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2
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December
Year
1844
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Thclatc Whig Party.- The fragments of thelate Whig party seem to be floatiag about in all directions. In this city a of the Whig papers such as the Courier ${■ Enquircr, the Express, and the American, have goneover, body, soul and breeehes, to the "Natives." There are, hó'wever, a Urge proportion of the whig forces in this city, and in the State, who have determined to stand back - to keep aloof - and to look on. Horace Greely and his dique will not touch the "Natives'1 at present, but disapprove of all íheir doirigs; and we have no doubt, with a remnant of Isral, will keep aloof for sotne time to come. This is also the poücy at present of Thurlow Weed, who disapproves entirely of the 'Native' movement, and very significantly hints thaí a new party making one of its chief articles a total repeal of the naturalization laws, and a persecution of 'foreigners' for opinion'ssake, reminds him of the 'alien and sedttion' movement of the 'old federáis,' which kept them out of power for fiften-or twenty years. In Boston, Mr. Webster and his dique have gone over to the 'Natives' however, with a rush like the falls of Niágara. The truth is that tnany of the Whig leaders and Whig journak appear by the defeat they have sustained to have lost all tiieir senses. - They fïnd.themselves in a minority, and not satisfied wilh it, they are goingto work, splitting up even that minority so as to make it still smaller. They are very hard to please. All these exhibitions wil only tend to give greater strength and power to 'Young Hickory,' and his democracy. - N. Y. HercUd. BISHOP ONDERDONK. It serms that :n addif ion to the aeeeptance of his resignation, by the laïe trienninl Episcopal Convention, the House of Bishope have suspended htm f rom the Ministtv, as will nppear from the followmg from the Episcopal Recorder: tientence oj Snspension. Passpfl upon the Rijrht Reve'ond Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Doctor in Divinity, by the House of Bis-hopp, in General Convention ospembled October Sist, 1844. The Rt. Reverend Henrj Onderdonk Doctor in Divinity, hnving acknnwledged himseli' the cai.se of reprooch and njury to the Church and having stibmitted liimself'to the judgment of the Bishope, in General Convention assecv bled: theeaid House does hereby adjudge, thai the said Henry Uftick Onderdonk, Doctor in Diviníty, be nnspended from all public exereise of tiie offices and functions of the snered minietry, and in pnriicilnr from all exerciaeB whatsoever of the offic and work of a Bishop In the Church of God: and doe accordingly to uspend le said Henry Ustick Onderdonk, Doctor in Divinity, nrid declare bim suspended, from and after ibis 2Ist dny of October, in the year of our Lord one Uiousand eight hun? dred anf forty-four, from all public exarcise of the offices and fnnctions öf the 6aid ministry, and from all exercise of the offices and work of a Bichopin the Church of God; in the nnme of the Fat hor, and of the San, and of the Holy Ghost. Anw?n. Phil. Cuase, Senior Bishop. PoVtieal Changes.- The Bunker Hill Aurora and New Haven Courier, late Whig pspere, hareesponsed the principies of the Native Ameriean. party. A1F the large Whs; papers in Ibis city have done the eatne. - JV. Y. Sun. Unanimovs. - ït ie said the Democrnts of Mnssachusetts lme not erected a single State enator. The Whigs of Michigan' are in the same position. - Ib. Vegetable Diet. - A Dt, Lnmfte, in Somersetshire, now aged almost 80. has Eved for the last forty years on an exclusive vegetable He has certainly given the 6} stem o good tTinl.-Lontlon Atlas. _■Attonishing Performance on the Rivet - -Sailing by Goose Poteer. - A most singular feat was yeslerday succcssfully performed on the river between Vauxhall and Westminister bridge. Mr. Barry, one of the clowns of Asley's Theatre, had announced nis intentention of sailing from Vauxhall to Weatminister in a washing-tub drawn by t wo geeso.