Georgical Dictionary, &c. has given us a longing only of what the plant has rejected, are of off by their roots whatever is deleterious to article on the Rotation of Crops. Verily, I ap-course unfit for the support of other plants of a their health, the conclusion drawn from the fact prehend that Mr. Deane understood theology similar nature, and may be said (in relation to does not seem rationally to follow-I mean, it better than agriculture. The ignorance mani- such) to poison the soil." does not result that the cause of the deteriora fested on this subject appears to me inexcusa- This goes to strengthen the argument in fa- tion of the second is to be found in the deposits ble in one who sets himself up for a teacher.vor of alternating crops, in field as well as gar-made in the soil by the first crop. Wheat, in He would persuade us that we have only to den culture. It applies with particular force to particular, is found to deteriorate on ordinary change our crops in order to render our land the transplanting of trees; and indicates the soils, and on few will it bear repeating oftener perpetually fertile. The absurdity of this doc- propriety of removing all the soil from their than once in three or four years; yet there are trine is too apparent to need refutation. Land roots, and even of washing them, instead of soils which will bear cropping with this grain once exhausted of vegetable food is utterly in-transplanting them with a ball of earth, as is for many successive years without diminution capable, I believe, of producing any crop. Ma- often the case, particularly with evergreen. I of product. Such is particularly the case in nures buried in the soil appear to be slowly have heard of the practice being successfully the valleys of the Genesee and of the St. Lawresolved into carbonic acid gas; this is absorb-adopted, observing the precaution to prevent rence. Here, upon their theory, must be an aned by the earth, and afforded little by little as the drying of the fibres, so as to destroy their nual accumulation of poison, and yet the plant the plants can receive, assimilate, and digest it. functions. But as evergreens have always a does not seem to be injured by it. This exereThis carbonic principle I take to be the true foliage to sustain, the ball of earth becomes in a mentitious or poisonous matter has, combined food of plants; and where it is wanting in the measure necessary to preserve the spongioles with aliment, once passed through the sap vessoil, it would be in vain to attempt to cultivate (mouth) it contains, till new ones are formed, sels of that plant without injury; and why not, any crop whatever. All animal and vegetable or those injured by the removal resume their combined with the aliment which is constantly matter appear to be principally composed of this functions. preparing in the soil, may it not prove equally carbonic principle, but when manure or a car- The experiments employed to illustrate the innoxious, the second year, to a like plant. I case is thrown on the top of the ground, it is ab- deposit of vegetable excrementitious matter, suspect it is not so much the presence of a sorbed by the sun, scattered by the winds, and served to show another remarkable analogy be- poison, as the absence of food, which causes the its decomposition too rapid to allow the plants tween animals and vegetables. "All poisons falling off in the product. These gentlemen to receive, digest, and assimilate it: they can are either corrosive or narcotic; or, in other admit that, although plants cannot clect, in the only take a limited quantity at a time. Hence words, act either by over-stimulating or relax- soil, the food which is adapted to their wants, we bury manures in the soil, that this food maying the system; and these different effects they can and do retain none other in their sysbe afforded slowly as the plants can use and have been shown clearly, by various experi- tem. This is admitting that there is a specific assimilate it. This food is every where diffus-ments, to be produced on plants. One branch food adapted to each species; and that what is ed in the atmosphere, but not in sufficient quan- of a common barberry was steeped in a solu-aliment to one kind may prove a poison to tities to support plants in a vigorous state, un-tion of corrosive sublimate, and another in a another. Is it not rational then to conclude, less we apply Plaster of Paris or some other decoction of opium, when, in a short time, the that as a plant appropriates to itself all the salusubstance to attract it, or bury manures in the vessels of the one were found to have become tiferous or alimentary particles which enter its earth to supply it in the neighborhood of the turgid, and of the other relaxed: the natural ir sap vessels, the subsequent infertility to this plant. Such are my views on this subject, and ritability of the plant being, in both cases, de-kind of crop is owing to the soil being exhaustI remain yours, as ever, stroyed." To this susceptibility in plants to ed of its particular or specific food? The anSeptember 11, 1832. the deleterious effects of poisons, I have no nual application of manures, containing this spedoubt we shall be able to trace the new mala- cific food, is generally successful in counteractVegetable Physiology-Lindley's Lectures.By