The New York Herald Newspaper, November 8, 1854, Page 2

a GREEK FABLE. 10 THE EDITOR OF THR HERALD. i lately found among a parce! o papers the fol- lowisg, which struck me as rather curiods, I no ticed several things so very like aome things which | had ocourred within my own memory, thatI could hardly at first decide it correct to re‘er the whole to the age of sop. But when I came to consider that since that age of Grevian marvels, no authen- tic history has, so far as I happen to kuow, ascribed toanimals the {ree and uurestricted use of ian Guege, nor even the undortaking, oa a large scale, of guoh public works, such speculativas, frauds, methods of financiering, tick aud roguery a3 are Row common among men, aud especiatly among | the mavagers of corporate fucds sui public revo nues, I was forced to give up the point, and to conclude that the story vas, upon the whole, quits natural: and that if ths things said to have been | done ehould appear to some to be nore extraordina ry than the ue of language on the part of those who did them, that wasres ily accounted for by the admitted euperiority of instinct, an original and ua- erring endowment over tie acquired, imperfect and ofted deceitfal arts of speoch and writing. Io short, I became convinced that it was mot half 80 strange that brates of tra: remote age should speak and write, as that brutes of that or of any Tater period should execute such works and set such examples of speculation, profligacy and pluader, in the man» zement and exper J:tare of the funds con- ,fided to them, as are reported ia this simple story. TI therefore, without hesitutiou, commit the papera to your disposal, confident that they will nét unrea sonabiy tsx the credulity of sour readers, or fail to afford them at least some tuaely and useful sugges- tiovs. The scene of this story was that part ot Greece which was called Macedoaia and Ttracis. beasts o* tha’ age, and suci of the fatiered tribes as depended more upon their fast than apon their wings 84 instruments of loc»motion, desired to have aroad or thoroughfare, as straight and as nearly level as possible, to accommodate taem all, aud ex- pedite their travel and traffi. across the peninsula from the shore of the Euxine to that of the Adriatic, a distance of some four hucd ed and Afty Eaglish miles, through a sequestered region, abounding with enimals and with the objects of their commeroial enterprise. A good route for such a road was Known to exist, extending, trom a point on the Euxine not far north of the site of the ancient By- santium, in a northwesterly Girostion. It had been Joag and ofien talked of, and its merits disousaed; and at length, what was absolutely necessary to the execation of so great an uncer:aking, the co-opera- tiom and joint action of all concerned was brought about. Of course the execution of the work, asin the case of our modern joint stock corporations of the genus hemo, for similar undertakings, had te be Oonfided to a select few; and, as was absolutely ne- Ceasary in that case, and ia in similar cases mecesss- Ty even among men in modern times, to inspire confidence, sevure fands and sarmount the earliest and most formidable difficulties, they chose for Managers, out of the whole number of associates, those who had in the highest devree the confideace of the reat and of the whoie o»maunity. Whether, Om accepting their appoin' ments, their instincts forewarmed them that the jealousy, envy, selfish- ness, detraction, calumny, and ali the base, raven- ous and savage passions of cectain classes, both of feathered bipeds and vulgar beasts of prey,to whom uO part in the management was assigned, would bo excited and actively fostered and promoted, does Ret appear: but it was not loug before they had ample experience of thia nu'ure, in relatioa to the whole affuir and all its details. This the reader wit! erally believe when he considers how very common the like experience is among men. ‘The managers, however, fuitufulto the trust re- poeed in them, peisevered fora considerable tim». The difficulty of raising seasonable and sufficient supplies of provisions and labor was very great. Tne disaffection of the resdess, spcca'ative, selfish and ravenous classes constantly iosreased; and when, by great economy, vigilance and repression of a peculation, cheatery and plunder, the work was abont half done, the disaffectel became powerfal . enough, with the aid of fo-eiga influences of the same nature, to effect a complete revolution, and in- troduce that course of havoc, waste and plunder which gives the story that racineas and piquancy for which alone