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NO. 5628 * Americen Literature Aw American Dictionany ov tae Exauisa Lane @vace: By Noau Weesikn, LL.D. Publish ed by George & Charles Merriam, Springield, | Mai Within the compass of 1,367 closely printed but clearly legible payer, the publi-hers of this greatest of all American book» hive crowded a complete body of litersuture. I: is, without question, the best Lexicon of the Evyligh lunguage ever made, and there is every resson to suppose that it will hereafter constitute the chief authority for that songue, wherever it 1s known throughout the world. ‘The name of its author is alreedy regarded with veneration by the scholors of Europe, while it is uttered with reverence im every districs school house on this continent. This, too, isthe only com- plete, unabridged +d tion of Webster, containing his own last revisous #nd the superadded labors of his able literary executors. As it aow appears, it will stand for the furure—ae considerable changes will be likely to be made in it for ceaturies to come. Newecholars may muke vew discoveries, and fu- ture investigatious wiil reward their toil in the progressive ecience of linguage ; but no accident | or change, no future studies or discoveries, will be likely to aflect the forianes of this book. Other exicographers, starting in eerly life, with the fruit of Webster’s enormous labors in their hands, may become illustrious in diflerent departmeats of this illimitab!o science ; but the fame of their great leader will outhve them all. There may, and there will be, perhaps, as great statesmen in future times, to serve the country, as Jefferson, Hamiton, aud their colleagues, and, in some coming uatwwnel trial, men may be found who will fill respousible trusix as faithfully as our first President. But their fame will grow dim when their coatemporaries are dead, while the ames of Washington and his companions will grow brighter with the progress of ages. It seems to be one of the laws of Providence, that the foun- ders of nations theli uever divide their glory with those who come after them. Mores and Lycur- gus, Romulus, ana Al’red, have left none to dis- pute their fame. Of suco aien, history will tole- rate no rivals, Itis nearly as Well established a Jaw of destiny with the toueders and fathers of learning. The name of Caddids aspires as mach Veneration inthe Gieek scholar to-day as ii did in the bosom of Prato, and it will be dear to the scholars of ell coming time No future dramatic poet will ever, even iu his hours of madness, dream of usurping the throve of Shakspe.re—no future astronomer will lay his profaning hand oa the crown of blind Gialileo—a second * Paradise Lost” has never been writteu—the world never will look for auother * Ilwd”—Gibbon has made a second “ Beclive and Fall of the Roman Em- pire impossible—Blucks'one will be authority oa the bench while society holds together—ano- ther “Genie du Chritomame” will never be called for—Edwatds tis written his Essay on the Will— Cooper is revising tis * Leatherstocking Tales” tor the far future —taiieck has doae for iis “Ode to Marco Bozzaris” wnat Grey did to his Elegy—Websier 19 dead, and the last orna- ment hus been added to bis collossal system by the hand of the great builder | There ure many provinces in the illimitable field of em- pire; but the mightiest of all is in the tellectual world. He who Is the thoughts of man is thew reel master hia be true, a general sense, it becomes doubly so in a speci one. The maker words 1% masier of the thinker, who ouly ures them. Here is the field of the lexicographer. In ths domain he reigas sapreme. He siimds at the fountain head ot thought, science aud civilizstioa, He is con- trolier of all minds; to hum ail beings who talk, think, write or print, poy cunselont, involuntary, eternal tribute. In this sense, Webster is the all-sheping, all-coutroling mind and guide of this hemisphere. But he ie so in # still more special sense. He grew up with the nation; he was co- eval with its early iuteliectual origin, and be will rpetuate hinwell with 19 wost distant progress. ‘ot aman has grown out of our seit who has not drank at this parent ng There is not a man ‘onthe continent ov whem Webster hus not lad his all-forming hend His principles ot language have shaped every word that is now, or ever will be, uttered here re by aa American His ded over every scene an the can breathe the # 3 and the sceptre he wields so unquestionably has been werthily won, It was not mherted, it was achieved; it cost « struggle of more than a century—the struguie of a strong, clear head, an honest, brave, untirmg heart, No propitious acci+ dents favored his progress; no decisive casualities awarded oa am ‘The victory was gained after a steady trivl ty years Took at a few of the dices of his progress; for, in the sdvancemeut of nuud, there are certain re- liable signs. Setruer, ae well a» machinery, mea- | sures its revolutions = A'ter the wheels of our new ocean etcamers have mode a million of revolutions, the hand on the dial Bacon, and Guallieo, aod Franklin; their books marked their progress through the unexpl ocean of learning It was vo with Webster. ‘America, then, the only tree and, in the fatare, inevitably great nation of (ne earth, was just begin- her career; aud Webster became her school- master. There hed never been a great or power- ful country, with a common, « universal language, without dialects; a uaity idiom and proauacta- tion, Ju our own tines, we have striking illustra~ solthie The Yorkshorenman cannst talk with the men from The peasant of the —_ Appenine: vats home at evening, provinces, neither ts he ean speak or comprehend. day's drive, takes dialects. r over hills oo ‘Thi i » only but one language. not the eomouasien ot « word, nor the orthogra- phy of a letter. There thirty republes are without a dialect or om idiom. Lverywhere, from the Meine to the glowing savannahs of the 1, ond, far to the Pacitic coast, there are an bundred races, but there is only one language. Around every fireside, in every desk, rom every tribune, in every field of labor, and every factory of tol, is heard the sane