B. To the Editor of the New-York Far- dies which injure our fruit trees. I considering this sterility. The deep alluvial deposits of mer and American Gardener's Magazine. that the disease which has destroyed many of vegetables and animal matter, which have been I have been delighted, and withal much in- our plum trees has been proved to originate accumulating for centuries, and to which I have structed, in perusing the notice of a course of with an insect, which punctures the branches, alluded, seem to afford an inexhaustible supply lectures on Botany, as connected with Horticul- and injects a subtle corrosive poison into the of the specific pabulum of wheat, without any ture, recently delivered by Professor LINDLEY, sap vessels. The precaution, when it has been indications of the imaginary poisons. December 8, 1832. before the London Horticultural Society. I adopted, of cutting off and burning the affected have seen nothing better calculated to excite a parts as soon as they are discovered, and of taste for this delightful science, or to render it thereby destroying the germ of the insect, has subservient to the wants of man. I hope soon had a happy effect in diminishing the evil. to see the entire series advertised by our enter AGRICOLA. While employed in these remarks, I have prising booksellers. There are some facts laid met with the observations of M. MACAIRE, indown by the Professor, in the analogy which he serted in the French Journal of Science and draws between the blood of animals and the Arts, upon this branch of physiology, which sap of plants, that may be new, and I presume coincide with those above quoted from Profesnot uninteresting, to a portion of your readers, sor LINDLEY. "A certain portion of the juices," and which I take the liberty to send you, with says M. Macaire, "which are absorbed by the some remarks, for publication. B. VOCAL MACHINERY OF BIRDS.-It is difficult to account for so small a creature as a bird making a tone as loud as some animals a thousand times its size; but a recent discovery has shown that, in birds, the lungs have several openings communicating with corresponding air-bags or cells, which fill the whole cavity of the body from the neck downwards, and into which the air passes and repasses in the progress of breathing. This is not all: the very bones are hollow, from which air pipes are conveyed to the most solid parts of the body, even roots of plants, are, after the salutiferous por-fied by the heat of their body, adds to their levinto the quills and feathers. The air being rarican dart down from the greatest heights with ity. By forcing the air out of the body, they astonishing velocity. No doubt the same machinery forms the basis of their vocal powers, and at once resolves the mystery.--[Gardener's Music of Nature.] The necessity of alternating crops in hus-tions have been extracted by the vessels of the bandry has been imputed to a power in plants plant, again thrown out by exudation, from the of electing from the soil the peculiar food adapt-roots, and deposited in the soil. It is probable the ed to their wants; and it has been supposed, existence of this exuded matter, which may be that as one crop ordinarily exhausted the spe- regarded, in some measure, as the excrement cific food of its species, a succession could not of the preceding crop of vegetables, that proves follow without deterioration, or a fresh supply injurious to a succeeding vegetation. It has to the soil of the needful pabulum. But the been compared to an attempt to feed vegetables Professor says, that plants absorb aqueous par- upon their own excrements. The particles ticles indiscriminately; "that the moisture ab- which have been deleterious to one tribe of sorbed by the spongioles having ascended to plants cannot but prove deleterious to plants of the leaves, and been elaborated there into sap, the same kind, and probably to those of some returns, depositing by the way all the nutritious other kinds, while they may furnish nutriment particles it has acquired; and at last throws off to another order of vegetables. the residuum, in the shape of a spongy excres- Admitting what these eminent physiologists cence, at the root. These excretions, consist-"seem to have demonstrated, that plants throw AGRICULTURE, &c. An Extraordinary Jargonelle Pear. By MR. SIR,--The pear, of which the following is a drawing, was grown in this town this season. The one at the stem was first formed; it then sent out a blossom, which produced the second; this produced two blossom buds, from I which were grown the two smaller ones. have an account of a similar production of a pear, grown in another place. There were six well formed pears. Yours, M. SAUL. Lancaster, England, October, 1832. Importance of the Silk Culture-Aid from the in manufacturing this, a great drawback to mode of their management, but for a long time without success. ture of silk. It must be obvious that something is materially wrong in the silk operations of our people, or the manufacturing of it would ere this be entered into much more generally. The prospect of great reward at length put a few eggs of the silk worm in possession of The culture of silk was attempted in Virgithe Emperor Justinian. From this small be- nia a century and a half before cotton was ginning all the silk worms in Western Asia, brought into notice. The growth and manuEurope, and America, have been produced.