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From Graham's Magazine for March. The Belle of the Belfry; or, The Daring I.oTer. BV S. P. WILLIS.

Concluded.) While poor Robertin was occupied with his researches into the "tick, tick, tick," never absent a Say from the neighborhood of the tower, the more fortunate hussars were planning to give the gristles a fete champelre. One of the saints' days was coming round, and, the weather permitting, all the vehicles of the village were to "be levied, and, with the troop horses in harness, they wero to drive to a small wooded valley in the neighborhood of the chateau de Brevanne, where seclusion and a mossy carpet of grass were combined in a little paradise for such enjoyment. The morning of this merry day dawned, at Jleast, and the grisettes and their admirers were stirring betimes, for they uere to breakfast sur Vlierbe, and they were not the people to turn ibreakfast into dinner. The sky was clear, and dew was not very heavy on the grass, and merrily the vehicles rattled about the town, picking up their fair freights from its obscurest corners. But poor Thenais looked our, a sad prisoner, from her high window in the belfry.

It was a half hour after sunrise and Dame Pomponney was creeping up stairs after her matins, thanking Heaven that she had been firm In her refusals at least twenty of the grisettes haying gathered about her, and pleaded for a day's freedom for her imprisoned daughter. She rested on the last landing but one to take a little breath but hark a man's voice talk ing in the belfry She listened again, and quietly slipped her feet out of her high heeled shoes. The voice was again audible yet how could it be She knew that no one could have passed up the stair, for the key had been kept in her pocket more carefully than usual, and, save by the wings of one of her own pigeons, the belfry window was inaccessible, she was sure. Still the voice went on in a kind of pleading murmur, and the dame stole softly up in her stockings, and noiselessly opened the door. There stood Thenais at the window, but she was alone in the room.

At the same instant the voice was heard again, and sure now that one of those desperate hussars had climbed the tower, and unabla to control her rage at the audacity of tha attempt, Dame Pomponney clutched her cane and rushed forward to aim a blow at the military cup now visible at the sill of the window. But, at the same instant, the head of the intruder was thrown back, and the crihhfirintr nnii irlinlir emit; nf nrvn, TJKoi tin I blow in its descent, and turned all her anger into pitv Poor, silly lad he had contrived to draw up the garden ladder, and place it upon the roof of the stone porch below, to climb and offer a flower lo Thenais Not unwilling to have her daughter's mind occupied with some other thought than the forbidden excursion, the dame oii'dred her hand to Robertin and drew him gently in at the window. And 3R if wa nn'r nnrl. pf tin ip ctio Vtirl nais be kind to the poor boy, and, locking the is now seen to have been wholly door behind her, trudged contentedly off with erroneous but it is somewhat remarkable, her stick and basket. certainlv, that he should have spoken of it as heoh to record an act of unacknowledged." In the House of Repre filial disobedience in the heroine of mv story.

1 An hour after Thenais was welcomed with 3entam'ee. on Thursday, an extract was read acclamations, as she suddenly appeared with I frm a recent letter of Mr. Everett, our minis Robertin in the midst of the merry partvofjter to London, which places the subiect in grisettes. ith Robertin not as he had hilh erlo been seen, his cap on the back of his head and his under lip hanging loose like an idiot's but with Robertin, gallant, spirited and gay, the handsomest of hussarf, and the most joyous of companions. And Thenais, spite of her hasty toilet and the cloud of conscious disobedience which now and then shaded her sweet smile, was, by many degrees, the belle of the hour and the palm of beauty, for once in the world at least, was yielded without envy.

The grisettes dearly love a bit of romance, too, and the circumventing of old Dame Pomponney by his ruse of idiocy, and the safe extrication of the prettiest girl of the village from that gloomy old tower, was quite enough to make Robertin a hero, and his sweetheart Thenais more inter esting than a persecuted princess. And, seated on the ground while their trlit tering cavaliers served them with breakfast, the settle every point in discussion, and embody Hght hearte.1 grisettes of Rocliepot were hapv mg what was called the right of search, which nough to be envied by their betters. Buts'ud jhe deemed the most difficult; and expressed' denly the sky darkened, and a slight gust mur opinion that it would hardly be worth while niuring among the trees, announced the com i ur to continue die correspondence on mating up of a summer storm. Same qui peul I ters in dispute between the two countries, and The soldiers were used to emergencies, and remarked, though he was willimr to eonsirW they had packed up and re loaded their cars and were under way for shelter almost as soon as the grisettes, and away they all Med toward the nearest grange one of the dependencies of the chateau de Brevanne. But Robertin, now, had suddenly become the and ruling spirit of the festivities.

