HASZARD’S GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 23.
GLIAIIIGS PBOI LATE PAPERS.
IIIILOUI POIITION OI‘ I1‘. PIZTIRSIURG.
It is melancholy to coahuiplate the constant hpfer in which this brilliant mpltal is placed. If r. Koul's picture is not overcharged, occurrence of a stran westerly wind and hi b water, just at the breaking it of the ice, wou d atsny time mice to oces on an inn aaicient to drown the whole population, and Ieconvert the entire cit . with all its sump- hous palaces, into a c aotio mass of ruins.
Gulf of Finland runs to it point as it ap-
ches the mouth of the Neva, where the most violent gales are always those from the ‘West ; so that the mass of writers on such occa- donsisalwuys forcibly impelled towards the city. The islands formin the Delta of the Nova, on which St. Peters ur stands, are ex- temely low and flat. and the ifihest point in fiecity is probably not more t an twelve or fourteen feet above the average level of the sea. Arise of fifteen feet is therelore enough to place all St. Petersbur under water, and a rise of thirty feet is enoug to drown almost every human being in the place. The poor inhabi- flnts are therefore in constant danger of de- atruction, and can never be certain that the
000 of them ina not. within the next
500, Iwenty—four hours, washed out of their houses like so mnu drowned rate. To say the , truth, the subject ought hardly to be spoken of] wit levity; for the danger is too imminent,I and the reflection often makes many hearts Rake in St. Petereburg. The only hope of 's apparently doomed city is that the three. sircumetanccs may never occur simultaneously, 'Iia., hi h water, the breaking up of the ice, and a ga e of wind from the West. There are to many points of the compass for the wind to choose among, that it would seem perverse in "He extreme to select the west at so critical it -oment; nevertheless, the wind docs blow very oflen from the west during spring. and the ice - Iaatin in the Neva and the Gu fofFinlarid, is ofa ulk amply sullicient to oppose a formi- hble obstacle to the water in the up r part 0 the river. Had the ancient sages in khta ke t meteorological records, one might perhaps able to calculate how often in a thousand years, or in ten thousand years, such a flood as we are here supposin mi ht be likely to occur. As it is. the worl nee not be at all surprised to in the newspapers one of these days, that
to the arrsngeiaeats at the British
contrast M Any Get from the country
IIIGIIIII. wishing to look at newspapers from any part of the plobe where newsps is are printed. may. by call ag at Mr. Holloway s, be lnstsntl put in possession of the requisite intelligence. I‘ course this museum, souseful and so unique, attracts great attention, and many distinguished men are often to be seen there,—members of Parliament,
°” newspaper editors, foreigners of eminence. &c..
&c. It is a striking instance of what individual energy and enterprise can effect.
As-raoxoirrcsi. Osssavs-rrous iii A Cost. Pi-r. —-On Saturday, Professor Aircy, the Astronomer Royal, paid a visit to the colliery district of the no, in ursuit of curious and important ssirouomica obervations. F or that purpose be was taken by Mr. Mather, a scientific gentleman belonging to South Shislds,dcwn Horton pit. the deepest in the Tyne, 1260 feet deep, to examine ifit were possible to make arrangements in it for a series of delicate experiments and observations in reference to the pendulum, and the earth's action upon it there, simultaneously with similar ones on the surface, with a view to determine the weight of the earth and planets.
No'I'HtN0 Gaovvs IN Vslrr.—The National Intclligencer says:—" We understand that an en- terprising German is about to secure a patent for his discovery of flux, or its equivalent in fifteen different kinds of common weeds. The discovery is to be turned to account in the manufacture of numerous articles of which flax is the principal, but especially in the manufacture of paper, which is a matter’ of deep interest just now to the publishing world, the scarcity of rags being a great embarrassment to business."
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Prom late American Papers.
Psviisit-r or Mnussns or Coitoiirss.—Mem- bers of Congress are now too well paid. There are perhaps thirty men in the two houses who are worth more than the regular pay ; but the great majority don't know ow to earn 8 dollars per day anywhere else or we should have not eight months’ sessions. lfthe pay could be cut down to 1,000 dollarii per session, with ten cents per mile for actual travel computed by the shortest route to and from Washington. with 10 dollars per day deducted for each day a member fails to attend. and a like srim for each failure to answer at a call of the yeas and nays, we should have
33- Pfiiefflbufs. 57%|’ mini; ll“ 0 bl'l8lW 11193603‘ short sessions, and every way improved legislation.
fiom the swamps of Finland, has as suddenly
Then men of character and ability, whose time
heenextinguished in them liken mere will-oh 3. won]. in Ieui 100 dollars per week, would
fie-wisp. May Ihreign Quarterly Review.
