bring in bank notes, two thirds of its estimated value, provided the defendant gives security for the future payment of the debt or the forthcoming of the property levied on!!! Money makers. A large number of counterfeit half dollars have recently been put in circulation about Mansfield, O. supposed to be made in the neighborhood. Bankers! A nest of bankers was lately broken up in Canada -bills of fifteen banks in the United States were found in their possession, in different stages of progress, and the plates for making the notes of several others. such an investigation must be obvious to all, as the spi rit of the 1st art. and 10th section of the constitution which provides that no state shall "emit bills of credit;" and that nothing but gold and silver is a legal tender in payment of debts, has been, in the opinion of many, too long permitted to slumber; for for every body knows that these bills of credit (bank notes) must drive the gold and silver out of circulation, and leave nothing else but paper to tender in payment, When the local bank paper issues are put a stop to, specie will then, and not till then, be sufficient for the ordinary purposes of trade, These are our sentiments, without pre may be, Another gang has been routed at Detroit, and se-tending to anticipate what the honorable secretary's veral of them sent to jail. The rascals speak of their Fusiness as a regular affair; and seem to say that others, by law, have made as bad notes as they have made, unlawfully. LAW CASE. From the same.-The following case was determined at the circuit court of the U, States, for the district of Columbia. Christopher Armut, V8. The Union bank of Georgetown, This suit was brought for the recovery of $100 from Bankrupting or effect of banks-It is stated that more than two hundred and fifty persons are now advertising for the benefit of the insolvent laws of the state of New York. On assigning their property they obtain a release from arrest and imprison-the Union bank. It appeared from the case stated, ment on all debts they owe at the time of assignment: but their future earnings are held liable for all former contracts. [Right.] Leading to the opposite! A Connecticut paper asks "Why are the community so much embarrassed? Because banks lend money, that have not got to tend-and that a note for $100, belonging to the plaintiff, was cut in two, and was sent by two mails, for the purpose of being remitted with safety, from Gloucester, in Virginia, to Baltimore. One half of the note was received, and the other half never came to hand. On proof of the facts, the plaintiff applied to the bank for the payment of $100, and offered to in demnify the bank against any claim that might be Because people spend money, who have not earn-founded on the half of the note, when produced. ed it-to spend. REMEDY, Own the money before you lend it; The bank refused to pay the plaintiff more than fifty dollars; conceiving that they would be liable to pay by custom the other fifty, when the other part of the note was produced 2 Campb. 211 was cited. Earn the money before you spend it." Course of exchange! A New York prices cur- Per Curr: In this case, the note must be consirent of bank notes, quotes those of the Baltimore dered, by being severed, as destroyed. The half banks at three per cent. and those of the banks of of a bank note is not a 'negociable instrument, and Columbia at five per cent, discount! A thriving could give no title to a bona fide holder, who receivtrade must be carried on by the brokers and shaversed it after it was severed, to recover upon it. As it between these cities-for the fact is, that the banks is admitted that the plaintiff was the real owner of of Columbia are fully stocked with notes of the the note, when its negociability ceased by being banks of the city of New York, and pay them out cut in two, he is entitled to recover the whole freely in exchange for their own; and at Baltimore, amount from the bank. our banks, from the superabundance of said New York paper, have been compelled to refuse it on Cause of the pressure. Political folly, in a neglect general deposits! We have also an excess of Phi- of domestic industry-a wild commerce and inordiladelphia bank notes. How these things have hap-nate rage to do business, with various sorts of specupened we do not know-the bills of those places tation and fraud, have exceedingly contributed to the are generally in demand and rather too scarce in present pressure--still, if the money loaned out by Baltimore, to furnish the customary remittances; the banks were divided among honest persons that but so it is now that they are very plentiful, in ex-want it, and who could return it when desired, inchange for Baltimore bank notes, at par." We observe also, that Philadelphia bank notes are quoted at 1 per cent. discount, at New York. Pacob Barker's Exchange bank bills, at from forty to fifty-his Washington and Warren bank notes at twenty-and so forth. PROJECTS. The following is copied from the Washington City Gazette: Judgment for the plaintiff. stead of being monopolized by little kaots of indi viduals who cannot refund if they would, there would be a plenty of good money in circulation to supply our reasonable wants; and the banks, instead of being pressed to insolvency, would be flourishing -that is, all that ought to exist. Literary Studies of Youth. FROM THE ALBANY REGISTER. The present scarcity of a circulating medium, and the general embarrassment felt from the toleration of fictitious banking companies, we are told, I was sorry to find in NILES' REGISTER of July 3, now occupies the particular