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the fruits of your labor in the general prosperity. Therefore, assist them with your councils, they shall be heard; with your arms, the country demands them; and with your industry and application to agriculture; these make a nation rich and powerful. The country is our common motheryou are her sons-you are descendants of the brave Luzos-are all Portuguese-Americans—Brazilians— Pernambucanoes.

9th day of March, 1817.
Dated at the provisional government house, this

Address of the provisional government to the inhabi-carry it on; this enterprise being from Heaven, will tants of Pernambuco. Divine Providence, which by its unsearchable de- consolidated. You will be free from the enormous be protected by it. You will see your happiness signs can extract from darkness the most effulgent load of tribute under which you have groaned; our light, and through its infinite goodness allows not country will rise to that pinnacle of greatness which the existence of evil, except to draw from it greater we have long been looking for, and you will enjoy blessings and felicity, has permitted some indiscreet and inconsiderate spirits to spread the seeds of discontent and ill grounded jealousy between the sons of Brazil, and those of Europe now in this capital, from which a great flame might arise, equally injurious to both parties, especially since the epoch in which the series of events in Europe began to give to the continent of Brazil that consideration to which it was entitled. We ask, in what are the Brazilians to be blamed? If the prince of Portugal is driven from his capital by the impetuous assaults of an invading enemy, and compelled to leave his Lusitanians to seek shelter in the free and generous (Signed) Rev. Joao Ribeiro Pessoa, continent of Brazil, and to satisfy his hunger and thirst in the latitude of Pernambuco, through the Domingos Joze Martins, liberality of its inhabitants, wherein are the BraAnother address from the Provisional government. Domingos Teotonio Jorge. zilians to be blamed if this prince, actuated by mo- Gararapes, Tabocas, and Cazaforte, exhibit striking Patriots, honored Pernambucanoes-The fields of tives of gratitude, should be desirous of honoring monuments of courage and fidelity, Their heroes the land that sheltered him by the establishment of were not more illustrious than those of the present his court, thus raising it to the rank of a kingdom?day, for they estimated their greatness to arise from The seeds of discord which unfortunately sprung the circumstance of their being Pernambucanoes, up in our country, enriched generally by nature which we also are. with unlimited fertility, so far from being eradicated the Great God; that supreme being abounding in and stifled in their origin by the hand which had justice and goodness; let us raise our hands to him, Let us adore, beloved patriots, the power to do it, were nourished by mutual indis-swear eternal fidelity to our country, pledge ourcretion, both on the part of the Brazilians and Eu-selves to maintain with courage the great cause of ropeans. They never attained to such a height, liberty, and take no measures that shall not tend however, but that they might have been extinguish- to establish it forever, or to die in its defence.— ed by a conciliatory spirit in the respective parties. Let us be faithful imitators of the great heroes who But the spirit of despotism and bad counsel had rescued Gararapes, Tabocas and Cazaforte. recourse to the most violent and perfidious measures that could be invented by the demon of perDated 12th March, 1817. secution. They adopted the most tyrannical measures to destroy honorable patriots who deserve well of their country, thereby overwhelming with tears and despair their unhappy families, dependent on their exertions and labor, and whose loss has been followed by the total and inevitable ruin of their connexions. Nature and valor at length de. termined to oppose with all their strength this frightful tyranny. The whole army thought itself involved in the ruin of their officers, and the cry of defence was universal; it resounded in all the angles of the town of St. Anthony; the people flew to arms and supported the soldiers, for they were also Brazilians. The despots were intimidated by this new and unexpected scene, and still more so by their own consciences, that even in the breast of the impious, rise in judgment against them, and deeply torture the heart.