tongue. To W thi avy, or all other causes, this *f lungouge He has been to England. & grammaticn' in other wo more than twenty-five my copies of thes work have been used in this e pb neg Se a nod be was matuiing the dictionary, his entire Fovente Was derived fee the profits of the Spell- ing Book, «t a premium for copyright of less than acent a copy. It has been the guide of every American—more than a million of copies were |, sold last year. al His boresieen labors had begun—This little book, which is manufactured for three ome ry costs the Oregon farmer twelve and a half for his boy, ended with the work we are now reviewing, which glitters through the plate glass doors of the Lbrary of the Qu laud, ana whiel hes the table the patrrareh of hie ‘Hish literature. We who flourish- be compared He wae a far w e ographer th Johnson, and his dictionory has superseded His fare is cettled ou an eternal t ther fuvndation—he enters into the every day thoagt of milons of men. He has educared twenty mil living Men—no One of Whom can ever forget teacher—euch of whom, in his wanderings through the world, goes us the herald of his mas ter; thos difh his fame around the globe, and the army of thinkers and speakers, tranamut it from wee to wge. Only two men have stood on the soil of the New World, who are 20 sure of immortality—its discoverer and saviour. Webster is ite great and perpetual teacher, and the ke up our trinity of fame. We need the excellent style in which Merri apyeare. They pad twenty thou-and dollars to ebster’s family for the copyright, and no one hook in the ‘oglish languege '. worth as much to a publisher, A single year, it is said, has cleared the entire cont of right, crareen Pine and py ill, hereafter, yreld ao immense aa ~ pn As we receotly remarked, thie uoabridged perfect edition from the Springtield press, has rea- dered the muller and incomplete edition of the Harpers of much ters value. The difference in Js but about a di i to one. We are informed thatthe gale of the work ia Increasing rapidly; Striogerand Townsend, of New York, the principal agents tor this city, having re- ceived mere orders for it than they could fill. Von Buomboidt dapbfort (Ge:many) Journal | exclaimed Goethe once, after receiving & viet! from Humboldt. “I kuow of no. wpare him to; he resembles a source of Zeweel waiers; he knows everything, and Knows thoreugily what he does know.” he poet Was right) Alexander Vou Hanboldt, Who completed bis 80th year on the Lin ot Sep tember of this year, with all the undiniuished vie ger of bis mand, aed witha body suil hale, one of the greatest and mest compieheusive mi that have flourehed im any aj Mort Woportent men of t apposiely celled the Napoleoa of nitaral ence, in order to convey. the idea that he stands tornh j Wubout compare from amougst ordivary Usls. There have been, perhaps, few men so entirely fortunate as be tas been; for mature eadowed hint | witha seue beoy nuda gigentic os weil as sue i mmnd. [tis seldom that @ Luro,ean from a nortne em chme cau reve with impuniy among palin | Ween; but on Humboldt neither the heat of te | Wepies por the ivy cold of the Ural and Altai couid excitany boneful iutlueace. From aa early period | he was independent as to fortuar, and there was | Ho adverse circumstanes te preveat hum frou gi- | ving bimeelt to the unpulse of his genius Even ayouth he enjoyed the society of the wisest and bestin Germany To # calm perspicuity of un- derstanding ne unites a wonderiul acuteuess of peut tration, and tte first impresstou is uuerriog. bb powrrs of combinat he has seldom been equailed, and besides his coliossal memory, that never deserts bun, that is equally fuchtul as it is rapid, bis Whole intellect ws infused with « rich po- eue vem, and again so vivid a tancy ts all his own, bis taste is eo exquisite and fine, hat he throws the charm of atuuction over the very dryest sub- jee? he may happen to rest Geographers unani- mouely recoguie him as their master, historiaas xratetully Confess that their lore is deeply indebted to haw, and philelogists have received no lie Jight trem bum to ilumime what had beeo hitherto p for them in anuguiy. Hardly is there gie hed ef ecleptific inquiry that Humboldt has pot enriched; be has even enlightened the fae there of the church on their wthetic side. The Spaniards as well as we Germans, so likewise the Vrench and the Eyglish, enrol this wondertul man emong their Classe sty for in addition to the most accurate Laun, Hamboldt writes Spanish, Loglith (2), and French, with ekill, precision, au force, as bis own native language. When he gave lectures 30 years ago in Paris, the French wil- lingly adunttea that few of their own great couatry~ meuc we up to him in luxuriance, correctness, and clearness. | ° ‘This mun, in the plentitude of his understand. ing and with the clearest consciousness, has lived with and through a period of travsition such as the world bas never seen since the earliest centu- nes of Chnstendom Boru in the same year with Napoleon, he kuew the Great Frederick ; his youth was coeval with the North American con- test for liberty; he sdimired the great Washington; the arama of the French revoluuon that convulse the worid and that shed torrents of blood, he saw, wend pot remotely, pass before him, with its martu feats and its giante. et wthousend years was tumbling into ruin, and the Geimen land was becoming the prey of the po- tent conqueror, Humboldt was wandering through the table-lands of the Andes or the low plas neerthe Ormoco and Kiouegro; he was not immediate witnens ot the disasters his country: men bewailed at Ulmor Jena. During the long works that will comporiion of those pecany “s for the nai in all ages researuh in the antiq America, ond for every branch of geography. Ile, the maw of fourscore years, Who has sv stirred men by the living word, and 80 genially promoted stu- dy, bas teen, too, 1 the evening of his infinitely I sci- of a vew conformation—for unity and freedom. So enlightened # soul, 0 clear a thinker, a head so in- copoble of all narrow-mindedaess, must be devoid of prejudice, must be favorably inclined, from the depibe of that sou), to the cause of