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ei, discovers in his conduct certain emotion which

 does not correspond with the surpassng camness with 1 which he received the Russian declaration He or ders out his troops at sunrise and exercises them till o'clock when he goes to the seraglio takes a bah

 breakfasts, and then re-mounts his horse and again

 eXercses Is troops Tn luis tavorite manuuvres which

 ne continues, with any reaXlon, toI several hours. FOR THE COUNTY POST.

 Mir. EDITcR-

 1t being your province to instruct tue ignorant and

 to stand as barrier between the oppression of the

 rulers and the ruled, and deem;ng this an suspicious period, when the Judgement, if not the wisdom, of the State may be supposed to have congrega,ed a.

 mong us, (sotha youc can get advice in the event you need it to mature opinon,) would ask to be n- formed on the following poin--vz: Is there law or

 reason'that Grantor of Land residing in this State

 shall be compelled to pay Judge of our Hon. Court $l 50 for taking an acknowledgement of deed when

 Justice of Peace dare take over cents for the

 service Perhaps it may be answered that their

 Honors' time and talents to be determined by the

 simple rule of three that is-as justice is to cents so are their Honsrs to that sum, which gives an an-

 swer of $l 5O.-Can you satisfy the yeomanry of our State that this is sound logic, it mus satisfy one who

 in many instances has felt aggreved-- though as necessary consequence, must think many of our

 Justices better into, than qualified for otce The Troy Sentinel says :--" In the after noon of Saturday last tempest of thunder, lightning, rain, hail and wind, passed over a part of Pittstown and HoOsac, destroying

 crops, bridges, and fences, covering meadows

 with sand and mud and laying waste the pro-

 mise of the year. Such was the extraordina- ry accumulation of water, ,that haystacks were foated from their places. with their fences a. round them, and in one instance, man, blacksmith living insHOosac, was surprised by the sudden invasion and drowned in h,s own shop.

 BoUNTY.-Dr. Russ has sent home an ac- count of his distributions of provisions and

 clothing to the Greeks, in connection with Mr. Millar. and Dr. Howe, which has been published by the Boston Committee. He remarks. Upwards of 5O,OOO persons in the most abject misery have been relieved, and by the assistance of the supplies forwarded from New York and Philadelphia, there is now no part of Greece but what has participated in 1 the American bounty. To give you a faint idea of the distress which has existed I need 1 only remark that in village of fifty families, one of our own countrymen offered two dol

 

 the distress that it could not be obtained in

 the whole village.

 PHGNIx SHOT TowER.-Agreeably to 4r-

 engagement, says the American, the venerable Charles Carroll. of CarrOllton, laid the foun- datiOn stone of the Shot Tower, about to be

 erected at the corner of Pitt and Front streets Ut bears the following inscription This stone was laid on the 2d day of June, 1923, by Charl's Carroll of Carrollton, the only sur viving Signer of the Declaration of Independ- 1 ence." This tower is to be built of brick ,and ofthe best materials.and will be huge struc- ture, 40 feet in diameter at the base, % feet at the top, and two hundred and eight feet in

 height.

 TRANsPoRTATIoN!-Elkton, May sl.-Ar-

 rived at Eikton, after a passage of 1e days from Fort Deposit, Capt. E. Cloud, with float 300 feet in length, and l6O feet wide ;-

 containing over million feet of boards. 62 arks, and several hundred thousand feet of shingles-covering in the whole nearly four

 acres of water-suppOsed to be the largest

 ever foated in the Chesapeake Bay. Corn is reported to be SO very scarce in Florida, that ifthe quantity is equally distrib- uted, 1t would be consumed in less than month. In Montgomery, Alabama, meal is Sl 50 per bushel. It is also said, that in the

 Indian nation. lately, travellers have paid at

 the rate of 50 cents quart for corn for their

 horses.

 Milledgeville paper states, that the price

 of corn is rising in different parts of Georgia.

 particularly in the new counties. The price

 at Columbus is said to be two dolIars aud q ha!f per bushel-which is partly owing to the

 great influx of population, and partly te the

 scarcity among the neighboring Creeks, which approaches to state of famine. The price

 at Milledgeville does not exceed from 62 1-2

 to 75 cents per bushel.

 MT, Israel Watkins, of CanajOharrie, was killed on board a canal boat on the Slst ult.in

 passing under bridge at Tonawanta. Col. Waters of Colchester, (COnn.) in a state of mental Arrangement, jumped over