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THE GF.NL8EE FARMER 



October 8. 1831. 



From the Rochester Daily Advertiser. 

 EUROPEAN STATISTICS. 

 The European States comprise 60 territorial 



districts, which include Poland and Belgium 



In 1829 the population was estimated, agreeably 

 io the following table. Inhabitants. 



Russia, (including Poland) 41,995,000 



Austria, 3-2,100,500 



France 32,052,465 



Great Britain 22,297,621 



Spain 13,651,172 



Prussia 12,778,403 



Turkey 9 : 393,000 



Two Sicilies 7,414,717 



Netherlands (induing Belgium) 6,977,500 

 Sardinia 4,167,377 



Bavaria 4,032,590 



Sweden 3.878,700 



Portugal 3,782,550 



States of the Church 2,483,940 



Denmark 2,057,513 



Switzerland 2,036,680 



Hanover 1,582,574 



Wurtemberg 1,535,403 



Saxony 1,400,000 



Tuscany 1,300.530 



Badea 1,090,911 



37 other states 5,967,962 



There are 37 states which contain less than one 

 million inhabitants ; the highest of which (Hesse 

 Darmstadt) contains 718,900, and the lowest (Ben- 

 tinck) 2,900, — collectively they comprise a popu- 

 lation of 5,967,962. The following is the number 

 of christians, &c. in Europe: — 

 Catholics 116,559,075 Mahomedans 3,040,500 

 Protestants 49,847,495 Jews 1,671,640 



Greeks 42,308,399 

 In its Government, are 



Despotic 1 



Absolute 15 



Absolute Provincial 



estates 5 



Absolute, estates 4 

 Absolute, with cortes 1 

 Absolute, elective 1 



Revenue 

 Public Debt 



Peace 

 War 



Peace 

 War 



Estates, is intended to represent that the states 

 have some voice in the Government matters ; but 

 these are monarchial. 



It is due to state that these data were com- 

 piled from the statistics of Dr. P. Leiber. 



Land forces 



Vessels of War 



Constitutional 12 



Estates 11 



Confederated Republic 1 

 Republics 5 



Republics under protec. 3 

 Greece ? 1 



$658,847,899 



15,341,721,211 



1,909,175 



4,578,430 



1,368 



2,641 



negro cloths, carpetings, broad cloths, cassimeres, 

 &c. ; wielding a capital, collectively, of $3,200,- 

 000. There are three new companies now orga- 

 nised and erecting 11 mills, for coarse and fine 

 cottons, and prints; capital, $2,100,000. Popula- 

 tion, 6,477; 8 churches; 2 banks. The Rail Road, 

 authorized by the Legislature of Massachusetts, 

 wdl be commenced as soon as the surveys have 

 been completed ; $600,000 have been subscribed 

 for that purpose. 



lous occurrence. During a violent thun- 

 der storm, on the 1 Sth Aug. last, Mrs. 

 Marioneau was sitting in the middle of a 

 room, sewing at a small table, when the 

 house was struck by lightning The shock 

 threw her senseless upon the floor ten feet, 

 from the pla e where she had been sitting. 

 The table was broken to fragments, and 

 the chair on which she sat literally scatter- 

 ed in small pieces about the room. The 

 needle which she held in her hand was 

 found with the thread still in its eye, stick- 

 ing to a door frame several feet from the 



The Last Congress. — The following 

 members of the last Congress at its com- 

 mencement, are since dead. Of tbe Sen- jj floor, and at a considerable distance from 

 ate; Mams of Mississippi, McLean of, j the spot where she sat. She had several 

 Illinois, and JVbfc/e of Indiana. Of the 'needles sticking in the handkererchief she 

 House of Representatives; — Mallary of were around , her neck, which were so high- 

 Vermont, Powers of New York, Miller of; ]y magnetized by the electric fluid, as to 

 Pennsylvania, Smyth of Virginia, Shields' ba capable of attracting and raising such as 

 of Ohio, and Peltis of Missouri. Nine are larger than themselves. A large tor- 

 deaths in two years, in two hundred and toise shell comb which was in her hair, was 

 thirteen, is an unusual proportion. — Boft.| evidently scorched and torn into fragments. 

 Repub. I Yet she was soon resuscitated, and receiv- 



Rtpentance.-'ihe late Rev. Mr. G — ,\edno further injury than a slight soreness 

 happening one day tog., into the church- on one side of her head. She was not 

 yard, whilst the beadle was pusily em- j dressed in silk, but had on a calico gown, 

 ployed, neck-deep in a grave, throwing — Nashville Banner. 

 up the mould and b nes, to make way for|| Anecdote.— kn itinerant preacher, who 



another person, thus accos ed him : — 

 " Well, Saunders, that's a work you're 

 employe in well calculated to make an 

 ould man like vou thoughtful. I wonder 



LOWELL, MASS. 

