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to have seen them, for there was nothing in our tluoa of th Opera but for the present From Eoaort- Fifteen Days Later. The by Ihi ha I'OKTIiY. Ihrro warns loo strong a competition for her to steamship Laieuoma arrivea i cosion eany on Saturday morning. She sailed from Liverpool on stand, ha triumphs achieved by the Italian dsnneust atlhe theatres of Venice. Milan, and LomU, aaconlJ not rival the honewhippinif dealt the 19th ult.

The Intelligence is of but little im portanee. The arguments in the ease of O'Con by Jinif tmcnein in a mnnaeuverwg neiu, A COURTING SUNO. BV MISS LESLIE. The purl. it i both arc occupied, and every ojher By couples who co'irlmjj icem una yot perhaps lliejr'i not.

There are i nne (tint court on laboreti, placed nell and his col'eagues for a new trial had been made, though no decision had been given. It and befors Russian army. Let us have Lola ezrrictl the orchestra, stalls,) and pit. We wishtoir- whether her foot be as light as her Ciitfnmiouul Irocc'dliira. May 31.

In the Senate The Joint Resolution flxl ig upon the 17ih of June for the adjournmant of Congress was, on motion of Mr. Phelps, passed unanimously. The Sill from the House making appropriations for the improvement of certain harbors and rivers, was debated briefly, and its further consideration postp ned. The Tariff report, by the Committee on Finances was taken up, and on motion, indefinitely postponed. Several private Bills were passed.

June 1. Mr. Buchanan presented a petition from citizens of Philadelphia in favor of an alteration in was reported that a new trial would not be allow hand," -irtnwiih were toe Opera-enies thrown open lo hsr, And surely never did orchestra, ed. The case hid been postponed. Cotton has stalls nnJ nl, witness a re astonishing; rnlioe.

declined still further. The question of Ihe an After her mint leap she stopped short on the tips lovinvly together, And lovinuly they whisper low, or fashion or the weather Some court within the vestibule, and some upon the stairs, ol her lues ami, by at movement of prod itiuus nexntion of Texas to this country was brought up in the House of Lords on the 7th by Lord Brougham. Lord B. asked the Secretary fur piJitj.dftawmclird one of her garters, to the utter amsiiini'n olcvery onera ass. Mademoiselle And many court on ottomanii, and very few on Lola lift! Coclf another leap lo the very edge of ch mra.

Foreign Affair if he had received any informs ine protein with her fingers tne nuanu tion respecting the annexation i Texas to the whole journey that interested me so much. 1 he waters fall ninety feet, that is the largest of them, fur there are several of them but a short distance apart. We could see the mist arising from them, and hear the roar of the tumbling waters, some distance oil', I dare say that you remember that it was from Ihe Genesee Falls that Sam Patch took his leap Into etrrniiyi the spot was pointed out to me, and it surprised me that any person in hi right mind could be i daring as to attempt such a leap, and expect to escape uni' jured. You probably re collect that ho succeeded once in jumping without injuring himself but that was nut a sufficient Ao'ior he built a stating thirty feet above the Falls, (making the height one hundred and twenty feet, and jumping from that, paid for his temerity wilh is life. We had a delightful passaee across LnkeOn tario.

It was very cairn, and but very lillle air stirring. Indeed, there was so little motion lo the boul, that soon after we loll Rochester, I fell asleep, and did not awake until wo were half way across the Lake. Tuesday morning, at Colborne, (May 21,) we had a little sprinkling of snow, by way of variety, and 1 lieve it would have snowed longer, but the weather was rather too cold. We have had quite a heavy frost fur two nights, but as it is now not quite so cold as it has been, I di not despair of having warm weather yet before I leave. "I have heard since I have been here, and what I was not aware of before, that the waters of Luke Ontario are six years in rising and six years in falling, such is here said to be the case." M.

M. And openly, without disguise is all the courting done, No matter, whether on it shines the gas light or whieo hud just encircled her leg, anil, mustering her most Tusk scinilinir races, she fluna that riband United Stales. The Earl of Aberdeen said the noble and learn ed lord could not expeet him to give a precise an to the spe tatort. Mademoiselle Funny Elssler wasconlcr to send kisses to the public in her the sun And si desirous are they still the state of things Cachucnsi hul Mademoiselle Elssler was but a swer to the question he aeked. It was a subject ETTheniveratSt.