Inhabitants of Pernambuco! they had even taken the inhuman and dishonorable resolution of assassinating your associates. The patriots, in about two hours, found themselves without a chief or governor. In the centre of an agitated town, and revolted people, it became necessary to adopt some measures to avoid the disorders of anarchy. All was done in an instant; it was the work of prudence and patriotism. Pernambucanoes, be tranquil; peace reigns in the capital, the people are content; there is now no distinction between Brazilians and Europeans; all are known as brothers, descendants from the same origin, inhabitants of the same country, and professors of the same religion. A mild and enlightened provisional government, selected from among all the orders of the state, presides over your happiness; trust in their zeal and their patriotism. That Providence which directed the work, will

LONG LIVE LIBERTY!

(Signed) Rev. Joao Ribeiro Pessoa,

Domingos Joze Martins,
Domingos Teotonio Jorge.

Bank notes not money.

county in this place, the following case excited At the last court of common pleas held for Ross CHILLICOTHE, 0. MAY 13. some interest, and as the question is a novel one arising out of the statute, entitled "An act to prohibit the issuing and circulating of unauthorised bank paper," a brief statement of the case may not be unacceptable.

State of Ohio vs. Isaac Evaus. on the Owl creek bank of Mount Vernon. Indictment for passing an unauthorised bank note

Messrs. Bond and Sill for the prosecution. Messrs. Breecher and Creighton for the traverser. that the legislature in the second section of the aOn the part of the traverser, it was contended bove act, in the following words, "That every company or association that shall lend money, and shall issue by their officer or officers, or by any person or persons, bonds, notes, or bills payable to bearer or payable to order, and endorsed in blank, or use other shift or device, whereby the bonds, notes or bills given by such company or association, or on their behalf, pass or circulate by delivery, shall be taken and deemed a bank by this act"-had so par. ticularly described the institution that should be deemed a bank, that unless evidence sufficiently strong to prove the "Owl creek" association to be of this nature had been adduced, the traverser must be acquitted-that no proof having been adduced to substantiate the fact of that association having

lent money i. e. specie-it was not a bank within raised whether they ought to receive the countethis act-so particular is the description, that no nance of government. The principal reasons urgallowance of what might have been the intentioned against them are that our country is yet too can be admitted.-The word money as used in young;-that some millions of acres of now wilder. the act, as contra-distinguished from bills, clearly ness land should be first cultivated; that in manu shews what is the intention. If it had been intend- factures too great a population is collected together ed only for associations that issue bills, the words for the enjoyment of health; that science is thereLend money should have been left out, for that is an by neglected, and immorality increased: that it is essential requisite to constitute such a bank as this more for the interest and happiness of the nation to act would embrace-for an association that does encourage our merchants, to import from foreign not loan money but issues bills, is not a bank within countries already over peopled, and for our inhabithis act, the circulation of whose paper is prohibited. tants to cultivate our own soil. The writer of this communication, it will readily 2.-The constitutional objection was raised that the legislature had not a right to interfere with be perceived, is not a philosopher, nor deeply contracts; that they could pass no law impairing their versed in the history of foreign nations; but pro obligation, and that they had no right to grant here- fesses to be interested in both agriculture and maditary privileges, of which it was endeavored to nufactures, and will present a few common place be shewn a bank is one-that the granting of in- arguments in favor of the latter. I consider it a fundamental principle never to be corporations was a dangerous thing, that much was to be apprehended from their increase and final mo- departed from, that agriculture should so far prinopoly of the interest of the state-that the legis-marily be attended to, as that in no possible year of lature had not a right to impair one man's credit scarcity we shall be dependent on any foreign counby saying that his paper is not good and its circula- try for food. Beyond this, the result of our labor tors shall be punished, and at the same time say to is exported for money, manufactures or luxuries; and I contend, that if the produce of the labor of others your paper is good the world may take it. On the part of the prosecution it was contended two cultivators is exchanged for what one could -That the word money thus used in the act was to manufacture at home, the country is a loser; but if be received in its most known and usual acceptation, the raw material will otherwise be of no value, i. e. the common currency of the country-that the then she is impoverished. It is for our interest to word as used in the statute books, in bonds of secu-ship the raw hides, furs, wool and cotton, and im rity and in every instrument, meant the common port our shoes, hats and cloth? It is for our intercurrency of the country, and that it should not now est to keep the ore hid in the bowels of the earth, by a peculiar fatality be construed to mean specie the rags of our worn out garments burnt; and im that the statue was meant to provide against an port our pots, kettles, nails, and paper from Great evil, and it would completely be repealed and its Britain, and our bar iron from Russia? remedies not advanced if the construction given by the counsel for the traverser was to be received that as to the constitutionality of the law there could be no doubt; the restriction of legislative powers over contract was admitted, but it was con tended that it applied only in contracts executed or executory, but not to such as should be hereafter In Europe as well as in America, machinery not made-that the legislature had an equal right to regulate the emission and circulation of spurious only facilitates labor in a tenfold ratio, but enables paper, as they have exercised over retailers of spi-women and children, who are unable to cultivate rits, and in many other similar instances; and in the earth, to make us independent of many foreign such flagrant cases, over institutions based on fraud supplies. In Europe they are compelled to use and supported by usury, to say they have no power, steam power and the convenience of procuring fuel, is neither policy nor law; the power is weak enough and thus crowd them together covered with smoke, to stop the growing curse, and courts of justice disease and immorality; but in our country we have ought to advance rather than hinder the advance-water falls in every town in positions the most healthy, remote from each other, where literary and The jury retired after receiving the charge of religious instruction is no more a stranger than with judge Thomson, who declared the law constitutional, and thought that from the strictness which had been used in framing that law and the precision in its penning, particularly in defining a bank-that there was no proof that the present institution was a bank within the meaning of the act.