The soldiers treated him with instinctive deference, the old farmer of the grange hurried out with his keys and unlocked the great store house, and disposed of the horses under shelter; and by the time the big drops began to fall, the party were dancing gayly and securely on the smooth threshing floor, and the merry harmony of the martial trumpets and horns rang out far and wide through the gathering tempest. The rain began to come down very. heavily, and the clatter of a horse's feet in a rapid gallop was heard in one of the pauses in the waltz. Some one seeking shelter, no doubt. On went the bewitching music again, and at this moment two or three couples ceased waltzing, and Ub floor was left to Robertin and Thenais, whose graceful motions drew all eyes upon them in admiration.

Smiling in each other's faces, and wholly unconscious of any other presence than their own, they whirled blissfully around but mere was now another spectator. The horseman who had been heard to approach, had silently joined the party, and making a courteous gesture to signify that the dancingr was not to be interrupted, he smiled back the curtseys of the pretty grisetts for, aristocratic as he was. he was a polite man to the sex, was the Count de Brevanne. "Felix he suddenly cried but, in a tone of surprise and anger. "The music stopped at that imperative call, and Robertin turned his eyes, astonished, in the direction from which it came.

The name was repeated from lip to lip among the grisettes, "Felix .1" "Count Felix de Brevanne But without deigning another word, the old man pointed with his riding whip to the farm house. The disguised count respectfully bowed his head, but held Thenais by the hand and drew her gently with him. "Leave her! disobedient boy!" exclaimed the father. But as Count Felix tightened his hold upon the small hand he held, and Thenais tried to back from the advancing old man, old Dame Pomponney, streaming with rain, broke unexpectedly upon the scene. "Disgrace not your blood," said the Count ae Brevanne at that nionienL The offending couple stood alone in the cen tre of the floor, and the dame comprehended "that her daughter was disparaged.

"And who is disgraced by dancing with my she screamed with furious gesticu lation. The old noble made no answer, but the grisettes, in an under lone, murmured the name of "Count Felix. Is.jthe, the changeling the son of a poor gardener, thaf'is disgraced by the touch of mv daughter A dead'silence followed this astounding exclamation. The old dame had forgottemherself in her rage, and she looked about with a terrified bewilderment but the mischief was done. The old man stood aghast.

Count Felix clung still closer to Thenais, but his face expressed the most eager inquisitiveness. The grisettes gathered around Dame Pomponney, and the old count, left standing and alone, suddenly drew his cloak about him and stepped forth into the rain and in another moment his horse's feet were heard clattering away in the direction of the chateau de Brevanne. We have but to tell the sequel. The incautious revelation of the old dame turned out to be true. The dying infant daughter of the Marchioness de Brevanne had been changed for the healthy son of the count's gardener, to secure an heir to the name and estates of the nearly extinct family of de Brevanne.

Dame Pomponney had assisted in this secret, and but for her heart full of rage at the moment, to which the old count's taunt was but the last drop, the secret would probably have never been revealed. Count Felix, who had played truant from his college at Paris, to come and hunt up some of his childish playfellows in disguise, had remembered and disclosed himself to the little Thenais, who was not sorry to recognize him, while he played the idiot in the belfry. But of course there was now no obstacle to their union and united they ere. The old count pardoned him, and gave the new couple a portion of his estate, and they named their first child Robertin, as was natural enough. SATURDAY EVENING, FEB.

25. Publishing Office, 39 Fullon street 2d Story. A Memorial on the subject of the proposed change in the Post Office regulations is left with us, which all are requested to sign who have not already done so. The X.atc Trcnlj We have little apprehension that any serious results will follow the new demonstration, both in England and in this country, relative to the treaty. The partial uneasiness excited by the late speech of Sir Robert Peel in the House of Commons, wherein he contended that Bng lanl1 nad coneeded nothing ever claimed by her, is already subsiding, since the falsity of his impressions, derived as they were from negative rather than positive acts, is now fully manifest.