- facture of cotton has progressed with astonishEngland, Holland, Germany, Russia, and Swe-ing rapidity--the value of our cotton manufacden, are fully aware of the importance of the tories is immense.* It is now only 25 or 30 silk business. France, more than any other na- years since it was thought the ingenuity of our tion in Europe, is deriving her power and great people would not be equal to manufacture as est resources from the culture and manufac- good and as cheap goods as the once celebrated India Baftas and Hummums. A very short Our Treasury returns, for several years past, period of experiment drove these very inferior shew that the silk imported and consumed in trash from our shores. The bare mention of the States is more in amount than the bread such fabrics being once in so general use in stuff exported. Silk may be successfully and our country, causes almost as much risibility advantageously cultivated in every state in the as the fact of importing building brick from Union. Experiments have shown American Holland. Our cotton goods now find their way silk to be superior in color and texture to the to the Indies; our bricks are equal to any in silk of any nation. Other agricultural labor the world; and with a little national protection, will not be lessened by such culture. The we will soon cease importing silk, and have condition of the poor will be much improved; raw silk to spare for a profitable export. the young and infirm will make good silk culturists. The climate of England is too damp and cold to propagate the silk worm. America may yet reap great profit on raw silk as an article of export. Jay made no mention of cotton as an article of American production, in his treaty with England, 1794. The present year's crop of cotton is worth about thirty millions of dollars. Many of our citizens, who about 38 years ago planted cotton seed, may be living witnesses of the fact, that cotton is the first staple in the states. A large portion of those who are now planting the mulberry seed, may live to see OLD PRACTICES.-In some parts of Scotland, raw silk the second grand staple of our counin former times, the plough used to be drawn by try. The state of Connecticut has taken the four horses abreast, and required the attendance lead in the growth and manufacture of silk. of three men. The business of one was to drive. For that purpose he placed himself be- Many of her citizens are entitled to great credit tween the middle horses, with his face towards for their persevering and patriotic efforts. the plough to guide it straight, and in this posi- Mansfield has been engaged more or less in tion he walked backwards with the reins in his the raising of silk ever since 1760, and the a crooked staff, which he fastened in front of quantity gradually increasing. Windham and the beam, and by means of it regulated the Tolland counties have produced for the last year depth of the furrow, by raising or lowering the raw silk sufficient to employ fifty-five looms, plough as occasion required. The ploughman which would manufacture about 30,000 yards followed with a hold on the stilts; and in this hand. Another walked behind the horses with Many of the states, by their public acts, have shown their very decided opinion of the immense importance of the culture of silk, as a great and commanding National object; yet still, this grand object lingers. The chairman of our Congress committee on Agriculture, 1832, speaking of the manufacture of silk, remarks, “On an experiment untried in this country, and requiring considerable capital, a reliance on individual enterprise would be at least problematical; and it is not to be expected that the several states will ever be found to act in concert so as attain the result which a national operation is calculated to wait another century. Lansingburgh, Jan. 1, 1833. A. W. The home consumption of raw cotton has increased 600 per cent, within the last 16 years, while that of Great Britain has only increased 220 per cent. in 21 years. Rotation of Crops and Food of Plants. By formidable and ludicrous manner, they repeated per year, say vesting and other broad goods. their attacks upon the soil. Considerable quantities of silk goods have In harvest, a basket machine was placed on been produced by the enterprising perseverhorseback for carrying home the grain, and per-ance of Mr. Rapp, of Economy, in Pennsylvasons were employed on each side with forks, to keep it on a proper poise. It is said that this nia. Superior specimens of what might be acpractice was within a few years to be met with complished by a judicious National fostering in Galloway. was exhibited last Winter at Washington, by the venerable and learned Mr. Duponceau.