Louis was still rislae a Iks latest advices. Nearly the whole uJJ Tw 'at submerged, and in some places the Water ka? found its way Into the first floor of the bouse, on Water street. The Upper Mis.ijp!; was said also to be rising. At Council Missouri was low, and there had been but litll. snow in the mountains during the past winter The rise of the Miiasippi ja caused by the hiih water received from in tributaries below the Diuir, "A Man Overboard." We have done ear best, as will bo admitted by all who read this Journal, to prevent the Loco Focos now Ihrowine Mr.

Van Buren overboard." The Argus, Pie. beian, kept insisting that there was no dan! ger that it waa a packed Convention tad that men dare not slip their collars. Our friends were equally incredulous. All confidently predicted Mr. Van Buren's nomination.

But oar warnings have the eirect, in one particular, thai we desired, in bracing up the New York delega. tion. They were compelled to stand up to a fo-deiless raek. Jwtr. Found Gouty or MuaDER The second trial of George Denny, for the murder of old Mr.

Wanzi at Cold Spring, N. last October, ter. minuted at Carmel, Putnam county, on Friday, before the Circuit Court, Judge Parker presiding. The Jury rendered a verdict of Guilty of mur. der in the Ant degree." We presume Deaay will be sentenced before the Court adjourns.

Union Course The North against thi South. The regular Jockey lub Meetieg oa the Union Course, Long Island, will commence to-morrow. From the stables announced in the pr 'gramme of the races, Siort of the most exciting; character may be confidently anticipated. All- the "cra ks of Mr. Laird's stable, inclo-ding the redoubtable Fashion, are to be an Ihe ground.

Blue Dick, the flower of the Southern flock, is matched against her four mile heats and the racn will be run on Thursday. The first race to-morrow is for a 300 purse-two mile beau. to prove, The mora that visitors eome in, the more they quite new and unexampled in the history of na Spaniard of Berlin. Notwithstanding the lent ell'ect rroluccd by this piquant eccentricity lions, and his noble and learned Incnd might de will not movet pend upon it that it would receivo the most sen But there they sit and persevere, in spite of hint MademoiscaVle Lola has not met with the reception slim err ecled, Her style of dancing has not ous attention of her Majesty's government. It been understood; and it has been deemed proper was true, he believed, that the treaty for Ihe an to dispense with her second debut, although it nexation of Texas to the United States had been signed: but he agreed in Ihe hope expressed by had been namnnounccd.

She mny solace herself and clance, And people thnt on business come have very liltJe chanee. And some court at the chequer-board, while others court at chess, (Though chess-players cannot be in lovt so much as they profess i) his noble and learned friend, that the majority of wi thepeatr-sirosioii that (he has been the victim of a diplunoB tic cnbal, end been sacrificed to the Congress would not agree to the ratification the naturalization laws, by which foreigners shall not acquire the rights of citizenship, until they have resided In the country twenty one years. Mr. Buchanan remarked, in presenting the petition, that be was against the change proposed. May 31.

House. Mr. Adams presented a petition from citizens of Pennsylvania, for a chance in the naturalization laws, similnr to the one presented by Mr. Buchanan in the Senate. It was laid on Ihe table, by a vote of 125 to 26.

In Committee of the Whole the Louisiana Land Claims Bill was considered, and laid aside to be reported to the House. June 1. Mr. Reding offered a resolution stopping all debate on the bill establishing a navy yard at Memphis, when it shall bo taken up. Mr.

Ashe moved to amend it by inserting one hour and a half, whi' was agreed to. Mr. Vance moved to suspend the business of the morning hour for Ihe purpose of considering the private bills on the Speaker's table, which was agreed to. The Bill of it. pretensions Russia." The French Ministry ha sustained two de There are some that at back-gammon court, half imoo feats, the first in the Chamber of Deputies where MONDA'W EVENING, Jdnb 3, 1841.

hid behind a column, i 'And some would even court at whist, were not the game so solemn Thera are some that promenade, as if they never the third election of Mr. Charles Laffitle, was annulled, on the ground of corruption. The second GLEANINGS. check was in the election ol M. Sellier as Deputy for Cherbourg, in place of the late Col.

de Bri meant to stop, And soma that thinlc it policy to institate a i Imp. This courting of the young folks is pretty sight to see, cqucville. The intended visit of the King to England is again spoken of. Shocking Trageov. On Saturday morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, Ihe neighborhood of Dock and Pear street, Philadelphia, was thrown into great alarm and excitement, by the report of two pistols in quick succession, and female shrieks proceeding from the French boarding house No.