attention of the secre- an article headed "Literary studies of youth, addrestary of the treasury, and that at the next meeting sed to the editor, by a very respectable gentleman of of congress, he purposes to invite the legislative at- | Massachusetts," in which attempt is made to protention to this interesting subject. The utility of duce, what the author calls, "a salutary reformation in the system of classical education." At a period *We believe that such rates of exchange howe-when the study of the Latin and Greek classics is ver, have no existence except in the brokers' lists; and are informed that Baltimore bank bills are now elling at New York, if of large amounts, at per gent. discount, and are very scarce. so deservedly popular in all our literary institutions, and its benign effects are daily becoming more and more visible in every section of the United States, lit occasioned in me no small surprise and regret, that a gentleman from "the land of scholars," should I had they availed themselves of its assistance. Who endeavor to check this taste for elegant letters. It was hoped, that the inconclusive reasonings and erroneous opinions of the celebrated Dr. Rush on this subject had become obsolete; but we here find them revived, and recommended, in the form of a memorial, to the General Assembly of Virginia, as worthy of that body, in establishing a state university. can say, that Shakspeare and Burns would not have ranked still higher as poets, had they possessed the learning of Milton and Pope? With the same advantages of an early and classical education, Franklin and Patrick Henry might perhaps have rivalled Newton and Burke. But it is sufficient for my purpose, that a vast majority of "the most distinguished writers, philosophers and statesmen," both in our own and other countries, have been well versed in ancient literature, "The present plan of education, says the memorialist, is proved by these facts to be erroneous. First, that five or six years, out of seven or eight, With regard to the fifth fact, I assert without fear are spent in studying, for the greater part, the fic-of contradiction. that no physician can understand tious, frivolous and obscene stories, and the extra- the nomenclature of his own profession, without a vagant rhapsodies of the heathens. Second fact-knowledge of the learned languages. The terms that when masters of arts take their degree, they in anatomy, surgery, materia medica, and the names are less acquainted with the Latin and Greek lan- of the diseases are derived immediately from the Laguages, than when they entered college. Third tin and Greek. Hence it is, that every medical school fact that the English language would be better in the United States requires of the candidate for understood, and read to better advantage, if the the degree of doctor of medicine a knowledge of same time were judiciously employed in English these languages. Although not absolutely neces studies. Fourth fact-that several of the most dis-sary, it is certainly desirable, that every clergyman tinguished writers, philosophers, and statesmen, should he acquainted with the medium, t rough whom either our country or the world can boast, which the oracles of divine truth were originally owed not their excellence to the study of the dead communicated to mankind. The translation of the languages. Fifth fact that the knowledge of La-bible is allowed to be very correct; yet every one tin and Greek authors does not constitute the learn-who has time and opportunity, will derive a satisfac ing essential to heal the sick, to make our adminis-tion from examining the original text for himself. tration laws, or teach men the way of life and salva-Learning cannot supply the place of piety and zeal; tion." but it may prove a powerful auxiliary in giving It may be doubted whether it is a fact, that in them influence and effect.-In accounting for the this country five or six years out of seven or eight, depressed state of polite learning in the United are spent in studying the languages; although I am States, one of our first scholars and most eminent clearly of the opinion that a much longer period statesmen has remarked, that "there have been might be employed in acquiring this part of a polite great inertness and backwardness on the part of the education. There is no exercise which brings into legal profession, to encourage general literature. play so many faculties of the mind, as the study of After the forms of a preliminary education are paslanguage. The attention, judgment, reasoning, me-sed, the lawyer is too apt to devote himself exclumory, imagination, and taste, are all simultaneously sively to his profession; and as many of our law exercised and improved. I was not a little asto- givers and statesmen are derived from this source, nished at the boldness of this "friend to literature" in denouncing the writings of Thucydides and Livy, Demosthenes, Plato, and Cicero, as "fictious, frivolous, and obscene stories," and the immortal works of the Grecian and Roman poets, as "extravagant rhapsodies." If these things are so, mankind have long been in an error; for in all countries, and in all ages, these ancient authors have been admired and imitated, as furnishing the finest specimens of elevated sentiment, elegance of style, and refinement of taste. we cannot but perceive and regret this dearth of general knowledge in our legislatures, as well as in our forums. How seldom do we bear those classical allusions, those literary references, which enliven the tedium of abstract discussion, and illustrate, with streams of light, the darkest topics of investigation! and this defect is exhibited in many of our state papers, which resemble more the technical discussions of the advocate, than the luminous productions of the diplomatist.”