freedom and progress. \etforuny immediate political activi- ly his nature has been as little disposed as Goethe's was. Humboldt heoever been conteat with em- ploying his fluence preterably in behalf of sci- ence, Which owes an intinite debt of acknowledg- ment to There relations it anything m, in addition to the | immenee comprebensiveness of his acquirements, could raise our astonishment, it would be his al- | mest. upparelleled 1adustry, and that wonderful | wctvity that distinguishes ttis great man. He has | crlerged the serence of navigation, especially en- | ching the history of nautcs—geology, zoology, | botwny,are pe less indebted to him than the col- lective physical sciences, more particularly mete- orology, Mimguetiem, that science which treats of the det m of heat over the earth; weograuby Almost in every field th ry and political history, tastly, | istics, German gigantic mind has formed new | puths of exyloration. (ow a voung man of twenty, after ke had com- | pleted bis university studies in Gottingen aud at Frankfort on the Oder, we find bim in the 4 ny of George Forster descending the Khine on his way to Holland and England: he writes his work on the basalts near the Khine. Immediuely after thus he preceeds to Freiberg, for studying under Werner, the founder of geological science, he writer cn tose! plants. He then enters for a short | But while the German empire | lime ot the restoration he employed his leisure in | tich life, how the German people still struggle for | every few scientific great individuals | | of the last 60 years with whom he had not personal MORNING EDITION----SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1849. ; the fragments on the climatolology of Asia, bat then wiete a masterpiece of historical d: velope- | ment of geographicul kuowledge respecting the New Worid, avd ito the progress of nautical as- trovomy of the fifteesth and sixteenth centuries, a beok with which we, as far as our literary know- lecge extends, can compare uv other for compre- hensive erud In the German edition of 1 we meet the remark, that one copy of the whol lection of Humbeldt’s works on America, in the large edition, now costs twice much as the of | Exyot, for the publication of which the Freach government advanced 3.000.000 fra whereas, Humboide’s voynges, although the 1,300 copper- pliter, the printing, and paper, cost 810,000 franca, or more than 42,000 gold Fredericks, were brought * completion by the patronage of the public ahene. Atun age of seventy-lour years, when other old men repore, Humbeldt began bie last’ work, the Cosmos, the sketch of a physical description of the world, and which is now completed, 10 the late evening of a busy lite—a work whose outlines have been portrayed tn the soul of the author for almost halt ® century. He wished to delineate how every Un 1s created on the earth and inceles- tial space had been taken up by him ito his con- ceynon of a physical cosmienl description. Worth this work, that ts also unique in literature, that has been anslated into. the langage of all civilized netons, the powerful mind wishes to close its honorable scientitic career. He hax been, We repeat, a fortunate man during the whole pe- ried of his life. So propitious has destiny been to him, that it vouchsafed to hima brother, who, In otber departments of genius, was nearly quite as great, and in many respects even still more cous | #picious than bimeell. Both brothers, Alexander | and Wilham, bound by the strictest friendship to j each, have tended to the perfection of one another. Alexander bas survived the other; but the names of boih these heroes in science ure inseparable | fem each other for all fumre ume. ‘They form radiant stars in the bright crown of German sci- ence, end they have diflused the renown and glory of the German name over ull the world. R nts of eye- witnesses, and reports received at Warsaw, an- nounce that the whole of the Russian corps, with the eaceprion of the hospitals, have quitted Hun- guy, oF were ow march. Orders have been es patched to Grabbe’s division before Comora, to withdraw £0 soon as the terms of the capitulation have been complied with. General ger and his stati bave ull retuned to Warsaw, and the whole of the Prince Field-Marshal’s field eqaipage hus alresdy arrived. A saying, attributed to a Kussian field officer at Warsaw, relutive io the latter, is fully worthy of repetiuon. This otlicer was standing with others at the place, when the Prince’s carnage and fourgons were being taken down from the railway wagons. Amoug the vehicles was a light drowchka, in which the Field- Marshal generally made bis marches, in lieu of be- striding a cherger. “ Ah,” exclaimed the officer, “ there is the drotschka in which the Emperor's alter ego matured all his plans for not falling in with Georgy’s corps.” Apropos of this alter ego, it is penerally known that the hooors conferred upon the ‘yeld-Marshal by the Emperor have created great distatisfacton and jealousy, especially in the Guards and Imperial family ; since, independent- ly of his requinng the former to pay the same bonors to Prince Paskiewitch, with standards, | &e., they pay to the Czar, all members of the imperial house are obliged to stand in the Marshal's rally Ka esence. Indeed, itis reported genc- ‘areaw that this subject led to the which carried off the Grand Duke issued, remonstrated warmly, and declared that he would never submit to rise or to pay the required compliments. A hot discussion 1s said to have en- sued, which so much affected and irritated the Grand Duke, that he was attacked on parade in the manner known to all. Let us add another word or 1wo gf Warsaw gossip. It was in ao earlier letter that the Emperor, Who, during his re- | sidence at Warsaw, lodged and fed not y! all bis own household and staff, but the foreign diploma- | usts, bad made propositions for lodging und feed- | ing Gen. Lamoriciére at the Brubl Palace, »in a suite of apartments similar te those inhabited by | the Austrian minister; but, for mouves whic! | are best kuown to the Emperor himself, tnis inten- | tien was ch and General Lamoriciére, on | arriving, was informed that he muat provide for | himeelf ond suite, which he did at the expense of 2,000 trancs per month lodging, and 14 frenes pet | day for each ** couvert” fe mself, Madame La- moriciére, and his secretaries or uide-de-camps. | Some person: buted this distinction made be- tween the Genera! and his collee gues, to displeasure at pis having omitted, when at Berlin, to demand | if the King had any messages to convey to the im- penal femily. Others ascribe itto his having been supposed to have had interviews with suspected or diseatisfied persons at Cracow. Be this asit may, | the val wan compelled to pay his own ex- | penses. very point he was treated on the footing ot “the most favored nation.””