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learn from the Hsuisburgh papers that Mr. PosHRor,
Deputy Sheriff Of Bradford county, Penn and four obss
few days since, undertook ares, man namsJ PsrrRs
sttbs Couabs Cro-ssosds, in that soon,y Peters dr.
knife from hn Pocksi and stabbed Pomeoy who died in-
s antly. aI.e lt0sA. IS aoy -',i..t.,. .t 81
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Thomas Reid and Henry Clements, con6asd in the Rich
mond s indsr ssnsncs of death os muny and mssdsr ON
board the schooner John Lindsay January, 1880 made
their escape Tuesdsy night By boring through the calling
or Aoot their CELL and thence through hs roof Of the
building. from which they descended BY tearing their bln-
kets into stEips and fastening them togehee ana k
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20 Father, they ssy trout win bile now :" toWeF well,
mind your work and then you' b. thsy wont bite,
you" e5vt Il 3sT-- ast
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ever question your German investigates and sub
jects to critical development, whether it be some
truth system Of truth in science, religion or poll
tics, his mind almost invariably gravitates towards
the ideal pole of that truth. In all his Intellectual
processes the conclusions Of an nexorable logic are
pushed to the EXTREMIST bounds of the possible and
transcendenal. Hence, whatever line of inquiry is
pursued, the same u:raism is evinced. II ne is
monarchisb you will find him avowing the princ-
pies Of Sir Robert Filmer if he is man of liberal
IDEAS you will find his theory of government built
upon rights, without any correlative duties. The
Jesuits were sarcastically described by French
scholar and critic as the men who lenpthen the
creed and abridge the commandments 80 the Ger
man democrat increases human rights in theory,
and proporionably diminishes human obligations in
practice. Thus liberty lspses into license, andlaw
into the edicts ofpopular violence. have devoted
the main portion Of this communication to the con-
sideration Of single topic, because Of any hos
tity to the Germans in Particular or our naturalixed
fellow-citizens in general but because think they
have placed themselves in a false position before
the public, and one which may array against them
hatred de race on the part Of those who, without
sympa,hizng in the tenets OF political nativism,
will not scruple to resista foreign propsgsndism
AT this same season year ago all New York
was reeliDg under the musical intoxicaton created
by the concerts of Jenny Lind, and now am called
upon 10 chronicle the enthusiastic reception and
successful dStaf, on last Tuesday night Of another
songstress from the old world. This time, how
ever, Il is moi the nightingale" either Of Sweden
or another land, that comes TO entrance our ears
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would, sure have felt the obligation endered so doubly
binding by tho manner in which tendered) deeply
and sincerely ss oursves and would regret a. much and
q sincerely ourselves that any Of quarrel should
arlse to separate two nations thai but be better
qusined with each Others good qualities to become and
remain fast friends She was docked at IL and fnishe by
o'clock the same evening For the important service no
enumeration, in any shape way, would be listened TO-
The Admiral in expressing the pleasure gave him 10
ssryce endeayoed TO prevail upon US TO believe the oblga
that occasion should occur this ecacy and isens s;,
Dc as promptly and as decately reciprocated 9a ~ f
In the race with the 1ftand, although do not
Know fsctha too much Of her ballast WAS taken out
ner an advantage in going before the wind but told
very much ag,inst her in returning There stssdy
oree1e and good sea running and he fell 90 rapidly to lee
wsd as to be hull down, and nearly out Of sight We beat
her. according to the report three Of four minutes
IN going down. and foryeieht or fifty minutes in re-
turnng on wind In tho race for the Queens cup there
were, think seventeen entries. most of which / believe
started In addition them there were seventy or eighty
o pensps one hundred under weigh in and about the
Dor and such another sight other country save England
can iufnsh Our drectons from the sailing committee were
smPe ana direct we were to start from the flag ship
Keep 'ne NO Mans buoy the staboard hand and
rom thence make the best Of way round the island the
snip om which started We got Off before the wind
and IN the midst Of crowd that We could not get rid Of for
.ne hs eight or nine niles fresh breeze then sprung up
'na soon cleared US from hangerson, and rapidly
ahead Of every yacht In the squsdron AT the Needles there
was not yacht thst started with In sight, that the
swer said 10 have been given question from high per-
sonase-of who was first ,The Amerca. Who is second
There Is no secondwas literally After passing the
Needles oveaken by The Roy acht Victoria
ana Albert with her MjtMy and her family on board who
had come down witness the trial Of speed between the mo
des adopted by the old world snd those Of the new Az the
steamer slowly passed we bad the qualification Of tender
ing homase the Queen, after the fashion Of her own
people, BY taking of hats and dipping our Aaes Al this
time the who'd hsd fen 10 hight breeze and we did not ar
rvs d the sE ship until dark could not learn correctly
at what time o. in wha, order the others arrived. l
The cup before you s the trophy Of that Days victory II
promised half Jest and half earnest when parted with you
to bring bone 70 you. The performance Of this promise
i ahoher erenpacaon Of the truth Of an old saw hst
what ofshdmss sad In jest il soms,ines done in earnest
am by TIE sensIssn owning ibis cup bg your
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FARMERS IN LIBERIA.