* I have been thus particular in my remarks on this If it be a fact, that our scholars know less of La- article, because it comes from a very respectable tin and Greek, when they are made masters of arts, source, and would therefore be likely to do more than when they entered college, it only proves their injury to society. There is little danger, I appreindolence and want of taste, and furnishes no argu-hend, that this memorialist will be listened to by the ment whatever against the study of the languages. "scholars and statesmen” of Virginia; but to "the Pitt and Fox, Burke and Curran, although engaged sons of gentlemen of fortune," who are fonder of in the most active and busy scenes of life, never for- the Arabian Knights and Don Quixote, than of Xegot to renew their libations at the fountains of an-nophon and Cæsar, these facts of a friend to literaaient literature. This writer's third fact is, it is believed, without foundation. There are many words and phrases in English, which are derived immediately from the Latin and Greek, and cannot be fully understood without a knowledge of those languages. Should five years be allowed for acquiring a knowledge of the English language, the student would be a gain-. er by devoting the first three to Latin and Greek. ture will form a plausible pretext for neglecting their regular studies, and a fine theme for declamation against the utility of a classical education. 12 these remarks shall ever meet the eye of Mr. Niles, by giving them a place in his Register, he will greatly oblige ANOTHER FRIEND TO LITERATURE, Progress of the Russian Empire. FROM THE ST. LOCIS ENQUIRER. of the United States have contemplated, with astoLooking to the east for every thing, the people *Governor Clinton's introductory discourse br The fourth fact I am willing to admit. No one will deny that there have been many learned dunces, and many great men without learning. But - what inference is to be drawn from this? No other than that these dunces would have been nothing fore the literary and philosophical society of New without erudition, and the great men still greater, York. nishment the progress of the Russian empire in Eu-f rope and Asia; they have not thought of looking to the west to see this giant power already mounting upon their own backs. Except Mr. Walsh, we do not know an American who has even spoke of the Russian establishment on our continent. He has mentioned them in his "Sketch of the military and political power of Russia," where he says "Their establishments extend from Kamschatka to the N. W. coast of America-that they have a fort mounting an hundred pieces of artillery at Norfolk Sound, lat. north 57 deg. that since 1813, they have descended the coast, passed the mouth of the Columbia five hundred miles, and established themselves at Bogata in 38 deg. 30 min. and only thirty miles from the Spanish settlements in California, where they are not only trading with great advantage, but are profiting by a fine climate and fruitful soil to feed their more northern possessions.”Page 157. bounties for the army of the revolution—that tract was divided into townships five miles square. The east and west boundaries of townships being meridians, it is evident that their approximation, though scarcely sensible in a space of six miles, would, if not corrected, throw into the form of a parallella. gram the township which, by law, was to be a square. To obviate this, the deputy surveyors are instructed to form a new base or parallel to the equator, at every 24 or 30 miles. The corners of each section and quarter section are defined by marks on at least two trees, whose species, diameter, distance and bearing, by the compass, are entered on the field notes. The magnetic variation at the time of the survey is also noted for each township. Each deputy surveyor deposites his field notes in the office of the surveyor general within whose district the land is. These notes are copied into bound books--he is also, by his contract, obliged to deliver to the surveyor general three copies of a plat and description of This encroachment upon the American continent each township, and fractional township. Of these, is not the transient effect of the present gigantic one copy is transmitted to the general land office; growth of the Russian empire. It is the result of one to the register of the land office in whose dissystem and of settled policy, followed by every trict the land is; and he retains the other, which is great man, and great woman, who has sat upon the copied into well bound books, of which he makes Russian throne. Peter the Great began it; the em-out a duplicate, one of which is retained and the press Catharine the second followed up his plan; other transmitted to the general land office. By the present emperor is only executing the designs this multiplication of authentic copies, and their deof the empire. In the course of these three reigns, position in three different and distant places, perfect the Russian power has been firmly spread over security is had from fire or other accident. This northern Asia; the straights of Behring have been wise system takes away all temptation to incur the passed; and a solid foot hold acquired in North curse pronounced by Moses on him "who removeth America. A road over land is opened from St. Pe- his neighbor's land mark." The landmark is indeed tersburg to Kamschatka: and Russian