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Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07
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lNTERNATIO NAL AbCOPY-hIGHr.-' his SUD
iect continues to attract discussion and pub
lie attention. 1t is still before Congress-
Those interested in the matter will be plea
sed with the manly style in which the DIS
tinruighed author of the following letter
has expressed himself in favor of the pro-
posed law. tits from the January num5el
of the periodical to which it is addressed.
To the Edltcrof the Knickerliocker
Sir: Having seen it stated more than
once, in the public papers, that | declined
subscribing my name to the petition pre-
sented to Congress during former session
for an act of International Copyright, |
beg leave through your pages, to say IN eX-
planation, that declined not from any hos
tiIity or Indifference to the object of the Pc
ttion, in favor Of which my sentiments have
always been openly expressed, but merely
because did not relish the phraseoIogy OF
the petition, and because expected to see
the measure pressed from another quarter.
| wrote about the same time, however, to
members Of Congress in support OF the ap-
plication.
As no other petition has been sent to me
w. - 'o% n,;,nonstr,oJ nav os fnr rs NV
nnr,e m'y w u,o" % he thouabt IF onv volue. enrol
!, " n,no's ~" ,roso ubn nr,y q nnnst EARNESTLY to
Congress for this act of international eqnl-
ty. consider it due, not merely to foreign
JSenlr ioJebt' I 4 far constant instruction and
IIoli~6t bnt in onr nnt,vn anthors. Who are
,,anna,ad ~, vi IN ',a afacts or ,ho wr,ng donp
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.hi. V, -" ro,,,;,r "; ny oIayo and cannnt he
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u.s., svS ~ oso,nos onou NE its M ,n,torir narn How
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W a." ann,,nan%%o n% "p mu rs 'ba tsrara nor
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!, re- Co. h;n Hrt c,nnd il ;mnoss;hie % tn pnt
~ ~ ntTar I fron, ~ ,nv Of onr nrinc;naI nnhlish-
ers. They even declined to publish it at
the author's cost. alleyinr il vns mt worth
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

No MORE STEAMBOAT ExPLosIoNs.-A
patent Safety Guard for steam boilers has
been invented by Mr.. Evans. Itconssts
Of a stele bv which the pressure Of steam
may be accurately ascertained and regula.
ted, and having an all2y ofmetals so situa-
ted thatit would fuse in case the heat ofthe
boiler would rise to such degree as to en-.
danger the engine, and by its fusion a
valve is permitted to open, allowing the
steam to escape. 1t is stated that boiler
cannot possibly burst when protected in
this way. If the statement is correct, the
inventor deserves a monument. ~. o
PicayuAe. '4
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The Steam boat Star. Capt. Belden, ar
rived at Toledo yesterday morning from
observation-disclosures Er.
She must have come by the way of Mau-
NEE then, for we've seen no such thing here
at the mouth fthe rivcr.-.NdahdtiaA .Adr.
Now, Brother Smead, don't !-War'nt
you ever humbugged, deceived, or disap-
pointed--we were, and that's all we have
to say with regard to the article that appear
ed in our last weeks paper. But we can
now say, and swear it too, that the STAK
Capt. BeMea, aoas in .Maumee yesterday,
from Cleveland, and more than that carried
a very intimate friend of ours back with
her.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

to pay its creditors, and the reason that
It does not obtain them, is the same that
compelled poor Jack to so to bed without
his supper,
Such Z stale Of things then we say, can
not org exist unless the people become
corrupt, and our next elections will prove
whether there IS virtue enough left TO oust
| their corrupt and prohigate rulers, and to
| 0lace honest and capable men in their pa-
ces.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