- A large crowd aesembled on both sides of the river to witness thia strange undertaking. - At about half three o'clock Mr. Barry with several of lm friends, and attired in his cluwn's dress. arrivedat Vauxhall Bridge, S&all ihings having been prepared, he at once stepped into, hts tuband started upon his voyage. The tide being in his favor he went a long safely enough, with little difficulty in m&king the geese keep a proper course. An immense number of boats accompanied this strange wa ter party so that the intrepid voyageur was in no danger of drowning. Mr. Barry disembarked from his vessel at Wesïmimater Bridge and proceeded amidst loud cheers to the Theatre. - London paper. Ballimore JVov. 18. - A frame of drafts or chequers was played by myself in this city witb Mr. Vail in Washington, on Sntitrdny last, by means of Morse's Magnetic Telegraph. The game was played in little less tlian an hour,; without making a single mistake. The squares and men were numbered, and we moved according to the figures. Balfimore carne out victorious. This is the firet game that was ever atlempted in the United States by such means, and probably the first in the world. It exhibited most satisfactorily the accuraoy and cornpleteness of the telegraph U. 8. Gaz. Silk Manufacture in Ohio. - Amog many Bourcesof weakh in Ohio, none makes more rapid progresa Mían the manufacture of silk. Theclimate is highly favorable for the culture of themulberry and the rearing1 of worms. The farmers at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson county, turned their land into mulberry groves a few years ago, and are now prodneing immense quantiiies of raw silk, which pnys them far larger profits than farming. Mr. Gtll has eMsblished a Factory at Mount Pleasant, where he makes beautiful silk velvet, vesl pat tenis, cravats, d rosnes, pocket handkerchiefs, kc, all from nalive silk produced in Ohio! Too Cvnning by Half.-A pólice officer efTroy, having captured lately, by proxyt a rog-ueiiamed Ireland, had uimeelfarrested on a charge of some kind and put in the same cell with his prisoner. While there he wormed out of the rogue nol only a confessipn of his own guilt, but the names of his confederates on several robb jries, and afterwards arrested uil. Educa l ton of Egyptian Prince$.- Paris seeras to be to mnny parta of Ihe world, what A tbens was to Rome, and other ancient cities. Young men ore sent thilher from distant lands to be educated in the arts a nJrefinements oí the age. A son and grandson of the Pasha of Egypt, and other young men of the most disti'nguished families of that country, have lafely been escorted to the metropolis of Frnuce and ui' fushion, to complete ther course of literary and scienufic studies. - This is new for Egypt, but the example has been freqnently et by other countries. Were Paris under Christian influence,thë consequences wouln' oe most happy to the world. - Bap. Adv. The late Baptist Convention in Cincinnati sstirnated the number of' Baptist church memliers in elavery, in the United States, to be 100,000. So sa vs Zion's Advocate. The Art of Bonk-keeing in a short and asy method; in two lessons. - First, borro w ibok of a friend; Second, forget to return it. -Bost. Post. (JJThere are (hirteen nev papers publisbd at present in Wisconsin territory - five .vl)irp, six demócrata, one abolition, and one ïentral. - Bost. Post. Wonder who feel the best, the abolitiononists who did not vote for a slaveholdcr, or, hose who voted to elect Henry Clay "this ime?"-iiSÍ3rac titandard. The difïèrence of lime between Baltimore md Washington is about a minute and a Jmlf. 8 the telegraph transmits commuuications in he fractions of a second, it consequen tly doe t in consderable les Oían no time! The Original Roorbachs.- We are infomed, on the best authority, that Mr. Linn, of thica, tnd the three other Whigs, concerned n getting up the famous "branding" Roorlach which theEvening Journal palmed ofFas ts own, all voted the regular Whig tickets at he late election - from Clav dovvnwards. PhU would seem to set at ie9t the politica] ihnracter of all the parties to this outrageous nd bold fraud. - A-gus. Well Said,- I am endeovoring to drive rom the back of the negro slave the politician yho has eeated himself there lo nde into 'ffice.' Thomas Morris. Lard Oil is made in Cincinnati in twentywo establiahments, which manufacture an agjregate of 6ix hundred thousand galluns per innum, value at fifty cente, ncarly onethird f a million of dollars. The value of the itearine and other residmn, must be at least as nuch more. Ra tes of Posta ge - The redu3tion of Leter and Newspaper postage 'is a subject in vhich every one is directly interested, and In ri9ïice to all it ought to claim the early attcnion and first aetion of Congress. Let tbc ieople and Ihe press ümte in urgin? and denanding the reduction. - Monroe Advocate. The Emperor of Austria has positively orered the suppression oflotteries in his