Mobile register and journal., 1845-04-19

meeting in he New Yolk University on the 9Th inst al which one hundred and fifty members attend ed Nlr Tell exhibited plants grown 10 he he,ght of p inches since the l2Ih of March, ly electricity, new and experiment.
 TAe Rirhmond Enquirer of he Sth inst. alluding To the report that the senior editor that paper is going 10 Washington to conduct political journal, make these observations
 Shonld this scheme be carled out, he will under take 10 say al onre, that he will go iheie win dis position to unite, and not distract, the Republican arts-to uphold 'he great principles of the "Jefer- solt' era--to speak lhe nu,h--to support an admin islraion, thai is intended 10 put "the vessel oi State upon the Republican tlack." lie would go there hound To nu candidate, pledged to clique lfany such should exist, or any such should arIse-dls- claiming all discussions about the succession, and prepared, within the compass of his abilities, 10 dis cuuntenHnce all precocIous separations, and all the too eager struggles of inordinale ambition He will go wiIh design tn create clques, but Io exiin- guish thcm--to denounce no Repubcan-to destroy man-and hwari nnnr, unless the nlunc'nns 0i public duty and his principles should demand an op- position 10 their measures and their course.
 JEFFERsoS's NOTES ON ViReihIA.-The fol. lowing article from the Phadephi North Amer i- can gives brief and an interesting history of this work
 IL sounds strangely, hui most of he demands for this very agreeable E0ok are mei hS copies imported from Eng land, generally of $ ,ockcalts edition o l7S7. The eighth American edition published in Boston, in 1901 lo,iy yihree years ago. The work WAS undertaken in l7Sl, for the purpose ol answer ing number q! inquiries made by Mons. De Mar hnis, then Secretary oi the French Legation tn the Untei States; and even at this distance of lime has | lost but lItte ot ts lnteres.
 When Mir. Jefferson in l7Si joined Dr. Franklin at Paris. as the ird Mn'ster rlenipotenary of lht United States To Ftaicr he then pln'ed privately wilh the view of gratifying some friends, TWO hun dred copies. Some of these he presented 10 Europe and others io Amer,ta,o his friends. Occa sionally copy SD presented appears in the sale Cal alngue oi some aristociatIc bookseller, with all h, l importance derHed from the staliJl ot its author and the dress given il by it's possessor Ne doub there copies still in the poss sun oi the seen dacls to whum they were eenI in tlis country w. have before us that one senl to Judge Francis Hop kinson, which is quite curiosity. It Is crown oc lavo size, printed upon 'Enper tie lioiland," vel. accurately and bound in French calf, in sly le 0 Preach books of the year l7S4. The Following sig , nicant autograph inscription is on the fly leai
 Thumus Jefferson ,a,iug had fOw copies of lhcr notes printed 'o offer tn of his friends, and t some other es,imNbe characters beyond that line takes the liberty oi presenting copy to Mir Hop knson as a testimony Of the esteem which he bear him. Unwilling lo expose them 10 Ihe pubic eye he asks the favor of MT. 1opkinson io put them int
 he hands of no person whose care and iideiiI> h cannot rely $50 guard them against puhication.'- '- No doubt all the Copies carred the same cautlO with ihem-lhat presented to Mons de Malsh' rb had 1t almost word for wo,d. Nor was il nnnecessa r for Il cop, did fall into the hands of Frenc bookseller, who had translation ui il piepsred 2 full oi blunders, iha the author al last cousenicd [ lei London publisher (Stockdale) print the origin al. 10 ctace tie impression produced by the ransl 5 llon. Ii appeared Tn February, l767.