s lines than any other uart of the city, and the intercourse with it was uninterrupted, being visited, 1 Uelieve, every day during Ihu liht by our friends. 1 scut several uiesaeK to La Vega which 1 feel suro he received, but whether he did or not, the damning crime of ingratitude must forever adhere to his rolled areas with the teuseily of Nessmi's shirt of old. 1 dis- uimh him to tho tormenting stings of an ubuii-d con science (it he h is any) and Liie merited contempt of Ins raee. Our army is still reposing at I'W'bh, and why it dircs n it advance upon the fit excite the astonishment ol ail. That there is some Mori reason lor this to me) extraordinary inactivity, I fondly hope, K.iets yet to be learned will demonstrate, but with the lights t hive the delay u inexplicable. Had our nrmy marched furwutd directly utter the battle of Cerro Gordo, they would not have encountered an enemy ; as it is an army of' iti),ui)U men have been concentrated here. That wo shall gain another glorious victory, should the McXicius aiiow fljrlll, there IS not the tightest doubt; and perhaps, niter alt, a peace will be more cerUmly " coomb-red " and more speedily than if there had been no delny. I tuve beard nothing men home since A. s letter nt tho l-Jih March, ii closed in youn of the t! 1 1 li ol thu same month. 1 need not speak of my great anxiety to learn something from you, but I must itnle my time. A 11 1' solution ia now neiiilniir between Oeu. Scott and S.uiU Anna for our exchange, and I see no reason to doubt its suec.es. 1 hope you will write to me often tu Vera Cruz, which will follow tho army, and i 1 never receive Ilium you Will only luse your time. 1 have written you so fully concerning my business that I need say nothing on that subject. If you have ever heard anything of Hurry or my horse Black Hawk, let me know. 1 ourn, ntt'rtoii;itev, JOHN l GAINES. Mr. A. L. Games, Nuw Orleans. letter from Cuunt M. Clmj. Orv or Ah xn o, July 1.1, 1 17. F.ilt. Picayune: 1 have till now refrained from making anything public touching our capture. The probability that it miht become the subject of h-gal mvehiiiiation, seemed to me to be sullicicnt remtuit nmotiir others lor silence. But smee the merits of our surrender have becomo the topic of discussion, any farther delereuce to perianal delicacy becomes criminal injuittice to those who have a right to claim of nie, their intermediate commander, whatever protection my humble ninlity can ull'ord them. I therefore 111 e rye the imputation of egotism and self elation itt the higher lieeessily of discharging a duty to the living wh d not, and thu dead wliociniiot, apeak for themselves If the failure of our superior olhcers to exchange us alter three successful battles, and the capture of many prisoners, is necessary to the public service, re-ijiiir.ug the soldier never to surrender, but in all cases to Isy down Ins liti1, without regard to ineiuahty of numbers or the rcxull.ug good of the sacrifice, then without a iiiuriuer I sun. nit to the sentence. But if this policy becomes not general, and is not deemed uoualsnd necessary in war, then n the part of my self and my brave companions in anus, some ol whom have gone from the loathsome prisons ol Mexico wIitp praise nor blame can never reach them, I protest against it, u a condemnation without a trial, and s peiulty with'nil a crime ! Vou term the surrender at Encarnation an honorable capitulation." It is so. The mass of mankind inilge ol lumgs by llieir tippnrtnt success or failure. Wuh them victory is ilory ud defeat disgrace. But with enlightened inmtU it is better to tlritiec success than to win it. Yet parudokical na it may see 1 11, 1 say that Hie expedition lo Encaf lislion not only deserved, but achieved Slice. -us. Lieut. Col. Field, Surgeon ll'ihcrts, and Mijnr (fames will reuu'iiitier, tint, on the mhl preceding the adventure it was ured that the reconuotternig ptrty should eoimiil of a large body with artillery suf-liciciit to hold Hi" enemy 111 cheek, till the arrival of reinforcement, or strong enough to retreat with its lace to the tot. Or else it should' be a small body wlioie loss would not be inaternUy fell by the army, a part of wh"iu we uiihl calculate from the superior speed of the horses, and belter uddress of the men, Mould return with the tidings uf the. enemy s position and force. The Utt alternative we were compelled to adojit, mid Uih result was as foretold. We found ihe enemy and sent bark word of his approach. Whether this resolution he in accordance with unh. dry science or no, ami how far the success of the elonoiiH bit tie of II. ten .1 Vista was owing to this timely warning, I leave tiblcf sir tegisls than I to determine. lint why anticipate capture .' The country through which we had to pass was a grass covered plain, shut in by mountains, wle-re there w is no growth of wood to conceal us. We were compelled to jro to Itxed urn! well known placet) for water, surrounded by raueheros who were ever ready and not slow in giving timely notice of our approach. Trie mglit before reaching Eueirnation, we had resolved, according to the Spartan maxim, continually to change our camp to avoid surprise, and to move, if necesmiry, twice a inirhl to prevent the peasantry's knowing our whereabouts. I hat we camped two nights successively in r.ucar last, and nominated Gen Cimhi.m B. (ioinnno or Senator, and Askl Hamuli, and A. 8. B. Ci l-iii:iitob for It'-presentatives. Of course they will bo elected. Camo I'oKTra was nominated for Sheriff, and Adam Pktkhs for Treasurer Liiti.i Mum Ihu Koaii. The receipts of the Little Miami Hail Iload, for the innnih of July, are as follows For freight f7, Ml ;J ; foi passengers $1 1,-bU Total, tH,7ilt vj, QT There are 2Xt public libraries in the United Slates, which contain in all '-J,:i.V),'iijD volumes. Yki.i.ow Fkvbh at Naw Oiilkass. The Cincinnati Tunes of yesterday, says, a ge nilcman, just from New Orleans, informs us that the yellow fever is rag ing in that city to an alarming extent. On Ihe day of his departure, one hundred cases were reported, which did not include any out of the hospitals. People wet tleeing in every direction f rum the scourge, which has now become decidedly epidemical. Mohuah coer.Tr. The Whigs of Morgan have nominated ltutL Houston and Joh Hair for Hep. resentatives. These gentlemen are highly spoken of, and the Herald feeli confident of their election. Holding a Mexican chief of eipitl runk with, our commamlitiit as a hostage, Alaj, Gaines and (icu. Mi 11011 concluded the following terms of capitulation : 1st. The most honorable treatment as prisoners of war known to nations. !id. Private property to bo strictly respected. ltd. Our .Mexican guide to receive a lair trial in the civil courts. Accept assurances nf my lasting gratitude, that you have, with Mrs. llemnns' in " The Cajitivo Knight," entered into a prisoner's griefs, and magnanimously vindicated our claims upoiiour country 'sjusticu. For all that is generally deemed remunerative in war, falls to the lot of others; but " The worm, the canker, and tho grief Are ' ours 1 alone." Ever ob't serv't. . C. M. CLAY. Presidential Iudicntions. The Whigs