His inference that the dispatch of Lord Aberdeen to the American Minister was irre sistable and perfectly conclusive in behalf of the right of visitation, because it had remained its true lieht He exnrs hfe nrnri, at remarks of the Premier; says that the letter vas acknowledged, in a note, on the 23d Dec, 1841, which was transmitted to Mr. Fox by Lord Aberdeen, and afterwards communicated to Parliament and printed." In that note he stated his intention to avail himself of an early opportunity to discuss the subjects treated of in the dispatch the delay being induced by some instructions which he expected to receive. He proceeds Such instructions I should, no doubt, in due time have received but, on the 27th of December, Lord Aberdeen informed me that rhp. sm. i i orai mission naa oeen determined on that Lord i Ashburton would go to America with full nower ant reply to any statement I might think proper to make on any subject, that pending the nem tiation which might take place at Washington, he supposed that no benefit would result from simultaneous discussions here." It seems hardly possible that Sir Robert could have been ignorant of these facts; but that he was, we are bound to conclude from his speech and hence we suppose that on discov ing his error he will either retract, or what amounts to about the same thing in these days explain it away.

If the terms of the treaty, however, upon the right of visitation, search, or whatever it may be, are so obscure as to induce this early misconstruction by the first statesman of England, their meaning had better be interpreted officially by both governments, and then settled again by negociation but if the British are to be permitted to construe the treaty as they understand it, they must accord the same privilege to us. It is a game, in short, at which two nations can play as well as one. But let this matter be settled as it will, it is plain that a very high degree of dissatisfaction exists in England in regard to the treaty generally. This is quite natural. While two persons are contending for their respective shares of a thing to which they are entitled in some indefinite proportion, it is expected that each will endeavor to obtain the larger share, and if foiled in their attempts as one or the other is sure to be the grumbling will still be kept up.

You cannot thoroughly satisfy both, or either one, indeed, unies you give him the whole and just so a is with England and the United States in regard to the boundary question. They were both partly right, and partly wrong, and were both sensible of it, besides. Each struggled for the mastery it was a collision a intellect as well as of interest, ami of course neither obtained all it asked, or perhaps thought ilselfen titledto; but the very Tact that such extreme sensitiveness and indignation is manifested by a large portion of both parties to the treaty, who were determined to have everything or nothing, is sufficient proof, to our mind, that justice has been meted out. The discovery of an old map in the archives of Paris, having upon it that strong red line," supposed to have been drawn by Franklin as definitive of our territorial limits, and which is destined to become as conspicuous as bill "548," has caused a perfect explosion among the high tory presses and ultra war material, of England and they callus a nation of scoundrels, hypocrites, swindlers, for having concealed it during the pendency of the negotiation. Well, let them rage on We are accustomed to such delicate and affectionate respected progenitor and to own the truth," as Cooper's Pocket Handkerchief says, We' are fearful that some of the States are destin'ed to earn for themselves the latter appellation, though we hope not.

It will take something more than denunciation, however, to convince us that it is our business to legislate or nego ciate for England, either as respects an international copyright law, or a boundary, or to hunt up evidence, under any circumstances, to make out her case. In the Senate on Thursday, the Naval Appropriation bill was taken up, read a third time, and the question being on its passage, Mr. Benton moved to recommit, with instructions to strike out the amount appropriated for the support of a squadron on the Coast of Africa. This gave rise to a long debate on the construction of certain parts of the treaty by the British Iro vernment some gentlemen contending that Sir Robert PecPs Speech, as reported in the London journals, amounted to a declaration of war, and others (among them Mr. Calhoun) considering it as asserting only that general right of visitation which belongs to, and is exercised by, all governments.

Mr. Bagby moved to amend the proposed instructions by striking out also the appropriation for the support of captured Africans on the Coast of Africa. The question on each motion was taken separately, and the first was lost by a vote of 36 to 4 the last by 36 to 5. The bill was then passed. The Committee on Commerce reported against the Warehousing System.

A counter report, framed by Mr. Wright, was also submitted. Both documents were ordered printed. The same committee reported the bill in reference to the New York Custom House, with an amendment striking out the House bill and inserting another which limits the amount to be expended for the Dupport of the establishment to 8338,500. The "fixing" of the details to be committed to the Secretary of the Treasury, who shall report to the next Congress providing, however, that no appointment by the President and Senate shall be interfered with.