ships, load-immoveable; for, though the marked trees at any one ed with American fur, annually sail from the north corner may be burnt or destroyed, yet, at the diswest coast of America, double the Cape of Good tance of half a mile east, west, north or south, there Hope, traverse thirty thousand miles of sea, and are other marked trees by which the true corner may land their rich cargoes in the Gulf of Finland. be found. In a single township there are 182 markAnd, while the public is amused with the projected trees, which, in the language of the geometer, of a treaty for some islands in the Mediterra- are loci. Nothing less than the total destruction of nean, the modern Alexander is occupied with a all these loci through a widely extended space can scheme worthy of his vast ambition--The acqui-secure effect to the malicious design. Very few sition of the gulf and peninsula of California, and the disputes as to limit or boundary can arise. It is a Spanish claim to the western coast of North America, subject of regret that the spirit of this system was c. We learn this, not from diplomatic corres- not, at an early day, adopted by Kentucky, Tennessee, pondence, but from American fur traders, who learn and several other states. It has been said, that, it from the Russian traders now protected by the probably, as much money is annually expended in emperor in carrying off our furs. those states in land.title litigation as would defray their taxes for the support of the severest war. What a contrast between the occupant of land by a doubtful title and the purchaser from the United States. The latter has a consciousness of securityhis labors, his improvements, are for himself and not for another-he plants his orchards with a cheerful heart-he knows that his posterity will enjoy their fruits. Meteorological-Public Lands. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Distribution of calorie for May, 1819. Lat. N. Wooster, 40, 49 Zanesville, 39 50 Cincinnati, 39 Jeffersonville, 38 Huntsville, 34 36 Long. W Mean.for 61 16 50 4 58 06 03 8 34 • 55 64 High Low 84 99 At Wooster, on the 20th, a severe frost destroyed the beans, the leaves of the oak, &c. At Zanesville, on the 17th, frost, snow and hail. At Huntsville, on the 18th and 19th, severe frost -cotton killed-farmers alarmed. It is proper to note, that these late frosts were so nearly at the same time, in places differing about six degrees in latitude, and five degrees in longitude. To furnish the materials for an easy, certain, and precise definition, five principal meridians have already been designated and marked. The first commences at the confluence of the Great Miami and the Ohio. This meridian, extended to the north boundary of the United States, is 450 miles in length. The second principal meridian commences on the west branch, at a point five miles south west of the confluence of Little Blue River with the Ohio-this meridian, extended to the north boundary of the United States, is 580 miles in length: it is crossed, at the distance of 30 miles from its commencement, by a base line or parallel to the equator, which bas been extended through Indiana and Illinois to the In May, 1785, congress adopted the plan of laying out the public lands in townships, six miles square. This plan has been followed in all surveys, except-east branch of the Mississippi. ing that portion of public land in Ohio, whịch, by The third principal meridian commences at the act of June 1, 1796, was appropriated for military confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi-when ex tended towards the northern boundary of the Unitted States, it will reach the south shore of Lake Su The Hydrophobia. perior, at the distance of 700 miles from its begin-We have lately heard much about the plant comning. monly called the Scullcap as a cure for the hydro- The fourth principal meridian was run for the purpose ef surveys for military bounties for the soldiers in the date war. It commences at the confluence of the rivers Illinois and Mississippi; when extended towards the north boundary, it will strike the south shore of Lake Superior at the distance of 540 miles We now redeem our promise by giving the statefrom its beginning. This meridian, at the distance ment of the case of James Cann, who was bitten of 72 miles from its beginning, is crossed by a base by a mad dog, and cured by the plant called scullline or parallel to the equator. Five and a half mil-cap, drawn up and furnished us by his two physition acres between the Illinois and Mississippi have been surveyed-from which have been selected for bounties, three and a half million acres of land "fit for cultivation"—the whole of which has been located and patented. Between the first and second Between the second and third Between the third and fifth Between the fifth and the west boundary of Howard county, in Missouri, 37 ranges. 