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1 bodr within four of sit feet ef the house it then divided i Inm. I wnrk nul.lp,l in nftit similar measures. What General Mffler, of Kentucky, whose military servkeg under Gen. Boiivar, have redounded ready to his honsr, and ihe benefit of South America, has relumed to his na THE STAB. and on part went a frw feet sooth and the and with it aboot thirty feet of the s.alde live village in Ihat state, where he was received with pub closeJ in ironi o.

of the fanolt il not all of them of much use to any products except to clover and no. the. be J'f0 Jucerne; hut on sanda nd pavelly soils, and applied Kc lo these plants, especially dry seasons, I am con- tio' 'r Mp vineed it will prove raiuahlc I paid only four dol- he Co beneficial lars for ten bushels, ground and 1 applied only six- froaithe'ist ruction of their workpeo tv cents' worth tothi land, and am convinced, that ie. ha fined An- tin aihis winter, ft more comiiio lic demonstrations of joy. -ere io for mntt ol ri.tir lollies were found lying as BROUKLYX: Thursday, September 14, 1S2G.

i lhi aulul aeol.auiias' hi a certain town in Queens county, a I rrhinff of trees, and rushing ol school had been (aught in one of the districts by a very mud and nine souls fied out of the house for was Iheir lot; lor when incompetent teacher; and Ihe inspectors (comprising a tSo Plaster will increase the value of the second crop dious room to meet in ft their ler'ur. ith a small ft five times the cost of the application. laboratory and workshop inched lo it, where they can conduct theii experiments prepare the models to be used in tiV lr.ti.rri. Ik meiK last year, made for lawyer, a doctor, and a refused to give him they had com' In the door the two wings of the slifi "ere ready to receive thein-a horrid' si-ht-an awful scene a certificate of competency. It wus found impossible to think of il and not si-rh whose eyes coum iook ,.11,1,1 cm nnil nvprfl iw willi tears i ie eil remains ilr 801 iiioy onu Brooklyn District School Oa Tuesday last an examina lion of th.

scholars of the District School hi this Village, look place in the presence of a number of pi ts.ir.s who bad been invited by the Directors. The building, as lately improved, contains three floors or divisions. The basement accommodates the large scholars, male and female the first floor is for small children, and Ihe tipper for colored children. The rooms are filled in neat style, all the desks being in the fmin of a horse shoe, between Ihe extremities Allen, were interred en the day following llie meianrnuij gel the "state's without the certificate of the inspectors, and rreet dilficulty and complaint ensued by reason of ihe obstinacy uf the inspectors, who could so easily have accommodated matters by (he mere cracA of a pen. A( length a town meeting was called the old inspectors catastrophe.

Connecticut river towards the sea-coast hut 1 "pelves an u.r-pump, td an have not heard of its application nearer than Fram- .7 rt The whole the exception of about fil- Jlozbunj, July Ifi, n.6. tceil Income uicuibe of th-- society, and these have been slaudin out upi 'he ji'ea ihat they cannot JH'TIML INSTRUCTION They are chiefly melrom the remote parts id the Hijjhlund, or from Inland But the oilicrs to th' i- Me copy the following from the Glasgow Mechan.cs md we wM I have no Magazine, and cannot too highly recommend the adoption OJ- t0 Jo so. nT tiln in nill villmvot It is nil ndi Ircss to thf I The roles of (he society. Inch have been hv from theConr.eclicul Mirror, of Sept Imjh.g of lU Comer Stone Hie Urohn removed, and tttree rcpeciau: and accammodmivs mc ihf.nt The neat flvl stnain-boat -M" ch, mics substituted in Iheir places, and the (own is now of which sits the monitor o( each class, who can Ihus see ii i i I n.itfl nine in. iioner iuji.i on' i and be seer by his barge, hose backs are lo the rest oi rejoicing in (he success of a scheme which they consider .1.

I 1'nenlay mornm last, with about sixty ol Ihe tjoveniu; bh-rds, a nmiihei of a noble band ol onilGro- proprietors of large manufactories, by 0. Bannal Ihe school. The rooms were wi ll filled with children, anil the whole under the charge of Mr. I ammond who i Cflinnl alvne, F.sii.l themselves, aitimple and ju J.tiom Kve 'i 'iI I lIHr" hecotninst a teiuber, pajt 7i. of entry-ol a 'it' klJII js U.Rn and inl a no uav, nniiuu ini i-, utility of imitation Or-ps l'ims An instance of great success in cultivating the grape, may be seen around llie premises of Mr.

