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2
Month
October
Year
1847
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Madam Restell. - This notorious wotnan is agaln in the custody of the law nnd we hope that sbe will not be altowed to slip throtigh its fingers without reciving full jusliee. Il is supposed that she pursues the foul practico of procuring ubortions as a profesión. She has been agnin ind.cted for this crime, nnd for wantofbnil sin prism.- Tue Wesleyan. In ihe Vera Cruz Sun of the 5th uit,. Boston ice is advertised nt 6 4 cents a pound. The export duty of 10 per cent, 's ro euled. This applies to all the Mexican ports in theGulfof Mexico. Fourleen hundred Hohriders are setiling in Marión county, Wisconsin. Drunkenness at the time of enlist ng, is ! held liy JurtgB Parsons, of Philadelphn, sufTicien: cause for the discharge of a ree ruit, if he wishes H after he become sobe red. Cheap Diet - M. Soyer does not st.ind alone in monster culinary effurts. Several mnnufacturing establishment near Aberdeon have undeitaken to supply the food of their operaüves at a chenper1 rate, and of a better quality, than they thernselves can procure. From two thousand to threa thousnnd people are daily fed on this plan. The cost for breakfast and dinner, induding bead, is 1 l-2d. j per meal ; nnd the arrangements are so ' complete, that four hundred persons are breakfusted or dined in tvventy minutes. For fifty gallons or barley broth, tho following ae the ingrediënt : - 431b. meat, 281b. barley, 51b. peas, and j ables to the value of 2s. or 2s.6d. The masters supply fuel, ufensils, &c. ; and after these items, the culinary experiment isself-supporting. The cause of this institution was the distance which the workers had to go for meals, the poverty of their diet, and constant inubility to labour. Daily News. The elitor of the National Watchman, a coloured paper ut Troy, says that J. Harleston Read, of Charleston, S. C. one j of the thirty-seven Soutlierners who ssued a circular to estabhsh a proslavery paper in Washington, to his"certain knowledge,"has a coloured family, consisiir.gcfü bcci'j'.if-! tfsísss, " joimIiv I prototype of Hagar," and five children. Fisiieb Tamed by a Child.- In fi quarter of the town of Hingham, known I as Rockynook, there is a pond, where a i little girl, not six years uld who resides' near the bank, has tamed the ílshes to a remarkable degree. She began by throwing crumbs in the water. " Gradually the ' fishes lenrned to distinguish her Ibotstcps and dnrted to ihe edge whencver she approached ; and now they will actually leed out of her hand and allow her to touch their scaly sides. A venerable turtle is amnng hel1 regular pensionéis. ! The control of Van Ambiirg over his will beasts is not more sjrprising thnn that which thislitcle girl has attained over her finny playmates. Visitors have been attracled from a distance of several miles to the spectacle she exhibils. The fiblies will have nothing lo do With Huy ohe but their tricd friend. They will trust no one else, let him Come with provendet everso tempting. Even fishes are not so cold blooded bui Ihey will recogniie the law of kindness, and yield to its all embracing power. - Bost. Trans. Quite True.- The Norlhampton Ga- zette says : "The idea, quite common among pious yoUng men, that they cannot fulfil their mis.ion of good to mankind, without gelting into the pulpit, has filled the snered desk with a great many poor preachers." A MammotH - The Sohooher üenningion is now disuharging u freiglit of over three thousand boxes of cheese, from Ashtabula County, Ohio. Among he 1 t we saw one alone, from the dairy of J. Stone, of the town of Morgan, which weighs 570 pounds ! - Buffalo Express. The Horrors of War. - It would seem thatour men in Mexico are suffering dreadfully from the effects of the climale of that country. As an instance of : his the Louisiana regiment, which is siationed at Tampico undef lhe command of Col. De Russy, left their homes :i few months ago one thousand strong, aud of hisnumber not more ihan two hundred nppeared on parade on the lu'th of August. HundreJs have died, and hundreds are now languishing in the Iiospitals. Millions of small green frogs have nppeared in Clinton county, N. Y. They cover the road from Plattsburgh to Cumberland Head, and thousands are crushed by tle wheels of passing wagons. A Judge once said toa lawyer, that he was very much like necessity. 