ken of it by the Editor of the N. Y. Evening Post, we should infer that it had not disproved these charges, but only made Gen. Lallemand the scape goat to bear all the blame. Salem Ob. FOREIGN SUMMARY. Accounts from Sierra Leone, state, that it was very unhealthy. in that place, as also, at Messurado; that the emigrants, who sailed from Boston, have all died, excepting nine; and that the British cruisers had captured nine slave vessels, having on board 2563 slaves, who were liberated, and put to different employments in the mountains.... Bells' London Weekly DOMESTIC SUMMARY. The latest accounts from Mexico announce the re-assembling of Congress, and the progress of considerable business, Among other subjects before that body, was a proposition, for laying an additional duty on all descriptions of cotton and Messenger, speaking of the unimployed linen goods. As this measure was thought poor in England, observes→→ We "We have reason to believe that much of the recent general distress has been alleviated,but we very much doubt whether the master-manufacturers are acting prudently in resuming their work. have often repeated our opinion that many months must elapse before the vast over stock, produced under the late speculating spirit, can be used or sold. Our own conclusion, therefore, is that these premature resumptions of working, upon the former scale, by particular factories, will increase the evil under which we now labour."....The London Morning Chornicle says "It seems to be almost universally allowed, that the chief cause of the deterioration in the condition of the labouring classes of this country, is the continual influx of necessitous Irish; and it is as generally allowed, that the people of England, with the freedom of intercourse between the two countries, must continue to sink in the scale, in spite of all their efforts, so long as Ireland remains sunk in wretchedness.". We are sorry to find that the Greeks continue their piracies in the Archipelago, and seem not to be restrained by any principle of honor or humanity....As an instance of the bad effects of Despotism on trade and commerce, it is stated, in a Danish paper, that since 1819, not a sin .... injurious to the commerce and manufac‐ tures of the Uuited States, Mr. Poinsett, our Minister in that country, was exercising his talents and eloquence, in pointing out the impolicy, if not injustice, of the expedient....The fine frigate Baltimore, built at Baltimore, for the South Americans, has sailed for that country....A S. Corolina paper says the crops of corn, are most plentiful in that state, and that its highest price in the market does not exceed 45 cts. a bushel....The New-York Lafayette company of comedians,in which Mrs. Sandford, (late Mrs Holman is included) intend visiting Boston this winter, and playing in the City Theatre....The benefit of Mr. Hackett, a few nights since at the Park Theatre, at New-York, brought him 1200 dollars....Com. Laborde, the Spanish Admiral who was wrecked on the 6th Sept. with his fleet has arrived at Baracoa,entirely dismasted; he was preparing jurymasts, with the view of returning to the Havana..........A large Spanish privateer was cruising off the coast of Venezuela and had captured a fine Colombian merchantman, bound from St. Thomas to Laguira..........A new Steam Boat has been put into the Line of Packets, running from New-York to Albany, which has performed the voyage in the extraordinary short period of eleven hours and forty minutes, including stop It needs no argument now to the citizens of Boston, that commerce and navigation have been greatly augmented by the establishment of manufactories in New-EngIn order to show how much these establishments contribute to the prosperity of these interests, I submit the following statement of facts with regard to four of the woollen factories established in the land. what larger than bales of cotton. There is also used in them 140 pipes of olive oil, 400 boxes Marseilles soap, 80 cases indigo, 60 tons dye woods, 40 hhds. English, wood, 100 bags Sicily sumac, large quantities of iron for machinery, 600 barrels flour from other states, and a great many other articles of minor consideration. Thus does it appear, that, by the establishment of these factories, eight times the tonnage is employed for the supply of articles consumed in them, that would be required, were we to import the same quantity of cloths, instead of manufacturing them ourselves. I have said nothing about the quantity of sugar, molasses, coffee, tea, rum and other articles, consumed at these establishments, though it must appear plain to every one, that the manufactories in New-England, employ about one fourth of its population, greatly increases the county of Worcester; each employing about the same number of hands and making about the same quanti-trade in these articles, as well as in ty of cloth. These four factories make 140,000 yards of broadcloth per annum, which is contained, as the cloth is put up and brought to market, in 900 bales, 3 feet by 2, and would occupy no more room in a vessel than 300 bales of cotton. This is about one fifth part of a cargo for a vessel