Il is with pleasure we write it. says the Liberia Herald
that there be found in Liberia persons completely nde
pendent in their circumstances One has only to visit the
Aourshns farms Of Messss Harris Jamison and Bsckledse
to sgree fully with us in opinion. Their farms yield them all
that required for their food ramsn and the uxures Of
life. Beautiful fields Of sussr-cane and coffee arrest the
tenton of the traveller be pods his quiet way the upper
banks Of the st. Pauls Their yards well filled with
stock Of every description their barns are stored with rice
and the outhouses eontan Of barrels Of sugar and
.irup. This is really encouraging prospect. Every
in Liberia il he will devote half Of bis time to active labor
may reach the state Of Independence. We earnestly advise
the vsans and housees politicians Of Monova
their prstilns, up the river and mako armsy they will
then be doing hsmselves and their country some service
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TO THE EDITORS.

~, TO THE EDITORS.
GEsrLEMrs Your learned correspondent, Lieutenant
PoRrER, or have learned his itle) passes entirely
too high compliment my article. not conscious
OF writing any thing very chass, classical, scientific
These nppeaons apply TO bis article much rather than to
mine That we entertain different ideas great subject,
which has engaged the most expanded minds Of the age for
years. is natural for different minds differently endowed,
and view things under different aspec pursue knowledge,
and nothing for victory that get the former. And
the ntegencer stands deservedy the head of scientific
Serials calculates among the tera Of country, and
generally occupied with the knowledge they furnish thought
that my theory Of the formation Of the earth might be made
the subject Of investigation and s pointed by your
able correspondent especially since it differs 30 much from
the received opinion of the learned world.
The explore nature and investigate her laws the
simple always find them; and il will be denied
By any the present day, it u presumed that the Great
Architect Of the universe operates BY MEANS uses agents
which He adsps the effects intended, and sets them
work in the most simple conceivable To trace these
effects 10 their causes, and vice verss, constitutes what
call science and the time to argue that this process Of
soning disconnects God from bis works. and is therefore
stheisica plead special providence on all occasions
appears have nearly passed by, seeing that He is alike the
author Of and consequently Of their effects Winston
supposed that the rolled the earth in the hollow Of his
hands, giving it spherical form, and then hit slap rather
side Of line passing through n centre Of gravity
and gave its rotary and annual motion by impulse
and to have assigned any other for these motions
might then have been deemed atheisca This observation
intended apply the criticism Of eminent Professor
La Places theory Of the formation Of solar systems Of
the nebulous matter scattered it were through bouDdess
space.
Is now generally admitted that every effect must have
special adequate to produce that effect ope
rating long IL exists accounting for oil the accompany
ing phenomena, snd under similar circumstances producing
invariably the effect Il Is in the application Of these
Of phiosophzng that your learned correspondent and
diner He think, the theory Of uphesva and the working
saesh and insects will for the existing condition
ne earns surface, and attributes the retiring Of the ocean
special cause attribute both pbsnomens the same
cause and deny that the doctrine Of uphesvsl win sccoun.
M no eA'ence oi chains Of mountains islands, and many
osner nsus sppessnces Here issue ss to sx.
isting facts can perceive NO variance between M.
Lieut. r. does not Pretend far a can unders.nd him
that shell fish and coral insects convert hs v,e, .If o,o
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no THE EDITORS.

CAssxLrox, (IsDrAsA,) JULr 26, 1851.