61 Dock street, next door below the office of the United Stales Gazette. It was soon sscertained On the 4th in the Chamber of Deputies, But the courting of the married ones had better a discussion of interest arose on the report on a never be. to allow the authors of the account of the Explo Success to all whose hearts are fixed, on objects ring Expedition a copy-rinht come up under thirl Melancholy and Singular Suicide. We ithat a Frenchman named Julius I.esuer had made un er, anu some nine was occupied in uiscusswn petition for the immedialo abolition of Slavery in the French Colonies. The Minister of the Interior, declared thnt the time bad not arrived when Ihe government could abolish slavery with safety- right and true; We wish, with them, that they could make a shorter courtship do.

upon it. Messrs. Schenck and J. II. Ineersoll opposed, and Mr.

Barnard advocated it. It was I'm always glad when any friend invites me out an attempt to murder his wife, a Creole, and af. AUatn Tr terwa ids shot himielfdead in their chamber. of Diirwin Chalfin, who keeps a The couple were boarding at the honse.and lived i fuiniking store, committed saieide unhappily torelher. It appears that Lesuer was yesterday afternoon, by hnnitinz himself at his a general trader beloneing to New Orleans.

His house. Having called lo him without i i receiving an answer, his brother looked ihrouth laid on the table, leas, 116t nays, 39. The slaves were first to receive mental and moral to tea, The remainder of the day waa devoted to the instruction, and schools had been established for For 'tis very dull to stay at home with no one consideration of private Pills. courting me. this purpose.

lell him and we. to Philadelphia. He lollowed i "'T hole and seeing him apparently kneeling There has been another Cabinet revolution in Sixty members of the Loco Foeo Convention her and arrived there about four weiks ago. Spain. The Queen Mother controls.

uux tf uiuikc oien uicuoor aim iounu nins i a corpse, having suspended himself to the bed post by a short piece of cord, and fallen upon his MISCELLANY. announced to Mr. Dallas his nomination, on Fri In Munich, early in May, a large mob destroy day, and received his acceptance of it, for the knees to effect his purpose. Boston Post. ed several breweries and committed other acts of good of the party.

The announcement was made with startling dramalio effect," as the play bills say. The members, without a word of explana violence. The troops were called out, and order was soon restored. Two or three of the rioters were killed. The cause ot the disturbances, was an advance in the price of beer.

TOR PRESIDENT, HErNRY CLAY, OF KENTUCKY. FO- VICE-PRESIDENT, TIIEO. FR1SLINGIIUYSEN, OF NEW-YORK. i tion, took possession of Mr. Dallas' parlors, to Feminine Amusements.

Willis, in one of his letters to the Washington Intelligencer, snya the female dynasty is gaining ground in New York. There are ladies' ovster shops" to be found there, and ladies' reading rooms." Tries are nothing extraordinary, for in Philadelphia there are ladies eating houses established, which fashionable ladies stop into when they are out shopping, and thus spend a double share of their husband's money. But what is a little singular the utter amazement of that gentleman, whu aik ea Air. eiuer what it all meant 7 Wait a mo The last bit of Waggery and (Jaggery. Since then they had been living at 61 Dock street, and occupied the same chamber but, il is believed, separate beds.

On Saturday morning the wife was lying on a sofa, and her husband asked her lo kiss him. She refused, and turned her back, and was in the act of leaving the room, when he deliberately discharged a horse pistol at her, Ihe ball takine effect in the side, just over the right hip, and lodging in the body. The wound is mortal, and Ihe unfortunate woman lingers in great agony. The desperate man immediately seized another pistol, which was lying on the buieau, and fired it at himself, putting the ball light through him, between the sixth and seventh ribs. He dropped and died instnntlyl The deceased was 42 years of age.

The Gazelle, from hich we lake the above, says "The coroner held an inquet-t upon the body, and the jury returned a verdict of coluntart suicide. Casualties. Nicholas Bellgrave was drowned on Monday eveninp, in one of the canal locks in Seneca Falls, N. Y. He was 0 years old.

Death or another Artist. Cornelius Ver-bryck. one of our most accomplished young artists, died at his residence in Brooklyn last evening, after a lingering illness of consumption. Eve. Post, Sat.

The Poi.ka" is to be called the pas de President. The Whigs say it will prove a faux pat. True Sun. IT TheNewport Herald of the Times, express rs Iheopinion thai the Rev. Mr.

Vinton will decline the call of Emmanuel Chnrch, Brooklyn. The Magnetic A message wi received at Baltimore on Friday, staling that tha telegraph would be closed from 2 o'clock that day until the mi idle of next week. Mr. Wright, the President of the Loco Foeo Con vention, just before the adjournment of that body ment, my dear Dallas," says Mr. Walker.