ment of the remedies.

That our country is young admits of no argument when compared with those of Europe; but in the arts and sciences, wealth and ingenuity, we are not a century behind them; and our wilderness gives a happy resource to posterity to make it blossom as the rose, or if more conformable to their genius to cultivate the arts.

the cultivators of the soil. When government shall aid the manufacturers, I trust it will be on condition that instruction accompany it; and that they are not inconsistent is fully evinced by reference to the establishment at Humphryville, where the justices and rulers have certified that learning is faithfully attended.

Next morning their sealed verdict was opened In no part of the union can manufactures be so and was a special one, finding the facts of passing the money and under the knowledge of its being un-beneficially encouraged as New England. Our soil authorized, and said, if the court think the bill mo- is least productive, our lands most cultivated, our ney we find the defendant guilty-if not money, not mills sites most numerous, and our climate most guilty.-After continuing the point for advisement favorable. The labor saving machinery, is almost for several days, the court decided that the bill was not money, and the defendant was acquitted.

Manufactures,

FROM THE BOSTON CENTINEL.

[Supporter.

Mr. Russell-Much has been recently written upon American manufactures, and doubts have been

incalculable; but a few years since, it required the labor of one man to make a thousand nails; now one of less ingenuity, can make sixty thousand. In one small establishment in the vicinity of this town, a cotton manufactory annually spins twist, and weaves cloth, in value $45,000; and employs but two men; the other laborers are destitute widows, boys and girls unable to cultivate the soil. The raw material is the production of our own country, and will

wear four times as long as that imported from India. then on a mission under the authority of the govern In civil society, next to food, manufactures be- ment,) I was detained a prisoner three days at the come a necessary of life, and in war an essential. river Trinity, by the patriots, and the flag of the UniUpon prudential maxims can it be political wisdom ted States, my companions and even my servants, to discourage those manufactures which the con- were taken from me, and I was compelled to pass stitution of our nature requires, which insures a through a wilderness of near four hundred miles market for the raw materials indigenous to our alone; and I aver that I was not directly or indirectown soil, as well as the surplus food from the fertile ly concerned with that army; although, sir, I assure fields of the south. you, that had I not been in the service of my own country, I would most cheerfully have been one of the party.

