a year. discover any connexion which might exist between the ammunition, and money to pay their troops; and they Patriotic Society of Poland and the Russian conspirators. preserve withall very good discipline, respecting persons Numerous arrests were the consequence, and the prisons and property as they march through the country. This were crowded to excess. The inquiry lasted more than party is under the head of Cerda, the governor of NicaBut this mode of proceeding being so irregular,ragua, who is one of the first men in that country. The the emperor of Russia ordered recourse to measures Granadines, on the contrary, are a lawless set of vagamore legal. The senate of the kingdom was declared to bonds, disposing of life and property without ceremony, The latter, be a tribunal of the diet, and immediately commenced its having for their head an ignorant negro. sessions. The persons accused were authorised to select however, are nearly exhausted in resources, and it was defenders from among the members of the bar of War- expected they must shortly yield to the government par saw. At the last session the accused were permitted to ty through necessity. speak in their own defence. In one instance, that of an octogenarian, Stanislaus Count Lotyk, who could not raise his own voice, a youthful counsellor was heard with the greatest commisseration. The judges were seen to weep, and tears were seen even in the eyes of the gend'armis. The affecting defence was crowned with complete success The charge of high treason was rel quished, and th greater part of the seeused were acquit1cd. A few only were condemned to imprisonment for a few months. The acquittal was unanimous, with the ex-peror's brother, for some intrigues in which he had been ception of one voice. MEXICO. INDIA AND HINA. The cholera was making great havoc among the European troops at Kaira, in Guzarat, and the British gov ernment had resolved to rel nquish it as the principal military station in these districts. The head quarters are now held at Hursloe, fifty miles north-east of Cairo. Calcutta has also suffered severely from the epidemic. In Nos. 5 and 6 of the Canton Register, two extraor dinary events are noticed: 1st, the degradation of the em detected. He had been dismissed from all his offices, and publicly denounced by the emperor as having been The presidential election which commenced on the 1st all his life an idle, dissipated, and vicious profligate, asof September, has, after a very warm contest, resulted sociating with flatterers and sycophants." 2dly, forty in favor of Don Gomez Pedraza, the present minister of Budhista priests are condemned to death for having liter war. The nineteen states of the Mexican federation are ally turned their house of god (one of their temples) Mexico, Puebla, Queretaro, Vera Cruz, Valadolid, Guinto a den of thieves, whence robbers sallied out and anaxtrato, Xalisco, Zacatecas, Oaxaca, San Luis Potosí, plundered, and sometimes murdered defenceless passenDurango, Cahuila, Tejas and Tamaulipus, Neuvo Leon, gers. They will all be decapitated without benefit of Chihuahua, Cheapas, Tabasco and Sonora. Of the above, clergy, and their temples thrown down. as far as heard from, Pedraza has the votes of twelve, and Guerrero, the opposing candidate, the votes of only three. The canvass in some of the states was conducted with great violence: the military were called on in OaxPedraza aca, and several persons killed and wounded. was the candidate of the Escoses and Guerrero that of the Forkings. General St. Anna has heen charged with seducing 4 or 500 of the troops at Xalpa, with a view of supporting the claims of gen. Guerrero, on account of an alleged unfairness in taking the votes: he has been, therefore, accused in the legislature and suspend d from his government, and Ignacio de Mora appointed in his place. Santa Anna acquiesced in this measure, transmitting, himself, to St. Mora, the orders of the government, and only asking a speedy inquiry. The country appears to be in a very unsettled state, and from the following it will be seen that the bitterness of party has not even spared our minister, of whom the "Sol" says "There is not wanting a suspicion, with foundation, that the American minister is the secret agent of Spain, instructed and well paid for dividing and destroying us, and that he is taking measures for a re-conquest of the country. Nor is this strange, for he knows our prosperity is as prejudicial to the interest of his nation, as our independence is to the interest of Spain!" BUENOS AYRES, &c SOUTH CAROLINA, To redeem a promise long since made, we give a cheerful place to the following valuable notice of an interesting member of the union, copied from the Charleston Courier-corrected by the author, with an addition to the note. Nature seems to [To the editor