Dallas waited the folding doors were opened, and the sixty delegates then gave three deafning cheers The Evonieag Post continues to growl at the is that in New York they have a ladies' club bowling alley, most luxurious in all it appoint. nomination of Polk and Dallas. It will give made a speech, which we have read over and for Polk and Dallas." Dallas stood paralyzed, men carpets, ottomans, dressing rooms. over again it is so very, very funny. Mr sullen support, to the party, The Plebeian, on the contrary, Js intoxicated with delight, having and Mr.

Walker enjoyed his discomfiture. Mr, The families subscribing are of the most fashionable cliques and no male foot is suffered to enter Wright evidently passed the night preceding his great effort, in ihe attentive study of a classical Fairfield then condescended to explain, thus re discovered thraat Mr. Polk is just the man, and this gymnasium the pins being set up by eirls and the attendance exclusively feminine. This lieving Mr. Dallas of fears that the escaped in that a better esindiilate for the Vice dictionary; for we find no less than three class mates of some lunatic asylum had taken posses than Mr.

Dulles, could not have been selected. ical allusions. In one place he says, speaking There are somi however, that the Van Bu of the nominees of the convention sion of his mansion. Mr. Dallas has accepted, kind benevolent self-sacrificing man that he ren rank and fa le will boll the course after a little Something New.

The Prussian ship Borus-sea, Capt. Lienne, ariived al New Bedford last Tuesday, from Stettin, lo fit for a whaliag caps the climax of Modern improvements. Newark Post. A nice Appreciation op Theodore Hook. Theod ire Hook possessed both wit And humor, and told a story well.

He had great graphic powers in the ridicujpus, and a surpassing readi We can present thera to the country, and and intoxicated when he fell in Mr. Peter is. i say of them, as the Roman mothers did of their Bramaghin, of Rotssie St. Lawrence Co N. it lias been decided, therefore, to r-art at the ratification meeting to- reflection, and push Ihcmforw was in the woods, encased in makins ashes, and say of them in her language-' These, are our Coroner's Inqdest.

An inquest was held they mny be pledged to the sup. morrow, so Ilia. when a tree fell and killed a eirl about lo years of ase. and a boy about 8 years rid. Two yesterday oftcrnom at the Fulton Ferry upon the i inalions, before they have time to port of the non It is a little odd that the value of these jewels (Polk and Dallas) was not discovered till the others were severeely injured, but not dunserous- body of an unknown man, found at Red Hook recover from tfieir confusion, and collect their lv.

On Wednesday last, a scow wilh four Convention had quarrelled three days, about the wanderinr sensors. There is a rumor that Mr, Point. Had on oil cloth overalls, oil cloth coat, pilot cloth pantaloons, and vest, white flannel men, attempted lo cross the Sl. Lawrence river, near Weddineton, but was swamped. Two of Van Bnren hasa been modestly requested to pre real brilliants of the party, which were, after all, decided to be worthless.

The country we are shirt and blue linen coarse thirt, pegged lace boots the men, Patrick Rigney and John James Roach were drowned. The other two succeded in gain and no stockings. Aged about 40, and tn prosed afraid, will pronounce the "jewels" paste, and I'oiiilla of Jills! In Convention, the Sons of Tc mperance of tha city of have resolved to celebrate the coming Anniversary of Ihe American Independence, on the 4th of July next, by turning out in procession, and other appropriate exercises, and the Mayor and Common Conncil, the Clergy and all Societies and ci.izens friendly to the Temperance cause, are invited to eelebrate the day with the above By order of the Convention. ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, Richard Sharp, Secretary. President.

May 27 lw to have been in the water about 8 months. Vcr side over the meeting. If the Sage consents, he is not the man mt lake bim to be. If Van does not manage to a how his teeth his old friends before the camrisn is over, let the mantle of the ing the shore. We understand, a young lady named Elemedroph, aged about 15 was drowned throw them aside.

diet cause unknown. But Mr. Wright grows melancholy at the on Sunday in crossing a small font bridge over ANDREW OAKES, Coroner, the Catskill River, (N. near the residence ol prophet be take nan from us. Gen.

Sealisnury. Ason ol Mr. James Dennett thought of parting with his associates, and consoles himself with another classical, ir assica allusion, thus: of Albany fN. was drowned on Friday Funeral at Williasisbcrgh. The funeral By the bje old Major Noah is on the pivot acain.

and mani Testa a disposition to turn. His The body of Richard Lear of New York, seaman of the six children, who were killed in Williams If the Eastern cunquerer wept over the millions leader, ii addressed lo his old fi-Und on board theU. S. Ship Ohio, who was acciden tally drowned in Boston Harbor on the lUlh ult burgh on Friday, took place yesterday afternoon. of human beings passing in review before him, under the influence of the thought that in a short in Tamman! Ha JL oH old principles was found on Friday, and decently interred by Appropriate religious ceremonies were performed in the open air, their being no building in the ID-BATS OF ALL FASHIONS, finished which have beer sacrificed by the Baltimore Con time net one of them should be left, how much his ship males.