it is worth preserving. The outaide in- fluences above referred to proceeded from two sourcee--first, from a class of cunning, restless and unscrupulous apimals, knows aa the politicians of that day, whose chief ebjects were office and plan- der. To accomplish their ends they professed to be patriots; and the more effectually to deceive their honest and industrious neighbors they ranged them- selves into two nearly equal parties, each pre‘end- ing to be friendly to the road, and each by turns do- ing their utmost to embarrass and defeat it. The other source of this bad influence was a rival under- taking nerth of a range of higtlaads called the Bal- kaa, and extending from @ point on the Iqwer Da- nube westerly to 4 point near the head of the Adri- atic; got up by several diffzrent combinations of ani- mals, including the crafty ard ravenous as well aa the trustworthy, and including also the politicians of that region, expressly to counteract the more southerly route. Leaving the reader to consider the natare of all the animals reterred to, and their ha- bite and propensities, and what would be likely to happen when the moat greedy go‘ the upper hand in the management of the supplies required by these undertakings, I here drop my abriigement of the introductory preliminaries of the story, and refer you to the offginal papers, or rather to my free translation and notes, for the substance of the story itself, still omitting, however, many significant par- tioulars and details. The notes, though incorporated with the text, are easily distiiguishable, as they are idRended only to jog the attention of the reader, and consist for the most part, merely of allusions to something anslagous among men in moderntines, which may have fallen under his own observation, gnd s0 naturally confirm his faith in all the partica. Jars of the original narrative. There is so strong an ponding class of the human race, that almost any true statement respecting the éne will be found to apply equally well to the other. Whatever, there- fore, is related of those Greek brutes and their oings, may justly claim to be received aa true and without exaggeration, when the same or similar things are observed and known to be true of their counterparts among men. Without farther premonitions and cautions, I hasten to introduce to your readers an abatract of swhat I commend to them as a true fabulous story:— to taopire mutual confidence in each other, om oe in enc ; to commend the conidencs of the publiz oF experience of affatrs like those { sndertaking they were about to interests and t4 of each one, in GE ad wa} jug @ living, ry deks his Botgh hors, covetousness cf scale, insatiable thirst of accu- large. ious ot more covapieucus post ‘were easily led, by the mana- Pdopt their suggestions and follow Having sufficient! nyo iscovered their those Plans Phe | - Of and measures. They represented to the csucus that the undertaking to be carried out was one of great magnitude aud of great importance to the whole community; that all eyes would therefore be turned to those individnala who should b2 chosen | to conduct it—that the real opject of each individaal concerned was that w ict his iastiactive selfi-hae-s prompted him to—that a iarge smouat of moans, rovisions, &c., would be reqnired—that by parsu- | 1g acertain course te», or even twenty, times a3 much of such means might be rendered necessary as would be called for on tue former sytem of suriv and economical management, so that by adopting the course proposed their selish iustincts and thiev- ish propensttica might be abundantly satisfied—that to carry out this scheme, however, it would be ue- cessary for them to aiopt aod parsist in @ syste. matic course of dece tion, false pretences, lying and cheating, ia all their tranaactions, socoants, records and apnouncements, assuming at the sams time t 16 | utmost boldness, coufidence, iimpudence and fearless | neas of consequences, aad boasting of the incredi- ble energy of their exertions, and the greatness of complished, seme di‘ culties were card cates fer every subordinate office, claims tnd merits were nearly equal. Some were mortified »nd disappoint:d as tie new, extraordinary aad i.controvertible discove ics wich has been mace res secting the qualities of the guo-e. For the moment they ipeed aud threw them into the shade, and th-y mcretly felt that similer dis coveries might, by a little effort, be made respecting themscives. A of eager impatience to prevail, ree began qwhica threat ened tumult and confusion—exec ly like wat | geeeenite happens in caucuses at to present day. me