Vol. 1 No. 38. 



AND GARDENER'S JOURNAL. 



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required. Man! Is, tables, ice. rnaj be pro 

 uured by our citizens without the trouble and 

 expense of (rau'.|iurtatiuu from tlie East, an 

 really more ornamental, from one of our own 

 townsmen, wnose exertions to bring this am 

 cle in'o use, deserve the liberal patronage 01 



he publi'i. 



•2000 Sheep ) = ( Sheep 



and Lambs, ) ^ Lambs 2 



Tortoise Shell — At San Bias, on she coast 

 of Uarica. a small settlement of Indians is es 

 tablished, for the sole ptnpi.se of taking turtle. 

 It is under the management of three English, 

 two American, and three Colombian traders, 

 who make a vist profit from the shell. The 

 quantity taken yearly amounts on an ave- 

 rage tc 15,000 lbs. the value ot which is about 

 X^O.000 sterling. It is a curing fact, that 

 the handsomest shell is shipped from the ani- 

 mal while living, the beauty becoming less as 

 the animal dies The dreadful torture which 

 the poor creature endures in the operation, 

 finds no consideration in the minds of the tra 

 ders. 



NEW-YORK CATTLE MARKET. 

 Sept. 16. Market for cattle for week ending 

 this day dull. Sales of the principal part of 650 

 head per hundred lbs. $4 75 a 6 50 



2 50 a 6 

 a. 3 



Fat Hogs per hundred 4 25 a 4 50 



Cows and Calves 18 «30 



Flour and Grain Market. 

 New- York, Superfine bbl. a 5 37 



Troy do. 5 50 a 



Western do. 5 62 a 5 81 



Ohio via Canal 5 37 a 



Philadelphia 5 51) a 



Baltimore, City 5 50 a 



Do. Howard street 6 a 



Richmond, City Mils 6 a 6 75 



Do. Country 5 62 a 5 75 



Wheat, Northern bush. I 6 a 1 12j 



Do. Western 1 12io 1 17 



Do. Virginia (new) 1 12 a 1 16 



Do. North Carolina,(new) 1 9 a 1 13 



The Markets. — On Saturday afternoon, al 

 ter announcement of ihe news brought by the 

 Silem, from the office of the Courier & En 

 quirer, holders ot Flour required on advance 

 of about 25 cents per barrel, aid a few small 

 sales were made at this improvement. The 

 advices by the Salem spoke of bad weather 

 n some parts of Englan I, and a small increase 

 in the price ot Wheat at Liverpool. 



On Sunday our extra publications aquainted 

 the public with the restoration of peace be- 

 tween Holland and Belgium, ihe return (I 

 fair weather in England and a decline in prices 

 there, so that in regard to foreign markets 

 we began the week precisely as we were be- 

 fore. Our supplies however, being very tri- 

 fling and having out little fresh Flour on hand 

 sales were made yesterday at $5 7 8 for good 

 western, and for fancy brands $6 was gener- 

 ally asked. Troy was held at $5 3-4, all of 

 which prices were an advance of 12 1 2 to 25 

 cents, upon the prices of the middle of last 

 week. 



A cargo of ordinary new Virginia wheat, 

 sold on Saturday before this news was known, 

 to the sellers, at 112 1-2 cents, and 100 bbls 

 of a common Western brand, to arrive during 

 this month at $5 11-16. 



Liberality. — The Count Maxirnillian de 

 Leon, while in Albany, presented $100 to the 

 Catholic Orphan Asylum in that city; and $100 

 to the German Benevolent Society. The Count 

 j? going to settle down near Pittsburgh, Pa. 



Intemperance and its Conseque7ices. — A 

 young man of respectable connexions in 

 England, and possessing the advantages ot 

 an excellenteducation and genteel address, 

 was an .sted by a respectable housekeeper 

 in Broadway, about 2 o'clock on Sunday 

 morning, the 4th inst, while attempting to 

 enter the second story window in the rear of 

 the house, and handed over to the custody 

 of the watch upon a charge of bnrglarv. 

 Upon the discharge ofthe watchin the morn 

 ing, he was committed to Bridewell at 

 Bellevue, and brought down on Wednes- 

 day for trial, upon an indictment which the 

 Grand Jury found against him for the sup- 

 posed offence, of which had he been ad- 

 judged guilty, he must have been consigned 

 to an imprisonment of at least ten years in 

 the state prison It appeared upon the tri- 

 al, however, that three or four thoughtless 

 young men induced him to visit a porter 

 house in Reed street, where they plied him 

 with liquor until he became brutally drunk. 