15 do. 24 do. 16 do. 324 do. cians. "Early on Thursday morning, t'e 10th June, I was called upon by James Cann, who requested me. to dress his right hand, which had just been bitten by a dog he believed was mad.. Upon examination, The fifth principal meridian begins at the conflu-I found the dog's teeth had penetrated deep into ence of the Arkansas and Mississippi rivers-it is the muscular part of the thumb, between its metacrossed by ʼn parallel to the equator, or a base line, carpal bone and that of the fore finger, and that at the distance of 60 miles from its beginning. Town-the skin was but little lacerated. From the situaship 58 north of that base has been surveyed. This tion and depth of the wound, I deemed extirpation meridian, extended to the north boundary, will be inexpedient, and directed superficial dressings, 980 miles in length; and, if continued southerly, will telling him at the same time, if the dog should strike the coast of the Mexican Gulph at 330 miles prove to have been mad, he had nothing to fear, distance from the mouth of the Arkansas, at a point as a plant had been discovered, (shewing him a on the coast of the Gulph, in latitude 29 degrees 30 drawing of the scullcap, in the Evening Post,) minutes north, and in longitude 14 degrees west of which had never been known to fail in such cases, the capitol; its whole length will be 1,310 miles, when properly administered. In the evening I equal to twice the length of the kingdom of France. saw him again, and then advised him to call on Jes. Between the west boundary of Pennsylvania, and se Williams, the son-in-law of the late Mr. Lewis, of the first meridian above described, are Westchester, and procure from him a quantity of scullcap. He did so, and obtained about three ounces of the dried herb, finely cut up, with directions to put a tea-spoon full and an half of it in a quart of warm water, and to drink half a pint of this infusion morning and night, for two successive days, and on the third to omit it and take a teaspoon full of flour of sulphur. In this manner Williams directed the scullcap and sulphur to be alternately used for forty days; during which time, exercise was to be avoided and an abstemious diet ob. served: he thought the wound required no other attention than simple dressing. Mr. Cann strictly followed the above directions, and remained free from complaint till Thursday the 17th. About noon he was suddenly taken ill, and sent for me. I found him laboring under frightful spasms of the muscles It has been said that "man brings down the flea- of the face and neck; his face was drawn towards vens to the earth, for his convenience." A few geo-the right shoulder, his head convulsively shaken, graphical positions on the map of the public surveys, he ground his teeth with violence, his eyes had a being accurately determined by astronomical obser-wild and terrific stare, and his whole aspect was vations, it is obvious that, with very little difficulty, appalling; but the spasm soon subsided, and he bethe longitude and latitude of every farm, and of eve-came perfectly calm. Upon enquiry, I found he was ry log-hut and court house, may be ascertained with first attacked with a shivering, then a pricking or great precision. This system owes its chief practical tingling sensation about the parts bitten, extendexcellence to the genius and the labors of a distin-ing over the hand and running up the arm, accomguished mathematician and natural philosopher, col.panied with slight involuntary twitchings of the Jared Mansfield,now of the military academy at West muscles of the hand and arm; to these succeeded a Point, who was surveyor general several years. sense of tightness about the chest and throat; immeAbout sixty million acres (twice the extent of En-diately after which followed the convulsive action gland) have been surveyed; (59,757,020) of which, of the muscles of the face and neck, above de in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Missouri, scribed. I found his pulse and breathing regular are 39,564,700 acres; and, in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, 20,192,326 acres. 750 miles. 125 ranges or The principles of this system have governed the public surveysin Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana; and will, unquestionably, be adhered to until the public surveys shall reach Astoria, at the mouth of Columbia river, in longitude 48 degrees west of the capitol. So wise, beautiful and perfect a system was never before adopted by any government or nation on earth. It is the "eorte diaseise,," the divided feast of Homer. The government, with a temper and spirit truly parental, has divided, for the children of the republic, that patrimony in which they all have a right and an interest. J. MEIGS. General land office, June 29, 1819, and natural during the intervals; but when the paroxysms were approaching, they became hurried and irregular, and continued so till the spasms had gone off, when he complained of slight pain in the right breast, together with a soreness and stiffness of the back part of the neck. Liquids he took without difficulty, nor did pouring water from one vessel to another, in his presence, produce any perceptible distress; neither did the sight of the surface lof a polished mirror, or the waving of a white curtain, sensibly affect him. His paroxysms returned at ir-ing up; a few yards further on he snapped at and regularintervals of from five to ten minutes; their quarrelled with three strange dogs; he next bit a duration being from one to two minutes. His bow-neighbor's dog with whom he was accustomed to els being constipated, I gave him a scruple of calo-play, and as an apprentice of his master was attempt mel, and directed him to drink his tea (which, upon ing to tie him with a rope, he snapped at and tore inspection, I found very weak) as strong as it could off a part of his trowsers. be made to take it warm, and in as large quantities as his stomach would bear-using it as his only drink.