The New York herald., 1845-11-09

II Is estimated that the quantity a silk used -
England alone amounts TO more than iour millions VI
pounds weight Tor the production OF hich the labor o.
fourteen sand millions Of the sk insect requr
when live and de annually 10 supply the iso-
pie OF sfnaii portion o. vac essth VIA s 'aAa o
Wearing their products II a4oaished al this iaet how
mucn more we might DC by taxing suiVe, OF ths ~
pu.eon oi China o France, end America tnd ne ~os
I lige. Wnai ma,tbo ihe DumpesH ot th"se irseew
winch thus supply mankind ., large Win te tk they
wcafi
The census Of illinois, as lar q re,urus have been
received, sacws very mpid increase % population
si0. The increase IN tnat state vii cseeed quo
001 IN five years JucgIng iiom the returns airrray
The returns IRON ibe General Land once st0" itAt
900 acres of GOss.ume-i auda have been
"A Gois thin the lass eishean months. snd The po
liability j. that much greater tnouai has teta sold 70
actual settlers by bunatsid.ni isndnoiaers.
AT launch recently OF the steamboat Joan ~
arc fenlesee IIver, i've miles above raaucsh,
tue allied under the following escumsiaGcts
rha BOAT alter starring t0aafd tue water stoFped Tue
mate got a. vi nat gAs tna mal.sr eDd aIoiHsr
person gstting ~ wnen the nost asn started and
rushed iato l.e Nasr, taiosiag The nate backward,
ahd breaking Is neck "a iiaring - comra"'oa very
severely
Inc boundary line. whicn hus been rua belseea
Atkansas aud .ss.u.i ways bus little ever, IRON
tue OLD very sang gusr tpTi,g 81 ~aeI has been
found duIng tins survey, about 90 males nssE OF Bates
vile There Is oayiy seous ~ yaids ~ diameter.
reaching bottom irum A0MA through
year, at the OF some % GOO cubic i.et rsE
minute Win iaII oi iron ~ to 5eet ~Ilhin ha ilo
Yesterday there were one thousand lour huadTed
and slNty.eight OF land sod land office IA
this city Nor Is tnIs very extra amount The land an
sion is being taken with great rspdiy, bo ~
old settlers who want TO enlofgs their premises and ~
the rants who have come here an great numbers THIS
season.-- Catcago Democrat, Nor ,.
A meeting ot The citizens oi Georgetown was
held estelday consider proprety of euioning
Congress- to survey the bar bulld additional lnt
mouse and take such steps may be deemed sd,i.a
bic TO call pubic attention the ceorg and All
Saints Railroad Charleston Courier, MOE. ..
Hon John Quincy Adams at the Howard
Athenaum, Boston, on Thursday evening, and seemed
much interested in the peiormances-ihe school ior
Scandal"
Boston paper states that Posunasters within ths
thirty miles circuit, refuse to trouble themselves th
the delivery OF papers, because they get no pay or deli
According to the statements made IN the New Or.
leans papers there two rival companies there bad
ding Tor the contract to carry the coast a uade the
law OF the last Congress Col soo At toe heal of one
company, and Major A. j. Donelson at ihe heal OF the
other.
The Emperor OF China has issued an edct VA
which he saws he does wish exclude the Christian
religion his dominons, but means TO punish with
rgor those who make that religion a cloak under which
crimes are committed lie does not prohibit the build
ing of Christian churches at any OF the five ports open
European traders but cautions Christians against In
Producing their vices among his people.
Dr. DuTbn, III his observations IN the East
just published mentions that in parts Of Egypt, 10
avoid the conscrptons OF hehemit ALI the women have
been in the habit for years back of manning their
to unfit them for military service The de.
stroyn OF one eye was common operation But the
Pacha has taken an eectua way to put end 10 THIS
cruelty, by forming regiments OF one-eye ed sodi.
The evil is said to be already much diminisned-P.e
Miss ID. l.. Dix, lady well known for her phIlsn.
thropc efforts In the States of New York aud fennsyl
vania has arrived in Baltimore. Miss d. has been ong
and successfully engaged in the laudable object OF I'm
proving the condition OF prisoners in the reneniaiss
and Jails, OF the inmates OF Almshouses Asy Sc
and her present purpose is TO visit the INSTITUTIONS oi ko
character in that cny.
new potato digger was recently exhibited IN
operation at salem West Jersey IL threw out upon tho
ground with two horses at the rate OF hvo or sx acres
per day, and last thirty hands could pick W and
carry them away. The soil produced 100 bushsls of
potatoes per acre by the use OF compost muck
Mr. Jobn Evans n K ermer of fahaqudrfy town
ship informs that in gathering his buckwnest crop,
he ound sing stalk winch produced nve thousand two
hundred and seventy five grams - Warren Jour
Cambridge University has been the scene OF r-.
riot occasoned BY the dismissal OF member Of the
senior class, who would expose his companions in
IL Is said that he borne CIT open barouc he
with four white horses and attended by iour outrdes,
who were members OF his class.
The turpentne distilled In Wilmington, ". c.,
last year s estimated at 200 900 barrels, 100000
The raw material shipped, 10 900 barrels, valued at
sl6s00O Tar shipped, 900 barrels, worth 96i5,OOO
= Charleston Courier.
General Gideon Foster OF Ddnvers, Moss, died
on Saturday morning last the advanced Hge VI so-
General Foster commanded the minute men OF Danvers,
" no. on the i9th oi April, went TO Lexington 10 mcet
the English ro0pa Several OF ms oia'e soidies were
killed OH that day. lie noble old gentleman,
true patriot ana a Wing OF lII3. In Belfast, Maue Le
nuel Dilllng M 49, and Northpo. Isaac Jackson,
50 roy ououaty soldiers. On saturday last al Jieve-
land Abansn hckoS, one oil the eare"t setteis OF The
Lake country. -. :. /,
jackson, the puglllst, died recently in London,
aeed III He was the t.acner Of By yron aud great mum
bcr OF men, and was IA manners unassamlns and
IN language and demeanor cunspleied ht compnaion
Tor many oil the English mobility.