of the Courier.] Sir:-Nothing is more essential to the prosperity of South Carolma, than that her agricultural and natural advantages should be well understood. have destined the lower part of this state to the cultivation of rice and cotton, but the upper country, to a more enlarged variety. By giving an insertion in your pa per to the following extracts, you will afford a gratificacation to every one that rejoices in the welfare of his country. "The following articles can be successfully cultivated: hemp, fax, barley, madder, olives, vines, silk. From the well known circumstances that mulberry trees grow spontaneously, and that native silk worms, producing well formed cocoons, are often found in the woods of Carolina, it is probable that the country is well adapted to the raising of silk. The same observations will apply to wine, olives and oil." respectTo the Agricultural Society of the state, it fully suggested, that their praiseworthy endeavors would be more successful, to establish a nursery of the most useful and ornamental trees, shrubs, and plants, and offer them for sale at moderate prices. There is no prospect of a speedy peace between Brazil and Buenos Ayres. Lord Ponsonby took his official feave of the government of Buenos Ayres on the 23d July. The murder of D. Francisco Alvarez, whose body had heen found in a well, with his throat cut, had produced great excitement, and the tribunals had been di The agricuture of South Carolina, though flourishrected to suspend further business, until the affair had been judically investigated. Several persons were in, is far short of its height. The art of manuring land is intle understood and less practised. Much good high enstody, on suspicion, and search was making for another. land remains untouched for future laborers. Extensive [Since this paper was mad -np, and notwithstanding marshes are yet in a state of nature, though no doubt exthe preceding article-we learn that the Macedonian ists of the practicability of reducing the most of them to frigate has arrived at Norfolk, and brings positive ac- a very useful state. Immense forests of pine land have counts of peace between Brazil and Buenos Ayres.] hitherto yielded little else than lumber. They might, with a little manure, be made to produce corn, potatoes, turnips and rye, in addition to kitchen garden vegetables. A numerous peasantry might be supported in them, though at present they are generally unproductive deserts. Pine lands are now the seats of health, and, with proper management, might be made the bulwark of the state; for they can be cultivated by white men, while the swamps and low grounds can be planted only by those who are black. A numerous population is maintained in As, and the southern parts of Europe, in climates sembling that of Carolina. CENTRAL AMERICA. The New York Mercantile states that capt. Ewen, who arrived there in the Athenmn from Carthagena, left Granada, Nicaragua, the last day of July. That place was still in the possession of the party hostile to the general government. The day before he left, the opposing parties had an engagement, in which the Granadines had 2000 and the government party 500. The latter having taken their military stores, defeated the former, who were driven back within the Ines, with upwards of 300 killed. The government party, have abundance of arms, The whole state, to the distance of 80 or 100 miles, from the sea, generally speaking, is low and level. It is still uninteresting as far as the "Ridge," 140 miles from Charleston. This ridge is a fine high healtby belt of land, and beyond it, commences a country resembling the northern states. Devonshire in England, or Languedoc in France, where hills and dates, variously intermixed, display their verdure and beauty. The fertility of the soil is equal to every vegetable production. mate; but in the upper country, the case is totally different-as concerns profit it is proved by political economists that in such climates, (as the upper country), the difference between the price of labor of white men and slaves, is in favor of the former. In the following extracts from the publication of an American traveller in France, in 1807, the similarity above mentioned may be traced, rural embellishments and amusements, are also brought forward, with the wish that they could be realized in this This, by way of distinction, is called the upper country country. The vivacity and restlessness of the French are where are different modes and different articles of cult-also inherent in our backwoodsmen, and if wealthy farmvation. There are but few negroes, generally speakings ers were to introduce the amusements, of the French the farmers have none, and depend, like the inhabitants peasantry with their rural embellishments, our country of the northern states, upon the labor of