of four or five hundred tons. those I have before enumerated.Daily Adv. LEHIGH COAL. This valuable article of fuel is be coming,daily,more and more known, and will, in a few years, be generally used as an excellent substitute for wood, already becoming scarce and dear, in all our maritime towns. It is much cheaper than the European coal, and with a little attention, is Suppose these factories had not been erected, and these 900 bales brought into Philadelphia from the easily kindled. The quantity, of cloth were to be imported.mines, situated on the banks of the Should we, by reason of this, export to Europe any more of the products of our soil, or other commodities, than we now do? I think we should not. Now let us see, then, how much employment these four factories afford for ships, and how much commerce is benefitted by their operation. There is annually consumed in these factories 360,000 pounds of wool; half of this quantity is foreign wool, and makes 1600 bales, some Schuylkill, and some of its tributary streams, is already very great, and mand encreases. The last quarter's may be augmented, as the dereport, ending 22d Oct. gives 24,700 tons. The new meeting house, in Essex street, Salem, erected on the scite of the old First Church, will be dedicated on Thursday next; on which occasion, the Rev. Mr. Upham will pronounce the sermon. The New-York papers say that 300 Jurymen have been summoned to attend the next session of the Court of Oyer and Terminer, which is to take place, in that city, on the 20th inst. and before whom the great Bank and Insurance Speculators are again to appear. It is probable, that the next pannel of jurymen, will be more successful in their verdict against these men than the former were, and that Jacob Barker may yet be obliged to empty his "bag of doubloons," in the cause of truth and justice, instead of employing them in pirating upon our monied institutions. The Hon. Mr. Sargent, is preparing to leave Philadelphia, on his mission to the South American Congress. He goes out in the Hornet sloop of war, Capt. Woodhouse. BANKS AND LOTTERIES. The legislature of Rhode-Island is in session at this time, and engaged in the transaction of much important business. The leading subjects relate to the adoption of a State Constitution, as a substitute for their present superannuated and unnatural Charter-abolishing the tax on Banks, and Sales at Auction -and establishing a new Bankrupt Law. There are besides seven fresh petitions for Lotieries, and fourteen petitions for fourteen new Banks!What a prolific State! Since the above was in type, we find the legislature has adjourned, to meet again in January. We do not learn that any of the above subjects were acted on, during its short, but busy session. STATE OF IRELAND. The state of Ireland continues to be more and more appalling. In addition to the "famine fever," now raging in Dublin, and the distress which, from natural and general causes; exists every where else; the dæmon of political hostility has been called in to add his horrible ingredients to the overflowing cauldron of national misery.-Cou. Two duels have been recently fought in the Southern States; one at Alabama, between Gen. Houston and Gen. White, in which the latter was severely wounded; the other in Florida, between young Murat and Col Macomb, in which the former was wounded, though not badly. In both instances, we presume, a little blood-letting was fully sufficient to wash out all the stains of dishonor which had been cast on their characters. Mr. Robinson, the celebrated eronaut has made several successful excursions in his balloon, at NewYork; two of them were nightly trips, the first accompanied with fire-works, which he let off in the upper air; and the second with a young lady not of such combustible nature, as to be let off, in this manner; but of pure flesh and blood, and to be let down with sober gravity on terra firma, which he accomplished in the most graceful manner, and then r-cascended to a great height, from which he decended, gradually, by letting off the gas, and came to the earth a second time, in perfect safety to himself and his baloon. PEACE AMONG THE INDIANS. a A St. Louis paper, of Oct. 12, states, that after many difficulties and long protracted negociations Treaty of Peace, Amity and Friendship, has been finally concluded between the Indian tribes residing in Misssouri and the Territory of Arkansas,and the several warlike bands of the great and Little Osage Nation. It is expected by the Agents, who have laboured in bringing about this humane and philanthropic measurs, that the peace will continue for some time, unless disturbed by the machinations and cupidity of the white people. JUST EULOGIUM. French opinions of the U. States. The Journal des Debats for the 18th, of August, in speaking of the death of Adams and Jefferson on the 4th of July last, breaks out into the following eulogium of our country. up "Fifty years had elapsed on the fourth of July last, since the day when the most distinguished citizens of the United States, assembled in sight of a powerful enemy, drew and signed the Declaration of Independence, the fundamental act of the great republic of the new world. Fifty years have seen this plant, at first so weak, spring up and grow till it has become one of the sturdiest of trees, and now stretches its shadow from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, over a territory more extensive than the continent of Europe, and where, perhaps, in a few centuries, the arts and sciences of our quarter of the globe, will find their surest refuge. New generations have here grown up under the protection of wise and equal laws; they have sprinkled the wilderness with cities, and covered every sea with their sails.