of the second Congressional district, Louisiana, at a Convention held in Donaldsonville on the yd imlant, nominated Banuon O, Thibedeaux for Congress. In noticing this Convention, thu New Orleans Bulletin of the lth says : " In this district, certainly, snd we believe, also, in all the other Districts of the State, no man can bo elected to any office, in the gift of the people, who would avow himself an opponent ef Geu. Taylor, nor have we any idea that, when the Imio arrives, even nn opposing electoral ticket will be offered to the people of Louisiana ; but that one universal Taylor shoutwill ascend through-out the length and breadth of the State." Among the resolutions passed by the Convention, was thu fol lowing : lliwltnl, That the Whigs of the Second Congressional District, desiring to bring the administration uf the General Government back to its pure and republican days, when an affirmative answer to the questions, "Is lie honest?" and "Is he capable?" were the first rccoiinm nd ttionj to office, and desiring to render to ditih.'ruthed merit and services, thu distinguished acknowledgment of high office, we present to Hie people of thu District, the name of Zt itAftr Tavlok, and ask their hearty co-operation in placing him in the highest office known to our constitution, as thu man best calculated, " by a strict oliscrvunce o Hie constitution," to " make us most prosperous ut homo and most respected abroad. " The last number of tho Cambridge City Reveille, brings us the proceedings of a mass meeting held by the vii 1 us oi Dunlin and vicinity, Indiana, winch expressed the sentiment that Hie existing war with Mexico is a national calamity, brought ution the coun try by tint wickedness of its rulers commenced by the President in violation of the Constitution, with-ml the sanction of Congress or the people by an untuw-ful and unauthorized invasion of the territory of Mex- 1 ho (.'invention passed tlio Mlowmg among other resolutions : Hth. Hrsoiceil, That in selecting a candidate for Ihe 'residency we desire to select one who has republican principles and who is of npproved patriotism and tried fidelity who is opposed to fn extension of do-mentis slavery, and to the acquisition of additional slave territory and who will not endeavor by war or coui'ie.it to dismember a sister republic and deprive her of a portion o her territory. Such n man we believe is the I()N. THOMAS COIIWIN, of Ohio, ami vo therefore recommend linn to our fellow citizens as a suitable candidate for lh" Presidency, confi dently believing that the eminent abilities and rou- sitteul patriotic principles which have heretofore mark- il his career ax n statesman will enable htm to advituce the intereitt and honor of the country, and shed additional lustre on its institutions ai its chief Execu tive Mug is Irate. niesmnorn niisii.-inc nigs n, musKingum t,K, Willu u, f,,,,,,, t,Bll de,, ,,Ur pari. For county met in Convention at Zineavillc, mi M onday we had, on the advanced leu mil 1 the direc tion ol rtailiilo, intending to amies, two hundred men whom we heard were stationed there, but night, storm, and darkness coming on we were compelled, having no KU'de, lo return, against thu protest of some and our previous rule of action, to Kucaruatiun. The idea of putting out picket guards in a plain of twenty utiles diameter, interseeteil by roads 111 all directions, is absurd. And hail a picket guard given an al irm in the night, the result would havu been the name, fur we would not have left our cattle till morning, till we saw the enemy and knew Ihnr force. Seventy one men and officers, all told, held Gen. Minon and three thousmd regular and veteran troops, as numbered by himself, at bay from dawn till noon of Hie VJd day of January. Without half as many rounds of shot as there were opposing foes, without water, without provisions, one hundred and leu miles from camp, without the remotest ftrMhi!ity ofre-iu-forcetneut, we unanimously delenuiiied to tuct "tho most honorable terms of capitulation known to 11 a lion," nr sell nur lives like men who held the faith lint honor is Hie only necessity. hen we remembered that Taylor fought at Huena Vista at a liberal computation onr to four, and hud his hands full, and thai we stood less than nnr to furt'j-tiro id the enemy under their most gallant chief, I hatard the assertion that in Hie history of Ihe Mcxi. can war there will have been no exhibition of nobler galhutry Ihtu was displayed at the capitulation uf , Eucaruatiun. r.x-Goverimr Morrow. The following sketch is from ihe Washington Cor respondence of the B.illimnro Sun. It is mentioned that the l resident ot the Chicago Convention, Mr. Bales, of Missouri, emigrated to St. Louis in I;;'.', when it was a small Fn nch hamlet, and that lie had lived to see it an opulent and popu-ous and growing city. But there was a man m that body trout the .State of Ohio who had witnessed greater wonders than that a man who had been a witness 10 the whole history of the Went, and been o prominent actor in it I mean Jvrrmiuh Morrow. Mr. Morrow was one of the forty-seven persona who made the lirxt settlement in Ohio, at Marietta, in the spring of 17-H. They were an association of enterprising men Irom the States of Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Maud Mr. .Morrow held many high trusts in Ihe Northwestern territory, and in Ohio, alter it became a Stale, lie was also n distinguished member of thi' United .States Keuate for oiu or more terms, nnd was thu father of the public Unnl nijttcm of thu United States a system, which, in wisdom and beneficence, could not be improved. When ho retired from Hie Senate I think in Ir-l he hud closed a public career of distinguished usefulness; and an eloquent Sf-n a tor took lh it occasion, in a speech on a bill which Mr. Morrow had brought forward, to pronounce an eiiiogium on ilr. .Morrow s character and serviees. This speech may be found in the Intelligencer at the tun meutiuiied, snd, as a piece of historic interest and impressive eloquence, is will worthy of a re pro j du.Mion and a penis 1! nt this day. It is the singular j fortune of this venerable man to live through the his-1 tory of this country to establish a colony in thu wilderness, and to witness it.