1 ness of invention, or novel application. But his wit was generally malicious, and his humor satirical. If lie made a sharp hit at an individual peculiarity, the point generally went through into human nature. Yon could not help laugh ng, but were generally ashamed of yourself for having laughed. objects of his satire were seldom the vices or follies of mankind, but generally their misfortunes, or manners, or unavoidable disadvantages, whether of a physical or intellectual kind.

A poor man with his mutton-bone was a rich meal for his comic muse and he was con. vulsed at the absurdity of high principles in rags or at all needy. He never made fun of a lord. He would as soon have taken the king of terrors pickaback as made fun of a lord. He was at the head of that unfortunately large class who think that a brilliant sally ef wit or fancy, at any cost of truth or feeling, is, not only the best thing in society, but the best proof of sterling genius and that one of the finest tests of a dashing fellow of spirit is to steal clothes, not pay a tailor's bill, nor any other bill that can be helped, It might be added.

Mr. Hook was a wit about town, and a philosopher recovering from "the effects of Inst night." His writings tended to give an unfavorable view of human nature, to make one conspicuous and scornful. On the whole, though you had been amused and interested as you went on, you were left unsupportable, and wished you could forget what you had heard. Mr, Hook had no sympathies with humanity for its own sake, but only as developed and modified by aristocratic circumstances and fashionable tastes. He was devoted to splendid externals.

He may be said to have had no inper life, except that the lofty image of a powdered footman, with golden to order, at the store of WM. II. PECK, more reason have I to weep at the thought that vention. Henry Clay comes in for a handsome town large enough to hold the immense number Havti. On the Pth General Garucre this monument of mind belore me must pass away in the change of all things.

notice, in. the MCajor's best style. The conclu was nroelaimed President at Port au Prince by of persons that attended. The procession march 114 Fulton, opposite Sands-street. March 12 ly sion, if any, to be drawn from the article is that ed to the Methodist burying ground in Ihe fol the black population, and a courier despatched lo General Reviere, who had command of the army employed against the Spaniards.

This Dear me I But Mr. Wright thinks twice, and finally makes up his mind, that "it cannot be" lowing order Henry Clay will make a better President for the Democracy" Mian Polk. The Major promises Clergymen of various denominations: Corpses .11 A II It I ED. In this city, on Thursday evenintr. 30th inaL.

General, by the advice probably of Herard, the that Me "monument of mind will last when the borne on biers by youths of from 10 to 14 years to say more on tfcie subject. Noah is a kind, be Ex-President, immediately gave up the puce by the Rev. F. A. Farley, Benjamin F.

Seaver pyramids of the Nile shall have crumbled stone of ope Mourners in carriages and on foot; Scholars of the Sabbath School of the 1st Presbyteri by stone to atoms." to Lucy daughter of John Jewell, all of this cilv. nevolent, good hsesarted man, but he is not of the best order or poK ilicians. lie changes his mind too often. We r-x-ally hope he will not come into occupied to pillage, and was marching upon the capital in order to gratify his soldiers with the pillage of that also. He burnt one small town, and would, if possible, make one or two more an Church, to which four of the deceased children Then Mr.

Wright enters into a philosophical Tn War VnrL- nr. belonged Scholars of the various Sabbath Schools disquisition on the longevity of the mind, and of Williamsburge two schools abreast. Then bonfires of othre villages that in Ms way the Whig ranks. He had better take a position Williams, of Newtown Frederick E. Sickels to Racina Shreves Luther Ervine to Mary Jacnt William H.

Demons to Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Par gives it as his deliberate opinion that the mcata' came citizens in carriages and on foot, the whole While this was going on in the government between the two parties, and abuse bolh. procession being flanked on either side by citi powers outlive the physical, flato was an ass part of the Island, the Spanish portion were aciive cels Abraham D. Carlock to Caroline E. Chris- zens and strangers, large numbers of whom were in placing themselves in a strong position.

So in comparison with Mr. Wright. from Brooklyn and New York. The procession One thing it c2Tlain with all the attempts to appear delighted, the nomination of Polk, is the worst kind ofph sic to the Locos. Seven-eighths lomon Head proclaimed himself King, and was Thomas Buckston lo Catharine Gallalin.