themselves and people would receive the happiest effects from it, not only families for subsistence. in local attachments, but by giving the proper bias to their minds, draw forth their real character. Extracts: "The greater part of these cottages had a walnut or chesnut tree before them, around which was a rustic seat, and overshadowed by the broad branches and luxuriant foliage, composing a pleasing image. In the western extremity of the state, is a range of 7 or 8 mountains, highly distinguished for their picturesque appearance. The most conspicuous is the Table Moun tain. The gradual ascent of the country from the sea coast, thus far, added to the height of this mountain, must place its top more than 4,000 feet above the level of the Atlantic ocean. When the country which is overlooked from the mountains, is cultivated and adorned with villages and embellishments, it will afford such brilliant prospects as may give full employment to the pencils of American artists. The manner in which the sod was partially worn under most of them, explained their nightly purpose; or if their could be yet any doubt the Bute and fiddle, pendant in all most every house, spoke a still more intelligible language. The rent of one of these cottages, of two floors and The natural advantages to mills and other labor-saving two rooms on each, is 35 livres. They have generally a machinery, are great in most of the upper districts, but small garden and about 100 yards of common land be especially in those at a moderate distance from the moun- tween the road and the house, on which grows the indis tains. The springs that gush from their sides, soon be-pensible walnut or chesnut tree. The walls are clothed come streams of from one to three hundred yards wide, and interrupted with many shoals. At many of these shoals the falls are sufficient to impel the most weighty machinery, and at others, ledges of rock are found that frequently afford the material from which the mill stones are cut. Of manufactures in which a monied capital could be profitably employed, none would afford a greater recompense than a brewery. Nothing in South Carolina is equal to the romantic scenery of the Catawba falls. It is sufficiently grand and curious to attract the visits of the most distant inhabitants of Carolina. with grape vines, or other shrubs, which, curling around the casements, render them shady and picturesque. The quality of the French soil is generally light and sandy, and exactly suited to the English system of alternate crops of corn and roots. The wages of the laborers are very different, according to the season. The average daily wages of the year may amount to an English shilling. They are allowed, moreover, three pints the of wine of the country. Their condition is upon whole very comfortable. The greater part of them have a cow and a small strip of land. The cottages are let to the laborers for life, at a mere nominal This country abounds with precious ores: but it is the rent, and are continued to their families as long as they misfortune of those who direct their pursuits in search of remain honest and industrious. There is indeed no such them, to be deficient in the knowledge of chemistry, and thing as parochial taxes for the relief of the poor, as in too frequently they make use of improper menstruums England, but distress seldom happens without being imin extracting the respective metals. Of the numerous mediately relieved. Persons living in northern climates minerals found, it may be sufficient to mention ochres can scarcely form any idea what a very different kind of successfully used in painting, (at Yorkville) marble, sustenance is required in a southern one. In Ireland, howpellucid stones and clays of different hues, fuller's earth, ever, many robust bodies are solely nourished on milk nitrous earths, isinglass, marle, potter's clay, of a most and potatoes; now chesnuts and grapes, turnips and onions, delicate texture, and a number of dye stuffs. In medi- in France, are what potatoes are in Ireland. The breakcal herbs, it is a perfect garden, and its medicinal springs fast of French laborers usually consists of bread and fruit; are not inferior to any in Europe. Limestone is plenti- his dinner of bread and an onion; his supper, of bread, milk fully found, and iron and lead ores of such a quality, as and chesnuts. Sometimes a pound of meat may be boilto produce from one-fourth to two-thirds of its crudeed with the onion, and a bouille is thus made, which, with weight in pure mineral. management, will go through the week. The climate is So various is the climate of South Carolina, that the such as to require no expense in fuel, and very little in plants of Canada may be found on its mountains, and the clothes. Ecures, is a village situated on a plam, which more hardy tropical fruits on