- growth into an empire ; to complete a long period of active public service, and then to enjoy hie and health Hurty years afterwards, a if allowed by Providence tin- special privilege of contemplating Ihe wonderful results of those institutions and eulerprires of which he himself wa, in a greit pari, the nufhor. Il is given to linn hot only to view, from a distance, the promised hind, but to pos sess and enjoy it with a prosperity of thronged mil lions. From ibe Cincinnati (iiifttc. lucrcnae or Nut-pit Iluslmndry lit tho Ohio Valley.We have read a series of very interesting communications published ill the National Intelligencer and also b tine interesting articles 111 that valuable agricultural work of Mr. Skinner, the Farmer s Library-each set devoted to the subject of sheep husbandry in the southern portions of our country. These articles are indicntive of more attention being given to this branch of business than hilherlo and demonstrate, loo, tint lirer profits are lo bo realized from this business farther south, than in thono more northern latitudes of our royiiiry where, hitherto, the most attention has been he lowed nn the subject by our farmers, Several years past, attention nm first attracted to this subject, and it apjtcars now, that, as Hie experiment has tieeii tre d turilicr South it has proven successful and profitable profitable, not only because a we proceed South the warmth of climate lessens the attention which is required Ic be -tven to the sheep in the severe winters of the North, and where Ihe ex pense of feeding is as great a diafl on the profits, but also brcause lauds are lound eminently adapted to the business nt one-twentieth Ihe cost at which they can lie pun-bused in Vermont, Massachusetts, iVc. Wc are informed that some few years past, attention was directed to the lulls and valleys of thu Ohio, hi Kentucky, and on careful examination, large bodies ot lauds Were found which weie but little used, of very low price, and were deemed much better suited to the business of sheep himhamlry that those lands where it was most exclusively carried on, farther north. 'I he climate was found so comparatively mild, as tint the sheep would require but little or no care in winter i the soil wascoveied with a luxuriant growth uf ((rant and vines nearly all the year, and protected from the winds and weather by trees. The experiment was tried and proved successful. A tiutnb 'r of extensive sheep hilsbanduien drove their flocks of sheep from Vermont, and have betn fully satisfied. As I bete facts have bcco,ie known in 1 anlicc land, and among ourown peoplf, large bodies of I p. ml have been bought up Kith a view of being converted into sheep farms j nnd quite a number of persons are arranging to drive their flecks to the Kentucky lulls, on or near the valley of (lie Ohio. Wu are informed that lauds havu been found, peculiarly suited to the busmen, nnd having all the advantages above hinted it, for which the farmers have paid not over ,'ian acre, and sold their land in Ihe North at V'.Vi to jjt.tu, thus beyond the advantage of pout ton, deriving in Hie difference of price, a sum Urge enough to greatly iucreate their flocks. Some sheep firms we learn are ill successful progress, nnd slocked Willi sheep of a class equal m quality tu any in the world indeed we learn tint the stock is sought alter everywhere, The farmers engaged, have. 111 the product of wool in. crease of II tcks savings of expense had their must sanguine expectations realized. The consequence was that as the above became known, nn re limners of the north have direr led their attention lntlu-r ward, and are preparing to drive their sherp to this valley. Our city under tins influence, is likely to havu a largo increase of the wool business, from tho Ohio. What is rather singular is, that lands should he found at such a low price, nn or contiguous to the Ohm, and wit Inn a da 'a run of a steamboat Irom Cin cinnati. Without other knowledge, it would be sun posed that for timber alone lands on this river, for tiresci t or prospective use would Command a much uglier price. The increase of stesmlmsts is steady their number will never he leas than now, The demand for fuel for these steamers ol the West are making sad havoc with the forests along the rmrs. A careful calculation of a skillful engineer has made Him demand equal to lO.'J'i.udll cords per annum a demand i Inch, if near correct, will yearly sweep off law forests, lessen the supply, and uicresne very I inu'-h the value prospectively, of the limbered lauds near any 01 inu streams. We are plea.ied lo learn that many of the sheep farms now in operation, or preparing for the same, are so near our city. Tins being the best market for wool, nml so aeceini- lile, will reap advnntsgci largely from Ibis merense ol busmen in this valley whilst the fact of its being so good a market and so accessible, will probably 111 crease attention to this valley fur this purpose. Let thu People tnko Heed in Time I Tho returns which have been made relative to our commerce show that fie are having an alarming in rrfimn in the imports of foreign goods, equal to thirty millions, and thai in seven mouths the entire sum has reached $.M,tl;),i(-i:) equsl lo about one hundred mil. lions per annum. This does not include a very largo sum in the warehouses, as to which the Bankers Alag-azine says, that " under tho public ware-housing system lately adopted, the public stores are groaning with merchandise from abroad, the results of Foreign Labor."The unsettled stnte of the times the Executive violations of the Constitution thu war with Mexico the nccidenlal demands in foreign countries for our agricultural products, appear to be changing the steady and healthy courso of business into one of uncertain speculation, from which much evil may result. Tho oreign demand tor products has stimulated speculation, nnd we learn from Ihe Bankers' Magazine, that the Banks of New York, under the influx of specie, 1 ne increase ol foreign shipments, and incoming of goods, had in ninety days, increased their loans in amount () pL.r cent., and their issues 14 per cent. Willi the increase ol foreign goods we do not obtain even a corresponding increase of revenue; for we have "a Tarill which reuuires the importation of one hundred millions of goods to produce thu same reve. hue which seventy. two millions produced in 1H4 "-()." With the prospect of an abundant harvest in Europe, we iiitiot necessarily look for a falling oil' in this for eign demand ; with this injury to mechnnical labor in our own country, wu will not have an equal home demand ; and these, with our increased product, will probably cause a great full in price. At the same time that we ure thus, so rapidly creating a foreign debt, at the rate of S.u,Hlli,lHiil in srren mouths, we are not in a healthy state otherwise. We are eiigugeil in a Foreign war, ot unknown conlinu-ance u war, too, which is causing immense drams of specie, to'be paid in thu same foreign country to meet the expanses. It appears by the books of the Treasury Department of July I, lhl7,Hiut we have alreudy created a domestic debt by the Government of over :t!,l'-''.,,ll,l ! and by the expenses of our armies, this debt is increased at the ratio of near ,illl),()l)0 per day! When this war will he can be, ended, is not known, but till ended till long after these expenses will continue. Whilst tho influence on the business of the country is as stated and thu prospect so bad : whilst we are, by imports making a foreign debt of over fifty-jive inillintis, and a domestic national debt nfforty millions, does it not behoove Hie people to calmly end earnest- v begin to consider what is to he the result? To en. epiire when we are In be extricated from nur difficult pouilion, and return to peace when we are to he re. lieved from this already immense and rapidly accumulating debt, tiinl determine how it shall be 1I1U10 ! It 1 'fore we are rid of these troubles, shall we not bo involved in embarrassments ? Will not a resort be come necessary lo that favorite scheme of many