-They have done yet more; they have preserved purity of morals and the empire of virtue. That nation is ever most religious whose citizens are permitted to worship God in the manner their conscience approve." TRAVELS IN BRAZIL. From the history of Prince WiedNieu-Wied "We approached a chain of mountains called the Serra de Inua. This solitary region surpassed all the ideas which my imagination had formed of the noblest and most ravishing scenes of nature. We entered a tract of low land where water ran in abundance over a rocky soil, or collected itself into tranquil lakes. A little beyond rose a forest of unequalled beauty. Palms and all VOL. II the magnificent trees of the country were so interlaced by the climbing plants, that it was impossible to penetrate the wall of verdure which they formed. Every where, even in the most slender trunks, grew a green or great quantity of plants; banillas, catue, bromelias, &c. most of them ornamented with flowers, so remarthe first time, cannot fail to become kable, that whoever sees them for enchanted. I shall content myself with mentioning a species of bromelia with a chalice of coral red, the small leaves tipped with a beautiful violet blue and the Hellicon, a plant resembling the Stretzia, with sparkles of a deep red and white flowers. sudden coolness. "Under these thick shades, and near fine springs of water, the traveller, overcome by the heat, feels a the sharpness of the atmosphere delighted us, the in habitants of a more northerly region, and added to the ravishing pleasure we derived from the sublimity of those scenes which nature continu ally presented to our view in those solitudes. Every moment some of us found something new that fixed his attention, which was announced Even the rocks were covered with with cries of joy to the others. grasses and cryptogamic plants, whose forms seemed endlessly varied. Among others, we saw magnificent ferns, which were suspended from trees like garlands in the most picturesque manner.-A species of the mushrooms of a deep red colour, ornaments the old dry trunks; while a lichen of carmine covers the bark of the vigorous trees with beautiful round spots. "The trees in the gigantic forests of Brazil, are so high, that our guns would not carry to their tops; so that it happened more than once, that we fired at very fine birds without being able to get them. To make up for it, we might cull superb flowers among the grasses; but unfortunately it happened that we were obliged to throw them away 20 because they wither very easily, and could not be preserved in a hortus siccus. What a fine harvest might have been obtained to enrich a valuable collection of plants. "The abundance and force of the vegetation of South America, are caused by the great humidity every where found in the forests. In this respect America enjoys an immense advantage over other countries under the equator." STAISTICS OF CHINA. The Chinese empire is divided into 20 provinces. There are reckoned to be 185 capitals, and as many large towns of the second order. The taxes and duties amount annually to a sum of about thirteen and 31,000 to the marine.-Oriental Herald. CITY RECORD. BOARD OF ALDERMEN. A petition of the proprietors of the Law Library, praying that their room may be lighted, at certain times, at the expense of the county, and that a carpet may be furnished for said room, was read and committed. A report of the Grand Jury recommending some alteration in the prison for the accommodation of prisoners, and recommending that they be constantly kept employed, was read and committed: Adjourned. COMMON COUNCIL. NOVEMBER 13. The Faneuil Hall Market committee made their final report,which was read and ordered to be printed for the use of the members. The order heretofore mentioned authorizing the redemption of a certain portion of the City Debt passed. An Ordinance passed for the due regulation of the markets. The report of the Committee on the City Debt was taken up and ordered to be printed for the use of the members. The report of the Committee recommending a concurrence with the Board of Aldermen in the acceptance of the proposed bridge to S. Boston, passed to a 2d reading at the last meeting, was taken up and ordered to lie on the table. The vote, by which the amending report was rejected at the last meeting, was reconsidered, and the report modified by inserting 10,000 in lieu of $20,000 as the security to be given by the Bridge Corporation to the City. Other amendments were proposed, but the cavalry, proposed, but were not accepted. |