—Berlin let- ter, Oct. 6. ‘Tus Boox Traps ov Exgrano ann. America. — The American ap ang throw out a suggestion to Englich publishers, by which they fancy that some | of the evils oriving out of the want of a copppight law between the two countries will be rectified — nemely, that they shall offer the English editions | of all the. best books to the transatlantic public at half-price. We are told that atter several editions ot Jay's *History of Eugland’ had been sold | an the d States, the Loudon publishers sent | out a large number of copies to be sold there at half of the reteil price at home; and they are foand teult with for not having done this at firet—as in | that case, it is said, they, might have sold at least 26,000 ies. Possibly: and perhaps if they | would have consented to give it for much less—or for nothing—they — ave distributed so many w dime into the Prussian civil service ; but the rou- more. Weare pot fully alive to the reasonable- tne of adnunistrative duties not satisfying his ar- ness of seliing the same book im London tor two nd, he apples with redoubled ardor to the | guineas, in New York for one. If the preseat want ly of animel electricity, goes to Vi here | of dimits of a work beig pirated abroad—the he labors intently on botany, then travels, r od publisherthereby wroaged have at least panied by Leopold von Bueh, and to whom itis | tisfuctory satisfaction of 4 protest against still pesnuved to bebuld the light of day, through | the injury. What is now asked of chem is simply Saleburg and Siyna, but compelled to renounce | to withdiaw the protest. Aform of acquiescence » plon of explormg Italy. u glorious brother Wilbe he ferme the ecquamtenee of cemponion, benpland ; and, the courtet Madrid, to obwuin there the permus- sion of Uavelling through the Spanish colonies of Amenea. lo hweighteenth year he had resolved ow visiting the American continent and what he had erudied end labored on up to his thirveth year he considered a8 a mere preparation for the accorm- plebment of a greater task. ‘The youth had, in- deed, bed fired wt first by the splendid and luxuriant veg m of the plant world, by the fo. reets of gigantic trees interwoven with tinoas and the foliage of countless shrubs, by the peculiarity of the lofty stepreson the Andes, the boundless extent of the savannehe of which be subsequently traced so vivid a proture in Views of Nature. Grodually, however, with increasing know- Lb dwe rose the purely scieatihe interest, and Hum- b lit commenced his voyage across the Atlanuc oceen. ‘The herdy traveller, so carefully pre-instracted, traversed the mouots and plains of modera Vene- zur le, w-ernded the Ormoco, to where it branches off, end | exploring Gua | Gein trave He however, repairs to Paris, where future traveling ‘9 conceroig which another ler, Sehumoerg, has lately piven bh valuable contributions; he then sarled across sea to Cuba, the pearl of the Antilles, thea k to the continent, a he mounted p to the table- e scunoed the of Quito, and navigated courts of the Peeifie ; be hws ecoojured up for @ the deported world of the State of the Ineus in his lite-breathig pretures ond trae delmeations; thas he wondered though Mexico aud classienily de- scribed 1, returning thence by the United States to Europe. But white be was partly editing. partly, piepermg bis works on the new world, hereceived, 1 DS, ons to travel, accompanied by . the sv Kose ond Ebrenberg, to Northero Asia, and he |b nimyestic sel consequently, at the age of sixty years, visited Si- and the Altat. bene " ie work on America, com- jurge edition, seventern volumes volumes in quarto. IL. treats plants, of zovlogy, 8, nod depicts the od Peravien monuments, gives a political de- ription of Mexveo and Onbaas they then were J concludes with @ general representation of those trevels that formed an epoch in science, and —if we ney ore the expression—which form the yout of departure for # new “school of viatoril phon”, which hhewise has obteined ite wor: threst dircyles in Germany; for instance, Spix aod Martins, Pooppig. miberg, Meyrn, Erman, Ehrenberg, Kove, Evehwald, and so many more bes de-. Humboldt has described the Asiatic journey in 799, vets out for us forms « jonetion with the Amazon, | their own loss is proposed to them. It ug: sted as a remedy against robbery, that they shall Teduce the price below the pountat which the goods are worth etealing. The English bookseller is of- | terea the privilege of domy that i the ‘iLow’ for | the invasion of his own interests which orherwise will be dene for him in the Broadway. The eug- gestion mvolves a mode of dealing with the copy- light question which we should be sorry to see acted upon. A very diflerent solution of this vexed question is peede and now that an cwurt has ruled that by the terms of exw an Amenicen ot sustain « right to hold lrerary property m 1 country, it is probable that the government of the United States will be induced to tuke steps towards an adjustment of the matter. ¢ understand that more than ove American wrir ready been made to feel the consequen- e recent decision in his dealings with the trade m Londen. We know of one book in three volumes, of which the reprint was com- mepced—and rt d. The pnblisher had no as- surence thet his three-lalf-eainews book would not »ppear ina few days m the shilling lbrary— 80 wuibdrew his ek — The American author new stands ma similar relatron in this country to the Englieh wotbor in Ameres ; and the wrong being