The act to take effect on the first of April next. In the House, Mr. Briggs offered a resolution requesting the Judiciary Committee to report a bill nullifying the act of the Florida Legislative Council which forbids the emigration of free negroes and mulattoes into that territory. Objections being made, he moved a suspension of the rules, it was not granted. A bill for the relief of sick and disabled seamen was passed (remedies a defect on the act of 1798.) The House refused to set apart Tuesday for the consideration of the Warehouse bill.

At the suggestion of Mr. Cushing an extract was read from the letter of Mr Everett, our Minister at the Court of St. James, in which he expresses his surprise at the tone of the Premier's Speech states that the despatch of Lord Aberdeen was acknowledged by him, and would have elicited a reply had it not been for a conversation held between the parties on the 27th Dec. in which the Earl stated that no benefit could result from it, inasmuch as Lord Ashburton would soon go to America for the purpose of bringing the whole negociation to a close. A bill to establish a National Foundry for casting cannon was reported, read twice and referred.

The bill appropriating 530,000 to test the Electro Magnetic Tele graph was passed. An unsuccessful attempt was made to suspend so much of the Apportionment Law as requires members of the House to be elected by districts. KT The Madisonitin, commenting upon the speech of Sir Robert Peel, uses this language "The most amusing part of Sir Robert's speech is the considerate and patronizing declaration that 'we claim the right to know whether a gi ievous wrong has not been offered to the American Hag And hence they would board our vessels, and make search to ascertain the fact What control has England over our flag 1 Our flag protected ilsef during the last war. We had supposed we were an independent nation, and no longer tributary to, or under the parental protection of our cruel old mother. We had thought we could resent and redress any grievous wrong' effered us by any nation, ourselves." The Hartford Postmaster.

We learn from the Hartford Times, that the resignation of Charles L. Porter, postmaster of that city, is refused by the department at Washington he is, however, suspended for the present, and E. T. Bridge, Agent for the New England States, and who resides in New York, is appointed in his place for the present. Orders that the investigation before ordered be promptly prosecuted, have been received by Mr.

Bridge and he accordingly proceeded to his duties on Monday morning. The facts will in due time be laid before the public. Fulton Ferry. The setting rooms on the Brooklyn side of this ferry are infested at nio ht by a party of hack men, and loafers, whose conversation is unfit for the ears of infamy itself. We are told that a similar nuisance is tolerated at the Catharine street ferry.

If the agents of these companies desire to consult the comfort of those obliged to cross the river they will look to this at once. JV. Y. Chronicle. We think the Chronicle mistaken upon this subject; at any rate, we have seen nothing of the kind in our frequent evening trips across the ferry.

We protest against connecting hackrnen, or any other class of men, with loafers, as a matter of course. There are, no doubt, some rough and rather unamiable persons among hackmen, as there are among all other professions, not excepting editors but no more "loafers" than the relative proportion of that class, to the whole community, will warrant. There is a genius, however, officiating as master of the Catharine ferry, on the New York side, whose dismissal nobody would regret. We. allude to the gentleman with the whhechapeau, and a cigar uniformly protruding from beneath its brim.

ET We acknowledge the receipt of late Al bany papers by Pomeroy's Express. Naral Court mCaWinh Fmdat, Feb. 24 Samuel S. Van Norden was recalled and cross examined. He testified that Spencer and Cromwell appeared to be serious when speaking about changing the appearance of the brig.

Henry Corney was called and detailed the particulars relative to the carrying away of the mast He stated that Small kept hauling at the main brace after the order was given to belay did not see Cromwell nor Van Norden at hand. Mr. Ducr relinquished his place on the defence, und introduced Theodore Sedgwick. Wm. II.

Gasely was examined on the same point. He said tho wiast was carried away by a pull at the main brace. Jonas Humber examined had seen Spencer give Cromwell liquor, and heard him ask what sort of a pirate the brig would make had heard the latter swear at the brig and her rigging, and get checked by Spencer, who said they would have fun in her yet. Cromwell was a passionate man, swore at the boys "pretty hard," and was frequently drunk. CirAriN's Lectures.

The lectures of the Rev. Edwin II. Chapin, of Charlestown, Mass. delivered in New York and Brooklyn during his late visit, have just been issued from the press of C. L.