"CoRpsE GOING TO BALL."-The N.
Y. Commercial discredlts the story, now
going ne rounds, about a young lady who
was frozen dead while on her way to Ball.
The story does require in the belle er a
pretty large development of marvellousness
that's fact. Whut may be the custom
down East, we are not informed; but III
this region, ifa young couple were seated
snug and cosy in a sleigh on their way to a
Bali, or wedding, neither would be apt to
remain very long in ignorance as to the
fact whether the other was dead or not.
Our incredulous namesake says:-
Credat Judens Appelial But this is moi
all: II is said .'the bail went on!' Now we
believe none oft. 1t is possible that had
the lovers been deaf and dumb, one Of them
might have been frozen to death without
the knowledge of the other. But we douol
il, and certainly one of 4 gay young couple
full OF life and vlvacity, on their way TO q
ball, could not have become speechless, and
been frozen into statue, without the
knowledge Of the other. More than all
there is no town or village in these Unitet
States, where people have marble bosom'
mo community Of barbarians, where, un
der the circumstances stated "the bal
would have gone on" We dislike spelling
a good story; but the thing is impossible
And what is impossible can't be true, al
though published in the N. Y. Observer
lfit is true, give us the names Of place ant
parties.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

THE GOVERNMENT BoRRowING MONEY.
According to the report Of the Secretary
ofthe treasury, it is necessary for the Go,
vernment to borrow s4, 100000 in order to
preserve its credit. 1t matters not wheth-
er this money is obtained by the issue OF
Treasury shin-plasters payable in 6, 8, OF
twelve months, or whether it is obtained
by loan, in reality it must be borrowed.
But for what purpose is this money ueed-
ed? Is it not in part to refund to merchants
in New York, money unjusty retained and
carried of by Swartwoutl ta
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07


THE TimEs.-A plain common sense
view of the subject will show who are in
jured by the hard times, and who are bene-
fitted by them: who would wish to relieve
the pressure, and who would desire TO con-
tinue 1t or make it still worse. The price
ofproduce and labor is high in proportion
to :he Smount of money in circulation.
Formerly if the farmer wished to raise ten
dollars to pay his tpXes or forany other pur-
pose, he could bring six or eight bushels
of wheat into market and purchasers were
plenty, who would pay that amount fol it;
but now if he wishes 10 accomplish the
same object be must bring twenty bushels,
and can hardly find purchaser then. Thus
we see that the property of the farmer has
decreased in value about 100 per cent, and
the price of labor has diminished in nearly
the same proportion. 1t is clearly then for
the interest of the farmers & abor;ng class
IS to have money plenty, and 1t is as clearly
Tor the interest of the office holders to have
hard times. They can purchase as much
with one half their salaries this year, as
they could with the whole in good times,
md the arrangement Of the currency, has
IN reality increased their salaries nearly 1o0
per cent.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

THE CRY OF BosToN.-The following
beautiful aud eloquent notice of the aacIent
capital of Massachusetts, is extracted from
the inaugural address OF Jonathan Chapman
Esq, Mayor of Boston, delivered on the or
ganization of the Municipal Government,
Jan. 6, 1870:
"Flrst among the foremost in achieving
that freedom without which there can be no
real progress, she has meyer been foun'!
wanting in any enterprise that could secure
or adorn it. The simple but eternai truths.
written, as it were, upon her everlasting
hills, in the blood Of her stern but pous an
cestors-that industry is better than fer
tile soA---an intelligent population than the
softest cllmate--rehglo and virtue than
mines of gold-haye not yet been forgotten.
Guided by these truths as by the lights OF
benignant Providence, she has steady and
healthily advanced in size, numbers and
wealth. The skill of her mechanics, the
enterprise of her merchants, and the high
and honorable character Of her citizens ge-
nerally, have given her no mean station
among the cities Of the world Every nte-
rest essential to her well being as a com
,munity has been literally assumed and ge-
nerously provided for at the public charge.
Churches and school houses are her most
numerous and cherished monuments. Neat
ness, quietness, and general good order have
marked her character, and in all the points
that are worthy of a true ambition, she has
established a0d maintains, both at home
and abroad, reputation which is an hon
orable passport for her children through tue
civilized world"
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

PAY THE PRINrER.--On a subject ol
great moment to newspaper publishers, the
N. Y. Atlas sernonlzeth' IN the manner
following to wit: ..g
A man who properly pays his advertising
bills, is one ofnature's noblest works. The
fact established is at once passport for him
into society which he ornaments with his
virtues: but the wretch who advertses in a
paper and does rot pay, Who remorse.
lessy would cheat printer, is unfit for any
but the lowest and most depraved society
if known he should be stunned by honora
Bile persons. No good and pretty CIR
would encourage 'headdresses ofsuch man
for moment, and when h, dies, he tum-
bles INTO PI, rotten and corrupt, leaving he
hind him no bright memory to sweeten hi.
ashes.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