this reerprocal, it possible that efforts may be more seriously made on the other side of the wa- ter—which we will be willing to mateh on thie— to obtarn en equitable law on the subject —London AAhinaum, Ot. 6 Tw Storm or Monpay at Ricnmonn, Va —We regret to learn that the storm of Monday seriously, demeged a handsome storehouse in process of erection by Mr. Wiliam Taylor, on Main street, nearly in the centre of the square below the old market houre, The house is three stories high — ‘The walls, which were of brick, had been recently finiehed—the reot put on, bw eted, when the storm comn ing driven by the wind with great violence western wall of the building, be- vd by expornre to the weve way Tuesday me it fell with & tremendous crash into the street and Fortunetety the hour at whieh this acer dent cocurred wae early one, few persons had ceseended into the street, ond we are pleased to leer no one sustained -— personal injary from the falling building. A. small brick tenement imme. ciately edyoming the buridi and which was untenwnted at the time, sustained some injury from a portion of the wall falling on the roof —Rrch- mond (Va.) Times, Now 1 The Sémophorece Marseriles of the 8th inst. pub- liehew & letter from Athens of the 23th alt., announ- ny the arrival at Patras of 800 Venetian refagees. Severs! Hu on exiles, aaveng Whom were four wembers of the Hunga diet, hed arrived at Arbens, in the Inet © nople steamer. Pria- cees Belgvora bad also sought refuge at Athens. day break, Lowen, Oct. 25, 1349. The Approaching Election im Massachusetts—Speech of Charles Freeman Adams—The Efforts to Se- cure the Senate— Prices of Manufacturers’ Stock. A free soil meeting was held here last evening, which was addressed by Hon Charles F. Adams, of Quincy. His speech, which was nearly two Jehcurs in length, was well received — It was a most bitter attack upon the whig purty, and particularly its leaders in the Bay State, the former political associates of Mr. Adams. He avowed his pre- ference for the democratic pany to tae whigs, although he had so long acted with the latter; but he considered that the nomination of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency, at Philidelphia, had absolved free soil whigs from further allegiance to the party. He_ expressed his fentifivetion at the coalition | which had taken pluce im Middlesex county, be- | tween the free soil mew and democrats, by which a union fucket tor Senators had been agreed upon, but he hoped the free soilers would preserve their separate organization for the State ticket. The democrats and tree soilers have great hopes | of currying a majority of the next Senate of Massa chusetts, and by that means cont Governor and Lieutevaut Governor, supposing | there will be no choice by the people. They eal- culate, by forming coalitions, to elect Senators in | the following counties, in exch of which there was a mujority against the whigs last year, as shown by the vote tor Senators, viz :— Dem. & Free Whig Senators, Soil vote, vote. Estex.... +6 8.088 8449 Middlesex. 16 11032 2,451 +6 12.182 6423 ne 2797 2365 +8 4.982 46aL eS 4275 3,780 + +23 As the above counties elect @ majority of the Senate, which consists of torty members, there teems a fair chance for defeating the whigs, pro- | vided the coalition proves complete, but this the | whigs do rot believe can uke plate. You will | recollect, that ue Massachusetts, when there is 50 | choice by the people, the House of Representatives: presents two candidates to the Senate tor Go- vernor, one of whom that body must choose. There are evident symptoms ot a deciine in the whig party of Massachusetts, aud afew days will determine whether they will be able to retain their power in the State another year. The whigs, owever, feel confident of being strong enough to defeat any combination again n In my last letter, L made some statements re- epecnng the condition of the manufacturing in- terest 1p this State, and estimated the proportion of | ameunt paid for labor, at per cent on the cost of goods munutactured at Lowell The esumate | is correct with regard to many articles manutac- | twed; but a more minute investigation satisfies | me that, teking the whole amount of value of ar neles made at Lowell, | placed the estimate too high, and that the average amount paid for labor on ten millions of dollars—the estimated value of manufactured articles made at Lowell in oae year— | is ubout thirty per cent, or three millions of dollars. | This, ef course, includes the beard of the opera- | uves, who are, at present, about 13,000 in number, viz., 4,000 males and 9,000 females. | By the following quotations of the present value of manufactoring stocks in Boston, it will be seca that the stock of most of the large corperations in Lowell is below par :— | to 81 to wT to 80 to 87) to 58 to 100 to 120 to 9 do. to 9 Poa Ss shiop : $8 108 Natick, (Mass.,) Nov. 1, 1549, | The Conditwn of the Three Parties of Massachu- setts—The Printing Reform. ! The whig party in Massachusetts, which has never thought of a strugg!e in order to keep its ascendancy, will be this year to almost a certainty routed from its stronghold. At the last Presiden- tial election there were only sinety-four towas that gave them majorities, while two hundred and over contained muyjorities against them. Yet, inapite of this strong opposition, the Senate was composed entirely of whigs. Such an inequality of repre- sentation called loudly for a reform Leading de- mocrats, aided by the press, labored hard to bring 1t about; and when the free coil party resolved upon its State policy, from convictions of right as well from interest, it adopted all the democratic pria- ciples, that 8 fur as State government is con- cerned. , if they had gone on,and sus tamed separate tickets for senators and repre- sentatives, neither would have been elected, and they would have accomplished nothing, The whigs, 80 song 00 ther have the power, will it retain present law, Politicians are not apt to advocate a measure, —_ or otherwise, that would be likely to endanger the prosperity of their party; therefore, the only way they could aecomplish any- thing, was for