General Intelligence

Bvffalo office. - We Jearn that the revenue ot the Post-office in tliis city for the current quarter, Phas fallen off full $10,000, from the corresponding quarter of last year. - Bvffalo Gazette, June 20,If theabove statement made in the Gazette is correct, as it undoubledly is, being made "by authority,' it 6hows conclu6ively that the citizens of Bunaio are eaving to themselves the snug Httle sum of $40,000 per annum in postage by having somc other rcgvlar way of transmitting their correspondence,than through the mails. A proportionate falling off at the intermedíate offices from here to New York, eay at Batavia, $2,000, Rochester $14,000, Canandaigua $2,000, Geneva $1,000, Auburn $2,000, Utica $5,000, Troy $10,000, and Albany $13,000, per year. Now, this large amount could not be diveited from the Postónico if the people on the route were not bet' ter served from some other source, and so long as this is the case no penal enactments can forcé the correspondence on the great thorough fare into the Post-office pouches. The rates of po6tage as now charged are exorbitantly high, as the following facts will show:a letter snpposed to weig-h one-fourth of an ounce is charged 18-J cents from Troy to New York while the same stcamer which conveys the letter carries a barrel of flour weighing 216 pounds to the same place for ten cents; this at the saine rate charged on the letter, would be only $2,581 82-100 - again, we are charged from here to N . York, 25 cents on the same lettere, because they are carried 482 miles; a barrel of flour is carried to the same place 519 miles for 65 cents - at the same rate as tho letter, this would cost ffis.456.íf the PoBt-master Genernl, will use bis I uence to have the rales of Postage reduced, s they should be, and cause all letters to be re-páid, (by vvhich latter means alone one ïird at least of the clerk forcé noto, necessary might be dispensed with) he would find that ie increase of revemie and decrease of exjense, would enablejhim to serve the business jommunity, so as to put a stop to their comlaints ofthe Post-qffice, and his of the Exjress. Until this is done our bnsiness men stand by the Expresses mauger the groans of stmasters and Special Agenta - Buff. Adv.A PolHical Sign.- On board the packet boat Hudson, on her down tiip from Utica on the 8th ult., a voto was taken to test the jolitical feelings of the passengers on the subject of the next Presidency. A regular j janizatiqn was made by appointing a Chairman and Sccretary. Two able and eloquent speeches were made by a 'orace of abolitionists; when an informal" voto was taken, whicli resulted as follows: For Van Buren, 20; Birney, (abolition) 3; Cass, 2; Clay, 16; Webster, 1; Cornell, 1; Blank, 2; Captain 2: The three highest candidates were then voted for, and the vote stood - for Van Buren, 32; Birney, 14; Clay, 13: Van Buren'smajority over all, 5! Aresolution was then passed directing the rcsults of the ballotings to be published in the Albany Argus, Evening Journal and Daily Patriot.Bunker Hill Cdebraiion.-We could not help reflecting, while reading the glowing, patriotic-inspired descriptions given in our Eastern exchanges. that, at the moment when freemen were rejoicing at Bunker Hill, admiring the proud monument reared to commemorate the events of the Revolutionary struggle, listening to the eloquent Webster, and rpnrJinfr the nir with their shouts, three millions of men, immoríal men, were gronmng under tho most abject opprcssion, amid the sugar and cotton fields of the Southern por tion of this Union. Yes, and oppressed, too, by some of Ihe very men who then joined in swclling the shout for freedom, and forgotten by two-thirds of ihe rest. Oh! when shall this foul blot on our Nation's esculcheon be erased; this curse to her reput lican institutions be removed, and Columbia be a natiou of freemen? Then, and not till then, can we celébrate our national birth day. and the other important epochs in our country's history, without the groans of the bondman, and the clanking of his chaina mingling their notes of discord with our patriotic songs of joy and praise.- Mich. Chris. Hcrald.Water Proojing.-kn obliging correapondent sends us the following recipe for water proofinpf. Take 1 pound of allum price 4 cents, and 1 pound of sugar of Jead price L0 cents, pulverize them and dissolve it m 1 Jgallons of boiüng water, wlien cool pour off the water and satúrate whatever is to be proofed in it, and let it dry gradually, Cloth, linen, eilk, or any texlure or quahty of goods, may by the above simple process, be made imnervious to water hot oí cold; yet the article will allow the free escape ofstcam, and consequently to perspiration. The above are only the proportiona uscd, when large quantitiea of goods are to be water proofed twice or thnce the quant íty of each article may be usedThere was a most extra ordinary and excitingRepeal meeting at the Philadelphia, Museum, on Tuesday evening. The object of the meeting appeared to be the expression of nn opinión relative lo O'Connell's antislo.very speech, by report of a committee appointed at previous meeting. Upon the reading of he report, a tumult ensued which beggars all escription. Hisees, groans and yells were ïeardfromall quarlers, when finally at half past eleven oxlock, the meeting refused to censure or cast the least reflection upon the motives of Mr. O Connell.- Boston Mail.Brlbery at Elections.- Mr. Attwood, a successful candida'e in Harwick, lately expended for his eiection abont L30,000; a large )ortion of which was expended in direct bri ery. Themoney expended by the unsuccessul candidate was about L12,000. At .Notingham, the sum expended, mostly in bribcry and treachery, by the'successful candidate, was &.'8,5OO dollars, by his opposer, $54,375. Hatddng.-They have a machine for hatcJin? esTSs now actuay n U5e 'n London, briniñg out the little chickens in broodo o fifties and hundreds with all the punctuality o an old hen.The Bay State Detnocrat says that Thoma VV. Dorr is about to rciurn to Providence anc resume the practice of Law. It adds that h has no intention of disturbing the existing authorities of the State. Capital Punishment.- But two executions have ever occured in the state of Maiue. New Hampshire lias again refused lier public land money. In tlte Honscof Represcnlativcs, on Fridny, the vote on the reception whs 1C1 to 121.