GLEANINGS.
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The legislature of Ohio has bill before it,
the provisions of which are intended to OPP
crate as a check on the emigration of colored
persons into that state.
Mr.. George Pain, of Upper Canada COM
mitted suicide a few days ago. by cutting his
throat Before he died he called for pen
and ink, and wrote,"I was afraid to live,
and in IA fit of insanity did this"


The Mercury stood at l9 below Zero at
Hartford, Conn. on Friday morning week.


OF the Officers and Soldiers of the Reyo-
lutlonary army, who served six months and
upwards, it is estimated that there are about
! 20, 900 now living.


quarrel took place last week between the
Captain and crew of a ship while lying at an
! chor in the East river, in which a sailor nam
ed Francis Josef was shot through the body
with pistol.


| The publication of the Alexandria Phrnix
was resumed on Tuesday. 1t has been sus-
pended since Thursday last, in consequence
of the late caiamitous fire in thas city.
| Deborah Oakley, was found dead in her
bed at Salem, IN. J.) on Tuesday last
There were marks OF violence upon her head
and face, which led to belief that she had
been murdered.


| An English country paper, describing
thunder storm, lately, says, ''several cattle
were killed; but, fortunately no lives were
lost This must be blunder to a dead GER
tainty.


An Hibernian School master, settled in a
village near London, advertises that he in
tends to keep Sunday Sch ool, twice week
| lruesdays and Thursdays1


1t is supposed in the French papers that
the English have negotiated commercial
treaty with Hayti much to the advantage of
the former.


A Scotch paper says upwards of 10000
sheep persisted iu Scotland inthe snow storms
the latter end of November last.
On Monday next grand concert is to he given
at Washington for the relief of the sufferers by
the late lire at Alexandria. The Misses Cilling.


ham and Mr. Paddon have generously volunteer
ed their aid on the occasion.


Consumptions-The New.York Times states


that the deaths in that city by Consumption,
} during the last ten years, were 6646, or nearly
one ffM of the whole number of deaths.
/ The quantity of Hops inspected in Albany, N
Y. the late three months, was So, 22S pounds.
The new building in Wall-street, New-York
occupied BY the Hope Insurance company, hav


ing front of 25 feet inches, sold at auction
, for S33, 200.





for by it said he, hear other mems impefcc
tons, and conceal my own
Justice and generosity rightly blended con
stitue a dgnfied character; but certainly so fal
!, as person is more just than generous, or more
generous than Just, that characteri is defective.
:. Women, when they marry, should legally re-
tain their maiden names as middle names, the
: husbands name being sutfxed, instead of subst
tuted. Then might we see at once OF what fam
:, lily they were.


, 1t Is said, that the Bill for the removal of the
Seat of Government from llsrrisburgh to Phila
delphia, was negatved Friday last, by a ma
I jority of nine votes


The Commissioners of Naval Hospitals, have


determined to build all asylum for invalid sailors
: and mariners, in the vicinity of Philadelphia
The present population of New-Orleans
f is believed to exceed $4,000 souls. When
} the city was transferred to this government
% years ago, it contained but 5000 inhabit-
) ants.


. Oak wood has been selling at ten dollars
/ a cord at New-York.
, The London Courier says that since the
disclaimer of Lady Foley, report has ascrib-
ed the new Novel of Almacks, to the pen OF
Lady Westmoreland.
The Memoirs of Mrs. Slddons were pub
lished December II.
UPWARDS of twenty Thousand ship letters were
received at the post-oflce in New-lork from the
9Th to the 18th ultimo inclusive. Eight thou
sand were receivcdin in one day.
A letter was lately received in Chilicothe,
from the younger Lafayette, which was only 90
days in travelling to that place from Lagrange,


via IIavre and New-York
The enthusiasm of the French nation in the
: cause of Greece continues unabated The ladies
have sold (for the benefit of that country their


cmbroierics and paintings.


From an acquaintance with the country. IN
that region, MIR. Geddes suggests that it is with,
in the compass of possibility that the "eiiand
Canal NAV turn the course of the Niagara river
: The legislature of North Carolina convened
at Raleigh on the 25th ult. and on the twenty
z sixth, Governor Burton communicated his mes
: sage. =,
: A Mr. Hultz, has invented an apparatus, witt
J the aid of which person, although deprived OF {
t hand and part Of the arm, may be enabled Il
,vr;te q r,laiu and lcpibie hand.