the opposition to unite and elect democratic and free soil Legislature. This the whig press cried out aginst with all their might, calling it many hard names, euch a» nalgama- top, a coalition, a marriage, &c.; indeed they thow very litte good humor about it. In this county (Middlesex) conventions were called by both parties, to be held on the same day, at Con- cord; and from what had been said by the leading men of the free soil party, it was supposed that « unvon conld be easily formed on natorial ticket; but when the proposition wus brought before them by their committee, it was, after several windy speeeches in opposition, unw:ieely rejected. Most of the ‘ree soil party here used to be the con- science partof the old whig party, and it came bord for themto come into a oeeeere that would look like that for which they had cursed their New York frends, and perhapsyhey would pot at all, only from the consideration that it might weeure Mr Paltrey’s election to Congress But, somehow or other, after having nominated seperate tickets, and gone home, vacancies oe curred in beth, which it was necessary should be filled- se conventions were again called, to be held at Charlestown, when and where the busi- we.” A union ticket was d the same woe “de nated, which is will be done in , With a umon throughout the fentativer, will give them a majori » bi in the Legie if latore, by whom the Governor will be eleeted— Bontone! er Phillips, of course—and by whom a low will be passed, dividing the State into senato rial districts, which will insure the elect better men, and a representation of the minority in the Senate. ys MENT — Fay tuer.—On Friday ny i P—— ond Mire Matiida G——, of this cit eloped to Covingtow, and were married. On F day it was discovered by the father that his dangh- ter hed madean “ arrangement ” to leave hun, to marry a men he had forbidden her hend, and he Was determined to keep “un eye onher. It had been arranved, and het father had fouad it out, and she knew it, that the youvg lady should meet Gk—UECEPTION UPON A he last, Me. my 4 the young gentleman and lover together at a cer- tain place i dd go to Covington, At ter Ginn fed, mach to hia sure mpany his daughter to the very place which had been appotnted, and they t ut do'clock, So, the fa went aboot hie business till the appointed timne—retarn- ing, he found hie daughter had started before his | retuin. Invern he sought her, but knowing they | would cross in the ferry boat, he stationed himself on it, ond hailed every carriage that passed, but | fourd no deughter. At length on empty carriage came aboard, and, on the same trip, a ragged erip- lanping naturally, and staring about as though | ie hed never seen » boat before. He was acco panied by a youthful looking personage in male tre he ferry boat passed over, and the eartiage | stopped at the foot of the hill for the driver to ar. | 5 range the harness, (all pretext) and the ragged | boy and ‘cumpapten Weiba there until the ‘Frat | — yo off ntothis side. Then Me. | 10 the prie jumped into the ear- . threw off their disguise, were married, and returned to the ferry on their way home. The young Indy met her father, who was stillon warch, avd told him what had been done, ond how he hod been cheated by the ragged bey avd herself in boy's clothes, and then she mildly atked papa’s pardon, which, reluctantly, wae granted, und the bride, bridegroom, and the eld gentleman rode home together, making an | ending of en elopement quite agreeable, seeing he couldn't help it, and showing most emphatically | the canning of the female sex in such marters. Mey the new married couple be happy. —Crncin- watt Commercial, Oct. 2. | onde de jambes Theatrical and Muse Bowery Treavke —Last evening was the benefit of that lovly and accomplished actress, Mrs Walcot whose sweet performances at the Park Theatre must be fresh in the recollection of the dramatic world of taste Tra- gedy, comedy. and murte were all combined Inst eve. powerful attraction ands strong bill 4 peared on this occa: as Played the part io his urual style, which has called forth 60 much admiration from his friepds ‘The cast in the other character way Gilbert as King Hemry; Araold.as bam; Lester. as Richmond. together with \irs Dot ieae excellent Lady Apne. acted beautifully in toe funersl scene. But above all. Mrs Walcot herself, as Paul the Pet. ia the * Pet of the Pettio: ats.” was all that is charming end delightful as an actress, This lady deserves en. Mr Winans sang the songs of “Jow” in oouragement. his usval admirable style The other pincea went off well, This Ding. the attractions offered ace not less strong, brilliant, and ca) ing Broapway Tuxatne —Mr. Collins, the desorvedly po- pular representative of Irish character, took his benefit the present political elections sud draws excitemont which precedes thi f | such a vast number of people to thy public meetiogs that are being nightly heid, the house was well and fashionably attended. Of all characters in the drawa, the true. easy. parural, unstrained delineation of the Irisbman is perbaps one of the most difficult If you caricature it by buffoonery. it # not © trae,” and if you attempt to give it effect by low vulgai or others id & etrick ral, or une Beowesary to give due effect to the man of nerve, living | upon bis wits end bis pervous friend's weakuoxs, Mr Biake was original and ivimitable tu the part of Mr, Aspen; bis perpetual hurry; hie phreezy; his teeing up aod down the stage, was done in the trae spirit of comic acting. We would not see bun play che TWO CENTS. fee cplawe b ymond in Rroadway, there will be cor- wiply crowds of people asking sdazission to see alt there curlosities for the art tims si New Oncnans Seuxnapnna — This being the last night but one this celebrated band of ininstrels wil nt their rich attracti«n« to the pubic it le expented that they wlll have the honor of performing before & large areembly thinevening The proeramuw is ex- cellent; in the second part there occurs a grand scene from the itatian opers, and iu the third part a grand © musical panorama. ‘ Miss Davenrour —For this distinguished artist’s be- Defit in Boston, Uekets were sold