States rom the lst of J"anuary next. Tht Manufacture of Paper. - There am tthis time upwards of 660 paper milis in the inked States m full operationr a capital f 1 6,000,000 dollars, and giving maintcnance upwards of 60.000 persons.As this is the seaaon for Buck-wheat raices, the following recipe will at fliis time be valu able to those who are fond of them - a friend, who has tried the experiment, soys it makes decidedly beller cakes, with half the trouble necessary in the usual mode of raising them with yea8t. To three pints of buckwheaf flour, mixed into balter, add one tea spoonful of carbonate of soda, dissolved in water, add one ditio of tarlaric acid, disso'ved in like monner - first apply the carbonate, stir the batter well, and then put in the acid- thus the useofyeost is entirely 9iiperseded,&& cakes "as hght os a feather" are insured. One great advantage is that the batter is ready for baking as soon as it is made. Father Malhew will positively vtsit this country next sutnmer- so says J. E. Coles, the Wa8hingtonian, who had it ftom his own lips. The present King of France, one very cold evening, was ridiug from Boston to Salem on the outside of the stage. He was entirely without money to pny for lodging that night, and he begon to make friends with the driver to get part of his bed. After a. while, the driver6 compassion was nronsed. "You aie not a very clean looking chap," said he to the poor Frenchman, "bui my bed is in the harness-roora where there's a stove, and f you'il keep your trowsers on and sleep outside, I don't mind!" - Mirror. win JJvalanche of More than 290,000,000 of chargable letters were posted in 1843, so that supposing all the letter boxea in the United Kingdom io be open twelve houre in the day, and to communicate with one large spout the letters would keep fleving through it at the mean rate of fourteen in a second. - IIow many hearts are gladenned, and how many facilities for business are opened, by the naw postage sy6tem? Shall we ever see the like? Yes. - Bost. Chroniclc. Fast Grinding. - Beach's etone mili, in this town, manufactured 2136 barrels of ilour in pix daya of last week, being 356 barrels per day. This is using tip 15,000 bushels oí wheat in about the shortest time we have iieurd of .-Akron Beacon. Mr. Record, a young lawyer from New York city, who accompanied the Oregon emigraiion of 1843, and passed onward to the Sandwich [slands, has been appointed Aitorney General of the ïsland by King Tummeamh. The other confidemial officers of the King arealso Americans, as well as the most enterprising planters and merchants of that flourishing liitle kingdom. Anotherof the Presidential mottoes, was, "Liberty to Dorr." Nota word about Liberty for Torry, for Walker, tbr Miss Webster, for Fairbank. Why? Oh! they are rothing but Abolitiontsts, but Dorr is n Cutaneoüs Dkmocrat! That makes a world of difference. Lib. Cuu rier. Betling. - Itis anid that in the State of New York upwards of six mülions of dollars have changed hands on betson the election of Mr. Clay. Soys the Philadelphia Spirit of the Times, in th is city the omount lost and won is beyond computation. One gentleman has lost, we nre told, seventy thousand dollars. - Many others are totally ruined. All of them were violent Clay Whigs, of course; and so sanguine of success, that they beited ten to one on ihe election of their fuvorite. Of course ihe Democrats pocket all this cash. - Bost. Times. The New Orleans Tropic, herefofore a Whig paper, hns raised the American Repub lican flag. In its leader of the 6th inst.. it remarks. "From this day we shall wage war upon the present vctturalization latos, and urge, with what power we may possess, such a modificación os will couipel eery foreigner who lands upon our ehores to remain iwentyone years, and then receive his evidence of citizenship from the United States Court onlyV Matanzas. - Investigations are still going on at Matanzas in regurd to the laie insur rection. At Yabu, during the late hurricane, a tremendous woterspout passed through the place, doing much damage. It was ubout twenty feet wide. In its course it possed over two houses, driving the j-oofö through, ond entirely destroying one. Five children were killed in one of the buildings. The effects were the same as if a violent river liad ruu Lhroogh the town, leaving a kind of channel. Mechanics and artizans wece &carce, ind were receivmg from four to five dollars per day. A Mr. Mansfield, of Debben, a second Danel Lambert, is abnut to exhibit in London. lie