 This place, so celebrated for manufactures, of 

 late years, commenced in 1826, in the manufac- 

 turing business. It is situated 25 miles N. W. 

 from Boston, at the junction of the Concord and 

 Merimack rivers ; the water power is equal for 

 50 mills, with a fall of 30 feet, yielding to each 

 1500 cubic feet of water per minute ; equal to 

 privileges for 100 mills, each with a subdivision 

 of the 30 feet fall, viz. half of the number with 13 

 feet fall, and half with a fall of 17 feet. There 

 are five large establishments in operation, running 

 12 mills, for printed calicoes, twilled cotton, pan 

 talotn stuffs, shirtings, coarse do. and sheetings, 



was not ve y remarkable for energy of 



style or brilliancy of thought, was once 



hammering out the gospel to a slumbering 



■ audience in Freetown, when he stopped 

 youdinna repent o your evil ways.' — short in ms disc and with ren Z ed 



The old worthy, resting himself on the vi „ or exclaimed-my friends, what do you 

 head of his spade and taking a pinch of j gu M[e ' ^ ca „ s brea( f } _ 



snuff, replied, " I thought sir, ye had kent tu. „ „ . i i j .u 



' . ' ' J , I 1 Ins unexpected query awakened the con- 



that there was no repentance in the „ „ ,■ „,u a »r 



gregation,wtio commenced guessing. Af- 

 ter some ten or twelve had guessed wrong, 

 a great gawk drawled out now, Mr. minis- 

 ter, you ort to tell us what he calls it. — 

 Why, replied the Reverend gentleman, he 

 calls it bread. After this there was no 

 more slumbering. — JYcw Bedford Gazette. 



Prosperity. — It is probable that upwards 



grave.' 



A Post Mistress. — Our politica'ly knee- 

 deep immersed con'eniporaries have mutu- 

 ally indulged in party-colored pleasantries, 

 on the appointment of a Miss Rider as 

 postmaster at Coventry, R. I. Her ap- 

 pointment was, indisputably, a glorious 

 '- loop to hang a" joke upon, but we dis- 



cover no pertinency in the remarks elicited of five thousand dwellings and stores have 

 by the circumstance. We know no part been erected in Philadelphia within two 

 of the duty of a postmaster, in towns of the y ears - Vet lt ls a fact tlwt rents are h '«h- 

 magnitude and importance of Coventry, er now than tilf *)' "''"' luo years since ; 

 R. I. which may not be filled, as well by and ll ls more difficult to procure a dwel- 

 women as by men,and one thing is certain, lln g 0l " sU,re B0W th " 1 formerly. We do 

 that females are more likely to be obliging Ilot hear ol an y immense fortunes amassed 

 and attentive thanthei self-sufficient lords, in this time— no miracles have been wrought 

 who would monopoli: ill the living, even ~ and yet all are pros, .emus; trade and its 

 to the right of retailing puis and needles.— advantages have been dnliised— and all 

 Boston Transcript ! have had a share — and arc made comforta- 



Kissingxoith an appetite.— A religious j |ble— instead of a few having reaped the 



sect has recently sprung up in the coun- 

 ty of Surry, one of whose tenets is to sa- 

 lute each other at a meeting with a holy 

 kiss. One of the female devotees, a 

 yoin g lady of a thousand charms, hap- 

 pened to encounter <t voung gentlemnn. 

 of whom she was enamoured, and gave 

 him a more cordial and loving salute than 

 was quite becoming. Tbe next day she 

 received a message from the high-priest 

 of the sect, saying she had been excom- 

 municated for " kissing with an appetite." 

 A letter from a highly respectable gen- 

 tleman in Iberville, Louisiana, relates the 

 following very singular and almost miracu- 



whole harvest, and left the many to glean 

 from their scanty leavings. — Phil. Gaz, 



$j- One of the < Charleston merchants has al- 

 lowed a treasury board, given by him to secure 



tii" payment of duties, to be prosi luted, to test the 

 constitutionality of the Tariff Law Mr. Taze- 

 well of die Senate it is said, has consented to act 

 as counsel, m favor of the merchant. 



Jj- Woodvillc, (Miss.) was visited on the 9di 

 inst. with a tremendous hurricane. It rained about 

 24 hours, when the wind raised, and continued for 

 several hours with encreaslng violence. It injured 

 crops, blowing off the roofs of houses, and pros- 

 trated immense quantities of timber. The roads 

 were impassible. 