prom. i ne nt lenders of the Loco loco school, heretofore so often put forth Dirtct Tamtiun! It is time we began to consider our position calmly. and with a deleruunatiou tu know tite result and have a iqieedy extrication Irom the threatened troubles. Cm. Uaz. Ii.k Hovai. as i Ohio AIimno Compahv. Lenn-iler Kaiisoni, Esq , the agent of this Company passed up on the last boat to the I de Royal, with a force ofthirty-six men, comprising miners, smelters, wood choppers, &c-, which, 'ith those employed during thu winter just past, will make their force for the coming season number near fifty persons engaged in their enterprise. Li company with Air. Hansom, was Mr. John II. Blake, of Boston, who lakes charge of tho mining and smelting operations. The steam engine, tire brick, and every malt-rial necessary for the erection ol smelling furnaces on their locations for the reduction of thu raw material to pure cupper, have already passed up. hike bap. .Vttra. Park Benjamin has some design upon himself the following is from his paper: " A friend of ours, speaking of Cineinnati, says that its most appropriate n 11110 would he the Ham-burgh nf America. 1 Yes,' said a bystander, I think it will bo tho mral-ropolis of the United Slates.' ' One of tho best replies ever made to a challenge was made by Wikes when tie was challenged hy Home Tooke. 11 Sir, I do not ilihik it my business to rut Ihe throat of every desperado that may be tried for his life; but as I am at present high sheriff for the city of London, it may happen that I may shortly have an opportunity of ntiend ug you in my official eapneity, in which case I will inswer for it, that you shall have no grounds to complain of my endeavors to serve you," A- Arn-rrjtT Cin.ek. Some fourth of July poet who was it r has said that "There's no wealth likl freedom's,'' ami we have been furnished by the reminiscences of a professional friend with an ami sing illustration of the truth. Sonic time sinceahatless loafer was o lie red at the bar of one of our courts a bait for an offender. When asked what the nmouut of tin properly, real nnd personal might be, he answered Irom fifty to one hundred thousand dollars. Tins response excited some surprise, and the fortunate possessor ot (his larire fortune was asked tu pi)uit ut th character and condition of his property. " Why," said he, " 1 am In the way of real estate, part owner of this court-house, these public buildings and the squares upon which they are erected. 1 have an interest in all the public lands, amounting to some thousands of millions of acres 1 own a fhare in all the government vessels; au4 have a pro-rnU right to nil the contents of the auli treasury, as one of Ihu sovereign people of this republic." " But," said the magistrate, "arc you sure Hill after paying Ihe debts dI the present war, there will b any aiisets left to meet this re cog n nance ?" Tbe ptor fellow admitted that tins was a point uudrcnurd o;' in his philosophy, and consented lo s'nud aside until the question could be settled. Philuilflphia .York .li.ieriran. Punch says he once saw a titer knock down his boy, and he thought it the mist ilnLing picture of a sun iloirn he ever beheld. Judge Wilson, of Albany, who attended the Chiea. gn Convention, is the only sirvivuig person of the number who was with Fulton vhen he made his first Inp from New York to AHctn wi'h tin steamboat. i hat a change, says Ihe I hieigo Democrat, has la- ken place during the life of ths one man. The Norfolk papers announce the death of tho lion. Thomas Newton, in the 7:th 'ear of his ago. Air- Newton was formerly, and for thrty cnsecutive years. Hie Representative of thu. Norblk District 111Congress. Fit mm ten Dot of as, formery a slave, has hecomn assistant editor of the Rim's llrn, a paper published by colored men in New York. David Ames, Esq., the edebated paper manufacturer, died nl Springfield, MassirhusctU lately, nt the advance age of rl. He was vie first to introduce modern improvements into his mil. JotM C. Pri.i.ov, a free colore man, was tr rested at Baltimore on thu ath inst , fu receiving abolition pnpers, contrary to the act of tin Alarylnnd Legula. lure of M,to prevent the circi latum oi ineentliary publications, nnd held to hail in tie sum of .v-iiid, (Wr his appearance at court. He wac found in possession of a paer printed at New York, ly two colored per sons, called the " Ham t font, vhieli find been sent tn him without his solicitation aid he was senrcely able to read il. The punishment is confinement in the penitentiary, for not less than ten nor more than twenty years. Dr. atii or Gcoitur. Hrr. Th deith of this en-centric man has come nt list. George H ipp died at Economy on the lHh instant, at the ad lanced nge of lej years. Nearly half of this tiiso Rtpp was tho moving spirit of the Economy Association, and to thu end of his life had the command t.nd respect of his associates. His influence was of no common kind, nnd exerled as it wns, produced rn common result. What the effect may be with the foimuuniiy among whom he presided, remains lo be teen.l'itts. (iat. .lug. IDA. - A DiM-tr-t.r or Ronnie We noire that it is stated that one. Dr. Koek has arrived at Washington. He is s German and a disciple of Himge. lie has coino here under the ndvico and counsels of Ronge. His object is to establish a sort of Catholic Church nt W ashington, independent of tho See of Rome, ami it is the purpose of Honge to send out a minister or two into foreign nations generally, prtoclmig thu Catholic faith independent of the heud uf the Church of Hoinu. Cnrnriir.s is tiik Cut ok Nr.w Your. Aeeor-dmg to Doggett's new Directory, thi nuuiberof churches nf eaeh denomination in the city, is ai follows: llaplist '.Ii ; Congregational; Dutch reformed, l."i; Friends, 4 ; Jewish, ! ; Lutheran,:); Metiiodtnf Pro tettant, I; Methodist Episcopal, III ; Presbyterian :t:l; Associate Presbyterian,:!; Protestant Episcopal, II ; lloinan Catholic, 17; Unitarian, 4 ; Universalis!, I; Welch, !i; .Miscellaneous Fi-ix Ai) Fui Sr. r.ii The Eaton (Ohio) Regis, ler says, thai Preble county is the greatest tlax growing county in this Slate or the U nion. This year tho crop exceedi any previous one, in the quantity sown ; and Ihe yield of seed will be about an avernife. It is computed that ll(),Oi)il bushels o seed will he raised Ihis yenr; of this quantity onc'teuih will be required fur home cousumpiion, leaving '.10,111)11 huslns for market. This, nt the price at which seed now rates, lut cents, wilt bring into Ihe county the neat sum of ft 17.