General Intelligence

In the next State Senate of Maine, consisting of SI members, thcre will be bilt one whig. Chartismin England. - The Chartists are rapidly increasinjr in England. There are over 600 Associations in the United Kingrlom, comprising over 200,000 members, who pay a penny per da y to carry fonvard the objects of their association. We wish them all success. flL?We should like to seo snme good reason assigned; if any can be assigned, for regjlating the hire of money nny more than the hire of horses or the price of pork. The whole number of insane persons and idiots, in the United States is 17,434. The whole number of blind persons in the United States, is G.91C. The vholev number of Deaf and Dumb persons is, 7,859. White Deaf and Dumb under 14 years of age, 1,919 Over 14 and under 35 yeare of age, 2,05G Over 25 years of age, 2,707 Proportion of Deaf and Dumb to population, 1, to 223 Proportion of Blind, to population, 1, to 2,467 Proportion of insane and Idiots to population 1, to 979 -American Almanac. It is jstated, in a coromunication from Gen. A. H. Brisbane, of Georgia that he has constrocted a rail road in tltat State, 70 miles in length, with 150 laborers, and only a cash capital of $15,000- the laboréis being the owners of the road. The cash was applied to the support of the workmen. The road con_ nects tho Qelmulgee and Flint rivers. The cara are to be run for a time on wooden rails, which have been laid down, and with horses at the rate of ten miles an hour, until, out of the profits of the road, iron rails can be substiíuted. In addition to this the stockholders of the road own large tracts of land. Thirty of these stockholders were poor Irishmen, who had been thrown out of work, and whom Gen. Brisbane collected in Charleston, S C. This road was commenced in 1839. The Prospectus of a Liberty party paper is issued in Vermont, by Messrs. St. Clair and PriLgs. That ia richt, j