Messrs. GALEs & SEAroS Twenty years ago prohta-
BILE market found in central Indiana and Illinois for the
provisions and breadstu Of central and eastern Ohio Long
lines laden with bacon and -four then the
finished national road from Warren in the Western Reserve
Springfield, Illinois Then only about one-third Of the
counties Of Ohio made surplus Of food In the other Ohio
river States scarcely county made, the average,
food than necessary for the consumption Of that
adjacent county. Now almost every county Of these States
has surplus Of food for export when foreign markets offer
little more than the cost Of transport The foodproducing
capacity Of the States north Of the Ohio river cannot well be
measured. Il has conceivable limit High prices stimu-
late production, and reduce prices point which the pro-
uce cannot pay more than the European rate for labor So
il with olher great staples Offer prospective price of
fifteen cents pound for cotton and the enormous crops press
the price down to Create the impression that
tobacco will be season. and In twelve months to-
bacco il drug in the market
Had part Of surplus labor been recently taken from
the fields for the construction Of plank ndraroad our wheat
even would not be fully harvested.
Mr.. Secretary WALKER advised to pay rent on Euro
pesn conb and gave us no assurances that there would
be years famine in Great Britain or on the Continent
To great extent followed bis advice. and the food that
has since spoiled on the from fields European
warehouses would have filled many granaes pre-
pared by Joseph In the years Of plenty.
Our people now beginning to find out that they must
boil down their surplus before will bear export. Some time
branches they taking of the bark. Bysnd-by they
will up, and leave the dust and the shavngs the soil
where the tree grew to aid in the growth Of another.
The cotton planters once sen of the cotton almost In the bo
Then they picked and afterwards ginned it, Now they
thinking Of shaking out the dust and cleansing fully from the
leaf Until this year the Goals this point required to
aid in the export Of rude materials and n the import Of fabrics
Now portions used IN winnowiDg and compressng some
Of these materials for home Bysndby may set up
cadrons n which to boil down and cotton, hay and
hemp and cabbsgss and many other things that men
and and work upon, into an essence that
pure for long voyage and require less labor 10 handling and
less room for sowags Possibly and neghbor may,
yapdby get skill enough and machines enough 70 make
freight for Pacific railroad. II We dsl the surplus corn
md rye fcs alcohol the surplus cotton, hemp and
asr into cloth boil the surplus oxen into portable soup se
he tobacco from IN i STEMS and make the surplus potascs.
into starch may find Il most profitable to open drea
sde with the gold washers the spcs gahsrers and the ea-
ssf pckers We may b. able ssnd hay TO San Fran
risco but perhaps might supply that market with butter
and cheese. Yours 6c.
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DRowEED WHILE BATHIxe.-Mr. SAxroH BESTLr,
teacher in Of the public schoos st Msnhssssi Long L.
land, was drowned Monday morning in Success Pond
whils bathing with companion He young of
promise, and greatly esteemed and loved BY al who
knew him. His parents reside in Lebanon, Connecticut
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NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
THE DEBT OF TEXAS.

AT meeting Of the Creditors Of Texas, held in
Philadelphia short time since, of which GEORGE
RUMBLE, Esq. was Chairman, and JAMES G. VAN
DYKE, Esq. Secretary, committee was appointed
to prepare an Address to the People of Texas, max
ing certain propositions for a settlement. A copy
of the Address adopted has been forwarded to- US
for publication, and is hereto appended.
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Texas, although be said that such might be miscon
strued into dsus Of the integrity Of bis State and that he
should on that account prefer that she should b the inter
meday There is odor Of repudiaion Of any portion Of
the Texas debt here, and sentiments equally honorable
echoed from oil parts Of the chamber BY those Of the
dscordant social and political sentiments Abolons well
~ ultra pro-slavery Senator'S Democrats and Whigs and in
the House Of Representatives, well of the
Of Texas % by Others The feeling seemed common to oil
honest men IN both houses The sc in question passed. and
was approved BY President FLLMoRE the 9th Of Septem
ber 1850 and accepted by Texss on the 25th Of No
vember following, in these terms, viz:
"Be enacted by the Legislature of Tsras That the
said Legislature hereby and accepts said
and 10 hereby declared that the State Of Texas shall be
bound BY the terms thereof, according to their import and
meaning"
Bot fellow citizens Of Texas, what do we hes, now We
hear il alleged by the Executive Of your State 10 his MESSAGE
of the 18th Novembes ss that no further payment should be
made 10 your credors than the amount received from them
and interest," although such the urgency Of your public
that you bound yourselves IN iorm the most distinct
and definite to pay much larger sum The contingency Of
umen was known 10 rest on your ability to maintain your
independence Without ,hst you could mot pay at all Wa,
the risk Of the lender to be esseemed - nohDg Was the