- .VIII The llax crop, if some means ot' preparing the lint could be devised, would be very profitable, Lj,t( just as 11 uuu.es uuui uic urane, 11 worm ifij p0 im TIIIKHDAY KVUNING, August 1U, 1817. Gen. Tuylor The Presidency. The Editor of the New York Tribune proposes the following inquiries lo a portion of his brethren of the Whig press of the North. Wo do not know that there is any occasion for entertaining the misgivings which appear to present themselves to the Editor of the Tribune ; but we are certain if they exist in the mind of any good and true Whig, tho cause of them should bo removed. The queries themselves furnish food for reflection, and relate to important subjects which the Whig party must sooner or later look in tho eye., There is no occasion for concealment and no room for it if there were. We presume there is no desire for it on the part of any portion of the Whig party. Without pretending to assume the atlitudo of the especial friend of Gen. Taylor, or the olhce of expo- nant ot the views of those who urgu Ins election in preference to that of other eminent citizens, wc may ho permitted to say that it is our expectation that in all good time there will be a National Convention, for designating the Whig candidates for President and Vicu President ; and wc suppose further, that the candidates so designated, will bo men of unquestionable fidelity to all the cardinal doctrines of the Whig faith. It were madness, and more than madness it were downright presumption and folly for any portion of the Whig party to urge upon the Nation a candidate of lower standard. We know not that it is contemplated or designed by any considerable portion of the com munity, to present a candidate for the acceptance of the Whigs of the Nation, who does not coino up to the full measure of this Blnndard. Gen. Taylor is now in a foreign country, occupying a responsible post. While thus engaged, it can hard ly be expected of him that he will find leisure and opportunity to make known to his fellow countrymen his sentiments with reference to all the details of civil policy. But inasmuch as his life has been that of a soldier, and his cares devoted to the duties of the camp, it is but reasonable that now when for the lirst time his name is mentioned for a civil office, and that the chief magistracy uf the Nation it is but rea sonable wo say, that the people should enquire for his sentiments upon I hose topics about which they have found themselves unhappily divided; and from a participation in tho discussion of which, he has by thu nituru of the official duties devolved upon hnn, been hitherto excluded. But when he aspires to the civil sceptre it is presumed he will lay aside the sword; and then, as it is the undoubted right of every elector in the land to enquire for his sentiments on all leading points of policy, su it will undoubtedly by his pleasure, us it would surely bo his dutj, to make a frank, free, and full disclosure. All this we conceive to bo duu no less to the candidate himself than to theconstituent. It is understood that Gen. Taylor will shortly re turn to the United Slates. If he is to be a candidate fur tho Presidency, we should hope that he will at once doff the soldier, and put on tho citizen. This may be requiring more than he can gain his consent to yield and it may bo possible that upon a more full view of tho whole ground, ho may peremptorily do- line a nomination. Iheseare considerations which of course await his own determination and that de termination cannot well be given, while he is at the heud of an invading army, thousands of miles from home. And yet these are matters which must all be ttted, before he can fairly be regarded as the candi date of Hio Whig party. We presume they will all be settled in good lime and in such a wise as that those who have admired his military career and nchiuviiionts will have no occasion to withdraw from him any portion of their respects. 1 tie loiiowing are Ihe inquiries it tlio flew xork Tribune, above referred to: Wo will thank the EJitors of Northern Whig jour nals who favor the nomination of lien. Taylor for resident, tor explicit answers to the following ques tions : 1. Is it your understanding and purpose that there hall be a Whig National Convention, some time du- the ensuing year, lor the nomination of candidates for President and Vicu President? Will you favor or bscourage the calling ot such a Convention by Ihu Whig Alembera of tin- Congress soon tu assemble ? huppose (ten. I aylor should bo induced or con strained to declare himself opposed to the principle 01 the Wilmot Proviso, would you continue to support mm? Ditto ol I roteclioii to Home Industry and a liberal system uf National Improvement of Rivers and llaritors r 'A, In case no Whig National Convention shall be held, by what means is it to tie settled and declared thai lien. 1 aylor is the choice o the Wing party What if a respectablu portion of our friends should insist Dial lie is not, and that, supposing a new candidate is to be taken up, he ought to be, must be, I Northern Statesman what are we to do? 4. What will be the probable effect of running Gen Taylor pell-mell, with all thu bands of parly organiza tion relaxed, or rather cast to the winds, on the growth and expansion ot Hie Liberty farty, so called? And where will llio Whig parly bo, not alone in 4H, but afterwards if that party shall thus bo enabled to poll -lii.ui 11 1 votes in this State, '..'ii,! Kill snch in Ohio and Massachusetts, 1),IHI0 in Vermont, A-c., &c? 1 beso questions are asked in no invidious spirit but that impelled by an earnest desire to promote the .Vihoiml well-being through the instrumentality of Whig harmony and Whig ascendency. Shall they in nan spirit ue answered r Teesee. The latest news from the Tennessee election, states Gen. Neil S. Brown's majority, so fur as heard from, to he H1H, five counties to be heard from. The five counties yet to bo received gave a Whig majority 111 ol t4. Tho same vote now would increase the Whig majority for Governor tn Hi7. But until the otiici.il n-turns are received, the true majority cannot be known. Thu Whigs have elected five and tho Democrats live Congressmen. The Memphis district is yet doubt ful, both parties claiming to have elected their man. In the Legislature the Wings have a majority of eight on joint ballot, with a probability of an incrcaso from the other connliet to he heard from. U7 " Long John Went worth," editor of the Chi cago Democrat, and member of Congress from the Chicago District, speaking of tho New Hampshire lection, says "Thus the New Hampshire Delega tion will ho tint in the next Cungress. Mike Tom Ritchie the exponent of Democracy, and keep him warring on the Wilmot Proviso much longer, and where will our party bo?" ExroHTi of PnonucK The New York Tribune of the PJlh inst. says, the exports of produce have been large thus far this month. Over HKI,iMlO bbls. flour havu been shipped in the first ten days of August, in ndditinu tn Hi', Hi HI bushels corn, and HI,(KH) bushels wheat The shipments, reducing to flour to wheat, are equal tu H(H),tHHI bushels grain, or fO,(IOtl per day. J jTho Washington correspondent of the Balti more Patriot, under daln of tho I -1th, says There has been a rumor in circulation in this city (which I do not altogether credit) th it Agents of the Government re, made the snug little sunt of .7.i,(K)() on the day thu news reached Washington that Gen. Scott had entered the city of Alexico in triumph, -by selling tvernuient paper in New York, on the strength of tho news, and also relieved the Treasury Department, for thu time being, to a very considerable extent. The cost of tho telegraph despatches on that day, between thi city and New York, is set down, by rumor, ill the hundreds ! O110 thing is pretty evident, tn wit: that the Gov-rntnent has not the mmns of carrying on Iho war much longer, as it is now carried mi. What is to be done, if peace is not soon to bo had, remains to be ascertained ! Clkrmont and Bitowif. The Locofocos of Clermont and Brown counties have nominated Benjamin Evans for the Senate, and J. C. Kknnekit for the House. Wo shall miss, then, our old friend Dowry Utter from his place in the Senate a place not so easily supplied; for father Utter is a man of strong intellect, and strong political bias but an honest man withal, and useful in his sphere. He is as little indebted as any man in the Senate to the meretricious ornaments of education ; and yet few of his colleagues more readily apprehended the drift and scope of a proposition. From his constitution and habit of reason ing, he was almost sure to find in every Whig an op. poneut and yet, at tho close of a session, nota Whig in the chamber but might say, " Doxctij, with all thy faults, I to ee thee still." Besides the candidates above announced, Clermont Co. has this yum "floating" member by herself; and S, F. Nohrib has been put in nomination. In Clermont, and Clermont and Brown, these nominees can scarcely fail of an election. Hon. Henry Ci.ay. The Baltimore Patriot of tho Mth, says this distinguished statesman arrived in that city in tho Western train of cars, from Winchester, Va., thu previous afternoon, and took his departure in the Philadelphia truin, at nine o'clock that morning. It is Mr. Clay's intention to sojourn a while at Sena tor Clayton's, near Wilmington, Delaware, and proceed thence direct lo Newport, R. 1. Although his person shows signs of increasing age, his health is good, and his mind possesses all its accustomed vigor. The news of his arrival spread rapidly, and produced quite a sensation throughout the city. A largo concourse of people were assembled at tho depot, eager to get a glimpse at the reverend patriarch, and when he made his appearance, they gave vent to their feelings hy a number of hearty cheers. The corners of the streets along the railroad track were also crowded with poisons, who also cheered most enthusiastically as the train passed. Benton's Memoirs.- It is stated in a letter of tho Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, that Col. Br. nt on is preparing his Memoirs of Thirty Years in the Senate of the United States, with Reflections on tho Most Eminent Statesmen of (hat Period. Ho says: 11 It will be a sort of pendant to Lord Brougham's lives of eminent men of tho reign of George III, and will prove an invaluable source of study to the future historians. It is not to be published 'til af ter the Colonel's natural death, and will then help to bury a good many persons at thu same time." Ai. An am a F.i.Ri no. Ihu iluiitsvillo Advocate of the UHh instant, says the delegation in Congress trout that Stale will be fivo Democrats to two Whigs. In relaliou to the Governor's election, it says, thai, Ciiapmin (Dent.) has beaten Dwis (Wing,) by at least ."iiitiU votes, nearly 50DU less than Pulk's majority over Clay. The Mobile Advertiser saya Gov. Gayle's majority in that district will be fuliy .'till). At the last eleo Hon Judge Dargau, Locofoco, carried tho district by a majority uf III I. The Whig gain this year is, therefore, in round numbers, Hint. Smukk. The people of Pittsburgh seem determined to gel rid of the smoke nuisance in that cil r, if ponsihlo. It is stated in the G incite that in addition to the lft I IM) off-red for the best method of consuming smoke in ordinary household stoves and cooking np parntus, gold medals of fifly dollars each are offered to such persons as shall, within three miuithi, present the must satisfactory results in their application of a smoke preventive, or smoke consuming apparatus, in a furnace or factory, and on a steamboat. Mi'Mjer at Dayton. An Irishman by tho namo of Thomas Cornsh, who had been in the employ of Hon. R. C bcheuck, was found dead in the canal, at Dayton, on tho Ehh inst. He left tho house of Air. Schenck on Wednesday, and had not been heard of when his body was found. It is supposed that he was murdered, snd his body was mutilated and ex hibited evident marks of violence. Tho Alayor of Dayton, hy direction of the Cily Council, offers a re ward of $'200 for such information as will lead to the apprehension and conviction uf the murderer ormurderers. Correspondence of the Ohio Slate Journnl. Boston, Revere Ilocir, Aug. Ul, 1847. JutiGK Thru.!. : I promised you a letter concern ng Mount Auburn Cemetery, as it is called, but there is no mountain. It is an uneven tract of ground, said to contain seventy-live acres, though I supposed it larger ; some portions nt it rising out ot the plain around to a considerable height. It is thickly cov ered by a growth of young trees indigenous to the soil, and of various descriptions. Sincu it has been improved by art, it seems remarkably adapted to the use of a cemetery, but naturally it has few advantages over grounds that could be selected fur the same pur pose near almost any city, Rave that the site of the new cemetery near Cincinnati has been too much cleared of its trees. I should bo inclined lo think it a happier selection. 1 believe this suggestion will bo unpopular, but 1 must run the risk of it. There is in the Mount Auburn grounds an occasional abruptness of feature which is well relieved by art in the laying out of the walks, but which after all, strikes me less pleasantly than tho graceful curves and undulations of the Cincinnati grounds. There is in Alount Auburn a place called Consecration Dell, to which the attention of strangers is directed as one of its especial beauties. This Dell is a deep basin having no apparent outlet, the concavity of which, like Ihe rest of the grounds is covered with a moderately thick growth of small trees. When the grounds were consecrated, a stage was erected at the bottom of this bam fur the orator. Judge Sroiiv, and the audience were seated around the sides as in an ainpithestre, whence its name, Consecration Dell. In the bottom of this basin as now shown is a green pool of stagnant water, which tome was an unpleasant object, and in my view the grounds would not he leas beautiful without the Dell. With these qualifications, one can only express himself by exclaiming "how beautiful! Ilnw grateful to the heart ia lt:u fact here exhibited that pleasant associations and remembrances may bo connected with the burial of thu dead 1" Hark, how the holy calm that breathes around, Bids evrry tierce, tiinmll ikum pie-sum cease ) In still, email accents MbmppniiK from tho ground, A grateful earnest of eternal peace." Among the mosl beautiful objects my eyes ever he-held, is the gothic chapel erected upon Alount Auburn for the celebration of the Isst religious rites over the dead. If it have sny imperfections I did not discover them, and the first impression produced by it was such that I would prefer not to discover them. Upon entering it, I found the inside as perfect as the outside, and tho lighl thrown upon the floor and arches through the closed glass had a most pleasing and solemn