showed their teeth and some their claws, som: barked and others growled or squeated, and it be- came evident thet none but the most skilfal man- egemext, and the most libe eee of pickings und plunder, to all not included in the ticket, would aveil to sesnre a satis‘actory issue. Under these circumstances the committee, hopiog to divert at- tention and calm the rising jealousy, artfully pro- posed to cefer the nemination of 8 vive president, fearing indeed that aome quadruped might, in # ite their sacrifices for tue common good—that the p1>- lic would penne? bear this long enough for them to | accomplish their private scacmes of fran and pecu- | | lation; that aa their control of the work, however, was _ | the result of a rad'cai and factious revoluti vn, an ex- | | traordinary effortof all theirinstinots would be 94'led | for to a ape their power, to reconcile the public to their abandonment of all the dictates of | | prudence and leasons of experience, their was%s of | nds, their lawless -¢xperiments, speculatioas, | frauds and plunder, sii] they hed got the undertak- ing into such disesedit, so involved wad so nearly | ruined, as to deter all others but themselves from wishing or consenting to take their places—that ia | order to do all this, they must adop:, and from the commencement, unanimously, boldiy aud persever- | ingly pursue, & certain course of raisrepresentation, lying and hypocrisy in relation to those who tad | pmeceded them and a)! that they had done, 39 as to Teatroy all confidence in them and in the noder- | taking og they lett it, and claim anbonnded oredit | to themselves for carrying iton,and thereby blind the | » public to their waste and embezzlement of the funds | and supplies entrusted to them—that as they not» riovsly had no reliable character of their own, fey H ) Inst felonionsly usurp and arrogate that of thei predecessors, and employ to that end all the re- sources of calumny and detraction against them, and all the arte of selfadulation for themaely-s; im- peaching their motives, condempiag their measu'es, Genouncing their route, finding fault with their work, and in short laying a broad foundation for | such chapges and such enormous and indefinite ex- | penditures as would give scope to all the pecula- | Mon ard plonder which they desired. Having obtained their ready consent to these | prel views, they embodied them ia the fol- | lowing series of resolutions, which, as is usual in all | caucuses properly packed and drilled, were unani- | mously adopted:— | Resolved, That the plan of the undertakin; eae adopted, the route which was sele:ted, and a)l that bas been done, ought to be condemned ard abandoned. Resolved, That the only general rule to be pur- | sued hereafter should be to go directly contrary, as Headly as possible, to all taat has been done here- tofore. | Resolved, That in such undertakings the end jus- tifles the means; and, therefore, in the present case, the end being to enrich the managers and con: tractors, by peculition, fraud and plunder, all means tending to that end are justifiable. Resolved, That in order to succeed ia pursuing this end, the public must be blindsd by false ap- pearances, fale professions, statementa, reporis, accounts, &c.; that to ire confidence in the managers, the character and doings of their prede- cessors must be incexsantly defamed and blackened; that in emergencies, suitable agents must be em- ployed to slander them and extol the doings of the incumbenis; that concealment, evasion, deception, lying and false swearing, will be necessary and proper at all times. Resolved, That each one concerned in Serrying on the undertsking shall be at liberty to employ all the means to which his instincts prompt him to eprich himself out of the common stock, and also by cheating and stealing from outsiders. Resolved, That all the claims, arrears and by lances of old accounts be repudiated aud waolly rejected, and that the claimanta be denouncad aad abused, and allowed barely to, escape with their lives; aid that all new accounts which are open and unsettled be disputed, and payment syatemati- cally refused; that injustice be done whenever any plusder can be gained by it, and tha: false testi- mony and false accounts may be omployed ia all auch cases. - Resoived, That such agents and subordinates bs employed as will carry ou this system and do the bidding of their employers, confining their own nts peculation and plunder to their own depart- mints. Resolved, That the managers, in consideration of the great benefits they are expected to corfer on the whole community of animals, by