I uill now proceed to cive rou an aecount ill tllU bliori Space ui inc iiiniiuis una ini.ivv. i The which is a perfect model of neatness, order, and goJ dis- io ciidit.e. Tl system of Lancaster, in a perfect one, if us auJ exteilsiv-e arbor is a gr beauty of an extensive arbor is a i She was beautifully dec-rated with Hags from stein siern, and on.the topmast was displayed a while one, scibed bv the taste of ihe directors, with Ihe name of Fort Griswold and the date of the battle, and ornamented willi a sq i ne. and compa.s two crossed sword-, and a ii.ii.-1 liv everv tow and villiic- on great com rules are well obsci veil, as in this instance, inuiistry, or. institution, formed here, for the improvement a single js j( (Hck 1jn) 3m l(J w.0 hl, HOrLi body of workmen the history of which will show whin 0.

,0 hij( (ami he die. bi-'nles this is possible to he accomplished by each one of you, in the en(raoce-inouey, each meiher ba't business of education, independent of whit may be e.lecl- (1(Ce weuk. iX 0 thii-Jd 4 which, t.y a file nm-'e this eJ by the greater general establishments which I have go fo library, nncnue-liiird lo die use of ti.i taken the liberty of adverting to. If I am not nmj jy wde at the it will suggc.t plans lor the instruction of the people, ilnc cu'rOJ iaicatiou of the of more efficacious, more executed, and more practi produced in tiitsc sen in the s-hort pe.ir since cably applicable lotheend, than any wcara yet adiuaini-1 he t.ommell(.,,111PI of W)Cie(v, the meinLe.s may b-r, neatness, and improvement are the certain result. the river, f'apt.

tiebee was verv alert in relurniug gu" i gun and cheer lor cheer. She arrived ut the wharf in New London about half past five. 'Hie next morning the Maedonniiob carried then, and as many m.ue ns ti boat eu Willi. Ihriiiir to l.inro. inns, who me ubove i mild bold.

Hcrn.s to Giotnn All escort was formed, con pensation for the labor; but li has had ihe present season a considerable quantity of excellent fruit; and what i3 very ex'r iurdir uy Ihe Vines now a tccoiid crop of large green bunches, an lucre are also bloisoms wbtch will scarcely arrive al tnatmiry 'I Ins is only Ihe third season since hit cuttings were put down. Air. Simon Bergen, ofGowanus, has eaten the fruit off a French vine put iut the ground the prese.it season. ihe vines of the Isabella grape on Brooklyn heights fit the premises of Jcthro Aiilchell, Columbia-street, and iind umiei 1 vclisofn Ji.lti,.r Ri'le ColIlOail ill ill Nil! I it'll U'e weie nmre highly gratified in any exhibition of the kind and consider this school as an honor to the villa-re, for 'vhich we arc much indebted lo a few of our town who have had the direction of the business, and who (as is very rarely the (use) look a ide in doing their duly. I'hey an- f.irtimale in llie selection of a te her, ho appears In love his profession, and isfaithitll and judicious its a lministraiion.

Not a snatch or spot a i f'niiinniiv ol' A. fi nil ftmumstnll, anil Ill I lie library noiv cniii.uusabovc three liunured volumes, ise consist ol elenicutaff works of sciemo, and books faun of the whole comnmiiiii-l l.v The Gas Light Chaitcred Company ol tins city, which I a 'considerable interest, and of whose Com uiittee of Direction I liavc for some years been a member, employs constantly between sixty and sctcnly men io the works. Twelve of these are mechanics, and the 'other." furnace men and common laborers of different dev. lioiir; forming, altoeether, a coininnnily, niit yeiy pro history, vovaires, Irnvefe, some of the standard, potts, ('! nftlu. finnrds.

ihe Jirt tut r.i in- mui a few of our best novels, and hhakspeare's Works Hie lie til," constituted a pleulid part of the i among which we were bnppv to oUm-ivi- Some six or lection of tin' hooks, iliirchnsril try Hie I brnry hmds, is, officers of biiih and rank In the army and navy in gunenl, creditable the members of the socieiv. rliev a.lniir niilionls no ri-lo'iou into tiie library I he of the United Stales, the A Mutant General and 'lie Gen eral of Attillerv ol the Stale and to finish the wb de, all iii thai rmilil he Imiud, of the battle of the Fort is allowed on ihe neatly painted desks and benches, and Ihe floor itself is always keitt clean and white. Ae cannot s-ieak of 1'ie progress of the children, as this was our first visit but an ier tich a system as was exhibited lo it is certain thai rapid improvement must follow, 'ihe teacher has ha I muih experience, and says be never mi ibe (iili nl Spnipiiiher. 17S1. The coininillee and tile Daniel Hedges, Cranberry-streel, have produced abundant ly the present season.