 Instead of taking him to his lodgings, they 

 proceeded with him up Broadway, when a 

 quarrel was feigned between the parties, to 

 reconcile which they repaired to another 

 pnblic house in the neighbourhood ofthe 

 place where the otlence for which he was plac- 

 ed upon trial was alleged to have been com- 

 mitted. Here thty made him drink again, 

 and kept up the appearance of the quarrel 

 until his fear overcame him, when he ef- 

 fected his escape into the yard, leaving his 

 hat behind him, and thence over the fence 

 into the yard adjoining, where he was seized 

 in an attempt to break through the window, 

 which reached by means of an adjoining 

 kitchen. His inability to explain how he 

 came there arising from his stupid intoxi- 

 cation, was of course construed into an ev- 

 idence of his guilt, and in this state he was 

 hurried to prison, and detained among vag- 

 abonds and felons, until an explanation of 

 the circumstances, as here detailed, re- 

 stored him to liberty by a verdict of Not 

 Guilty. — Jour. Com. 



Imprisonment for Debt. 



A large and respectable meeting was held at 

 Boston, on the 12th inst. of which A. H. Everett, 

 was chairman, and J. C. Park, secretary, for the 

 purpose of adopting measures to test the constitu- 

 tionality of the authorizing imprisonment fur debt. 

 This is the first public meeting held in the U. S. 

 on this subject. A series of spirited resolutions 

 were offered by Maj. Lobdell, and the audience 

 were addressed with animation and eloquence by 

 the chairman and other gentlemen. A committee 

 was appointed to raise money to carry on a suit 

 in the Supreme Court of the United States, which 

 was immediately subscribed at die close of the 

 meeting. 



Rcsoloed, That a committee be appointed to 

 wait on the Hon. Daniel Webster, and invite him 

 to address a public meeting of the citizens, to be 

 held on Monday evening, September 26, at Fa- 

 neuil Hall, for die purpose of taking measures to 

 test the constitutionality of Imprisonment for 

 debt, by a suit to be brought in the Supreme Court 

 of the United States. 



A committee was accordingly apppointed with 



instructions to invite the Hon. Daniel Webster 

 and other gentlemen to address themeeting on that 

 occasion. Whereupon, it was 



Voted, That this meeting adjourn to meet in 

 Faneuil Hall on the evening of Monday, Sept. 

 26, at 7 o'clock. 



The following remark is added, by a corres- 

 pondent of the Boston Courier. 



" This is the first great step to protect the liber- 

 ties of the citizen, solemnly guarranteed in the 

 Constitutions of the States and the Union, and wc 

 hope that there will be found independence enough 

 in the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, to disregard die sanction, which an infa- 

 mous custom has permitted, of imprisoning and 

 punishing free citizens, without triaZjWithentijurtj 

 and without crime, in open defiance of the rights 

 and immunities bequeathed in the letter and spirit 

 f our Constitution." 



Lowell Locks am) Canals. — Stock in 

 the Locks and Canal Company at Lowell, is 

 said to have been sold within a few days at 124 

 per cent advance, or224 for 100, after hav- 

 ing agreed to give, not subscribe, $100 000 

 towards a raii-ioad to be madt from Boston 

 to Lowell. The corporation, above named, 

 jiossesses water power and lands which have 

 risen rapidly in v lue with Ihe increase of 

 manufacturing establishments in that flour« 

 ishingtonu- [Transcript.] 



A meeting was held at Philadelphia on the 

 12lh inst. of those " friendly to the cause of 

 Poland"— (are there any in this country who 

 are not friends to that cause?) — at which di- 

 vers resolutions relating to the business in 

 iiand were passed, and several committees ap- 

 pointed. At a meotiog on lb. ensuing eve- 

 ning Hit- cily was di* iced among snb-commit- 

 lees, and vigorous o,easures are in progress 

 iO' raising conliibulion6. 



A few evenings since, while a gentleman 

 of this place was sitting in the bar room of 

 Mr. G. Owen, he felt something creeping on 

 the side ol Ins face, and very naturally put up 

 iiis hand to brush it off. The insect, frighten- 

 ed at his movement, sought refuge in his ear, 

 md the individual immediately txpeiienced 

 ihe most excruciating pain, when one ofthe 

 by-standers pouied a small portion of brandy 

 mtotheear, and almost instantly, a black bug, 

 7 8 of an inch in leugth crawled out, [Bur- 

 lington N. J. Herald. J 



The major part ot mankind so far forget they 

 have a soul, and launch out into such actions and 

 exercises, where it seems to be of no use, that it is 

 thought we speak advantageously of any man 

 when we say he thinks ; this has become a com- 

 mon eulogium, and yet it raises a man only above 

 a dog or a horse. 



TO EDITORS AND PUBLISHERS. 



A Gentleman, residing in the country .prac- 

 tically engaged in i usbandry and having 

 some knowledge of science, literature and 

 politics, wishes to engage with some publish- 

 ers of our Periodica! Works, in supplying ar- 

 ticles and papers for the public press. He- 

 has been for many years, a pretty liberal con- 

 tributor, but always voluntary and gratui- 

 tous, in which he has probably done his part. 

 He now asks a reasonable compensation for 

 the fruits of his leisure and experience. — 

 Reference, N. Goodsell, Editor Genesee Far- 

 mer, 