Stickney, 130 Fulton street, N. Y. in a neat pocket volnme, and sells at the low price of 37 1 2 cents. The first lecture, "The Philosophy of Reform," was delivered before the Be rean Institute at the the remainder at different churches. The author is widely known as a gifted and eloquent divine, a sterling odd fellow, and a sound and original thinker.

The follow ing extract from the preface sets forth the object of the lectures "The Lecture discusses the main doctrine of Reform, as it is agitated in our day. The first Discourse and those that succeeded it, take a Christian view of Reform, which, as is hinted in tlie Lecture, is directly based upon the Gospel. The first Discourse presents the Moral and Benevolent Associations of our day as the great point of union for all the Christian forces. The second exhibits and condemns that spirit of Intolerance which opposes this union. The third maintains that the law of Christianity in each individual soul, is the only guaranty of the success of these Associations, and represents them as auxiliary to a higher end the culture of the individual man.

The last Discourse endeavors to show the manner in which Christianity proceeds to effect this great work." ET What a merry, yet generous fellow your editorial philanthropist is, how he dashes from "grave to gay from lively to severe," or vice versa. Witness the following consecutive paragraphs from the Union GAY. ET This is a merry winter in New York not hardly a family in the city that have not been out sleigh riding. The only difference between now an heretofore, when we have had snow on the ground, wc used to go to the livery stable for our sleigh, and now we take to the ojixibu, a fine way of riding it is too; we can ride three miles for sixpence. GRAVE.

ET In God's name don't forget, this chilling winter, the poor. When you are cold, and making for a fire on your own warm hearth, just think of the thousands about who have no fire to go to. Think of the mother's torture when the child says, I am cold. Pity the rich can't feel for the poor, as well as the poor for each other. Death of Geo.

Vance, Jr. Wc are pained to announce the death of Mr. Geo. Vance, widely known and esteemed arnono; us, and at the time of his death, one of the publishers and proprietors of the ilbany Atlas. He expired yesterday morning, after an illness of nearly twj weeks, deeply regretted by numerous friends and a wide circle of acquaintance.

Albany Argus. His funeral was attended on Saturday, by the editors and printers of Albany, the military corps of Burgesses, and the order of Odd Fellows, of which he was an honored member. A Scamp. A fellow, pretending to be a Baptist preacher, named Spivey. has been kicking up a fuss and getting his name into the papers at Apalachicola.

His last feat, after leaving his wife and three children, was to steal from a friend a coat, two shirts, and a pair of pumps. A single pump, with a capacious spouf, and a good strong man at the handle, might cure him of his wicked propensities. Earthquake. A shock of an earthquake was experienced at Louisville, Kentucky, on Thursday night, between the hours of 11 and 12 o'clock. Iinte from Yucatan.

Extract from a private letter dated Sisal, Jan. 29, 1843. Since my last, the Mexican steam frigate Montezuma appeared off our harbor, and 'discharged several broadsides at the town, but without causing any damage. About sundown she hauled off, taking with her the Columbian schooner Flecha, lying here without cargo. The other vessels in port remained at their anchorage unmolested, except a schooner recently arrived from the Balizc, which made sail.

The Freeland arrived yesterday from New Orleans. Captain Smith re; orts that the day previous he saw the Montezuma capturing a scnooner wnicn naa Deen aispatcnea by Commodore Moore with communications for this Government. N. O. Bulletin, Feb.

14. Appointments by the Governor By and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Feb. 17. Richmond County.

Benj. B. Phelphs, master in chancery, vice Henry B. Metcalf, term expires 22d April, 1843. Henry C.

Hedley, master and examiner in chancery, vice George Catlin, term expires 29th April, 1843. Thorn S. Kingsland, master and examiner in chancery, term expired. Benjamin B. Phelps, sup.

court commissioner, vice George Catlin, term expires 25th May, 1843. New York. Feb. 18 Aaron Vanderpool, Judge of the Superior Court of the city of New York, vice Daniel B. Tallmadge, term expired.

Modern Greece. The modern Grease is certainly Cincinnati. Upwards of forty thousand Hams, 6000 Beef tongues, and 5000 Hog tongues are said to have been cured this sea son at the Provision packing establishment of John M. Rowan in that city, for the West India market. I here are four Lard Oil factories in Cincinnati, some of which kqpp two gangu of nanus consiaiiuy at worn during the whole 24 hours, one set relieving the other at stated periods.