'How do you make thut out V inquired the loquacious attorney. 'Because, said lhe Judge, "necessity knows no law." The notorious Maria Monk, it is said, is now an ininate of the Stale Prison, at Sing Sing, N. Y-, huving been sent ihiiher on a conviction for grand l.irceny. The Sault Ste Moría Ship Canal is to be 4,500 feet in length and 60 feet in widlh, nnd when completed will make lhe entire chain of Iakes uavigable. Presidential. - The Native American Nalional Convention, asiembled at Philadelphia last week. Tliey made the following notninr.tion. Gen. Zackary Taylor, of Mississi(pi, for President, and üen. Henry A. S. D3urborn, of Mussachusetts Cor Vice President. The Lotidon Despatch says : "The Aulures in tlie corn irade in London are estimated at about L2,000,000, and Ihe Lancashii o fulks are saic! to be deeply involved.: A Phenomenon. - An extract of a Inter f rom Vivonchoux, in one of ihe Deparimer.ts of France, whicb is published in a Puris Journal, says : "A singular, not marvellous, Phenomenon has nttracted considerable attention in our community. A female about 30 years of age, who was, sume lime ngo attacked with epilepsy, suddenly feil inlo a state of insensibilily resembling a constant lethargy. It is noi three years since this took place, and during all this timp she has not made a motion or manifesled asinele desire. Siuing upon her bed with her raouth and eyes halfopen, and with a livid countenance she presents the ppearatice of a corpse to those who see her, yet her respiration is continue;). - This singular state of exlstence, whicfa has put a default on all the secrets of art, issustained by a taste of syrup and water, hourly. The following ticket, proposed by the Pittsburg Gazette. if elected, wouíd certainly constitute a General Goveriiment: For President - General Zachary Taylor ; For Vice President - Gen. Worth ; ForSecretaryof War - Gen. Qituman; For Secretary of the Navy - Gen. Kearney ; For Secretary t.f the Treasury - Gen. Cushing ; For Attorney General - Gen. Price ; For Speaker of the House - Gen. Pierce ; Chief of Engineer Bureau - Gen. Pillow ; Ilend of Naval Bureaus - Gen. CadWallader.j Peace ('ommissioners - Gen. Hoppine and PaUerson. tN'CREASE OF Re VENTJE BY ReDUCING Taxes. - Sir Robert Peel, in his speech lo the electors of Somworth, last July, staled tliat, since the year 1841, taxes had been repealed to the amount of eight millions pounds sterling, and that, nolwithstanding this, the revenue of 1846, not counting the new tax on income, was largor by a milüon of pounds than that of 1841. EnglíSh LibejitY is how defended, by 50,000 soldiers, and 30,000 armed pólice. Ninety years ago there were hot 5,000 soldiers on the whole Islaild. Glorious ihstitutions! Happy country ! AiMiable. - The Democratie Review, in speaking of the war with Mexico says: 'The Mexican race now see, in the fate of the aborigines of the North their owh inevitable destiny. There can b? no end to the war short of her annihilation as a nalion." The Kenlucky Yeoman snys that the whole vole in favor of a uonvention, will reach ninety lhousand, n majoriiv over the vote polled, of not less thin fifiy thiiusand, and over the whole vote in the Siate, of between twentyand thiih thousand. Bunker Hiill Moxumext. Over 30, 000 persons ascended this structure withiri the past twelve months, the fees received from whom have sufficed to keep the grounds in order - to pay the inlerest on the debt of the jirevious year, and $1,000 toward liquidating the principal. Mr. Emerson, in hls eetures on the character of New England says : "Our people have no repose of Charflcler. They are constantly striving for improvements, to the sácnfide af present contentmeliL The constant topics of conversation on boud steamboats and railroad C:irs, are the speedy modes of locoinotion coniemplated at some future period Twenty-five miles an hour is poor baggagc wagon jogging. Men and vomen will, bve and bye, be shot across the Atlantic through a sort of quill. A tuimel must be cut connecting the Iwo continents. Some mealis must be devised to prevent snbmarine explosions and earlhquukes. A pit must be opened 500' feet ocross and 3000 feet in debth ; the vapors inhaled must be sold out to ihe gas company ; and thus this litlle earth will be properly venlillated, and voleanoes broken up."

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