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The kighest elevation which he reached On this ascension was about 9OO0 feet from tho level of the FiSer--the lowest, before alighf- ing. about goo feet. The whole distance from Baltimore to Bel Air (twentv one miIes) was accomplished in an ihour and six minutes The view of the Jay and scenery on this route be describes as enchantiHg-and he rec sretted the want uf an intelligent cUsnpani0n (particularly, hc says, some accomplished young lady) with whom he could have shar- ed the delight which the prospect afforded him. He sat at his ease, alternately taking notes and conscrsing with persons below many of whom were not littlensionished at hearing voice from the clouds, Several whimsical occurrences took a negro woman, with bucket of wal her head, whom he spoke to, was SD alarmed that she dropped her bucket instantly and took to her heels, without waiting to Iook ahout herr. An old lady. on horseback, was very much both cred with the revolutions and circumgyrations tbf her steed, which was as much frightened as herself aad finally plunged with her inlo q thicket ofhrarlhles. Bat generally, the pro. pie in the neighborhond were aware of what the apparent phenomenon was, and heartily greeted the @ronaut as hr passed.

 A gentleman,a reesident Oi Bel Air. informs us that the appearances of the balloon work ed quite a miraculous cure upon an elderly lady of that town. She had been, for some 1 months, sO infirm as not to be able t0 move about the house without assistance hut when the rest of the falnily ran out tO witness the sight,. her curiosity was so strnngly excit- ed that she Followed them, and actually clam beyed over n fence with us much activity as a l young girl.

 Bunk Erpenses.--In remafking on the Re- port of the Government Directors. relative Q l the printing of the United States Bank, the 1 National Gazette says :--

 I There is no candid and sensible man, of 1 what party soeyer. W ho will not acknowledge 1 that the Board was not only warranted, but in duty bound. to repel aggressions through the press--t0 relufe err0r and fdlsehODd, and circulate sound doctrine and informati0n- ] The bank was deen,rd moi only valuable to the stockholders, hut indispensable for the country: To have suffered it t0 he slandered down, pr the judgment of the People t0 be utterly perverted respecting if. without q struggle, because the process of resistance. and self-protection might thousands ofdOilars, would have been worse than ab- snfd and pusillanimous.

 (srattiitous service from printers was scarce ly 10 be expected shpasy dacu.nents. vnIu-

 

 tent of the aggression aud the pature of the defence required, could not bc circulated in 1 fhe wspapers in the tisiiai wa V; and uO ey- idence IS adduced, or indred any allegation mades ofexhorbiiant charges f0r,he work and disbursements of printers and publishers.-- We may cite one instance, among those spe- l cified in the Report of the four directors I ihalpf Mr. Gallaiin's article in the AmericaH Quartily Review. The article was not writ l teHat the instigaii0n of the hank, nor strictly foe fhs henefit of the Bank.

 The object of the venerable author was the l preservation of sound currency and thePro- mulgatiOn of true theory and authentic statis- tical materials. The work was likely to op- crate for the beneat of the Bank, as well by I its general arguments and purpprt as it's par- l tIcular opinions but. the circulation of no Quarterly Review could spread t widely aa was dssirahle. Heuce. the propriety offs ! suing large and separate edition. Large e- ditions of the articles on Neg@ Slavery and Anti Masonry. of the same Review. have been sent forth in like manner by yoIuDtary associations in boih the Nosihernant Eouill- erns Stafes, for the purpose of giving due ef- feet io discussionsregardeda particularly iin- Portaut and instructive. The practice is com. u0n.

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 We understand that the following Banks have heen selectesi hy the Secretary 0f the Treasury. for the deposite of the money of the United States, in tho. places where they are respectively situated The change to De made ou the first of October next

 Baltimore The Union Bank of Maryland

 Philadelphia--The Girard Bank.

 New4York k--The Mechanics Bank. M

 do. The Manhattan Company.

 do. The Bank of America.

 Boston--The Commonwealth Bank.

 do. The Meehanics' Bank.

 W6 understand that another Bank will be added in Philadelphia, as soon as the proper inquiries and arrangements can be made, and probably also another in New. York--and that the necessary preparations are in progress for carrying the measure into full effect in other places, as speedily as practicable.

 Washington Globe.

 The Lost Found. .--In the early part of June last, MT. s. M. Douglass, recently from Eng land, having embarked 1t Bufao on board the schooner Atlanta, was landed at Grand .Rixel Mk which plaees he engsgeti barge be- longing to Mir. Campau, in which he proceed ed towards tho Rapids -withia six miles of which, he landed, with view of reaching them on fout. He had travelled hut sllort distance ere he missed the trail, and unaware uf hfs AfrOr c0niinuad hie AslA atens tt-