— Many other parts of the Union have produced Vice President of Bowdoin College, and Fellow specimens of silk stuffs and sewing silk; the of the American Academy of Arts and Scienlatter article is found the most profitable, yet ces, and author of the New-England Farmer, or Many practices, subsisting even at this day in Ireland, are still more ridiculous. Mr. Arthur Young tells us, that in Donegal he has actually AGRICOLA. To the Editor of the New-York Georgical Dictionary, &c. has given us a long ||ing only of what the plant has rejected, are of off by their roots whatever is deleterious to article on the Rotation of Crops. Verily, I ap-course unfit for the support of other plants of a their health, the conclusion drawn from the fact prehend that Mr. Deane understood theology similar nature, and may be said (in relation to does not seem rationally to follow—I mean, it better than agriculture. The ignorance mani- such) to poison the soil." does not result that the cause of the deteriorafested on this subject appears to me inexcusa- This goes to strengthen the argument in fa- tion of the second is to be found in the deposits ble in one who sets himself up for a teacher. vor of alternating crops, in field as well as gar-made in the soil by the first crop. Wheat, in He would persuade us that we have only to den culture. It applies with particular force to particular, is found to deteriorate on ordinary change our crops in order to render our land the transplanting of trees; and indicates the soils, and on few will it bear repeating oftener perpetually fertile. The absurdity of this doc- propriety of removing all the soil from their than once in three or four years; yet there are trine is too apparent to need refutation. Land roots, and even of washing them, instead of soils which will bear cropping with this grain once exhausted of vegetable food is utterly in-transplanting them with a ball of earth, as is for many successive years without diminution capable, I believe, of producing any crop. Ma- often the case, particularly with evergreen. I of product. Such is particularly the case in nures buried in the soil appear to be slowly have heard of the practice being successfully the valleys of the Genesee and of the St. Lawresolved into carbonic acid gas; this is absorb-adopted, observing the precaution to prevent rence. Here, upon their theory, must be an aned by the earth, and afforded little by little as the drying of the fibres, so as to destroy their nual accumulation of poison, and yet the plant the plants can receive, assimilate, and digest it. functions. But as evergreens have always a does not seem to be injured by it. This excreThis carbonic principle I take to be the true foliage to sustain, the ball of earth becomes in a mentitious or poisonous matter has, combined food of plants; and where it is wanting in the measure necessary to preserve the spongioles with aliment, once passed through the sap vessoil, it would be in vain to attempt to cultivate (mouth) it contains, till new ones are formed, sels of that plant without injury; and why not, any crop whatever. All animal and vegetable or those injured by the removal resume their combined with the aliment which is constantly matter appear to be principally composed of this functions. preparing in the soil, may it not prove equally carbonic principle, but when manure or a car- The experiments employed to illustrate the innoxious, the second year, to a like plant. I case is thrown on the top of the ground, it is ab- deposit of vegetable excrementitious matter, suspect it is not so much the presence of a sorbed by the sun, scattered by the winds, and served to show another remarkable analogy be- poison, as the absence of food, which causes the its decomposition too rapid to allow the plants tween animals and vegetables. "All poisons falling off in the product. These gentlemen to receive, digest, and assimilate it: they can are either corrosive or narcotic; or, in other admit that, although plants cannot clect, in the only take a limited quantity at a time. Hence words, act either by over-stimulating or relax-soil, the food which is adapted to their wants, we bury manures in the soil, that this food may ing the system; and these different effects they can and do retain none other in their sysbe afforded slowly as the plants can use and have been shown clearly, by various experi-tem. This is admitting that there is a specific assimilate it. This food is every where diffus-ments, to be produced on plants. One branch food adapted to each species; and that what is ed in the atmosphere, but not in sufficient quan- of a common barberry was steeped in a solu-aliment to one kind may prove a poison to tities to support plants in a vigorous state, un-tion of corrosive sublimate, and another in a another. Is it not rational then to conclude, less we apply Plaster of Paris or some other decoction of opium, when, in a short time, the that as a plant appropriates to itself all the salusubstance to attract it, or bury manures in the vessels of the one were found to have become tiferous or alimentary particles which enter its earth to supply it in the neighborhood of the turgid, and of the other relaxed: the natural ir sap vessels, the subsequent infertility to this plant. Such are my views on this subject, and ritability of the plant being, in both cases, de-kind of crop is owing to the soil being exhaustI remain yours, as ever, stroyed." To this susceptibility in plants to ed of its particular or specific food? The anSeptember 11, 1832. the deleterious effects of poisons, I have no nual application of manures, containing this spedoubt we shall be able to trace the new mala-cific food, is generally successful in counteractdies which injure our fruit trees. I considering this sterility. The deep alluvial deposits of that the disease which has destroyed many of vegetables and animal matter, which have been our plum trees has been proved to originate accumulating for centuries, and to which I have with an insect, which punctures the branches, alluded, seem to afford an inexhaustible supply and injects a subtle corrosive poison into the of the specific pabulum of wheat, without any sap vessels. The precaution, when it has been indications of the imaginary poisons. adopted, of cutting off and burning the affected parts as soon as they are discovered, and of thereby destroying the germ of the insect, has had a happy effect in diminishing the evil. AGRICOLA. Vegetable Physiology-Lindley's Lectures.