its south-eastern extremi-in its verdure and the fanciful disposition of some trees and ty. The botanical riches of this state cannot be surpas-groves, reminded me very strongly of an English park. sed, and its forests contain the most beautiful trees with- This similitude was increased by a house on the further ont searching other countries. So duly are they appre-extremity of the village. It was situated in a lawn, and ciated in Europe, that a small plantation of them com- entirely girt around by walnut trees, except where it manded the greatest admiration in the grounds of the fronted the road, upon which it opened by a neat palisacelebrated Fonthill Abbey, in England-as the magnolia, doed gate. The possessor of this estate had probably azalia, rhododendron, rosa-carolinensis, calicanthus-been in England. The lawn was freshly mown, and the floridus, angelica, robinia fragrant, with different species, flowers, the fresh painted seats, the windows extending of andromeda, which in the flowering season perfume from the ceiling to the ground, and even the circumstance the air with their spicy effluvia-(sec Briton's Illustra- of the poultry being kept on the common, and prevented tions of Fonthill Abbey). The Howering and flagrant by a net work from getting on the lawn-all these were vegetables of this state are too numerous to introduce perfectly in the English taste. here for this and every subject connected with this country, see Ramsay's history of, and Bartram's travels through, South Carolina. " The similarity between France and the Carolinas and Georgia has been often remarked. The western parts of these states comprise the finest region in climate and productions of any part of the United States. That this region should afford the full advantages to be expected From it, the black population should be limited to the ower country, where they are indispensable from the ultivation followed there, and the humidity of the cli Flax and hemp grow in great perfection. Every peasant raises a suicient quantity for his own use; and the females of his family work it up into strong but de cent linen. The French peasantry, and particularly the women, have great ingenuity; they universally make every thing connected with their own clothes. Their beds, blankets, coats, and linen of all kinds, are of the manufacture of their own families. The produce of the man's labor goes clear, to the purchase of food: the la ber of his wife and daughters, and even a small portion of their labor, is sufficient to cloth him and provide hua autumn, with the exception of hail and thunder, which The with his bed. Passed several groups of villagers reposing themselves under the shade; not indeed reposing, for they were romping, running, and conversing with all the characteristic merriment of the country. They saluted us respectfully, as we passed them. In one of these groups was a flageolet player; he was piping merrily, his comrades accompanying the tune with motions of their hands and necks.-They had been at labor since sun rise. Even labor itself is not felt where the mind takes its share The importance of opening a free communication beof the weight. A great quantity of maize is cultivated tween Charleston and the western country, was never here; the roofs of the cottages were covered with it, more apparent than at the present moment, nor has there drying in the sun. There is a striking difference between ever been a more favorable opportunity.-Congress apthe system of cultivating flax in England and in France; pear resolved to assist those states who assist themselves, in England, the richest land is only chosen; in France, and we see Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York, every soil, indiscriminately. The result of this diffe-making the noblest exertions to bring to their respective rence is, that the flax in France, is infinitely finer than in cities, by canals and roads, the trade of the west. England, a circumstance which may account for the su- United States government have partially lent their aid periority of their lawns and cambrics* to an assotiated company of Baltimore for opening a com Every chateau has a certain number of fishponds, and in munication between the western waters and the Chesaa certain quantity of woodland. Every chateau becomes peake bay. The easier the access becomes between the a pleasant assemblage of company; and in riding, walk-west and the east, the more strengthened is the union of ing and fishing, nothing can be more agreeable than a the states, and there is no doubt but that the United States French summer in the country. On both sides of the will, on application, show the like attention to South Carriver Loire, there was that appearance of plenty and olina as to any other state. "From the great bend of the happiness, of the and