But the richest part of the whole speech is the could not have numbered less than five thousand; organizing a agovernment. following Pending these movements on shore, a number of the parly were at cnorant of the existence of such many estimated it at eight thousand. As the six little girls died so they were buried, all in one "We shall enter the campaign of 1844 nnder of American and foreing vessels were at anchor In New York, Mrs. Mary Fowley. aped 30 aiguilletles and large white calves, walked with a great air up and down the silent avenues of his soul.

But the lifeof animal spirits Hook possessed common grave or vault. A grave was dug suffi the most auspicious (query suspicious) circum oft Port au Prince with their cargoes on board. eienllv wide to admit three coffins side by side stances of success. To our enemy the democra They dared not land them for fear of never re Mrs. Jane Graham, aced 51 Charles Willelt, aged 31 Alpheas Chapman, aged 40.

this was lined with thick plank, and the larier tic legions present an undivided and broken front. ceiving a cent in return they dared not sell ex a man. The Pie Maeian, aware of this, published a biography ofliiraan on Saturday. And how much do you suppose it made, reader A column and a half, leaded, of assa lillle penny paper, an 1 elaborated in the true icnny-a-line style, to make it cornns placed at the bottom, with the three small The perfect unanimity that has characterised our deliberations the character and qualifications of cept for cash and they could not purchase because the pastime of fighting and making Presi ler ones above. Tmrcrjiiicc Notice.

in an eminent degree. They appeared inexhaustible and, being applied as a sort of" steam," or laughing gas, to set in motion his invention and 11 its fancies, and his surprising faculty extemporaneous song making, it is no wonder that his company wai so much in request, and that he was regarded as such a delightful time-killer and in our candidates, are arguments that carry convic The solemn burial service of the Episcopal dents had wholly shut out trade from the occupa DR. ELIOTT, of Ohio, will deliver a lecture before the Parent Temperance Society at tion to the mind. The East and Ihe West, the of that length, or instance we are told that tions of the people. Such was Hyti on the 15th Church, was read at the grave by the Rev.

Mr North and the South, have joined hands in the lies of a holy brotherhood, and have resolved to Haskins. the ancestoisof Ir. Polk settled near Mecklen burgh, and tHieo fallow interesting particu The Revknce. The receipts of Customs at centive to wine by the high bloods of the upper It is proposed lo raise by subscription a sum conquer." their room, Exchange Buildings, corner of ran berry and Fulton THIS (Monday) EVEN. ING, June 3d, commencing at 8 o'clock.

This special meeting of the Parent Society is called by requests of many friends of Temperance, who desire that the citizensof Brooklyn should hear this lars of the McckSenburgh declaration of Inde the port of New York alone, for the first five months of 1844, (just closed,) semewhat exceed Mr. Wright, we see by the report of the speech sufficient to erect a monument over the resting pendence, which 3Ir, Polk nnd his respectable place of these young blossoms, so suddenly wither in the Plebeian, was frequently interrupted wilh nine anal a half millioue of dollars, against some inr millions in ench of Ihe two preceding years. The total collections, at this port alone, during deafning shouts of applause," immense cheer tdaway. progenitors had a much to do wilh, as they had with Ihe deslruclit-n of Jerusalem or the assassi able and eloquent advocate of the cause. All are invi ed lo attend.

Seals reserved for the Ladies. Ni duo's Garden. This old and popular place ing," and cries of hear, hear bnt if the Convention refrained from shouts of laughter when 18-14, will pretty certainly exceed twenty mt lions nation of Julius Csar. ofdol'ars, being considerably more than the entire of Summer resort, opens this evening. Mr.

Mitch Of James K. all that we are told, is, that GEO. HALL, President. II. II.

Denison, Secretary. June3 It circles." He made them laugh at good things and forget themselves. He also made them drink. are red herrings and anchovies used. Sad vision of a man of genius, as Hook certainly was, assiduously pickling his prerogative, and selling his birthright for the hard and thankless servitude of pleasing idle hours and pampered vanities.