- the residuum, in the shape of a spongy excres- Admitting what these eminent physiologists to December 8, 1832. B. VOCAL MACHINERY OF BIRDS.-It is difficult account for so small a creature as a bird making a tone as loud as some animals a thousand times its size; but a recent discovery has shown that, in birds, the lungs have several openings communicating with corresponding air-bags or cells, which fill the whole cavity of the body from the neck downwards, and into which the air passes and repasses in the progress of breathing. This is not all the very bones are hollow, from which air pipes are conveyed to the most solid parts of the body, even into the quills and feathers. The air being rarilied by the heat of their body, adds to their levity. By forcing the air out of the body, they can dart down from the greatest heights with astonishing velocity. No doubt the same machinery forms the basis of their vocal powers, and at once resolves the mystery.--[Gardener's Music of Nature.] LATER FROM EUROPE.-By the John Jay, from Liverpool, we have our London files to the 7th, and Liverpool to the 8th, both inclusive. Our previous accounts from London were to the 4th. cloudy foggy cloudy thick mist to be advancing. The weather is fine for the season -sharp, yet hazy, which prevents persons from dia. tinguishing the effect of the different shells on the batteries or citadel. There was a slight frost last night, whica the French hope is a prelude of a strong ice, so as to enable them to attack tho Tete de Flandres. A steam-boat came up the river yesterday with de spatches, as it would seem, to the Comet, on this side of Calloo; on which the latter made signals to the citadel. A reply having been received. the steam-boat went down the river again. The Comet has also gone down to day. Some Englishmen have amused themselves as a hoax that General Chassé had been dead for a fortnight; one of the newspapers mentions the rumor, which otherwise does not require a contradiction. He is stated to have been confined for a long time to his chamber, if not to his bod, in consequence of hydrocele. Some friends of the Dutch have entered into calculations of the probability of the French taking the citadel, and they maintain there is but little chanee; for, as they say, since the revolution, the French troops have not taken by a breach any fortress. I have not the means of examining the truth of the observation, yet it seems remarkable that they, not. withstanding, did take by capitulation or otherwise, the fortresses they attacked. Girona, in Catalonia, is instanced by some Frenchman of whom I inquir ed, as having been stormed. 1 o'clock. The firing has been brisk on both sides during the last hour. I have no means of learning the loss of the French since yesterday, but up to Monday I have been assured that the killed and wounded did not exceed 25 men. Some persons who appeared to apprehend that this siege would become a long business now think differently, as Forts St. Laurent and Kiel conhad, with from 1,500 to 2,000 Bedouin cavalry, obtinue totally silent. The forts in the city are pretained a new victory over Ilussein Pacha between Adanah and Koniah, and had taken two pieces of It is added that Ibrahim was about to establish his winter quarters in Mosopotamia, where he intended to fortify some positions. cannon. There is nothing that can be properly called news [From the London Times, of Dec. 7.] by this arrival. The firing upon the citadel of Ant. ANTWERP, WEDNESDAY, DEC. 5.-The cannonad. werp by the French, was warmly urged, and not asing has continued since yesterday briskly enough, warmly returned by the Dutch. As yet, the city of Antwerp had been spared by Gen. Chassé, whose course seems to savor of indecision. The loss of life on either side was thus far inconsiderable. From Portugal there is nothing additional. In Paris the address of the Chamber to the King's speech was carried, by a majority of 114— the minority protesting numbered only 119-the minority that made the revolution of the three days The Courrier Francais considers the constitutional era as closed by this vote, and that was 221. yet not with the force which some persons expected. Fort Montebello, which is an advanced work of The number of guns employed by the French are the Charter had received its death blow. now officially stated to be 60 cannons, of various In general, tranquility appears to prevail, and calibre, and 22 mortars and howitzers. Some of confidence in the maintenance of peace. the latter are described as being let off last night, not in the curve usually formed, but triangularly, which mode of firing is