Huircsnrni Exrr.I:s.-—Kossuili and Pulszky areboth residing in London with their families. Kossuth's two sons, aged I0 and 13 years, are attending school. 'l'lre family live in a ver
l’°“°“ P"°‘°°t "'9 “W !-" accept nominations, knowing that the public business would be promptly despatched, and they be permitted to return to their own, but now they can’t atlirrd it, because the small people spin out the sessions and use up better men’s time in order to pocket their 5 dollars per day for the longest possible period. The present system is a very
plain and economical st_i le. Pulizky and his wife, had me, "Id i. in "ch mm‘. mu '. qmmhend
by tbeirjuint writings, it is stated in a London latter, have made this year ahoiit $2000. They have five children. Madame Pulszky'e father is
it will not soon be bcii
er.—Mw York Tr-ibis Ciiasr MiI.ir.—A New York milkrnan, who
ill.
I "'“l'll}' l"“l‘°" °l Vl"““'- bl“ l‘ f°'l’l‘l‘l°“ ‘fl testified before the Still-Slop Investigation Corn-
give his only daughter a cent.
H" "“’ll'°l' '9 mittec, made the following very candid avowal:
also living. l’ulszky’s spl--ndiil estate in Hungary _u some," he said, " he sold for four cents per
was seized by the Austrians at the time of his arrest. and his beautiful castle subsequently eeavcrted into a hoapil
A Briii:-I-. peer. when dining with the Queen, was challenged by a royal duclress to take wine with her. His lordship politely thanked her grace, but declined the compliment, stating that he never took wine. The duchess immediately turned to the Queen, and jocularly said. " Please your Majesty, here is Lord , whodeclines to take wine at your Majesty's table.” Every eye was turned to the Queen, and not a little curiosity was evinced as in the manner in which the total abetaiiior would be dealt with by royalty. With a smiling and graceful expression her Majesty
ind, “ There is no compulsion at my Table."
(From the Herls Guaradian.) la. Ho1.1.owAv's Ntr;W.~PAPER Mussuii.-At Mr t.'Iolloway’s establishirient. near Temple Bar, there is the most extensive, the most com leie, and the most extraordinary collection of awe-
pers in the world. Mr. Holloway, it should cknown, adserlises his Pills and Ointment in about 2.000foreign Newspapers, and in nearlyl every English .papcr,—Prnhsbhy the year of the Great Exhibitise, and the calls of foreigners from distant climes,1irst gave him the idea of collecting the papers sent him: but be this as it may, it is non‘ carried out by lira own private enterprise. in , a manner compared with which, the collection in l the British Musesra is a mere ridiculous farce.. In a suit of lofty apaslments are the eewspapers efavery civilisi-dcuustry in the world, properly and systematically arranged in convenient rt feline: and the stranger in London, whether from the United States, New Zesland, the Cape,
quart ; some forfive; and some for wanted cheap milk. he put in water
Ri:covaiirn'I'iinstrria.—0n Saturday last there was deposited at the Mint in Philadelphia, about five thousand dollars wort of the melted gold taken from the recently raised wreck of the unfortunate steamer Erie. which was burnt and sunk on Lake Erie some thirteen years ago. There was found mixed in with the melted money part of an old German lock, the material parts II which were in a pretty good state of preservation. On raising the wreck, it was found burnt nearly to the keel, and to be broken forward. near where the gold is found. It is believed that a con- siderable portion of the gold has been lost through the break.
DISTRESING CALAMITY AT LOUISVILLE
A most distressing calamity occurred at Louise ville, Kentucky, on the last abbath, from the blowing down of the Third Presbyterian Church, during a terrific storm which occurred about noon, whilstthe congregation were assembled. About twenty-tire persons are said to have bees killed, and a number wounded. The church, we be. lievc. isrhst of which the Rev. B. M. Hbbson was formerly pastor : hot it d been vacant for sometime, and providentially it was not generally known that there was to be service there on that day, or a much larger congregation would have been in attendance, and many more would
pix ; if people
' probably have been hurried from time to eternity.
The Rev. Mr. Morrison, who was in the pulpit at the time. escaped unhurt.
“ During the sermon, which had been com- menced later than usual, the storm came tip, and the main door of the basement room, where the
Australia, China, Hindustan. Persia, or elsewhere, services where held, was blown open. An elder -a_v be visiting Mr. I-lolloway’s museum, at once of the church immediately rose and closed it heconie acquainted with the lqtest intelligence again. The door was forced open a second time,
{Ioinhis own country. and accommodation for reading and extract.
