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son, which the Cinctnnal American describes hay. ing been an elegant well heartfelt tTibu.s of rss- pect Tn his sddress to the company, the General, after mentioning that he had been for vy-nine years engaged in tIe ssrvice of hiaeouusFy, in active em- plOyment and often under as.Inous cireumsiances, stated that whatever might have been the value of his services he would not admit that there had been

 defciency of honest zeal and faithful devotion on his part.

 ing, May 2d, the roof of W. L. asins & Co.'S store, at Magnolia, Florida was discovered to be fre.- Very soon that s.ore the one adjoining, occupied by Benser & Argyll and the Mansion House Hotel, were in ruins. Such was the rapidiv of the flames that hardly any thing saved, except account books and papers The buildings were new, and of more value than any others in the place. They all belonged to Messrs Haskins & Co., who insured i6 N. York to the amount. of $l5OOO The tOta Sss is estimated at $3O. GOO.

 few days since the slaves of the Rev. Thomas KennerIy, of White Post. va., while engaged in blow ing rocks on his farm, discovered $40 worth Of gOld tn joes, half joes and quarters. The farm was Gor- mery the residence ofLord Fairax, and the gold was doub,less deposited by some of his family. Mir. K. divided the whole among the slaves who found tt.

 It is stated in the Nat. Intelligencer tha, the Post OmcG OepNrImeHt usaS pssup VA@ tuSNuGCa 0uMD of S320O for the increase of the expedition of one route only thirty minutes! General Duf Green. re- ceiyed for single Post Office advertisement, publish ed in the year 1929, the modest of 50 For one advertisement he receives much as would supp port six families for one year!

 The demand for copies of Mr. Wcbster's Speeches in what has been called The Great Debate in the Sem ate, has been unprecedented We are just ccmpie- ting edition of twenty thousand copies which, ad ded to former editions, will make an aggregate ofvefy nearly forty thousand copies that will have been printed at this Office alone. There have been printed also, this office editions of Mr. Holmes speech but not extensively circulated or sogencrally .xel.

 Curiosity induced us to reckon up the number of Clerks regularly employed in the several public offices the Seat of Government, statcd in Force's Call ender. We find the number to be something over two hundred and forty; considerable smaller num- Der than we had supposed. or these, ono hundred and thirty employed in the Treasury Depart ment and it's dependent accounting offices, and Land Office, and ffly-nine in the Post Office Department

 The National In.alrgencer of late date contains the following paragraph, which recommend to the attention of a'l delinquents.

 "A gentleman of Alabama, who recently became

 

 National In,elgencer, since lsl5 voluntarily remit.

 ted to us last week by the hands of friend go, fur interest and principal. Were we not confident that such extraordinary merit must necessarily be coupled with great modesty, we would hold the name ofOur ancient patron up the admiration of all publishers as we do his example to the imitation of all deIin- qGent subscribers" ii ,aes4sg --4,tass

 e1'h. i...nhara nf EsAnasa lavA sinqnlar mode ct preventing flies from attacking the meat in their shops. They rub the walls and boasds upon which the meat placed with the essential oil of amve; the smell of which drives away this troublesome insaet.

 We are crediby informed that Mir. c. R. Lil- bridge, of this city, has been enabled by some chem ica experiments niade by him. to discover compost tion that will ecctuay turn the color of negro to that of the white man. Mir. L. is stock manutac- turet in William-street, and uDderstand that it was first discovered on the person of a black man employed by him in mixing and preparing goods for the manufacture of stocks.-N. Y. Ado. ts

 A uoice from Virginia.-The Martinsburgh Ga- ze..e of ihe 18th inst holds the following langaage: Let the tide water gentry, even the bulk of the State, go which way the will--we go for the Tariff and Internal Improvement, both clearly constits- tonal and highly expedieps, and for HENRY CLAY as the most consistent honest and able advocate and de- fender of both.' =

 An interesting daughter of Mir. Charles Lockwood of this named Mary Emeline, aged three years, fell into well on Wednesday last, and was killed ira stan,ly The mother had just turned from the well, leaving the child near , and the ratling of the wind- lass her the first intimation of its danger and melanchol fatc.-NorsoaH Gas.

 Nes0 Bsble.-A fellow by the name of Joseph Smith, who resides inihe apper partof Susqaehanna county, has been for the last years. told employed in dcsating he says. by iaspiratio, new Bibie. He pretsnded that he had been entrusted by Godwith golden Bible which had been always hidden from the world. Smith would put his face into . hat in which he had srhe stone. and pretend to read from it, while his coadjutor transcribed. The book pur- ports to give an account of the ten tribee," and strange may seem, there are some who have fulF faith in his divine commission. The book, 1t seemss is now published. We extract the following from the Rochester Republican:

 BLAsPHEMY.-'B Book ef AformOR,' alias 1he GoI- de. B;sle.-The Book of Mormon has been placed in our hands, yiler imposition Pracaised. is an evidence of fraud, bIasphemy. and creduly. shocking to the christian and morast. The author and proprietor is one Joseph Smta. IT, fellow Sho. by some hocus pocus acquired such an influence over wealthy farmer of Wayne county, that the latter