said to have produced much execution in Fort St. Laurent. The chief fire of the citadel, as far as I could see from an elevated situs. tion, has been latterly directed towards the batteries in front of Fort Kiel. Forts St. Laurent and Kiel The Temps has a report that simultaneous applications had been addressed to the French Cabinet by the Courts of Naples, Turin, and Rome, on be. half of the Duchess de Berri. It will be seen, (says the London Courier, of December 7th,) that our private correspondent alludes to the difficulties The citadel already shows external marks of the which stand in the way of the Government with re-injuries it suffers. A fire broke out in one of the gard to disposing, in some way or other, of this Princess, respecting whom nothing has yet been propounded to the Chambers. The debate in the Chamber of Deputies on the 3d ult., shews that one amendment respecting Poland was made to the answer as drafted to the King's speech. The reply of the King does not allude even to that paragraph--although, according to letter writers, M. Dupin, the President of the Chamber, read it to the King with marked emphasis. A violent eruption of Mount Etna on the 17th and 18th ult., is stated to have destroyed Brente, a town situated ning leagues from Catania, and con. taining a population of 10,000 persons. have been silent since yesterday evening. paring more and more to repel any attack on it. The citadel suffers considerably. The weather is clouded anew, and the guns, which were not heard distinctly during the night or morning, are now distinguished as strongly as ever. In the river there is nothing new; the French soldiers occupy the dike from Calloo towards Fort Austreweel. Two o'clock. The frigates Comet and Eurydice and the corvette Proserpine are now stated to attack Fort St. Marie, which defends itself with vigor. FRENCH FUNDS, Dec. 4.--Five per Cents, 97f.; Three per Cents, 68fr. 65c. FIVE DAYS LATER FROM FRANCE.-Our regular files have came to hand to the 11th inclusive, by the Havre, Capt. Depeyster. We gather from a glance at the French papers, that Antwerp bolds out with urabated spirit. A letter from Gen. Chassé, published in the Moniteur of December 11th, declares that he will fire upon the town, if the Fort of Montebello directed again its fire upon him. The siege begins to be conducted with more vigor. The French, however, seem to be somewhat checked in their advances, by several sallies of the besieged, made with much daring, and attended with the loss of five or six French officers. The Dutch vessels remain in the same position. The following is from the Gazette de France of the 11th :-"It is the general opinion, founded upon letters from Holland, that after the taking of the cibuildings at half past 3 o'clock, the smoke of which tadel the French army must inmediately repass the continues. I saw among many shells that fell in it frontier. Both parties are told, "when put in pos. one burst and break off a considerable portion of session of their respective territory, agreeably to the the corner of the gable of one of the large buildings. its fire is rather stack, and the defence is imagined treaty of the 15th Nov., the mission of the Confer to be weak; hence some persons suppose that ence, if it continues, will be entirely pacific; and in two or three days General Chassé will threaten to that if the two parties cannot agree with each burn the town culess he be permitted to retire, other upon questions in reserve, war will be prewhen the French will be compelled to allow him to withdraw with the honors. It is a strange notion vented between Holland and Belgium" The advice of honor to threaten an unoffending neighbor.of the ministers of King William has been to conThe city has done nothing to attack him, but is pro-fine himself to the defence of the Citadel; but as pared to resent his fire. The consternation of yes-soon as the French army shall have passed the fronterday has in a great measure subsided; there have been some country people allowed to enter with tier, the Prince of Orange will take the offensive provisions. Last evening some respectable persons against the Belgian army. wishing to re enter, dressed themselves with blouzes, and pushed wheel-barrows with vegetables, &c. and got in with ease. I have not heard that any shot has been directed at or fallen in the city. An article from Venice of the 20th ult., in the Piedmont Gazette, quotes accounts from Alexandria of ra 16th October, stating that Ibrahim Pachal The Fronch works in the third parallel are statod Since the above was in type, the captain of the Havre, of the 12th, reports that the Citadel of Antwerp had SURRENDERED to the French Ar my, but we have no further particulares SUMMARY. January term: William F. Allen, Samuel J. Bayard, Jerome J. Briggs, Platt H. Crosby, Henry Z. Hay. The North River is again open as far up as Kings-ner, Nicholas Hill, Lorenzo Janes, Lovewell Johnton. The weather is mild, and it is not unlikely son, Allen Jordan, Levinus J. Lansing, Thomas J. that we may get a Steam Boat from New-York be- Marvin, Mavinus W. Matthews, Michael S. Myers, fore the ides of January.-[Alb. Eve. Jour.] Rufus W. Peckham, Cyrus Stephens, Henry G. Wheaton. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, January 19.