Mechanics', operatives', and laborers' advocate., 1837-01-16

PrcSldeRt-JosEpH BARBER. FIce Presidcm-lENRY PECK Directors-GAD DAY, CHARLES BosrwIcK. JR, AVERY C. BABcocK BENJAMIN THOMPSON. ELISHA DlcKERMAN, JR IreaSurer-ZEBvL BRADLEY.
 Secretary-PELEG Il. CoNE Measures adopted at this meeting which, if carried out, will give new life and vigor to the Instu ton.-Regtster.
 AWFUL DEArH.-The Jersey City Gazette says, man on Sunday morning last on fragment of ice the middle of the Hudson River floating with thc tide, hcaving his arms for assistance which it impossible to render him, and was presently ob served to sink and disappear. It not known where he was from, or how he became placed in the fatal situation where he met his ecath.
 Dcpth Qf Bork Na,ct-The Galena, (lllinois) Ad- vertscr says that the celebrated Indian warrior Black Hawk, was recently drowned in the Iowa river, by the upsettng of his Canoe, when returning from king Treaty.
 Four persons burnt to death !-The Montreal Vlnd- cGtor of the 23d ult says - wooden building at
 
 Huntington, occupied as card m jomer's shop, and dwelling house, was burnt to the ground on the morning of the 18th inst Melancholy to relate, the inmates of the building, consisting of three females and boy, all fell prey to the flames before any suc- cor could be afforded thcn.'
 The Wayne Sentinel relates that Mir. Richard Mead of Macedon, \. Y. while walking upon an icy place carrying sharp axe his shoulder, slipped and fell partly backwards, the falling under him with the edge upwards, and maning him just at the top of his hip bone so horribly that lie ded on the Monday fol- lowirr, i2th Dcv.
 An:.~srrl.-,A letter from <atchez, of recent date says. This couGt1y is prospcriag beyond all calcu lation property within e last year. has risen 30 pc cent and neorots are selling at ;sIi90 head, fol cash"
 Hon Henry Clay has been elected President of the American Colonization Socicty, to fill the vacancy oc casion,l by the dcccasa of its late President NIr Mad son.
 At Portland on Saturday. the snow Was betwHer three and four feet deep. The Eastern Argus says :' The roads are blocked up with snow drifts!'
 An inclos;1rc consisting of an oblong square witl lncaycd brick rl, nearly twelve feet thick, surroun dine about 50 ,oujas, has been found on Crow fist river An anagrlm of the place is givcn n the Chi cago Ancrc2n
 The bill for tic adm ssicn o' Michigan into the Un ion as an ;ulrpcnden 5ta,t yrc ived its final passage in tle United tatas Senate cn Thursday evening, b, vote ot 2:3 to lG.
 The F. u~j14nd Ar@u, staos that man named Burke on Friday. rln from that city to Saco distance o about fifteen mics. in :hec hours, winning wage of about trrty dollars. The roads were bad that man who accompanied him on horseback to see th0 the conditions were fairly performed, was compelle to cilanrc horses on the way. It is stated that 2l Pepper, of the unfortunat passengers Of the Mexico, had with him e3oC0 in me ney and effects, and that several of the passenger were in good circumstances.
 Gen. Santa Anna, acuosding to a writer in the Lot isyillc Gazette is light and slender about five tee ten inches high and of &n erect military bearing Il corlplexion is somewhat dark but he would pass an where fer white man. Ais face highly inteIrctuA l.e has never been in the United States before, an does not speak English During the year tS3G, there were lost on tno coa cf the ll.tcd S,44es, 1G ships and barhs-'1 big 121 schooners, l2 scops ;}o boats, and ea6 lives. , Deolas ;u ta1-Iiaeen-There were 3Q2 deaths , New Haven the past year
 Importation qf 5jjhs.-Thc amount of manufacture silks n31ted into the United States in the year cn , ng ell the 3vth September, 1e3o, was 174@7 Jto dc Il lars.
 Compressed ,fr.-A clock maker of Eouosne; n ,,..,,,<,1I: a,bcd the r,2stc trcr cl co'.Et a5; air, to .,.. ,,r f: :'in4 r;r cA la:c.t9@'E.
 t,a;;orS r:.ur.r, it ion>s;j.-:S letter from \ ,ox 3.' .r ..>! ot Oc.o~r, published ill t.' rarjs | t'>lrI: a4y ;:
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