SINGULAR ADyERTisEMEN The fol-
lowing advertisement appears in one of our
New England exchanges: -" Wanted
man to take charge OF the milk cart, and
a horse entertaining abolition principles .
We do know if the advertiser has been
able to find Z" horse with abolition prlnc-
pies" but we do know that if he had
advertised for an ass entertaining abolition
principles he would have had no difficulty in
finding one.-M o. Plcayane.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The Freshet In the Sasquehanna.--We
learn that the departure of the Ice from, and
rise in the Junlatta river, occasioned great
damngej destroying considerable Quantity
ofwheat at Lewlston--iEJuring the canal
seriously IN many places, blocking up with
ice the turnpike roads through the long mar
rows in MitilIn county. AT Harrisburg the
old turnpike bridge was injured SO much in
one pier that travelling was only allowed on
the lower track; and one pier of the rail
road bridge was one third swept away and
another injured on one sife, but the struct-
ure was secured by tmbers and no dscon-
tinuance passing over it occurred.--M Y.
Rep.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

TnE FEELING OUT WEsT.--A few
months since real hot Southwark Locofo-
co emigrated West, and located himself
near Alton, Illinois. a day or two since, a
letter was received from him, in which was
the following extract in substance; and we
un lerstand tha it excited as much aston
ishment in his Southwark friends, as if Mar
tin Van Buren himself had come out for
the old hero. ....
" liu2zn for Old Tippecanoe! Nay, you
needn't cape in astonshment.---I'm in earn
est--llarrison! is all the cry here-and you
might as well attempt to dam the Mlssls-
sippi With pltchfork, as refuse to swim
with the popular current. Hereabouts, a
Van lIuren man is as scarce ass Wing usad
10 be in old Southwark. The blood of the
Western people is up, and ! tell you they
are going for old Hard Cider" steamboat
fashion, and no mistake. .'--PhA. Sent
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

You cry out we are a ruined updone
people--why? Why are we a ruined peo-
pie! Because we are corrupted, why is
it dear sir, that you are corrupted? Because
we are needy ! our poverty rot our wills
consent. .1-Tristram Shasdy.
q That is right Mr.. Shcndy, tina, is our
situation precisely. Our government has
tinkered the currency until it has brought
itself and the people under it to need, and
we, as nation, have become corrupt. Leg
islators no longer legislate for the public
good, but for their own private party pur-
poses. When abill IS brought before them
the question is not asked will it benefit the
people, that is of no consequence, the only
objectis to ascertain whether they can make
political capital from advocating or oppos-
ing Its passage. The pledged faith Of
staics is broken, when its preservation
would be for their own benefit. Moral OBJ
legations are almost wholly disregarded.-
but nre the people corrupt The fountain
eanrot become corrupt and the stream that
issues from it remain pure, and If the peo-
pie have not become so. there is great dam
ser ttat they viii. We are needy, ana
lise tie children of Israel in Egypt who
we're commanded to make brick without
| 4
straw, We are taxed high while humbuggc-
rysnj corrupt legislation have taken away
sur means, and the crusade that has been
carried on against credit Las put
3iiclls ons Or eur power to borrow Of our
<. 3. ~ 4: has q aared III cNLf le,lel.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

THE FlrtlSG Our.--The Queen has
asked for ElOo 900 4 year to be settled on
Prince Albert--the Duke of Wellington
thought $4,000 was sufficient to enable
him to "keeP house, in pretty good STYLE"
A New Yorker, who has seen the Prince,
says, "He has comeiy face, pleasing ex-
preston, large eyes, reddish mustaches,
and a Roman nose A wag says it was
the nose that decided the Queen.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