nature and of the cheerful la- Ohio river, Charleston is 400 milds nearer than New York; bor of man, which inspirits the heart of the beholder. more than 200 nearer than Baltimore, and 1,700 miles The painters have very justly adopted it as a maxim, that nearer than New Orleans. From the head waters of the no landscape is perfectiin which there are not the appen- Catawba, in the vicinity of Morgantown, a turnpike road, dages of life and motion. The French peasantry are or a canal, might be formed to the head waters of both the not insensible to the beauty of their chesnut trees-Kanbawa and Tennessee; which three rivers head near wherever there was a tree of this kind, of more than each other. Either, when accomplished, would facilitate common luxuriance in its foliage, a seat was made around an intercourse between Charleston and the states of Kenthe trunk, and the turf mowed and ornamented, so as to tucky and Tennessee, on easier and better terms than it show that it was the scene of the village sports. The can be carried on between the western states, and any French peasantry excel those of England in their taste other Atlantic port in the union." To open a commuand rustic elegance, with which they ornament their lit-nication between Charleston and the west, will be equaltle domains. On the great scale, perhaps taste is better ly beneficial to the western part of South Carolina, which understood in England than in France; but as far as na- only wants improvement to become a most beautiful ture leads, the sensibility of the French peasant gives country, as it is one of the best watered in the United him the advantage. [In the introduction to "Quentin States, offering sufficient inducements to the agricultu Durward," see the opinion on taste and landscape, xiii.] ralist and manufacturer, and would become a resort of the The winters are mild, without fogs, and sufficient sun- votaries of pleasure in the summer season. The fourshine to render fires almost unnecessary. In March and ishing village of Greenville will probably become a deApril, the ground is covered with flowers, and nothing pot of the west, and all that it requires, is a canal from can be more delightful than their scent when the wind the village to the Saluda or Broad river, where it is naviblows over them; peas are in common use on every table, gable for boats. But if the state remains idle while efand every kind of culinary vegetable, is equally forward forts are making to fix the western trade at the north, it at the same time. The harvest begins about the latter will be impossible hereafter to turn it therefrom. The end of June, but is sometimes so late as the middle of times are critical, and the interest of our city and state July. Wheat, barley, oats, grasses, roots and vines, arc is at stake. Disappointments should not overcome our the staple agricultural produce. The average crop of legislators, but the motto of South Carolina, "Dum spiro, wheat is 16 English bushels.-French farms are usually spero," should, like letters of fire, animate them to on a small scale, (80 acres), the immediate consequence success. is an overflow of population. The peculiar excellence of the vine is, that it does not require fertile land. The health of the inhabitants corresponds with the excellence of the climate; the most common complaint is a dysentery, towards the latter end of autumn. The summer and NEW ORLEANS. [From a New Orleans paper.] It is certainly mournful for a traveller to dwell among the mountains of Pompeii, of Herculanem, and of Rome. There, if he feels at all, he feels among these wrecks of *In 1823 the board of trade in Ireland imported into past grandeur, that he has nothing. A totally different the county of Ulster several Dutch flax farmers, for the sensation possesses the mind on entering an American purpose of showing the mode of steeping flax as prac- city. In these, man beholds what he can contend with, ticed in the Netherlands. On every part of the conti- and what he can accomplish, when his strength is not nent, flax is deprived of the boll before steeping. The checked by the arbitrary will of a despot. New Orleans, art of producing it of a better quality rests on a well reg-the wet.grave, where the hopes of thousands are buried, ulated system, from which no person deviates. for eighty years the wretched asylum for the outcasts of From Drayton's Letters. "At Londonderry (N. H.) a France and Spain, who could not venture one hundred town retired about 40 miles from the sea, is a tolerable ex-paces beyond its gates without utterly sinking to the tensive linen and cambric manufactory; for this, they are breast, or being attacked by alligators, has become in the indebted to some Irish who settled it: and who, wherever space of twenty-three years, one of the most beautiful they go, generally carry this useful knowledge with cities of the union, inhabited by 40,000 persons who trade them. Why cannot we have such a manufactory at with half the world. The view is splendid beyond deWinnsborough? Its lands are suited to the culture of scription, when you pass down the stream which is here flax; and its country peopled by a vast number of Irish a mile broad, rolls its immense volumes of waters in a bed inhabitants. Let but some person of enterprize and for- above 200 feet deep, and as if conscious of its strength, tune assist the attempt; and I am deceived, if the farmers appears to look quietly on the bustle of the habitations thereabouts will not find it more to their advantage than of man.