Much of the product is shipped directly to France, and other parts of Europe. Phil. Ledger. 'Legislature of New Vorlf. In Senate, Feb.

23. The resolution recommending the passage of a law by Congress fur the relief of Amos Kendall, was received from the Assembly for 'concurrence, and was debated by Messrs. Root, Denniston, Faulkner, Dickinson and Hunter, and the question being taken on concurring, it was decided in the affirmative, as follows: Ayes Messrs. Cockee, Chamberlain, Corning, Denniston, Dixon, Ely, Faulkner, Foster, Hunter, Lawrence, Lott, Mitchell, Porter, Ru ger, Strong, Varian, Viirney 17. Nays Messrs.

Dickinson, Franklin, Piatt, Rhoades, Root, Works 6. The committee of the whole took up the bill to aid in the construction of the New York and Erie Railroad. Mr. Faulkner resumed and concluded his reply to Mr. Porter.

On motion of Mr. Varney the Senate then went into executive session, after which it adjourned. In Assembly. Petitions Presented and Referred. By Mr.

Daly, to modify the law relative to attachments on vessels to incorporate the St. David's benevolent society of New York and Brooklyn for the abolition of capital punishment. By Mr. McMnrray, against any alteration of the law relative to the inspection of flour in New York. By Mr.

White, for an equalization of representation in the Common Council of New York. Mr. Hibbard, on presenting the preamble and resolutions signed by the Rev. J. A.

Schneller, President, P. J. Morris, Secretary, and Matthew MeMahon, committee of 4,278 members of the Albany Catholic Total Abstinence Association, said he was happy to know, that the late attempt on the part of an anonymous writer in the Evening Journal, to discredit the accuracy of Dr. SewalPs drawings, has had no influence on the minds of 4,278 of our Catholic temperance men of Albany. For the accuracy and faithfulness of these drawings, among others, (said he) we can refer to the testimony of Dr.

Mott, of New York, Dr. Horner of Philadelphia, and Dr. Warren, of Boston: among the most distinguished ornaments of tho medical profession in this country. Mr. Pentz, from the committee on state prisons, to which was referred an act introduced by him, on notice relative to the State Prisons, submitted a report recommending the passage of the bill with such amendments, carrying out the suggestions in the report of Ransom Cook, Esq.

on the subject of employing convicts in mining. On motion of Mr. Fuller, five times the usual number of the report wero ordered to be printed. Mr. Allen reported a bill in relation to the State Lunatic Asylum.

Mr. Daly reported a bill for the hotter security of mechanics and others erecting buildings and furnishing materials therefor in the city ol New York. Five times the usual number were ordered to be printed. The Annual Report of the New York Institution for the instruction of the deaf and dumb, was received. The House wont into committee of the whole, on the bill to improve the courts ol common pleas and to reduce the expense thore Mr.

E. Strong moved to amend so as to give tlie election of the president judgu to the people, and pending this motion the mmittee rose and reported progress. The same committee reported progress on the bill relative to costs and fees in courts of law, A iiotlscr Slide About half past 5 o'clock, yesterday morning P. another slide occurred immediately on the south of the avalanche of the 17th. Its movement was witnessed h' many, and was at first so slow that any one within its roach could have easily got out of the way.

This movement occurred where there was less prospect for its starling than there was on the north side of the precipice. Only a single house being within its reach, and that having been vacated, there could have been and of course was no injury done to persons. The woodshed attached to a dwelling at the base of the hill on the south of the avalanche was carried away, and the house had a narrow escape. The amount of earth brought down by this slide is not much surpassed by the quantity which descended on Friday. A hirge portion of the old deposite was inovd by the last slide a distance of nearly fifty feet.

A portion of the hill on the north of the avalanche, bids fair soon to come down. After that has fallen, if the digging is stopped, we think there can be no further danger. Meantime, persons living in the vicinity of danger. should be induced to vacate the promises. By this wc would not alarm the neigliborhowd of the slide, but simply warn those in actual danger.

P. S. 12, M. We have just returned from the slide. The earth has moved considerably since last evening, making, we think, the aggregate of the last equal in amount to the first.