The author of the "Road to Ruin" may reason that facts outweigh theories; and exhibit the pros tration of our woollen factories which had the As it regards the second point, in which you obephemeral growth of a short war, are now almost serve that I was concerned in the murder of fourat an end, and the ruin of many left to bewail the teen Spanish officers: suffer we to inform you sir, delusion. that I was in Orleans, on my way to Washington city, It is true, from the sudden and unexpected intro-when the dreadful outrage was committed. I was duction of merino sheep, they were so much en-personally acquainted, sir, with all those officers, hanced beyond their value that hundreds have been and the most of them gentlemen of honor, and ruined and thousands essentially injured; but the worth; with the unfortunate governor Herrara I had time will come, when, with the aid of government, been intimate for many years; and, sir, any but an ilour woollens will vie with those of Europe, and the liberal Spaniard may judge of my friendship for that country be enriched. amiable soldier, when I state, that my son has borne The manufacturers of cotton were more unfortu- his name for more than ten years; no one can deplore nate; by reason of interdiction from Europe, the raw with more sensibility than myself, that horrid asmaterial was depressed below that of any former sassination; but sir, by whom was it perpetrated? period, many capitalists having no use for money in Was it by Americans! No sir, it was by the secret their usual course of business, were deluded by order of the commander in chief, a creole Spaniard, men who held water privileges to take shares in con- who possessed no other feeling or sentiment than cerns that cost treble the original estimate; were that which is common to every native of that counconducted by men unacquainted with business, and try; it was a feeling sir, which has arisen from 30 almost as soon as they became in operation, peace years of dreadful servitude, and it is to a sense of presented an opportunity to flood our country with injury, that Mexico will sooner or later owe her foreign manufactures beyond consumption. But the independence.

establishments which have cost millions, and the I shall now add, by way of concluding this note, machinery which is now rusting, will be placed in that as your language, sir, is extremely indecorous, I the hands of judicious managers, and with the aid shall not descend from the dignity of an American of government in prohibiting the importation of the and an officer of the Mexican republic, to answer deceptive India cotton cobwebs, our own will im- the illiberal and scurrilous observations of the minisprove and flourish, and increase the wealth and in-ter of Ferdinand VII. You will therefore please to dependence of the nation. recollect, that as you state I have, in my own perThis section of our country is now over-peopled son, declared war against his majesty, I shall in all for the cultivation of its soil, and the future increase future correspondence on the subject of that war, must migrate to the west, or be employed in manu- address my communications directly to the king factures; and with it goes our wealth and commerce. your master; but, sir, I give you a parting assurance As this subject will soon be presented to our nation- that I will give his majesty sufficient time to calm the al and state legislatures, I hope the societies formed very important considerations which lie before him, and forming for the encouragement and support of having heard through the medium of your official manufactures, will not be deterred from explaining correspondence, that the king your master, was too the best interests of the state; and trust, some wri- much occupied with the organization of the officers ters of greater talents will elucidate the subject, of the bedchamber and the toilette apartments of and point out the "road to wealth.” his young spouse, to attend at this moment to the trifling considerations of Spanish relations with the United States, or (as I suppose) the insurrection of an hundred provinces in America.

S.

To Don Louis de Onis,
Minister plenipotentiary of his catholic majesty,
near to the government of the United States.
SIR,

I solicit you sir, to accept my most sincere solicitations, and my wishes that you may live a thousand years to enjoy the reputation which you have acquit ed in America. JOHN H. ROBINSON.

Don Louis de Onis, &c. &c. &c. &c.

Miscellaneous.

