The St. Landry whig., 1844-09-05
NEWS OF THn wEHR.

NEWS De TEE WEEK..
The Wings of Natchez had a torch-light pro-
cession on the night Of the 31st ult.
The Secretary of the Treasury has determine
cd that the duty on kollow-ware, is one-and-a-
half cents per pound. Gunny-bags are free.
A fund of a hundred thousand pounds, it is
said, has been raised in England, TO preach the
doctrines of free trade in other nations.
We learn from the Philadelphia Ledger, that
a monument is about to be constructed in that
city, to be erected at Laurel Hill, over the re-
mains of Commodore Isaac Hull.
DnAru OF HnNKY A. MUHLENBERe. The
Hon. Ienry A.. Muhlenberg, for many years a
Representative in Congress, lately our Minister
to the Court of Prussia, and, 1.-THE time of his
death, the Democratic candidate for Governor OF
PENNSYLVANIA, died suddenly at his residence III
Reading, on the evening OF the 18th ulta
CAN N BE TRuE2 The Louisville Journal
mentions that a gentleman from Frankfort repor-
tied that Cot. johnson had voted for the Wing
candidate for the Legislature in Scott county.
1t was also stated that the Colonel intends to
vote for Mr.. Clay
The Farmers Club of New York have under
consideration the subject Of the establishment of
a National Home Department, for the encourage
ment and Improvement Of Agriculture. General
Washington was decidedly favorable to such a
department, and did every thing in his power to
procure the establishment of one.
No DOUBT OF IT! Gov. Kent lately stated,
in the course of some remarks, that he had no
doubt that England would be willing to pay all
the expenses of our Government, provided she
were permitted to thrust her manufactures upon
us duty free and he was not quite sure but she
would be willing to do so, were we to pass MIR.
Mckay,s bill. Who doubts i'll
The Echo de FOrient, a Smyrna paper, ofthc
9th April last, under the head of "the United
States" has a remarkable piece of intelligence,
not generally known in this quarter of the globe,
which reads as follows :-"The Presidential
election is decided. Mr.. Van Buren, has carried
He received 81 votes, Mr.. Johnson So, and
Mf. Cass,e-rGol. Johnson has been raised to
the Vice Pre~sidencgs
A visitor at the Niagara Fails Gus writes to
the editor of the Brookly Star Sc The sreay
which rises from the Horseshoe Fall, to a great
ieigtt, think contains a jet of hydrogen gas,
md regretted much that | had not brought "a
Nj of platinum sponge which | had prepared
J 18th a tube and with a pole to place in this Jet,
lus ignitlng the gas and producing a blaze
which would surpass in the splendor of its great
z coruscations the great hydrogen wells on the
Il great Kanawha. The Falls would make a
s. endid bonfire and if / am right in supposine
a column of hydrogent to pass upwards from this
cataract, the blaze would be almost perpetual."}
John Mcdaniel and Joseph Brown, the two
men lately tried and convicted for the murder Of
Chavis, the Mexican, on the Sante Fe Road,
were executed near the Arsenal, a few miles
from st. Louis, on the 10th ult.
The Baton Rouge Gazette states that almost
every night a burglary is committed in that town.
fPike & Hart store was entered lately. and rob.
bed of $l3, which was all the money the rob
bers could find.
New JERSEY. The election for the adoption
or rejection of the new Constitution lately
framed for this State, took place ~racently. In
Newark, the Constitution received the very
large majority of 1,2sS votes in its favor. ii
has, no doubt, received the votes Of a majority Of
the people.
Col. Brodhead, the historical agent of the
State Of New York, returned from Liverpool in
the Queen of the West. He mas brought with
him a large number Of manuscripts copied from
the English archives, and another large parcel
OF French documents is on board a Havre pack.
Ct, daily expected.
4 steamship, called the Mqrmora, intended
to be sent to Constantinople, and to run ON the
Mediterranean, was launched on the ID ultimo,
at Bath, Maine.
The Fishkill Standard states. that the Messrs.
Warning, Of Orange county, have raised on the
farm of Mr.. Peter Van Vliet, near Newberg, ~
bushels of Oats from an acre of land.
Specie is beginning to go from New York to
Europe, The Express says - Sterling bills
have got up to 1904 a Ito, which makes the
banks q little sensitive. About three hundred
thousand dollars in silver have been taken from
fthe-hrolters for London, and the same amount
will DC taken for France. 1t is not at all sur.
prising that exchange should get up, when the
lmportatlons continue so large indeed, it is sin.
gular that it has not risen before. The remit.
lance OF a moderate sum in specie is not to he
regretted, as it would check imports, which is
very desirable"
A railroad train with passengers, which lef.
Boston Tor New York d few days ago, travelled
one hundred and ten miles in four hours-twen-
tN,seyen ana a half miles per hour.
Hon. Silas Wright has for the third time
? blished a card, declaring that he will not suE.
fsinseifto be put in nomination for Governor
e New York. We always considered Mr..
u nghtthe shrewdest ~locofoco ofthcm all. He
: iartoo much sagacityto resign his s~enatori-
a %ilonorss TOR the doubtful satisfaction of being
badly beaten for Governor.
srArn ELEcTIoNs. The next State elections