effect. There aro no seats nor any desk to mar its artistic perfections; tho service is ciMcted to be performed before a standing audience. I inquired whether the dead were lett here for tho Sexton, or whether they were followed to the very grave, but my informant, although well acquainted with the grounds and an appreciative guide, had never been present at a burial, and could not inform mo. To leave a deceased friend lo take the last gate of a loved countenance in such a place, would be forever to connect the event with solemn and hnn ful emotions, and almost to rob death of its sling. This chapel is in itself a hymn and a benediction, and its c fleet upon my feelings was akin tn that often produced by the fine passage in Paradise Lost, where Adam assures Eve that, " Millions of spirited crealuras walk the earth unseen," And lovingly reminds her - " How oftn from the steep Of echoinit hill or thicket, bat wo hoard, (Vli'ti.il voices, to the imdmcjit sir, S0I11, or responsive echo lo other's note, Sniping Urn itreat Creator f olt hi binds While they keep watrli, or nightly foiindiiff walk,, Willi heavonly touch nf inslrii mental sounds, In full harmonic iiumlwr joiu'd, their soitirs Dnide iho diuM, and lift our thoughts 10 heaven." In regard to the monuments in Mt. Auburn, I can only say Hint I saw but one in decidedly bad taste, and that one concentrated within itself a greater number of improprieties and specimens ul bad taste than you will usually sett scattered over a whole grave yard. I will not describe tt, hut will turn to a few of a pleasing description. One to which my attention was particularly won, was a monument erected tn a child, a little girl of some two years of nge. This consists first in a solid slab nf beautiful white marble. over which, and supported by marble pillars, is another plain slab uf the same spotless material, making be tween them a place of shelter and repose, wherein is placed upon a couch, a likeness of the child herself in her grave clothes, skillfully cut in marble from a plaster cnsl, taken by the arlist before she was buried. There she is, with herlitlle hands craped, her budding features serenely composed in death, as when she fell asleep, and there ihe will remain forever. In that part of the cemetery devoted tu strangers is an unostentatious grave, covered by a plain slab, wilh no name imr dale, but only this inscription "M. W. It. Sim lived unknown, ami few could know When Miry erased to Ite i But aim is 111 tier grave, and O ! The dill'crrnco to me,'' Could anything lie better or more touching than that J In nnn nf the private family burial lota is an imposing stone erected over the grave of a stranger one of the Revolutionary soldiers. He was engaged in moil of the battles of the Revolution, and in extreme old age come several hundred miles to Ik1 present at the celebration of the completion of Hunker Hill monument, and died here. He was buried in this private lot, and tint monument raised over turn, on which Is inscribed a brief account of his services and of Iho circumstances uf his death among strangers, closing witti these lines : " He cams nmonij si rainier, 1 In died lining lticn.li." There are a number of monuments of distinguished men, which cannot now undertake to describe, but which interest tin spectator, 'l int stone on which Judge Story's name is inscribed, 1 one nf the plum, cut, and (he inscription simply gives his name, ' Jiidt Story," with the dales of his birth nml desfll. I may, if 1 get time, in another letter, sny something about Cambridge ('diversity, ils grounds, its buildings, its Libraries nnd paintings, but fur the present must cluse. 1 Yours, truly, SClU'l'O. To the Editor of Ms Ohio State Journal; Even old croakers must admit that man is growing wiser and better every generation. The sequel may tend to show that the remark docs not justly apply to every thing but to many things. Within the last fifty years, genius and labor have brought many things into use, unknown to the former history of our race. To Science the attention of the present ago has been usefully directed. Chemistry and Astronomy have had their share ; and the results have been most wonderfully successful. Improvements in the Talescore arid careful obseivalion have added within that period several now planets to our system. La Place has given the world the Celestial Mechanics, and we can boast of his commentator, not less entitled to our profound rasped.A little prior to the period of which wt speak, our Franklin began his control over electricity : and sine astonishing results have followed discoveries in gal- mm m mu magnetism. Limning nas oeen laugtu to write and carry messages with incalculable celerity. Man, setting no bound to this principle, every where diffused through the substance of our planet, begins to think that it may bo the secondary cause of all life and motion. Organized beings ore, as it were, created under its application, even to deadly poisons. Chemical analysis has taught us the elements which serva to sustain animal life ; and synthesis may vet furnish aliment from crude materials abounding in nature. Saw dust has already been converted into tolerable bread ! To what infinite variety of useful purposes has the motive power of steam been applied within the Isst fifty years, and who will pretend to set bounds to its further progress ? It has overturned and left far be hind that old maxim tn physics, that resistance is in proportion to velocity, and consequently in sir and wa. ter there was a point beyond which the latter must cease. Within the above period of which we sneak, tho blind and deaf mutes have been taught to read and write, and thus many thousands of unhappy beings have been brought to enjoy life- and tu add to the ag gregate of productive labor. Genius has also been busy with tho mechanic and useful arts. Labor saving machines have multiplied astonishingly. The cotton gin has been invented ; sg- ricuiturai implements nave oven improved. The plough is another implement from what it was fifty years ago ; and the horse rake, although simple, is found to be of great value to the husbandman. Tho turner's lathe is no lunger confined to rounding materials. It can now give every figure known to mathematicians, and even produce tolerable statues. The power-press and stereotypes give us all sorts of books for almost nothing, and by and by we should not be astonished if ingenuity should produce a machine fur writing them. We think modern authors have nearly brought us to a point when the invention may be rea. sonably looked for and without materially diminishing tho value of the matter! Instead of the buzx of tho spinning-wheel and the knock of the hand-loom, we have the jenny and pow er-loom, and yet we find our females to whom Hie 6ld slow instruments ot domestic comfort and necessity wure cummiiieu, nui inu icss lnnusirioue anu amiauie. Indeed, they are now belter fed, better clothed, and quite as agreeable companions as formerly. 