The Portland gazette., 1818-07-07

we lately took occasion TO notice" After
some other remarks, in whish the Editor OBJ
serves that ii is due TO the character OF Gen.
Jackson TO await the arrival of'hlS dispatches
to the government, he thus concludes" We
believe no instructions have been issued 10
that officer by the executive, not strictly con-
formable to the Message OF the President to
Congress, Of the s5th OF March last"
". Y. Com. advertiser.
NORTHAMPTON, JUNE 81.
Swarms of Locusts have recently appeared
in this part OF the country, extending upon the
right bank ofConnecticut river twenty or
thirty miles south of this town. II is impos-
sible to measure the extent Of the injury they
are doing TO the timber. Many trees are even
now apparently dead. The female locusis
are armed with sting Of ne arly the hird OF
an inch in length, and of the stiffness and point
Of a wire sharpened: They attach themselves
10 the under side of the small limbs, and com
mence the process of singing. Their progress
is to the extremity Of the limb, which is as dis
tinctly marked as it could be by obliquely
puncturing the limb with an awl, and so rails
ing the awl at each puncture as TO crack the
bark in regularly continued, land unless impe-
ded by some obstruction,in in nearly right line.
There are about three incisons to an inch
each penetrating to the heart of the limb,
which is filled with small worms, or eggs, oi
the color and appearance of very small ker-
nels of rice, but distinctly visible to the max
ed eye. We are not able 10 state further par
,;culars in relation to these ruinous insects, ,noI
when nor where they first appeared, nor pre-
cisely how far they have extended themselves
but their progress SO far as we have seen is
as marked as the progress ot. fire. Those
who are curious TO examine will find myriads
of them, upon the east side Of ths southern
extremity Of Mt. Tom.
A Montrealpaper of May so, says =" We
hear that the operations TO be carried on un-
der the 9th article OF the Treaty of Ghent, the
ensuing season, are to continue the exploring
survey commenced last year, of the line run
ming due north from the source of the river st.
Croix, and ofthe highlands lying between that
line and the northwesternmost head of the
Connecticut river, for the purpose Of obtaining
such information as may enable the Commits
sioners TO determine the most important part Of
the boundary, conformably to the provisions o.
the treaty of 1893; also to establish the point
where the 45th parallel of latitude strikes the
river Iroquois or Cataraquy, and TO trace and
mark the boundary line from thence eastward
on the same parallel, to Connecticut river"
Hon. John r Parrot, has been chosen
member Of the Senate ofthe U. S. BY te
Legislatnre of New-Hampshire. C@y
Plumer, was candidate. The Hon. Mr.,
Morrill, has been nominated for The Office
of Governor.
The National Intelligencer says, that
Messrs. Rodney and Graham, are expected
home in the Congress. frigae. Mr.. Bland,
the other commissioner, had gone on visit
to Chill. No commune ations, iro4 the Com
missioners had been received by the Govern
ment on Saturday last.
Extract from Miss Hannah IMoore's 6 Structures
on the modern system Of female education"
DiHCes tHeH, tleTe ~ a season., W1en the
youthful must cease to be young, and the beauti-
full to excite admiration, to learn hou TO gro,o old
gracefully, is, perhaps one Of the rarest and most
valuable acts that can be taught to women And
it must be confessed, it is most severe trial for
those women called to lay down beauty, who
have nothing else to take up II is for this sober
season of life, that education should lay UP its
rich resources. However disregarded hitherto
they may have been, they will be wanted now.
When admirers fall away, and fatterers become
mute, the mind will be driven to retire into itself
and if it find no entertainment at home, il will
be driven back again upon the world with in
creased force. Yet forgetting this, do we not
seem to educate our daughters exclusively fer the
transient period ofyouth, when it is to maturer
life we ought to advert? Do we not educate
them for a crowd, forgetting that they are to live
at home I! for the world, and not for themselves !,
For show, and not fesieternitys
NEw-YoRK, JUNE 26.
fNTERESTiNG TRIAL.