The hill at this time presents a peculiarly interesting appearance. Besides the mass that has found a resting place on the level below, there is a huge pile or mound separated from the hill and resting at about fifty feet from it, leaving a chasm of much depth between. In the face of the hill, about forty feet from the summit, there are two large holes through which a powerful stream flowed during the night and spent its force not until this morning. The aperatures are two or three feet in dirimj ter, and some adventurous ones who have climbed within a few feet of them say they penetrate far into the bosom of the hill. The remainder of the hill is now merely a hog's back," and, although the summit is not less than 250 or 300 feet above the original level of the adjacent plain, at no distant day, we think will be levelled, so as to form an easy declivity down to Washington Park, between which and it there are no buildings yet erected.

On this declivity, after the troubled earth has subsided, there will be some "eligible building lots." Mt. Ida, north of the avalanche, wc are in formed, is composed of different material, being chiefly rock. So there can he little if any dan ger of farther slides. Troy Budget of Wcdnes. day afternoon.

The friends of science should look after the subject of the annexed anecdote Animal Magnetism. The Lecture on Animal Magnetism last Thursday evening, was the most amusing, if not the most instructive, of" the course. The lecturer, after a short exordium, in the course of which lie got his diagram upside down, and in other ways appeared decidedly under the influence of the fluid, came to a full stop with Ladies and gentlemen, the fact is, I am drunk, decently drunk, and I shall not lecture to night. Vou can have your money back, or you may come again for nothing at some other time when I am sober, but it is quite out of the question to go on at present." His associate, Mr. Colby, resumed the lecture, with an apology, which was doubtless as good as the case would admit of.

Prov. paper. Appointments by the President and Senate. Alexander Drysd'ale, to be Attorney of the United States for the district of Georgia, in the place of S. Cohen, resigned.

HURRIED. In Paris, January 26th, by the Rev. Mr. Lun combe, Barori De Trobraind, to Miss Mary Mason Jones, of New York. DIED.

February 24th, of typhus fever, Mrs. Sarah Ans, wife of Joseph J. Brewer. Funeral this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, from No. 5 Colonnade Row.

Her remains will be taken to' Norwich for interment. In New York. 23d, Miss Jane Vreeland, formerly of Statcn Island, aged 51 years. In New York, 23d, Charles Burnham, son of the late Michael Burnham, aged 31 years. ISAiHHErOIV LIIERARV ASSOCIATION utT DEBATE Monday Evening, February 27.

Question for. discussion Ought the proposition of Mr. Johnson, for the assumption of the Stato debts, to be adopted Society will meet at half past 7 o'clock. F25 2t JNO. M.

PRATT, Secretary. RELIfiIOI 8 SERVICE. Qtr The Rev. T. J.

SAWYER, of New York, will preach in the First Dniversalist Church, Adams street, next Sunday morning, at 10 o'clock. Seats Free. F24 2t A CONCERT ET For the benefit of the Martha Wushrngtort Temperance Society, will be given at the Lyceum on Thursday evening next, March 2, by the Brooklyn Mozari Sacred Music Association. The Hon. AARON CLARK, ex Mayor of the city of New York, will deliver an address on the occasion.

Further particulars will be announced? hereafter. Tickets 25 cents each two tickets will admit a centleman and two ladies may be obtained at the Post Office, at the bookstores, or cf any of the following Committee of Arrangements Abraham Crist, C. Holt, George S. Conover, J. L.

Cum mings, Rufus Claggert, Luther Eames. F24 3t CITY PARK ASSESSMENT. EJ" The 'Collectors will be in attendance al the Common Council Room, every day, for TWENTY DAYS, from 9 to 12, and from 3 to 5 o'clock, for the accommodation of all those who wish to examine the books of the City Park. All parties knowing themselves to be assessed, or owning property within the assessment district, will please call (as above) and settle their respective accounts, and save further expense. M.

P. O'HERN, AB'M. S. WRIGHT, Rlty Collectors. Brooklyn, cbruary 23, 1843.

F23 lm gtOCJfijA.ua AT I ON. CP WHEREAS several buildings have recently been destroyed by fire in this city, and. as is supposed, by the design of some evil disposed person or persons HENRY C. MURPHY, Mayor of the city of Brooklyn, do, by virtue of a resolution of the Common Council, hereby offer a reward of TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS for the apprehension or conviction of any person or persons who set on fire the school house near Willow street on Saturday evening, Feb. 4th, 1843, or any other buildings which have likewise been lately lired by incendiaries.