* "18th. Early in the morning, Dr. Robson saw him with me, and continued to see him afterwards. We learnt that some unauthorised person had taken 10 or 12 ounces of blood from his arm the night before; that his cathartic had operated freely during the night; he had taken largely of his tea, and thought himself better; the spasms, however still severe, but not quite so frequent. We directed him to continue his tea as yesterday. "Behaviour like this, so opposite to his usual mildness, excited serious apprehension; he was immediately tied in a wood house. While thus confined, he eat sparingly, but lapped water freely; he snapped at his master; was restless, howling violently, and gnawing furiously at the door of his prison. By the evening, when we saw him, he had gnawed a large whole through the door, in doing which he had lacerated his mouth, and broken off several of his teeth against the nails of the batting-At this time, after many attempts, he lapped a little water, and then upset the vessel which contained it; refus "19th. This morning we found him cheerful; he ed food, and snapped at the approach of his mashad passed a tolerably good night; feels much better; his eyes were watery and dull, sometimes clos ter than yesterday; his spasms moderating conside-ed, then suddenly opened, when he snapped at imarably, both in violence and frequency. He still ginary objects. He now broke his rope, and as continued his tea as before. In the afternoon a no one dared approach him to replace it, believing shower of rain feil, at sight of which, and the rip-him mad, he was shot. Our next enquiry was after pling of the water in the gutter, his spasms return-the dogs which had been bitten by this one, but we ed in quick succession, and with more violence found they had all been destroyed, except the one than they had done at any other time during the last mentioned. day, and produced in him sensations that, to use his own expression, he could not bear to look at it, and was obliged to turn away. "20th. We saw him about noon; he was not so well; his spasms rather more frequent and severe; leaving him with a disagreeable feeling in his head, and an acute pain in the back of his neck. Upon enquiring whether he still continued his tea, he replied, that, at Williams' direction, it was omitted for the purpose of taking a dose of sulphur; on which we immediately ordered his scullcap to be resumed, and not again to omit it unless directed by us; he did so, and again found his spasms to subside. "21st. He said he felt like a new man; his spasms had nearly left him; still continued in the use of his tea as before. "22d. He had no spasms, nor did he complain of any thing but weakness. We directed him to continue in the use of the scullcap three or four weeks longer. "July 13th. We saw him, he felt no uneasiness whatever, and has been free from complaint ever since we last visited him. "To enable the reader to form just conclusions respecting the character of the above case, we will state the result of our enquiries and observations, concerning the rabid state of the animal which had inflicted the bite. "The dog was young and gentle, and had never shown marks of ill temper until the day before he bit Cann, when he snapped at and attempted to bite a man, without provocation, who heretofore had been familiar with him. He was confined over night, but broke loose early the next morning, the 10th, when Cann on his way to work met him-the dog came trotting along, and Cann thinks would have gone on without noticing him, if he had not, when opposite, called him by name, and was in the act of patting his head when the dog seized him by the hand, made two snaps, and passed on without look *Mrs. Williams, the daughter of Lewis, being informed of Cann's violent attack, sent him word by his wife, that he must make his tea as strong as lye, and drink it warm, and as much as he could bear.— Ed. E. P. "This dog was secured the same day he was bitten, and put in a cool, airy and dry cellar: and was regularly fed, and continued well until the 6th of July. He then began to show symptoms of canine madness; the under jaw fell; his food dropped from his mouth, when he attempted to eat; he made many efforts to drink, frequently burying his nose in the water, but did not appear to swallow; he was obedient to his master's command; was dull and moping but would occasionally snap at imaginary objects, in the air ar on the floor; his eyes were languid and watery, and considerable frothy saliva was discharged from his mouth, In the course of the next day, (the 7th) he was much weaker, particularly in the hinder parts, producing slight staggering; his tongue was livid and brown; slimy fluid was observed to run out of his mouth. On the 8th, he would snap at his chain, or any object that touched him; was thirsty, and lapped water very frequently, without being able to swallow any; his tongue was darker, and his debility increased rapidly; he would not eat, and staggered very much when he attempted to walk. ❝9th. The dog appeared much weaker; seldom got up, except by compulsion, and soon fell down again. He appeared blind in his right eye-his back much curved. "10th. He was unable to stand; had spasmodic twitchings of all his muscles; would yet snap at any object that touched him; towards evening he grew worse, and died some time in the night. "The above statement of facts was drawn up, for publication, at the request of several respectable gentlemen, and is submitted without remark. (Signed) W. STILLWELL. {BENJ. R. ROBSON." Foreign Articles. GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND. Many families of Quakers are preparing to leave England for the United States, There is a rumor about a revival of the property tax. It seems that additional taxes to the amount of two millions and a half per annum, are needful to keep the government a-going. June 3-3 per cent, consols 657-8. But a loan being announced, the consols rose to 76 1-2! The |