The expenses, the debls, the secret drudgery, the splitting headaches and hearls misery he incurred to maintain his false position in these circles are well known and furnish one more warning to men of genius and wit, of how dearly, how ruinously they hare to pay for an invitation to a great dinner and a smile from his grace. The man of he spoke of the perfect unanimity that had mark Revenue of the Government for either of the last four years. The entire Revenue of this year w.ll ell of the Olympic is the stage manager, and he has selected a talented company for the repre ed their deliberations, they are entitled to great credit. When Mr. Wright had likened himself, Child Lost.

almost certainly exceed forty millions of do'lart, of which, over fifteen millions (if we keep out of sentation of comic opera, vaudeville, The or the nation, to Hercules, he sat down, quite STRAYED from the corner of Conrt and Dean streets, a little eirl, named MARGARET he was born of his mother, who was a woman that he went toschcaoolto a man, who was a teacher; that he was placed in a store to get a knowledge of trade, but t-aating a soul above buttons, quit the shop and it- tidied law. In his public life, distinction is clainKied for him on two grounds orchestra is nnder the direction of Mr. Marks. overcome by the effect he had made, and the Con trouble wilh foreign nations) may be devoted to the reduction of the Public Debt, which amounted to twenty-five millions on the 1st day of January last. Let the Tariff be sustained, and Mexico and vention immediately adjourned The Mtsteries or London.

Part V. of this moderate means, who usually dines at home saves ALLEN, aged 8 years. Had on a blueish frock, small bonnet wilh pink ribbons, black shoes and white pantalets. Any person finding her will' confer a favor npon her afflicted parents by sending word to the above mentioned place. June3-lt.

MICHAEL ALLEN. Texas leA lo themselves, and the Government Juvenile Musical Festival. This interes money besides his independence but the man who is always "dining-out," let him look to bis interesting work, has been issued by Winchester, No. 30 Ann street, New York. TRAVELS.

may be entirely out of debt again on the 1st of January, ting musical entertainment is announced for to pocket as well as bis soul. Aeio Spirit of the Age. LtT Some fourteen years ago an individunl was only first, hia oppeaailion to the U. S. Bank, and second, his oppotiticn to a Protective Tariff.

He is identified with no prominent measure; he has made himself conspa ciioui in no crisis of party. A mere ranting politician a member of Congress for several years, aid once Governor of Tennes Itrwarsl. morrow evening, at the Presbyterian Church, corner of Fulton and Pineapple stieels. We attended a rehearsal a few days ago, and were sur travelling through this district, having wilh him a i A French paper describes a most extraordinary Extract from thi letter of young lady, travelling in the Wester part of the Stale of Acta York, virtue of a resolution of the Common Conn trunk containg about $1400 in money and a cil, passed May 27ih, 1814, 1 hereby offer a quantity of other valuable property. The trunk prised and gratified with the proficiency of Mr.

and Upper Canada, to her titter in Brooklyn, Reward of FIFTY CENTS for every DOG that was missed at M. David's, whether dropped from Webs er's pupils, in the difficult science of mu see, because he happr ened to be a better tlumptr than his opponent alheman put forward by the dated Colborne, IT. May 24, 1841. "While we were at Rochester, we visited the stage or stolen eould not be determined. No trace of was discovered until last week, 'w hen it was found buried en the widow Clement's farm, may be killed in Ihe city of Brooklyn and tried, upon satisfactory evidence thereof being given to me from this dale.

J. SPRAGUE, Mayor. Brooklyn, June 3d, 1814. je3 tf Loco Foeo parly for the Erst office in the world. near to the church, in St.

David's. The money We hope that the st etch of bit life published in Moaat Hope Cemetery. The ground itself is beautiful. About one hundred acres are enclos was gone, but the trunk contained a variety of the Plebe an. will be widely circulated.

Lake the sic. We think we may safety venture to promise all who attend to-morrow night, a delightful treat. A ticket of admission for a lady and gentleman, is only twenty Bve cents. Foot Race. The great foot race, for a purse of $800, comes off to-day on the Beacon Course.

There will be seventeen competitors. In 1835, article, left there, no doubt, for fear of detection; oeoui penortned by the Spanish dancer Mademoiselle Lola Monies, not unknown in London. She has now carried what mny be called the Honi foil qui mally pense" principle to its extreme point. The newspapers beyond the Rhine, mentioned this lady some months ago, on the occasion of a freak, which greatly diiurbed the composure the Northern Courts. Being, we believe, at Warsaw, and attending a review of the Russian Troops, the laid danseuse, rode a frisky horse, ventured beyond the limits imposed upon the public.

An attempt was made to make her re-enter them but the impetuous Spaniard responded to it with her riding whip, and routed a party of Muscovite gendarmes. This sort of lib erty could not remain unpunished, and the gov free trade tracts in Connecticut, it will make and laid out in good taste. It is the most singu Whigs wherever iliss- lar piece of ground I ever saw. Indeed, it would The holding op of xsuch a man in opposition to be difficult to find a place like it. It is a con in- Trnt Fire liinraiic Company" NO.