epeading thsir means in the construction of the road, ought to be allowed to devote their o#n time to the acqnisition of plunder and of the common fuod, and tnerefore should not be expected to know anything about what is going.on, or how, or why ; what contracts ate made, what changer, what new schemes, what mistakes, frauds, defal ations, swindles, be should leave all these matters to subordinates and contrac- tors. Resolved, That jn nominating a ticket, those only should be candidates who have tse strouges: iratincts for plunder, who are indifferent t» every- thing else, and reckless of the means to be employ- ed. Resoived, That all the public laws relating to roads and thoroughfares, and those relating to per- sonal and private rights, be wholly disregardes, or set at defiance and violated at pleasure, and the ~ ne law of brute force be adopted and en- creed. These resolutions being adopted by acclamation the wire-pullerr—wily politicians and partizans of rival interests, as aforeeaid—perceiving that they had gained an entire ascendancy over the covetous and greedy rabbie, submitted their nomination of officers, mavagers and principal agents; which, though received at firs: with growls snd hisses, ‘wes adopted on hearing their reasons in each parti- cular case. The reader, to whom such proceedings are more familliar in analogous instances in modern times, where the real bat coveted objec: is the same, will be less surprised than this cancos was, at the pame announced at the head of tho list : head, leader and president of the Board of Managers, they nominated a goore ; and for reasons which, as soon aa they were stated, were entirely satisfactory to every jndividual of the assembly. They reminded the caucus that the object agreed to in their resolu- tions,and the means and measures to be employed by whichevery beast and fow] thereafter to be concerned in the undertaking was to gratify his selfish gourman- dizing and unscrupulous instincts required a presi- dent who would nod assent to every thing that pleased them, have no opinion of his own, know nothiag, and care for nothicg but office and plunder. Then, that the candidate was a sleek, well fed, good look- ing sort of animal. His affability and politeness were attested by his continual nodding at every thing, indiffers He bad a ready voice, with the rare—and to the of such @ concera—very con- venient quality, of enunciating but one single sound —& monoeytiable, slgnityins both yes and no; so that it might be ever fal whether a negative or affirmative was meant—an inestimable advantage, | | the reader will at once perceive, over those humaa | officiais who mean no when they ssy yes, and vice versa. He was bold, menacing, and intrepid toa | fault, when anything wrong was to be done, or plunder to be seized, owing apparcatly to the fact | of bis being so constitated tha’ ne could eee uotning directly before him withoat turnivg bis head so as | to perceive it by ® siciater glance wit: one eye. | He would scruple at noshing i the way of forage aad | plorder. Wita him, nothing euited to his instincts | was indigestible. He delighted ia troubled waters stagnant pools teeming with vermin, offs] and ga: bege. No sense of guilt or shane would ever add | a finge to the crimson hne of his cheeks; ani | wien-ver they wished to cast him off, they would | op}y have to Yet locee a ter ier, veo oe badger, | he weasel, cat, or even a lirge rat, an { per kaw Rissman plamage would juickly disappear, | Moreover, he could pt and are warning to all | the hair-clad tribes, of approaching s’orms and , tempests ; and finally, was preemiorntly qualified for all the possible emergencies of his office, by being able to walk and ran on the solid ground, to wade, swim and dive in avd brooks, to clap hie wings and fly ia the sir, and to sleep standing on one foot, and with one eye open. No sooner was this brilliant eulogy closed than the whole caucus rose to their fee’ in token of their admiration. They felt that no otbercandidate could pretend to such a constcliation of gifts, ensommenta ‘and Drifiant qualifications. The largest one of the whole company, and having the longest ears. wuose | voice was equal to his z ological rank, and whose coat, in the twilight of their nocturnal meeting, re- sembled Corinthian tin, brayed three times by way seconding the nomination. A joyful tumnlt of applause from every throat ensied, im whi:h the | , who had incessantly modded assent to every thing that bad been said and done, most heartily joined, at tho same time modestly acknowlsdging, that his whole life there:ofore had been wholly