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Huron, by this route is 440 miles less than
by the Weland canal and lake Erie. -Buf.
fato Jour.
From JAMAICA We have files of
Kingston Papers to the 18th Of August, re.
cieved by the packet ship John w. Carter,
Capt. Crane. The first Of August, the
day on which the federal apprentices were
set free. passed in quictness throughout the
island. The negroes on large number o
estates refuse to work for any thing like
the wages rendered them by the planters,
and il is stated in the Dispatch Of the | lth
that the accounts from the country Of the
desertion of the negroes from their respec-
tive occupations, is truly deporabe. Cat.
tie destroying the cane pieces, and coffee
dropping from the trees to rot upon the
ground, are the general features of the in.
teIligence which the letters from the differ
ent parishes communicate. The overseers
on many of the estates have been left with.
out single domestic, and serious loss is
contemplated before the manufacture of
produce can be resumed. The stipendiary
magistrates and Baptist preachers are
loudly censured for recommending the ne
groes to hold out for higher wages than
the planters can afford to give for field Ia
Dor. The negroes are generally represen
ted as cheerful and contented, and willing
10 resume work for what they deem rea son.
able wages, from %. Cd. to S.. per day
~ Y. Gas.
AMERICANS IN CANADA. The indis,
criminate attention which has been paid by
Lord Durham to American strangers is
working its own cure. The citizens of the
great universal nation Of generals aad colo.
nels who have visited Quebec, nave been
feased and feted and requested to review
the troops in the garrison, as if they had
been each, and all, foreign potentates, to
whom the greatest respect was due. In
this way have the two regiments Of guards
been inspected by men who knew no more
about military duty than the man in the
moon, and it has been only requisite for a
Yankee shop keeper to put the magical let
tiers U. S. 4. after his name in the book
at his hotel, to insure hun invitations to the
Chateau, and the different regmental
mcsses. -.Montreal Her,
.Mutiny on board a Whaleman. The
whaeshp John and Edward, belonging to
the Messrs. Billings, OF New London,
arrived at that port on Wednesday, with
fifteen hundred barrels Of oil from whal-
ing cruise having been obliged to return
with half cargo in consequence Of the
mutiny of the crew. Sixteen of the hands
have been six months in irons. Captain
Bailey having succeeded in queliug the
mutiny by the spirited measures taken by
himself and his officers, and the faithful
portion OF his men. The mutlneers were
put on board pilot boat and sent to New
Haven immedately upon the arrival fthe
ship at New.London.
PAINFUL Unconstitutional in Otter
Creek in Weybridge, on the nth ult.
George Wood, aged 10 years: also Ezra
Smith. son of Stephen P. Lathrop, Esq.
aged 6 years.-They, with another young
man were bathing, when Wood, stranging
called for assistance to the others who had
come on shore. Fearing that he would
cling to them if they touched him, young
Lathrop sprang into the water and told the
other young man TO hand him a stick, witt
which he swan to Wood and requested
him to take hold Of it but not succeeding
in this plan, he seized him by the hair ,r
draw him on shore, when Wood locked hi:
arms around him and they both sank to-
gether. They rose once, closed ia eacf
others arms, and cried for help; but the
Young man on shore could not reach then
before they were swallowed up in watery
grave. Wood was found in a short time
Lathrop in about three or four hours.
Thus have two young men in all thu
bloom of youth left their friends to mourn
their loss.
"The voice Of this alarming scene
May every hear. obey"
Corn IN THE wEsT.-The Cenerville
ilndlana) Chronicle thus speaks of som'
corn now growing in thai town:
"On Monday morning last we measured
several stalks of corn IN different lots il
this town. and found them from Jourtee,
J feet Gve inches to sirteen feet eight niche
high. The tallest stalk we measured wa
in the lot of Mr.. Israel Abrahams at tn
west end Of Main street where we counte
from five TO eleven perfect ears on a stalk
This is the celebrated Baden corn, sen
from Washington city last spring BY on
representative in Congress, the Hon. Jane
Rariden. We have not had time to 60 GU
TO Mr.. Rariden's farm, where there is tie
acre field of corn to find tall stalks, but ar
, informed that the field looks like a fores
and will average four ears to a stalk
This corn is rather late. being so high tina
it will require longer time 10 ripen tina
the common kind"
Value Of one vote.--The value of sing
vote in closely contested election, is ior
Q chilly shown in the following paragrap
5 from the Raleigh, N. c, Register; At tn
{ recent elections 10 this state. two of tn
Wing candidates. Messrs. Moore of Hal
: fax, end Murchison of More, were defeate
e by one vote and Messrs. Mangum, of o.
S ange, Harris of Cabarrus, and Gudger, {
d., ho hv nt