Fire at Hudson. On Saturday night last a fire occurred at IIudon, in a stoie of C. G. Irish, owned by Smith and Nichols, New York, which was consumed, and some other buildings injured. The whole damage is estimated at 5,000.

niizeiis formed llie remainder of the procession members say (Imlthe.re are amoiig them men variety of persuasions Presbyterian, lUethudists, Church I. ngl mi nion, and Catholics, each of whom would be for inioducing books connected wirii their particular opinionsind thus give occasion 1 1 endless unprofitable 'disputes. I hope you agree with me, Gentlemen, in considering that there ae valuable ideas on ho subject of popular misin if" body to he to adopt measures (or tbeii own intellectual improvement. A litlle more than three years ago, our manager at the works, Mr James Nelson, proposed to these men lo contribute each a small sum monthly, lo be laid out in books, to form a library far their common use. lie in formed them, that if tiiey agreed In this, the conniny would give them a room to keep the hooks in whiui should be heated and lighted for them in winter; that in this room they' might meet every evening throughout the Viliole year, to read tuiJ converse, in place of going to A salute was fuci'.

fium the heights io a very rouipli- menta-y manner, fur Ihe Coimnaitding Oi.icer of the V. Sfait-i lumps ordered it on his own account The stone va I. ii. I mimn-p. nhimli ami levi I.

the corn, and wine, and nil knew a school of boys more easily governed aud his la-huts arc rendered asn-rable hv Ihe general good disposi education, to gathered from the lit i lo history I have i-e poured upon it th-- prayer was made and the p-abn in a. id s'libor tuaiinii of bis pupils. This school is The brig Chance, Thomas Ellis master, of and from St. just riven. Kitmears lo me that hat has been so use laitlv supported IK the income of the state school fund.

the ale-house, as many of them had been in the practice -ung, am; about eight thousand crowdd ami aron Ihe spot to listen to an address On ihe occasion, I. on ol Charles Griswold. Those who could hear it were bii Il i-, a ee schml as some have supposed, but the price fully done by to people ut the Glasgow ork, is capable of being ffectfvi not only by the workmen in every establishment, but in every pu.t of thej elencpil nf il.em reuiaiiied lo lime, sonii' wenl ol tuition is so low thai the poorest families of Brooklyn Johns (New Biiinswiik) bound lo llie island of Jamaica, was stranded on ihe south beach, near Fire-Flacc, on Ihe -morning of the lOlb iust. Her cargo consists of fish and lumber, and will probably be saved llie vessel lost. mav afford lo edurite their children.

country, where a jew persons can be induced to loi'iu a society for mitual improvement home, an i the Guards went in tiie Macdouough to Nor wich where Ihev were verv handsomely ami hospitably re ol cuing-. That the company would larilicr give them present of five rnincas to cipend on books, and that the management of the funds, library, and everything con-neeled with the measure, should be entrusted to a uiittee of themselves, he named, and renewed by (hem at fixed periods. 3 Vifh a good deal of persuasion, Mr. Nelson got 1 1 of the workmen to arec to the plan. A commencement vas thus made.

For the two first years, until il could be ceived The next awning Ihe first appearance of tin Long-liland Cam.1 'An exertion will be made at the steam-boat was noticed by gun, and twenty-llnee more in succession from the New-London side, no equal nuinbei linm inirl some from vessels in ihe har ensuing session of the legislature to effect this great and verv derirable object. The gentleman who is at the head Froti the Aw York Daily Miertuer. Deluge in lie U'hitt Jtloitwairu. gentleman who has ju-t teliiriied vom a tour lo the While mountains of New-Hampshire, bis furnished us some details concerting the bour. I'hey were rnswered b.

the Macdonougb as rapidly as she could fire. of the undei taking and who is so indefatigable in explain- ascertained that tiny' members would have a proper care of (he books, it was agreed (hat they should not take ins the ininrovemcit which will result from it, we ere After some civilities from the citizens, such as a good onlidenl is a tuaieil by noble and didnlerested motives, bicb ought to comiaand Ihe active aid of every Long Isl breakfast and such other refreshments as were oroper On thai rime of the day, three vollies weie fired by llie Guards, aud the boat went on her course to Hartford, greeted a-she had been on her passage down, by the towns and vil luges which she passed She arrived at Hartford about six o'clock on Tliuisd.iv CA.M1' MLTTING NEAR VALLEY CKOVC. We understand (hat a Camp Meeting for Religion Worship, will be held neat Valley (hove, to Comment-it this d.iv. Many Treacher, some of much celebrity, nie expected to be on the ground. As this meeting will pro bably attract a croud from New-York, as wtll as Brooklyn and the immediate one who is well acquainted with the ground, would recommend to those wko gt in Carriage', not lo enter llie Grove, as the road is extremely bad but lo put up al Mr.