occa- | pied with the dirty trafiic of a email puddle, in com- petion with thievish rivals, and therefore he had never before discovered the extraordinary gifts aad ' powers which be «as now convinced lay coaceaied and dormant in him, He onl regretted taat soms | | of his ancest:rs cou'd not be there, tha’ thsy mignt | discover how taey bad a)l slong b:eu blind t) tae merits of their race, and witness the effect of tre concentrated wisdom ao% penetration of a caucns ia discovering and foreve: gendering t cay and energies of the go am occasion ard an object worthy of ivew, never be called forth to astoniss the w and render “gocee”’ a fainilisr hoa-eliold wo Thoagh succesefel thas far, be, ond t sanguine expectations, the romirot feis, Levertbeless, that ia what remalaed 0 be a> of them, be insisted 00, whom it would be danger. ous to place in co near a relation to the goose—aud to select a Candidate for the next mot responsible office, that of treasurer. They therefore desoanted largely on the nature of that office, #nd the queli- ties necessary in incumbent, in or that the | spotis might be shared indwser miuately by all coa- cerned. He must, himeelf, they -aii, be a coarse, vulgar, unfeeling, uneorapnions, hard rearted. grasping, covetous, deceit'ul, lyiwg brute, wish sa- vage inetincta, a carrion stomach, rabid delight in must arise. There the enfferings of hia vistime, and utter contempt of | There were severel candidates within bef eines pl party, 7 esc these qualitiea'were lac only in degree. Tae for ‘example, whom they respected and loved for public epixion. | moet of these traits, and whom they intended to ropose for another place, vas not adequate to this, A ie prckebly oat he the first to admit. He hed too mich texcerness and delicacy <f vagy oy too keen a gense of jus'ice, tov little appetite for blood. no heavy beels tokick with, too quick a reuss of boner—in 9 word, too much conscience. But they flattered themselves that the candidate they were about to propose, would be as cnauimously accepted as the goose had been. They had consulted fim aud be had agreed’toacoept the office, aud promised thatif alicwed to gorge himself sc the fall, he would leave others sseely to share the rest cf the plunder. It was tie jackass, brute well ksown by his garb, his vice, his insatiable stomach, and his heels, as well as by ail the other admirable qualities above mea- tionec. A general burst of applause folio ved this nomination, as in that which preceded ix Every one felt that the committe, by their extraordiaary diecernmeat ard impartiality, had hit the nail on the head. The long-eared animal with the tin-like exterior, brayed axplause. The cwl alone wassileas, absor! in avxious thought about himself. The jackass was installed as treasurer, aud the sequel, as in the case of the goose, fully justified the choice. Next, they procosed as socretary, the hyena; | and for ressons which they thonght would be obvi- ous, when they stated that his only rival was the serpent, who declined a nomination on being pro- mised the situation of chief cletk, or prompter to the Sec; » Which situation he iustinctively preferred to the other office, as sure to afford him more scope, power, and influence. [his nomiastion, like the otiers, waa immediately hailed and cou- firmed as a capital bit: ond it was eqaally justified by events. The coast was now clear for a notiination of vice- president; and in order to qualify the yearnings of & number of candidates who associated with the office the idea of honor withont toil or anxiety, the committee, with their ar customed tact, determined to associate with it the duties ot ciairmaa of tie Committee on Contrasts ; and to prepare the way for the candidate whom, for their own purposes, they intended to propose, they gave at length their views of the menagement and administration of the undertaking, which would be necessary in order to such delays, difficulties ard ¢mbaz:assments as would, year after year for many years, give fuil ecope to peculation and plonder, so that all might share to their hearts’ content, as provided for in their abet resolutions. They obse: ved that as the business of the President was to be that of nodjing assent, and thereby con- firming whatever was done in ths nsme of the cor poration, without ever turning either of his eyes in the diiection of what was placed before him for ap- proval, and that of the Treasurer to make way with the fonds and sopplies ss fast us they came within his control, so that of the Chairman of Coutracta Inust be to agree to all the proposals, of whatever pature or amount, that