Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1837-10-12

sylyanian states that since the IIih Of Nav
last, tho banks in tho City of Philadelphia
have decreased the discounts the sum of four
millions of dollars. and they have already SD
d' creased their circulation of notes one mil
lion four hundred and .fit!y thousand dollars.
There appears 10 he n strong disposition on
their part, TO place themselves in an attitude
to pay specie at as early day ns practicable.
d Phe Banks Of Virginia, according to the
Richmond Enquirer will resume specie pay
ments on the 20th of February next
At Piitsburg on the 9th inst. flour wns SELL
ing ffora the Wagons at $3.50, and from the
stores n, sG,15 per barrel.
Cure for HyhophoLia. Henry Hughes the
Montreal soldier, who performed several cures
last season upon persons attacked with the
terrific disease of IIydrophobia, has publish
cd a treatise upon the disease. Ii contains
the substance of popular course of lectures
which he deliver d upon the subject, and
merits examination and test.
4 There is now n fine sloop Of war building
at the Navy Yard in Charlestown-ofa beau
tiful model and Of larger size than any at
present in The service by upwards of q hur-
dred tons. She will mount "a guns, and will
be called the Cyane.
A lad only fourteen years old, has been
imprisoned in New York on a charge Of high
way robbery.
The capital stock Of the Boston Banks is
twenty ono million, five hundred dollars. The
semi annual dividends, payable on the Cd of
October, were five hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
i IL is said there are women in New York
who coax well dressed children into their a
bodies, by the promises of toys, &c. and then
strip them of their good clothes, cover them
with worthless and ragged suit and tell
them to run.
\ The trial of Benjamin Rathbun, the great
Buffalo forger, which was to have taken place
before the Oyer and Terminer, at Batavia,
last month, was postponed until the next cir
cult, in consequence of the Hines Of Judge
Gardner.
\ Nor BAD.-Thc New Orleans Picayune
says:-Amcrican liberty is not understood
these days none but loafers and loco focos
Understand it. To illustrate: if an honest
man has two shirts he must give drunken
loafer one-that is American liberty as de-
fined by some scribblers."
SINGULAn.-K star little inferior in bril-
liancy to the most luminous that are visible in
the heavens has been observed several times
by many of our citizens, moving in various
/ directions with considerable velocity. Its
position is nearly west at first, whence il
moves toward the meridian, ,and then desccnds
and sinks below the horizon for few mi
nutes and rises again. Wheeling Ga-.
| SANDWICH ISLAND MrssIoN.--The ship
Mary Frazier, Capt Sumner, from Boston, with
32 missionaries, arrived at Honolulu, April g.
after a passage Of ll6 days. The missionarie,
met with kind reception from the king and
chiefs.
A new drama, entitled Oseola, has been pro.
duced at Cincinnati.
| The new novel, entitled ''The Scourge Of the
the U. 3. Navy.
l The Exploring .Sg,,adron.-Thc Norfoll
Beacon states that pilots from New York ar
rived at Norfolk on Thursday last. for the
purpose oftaking to that port the U. s. ships
Macedonian, Capt. Armstrong; Relief, (Stort
ship,) 1t. Com. Dornin, and briggs Pioneer,L,
Com. Newman, and Consort, Lit. Com
Glynn.
| Cologne Water is manu- factnred largely by
druggists in this country. The real import
ed article may indeed be obtained, but al
| French labelled cologne does not come from
| the city from which it first took its name
The following recipe will make an article
which in perfume and other virtues is quite
as good ms the most of that sold at great ad
vance on the price ofthe articles enumerated
in it TO one quart of alcohol, put lavender
bergamot, essence lemon, and orange water
GO drops of each, and in like proportion for ,
:. greater o. less quantity.