The Arkansas advocate., 1831-03-02

tural, manufacturing, and maratimc interests of
 the country, are paasshed by a more unjust Jaw.
 They stand ready to pay all they have but ask to have the useo their hands and heads III fu-
 ture. This is denied them; ;and not only so, butt
 suit after suit harnesses their minds, and tepds to
 break down the spirit which otherwise would
 rise superior to past loses and add again, as
 they have done in times past, to tho wealth of
 the nation. If there be fraud, punish, we had almost said unrcientipgfy, but punish by crrn- nal indictment, directly, and not indirectly by a code never intended for honest men. 1t is q fact derived from the books, and known at the Treasury, that the total loss to the Government since the bounding system was commenced, has not amounted to the half of one per ceut. on the amount secured by bonds and of two millions of dollars secured at this port within few months, only 200 have remained unpaid This is evidence enough of integrity. Policy demands a compromise, both in regard to the d. mount of money to be received, and the hosts ot merchants who will be again brought into busy life. Many, it IS well known, have been ruined, by unfortunate voyages by teas and cotton, with out the most distant suspicion of fraud, either in act or intent. There is no law like ours un- der any Government on earth; the debtors to l the Government here, cannot even avail them tselves of the tender merces of q bankrupt act; and even if discharged by State law, so as to | have the floeomotion, the United States Marshal may put the heggared debtor iu dur l lance. The President has twice recommended a relief law, and we cannot yet believe Con- gress will adjourn without having passed it. 
 Mqaila.-Captain kozebue, the Russian nav l igator. in an account of his voyage round the world, recently published, gives the following account of the native produces aud commercial commodities of the capital of the Philippine 1 islands:
 srhe whole world, Says Captain Kotzebue,) does not offer more advantageous station for
 commerce than the town of Manila, situated as 1 it is in the neighboFhood of the richest coun- tries of Asia, and almost midway between Eu- rope and America-Spanish jealousy had for
 merly closed her port but since the revolt of ! the American colonies. it had been opened to
 all nations, and the Philippines are consequent- ! ly rising rapidly to importance. As yet their l export trade has been chiefly confined to sugar
 and indigo for Europe, and the costly Indian birds nest and trepangs for China. The latter
 is kind of sea-Snail without shell, which, not 1 only here, but on the Eadrones, Carolinas and ! Pelew Islands, even as far as New Holland, sas ] eagerly sought after as the sea otter on the northwest coast of America. The luxurious 1 Chinese consider them powerful restorative of i strength, and purchase them as such at an ex- traordinary price. But what an inexhaustble
 store of commercial articles might not the island export Coffee of the best quality, cocoa, and two sorts of cotton, the one remarkably fine, the produce of shrub, the other of tree, all grow wild here, and with very little cultivation might be made to yield prodgious increase O wealth. These productions of nature are, however, so much neglected, that at present no regular trade lis carried on in them. A great abundance of the finest sage trees, and whole woods of cinna- mon, grow wild and unnotced in Lueon. Nut megs, cloves, and all the produce of the Moluc- cas, are also indigenous on these islands and in- dustry only(a commodity which, unfortunately does not flourish here) is wanting to make them q copions source of revenue. Pearls, amber, and cochineal, abound in the Philippines and the bosom of the earth contains gold, silver, and other metals. For centuries past, have the Spaniards suffered all these treasures 10 lie neg { lected. and even now are sending out gold to i maintain their establishment.
 Surgical Recopery of on Eye.-M. Maunoir,
 professor of surgery at Geneva, having perform
 ed the operation for cataract, by extraction, up
 on man eighty-two years of age, weakened by an operation for hernia, which he had endur-
 ed six weeks before, perceived to his regret that, although the pupil remained beautifully black and perfectly intact, the anterior and posteror
 chambers of the eye were not replenished, the lcornea became sunk and wrinkled, few bubbles of air penetrated the anterior chamber, and the patient had no vision. Without yielding to the first melancholy impression, the operator, by a happy presence of mind, conceived the hopes of |hng the cavity; he sent immediately for some