-In Senate, Mr. Hogan of New York, submitted a series of resolutions, prohibiting naval officers from taking any interest in supplies procured for their ships, &c. Mr. McKennan, of Pennsylvania, addressed the Committee at length in opposition to the bill. Mr. Root, of New-York, followed, and beld the HUDSON.-The Oil Trade.-The Hudson Repub- Attorneys admitted at the same time--William floor until half past 3 o'clock, when the Committee lican last received says" The fine ship James Mon-Cockburn jr. John L. Curtenius, J. Addison East-rose, and The House adjourned. roe, of 425 tons burthen, was purchased last weekman, Chauncey J. Fox, Daniel Gould, Jos. Holmes, by Captain Alexander Jenkins, in behalf of himself William Howell, Henry A. Lambert, Wm. Minott The joint resolution authorizing the Secretary of and Mess. Butts & McArthur, and several other gen- Mitchell, Henry R. Mygatt, Edward C. Matthews, State to deliver to the Commissioners under the tlemen of this city, and came to at the wharf in this Henry B. Northrup, Gerritt L. Oothout, Stephen French Treaty any evidence which may have been city on Friday last. She is the tenth ship now ||H. Preston, Lorenzo Sherwood, Augustus Sherrill, filed in the Department by the Commissioners under owned in this city, either engaged in or destined James Storm, Asher S. Thompson, Pythagoras Wet- the Treaty with Spain, was read a second time and for the whale fishery. The Edward, alluded to in more.-[Alb. Eve. Jour.] considered in Committee of the Whole. our last as having been purchased by one of our enterprizing ship owners, (Capt. S. G. Macy.) is fitting out in New-York, and will depart in the course of a few days for the Pacific. The Beaver and James Monroe, now lying at our wharves, will be fitted out during the winter, and sail early in the It is rumored, and we believe it, that another Gospring. We are progressing finely. Long may our vernment Express left this city on Friday last, for enterprise and industry continue to meet a return Charleston, South Carolina. Of its object, we are from the prolific deep commensurate with its merits.of course ignorant.--[Ib.] Mr. Orr, of Washington, has a stove of common The President of the United States has officially size in his room, which he has found, by actual ex-recognized Martin François Armand Saillard as periment, will keep a fire burning day and night, the Consul of France, at New Orleans, and Peter Ame. whole year round, with one cent's worth of wood a dee Hargons as Consul General of Rome, during day, at $6 the cord! The fire will require touching the absence of G. B, Sartori. but twice in twenty-four hours. We understand that the Convention of indemnity with the King of Naples was ratified by the Senate on Saturday last. Nat. Intell.] LEGISLATURE OF NEW YORK. Tuesday, Jan. 15. John A. Dix was appointed Secretary of State. In Assembly-Mr. Stilwell, from the Committee on Canals and Internal Improvements, made a very long report, and concluded by asking leave to introduce a bill for the construction of the Chenango Canal. The bill relative to the Troy and Sand Lake Turnpike Company was unanimously passed. [Relates to the calling in of payments, and to altering the road so as to make it mhre substantial, &c.] IN ASSEMBLY.-January 17. Bills introduced. By Mr. Curtis, to amend the charter of the Now IN SENATE-Saturday. Bills passed in committee of the whole. For the relief of the High School Society in N. A short discussion ensued, in which Messra. Forsyth, Smith, Sprague, Kane, Silsbee and Foot took part. Mr. Foot moved an amendment, requiring that the papers to be delivered to the Commissioners under the French Treaty, should be returned to the State Department, when the business before the Commissioners should be completed; which was agreed to. The resolution was then reported to the Senate, the amendment concurred in, and it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The resolution heretofore offered by Mr. Adams, calling on the President and Secretary of the Treasury for information relative to the tariff were then taken up. Monday, Jan. 21. IN SENATE, Mr. Silsbee presented the credentials of Hon. Daniel Webster, as Senator re-elected from the State of Massachusetts. Mr. Dallas presented a resolution of the Legisla. ture of Pennsylvania, unfavorable to the new tariff now pending in the House of Representatives; laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. in Philadelphia, praying that New Castle, in DelaMr. Dallas presented the memorial of merchants Committee on Commerce. ware, be made a port of eutry. Referred to the Mr. Dallas presonted the memorial of citizens of Philadelphia, praying indemnification for French spoliations, prior to 1800. Laid on the table, and ordered to be printed. Mr. Robbins, from the Committee on the Library, to whom had been referred the proposals of Duff Green, for printing a stereotype edition of the Laws and Treaties of the United States, reported a bill, together with a resolution. The bill was ordered to its second reading, and the resolution was adopted. Extensive Sale of Real Estate.