In the diplomatic correspondence between you and the honorable secretary of state of the United States, I find you have made very honorable mention of my name; I therefore take the earliest opportunity to return my most sincere thanks: there are two points however, in your communication, which I beg leave to explain, and that explanation I give with DESTRUCTIVE INSECT. Vast multitudes of a worm, the more pleasure, because it will probably render about an inch long, called by some the locust larva, you more respectful to the government of the Uni- and by others the cut worm, has made its appearance ted States, and may even spare you an unnecessary in some parts of Massachusetts. They are exceedembarrasment at our next interview. You have at- ing voracious, destroying every blade of grass in tempted, sir, to cast a shade on the administration by your simple assertion, that I was concerned with the revolutionary party of St. Antonia de Bexas; this statement is altogether, and must be wilfully incorrect, since it is a fact of notoriety, that on my passage to the interior provinces of Mexico (being

their progress, and so numerous that three hundred of them have been dug up within a foot square. Their motion is directly forward, and their course is marked as though fire had over-run the herbage. In one case it is stated that 40 acres of land in a body are without a single spire of grass! And some

were burning over their pasture lands to plough and too hot to be held; in addition to this, they may be piant them; but as they do not injure the root, a loaded with great ease, in almost every situation, favorable season may yet restore the herbage. either in lying down, sitting on the ground or on The progress of these insects, it is said, may be horseback, walking and even running""They restopped by cutting a trench or ploughing a deep quire too less swabbing, and it never interferes furrow, into which they fall and perish, being una- with the charge.They cannot be so much overble to scale the walls. It was thus that the progress charged by accident as other guns, and therefore of a similar worm was checked about the year 1779. are not so apt to get burst, &c. &c. In short, they Literary and military intelligence. We understand are very durable, and combine every advantage that captain O'Connor, of the artillery, has for peculiar to muskets, except of throwing shot, and some time been engaged, by order of the war de- that pertains to common rifles with many other impartment, in translating from the French a cele- portant advantages possessed by neither of those brated Treatise on the Science of War and Fortifi- species of fire-arms, but peculiar to these alone." cation, originally composed by order of the em- The writer of the pamphlet observes: "As the peror Napoleon, for the use of the students of the forte of American militia consists in their superior Imperial Polytechnic and military schools of France. skill in the direction and management of fire-arms This work embraces the whole science of war andas from their local knowledge and from their field and permanent fortification, with all the mo- habits they will always excel as light troops-and dern inventions and improvements in the latter as the most important advantages may be derived branches; and in France is universally used by the from their ability under proper arrangements of military, and is esteemed beyond all other produc- quickly assembling and moving with rapidity to tions on these subjects, being considered a master. any required point, these guns are most excellently piece. adapted for them."

On Naushawn Island, near Tarpaulin cove.
On West Chop of Holmes' Hole.
At Nantucket.

We learn that the translation is completed, and LIGHT HOUSES-From the National Intelligencer.— will shortly be published for the use of the cadets Contracts have been made for erecting during the of the United States' military academy.-Nat. Int. present summer, the following Light houses, in the INTERESTING DRAWINGS.-From the Petersburg In-state of Massachusetts, viz: telligencer. On the sailing of the French expedition On Petit Manan. for Egypt from Malta under Bonaparte, the fleet was intentionally dispersed in order to arrive without being noticed; they had no sooner left Malta, than they learned that admiral Nelson had penetrat These houses will, probably, all be completed in ed their design, and was in pursuit of them. Ex- the month of October or November next. pecting every hour to be come up with, and being Arrangements have likewise, we understand, been too weak to risk a combat, it was the resolution of made for determining whether Gas may not be adBonaparte and the rest of the illustrious persons on vantageously substituted for oil, in the light houses board L'Orient to blow her up, rather than be taken of the United States. The experiment is to be prisoners; but, that the memory of those who pe- made at the light-house at Newport, Rhode Island. rished might be preserved, and their features known It is particularly recommended to the attention of by posterity, Bonaparte caused the portraits of mariners, from whom communications (addressed eighteen to be taken on two sheets of paper, and to the treasury,) as to its relative benefits or inconto be rolled up, put in bottles and committed to the veniences, when compared with oil, are invited. waves. The names of the persons are, (first draw- ANNUAL CENSUS.-The rev. John Stanford "ating,) Dapaix [dead,] Bonaparte, Berthier [dead,] tending minister," in the city of New York, has Caffarelli [dead,] Kleber [dead,] Brueys [dead,] furnished the editor of the "Columbian" with what Dalimier [dead,] Monge, Berthollet-Second draw- he calls his "annual census"-of which the follow. ing, Rampon, Murat [dead] Junot [dead] Lasnes ing is a compressed view: [dead], Regnier [dead,] Belliard, Desgenettes, In the orphan asylum-66 boys, 47 girls-total 113. Snulkanski [dead,] Larey. Thus of the eighteen City alms house, including children at nurse-white eleven are now no more. The portraits are executed men 368, boys 396; white women 394, girls 242; in medallions in India ink, and now ornament the black men 29, boys 12; black women 47, girls 11study of Baron Larey at Paris.