There is every facility pads sin closed. A third time the door was 0
open by the violence of the wind. iiotwiih-
ace disturbance in the ,saseIIIltl!» ‘Ml rsons rose to their feet, some of the windows near where they were sitting. " Mr. Morrison said be bid. Int till '0 "'9'?" from the ellbetsof the gust ‘"03
I t iii: tam!‘ fallen in. lin-sdiately sbsut tfi
pulpit in which he was stsndin the plastering was not broken, and to his right several old ladies escaped un urt. He expressed himself as be_in greatly shocked at the suddenness of the calamity. and when he fairly recovered from the blindness caused by the ascending dust. s most terrible sight presented itself before him. He saw two men already dead ; the head of another man
reatly mangled. ju_st appearing among the rubbish ; a lady claspinp her child in the agony ofdgsih, and ayoung ady with her body bent across one of the seats and her face most horribly distorted. From different parts ofthe building he could hear the groans of the dying and the stided screams of the crushed.”
C A L I I-‘ 0 II N I A .
The markets at California have continued much depressed. and most of the staples are declining.
The Hook Farm Digger tribe of Indians a few years ago numbered over five hundred : at pre- sent there are but fifteen living.
Two Frenchmen were drowned in a mill pond above Foster's bar, California.
A band of robbers has been organised near Sonora, and a part of them have gone on to Marysville for the purpose of murdering and robbing. _
Salt has been discovered in Los Angeles county in a lake about sevenben miles rom Los Angeles. A company has been formed for the purpose of manufacturing it.
SAIDWIOH ISLANDS. The Polynesian, the first steamship from the Sandwich Islands had arrived at San Francisco in ya from Honolulu, with dates to
Jul 29.
The Russian frigate Diana cruising oil‘ the Islands. B the last arrival, it will be remem- bered, we ud intelligence that the Russian frigate Diana, of sixty guns’ left Honolulu on the lat of June, on a cruise, supposed to be to the northward. By the papers received we learn that she gave the Britta frigate that was dogging her the slip, and put back to Honolulu. l n response to the inquiries of the British and French Consuls, Mr. Wyllie. the Minister of Foreign Relations, communicated a resolution ado ted by the King and Privy Oouneil, which dec res that the privilege of asylum in the ports of that kingdom is not to be extended to vessels armed. on private account, or the prises taken by them, whatever may be the flag under which such vessels may sai .
Arrangements have been made between the Governments of the llniied States and the Sand- wich Islands to incorporate these islands with the Union. It is alleged that the time of efl'ecting these arrangements is favorable, as England and France are too deeply occupied with the Russian war to " forbid the henna."
Private accounts from Maine state thatin the vicinity of some of the burning forests, quite a number of persons, chiefly feiaalcs have become insane, in consequence of excitement, the result of a belief that the general conflu- grations in the woods there is a sign of the
Several clerks are kept constantly employed in standing the elder was pressing against it at the Noolvinlh Iorlinlt. Intl Irrsniiinii the papers. and time. lnrtsntl the whole house was filled with the whole establishment is conducted in a manner particles of ssn . The speaker and Ilie audience which for order, comfort, and celcrity, is a perfect had their eyes filled with the line dust. This
speedy ending of the world in accordance with t e prediction of the Millerites.
The City Authorities of Boston have decreed that all the names of non-residents. who come to Boston and t drunk‘and are arrested, shall be published?
The Government of New Brunswick have lately appointed Dr. ’Ryerson a Commissioner to inquire into the management of King's College, Fredericton, with a view to its im rov- ment. The other Commissioners are the on. J. H. Gray, of St. John; and J. . Dawson, Esq., the ate active Superintendent of Educa- tion for Nova Scotis.
Ssnaaias or Cor.criiu. Govsruioes.-—A return of the names of all Governors and Lieutenant- Gnvernors of the British Colonies, with the a- mount of their salaries. dates of their appointment, dr.c., has just appeared. There are 45 places at which we have Governors, Lieutenant Gtivi-rrmra_ or persons acting in that ca ecity. 'l'hi-ir aggro. llate salaries amount to ll8,846 per arinurn. The highest salary is £7,000, which is given in two cases only—via, to the Earl of Elgin, t,'api.riir- General and Governor-in-Cliief of Canada; and to ‘r G. W. Anderson, Governor and Commander- in-Chief of Ceylon. From this point they range downwards as low as £500. which is the salary at Montserrat. Nevis, and Heligoland There is one £6,000 salary, to James Macaulay Higginson, at the Mauritius ; and £5.000 is given at Jamaica, to Sir H. Bsrkly, at Gibraltar, to Lieutenant General Sir R. Gardiner; at the Ionian Islands, to Sir H. G. Ward; at the Cape of Good Hope, to
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Lieat.-General Catbcarts “' N’. 90"“ w“'‘.