weighs S3 stone 10 Iba, and 6ix men can nit'.on comfortably in his coat. Very large buildings are erectingat Washuglon, to prepare night signáis, colored fire, ulminating powder, percussion caps for smal irme, percussion primera for cannon, grinding :ompositions, charging rockets, port-fires, artriges, smull nrms, chemical apparatus, &tc. c, all under the charge of an intelligent irofestor of y rotechnics. Mr. Walsh, in one of his letters from Paris, iays: 'The present Uonsof Paris are the two Dgyptian Princes whom Mehemet Ali has sent o this capiial for the completion of their stu l.es. They are bet ween 18 and L0 years of ige. Their 30 young companions, who are kscribed aa of 'the first fannliea of Egypc,' ivill romain ïn the same hotel, engaged in the me studies, that the son and grands-on of hc Viceroy moy have the benefit of emulaion. Most of them speak French." The Portland (Me.) Advertiser says: - "In this city, tbere seré from fifty to n lundred or more eolored voters. We unlerstand that four of them, and no more roteé the Birney ticket, at the presïdeninl election."Make the best of cvery thing. Be a true philosopher, and take life as it comes, with a storm to-day and a sun to-morrow. Then you will succeed - there is uo question of it - you must succeed where a thoasand fail who lack courage and energy, and yield to the first breath ol adversity. - Ex. paper. Thekingof France numbers twentytwo in his royal family - children, grand children, sons-in-law, and daughters-inlaw; and their united ages amount to 971 years. Cliinese Ice Hovses.- The ice houses around Ningpo, and especially on the bonks oF tbe river between that city and Chinhae, are beyond calculation. They are built above the ground, and generally upon a platform of earth raised so a to be above the level of the surrounding fields. Upon such a mound a bamboo frame is thrown, which is well and dosely thatched with paddy straw. The ice is collected in tanks or pond?, which the proprietors of the ice houses lake care lo keep dtily fil'ed with water during the winter seaeon. VVhen there is a sufficient thickness they collect it; and, as it is brought in, each ];iyer is covered with dry straw, and in this mannerthe ce is preserved during the whole summer. Each house has i ts own diain, to drow off the water cansed by the tnelting of the iee. The article is not used in Ningo for private coneumption, hut Bolely as an anliseptic for the flesh and fish during the heat of the summer. The inhabitants know nothing of the mode nfcooling their liqnids, exceptas they have observed foreigners use it for that purpose, and then they are very wilüng to retail it to them at the rale of about eighty to one hundred ensh per bucket, a charge by no rneans excensive during the dog days. In places like Foochow-foo, the 6eat of Chinese luxuries, ice is occasionly used to cool fruits, svveetmeats, &.c. - Fricnd of China. Poslnge Reform. - IIow can the old postoffice eupport itself? lts revenue feil off in 1843, a qiiarter of a million; and in 1344, i must have fallen nearly a mjllion of dollars. A New York paper eays,- A letter eau be sent to Bangor, in Maine, from this city, with os much celenty and safe ty as through the U. S. mail for six cents; and it is a notorious fact, that one concern received recently from Boston, in one day, 530 letters, while the post-office received only three. Thus the private mail, at the low rate of postage. received $31.30, while the posloffice with the high ra te collected only fiftysix and one quarler cents. The restless etnigrating spirit of New JEngland never seemed so 6lrikingly ilhistrated, as in the insta?:ce of an old house at Edgartown, Mass., which hns been inhabited 200 years, hoc been the.birth ploce of over 150 persons, but not a death has oceurred within its vvalls. POSTAGE REFORM. The only difficolty is, in making people believe that it is practicable to cnrry letters all distnnces for TWO CENTS. If a large body of the people really saw that it could be done, the coming session of Congress would not close without its adoption. Itcan bedone, for il has been done. ft is ohjected that our country is much larger than Great Brifain, and our mail routes longer, and the country moresparsely settled. To offset this, observe that nany more of our people read and write, that families are more seporated, and ihat we do not wtsh to raise a revenue from the postage, whereaq the English government realizes $S,000,000 a vear

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