Witness my hand and the Seal of tho L.s. Mayoralty, this thirteenth day of Febnia ry, 1843. HENRY C. MURPHY. F13 2w CT The MARTHA WASHINGTON TEM PKUANCE SOCIETY will continue to hold their regular meetings in the Young Men's Mount Vernon Reading Room, Hall's JJuifdings, every Thursday afternoon, commencing at half past 3 o'clock.

ed to aid in this enterprise, arc affect ionatelv irivi. i ne uioics generally 01 JorooKlyn, wno leel dispos ted to attend. E. W. WYCKOFF.

o4 tf Secretary. 03 THE WASHINGTON TEMPERANCE si Mutual Protection Society, of the City oi Brooklyn, meet at Hall's Buildings, on the second evening of each month. The Board of Managers meet at the same place on the fourth Monday evening of each month. The benefits are as follows If a Member is sick, he receives at the rate of $4 per week. If his property is destroyed by fire, he may receive to the amount of 50.

When a Member dies, 25 is appropriate! forhia funeral expenses. Applications for Membership, or for the Constitu tion and By Laws, may be made to the President, or the Board of Managers, who meet as asove stated C. H. LITTLE, President. C.

CORNELL, Secretary. Brooklyn, March. 184 mI9 tf FIRST UNIVERSAL I ST CHURCH. seats free. In Adams, between Nassau and Concord streets Open for Divine Service every Sunday morn injr, afternoon and evening, at the usual hours.

MARINE INT KLLIG ENCE. PORT OF NEW CLEARED. Ship Hellespont, Havana brigs Hardy, do Falcon, (Br) Bermuda Dimon, Charleston schrs Harriet Smith, Havana; Wm Allen, Apalachicola. ARRIVED. Ship Adelaide, Adams, 35 dsfm Swansea, Wale.

Ship Calhoun, Myers, 5 ds fm Charleston. Ship Saratoga, Russell, fm New Orleans Feb 6. Brig David Huffel, 17 ds fm Apalachicola. Brig Baldwin, 6 ds I'm Savannah. Schr Wm Cooper, Kelly, fm Philadelphia.

Scbr Margaret, Woglam, I ds fm Petersburg. ROCKWELL'S TTOARHOUND CANDY is fast taking tho lead of all other cough remedies, it being a purely vegetable compound of twenty six of tho most safe and salutary ingredients, therefore it concentrates all the renovative qualities of tho vegetable kingdom into the simplo remedy of a little candy, and that so cheap that the poor as well as tho rich can procure this never failing cure for their coughs, coldsj hoarseness, croup, whooping cough, irritation of the throat, asthma, For directions and price, see the ero'elope with each package, signed J. ROCKWELL, without which none are genuine. SOLD BY Wm. Bailey, Druggist, cor.

Fulton and Sandsst. L. N. Baldwin, Grocer, cor. Myrtle and Gold st.

C. Skcrritt, Druggist, 251 Fulton street. Dr. Mountain, Druggist, cor. Fulton and Adams.

H. P. Day Co, Grocers, cor. Myrtle JackBon. William Wakclin, 217 Fullon street.

B. F. Cook, Baker, 111 High street. B. F.

Stratton Co, Grocers, 76 Henry street. Mrs Crane, Jamaica. Carll Seaman, Babylon. William Roc Co, Patchoguo. D.

Half, Patehogue. V. H. Wells, Southold. J.

K. WcioIfpv, Huntington. Stratton Vailc, Canoe place. J. Crolus, Sagharbor.

And at the manufacturer's, wholesale and rotail. No. 248 Adnms street, Brooklyn, Long Island. F25 tf HOUSE ON 3d AVENUE. Gowanus, to let Tho double wooden dwelling house i 1 i uhtuwiwu ituiiBui uu and oxtending to the Bay, opposite Mr.

Hatfield's grocery and stage house. It is very pleasantly situated, and will accommodate two or three families, and will be let low to a pood tenant, say $170 per annum. Apply to JOHN VOORHEES, 131 Jack eon street, near Sands, Brooklyn.or to V. G.HALL, 26 Pine street, Now York. F25 tf anu gruuna uuucuuu uuLiug on.

oa avenue i.