Powell's, who we have been assured, has made every preparation to entertain tiitm in the best style aud from thence lo proceed on foot to the place of meeting Z. Brooklyn, Sept. 12, H2C. late storm in hat, region. llie melancholy accident, lucli we have nlredv given an account of, as tile only instance we have hea ol in which there has been a loss of human hie.

A brie' description of what Ir ll under our informant's rrrsoual ubsei valio'n, with such lis be icccived from person he niei with, will give some idea ot the devastation p'udueed by this sudden fall of water, which was far gientei, and produced more tremendous effects, than auv on record in ihat pait ol'the country. In approaching the mountains from Connecticut river, Wc hope cur intelligent citizens will rou up, and avail themselves of Ihe peculiar advantages of our situation, vvnich are wlhir few nor small mem out ot I lie reading room, but that they should meet theie every evening lo peruse them. Alter this period, however, the members were allowed to take the book-home and Inst year (hey mi only twice a Week at the reading-room (o'change them, mid converse upon what Ihey had been reading The increase of I'jc number of to the library was-at first very alow and at the end of the second year (he whole did not amount to thirty. Dot from toiivei sing with one another twice a week at the libriry, upon the acquisitions they had been making, a for science, and a desire for information, CORPORATION'- BROOKLYN. Monday, Sept IS-'fi Received petition of Abm.

die party were detained hours by a heavy storm ol rain, wbicil bad been preceded by a I violent one the Slaug, i elating to Wtshitutoti street Increase of Canal Xniilion We presume that but a few even of tie se who are in Ihe daily hnbit of seeins boats pass and repass upon our canals, are aware of the runstaiu and rapid of business tiaitsacred through the medium of these artificial rivers. We have taken ihe pains lo iilrtaiti, from a correct source, the number of an i vals at tliiicily, and the result is as follows In 1S23 there arrived 13-9 boats 1824 2t-7 ISj 333d Received petition of -ami Jackson and day before. The first intimation they hail of the mountains having been deluged, was 1 ho loud roaring Ihey heard on approaching the Lower Aminonoosue river, which has iis hem! fuMiituhi on Washington. The bridge is about 13 feet iibuve Ihe ordinary level of the water; but at thlk lime it was within 3 feet of the floor, that a part of Hicks street may be paved, referred to the Sheet committee. began to spread among them.

'I hey had a little before this lime got nn nllns. which, they say, led them lo think of purchasing pair of globes. And one from among themselves, Alexander Anderson, by trade a joiner, who had the advantage of attending tun courses of tin- lectures in the Andersonian institution volunteered, about the hignning of last winter, to explain to them, on the Monday evenings, the use of the Globes Mr. Uushmore reported (hat he had paid to (lie Over seers of the Poor glOO, received for grocery and tavern and was rushiili: bv such a uianu, as to excite ulanu. icense and laid la fore tin- board.

Finding himself to succeed in doing this, he otTeicd to Mc-sr Garrison, Rushmore, nnd Seaman were au gtve them, on the evenings, an account of some ol'the principles and processes in Mechanics and Chemb thorized lo gran! tareru licenses lo Daniel Wakeman, and Henry Quigly. trv, accompanied with experiments. This he effected with a simplicity of illustration, and usefulness of tin. nine Re.sohtd, 'Ihat (he SlrWt CommiCce be directed to quire into the raise of the in the regulating of lS-Jti to Sept. -13S0 It is probable that the arrivals Ibis year will nol be far short of SKVLW THOUSAND and there is everv prospect that the increase will in future lie io the same rati i wiih the past, until it will become absolutely necessary lo make another canal, double the locks, or adopt some nlhei means, to facilitate ihe transportation of the products ol the west, which must ull concentrate this point on their way lo market When the Ohio canal shall have be' completed, an immense sum will be added i our canal revenue.

Albuny Ale jVew Stenm Engine have seen a very simple Steam Engine in opmatinn, at Air. furnace, in Duane-Ftreel, and had dia.n up desciipiioo of it for publication A man who lives near it, old ihcin it had already fallen six feet, having been so high as to wet lie bridge. In Breton Woods, a great pail of the low forest land was overflowed so as to appear a hike; anil on reaching Mr. Kosebrook's farm, which is, the only inhabited spot within 5 or 0 miles, they found that it bad been surrounded by water, ihe cellar was filied, and a fine lidi was caught in it, which was served for breakfast. The mad whs in nntiv places almost impassible and between this place and the next boost-, a distance of six miles, Ihey were obliged to assist io ile.u iug and repairing the road, and in replacing biulgrs which had hecn lorn away by the cuireut.