-Both its banks are lined with charming sugar their present pursuits in agriculture. By this means plantations, from the midst of which rises the airy mantheir strength will be called forth; and even their children,sion of the wealthy planter, surrounded with orange, bawhen a little advanced in years, will afford them an as-nana, lime, and fig trees, the growth of a climate ap tonishing assistance. While, exclusive of the flax for the proaching to the torrid zone. In the rear you discover manufactory, their annual income in money will be in-the cabins of the negroes and the sugar houses, and just creased by the sale of the seed at the entrance of the port, groups of smaller houses as if 158 NILES' REGISTER-NOV. 1, 1828-FISH STORY. erected for the purpose of concealing the prospect of the than they were last; and higher, too, than they ever were This fact the wri- When it is recollected that the shores of lake Superior are an embank ent of rocks from 300 to 1500 feet much higher than at present.-Nor can we well supIt high, we cannot but suppose that its altitude was once Considered in a commercial point of view, the situation press the apprehension that it will one day burst its of New Orleans is, perhaps, without a rival on the face bounds and seek the level of Huron and Michigan. of the globe. Although 109 miles from the sea, its posi-is to be hoped its barrier will waste so gradually as not tion is peculiarly favorable for an immense, and indeed, to drown the country below, for there is already great invers, and in the bays on lake Erie and Ontario. unparralleled trade, which in due course of time it will convenience experienes d on the Detroit and Niagara rimost probably enjoy. Standing on the extreme point of the longest river in the world, New Orleans commands all the commerce of the immense territory of the Mississippi, being the merke pointed out by nature for the countries watered by this stream, or by its tributaries-a territory exceeding a mul lion of square miles. You may travel on board a steamboat of 300 tons and upwards, for an extent of 1000 miles from New Orleans up the Red river; 1500 miles up the Arkansas river; 3000 miles up the Missouri and its branches; 1700 miles up the Mississippi to the falls of St. Anthony; the same distance from New Orleans up the Illinois; 1200 miles to the north-east from New Or leans on the Big Wabash; 1300 on the Tennessee; .1300 on the Cumberland, and 2300 miles on the Ohio up to Pittsburg. Thus New Orleans has in its rear this immense territory with a river 4200 miles long (including the Missouri) besides the water communication which is about to be completed between New York and the river Ohio; the coast of Mexico, the west India Islands, and the half of America to the south, the rest of America on ANONYMOUS. its left, and the continent of Europe beyond the Atlantic. THE GREAT LAKES. A schooner of the largest class used on the lakes, beNo vessel larger than a batteau has ever longing to one of the fur companies, passed down the rapids this spring in perfect safety, from lake Superior into Huron. Ulica, August 8, 1823. attempted this pass before. EXTRAGRDINARY "FISH STORY." The Christian Mirror of the 10th nst. has a communiscene in appropriate language. The article should have cation from Harpswell, Maine, which describes a lively been given to our readers a week ago, but it escaped our notice. The Mirror of the 17th has another article from the same author, probably, in which, he gives a more scientiae description of the fish caught at Harpswell. swers to the DELPHINUS Gladiator of Castel; and, he is With one exception he finds that the Harpswell fish aninduced to believe, that Castel is under a mistake (which accounts for the exception) in calling a fin, which was shown him, a dorsal fin, instead of a pectoral, the object in danger. of which is to embrace and carry the young dolphin when Swimming Cassel says, the New England fisherman call this fish Killaers! because they kill the whale. Any fact buil, some seizing him by the tail, others biting him by Much interest and speculation has been excited by theby dozens they