might be submitted to him by either of his colleagues ia the management, by their agents and eubordinates, and by contractors apd othera outside, all vicing with each other to mot ltiply and enlsrge the expenditure, so a8 ta ren: Ger it Lezesgary at all times to have an incalculab e amount ot enpplies flowing iuto the treasury, that the scheme of universal plander migts be sucs-ss- ful. It wus therefore proper iu sterlf, and necessary to aver suspicion, that he should be distiagnished by the office of Vive President, and so be nexs ie rauk to the goose; that he should be gray, grave and thoughtfa!; thst be should be bling, or as nearly so a8 soseible, and utterly devoid of sense ané feeling. They therefore felt assured that they should be sup;orted in their nomination of tho owl for that double office; and the event showei tiat they had not bren more fo suvate io any of their Lyopesitions 10 the caucus than ia this. The merits of the olel were unanimonsly voted ‘o be fail, an- swersble to the reasons aesiyned for his appo nt ment. The next important office to be filled was that of Surveyor, for woich a candidate must be selected—not because of his even pre- tending to deh any Wey HATE in. any respect, any knowledge of survesiog, or any capacity whatever to aid in the constraction of the road, bot the contrary of all thi, The whole aim and arift of his efforts must be to cause delays, embarraasmente and difficulties, to waste and squan- der the funds, to propose changes in the route of the road, to undo what had been done even under his own direction, sist thieves, pecalatora, and de- signing kaves in their schemes of plunder, to de- vise and propose new experiments and new objects of expenciture wholiy fore'gn to the legitimate under- takisg; ard, in fine, to be auxiliary tot ¢ multipl+ cation of wasteful contractaand expecditures, trere- by rendering the collection of vast. revenues neces- cary. and diverting toem as plunder into the hands of the managers and their radical suppocters. I¢ was plain that he must be a heartless compourd of ve, fool snd hy, ite, weak, credulons and fal-e. In the whole hist of regalar animals, there was not one that naturally possesses the and qualities recessary to the service required in this depa:tment; ard they were therefore obliged to have recourse to cre of the mongeel marsuyisl fami- Ties, who being addicted to mischief, deception aud stealirg,aud having no sffloity or sympathy with creatures, nor any affection tor any of them, or attachment to them, was ready trom mercecary motives to serve them in their oefarious s:-hemes. They therefore nomirated the moukey for sarveyer, which wes rilently acquicaced in, tne goose only nodding assent. For the rest of the appointments there were but too many eligible candidates of the right stamp, and the judgment of the nominating committee was no longer beld in any doubt. Shor general sur- veycr, regulator and bottle holser, after re- viewing their interded place of operatiors, aad corsidering thas each of the whole party was in fact to be purveyor and agent for himself, and would des re no meddjesome interference with hie private echemes, they prop sea @ swine, feeling sure, they said, of the ouly point of mush import- ance, namcly, that in general he would act in har- mony with the goos:, and in caseof any dispute about the contents of a puddle, or any other spoils, could overpower hit. Tocomplete the list of mavagers, they selected, | with the greatest impartiality, from diff-rent classzs; and 60 obvions way the fitress of tie cacdidates, that, if any diasasisfuction was felt, it was hypocrit- ically suppressec. From the featvesed class they ropored @ turkeybuzza'd, a kite, and a magpie; from the ravenous beasts, a wolf, teriier dog, a ae acd awharfrat, aod from the beasts of der, &c.,a dopkey, a caif, » goat, and & wood- chuck. For orators at public dincora they selected tre magpie and the par:ct; for newsmongers, alias editors, the fox, the weazel, end the crow; for alan: derer in obief, t-e akank; for committee of supplies, i, €. finance, the wolf, rat, and kite; for accounts, big &c., a committee ot the whole. ‘he nominations being ended, to the agreeable surprise and wonde- of every one, a general burat of sadsfactiion follcwed, while the goore nodded assent; the owl closed hise;ca im solemn silence; the jackasa threw up his ja token of tri 3 the hyere sunk into his hole, too narrow to allow of his turning back, thereby indicating that if he ever emerged it must be by some other opening; the monkey hopped upon back of the goose, and laughed outs}ght; the svine