In tin place they liiid lo drag tbeii wagon through the Ainmniioour wilh then own hands and theie was evidence that tile vad had bull 20 feet higher. that was delightful. He next, and while he was still going on with his lectures, nderlnok, along ith another of the Workmen, to attend in the reading-room, (luring the other venings of the week, and teaeli such of the mem hers as John street, and report thereon Iltsolved, That the Collector be authorised (o receive of the sevcra person who Imvo judgments standing in their favor agriiist lha Trustee-, satisfaction for Ihe amount GLkJMiXGS. The frigaln Foiomac, which was hauled up ou nn inclined Plane al Washington in 1822. and where she hat been lying ever since, was hunched on Wednesday last without the slightest difficulty.

She is said 10 be in excellent preservation. Miss Jamiesnti and Mhj Winslow, and a Mr. Smith, weie drowned near Providence on Thursday last. The females weie knocked oveiboird by the boom in Jibing. The gentleman lo-t his life in endeavouring I save the ladies Joseph Simons, of Monroe enmity, was drowned in one of the locks of Ihe canal, the Cohoei Falls on Tuesday last.

'I he potajr nn letters between New-York aud Bulla has been 'r mi 21 I 18 cents. John and IV Owen were tried al the court now iilin in Albany, for a rape -m the vlv of a girl about 14 yeis of gp, near iluit city, on Ihe ull. Tbry were found goiliy, anil ate Prison for life. Robbery On Saturday or Sunday night, the store of Mr. Amos Morss, lbr Pearl-street, was broken open, and robbed of about 3tl dollars in change.

The crews of the two Swedish ships which rvere sold at auction a few days sine received their wage yestenhjy and Monday, and were soon, with their equipages, ridiir; through the streets as happy as money and leisure could make them. of Iheir to be approved by the Attorney of chose it Arithmetic. For the business of this season, the members of lie society, who conduct every thing themselves, have made a new arrangement The individuals of (lie committee have come under an agreement, to give, in rot ition, lecture, either in Chemistry or Atechanics, every I 'hursday evening iUur ray for their text book in the one, and Ferguson in the (o-dav, which ieieiet we aie obliged lo postpone until Ihe B'-nrd, as so much cash in payment of any asses-- Mr. Craw font's farm hasotift'eivd material injuiy by being mi-iits Viich he may now have to collect of them re-spec' iv el. covered in many places iilisnnd and U.i.nt est quantities ol fenest limber Tin water almon iles.uned Ids barn, and other.

They intimate' a before, to the person nearly reached his lieuse, dt sinning line rop of oats to-nioirnw Astir as we capable nt judging, it is a gie it ami im.ioiiant tovi n. ion. Ir is a ere wheel, with ln ho arms (or krs,) ami circumference, and set in motion by steam from a boiler heated with he high Cral. liolli aie the invent! us of Mr WnoilruiT, who, we under stand, received the approLarhm of seveial experienced en-iiieeis, bv his exhibition Dai'y Mr. whose turn it is, that he is lo lecture from such page to The travellers, notwiiUiant.ing these ihouragements, attempted the ascent of Hint Wasiiinl a atler waiting Mich a page ot one ot these authors.

He has, in conse liiee fourteen days to make himself acquainted CORPORATION OF NEW-YORK. 1 -Petition iff) 1 Farmerson Ijong-Island, iVilliam-burfrh Ferry. A p-tition was I frrn the pronrietor of thr: Ferry, to for Ihe Uood'to sulfide A gie.il part ot the path to trie- with his subject and he is authorised lo claim, during that period, the of every member of (he society, foot of it was obliterated a distance of miles 'llnough the forest, and the beds of toe bn.ut.- bud loin i ini ite Milion (N. Gazi forms us, thai a negro fel in preparing (he chymical experiments, or making the i have tiie priiderje of suhstitutinz steam-hoats for low has been taken up and con milled to put, lor a I obi fxcavated lo three or four limes their bumi-i eve One ot little models ot machines lor illustrating Ins discourse. the party counted thirty places, waere who' i.

masses ol earth mid locks had fallen away, being mi It by It is a remarkable circumstance in this unique process of instruction, that tbercjiaj bren no backwardness tonne on the purl of any of the individuals to undertake to Ire ry ol the mail, between Oxf -i ami Raleigh. 'Dunn? a boats. 1 he two petitions gave rise to cansitl- stoppage of lite rider, the negro bat fized the opporwui- They were finally referred to the ly rip "he mail, break open several letters, and take pcrrv betlier with the Counsel of the money. Some of this money was received the tlil-l j.avv Committee was subsequently ad- by the driver, Milton and Oxford, also a neio, and suspicion was excile.l by Jli- latter havim; in hi i n. water; and the stteanis weie eAiieiney tuilno iiy running through them The limber brought down the sbiej of Ihe tire in his turn, nor (he slie'i'esl diffidence exhibited in mountains by the avalanche-, or "sliics, .4 usually Ihe execution.