ate premium aud so great wax the rush that numbers of them sell bigh—reaching feur dollars each, as we are faforan Demxstya’s Concent —This famous dalled xinger gives bir lust concert in America prior t for Europe, at Library Hall Newark thi TrvMl. Benedetti and Rossi, have been giving eon- certs at Providence. R. I PORRION THRATRICALS ‘The North of Hpgiand journals make favorable men- tion of Mdlle Paltonl the daughter of the Itat goue tleman who, some years ayo, wax a useful member of @ provincial opera company, aud sho we believe ts resi: dent at Manchester. She is said to be preparing her- sell for Englieh opera. Mdile. Lind has,at length, quitted the Khineland for Stockh im. where it is her tmteution to pass the winter, We lew from the rame sources, that Mr. Lumley recently appeared at Hua, with « view of im dvemg her to engage herself to bis theatre tor the awxt season but that Wadilv. Lind declined atl proposals made by the London manager. iudging by the past, We should be justitied in dedusing trom these ramors, the cer of the lady's re appearance im the In this, every fe © Mae ain aseuranc market ee Silesie;” but Opera“ under lock aud key.” for alte possibly even produge it ab thy Overa M Roger bay been singing in Germay houses of Germany. with great success M Millet. by Far Paragraphs called a: © famous composer" hus gone to New york, to assist in the di- to that city, pied in writing & for the Opéra Cen suatly disap. We believe that M Vivier is ene work (by way Cf coup d’e que of Paris, wud shall be rt in the dig days for ® do Poioted tf when Guished, it dows mor pi ty hevee dy Leach. payed witb a det oni F aud promine tar differout genorality por'ment that ts at all tines ¢ ot pductions — Ubere in ia him, we repeat, the Lord Lounge, was the beau sde material fur & Dew com pore ceit. The * lrich Post” t ‘Terence O'Graay, kept th tenes fa one uuahated Dow WY de! ht, and was ragru- continuity of laughter a1 rously eveered ia his tau famed * Widow Nacbree ” “A Kirk in the Dark” gave # very pleasaut termination to the evening's amusements Me Col- Tins will appear this evening Phe list of entertala- ments will be seen in another column Nieto’s Ganves.—This place of amazement iy the centre of attraction of many of our citizens, and there scems to be no lack in the patronage givan by the pub- lie to Mr. Niblo, and the company under bis manages ment. Tho Navel family are always reovived with laughter aud applause; and they were, Inst night, y of their pantomime, neft of V. Marae own of thetr tra. the distoeated aud wondertul | The dense ve conde and the“ Red Gnome end the Whive Warrior,” which began the en‘ortaiament were given ip their usual style; but the climax of the eveniug’ entertainments was certainly the fascinating idle, Bertin, who appeared in the second act of oA Disable Amoreux,” the prettiest choregeapaic favention ever preduced on any stage Her Pas dea Pscination, | when dapord with the tambourine, is one of the loveliest steps of the kind. mod the fair danseuse dis- played in it the most bewitching pornfrs and graceful M. Ertilant, the able battet master was also very clever in all he wodertook. and de- ferved great credit. not only for bis correct dincing, Dut al-o fer the science with which he put on the a! the ballet of * Urielte” To-night the two brothers 4'T Placide, who have been engaged by Mr. Niblo, of “Uncle Sam? and the was introdroed, Jest might, the play of the “Old Dutch (ioveracr,” from the sudienes the usual mede of ‘ was sustained by Messrs, Burton, Clerke, and others of the company, who perfor penter. in order might be service The French to ob dge th able to him in the formation of am Ambassador, anxious to form an alliance with Rusata, Givcovers the (zar in bis disguise; the German Am- Darsedor employs the Burgomaster of Seerdam to @fivet the same object, and an officer of the States General of Holland is directed to secure the person of thet sar, On the whole, the piece is a goed one, ani Will probably tare well for oocastonal performance. was succerded by the farce of “ 'Tis Only My A ton’s New York Directory. or the Coen! erica’’—two pleces which are deservedly pop ‘and will undoubtedly obtalm a rum for the rest of the season. Crasraav’s Nationat Treatee.—A house more than crowded— absolutely condensed— greeted the able co- modian, Mr. Burke, with rapturous applause, on the occasion of bis benefit, last night. efits well attended, because we consider they are a means of affording @ little additional perquisite and bouquet to the laboring servants of the pubiic, tolling in an arduous, and. in many respects, jon, deserve to mevt with encourage une, last night, to be cheered nd delighted, both with his Devefit apd reception. He played Jemmy Uwiteer, in the laughable picce of that name, in admirable style. ‘This little drama ise very successful bit, and was fe- Burke, Jeflerson. aud Mre Mestayer vorably reoetved. ceedingly droll, the lowest kind of London * b’hoys,”’ uieit of ) wemns likely to ruccwed — T! ing. a rich bili is offered to the public and com. ttractions Invite, and wiil no doubt secure, crowded attendance at this favorite theatre. Mrrcurce’s Ocrmre Tueatne —Vesterday boing, as ‘was formerly announced, the last night of » Douisettt’ grand opera, called the “ Child of the Regiment,” this popular establishment was filled with soother largo audience, Miss Mary Taylor, who for so many succes- sive nights bas entertaine: Sera of this Bouse a) water da} ag tavorite character of Marie, the Child of the Regiment Hier representation of Marie hae mm always realiz-d the rled succors. She sects that romenric ed apoeto whele performance. and were much ad mired. The whole t* executed im the most brillant sty.e imaginable. and te-tifies the fadefatigable zeal of Dir, Mitebell in bie endeavors to afford the greatest patirfnction auditory The exesilen: comedy of “Used was aloo od, Mi . Waloot aod Niekinson are inimitable cal and originality. They were admi tted by Messrs, Palmer, Grosvenor iseee Sinclair sed heberts 1 cluded with the farce of “ Tompkins witnessed with much merriment their usual Satord: ous, of conree at ti hi ot rong: dest hthiopian