rush upon a whale, as dogs rush upon a unusual flood of the lakes the present season. affording light on this phenomenon will be read with av-the side of of the head. The whale, in his torture, opens dity. It has been long maintained that the great lakes have his mouth and thrusts out his tongue, which they devour as their favorite food. In the year 1827, a vessel from Malta met with a the south of France similar to the Harpswell battle; school of them, and there was a great battle in a bay in many were killed with hatchets; their cries and bellowings were terrific. The Harpswell dolphin too, made itself known before When the pups were struck they uttered a pitious ery, Some sceptics there are, however, whit was seen, by its cry or a singular noise upon the water. deny the fact, and hold those who endeavor to maintain it in ridicule. They venture to assert that the rise and almost like human beings. The writer thinks it possible fall of the lakes depend cutirely on the snow or rain of these animals may have been mistaken for mermakis. With confidence they But the story will be read before the speculation. the winter and spring months refer to the high water of 1827, as an evidence of the correctness of their system. NOVEL FISHERY. [Journal of Com. On Monday afternoon of this week, a school or shoul of large fish, some of them between 20 A few hardy According to the generally received opinions on the subject, say they, the water in the lakes should have begun to fall in 1827, whereas, it was, in truth, some in- and 30 feet in length, was discovered in Harpswell river, ches higher than it was the preceding year. The fall of on the eastern side of Harpswell neck. The alarm was soon communicated snow in the winter of 1826-7, was unusually great, and fishermen of that town discovered them and engaged in were it not for subsequent facts, would have been regard the chase, driving them up the river and firing at them ed as pretty conclusive evidence of the correctness of with musket b dis. the new theory. And in the winter of 1827-8, there along shore;--a whate! a whale! was the cry:-and the Sixty or eighty warriors to battle, armed with muskets, was less snow in the region of the lakes than has been water was in a short time covered with boats, carry.ng ons broad axes, hatchets, and whatever deadly wea Those who first known for many years; and the spring rains were no more than ordinary around lake Superior, Michigan, and Hu-harp ron, though they were heavy on Erie and Ontario, yet all pon could be seized at the moment. the lakes, below Superior are this summer much higher dashed in amongst the school fired at thein incessantly, and killed several, who sank in the river, where they still lie. The greater part were driven fro the river iuto the cove, directly east of Harpswell meeting house, between Orr's island and Great i-nd. The water was here shallow; and now commenced an assault and a method of fishery never before witnessed. The fish were known to yield a valuable oil like the whale. The larg est would yield from four to five barrels, worth 30 or 140 The eagerness of attack, therefore, on the part of fishermen, who were accustomed to draw up from the depth of many fathoins the comparativ ly worthless codfish, may be easily imagined. To catch a fish worth $40 was no trifling affair. T his venerable friend was accustomed to give of two of the most interesting events connected with our revolu tion. It is wonder ully vivid. "We need only evert for a moment to the time which has been briefly noticed, when hejned with others in secret conclave at Salem, to determine upon the course to be adopted before the r volation commenced. Of this scene, I shall speak, as nearly as I may remember, in his own words; and would that I could catch the eloquence of his manner-a manner that has ever thrilled the stranger, and will be remembered by us, should we live to his own great age! 'Gen. Gage' -1 aluost hear him say-general Gage had come over with his troops and proefmation, to frighten us rebels into submission! Wesson had his mandate dissolving the court, and directing us to the baneful influences-the baneful influences-4 Boston! So we met there. And, in a short time, one began to ask another, 'What can we o! The worst must come to the worst! Why; we will first have a caucus, and see what can be done. Then, when we met, a member, in whose ere we saw one true to this cause, we touched him on the shoulder-Be silent-meet with us to-night First, as became him the representative of the town of Harpswell, Mr. Curtis, a very respectable man assaulted the largest of the school. Armed with a broad axe, he threw himself from his boat, astride a monster 22 feet in length, and rode him a number of rods, (all the time cutting into him with the greatest industry), before he despatched him. Classic