-Messrs. James Bleecker & Sons were engaged on Monday and yesterday, in disposing of the Real Estate of the late William W. Gilbert, of this city. The property of the deceased had been advertised in the principal papers of this city for several weeks previous to the sale, and attracted the attention of speculators and others who were desirous of making investments in real estate. Such part of this property as was sold produced the large sum of about four hundred and thirty three thousand dollars. The balance of the estate which remains unsold on account of leases, amounts, as we are credibly informed, to upwards. of one hundred thousand dollars, making the whole amount of his property about five hundred and fifty thousand dollars. One fact is worthy of mention, Mr. Miller presented resolutions of the Legisla. which is that a portion of the estate which was pur.ture of South Carolina, calling for a Convention of ry, to whom was referred the message of the Presi chased about twenty years since for forty thousand the States, to amend the Constitution; which were dent of the United States of the 15th inst., relative to the proceedings of South Carolina, reported & dollars, yielded at the present sale two hundred and ordered to be laid on the table and printed. The Senate then proceeded to consider the Spe-bill vesting the President with the necessary power and thirty five thousand two hundred and fifty dolcial Order of the Day, being the bill to appropriate to carry the revenue laws into execution, &c. lars.-[Gazette.] for a limited time the proceedings of the sales of the Public Lands, &c. Potor Wager, Esq. has been appointed by the President, a Director of the Bank of the United States, in the place of Hartman Kuhn, Esq. resigned. CONGRESS. Tuesday, Jan 15-In Senate, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Mr. Hubbard, from the Committee on Revolution. ary Pensious, to which the subject was referred on The United States' ship Natchez, from Norfolk, the 8th inst. reported the following resolution, viz: arrived at Fort Sullivan (Charleston) on the 10th Resolved, That it is not expedient to provide, by inst. The Charleston Mercury says, that the Uni-law, for the restoration of all those to the pension ted States' troops stationed at that post amount to list, who were suspended under the act of May, 1820. about six or seven hundred, which occupy the forts. The said resolution was read and agreed to by the The U. S. cutter Dexter, Captain Gould, sailed from House. Charleston for Beaufort 15th instant. The Alert, Capt. Jackson, and McLane, Capt. Poult, were still at Charleston. Wednesday, Jan. 16. Mr. Robbins, from the same committee, to whom had been referred the petitition of M. St. Clair Clark and Peter Force, relative to a Documentary History of the United States, reported a bill contracting for a number of copies of said History; read, and ordered to a second reading. Mr. Wilkins, from the Committee on the Judicia. A Message was received from the President of the United States, covering a report of the Treasury Department, exhibiting the operations of the Mint for 1832. The President presented a communication from the Treasury Department, in compliance with a resolution of the 18th inst. relative to the affairs of the Bank of the United States; and On motion of Mr. Benton, the report and documents were ordered to be printed. The joint resolution authorizing the delivery by the Secretary of State to the Commissioners under the French Treaty, was read a third time, and passed. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. In Congress, on Wednesday, the President's Mesage absorbed all the interest. After it was read in The Norfolk Beacon of January 17, says "The the Senate, Mr. Calhoun rose, apparently, says the U. S. steamboat Franklin, Lt. Com. Boyle, dropped Globe, as quoted by the Journal of Commerce, un. down from the Navy Yard to Hampton Roads, yes-der deep excitement, and in a short and vehement terday afternoon, bound to Charleston." speech, contested some of its statements. The Mes. Mr. Burges presented certain resolutions of the age in each House was referred to the Judiciary Legislature of Rhode Island, on the subject of the An attempt was made to rob the Bank of the Committee: 3000 copies were ordered by the Se Tariff, which were read, and referred to the ComMetropolis at Washington, on Wednesday night. nate to be printed, and 25,000 by the House of Re-mittee of the Whole on the State of the Union. The villains had succeeded, by means of false keys,||presentatives, Mr. Cambreleng, from the Committee on Comin unlocking the outer door, and were, it is sup. meree, reported a bill authorizing the reimburse. posed, engaged in taking impressions of the keys of Mr. Chambers presented a memorial of certain ment of certain discriminating duties levied upon the several locks leading to the vault, when they merchants of Baltimore, praying for a reduction of oreign vessels and their cargoes, which was read were discovered by the watch. No loss was sus-the duty on salt; which was referred to the Com.twice and committed. tained. The following persons have been admitted as Counsellors of the Supreme Court, at the present Thursday, January 17.—IN SENATE. mittee on Commerce. The Senate then proceeded to consider the bill to appropriate, for a limited time, the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, &c. The House then resolved itself into a Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, Mr. Wayne in the Chair, and took up the bill to reduce and otherwise alter the duties on imports |