The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware advertiser., 1826-03-23
termeht. whatever may have been IN. IN,

much easier; on the contrary there was sor.
little gloom and apprehension that it would
not improve.
Cotton Market.-There has been M j.,
provement in the demand for cetton the ia', ,m
week, it is lowered i'd per pound. 1000 b...
uolands were bought on speculation.
The depression of the silk trade has n.y.,
duccd some unfortunate results. M.
Watts, silk throwster, of Riddulph. ppt .,
end to his exstance by shooting himself-.b;.
daughter, young lady about IS years Of ar.
hung herself in her fathers mill. A N,'
Wild, respectable silk throwster Of III,
same place, cut his throat.
News from India had been received 10 ,,.
28th August. No actions had taken May ,.e
with the Burmese. A dreadful mortal.r
was raging at Calcutta, which carried oS
500 day by cholera morbus.
Steam GnnS.--The ordinance board h.,
reported in favor of the steam guns, and tbs
facility of discharging ball, but consider III.
apparatus as too complicated to be seryices.
Bile IN the field.
The following beautiful answer BY puni
of the Deaf and Dumb school at Paris cor' r'
tains sublimty of conception scarcely tohs
qualled:-"What is eternity" was tbs
question to which he Immediately answered
The life time of the Almighty"
The Board of Managers Of the Lebigb
Goa! and Navigation Company have deter.
mined to make Railroad from the Com.
pany's mines to their landing on the .ehiph
The Secretary of the Navy has announced
to the Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
that the ship Cyane was despatched in ths
month of December last, to cruize on ths
coasts of Brazil and the republic of La Plata
and that such additional force will be here.
after sent hither, AS circumstances, and tn.
necessary guardianship of our interests in
other quarters will permit.
The brig Emily, at New York from Port.
an-Prlnce, report that tive French frigat.,
had just arrived there from France, with tn.
Haytien Deputies.
A new weekly paper has made its appear.
ance in Boston tor the laudable object Of aid.
ing in the suppression of the brutal vice Of
intemperance.
Christopher Rankin, member of Congress.
from the state of Mississippi, died at WASH
ington, on Tuesday last.
Corn is selling in Cheraw, s. C. &c. at one
dollar and fifty tents per bushel. 1t will
be recollected that large fields of growing
corn were rooted up last season, to extend
the cultivation of cotton The effects of the
specuiatlons i'll the latter article, are not We.
over.
Among the present visitors to the Seat Of
Government is Charles L. Bonaparte,
(Prince of Musignano) who has taken lodg.
inss at Gadsby's Franklin House.
Such is the state of alarm in Charleston
Is. C.) in regard to incendiaries, that a pa
trole OF citizens is performed.
On the farm of Solomon Woodwork 10
Cato IN. W a barrel of gun has been dis
covered completely embedded in the hear.
OF a soft maple tree, the outside of which
was perfectly sound.
A Society to be located at Valley Forge,
Chester county, and conducted on Mr.. Ow.
ems principles, have so far commenced their
Operations, as to have issued bank notes,
or bills of exchange, in the nature of bank
notes.
Miss Charlotte Curtis recovered $500
damages in a case of slander, in Ohio, a.
ganst Peter Vanrickle. Peter has appealed
to the Supreme Court.
Upwards of Eight Thousand hogs have
been lately slaughtered at Cleaveland, Ohio.
The pork is destined for the New-York
market, and for the supply of the II. States
troops on the upper lakes.
a number of associations, having for their
basis community of property, are about to
be established in the city and vicinity of N
YIN one instance several farmers have
united their farms and commenced society
Tor the purpose of promoting their mutual
weliare,--l is said that the disciples of Mr.
Owen, at New Harmony, have risen from
poverty to wealth, on the principle of coop
erative labor.
The embalmed body of the celebrated Da-
vld laid in state at his house in Brussels, on
the 9th OF January, the head being surround
ed by wreath of laurel.---Several Of his de-
sings, and the picture representing Napo-
Icons passage Of the st. Gothard, served as
trophies to the funeral bed. The throng
which went to take a last farewell of this il
lustrious artist was immense.
The following gentleman are sent as min
lsters Plenipotentiary from the U. States to
foreign courts with an outfit of $4,000 and an
annual salary of $4,000. Great Britain, Ru-
lus King ofNew- York France, James Brown
OF Louisiana; Russia, Henry Middleton Of
Chill, Herman Allen Of
Vermont; Colombia, r. c. Anderson of Ken
lucky.
a writer in the New-York Mercantile
Advertiser, corrects Mr.. Randolph about
Guatemala. He Saws of the neonle that in.