promise then soemnly made that you would pay the sPu
lated anounts case Of success fof The use OF the money
without which success could not be hoped Tor OF at
tempted-a mockery, fraud We will not bslieve u
And yet his exceency Governor BELL IN suggesting To-
course above adverted to- a that creditor
ought in justice require and il eli, scoosding TO th'
highest standard Of moral ethics that bound TO accord
. 10 them"
We also hear alleged that other Authorities Of Texas
attempting BY strictly echnicsl construction Of the phrase
oo Of Mr.. PEARcIs bill, 70 limit the amount covered BY
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not the And suppose that what now constitutes
the bottom Of the the true level Of the earth
surface, and that not only the mountains and islands, but
also the two continents upheavedo which alternative
the advocates Of this theory necessarily reducedwould
say the least be absur for this rats the earth would
constantly augment sze without any accretion Of additional
NATTER and become, were, merely inflated bladder
Gravitation be law Of nature before this
take place any great extent Are the islands between 39o
north and south attitudes composed Of coral rocks Do coral
insects build walls and reefs above water Where do they
get the materials, and how bring them up thought salt
water necessary their very existence Was the peak
Of Tenere built by coral insects And, So was built
before after upheaval
The formation Of and cannot be
ed for by the doctrine Of upheav but they are the natural
and almost inevitable result Of the gradual loss Of heat and
consequent condensation and contraction Of the earth This
radiation Of heat having commenced at the surface left
solid crust Gin places consisting Of rock and caves
generally found in limestone localities which stood firm %
an arch and when the substance beneath il had cooled still
more became condensed and sunk constituted the roof Of
the cavern.
In Union county, Penoylvatis there lies an eIptica
valley called Nppenose whose dame,ers are Eve or sir by
nine miles tits completely surrounded by high mountain
except gap where the Of two streams spring
ing the head Of the valley and running along the noun
tain on each side, unite and escape into the usouehsr
Thirty years since when there this valley though vsry
fertile limestone land, settled only along the mountain
because the interior, gradually arising from the streams form
ed longitudinal fusrum Of epse, and no water existed
on this high ground could water be found y dssipe
Mr.. Shaw attempted H. and after digging TO considerable
DEPTH Il forget how desp,) while using the sledse among
scsey limestone the bottom fell with the sledse into the
cavern below except small space whore be Stood and in
few days s,sgnan, pool stood and remained there.
g. Mine Is the only theory BY which can rasonslv &C
count for the phenowsna Of volcanoes and cshquse Az
the earth adises still and s heat and contracts
in the proportion, fsurs occasionally opened,
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iron aurng in their promises that the public mind
seized upon them with avidity The first difficulty was to
sbdue those wild and magnificent orresses Of naturehose
inaccessible walls Of rock and mountain with which she de-
lighted to guard her treasures. To penetrate their recesse
TO scale their congomerste rmpa and convey the hidden
mineral to market over country whose undulations of
face seemed to laugh at the % diculed a. the dream
Of anaticism the dictate Of folly But mpedmens
cd only to stimulate activity to quicken the spirit Of specua
tion to open the purse Of enterprise Much Of the capital
which had been employed successfully in foreign
was thus diverted from ito accustomed chsnne and taught
wander to the hills the ravines and the rivers Of the Lehsh
the Schuylkil, and the Susquehanna.
Many millions Of dollars were buried in the Of these
mountains or in attempts 10 wind round their Valleys or i'm
prove the navigation Of their streams Perhaps hundred
nhons-and do not lightly hazard this es'imsedoes not
exceed the sum which transferred from the concerns Of
mercantile activity, and absorbed In unproducve Investments
the mineral wealth Of the Interior But prodges were achev
ed in various parts Of the State The Schuylk and Sus
quehanna rivers first united by canal and both after
wards connected BY The kind Of highway with Phade
phia. That vast of the Atlantic tho Chesapeake Bay,
was joined by canal with the Delaware whose noble waters
find ready outlet to the Sea- One of the great coafeds Of
the Stale brought the gates Of Philadelphia by ae
canal and noble railway and nnumerabe other works Of
present expense and future utility were undertaken and
pleed Fifty miles Al least Of underground railroad are said
exist in Schuyk county alone The locks Lehiah
canal are the deepest and finest in the world and nothing
exceed in sodi and beauty the inclined planes and
other artificial works Of that opulent region. OF the coal
mines and iron Mines Of the canals and railways of the Sste
which were undertaken Ia that day Of blind and wanton ex
pendtue how few have realised the dreams or the hopss Of
their ardent prjrco The geology Of the State had no,
been explored the art Of mining impercty understood
and the science Of engineering, % ycepd marked only
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