This I can only attribute to iu being set More -The Blark Rock Gazette of shinned entirely of o's, Inauches and bark, 'and the session several part, of large bills. On inquiry the driver 'it i l' th ith irist. a postsrril.t, mentions that SylvanUS Save the information which led lo the discovery of the est, isbtnonl of a terry, of the ulton WcM presilklll n(J ()liveP Forward, cash- about without pretention or affectation of knowledge, and merely ns a means of mutual improvement Ami nothing, I conceive, cou'd hive hern belter devised for erry. unreport was orur-reu to oe iinmeo. fr -f v.i:.-.t thief.

1 .1 .1 1 i i ui- uti-ifk ii iii'i I'. til fllUILCU at tlii A ti'tition as r'-a'j, suiiuiue improper manner r': i The biigCov Parris, arrived at this port yca'erday from, whicli the Vilhamsburgh ferry is conducted, and accomplishing- Ibis end. Indeed, I might with confidence tay, that under this simple system of mutual instruction, which has grown out of the train of circumstances above-mentioned, these persons, many of whom, when they the society, were ia a state of complete ignorance, Grenada Her laic commander, Capt. James 1 I erkms, I)ravinrr rcdn a r.ll I. Oft.l.

icicrreu. 1 The number of sin lenls to graduate this yearin th; Mutual Impinment recom-mend lo the perusal of senior class of Vale Cillege is 100. More than ever wood itself often deeply worn by tl.e rocks. One of I lit-se trees was observed seven miles from the place where il had stood and many weie borne nitu Connecticut river thiough the Aminuiioouc. The Saco river, it is well known, heads wilhm a few rods of the latter; but passing through lie and running soul-easiardly, unlets ihe Atlantic.

Piosjacl Mountain, one of the principal peaks, sent down an avalanche towards Ibis stream about hall miic wide, and in length aud the devastaiiuu caused by tiiis and othru along the valley, will never be obliterated The road is in many places entirely buried, anil the route cannoi be rendered passable but at immense expense. The nnf iruinate family of Mr Wills I ved two miles below the iNolcn Slides came down on both sides the bain was destroyed, the bouse injured, and the poor inhabitants, on stepping our Bro lyiiea lei ip plan fr mutual in.truction, as bclorc graduated one year. ol ICO, mil UVCIOOKIU Ull inn lllu, mi. was drowned. The boat was immediately eot out but il heiiiff very dark and sqil illy she filled, and rendered ihe exertions of the ciew to save him of no effect.

Capt P. had a large Vewlounillaml dog, that jumped overboard i save his master, and was lost willi him. Statesman adopt amotc the mechanics at a manufactory in Glass-gow Am (immunity may adopt a similar plan and we think it wouil bf an esccilent way of passing a winter evening ubol once a week. TRAMPERS. raplnndu-n ru'guj.

Resolved. 'Hi it be relcrre to the -rommitlee of which Mr. jj rhainn ui. lo i i -lito, and report lr Sport nmei The farmers of Kings County cnmplair out, ovet whelmed. Four of the nine bodies have been out.

wilh great ropriely of the frequent trespasses of gent! Urtt Voyage from thr Lnket.The s-hoooer Clair, apt. Ward, arrived ai on Ihe 27'h ull from New-Yoik. The Michigan He. aid says in June ist the St. Clair spiled from Detroit Mackinac and Ihe other pnrls on the upper Lai-cs, look in a cargo, and proceeded to the city of New-York, from which place she has just relumed, with the proceeds of her cargo being llie first vessel that ever made the voyage between the tipper Lakes a Atlantic port.

Statesman men sportihen from New-York, who trample their fieli; nave acquired a clearer idea, and more penecl knowledge of the subjects hich have hecn brought under Iheir consideration, than would be found to have been attained hy any jimilar number of who had been attending tha courses of lectures giveu in the usual way by the mrtl approved lecturers On the Monday evenings the focicty has a voluntary lecture from any of Iheir number, who chooses lo giv notice of his intention, on either of the branches of science already mentioned, or upon any other useful sub ject he may propose. And (here is, with (he general body, the same simple, unhesitating frankness, and disposition come forward in their (urn, that exists -among the members of the committee, with regard lo the lectures prescribed to them. I think it will he interesting, and may not be without to mention particularly the subjects of the different that have been given since this plan was adopted. They commenced in the month of September, and are follows 1st, Upon solidify, inactivity, mobility, divisibility. Attractiou, cohesion, and repulsion.