AN, AGREEABLE ANEcDoTE.-Th follow
ing pleasant anecdote is told of Madam
Rachel the popular Partisan actress: "The
Mayor Of one of the ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF
Paris, recently waited upon her with the
request that she would perform at the Ode
on, for the benefit of the poor. g Play for
the poor said she, oh, most willingly, sir.
Not long ago was one Of the poor myself.
Command my services. will play for them
as much US you please
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The Ohio State Bulletin says, speaking o.
the banks, GIVE must remove them from
this false and mischievous position, in order
to bring the Governmsm and People again
within speaking distance"
Never fea,, the people will speak loud
enough next fall for the government to hear,
and we are much mistaken if voice from
Columbus has not already been heard at
Washington which will cause fear and
trembling. -
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

1t is stated in an eastern paper, that in
the five districts of N. Carolina, the people
are carrying barrels of turpentine to the
stores, 10 exchange for goods. There is no
money in circulation there, and burter is
the only resource left.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

o. ! hey are about building vessel OF
the Maumce river, TO be propelled by feve
and aaue power. She Is % be used exclu-
sivtly for the transportation Of Harrison vo
tcrs.-- Monroe Times.
We cannot perceive the point of the a
bove paragraph. Its true there is Steam
Boat building al this place, and equally true
that 1t is to transport Harrison voters for
the PLAIN reason, that there are no Loco fo-
co voters in the country. Perhaps the idea
sought to be conveyed by the Times, was
that his party had run out. Well we can
remember the time when Michigan was
loco fuco to the core, but things have chang
ed, as they will in Ohio a yeul hence.
But to the Boat. There is now building
in this place, fine Steam Boat, Of 150
Feet in length, 2lg feet beam. Near IN
debted for this to the enerprlze of our fel-
low citizen, james Woicott Esq, who is
principal owner in the new Boat, and thus
far, we believe, has forced it on by his own
unaided exertiuns. Frederick Jones, the
master builder, is too well known, to doubt
that she Is fine model, and when she is
completed, our much esteemed friend Capt.
/. r. Pheatt, will be ready to receive the vo-
tiers for Ge-,. Harrison, and convey them IN
the NEW BOAT safely over the waters of Erie.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The ice from the lake and harbor is ra-
pidly disappearing. There is an opening
from the head of the Niagara to Windmill
Point, distance of seven miles, and fhe
strong current has cleared the creek from
the light house to point above the sea
wall.--Buf. Pat.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

Mr.. Cunar's line of steamships be-
tween Liverpool, Halifax and Boston, will
commence plying in the month of May. A
communication will then be formed once in
a fortnight, between Europe and America.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

1t is stated that the proprietors of the
steamboats, on the sound, have determined
to carry no more cotton for freight. If
this determination had have been made
three months ago, how many lives it would
have saved
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

PoToMAC BRIDGE GoNE.--We learn from
the National lnteligencer of Wednesday
that the long bridge over the Potomac, af'
ter resisting the running ice for thirty
hours, gave way about IL o'clock on Mon
day night, with u tremendous crash, owing
to the pressure ofthe immense bodies of ice
which fuated down the river. About two
hundred yards Of the bridge have been en-
TREY swept away, including the draw anc
the building occupied by the bridgekeepeI
on the Virginia side of the river. BY lhi.
nntoward occurrence, travelling to and
from the South will be seriously impeded
and much Inconvenience arise to the c!tl.
zens Of this District especially.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

Inc Editor OF the Statesman has .beeh
perfectly raJid since the god. His dreams
are OF log cabins and hard cider. 1t is
said that he occasionally starts from HIS
sweet sleep, and cries OUT oh ! that the
quasi quires were in h--ll." Keep cool
Samivel Ohio Jour.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

Quo CANALs.--The Ohio and Erie and
Miami Canals are both open. The water,
was let INTO the former on Monday last.
The latter has been open several days and
crowded with business, SO says the Cincin-
natl Chronicle. tt g}f'rrT
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

Two hundred German emigrants, who
were passengers in the steamer Belle, re-
Gently lost on the Mississippi, had ith
them large amount of money, which was
destroyed in the boat. One man lost $l6,-
900 in gold.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

INDEPENDENT TREASURy.--We are
strongly in favor of an "Iadependent Trea'
smg" that is of a treasury that is able to
pay its debts without being obliged contin-
ually to Lorro,v the means.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