48 WALL STREET, Jonet' Building, Aew-York, TTILL make Insurance against loss or damage by fire, and also effect Insurance on property, in the course of Inland Navigation and Tranr-portalion, on the most favorable lerms. DIBECTORS. Valentine G. Hall. E.

R. Dibblee Henry Clav. is an insaatallto the common sense of ned succession of small elevations, (they cannot it will be remembered, Stannard run lea miles on among these articles were four sets of silver spoons, a rifle and a clarionet. It is supposed that the unfortunate owner went to New Orleans. Niagara Canada) Chronicle.

XTJ R. W. Pooler, the second of young May in the duel which proved fatal lo bis antagonist Cochran, and afterwards still more notori us as the alleged robber of his fellow lodger at Barnutn's Hotel, has been tried for the Inreeny and acquitted the people. When htj ask for evidences of the Union Coarse in 59 minutes and 44 seconds, wining by 16 seconds. It is believed that tea his capabilities to di-barge the great duties of a President, where ire txsbey to be found In two William Whilewr ght, Elias G.

Drake, miles and a quarter, can now be performed in one ernor of Warsaw issued a warrant for the appre William H. Johnson, R. J. Hutchinson, hundred lines of Ibe Plebeian lie is a friend hension of Mademoiselle Lola. But Mademois hour.

Slannard, who weighs 20 pounds less now elle Lo'a bad not parted with her whip; she ap than in 183 is at the head of the list to-day. Jackson, an opponent of a sound currency, an opponent of pMrctioraa to home labor. He was John H. Herton, Francis Boiler, James B. Townsend, Edmund Tenfold, William F.

Lesgelt, Charles Williams, Robert M. Strat on, plied it to the fronts and rears of Ihe Government's There will undoubtedly be a great crowd to wit agents, and, quick at lightning, fled and vanish Martin Hoffman, ness Ihe sport. be called its.) The highest, which is called The Pinnacle, commands a most beautiful view of the country for miles around. It was Suaday when we visited il, and on that day no carriages or horses are allowed lo be drivea throujh the grounds; all seemed peaceful and qniel; but the birds were warbling so wildly, yet so sweetly, thai aa imaginative person might almost fancy them the spirits of the departed, hovering over the last resting place. The Cemetery itself, I caa best describe by asing the words of when speaking of Mount Aabora "It ii the Garteii or Graves." We ale visited Genesee Fslls, bat a short dis John Rankin.

Jonr. ed. The vernmenl sent a squadron of cavalry ia ponnil of her but the townspeople protected a member of Congress a Governor of Tennessee be run for the latter office in 13-10 and was beat-ea be tried again in I -43 and was bratea again-This is the Loco Foeo 'candidate for the Presiden The Yocks Coon. Three patriotic Juveniles irr retreat, and there was almost a not oa the on technical grounds. Tha Baltimore Son Man-deretands" that the jury siened a certificate in favor of Pooler.

The trial took p'ace at Harford County whither the venue bad been changed. Committed. Dr. Neff alias William Shcner, the individoal detected at Lancaster, (Pa.) on Tuesday, in kidnapping a colored girl from Ihe Blockley Alms-house, has been committed to awa.t aa examination. CMr.

ProfTit, Ex Minister of the United States, lo Ria Janeiro, intended returning ia the U. shin Colembos, but was prevented frons sa ELIAS G. DRAKE, President. Lr.RRECS Chapman, Secretary. June 3 tf have commenced the publication of a paper, called the Young Cooa," ia this city.

It is quite a cy. spirited little affair. The office is at No. 33 Fal Fiasr Param or tint Brookltw Light occasion. I ron that moment, the name of the brave and va'iant Spaniard acquired a degree of celebrity, and) Pans remembered her prowess quite well, when, a few days ago, it was informed that two toreifa dancer.

Madtsnojsele t'erito and Made, saoiselle Lola Montr, bad jast entered its walls. JaUJeinoitclkt Ccrilo tad eftea been demanded I lon street. Ccard. The Broollj Light Cuard will make Orlando V. romjtli, OPTICIAN, Manufacturtr Gold td Silrtr Sptcimcla, NO.

99 FVLTOX-STRELT, seooaUTH, L. I. May J6 tf XT The State Convention of Clay Clcbs is to their first parade is ne snuuran Wednesday doing by aot having received the official aotinea- tance from the hotel we stopped at. Dear sister, hew I wish that yon roeld have been with ne' zoett at Utici ea Wednesdav. aftcrnooa.

Itoa cthis re call. His health was not good..

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