3d. Attraction of eravitation. very sorry to learn further, the next farm, 6 miles bclw this place, belonging lo the elder Crawford, after the mnil birds Their fences are broken doiv was overflown and devastated. The sudden rising of the the SoeiioyfTe pnyrny-iJects and j.iserjucnccs of the present iyfm of veyil The Tiojinitte" K''jn JLiva refgrejljhi enquire into anty plrt IheoWooVVtl'ecls nil consequences of (he present sv-lctn of Education, beg leave, through the meibuiii of heir Chairman, respectfully to REPORT. That your Committee, fi'ly impressed wiih the impe S.ico has also produced much injury at Conway and Frye- gate3 ainfiars left open, and trees wounded by firing into them 1l this is done for the mere sport ol killing little irmle sin trine birds, which are of no use (0 car These and it is lobe piesuuied that other disasters are yet to be communicated The Evening Post states that the workmen employ ed by t'l'1 ManhaUen Company in boring ir water in birds fffi also the natural destroyers of bugs nnd worms, White Mountains.

The nun- (Me) Palladium of Wed gives tiie iolluwiu account of ihe shocking cauis 1J road way near lionu-street, nave already pneiraiea Vt-K so much BfTlict (he farmer, toaueptnol two hundred anu lorty leet, wlucn is 1 1.. .1 noptie which lately happened at the. White Mountains ut New-Hampshire: Butter is now retailing at 25 cents per pound New-York Are the country people aware of this fact On Monday night, the 27th of August, a most melamh and heart-rending catastrophe occurred Cuss more than one imnurea icci neiow nie r.asi anu nuu-sm rivers. The result been favourable, and water of the purest and softest kind lias been obtained. It is inteudad, however, to proceed ta a still greater depth, and to.

strike upon a fountain, which shall 1 1. ,1 1 Knir-tit l.A,,a flia Panama. The great Congress al Panama have adjourn al to ine-t nl a henllhv place near the cilv of Mexico It fe the sloop of war Lexington will ran out Mr raise U1C JVl lo auic ui-ijjifc awutu mv sui- face. fWgemi' The ri of Mr Anderson leaves a varanry in our reprp.entatinn, which it is thought w-illjip filler) wjh Mr Poinsett, our Minister in Mexico. Yesterday in the Court of sessions, Ihe clerk called thf name of James Wilson, ft prisoner, who bad been iodic let for stealing chains, when man stepped into the box.

aud very patiently beard the arraignment and indictment, until Ihe clerk arrived at the question whe'lier he was rious necessity the inquiries they had lo make, entered tip-m duty convinced that the unparalleled misery a cumulated on the unhappy inhabitants of this orco prosperous cmniry, has had its origin in Ihe mitloken, though perhaps well-meant zeal of those who, by furnishing education at a cheap rale, have bestowed on the lower classess of society knowledge of increased wants, without the power or abilily of sa'isfying them, thercbj rendering dis-alisfrcd and unhappy Ihose very being! hose condition Iheir aim appears (o have been to me-liornlft 1 In this slate of things, when even our prisons are infect ed with 'earning when a man cannot remain in a happy and stale of ignorance, any where, or at any 'ate when even young libbei, are dragged forth on the day appointed for general rest, and reading and writing forced into their young minds grads, with as much persevering pertinacity, ns if Ihey were really to be made there by happier or more contented, it becomes all those who value Ihe happiness and prosperity of iheir countrymen, to slep forward al this season of knowledge and misery, Caution. Two young 1,1 Is were accidentally drowned it Shepherd's manufactory in Northampton. Onenf ih -in guilty or nol guilty, to which he answered, Lord so, I 1 not the lllicf Is not your name James Wilanu an Hip clerk. No, sir name is James Dixon W'ii are von, and what are vmi in the box for I'm the iiinr went 10 the pond for a pail of water and fell ip, and wa' drawn by the current to a bole in the bottom of the Ham. Another generously pluneed in to relieve her, and shared the same fate that had ihe goods Jlmmcnn.