total 1500.

City hospital-patients 190; maniacs 78-total 268.
Debtors prison-including the liberties, 300.
Bridewell-white men 44, woman 17; black men

PATENT RIFLE-From the Richmond Compiler.-| There has been deposited in this office an "Improved patent rifle, made by John H. Hall, of Portland, district of Maine." It is intended for the in-28, women 33; boys 7-total 127. spection of gentlemen, who are conversant in the use of fire-arms. It is a curious invention, its great peculiarity being, that it loads near the but end, instead of at the muzzle. Near the lock, there is a spring which being touched and pressed down, causes the Receiver to fly out on a binge. You introduce the cartridge, containing the powder and ball, press the receiver to which shuts with a catch, and the rifle is loaded. There is of course, no ramming down the ball, &c. with a ramrod, the only use of which is occasionally to swab out and wash the rifle.

Penitentiary-Bellevue, white men 83; white women 40; black men 52; women 14-total 189. State prison-white men 624; white women 19; black men 80; black women 29-total 752. Grand total 3249-do. last year 2401; increase 848.

Machine-A catalogue of curiosities recently published in the Connecticut Journal, mentions among the collection, the following modern invention:-"Amicus Famine Optimus, or an African Corsletizing mill, for grinding up scandal and awi blades, envy and corkscrews, tattling and waggon spokes, and mysteriously uniting them so as to produce ready made corslets for the use of the fai

Some of the advantages of this improvement, as stated in an accompanying pamphlet, are, that the patent rifles may be loaded and fired with good WHALE FISHERY-From a Bermuda paper. aim, more than twice as quick as muskets can be of Mr Francis F. Hinson's boats, in the whale fi fired with cartridges-they may be fired as often ry, which had been fitted with a gun imported. as any gun can bear firing, without soon becoming the proprietor for the purpose, has lately shot.

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whale and brought it in. This is quite a novel mode ed are wanting. The following are the results: of carrying on war against those huge natives of The counties reported contain 484 towns, and the briny element. The gun is charged with a har-returns are given for 355. Whole number of school poon of a curious construction, which is shot with districts in said towns, 3,713. Districts from which such force as to enter the whale at a considerable returns were made, 2,873. distance: and possession of the object is retained by a warp attached to the harpoon before the discharge of the gun, and made fast also to the boat, BILL OF COSTS, from a British paper, paid by the united kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland for enslaving Europe.

Amount of monies received in said districts, $174,681 96.

Number of children taught in them 173,240. Number of children between the ages of 5 and 15 residing therein 198,440.

IMPEDIMENT OF SPEECH. We are notified that a

The sums amually raised by taxes, since the person in Philadelphia has adopted a course of apcommencement of the war, are as follows: plication by which adults and children afflicted with £46,578,564 defects in speech, may be relieved and in some cases 51,339,015 cured. 54,982,015

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Address, E. X. post paid, northwest corner of 60,189,414 Union and Friend streets, Philadelphia. 63,026,563 Steam frigates. The commissioners of the navy have 65,227,264 issued proposals to contract for three steam engines 69,188,041 of 120 horse-power each, to be completed with. 66,973,208 in a year, for as many steam frigates.

