The native American. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1840, 1840-08-01

# the richest of that State, the soil IS so well ad-
,pted and the quality raised in such high credit
broad and at home. A great number of Virginia
nd Kentucky planters have emgraed TO Missouri
md thus the culture tobacco will advance rapid
under their skill and experience. The editor
ecommends tobacco warehouses, inspectors, &c.
appointed by the Legislature.
Copper New and important discoveries Of
Upper ore have been made upon the Current river,
! Missouri, a few miles from tha o.. .nl"ee,
distance of some fifteen or twenty feet below III.
surface Of the earth. 1t is said to be found i'll
solid body.
Three bundled and forty Germans from Darn
stadt, arrived a. St. Louis, recently, in the sta
mer VandaIia, from New Orleans.
WISCONSIN aoheM. A late number Of The Wis
konsin Enquirer says: 1.-The crop Of wheat last
year, i'll proportion 10 The amount on the ground.
vas astonishin y large and .lle prospects at pre-
sent are that will be even greater this year than
it was last. From every part Of the territory the
wheat harvest promises to he m ,st abundant
AgricuAturm Premium for Liberia. A mer-
chant Of New York offers SO for the first bag of
coffee raised in Liberia, and proved 10 haye been
grown there by free blacks.
| .3nthrrcile Rails. I he editor OF the Miners
Journal states that the anthracite cast iron rail
road laid down in that borough has been thorough
| Iy tried for the last two mouths, and not single
rail has been broken as yet, nor have any repairs
been required. There is greater elasticity in the
rails than was expected by the most sanguinc.
Cast iron rail roads (ihe Iorunal adds viii soon
supersede all the wooden roads in that region, on
which horse power alone is used.
Bank Of Wrgina. Anthony Robinson, cash
ier Of the Bank Of Virginia, resigned on the 18Th
instant, and Henry NJ. Brent, esq. was appointed
to succeed him.
Deaths during the last week ut Boston 81 !;
Charleston, S. G. only Z, three of whom by drow-
ming; at Sovannah, GA. only three deaths occurred
during all the month Of June.
L,soirent Debtors ofMc u. Stoles The ac,
of ls3i for the relief Of certain insolvent debtors
Of the y. States, and the acts additional thereto,
are continued in force for three years from the
|27th Of May last, and made applicable to the
cases Of insolvency which have occurred since the
date Of said act or which may occur prior to the
|27lh May, 1883.
Ice: A vessel recently arrived at Tampico, from
Boston with cargo of ice-the custom house
demanded 5000 duty. This amount the master
refused to pay, and threatened to let the whole
melt This determination softened the hear. Of
the collector, who lowered his charge to $50.
"IHe Magnet" small newspaper Of this
title is now printed at New York on press
moved by electric magnetic power 1--WE can
conceive of no practical idea more sublime than
that Of difusing the light of intellectual power
through the agency of that ETHEREAL fluid, which
seems to control all the movements Of the uni
verse.
Rye. According to the new census of the town
of Rye in New Hampshire. the quantity of rye
raised in the town last year was 3S5 bushels !:
wheat IT'S do. Number of inhabitants 1,1S7; in
crease since the census of 1880, 65.
A Relief of The Revolution. friend of ours
lately met an old soldier of the revolution on his
way from New England to Ohio, to seek evidence
to substantiate his claims to a pension. He was
90 years Of age, travelling alone, and apparently
as we'll able to take care of himself as half the
youngsters one meets flourishng on steamboats,.
There were giants in those days.-Bu6alo Sen
fmel.
The Schooner Emblem, at New Orleans from
Metamoras, brought 1868 in specie.
Slave Trade. Mr.. Buxton's "remedv" for
the slave trade, has been republished in New
York. 1t makes a neat l2mo. volume of $50
pages. 1t is curious fact that both the colo
Inizaionsls and aboltionists claim this work as
favorable to their respective docrines.-Jom. of
| Com.