A DELfGHrFUL pLAcE.--The Picayune'
says there is town in the interior of Ar
kansas containing but six inhabitants, VIZ.
crippled negro, quack doctor, buzzard,
q polecat, and an alligator. There wasa
population Of seven until the Postmaster
absquataLized-U
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

1t is estimated that upwards of sew
enly factories have ceased operations in New
England and at least one fourth of the
populntion of the Unired States are out of
employment! -Nelo Yorker.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The death OF Mrs. HnNaY CLAY, ir. was
announced IN the Louisville City Gaaette of
the l4th. That Journal adds:-r
She died suddenly and unexpectedly in
THIS city on Wednesday night, the 12th inst.
She has left large faoy circle and many
trends to depIore the loss of most estima-
Die lady, whose place can never, in all time
be filled
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

FALL OF THE FoREsT. The fine lands
known as the "Miami Reserve will be
rapidly settled and calculated, after they
shall have been brought into market. AL
ready several enterprsing and Industrious
settlers have begun to clear away the for
est within the limits of Cass County, on the
South side of the Wabash There are 90 or
g5famllios; who are actively engaged in ma
klng useful and permanent improvements
building housesj clearing land, erecting
school houses, employing teachers. &c.
Ten years, and Cass County will be the gar
den OF Indiana.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

A NEW PRoJEcT.-'Some wag recon.
mends, as every other project has failed TO
subdne the Semiuoes, tNdt Government
plant the morats muAicaulis all over Florida
as 1t has been ascertainel that every branch
contains t'0o Kindred ana forty t,co shoots.--
u.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

NAvAL.--Orders were received at Nor
io'k on the l2 b insl. to fit out, for three
years cruise, the new sloop-of war YORK;
town, at present lying at the Navy Yard at.
that place. u. 2
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

RAILROAD Iron 1t seems, from re-
port made by the Treasury Department to
the House Of Representatives, that the
amount ofduties remitted On iron imported
for railroads and stcamb, ,ats exceed the very
large SUN of three million and hayf QJ
dollars - Buff. Pat.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The height Of absurday.-John Cata-
line Calhoun and Thomas Benton, striving
to see which shall become the greatest ia
vorite with Martin Van Buren,.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

a Methodist preacher at the west is said
to have mnde use of the following thrilling
catastrophe; Brethren, tis as hard for a.
sinner to enter the Kingdom of heaven, as
Tor Goldfish to climb barber's pole, tale
upwards, with loaf of bread in his mouth ;,
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

The New Orleans Branch Mint since
it commenced operations in December has
coined 10000 half dimes, $4,000 half dol
lars, 100000 dimes, and g39s qurrter ca
giles. Making in all 3l7,s96 pieces, valu-
ed at $49, ,99J.--New Yorker.
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

CoNsoLING.-The editor of the Philadel-
phia Ledger speaking of the millennium
which he states, "by authority" is to hap.
pen one h2nsand gears hence, thinks the
people of the present generation need be-
under 10 uneaslness, as few of them will
live to witness the catastrophe. After this
The old Indies may set their minds at rest.
". O. Picaln1ne,
Maumee City express. [volume] (Maumee City, Ohio) 1838-184?, 1840-03-07

THE RISING GENERATION. between the
ages of four and sixteen years, the boys
and girls Of this metropolis number 65 600
young souls. OF this number, about co.
900 attend regular schools and 5000 the
Sabbath misunderstanding $4,000 actually
growing up, ignorant of reading, writing,
morals, Or virtue. Of lhe female part of
this number, equal to 5000, probably 500
of the oldest per nnnum are destroyed by
man--fashionabl man-n the qualification
Of his animal passions. The male part is
corrupted by rum and riot, and end in be-
coming soapIocks, loafefs, thieves and
murderers.
Can nothing be done to arrest the pro-
gress of this frightful system! There is
moneyto eXpend on fancy bals-money to
build churches with--money to cndow
brawng parsons Without there is not a
dollar to plant TIE seed of virtue in the
wretcbed DO ton olthe rising generation.-
NJ Y. Herald.