Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1829-10-08

About the dead,
Eut list-e'en uolv,
hear the gathering OF the ''i,nn blast,
1t comeS--;iiy frn form trenolcs-it is past
And thou art low!.
The announcement of the arrival, below, ut New
York, OF thu Henry w. mnst, we think, have been
prematurc--we received slips from corrcspon-
dents Now York, dated Sunday afternoon, which
make no uient"n OF her arrVal.-BM. Chro,s.
great produce match racc,' at New York
GA Saturday last, between cob by Sir Archy, dam
"f Virginia, and ii colt by Eclipse, dam Lady Light
loot, and Owned by Col. Stevens. Tie was
made before the coils we're toaed, the dams and sires
ating named. and was what is called a produce
E1atCh.-The sum was 5000 side half forfeit. 1t
vas won ~ Go! Stevens colt in two heats by about
'"qf Icigihs.-- nG time We have not heard.
Ban. .amertun.
e;wearngen, the lite Sheriff of Washington Coun-
~, hung at Cumberland Friday LAST, for the
murder of his wife. Between tour and i've thousand
persons Witnessed the execution. 4 full confession
Of every circumstance connected with the murder,
made to an attendant clergyman few days before, is
t36e published.
Commodore Porter came passenger i'll the brig Be
van, arrived Philadelphia om Vera Cr,fz anu was
landed ut Chester Saturday. He is understood
ODE the bealer Of dcspatch"s to government.
NEw YoRK, October l. P NJ.
We have received Havana papers 10 the 81 ut.
Inclusive. The Bordeaux .paelct No i, sailed on
the 18th, for Fanpico, with provisions and rem
iocccnento of one Hundred and iySepcn men, for the
army of Gen Baradas. This, says private letter,
is the only force yet provided for what is called the
second expedition destined for the conquest of xi-
co. The papcs do not mention aDy arrival fom
Iampico.
tscoi Ire .NsD YORK Journal Of Commerce
How TO MAKE TuRLE SToRr HOUSE our or A
Two SroEY.-rhe Broadway Marble House No.
di3, winch Is p feet vide By 10 deep, with brick
walls l2 inches thick front and rear, and side walls
inches tnick, has been raised from the @r6,s.,d
ciInnies and all, to the height Of seven feet in cf
Substitute another story IT is done by means
Of screws under the direction Of Mr.. Simeon Brown
The process simple, aud slightly dsturl,s the
building that iamy ni'gnt IN IT. pursuine
their usual vOcatIons, with perfect conposnre The
weight OF sncn building is enormous; and the case
with Which it is raisnd furnishes an admirable Illus
ration Of the power of bechansia
Len,7aed E1;fors We like lnarI1;rc-,,a,,oi n,c,
land perhaps learned women If they have q bright
eye and rosy lin and stocking not foo deep We.
like the Phi adephia editors because they such
monstrons learned set Of men. When they speak
ono has to brush up his Latin and Greek-tumblc
himself into the ibrary--or eat up the Edinburgh
Encyclopedias should it be as bitter John book
What ~ poetry-lmag natIon--fine tastc-nother
wit or knowledge of the world, when compared to the
learning OF the following paragraph which the learn
cd editor of The United States Gazette writes in re-
ply TO the learned editor Of the National Cq-eite.-
lit Is the Proctivity of respectable neighbor TO
write 50 dliuSivety, as often to become ii,tsire.
We acknowledge the Wece67Dus and idioleckic STYLE
at our rrudte contemporary; and confess the Fu{r-
,losy Of our comprehension that renders his fgura-
tim imperative. We hence obnoxious TO illa-
9"eat'on, when We own doubt of his ult5i6ty."
There's learnng for yon-.N. 7. Courier.
GritiSh and Freact .Naoies-i is a little snt,ilar
tsat the following calculations have been made and
niven to the world by Frenchman. The Abae dc
Pradt has just takenupon hnscIfto inform his country
mcn-1st, That sinCe the battle of La Horue nS7
gears ago. the English have taken I36 ships OF the
line from Franco, While Fanco has only captured eight
from England, and not OF these has been captu-
red in regular engagements %. that from 1893 to
SD, England captured Of all the maritimc nations
10 shFs-of the lue, without mentioning small YES
seIs and merchant ships nnumerabe: moreover, the
English fleets took in the same period all tic colonies
they pleased, Sd, that the French navv has been una
bic to protect the French colonies; dth that il has
not been able to protect srrc convovs; 5th iha.
= has not been able to protect our coast from iasult
Dieppe, HAVE, and farfeur have been bombarded |
Ond Cherbourg. Lise, dAx. and Belleise, have fall
on under the power Of England, 9th that Whenever
the English heYe been forced TO re-crnbark il has |
been by che land troops; eth, that when there is war
NIth England, the French ports are bockaded com
Tnerce Is destroyed, and the French fleets arc conpe
iod to remain in arbo 9Th, that France cannot have
snarl,IrBe war except with England nor keen nm q
navy except with view Of opposing that Of Enran1
oDd, 9th that maritime coalition agaias; England i.
sn absudity.
.AiUrigrc,--Iic following pictrro is ftoru news
ptIeE puDtlshcd ~ years ago OF course III tire
sent age Of moral and intellectual Improvement no
picture Is merely hstorica! clTcsity-"no,,s 1roqe
ctGngc t9ut teia:"-If you see ninu and a woman
v1h LITTLE or no OCCASION, often finding fault, and cor
TgcIrg one another III company, you may be sure
they are man and wife. IF you see gentleman and
eGg IN the same coach, IN p5ofund silence the one
locking at Gre side the other at the other, never i'm
arine they mean any harm 20 each other-thcv gre
.iready honestly married. If Won see a ladv acc:5en-
tally let tall her glove handkerchief oud reatia
that IS next her kindly telling her Of it, that she
nay take IL up--uian and wife. If you see lady
presenting gentleman with some. hing side wise at
t5H5 lonrh, with her head tu7=od suctler way. 6