singie g. bad better patronise ¢ bristy, Feats gymunetics tumbling, Uegro extravagauzas, Ko, Tedey at So cloe’, there will be se extra perform. ance in order to mecommodate the young foike, acoum panied by their paremts Juss. Tiree & —The extensive aed well known d eireve belowging to this company wil 2 in Montague Fises, Bruokiya this even The equestrian department te composed » tiete and some of the most rare end inte. animals in (be world are numbered among the jegieal sttraction Mt Waruer. the celebrated English clown, from Artiey's Lendon Ampnitheatre. arrieed in this city om e joncer im his street ever forgets the ot out of the iN prebat obably 5 of Trym, te Actor Pi e all for the paltry eu me ernte Rooms — the great magician keovd business at bis temple Ansesin ¥ (ronkee Meskem ta thie fe pow the last day ther the cu iesities of thet hinese nation, aod the bi and cu toms of this s.1muge people, will De FxaiDived at A dances. Those who wi-h to twar the | An effort is making toc the seaession to Maryland of that portion of the Distetet of Columbia whieh formerly Lelonged te her ‘The thermometer at Albany, on the first instant, stood at 19 degrees, John Ickis, jate postmaster at Frederick, Obio, has deen ariested om a charge of robbing the matt tine les have been succesfully cultivated the present in Attakapas district. Louisiann The Rappahannock Canal. to Pet rg. Va, bogua thirty years ago, has at length beeu compisted. Rice bax been successfully cultivated, the preseat ewe, a Miseourt, Beara are quite plenty at Green Bay. They have destroyed @ great deal ot stock. The propeller Geneses Chief has been purchased for $18.00, by some gentlemen from vioatrest, #ho are to derpatch her to San Yrauctco the preasat autume, leds. from the Oooud«ge tribe have been re- into the preparatory department of the N. ¥. tal ollege e thousand wild ducks were killed at Havre-de- Grace, Md , on the 20th uit. ler one eighth of an inch in thickness, was disoo- vered near ’hiladslpbia. on the moruing of the Lat inat. Snow six inches deep ix onthe mountains between Wheeling aud | umberiaad ‘There were Ofteen hs in Mobile last week, of which two were from yellow of the helig-hook, contains a blue dye supe- 6,000 spindles aad 166 loome, of 50 power. have been ordered. uAIVeLy OF eNizens Of i jon of Judges by the people hav beou re- form by the Fennescer Legislature, Obio City, opporite to 1d is to he consolidated with the Jatter c:ty. making « population of 20,000. t gain of commupirants to the Bapiiet Caarch m tb Soe, ‘States, for the 18st year, bes bana set dow 4 It te +atimated that 40,000,700 feet of lumber have been shipped from this country to Cait Ate proie of $00 w thousand this aa id en te profit of #2000000 We ees Advertisement of Rigs lum! A young lady of Boston has accepted aa offer of $490 th month to act as book-keeper in @ mercantile house San Francirco. ‘The population of Maryland is set down at 900. The public debt, in 1848. was $12780000, interest ‘The average tax, per bead is $1.35 Chicago and Milwaukee are about to erect gas works —the former at ap expense of $130,000, the latter at ete? (le), durt he present year, 106 (Te), ing Ld 5 new puti@ings have been crested, | ‘There wae considerable ice at Providence, K. I., om | the first instant. ee ee Oe Canaan ae, seven furvaces. and ninety-two t rolling mille. ia the wendiacture of irony she’ stands as the third State in the Union. ‘The email pox is reging at Washington city. gence. two Is Count or Loavon, Oct. 9 —In Re Bure bidge.— The wan! t. ap umbrella macufecturer of Viceadilly, came up for the ome of paraing hia last examination, oppored ke It appeared that Mi the backrupt bad nies; ‘tim. New York, to which place takt with hime female, vot bis wife abut mace. returosd from main question now was, as to | whether or pot the item of expenditure was accurately Mtated ip the baiance pheet in exemiontion the — bankrupt stated that the pa-ange from Loadea to Li- Yerpool cont £5. roin thence to New ork £70, He went out ow beard the Hlioerme. takiag with of papers and wearing apparel He re- Teh of july aud the of © ratls”’ to Loudon were truly stated at £6 vouchers ¥ 200 & dey He returord to | ogle 4) vice of bie brother, having only a fe ane Mr. Cooke— What was the cacem of your going to Pies? Beakrupt—it was in con-equence of faail agreement. Mir, Cooke—Your Ht gre to Hastings trom Marck to bat Wes thet for’ Bank: avy orsodum of such expenres. [ did Dusiness. Mr Cooke— What did you go for? rupt--To meet an individual there After pation of the baukrupt by Mr Cooke, of « vary search- ing character as tu items of travelilag and hotel exe Pebten. for which oo vouchers were pe duced. his Ho- por said—! o duct. yet he bad re | curacy of which there reasow to duubt aad there | war no f fon of concealinent of property He Wasa very young man, bad faiieu ta wich thx lady, and th re be (vr Sturgera) prayed th der the ciroumtances the beakragt might ya cee oF Ine Usivensite.—At a meeting of the held at the exe~ — Che Goveraor, ho Greg, G. Y Lansing, A. « . Gideon Hawley, PM Werimore, eed David Buel—the How. Jona Grew, of Ontario, Senvor Kegeat aod Vice-Chancetlor, war voonimourly ehesen Chancellor of the Unt versity o New Vork, to fill the vacancy occasioned hy the death of Pever Wendell, MD. Me. Grei having declined the apporntment, the Hoa Gerrit Y. Lene Albany, Was unanimously chosen Chancellor. The honorary degree of LL.D) was copterred xs Salem Town, Esq, of Cayuga county. All N.Y Nov. 1. C Page, Fire at Minas, eat Loss or Paorertr. =A fre by vloek this (Priday) morning, sive warehouse of H. Otase & ¢ the vens & Kyun, forn dreadiul sweep along th ether, end consuming that 5 of rty destroyed is eoormous, Con tsting wheat, corn, ovte, salt, lamber, and « cousiderable wt ount of merehandiee in store. Tt is teported at helf-past three o'clock that the books and ca of Stevens & Ryan are consumed. At 7 ovelack, this morwing the fire os still burning —Cleveland (O,) Herald, Oct. %. J. J. Osborn, Bey, resident partner at Avtla- Chapelle, of the emineot American tiem ot M born & Co., has been apporsted by hu aul General of the Prussia ‘henuh Provinces. « a