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66,444,103 NORTH CAROLINA. We are, indeed, pleased to 75,324,084 learn, from the "Carolina Observer," that many va. Ending 5th January, luable improvements in agriculture have lately been introduced into the interior of this state. There is

CHRONICLE.

1815.

no member of the union, perhaps, that possesses a better soil or more healthy and benignant climate than North Carolina, a small distance from the sea

A frigate-built ship, called the General Scott, late-board; her population and wealth has rapidly inly sailed from New-York, said to be bound for HaShe is described as one the fastest vessels that ever floated-is of 1000 tons burthen, and appears to have been completely fitted and armed, from the attention she excited in that place.

An English paper, noticing the election of Mr. Monroe to the presidency of the United States, observes, that he lost a leg in the revolutionary war, and is rather of the Washington school.

On the 25th of April last, (says an Ohio paper) the chief judge of the supreme court of the state of Ohio, was fined one dollar and fifty cents for not attending a militia muster, as a private sentinel, in strict conformity to the laws of the state of Ohio.

The Spanish consul at New-Orleans has been caned by a Mexican officer, who immedintely after made his escape.

Died, at Belle Fontaine, capt. Edmund Shipp, of the rifle regiment—a valuable and much esteemed officer.

Also, at Washington City, the lady of the Spanish minister, the Chevalier de Onis.

And in South Carolina, col. Joseph Calhoun, in his 67th year-a revolutionary patriot.

It is stated that Mr. Taylor, our consul at Port au Prince, has left that place in consequence of the condemnation of an American vessel by Petion. The merits of the case are not given.

It is also reported that the Carthagenian cruisers have commenced hostilities on Petion for having seized upon several Spanish prizes sent by them into his ports.

Hemlock. Some school boys belonging to Hillsboro', N. C. stopping at a spring, met with what they thought was angelico, but which was hemlock. Two of them ate of it-one of them died in less than an hour; but the other got well.

Stocks &c.-at Baltimore, May 28. U. S war loans 103, old 6 per cents. 100, bank stock 95, for 65 paid. Exchange on London, 2 per cent. ad.

COMMON SCHOOLS, in New-York. We have an abstract of the returns for 1816, made to the superintendant of common schools by the clerks in all the counties in New-York, except 5-but the returns from many of the towns within the counties report

creased without much assistance from emigration, and all are glad to hear of the prosperity of this important and patriotic state; as domestic, and, perhaps, as completely dependent on herself for the necessaries and comforts of life, as any in the union.

The Albany Register is to be resuscitated, and will appear under the editorship of Mr. I. W. Clarke, on the 4th of July next.

Emigration. From the 10th of March to the 27th May, there arrived at New-York, 250 vessels, in which came 1600 passengers. Many have arrived at other ports-a vessel with 130 has just reached Philadelphia from Guernsey.

"The boundary commissioners," so called, appointed by the United States and Great Britain, appear about to commence running the line to determine the boundary east of lake Champlain.

The Roanoke. A board of commissioners has been appointed to explore the coast of North Carolina, with a view to ascertain the practicability of deepening the entrance of the Roanoke river, which is nearly choked up with sand externally, supposed to be thrown up by the current of the Gulph stream. RICHMOND. A census has just been taken, (by or der of the Common Hall,) of the population of this city, and the result is thus reported: In Jefferson Ward, Madison Monroe

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Being between 4 and 5000 more than is enumerated in the federal census of 1810.

Singular escape.-From the (New York) Columbian On Saturday last an infant about 2 or 3 years old, unperceived by its family, got out of the scuttle or dormant window of a two story house in Chery-street, and crawled down the roof to the back gutter. In this situation the child was discovered by a man in Water street, and the alarm given to its affrighted parents, who remained in an agony of suspense for some time, until by the activity of a cabinet-maker at work in an adjoining yard, the the little adventurer was reached and handed into the garret window in safety.

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