to Sir C. A. Fitaroy; and II V|¢|0l||. to Captain
C. Hothsrn. The salary .11. 300“! Mlllrslis is
Amongst thflflfilt Governors than «"13
nd four naval rsnlr. e Earl of Elgin la
£sl‘i-'3' held‘ ‘I
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These Islands form an archipelago, situ- ate at the extremity of the Baltic, at the en- . The group is composed of 7 islands occupying an area of 90 square kilometrel.‘"‘l' ' l’°P“l“l°'| Of i5,ooo inhabitants. The 1-|nn_d of Al-nd. pro erly speaking, which‘ has giveii its name tot e Archipelago, is 9 leagues in length and 7 in breadth, and has - Population of 10. oooinhgbiignu, The Russians have built the extensive fortress of BOMIPIIIHG, Which is protected on the sea side by strong fortifi- cations. It possesses I 8°03 l‘°3¢l5¢°|¢l. W9“ sheltered, with is depth of 9l_l.5._30. or even 50 faghornl 1,, fimg or peace it is continually visited by the Ruuisn ll_0¢¢_ of evolution. The interior of the ielllld ll Illlflfeectcd by calcareous hills, and Wntere _by a great numb" of l-iyuIg[g' from which it derives its Scandinavian name of f‘ Aland ” (Country of Rivers.) its coast '3 |‘l°°Pl] indented, and offers excellent I||¢h°|‘|8°- The soil is fertile. and here an ¢l|°|'° "6 to_l>e seen 800,; pa“...-e ground and forests of birch and pine. The inhabitantl _are mostly far-um and fighgrmen, The climate is wholesome. although rigorous in Wlm°l'- Tl“ IIIOW melts early, and the harbour freezes over late in the season, on l¢¢°|ll|_¢ of the rapid cup...“ produud by the meeting of the wat- er‘ of the Gulf. of Bohhllll. Clld ‘ Finland- yndependemgy of 3mnarsund,_the Archipela- go contains several nth?’ fflfllfifll PlI°0I.llI0 PrinciP.' of which gpo all the Islands of Sig- ui3k].r md prmgun, The Islands of Aland 3,. ye, import,“ in a political and military porn; 0 ..ie,.,_ Thgy were wreated by Russia from Sweden in I809. by ‘l‘° l"'°°ll' °r Fred‘ erikshamn, which B°¢‘"'°‘l ‘° lb" P°"°l' the remainder of Finland and Eastern Both- nig, Russia had already acquired the other part of Finland by the '1'-‘G-tr of Abo- The Iogg orihai ting and rich province was a dreadful check to the Swedish P°'V°"-
Sypyqgv ‘Syn-fa’; Vvl'l‘.—One of our Lon- don contemporaries, in ||0ll¢l|1_8 I IIBW edi- tion of the im. Sydney Sm-ll-5 Works. thus takes occasion C9 W905 0‘ "I0 incom- pgggncy ofhig yig to ICCOHIPIIIII W0l'l( aga mining: of Chl‘iSt.'-" From the ill- fluenu which they have exerted, as well .. on other gpoundj, ‘TIC pl'0dIl¢Cl0l|I Of the witty canon of St. Paul's rm-cu an endur- ing interegt_ Worthy as they all are of the high"; pfgige for their admirable style, may difrgr widgly in intrinsic moral worth. Sydney smith dad good service as a writer rigging: pomicgl iyranny and social injustice. when, however, he touched that subject with which hi. vocation should have made him 1...; . aimed, but of which he really knew I335}, e ghowed IIOW Uitfifl incom-
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patent is the lteeucli Vi‘. ¢°m.bllI€ Will! the most Ben‘... hugnouf,y.t unaided personal piggy, to gppggcigte cniotione and efforts which have (heir gource in the s iritual per- ception of the eternal 804 llwlllll 0-"
Ogjgcf op L.n.——Remernbcr that God sent you in[o (he WOT“ r0!’ religion. W9 “-9 but to P". through our pleasant fields, 0,. our hard hboun; but to lodge a little while in our fair elll¢0l. 0|‘ 0|" lllfilllef 00!- mg”; buggo 5... in the way at our full “hr”. 0,. go ,3,“-9 diet. But then man does hi, proper cmplo ment, when he prays and doe, (31.3.-igy, an mortifies his unruly appe- ti(u"'.nd res"-gins his violent passions, and bccomcg mm to God, and imitates his only so,,_ Then he is dressing himself for eternity’ where hb fllllli 0|‘ lllllfle, cithcy-in an ucellent, beautiful country, or in “prison of amazement and eternal liori-or. Without muohhmg. a wry M0. and ;. dilligeni circurnspection, we cannot may-[if] guy» ging, or do the first Works of
r.¢o_ 19.; God _we be not found to have grown li e the srnews ofold age, from gig-engih to remiggiiriaa; from thence to disso- lugion’ ma infi.-rnity and doath.—Jer¢iny
Taylor
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