The Ncvv-Jerscv- tTriiir.rtori) Patriot mention that twenty pages of the London Theological Re 11 near the Notch, go called, of the Whire Tiie pai ticulait of the shocking occurrence are, as near as we can ascertain them, as follows A sudden and pon-er. l'ul lull of rain on ihe day previous, occasioned Ail overwhelming and appalling avultinche, or slip from the mountain, into Saco river, which carried devastation and death its course. On the night above mentioned, at about 12 o'clock, the family of Capt. Samuel Willy cuusiniing of himself, his wile, five small ch Idren, and two hired men, named Allen and Nickersou, were alarmed by the bolster ous elements, and rushed out of their house to save themselves 1 1 oin its ruins, in case it should be swept away but alas I ti ey were all carried down and crushed lo death by the mass of sliding earlh, rocks, timber, fcc. The bodies (says a letter ol'the 3d iust.

lo a gentleman of this place,) of Ah. and Mrs Willy, and Mr. Allen, were found on Thursday afternoon, ubout two o'clock, seventy or eighty I'roiu below Ihe house, mangled in a most shocking manner loo horrid to describe; particularly Allen, who il appears, from Ihe situation in which be was louud, lo save the life of Mrs. W. as they weie but a few feet apart." Neither llie bodies ol the children, not that of 'icketson', had been found on Friday night lust, and little hope was entertained of their ever being found, as many inhabitants of the neighborhood had used iheir utmost exertions for that purpose.

The writer of Ihe letter above alluded to, gives the follow ing additional particulars of this truly melancholy event The place is most awful past describing by any one If I should say the mountain had fallen on either sale, pei-haps i should nol say too much. 'The sides of llie mountains nave come in contact for nearly two m.les in length, "biebbas raised the bed of Ihe rive' many feet. From the best calculation we could make, Ihe slide which swrpt off Mr Willy's family was the last that came from that Pitiful 'An article in our lasr Slar on the subject nf 4th, Centre of gravity, expansion of metals. 5th, Magnetism and electricity. 6th, Central forces.

All motion naturally takes a re.c-tiliueal line. 7th, Mechanical powers. 8th, The lever, wheel, aud axle. The pulley. 10th, The wedge and sercw.

11th, Attraction ot gravitation 12th, Wheel carraiges. 13ib, The primitive foi in of chryslals. 14th, Hydrostatics. The voluntary lectures began at the same time, and have been as followj 1st, Upon the air-pump. 2nd, Electricity.

3d, An introduction to chymistry, principally to show chymical affinity. 4th, rhe properties of the atmosphere. 6th, The corn-mill. Gill, Coal mining. Tib, Practical observations on the blasting of whin rocks.

8th, Boring, sinking, and mining, and the properties of Sir Humphrey Davy's lamp. 9th, The globes. 10th, 11th, Navigating a vessel from the Thames to the Orkney Isles. 12lh, The nature of carbonic acid gas. 13th, A description of Captain Manbys invention fur he preservation of shipwrecked seamen.

The effect of all I have been relating, has been most beneficial lo the general character and happiness of Ihec individuals and we may readily conceive what a valua. 'e part of the community Ihey are likely lo become, and what the state of the whole of our manufacturing opera. ttv'H would bfyif the people employed in every large view lor June, H2G, are devoted to a laooieu an scurrilous diatribe unon 1 Ei United States Bish op 1 lobart's scimon, delivered soon after his relur c. troiil Jjurupu, lunas me ijccasiou ji iui uiuci tiiusiu nf institution and wretchedness, and endeavor to restore i 1 ".1 1 1 me unmiormeu times 01 oiu, wncn no man Knew mora Farmers might easily 'save the flesh of Ilor: and Cows, and confer a kindness on their animals, han he should, when no one presumed to be wiser than his neighbor, and when all were prosperous, ignorant, and preventing the usual annoyance ol Flics by simply oj-ing the parts most exposed. Flies will not alightja moment on the spot, over which an oiled sponge Ir humanity to horses, and against fat tlrivins through our streets, has given offence lo one whose interest as ii horse uealcr, and whose correctness as a sportsman should have been manifested ih a contrary way.

A man of any character who admires a horse will be kind him and we presume the Jockey Club would expel a member who would wilfully abuse a horse We will not oppose races, so long as Ihey are conducted agreeable to what we consider Ihe intention of the Society for improving the breed of horses but we would caution all persons concerned, to pay attention lo the municipal laws of Brooklyn, as well as (he common feelings of humanity. Uj" I never knew a man stop his paper with feelings of tesentmcnt, but who would afterwards rfcreftfat the expense of his neighbors. cloth has been pressed. Probably either lish or oil would answer hut what I have known ud with success was the Tanner's oil. Every man yio contented.

A person named Pope, whom your Committee have heard mentioned as having made a great deal of what is culled poetry, dial is a parcel of words wilh rhymes at the nd of every line, says, in some book, A little learning is a dangerous thing." And also, Where ignorance is blis3, 'tis folly to be wise. is compassionate to his hcaid, ought to know this sjri pie remedy, aud every Livery Stable and Coutj Inn ought to have a eupply at hand lor the usi part of the mountain it started directly back ol Ihe house two hundred rods up ihe mountain, and came down in a Traveller dmer. Daily Ad 1 i.