story tells us of Arion, who vas carried ashore on the back of a porpoise; bu' Harpswell-true history will long boast of their representative, who rode ashore on the back of a grumpus. Mr. Reed, another of the adventurers, was not so for--at such an hour-in such a place-and bring your tunate, Several had attacked in vain an unmanageable fish; when he, having previously landed, waded out to him, saying he could bring him ashor, up to his midbody in water, he accordingly seized the animal by his head, as one would take a dog by the ears; but the brave man soon found be was not in his element, for the fish, with a swinging or two of the head, tripped up his heels and made him glad to retreat, so as to keep his head above water! Young Mr. Dunning pursued two large fish ashore, and slipping the painter from his boat, he made a noose in it, and getting it over the head and fins of the largest, he fastened him to a tree;-while snatching another rope, he slipped it over the tail of the other and fastened him to a bush; and then hastened to make new conquests, for it was the law of the case, that every one was to have what he could kill or catch and secure. One of the school was struck with a harpoon, and his fury was tremendous. A sea of several feet was made along the shore. The result of this adventure is, that 22 men, the successful part of the company, killed 71 fish, being with those, which sunk in the river, the whole school. is not known, that one escaped. The bluber has been stripped off, and, it is expected, will yield 75 barrels of oil, worth perhaps from 600 to 700 dollars. Some of the Harpswell people call this fish, black fish, others pot fish. Both naines are very appropriate for the fish is black like a coal and the head is of the form of a pot kettle. Dr. Mitchell, of New York, and other learned men would say, it is no fish at all, for it has no gills, and like the whaie, has a heart and lungs and warm Blood, and is viviparous. It spouts water through a large spiracle or hole in the top of its head. man.' All were prompt to the hour. The meeting In '85, news came to us at Annapolis, that there was peace-that there was peace! We were all amazedthrough our hearts. It was shouted in the streets-It delighted! It went like lightning through the hall, and There was a rushing was thundered from the cannon. by and by, care Washington-Washin, tou-to resigu -a congratulating-a rejoicing on every side And then, his commission. We determined it should be done in public audience. At an appointed hour, the members were all in their seats; the gallery and Hoor were filled; and said: Having discharged, according to my best abil and, after coming in, Washington approached the table, One man thrust his fist as a stopper in the spiracle of one of the monsters; in the hope, that by confining the air, the animal would blow up, and thus be floated more readily in the shoal, the high trust committed to me, I resign my cornwater; but he found himself in danger of being blown up into the air! The largest was 22 feet in length, and 13 feet in circumference; the pups, still at the breast, were 7 or 8 feet in length. It is remarkable, that amidst all the confusion and peril of the battle, not a man should have been hurt in the conquest of such a multitude of fierce and powerful animals. The protection no less than the bounty of Providence, calls for the grateful acknowledgment of these bold and successful adventurers. A REVOLUTIONARY PATRIARCH. mission into the hands of those from w om 1 received happy day! We had trembled, we had struggled, we had Yes, yes-and that was a bright day! It was my [fought, we had bled-and yet, at last, obtamed all that we asked, and more than we asked. So we had our time, and it ended.' will doubt that this was such a patriot as would have ho"It ended! nobly, gloriously ended, and who, oh who nored any age?" WAREHOUSING SYSTEM AND GOVERNMENT To the honorable the senate and house of representa- We have been permitted to make some extracts from a pamphlet printed, but not published, contammg an address delivered at the funeral of the honorable George That your memorialists being impressed with the bePartridge, of Duxbury, (Massachusetts), July 9, 1828; lief, that great benefit would result to the government, and and a sermon preached on the next Sabbath, by the rev. to the community, by a change in the mode of collecting Benj. Kent. Mr. Partridge died at the age of 88, and the duties on imports, beg leave respectfully, to suggest had been familiar with the scenes of our national infancy.to your consideration, that suitable warehouses be proWe have selected a passage from the address in which vided by the government, in which imported merchanthe eulogist has happily introduced the description which dise may be deposited under charge of the revenue |