1 am will ing also to allow that they are better wives and mothers too. 1 have endeavored to show in a few words, that tho present and the age immediately preceding, has not been idle ; in order to convince you J am not altogether a croaker, and incapable of appreciating the rap- ia progress 01 society, j cneeriuiiy admit, too, that we have not stood still or retrograded in ethics and religion. Sunday-schools have been opened for a lit tle more than fitly years, and they have probably contributed more than any one thing to Die improvement of the age. Furious polemics have ceased, or nearly so, unprofitable controversies and our spiritual teach ers have been mure mild, and tolerant, and practical ; although, yet they are not quite so much so as many of us could wiih, and as they will probably be, under ine miiuence ot our mild government in the next sgo. Having rapidly glanced at some of the improve, meets of the Inst filly years, I now come to the prin cipal object 1 have in view, namely, the fashions of ii. -,. : i.:k i: Tt... .1... 1 . ma n(jc wintu itb utu. uu ui-icrcnca ana respeci universally displayed in nur country towards females, have no parallel in tho history of our race. This is as it should ho, because they form the manners, and, to a great extent, the moral principles of the rising generation. 1 do not propose to enler into the philosophy of this. 1 merely stale a fact which every body ad. mits to be true. I may, however, lie allowed to add. that female vanity and the love of trappings and subserviency to ridiculous, and sometimes fatal fashions, remain nearly the same as they were thousands of years ago. The earliest account we have of these thinfs, that is now recollected, is in Isaiah, 3d chapter. The sublime prophet disclosed some of the consequences of indulging in such vanities, and they are awful to think of. If our females do not walk with stretched forth neck and wanton eyes, they most assuredly follow me oig persons in mtneing as viry go. It ours have laid ai.de the tinkling ornnmmtm f th ftmt mmmmm jftedt they still retain many of the vain and useless ap pendages enumerated by the prophet, snd which were to be visited by the disgusting evils mentioned by him. Ihe inventions of the daughters of ion were far from being equal to the modern, in most things pertaining to femalo ornaments. Tight lacing, that destroyer of female health and beauty of form, was unknown to the ancient. Insects were not then con sidered the best models of fine form. The hair skirl and other unmentionable appendages were not in use lo give monstrous dimensions, disgustingly elevated and rotund. Although having exhausted invention on these matters, our female exquisites have turned tiacx. lor models several centuries, to the Elitslielhan age, 1 care little about it, so they will not adopt fashions which destroy health and, if long persevered in, uic iisen, have only the good of the lovely creatures at heart. Of the small or large displays, I am not disposed to eomplsin. Whatever absurdity may exist, our fe males win sun oe interesting and lovely, perhaps not the less so because we see them breathe with difficulty or pale with disease, in obedience to the tyranny or fashion. All this is nobody's business but their own, except, as 1 said before, no fashion should be suffered to take the lead that rndsngers health and life. I nngni, in audition, o allowed to hint that monstrosities, whether unnaturally small or large, are apt to bo forbidding and produce the contrary effect from what may be presumed at bottom to be the intention in adopting them. It was not my original intention tn complain or even advert to the fancies and vagaries and changes in th fashions of dress. 1 dismiss these things to the crn sure of those in the Iran and slippersd pantaloon," to which age 1 have not yet quite arrived. 1 had and have quite another object in view. What I wish to complain of, snd I think I have abundant reason for so doing, is the abominable practice of making ealta precisely at the usual dinner hour, as if attracted by the savory odor of our viands. This is a modern invention that 1 abominate and detest. Only think of it, to rind your bell ringing just as your good dinner oj un the table, and to hear Airs, and Miss Rotundity announced ! The very Harpies would be quite as welcome at the moment. Your poor wife rushes to her tmlct with a grumbling mutter that she wishes the Rotundities would select a different hour to make their visits. In a few moments yoo hear the insincere laugh of recognition. In the meantime, and should your appetite lie a little pressing or your business require haste vou will be very apt to soliloquist in no very select language. In this situation you pace the room between hope and despair hope that your unwelcome visitors msy tske their leave before your dinner is spoiled, and despair least they should not. Minutes seem hours. They stay, and stay, and stay, until your patience is taxed to the utmost. Your wifo at length sees them to the door, and hero the visit ia prolonged with an endless talk about nothing. In process of time you are relieved by a significant slant of the door. They sre gone to torture some other unlucky wight whoso dinner may bo ready a little later than yours. By this time, if you are 1 r rase 1 hie, you gel into a rage and say 1 ""M' - N " iimeiessi wile Who, ir she is not a vixen, mildly answers, how can help it?" and perhaps the next day, in obedience to this vexatious custom, returns the call wilh the samo dire fill consequences and so they go round and round and round eternally. By this very foolish and alto gether unnecessary custom of fashion, you are driven to the disagreeable alternative of eating your morsel alone, which an affectionate husband dislikes to do, or to dine upon what is no belter than a lunch, and perhaps lose a client or a customer into the bargain. Our wives ought to consider these tin hps. end bv renr-.l consent abolish the infamous practice which must drive their husbands into Polk's war or perhaps the mad house, if continued. We adopt customs and fashions without considering the reasons fur them where they originate. In Europe and in the large cities of our own country the business uf the day closes before Ihe dining hour, which is very reasonably put off until our or six u rn-, sun consequently leinale Visits at one or two, produce no domesim derangement or in convenience. Iho hour fur calling is edanted to the slate of business ; but how is it here in Ihe West ' ur sctive business continues front two until dirk and our " females havo very ineonsideraleiy transplanted tho visiting hour without taking into consideration the difference in custom with regard to the business ones. They produce inconvenience and vexation. Annovum- limes would lead to relaxation nn the f. inilu part, as our scattered population would render a clnnee of business hours extremely inconvenient and al..,.,.! impracticable I bat tins communication may attract Ihe attention of your female readers, I would sdvise you to head it miuieuse damages for breach of promise j" r, an interesting novel by Dogberry htoi!tlr,"or by soino thing equally calculated, of which v..u are a much heller judge limit I mn, to attain the object. We h..i our females Will read it with prnht 1 am, respectfully, OCTOliENARlAiN. -