squealed for joy; the magpie, perched on the head of the jackall, made an eloquent speech, which the parrot echoed; and so of t.9 rest, each one signifying his cxstacy in the most appropriate manrer. These matters being thus happily arranged, the icstincts of «ach one were immicdistely tuned to bis own schemes of rapacit; and plucder. The wire-pnilers, with thei coteries of proj+etors, contractors, koaves, and hy, osrites, were puiticuiarly busy. It was plain that contracts and engagements must be made be fore the mavagers could, under any ples of neces. sity, cat for eupp.ies. Fora considerable time the surveyor was Compietely sdcled end confounded by cor Bicting projects urged by the sellishness of dif feect paities, cach teving bis own ends to answer, ‘be trrasurer ard eecrerary grew i tent The rmae of contracts fell into a tor. The re a’ore stood bolt upright, noddivg continually, a: 6 ¢ xMbi ing bis indocitable cxorag:. The singe y traversing the uvfiaished rac denew cirg every part ond carcel of it, and giving it te neceveery oder, At e@ngth, to start tus nocertobing and secure at least a prospect of ccrer, however, » ag by munagers and ttetr cousins, to supply at tne end of three or four ears @ very large quactity of materials for garnish: ing the road way, at double tie present marke price. This, at a meeting of those intert ested wae »: 1d to, and the goee, being ove of them, nodded sasent. Hope was thus inspired; and one g{ter another proposals were brought forward end coptacts entered into for undoing what had formerly been dove, and for chadging the route, wicth and level of the road, #0 as to occasion the grestest possible expenditure aod afford the must ample facilities for plunder; and for changing the terminations so as to have half a dozen depots and estabisbments at each end; and also for making beth on the Eurine and Adriatic branch roads ia every cirection, 80 as to double or quadraple tae grove ex) enditare and divert thetravel aud business a» much as posible away from the main truuk, lest there should be too much of it; and finally, contracts and ervangementa toengross the navigation of the water® adjacent to all the terminations, to build and Tusnage sbips and vessels, lease, mansge, repair end rebutid al! otier roads far and near, ax | sume the empire of the whole of Greece and all the ‘and and water adjoining it; aod, finally, to do, or endeavor and agree ty Go, all other things suggested by the instincts of the slanderer, the purveyor, the orstor, the surveyor, the Patty | the tieasurer and managers, the com | finance, the committee of the whole, the editors, wirepullere, politicians, rivals, competitors, ax | every raverous outside beast, fowl and reptile, frievd sna foe. It will be epparent that an ample foundation was thus Jaid for execting @ bourdiess quantity of an)- plies; avd, in truth, a quantity was furnished, ever ard over again, ufficient to have flaished the under- taking, great us it was; but din the system of private peculutimn and wholesle plander, which constituted the charm of the concern, they helped the effair along but slowly, aud what with negli- gence and waste, frequent changes of plan, and a CoLstant succession Of new, eXtravagant, absard acd roiveus Prijecta, ae msn) yeaa per ae iy es bo bead, and the proceedings guided by no ¥ gher interests tha tboss of the ‘aud the owl, sided by the movkey and the swine, tue affair un- svoidably gut embarrassed. The plunderers indi- vidually grew rich, whils as @ corporation “they be- ceme distressingly poor, and were forced into straights, and driven to all sorts of ex; None of them cared anything for the road, but they ali hked t'e system, aud reeolved not to give it up. When ail voluntary Re ee ceased, they dispated outstanding clauns, flew kites—i. e., credita, promises—sold some of their vessels or other sa perfluities at halt price, uttered false reports, ia ventories and sccounte, acted aa if completely stul. tified or stark mad. Being bent on speculating, a8 individuals, in the fands end assete tion, they issued credits, shaved them, and took se curities in exceas, to be sacrificed for their benefit, and finally mortgaged the road over and over again, pledged the fucare uge of it when completed, and in ir private capacity—in obedience to their in- | ations | dividual intereste—shaved the obdlig at rates to suit themselves. Meantine the entire route and sll its branches, multiform ter- minations, leased roads, storehouses, tressur, sub-treaguries, became infested with swarms of rats, and every species of thievish and greedy vermia— the monkey, begioning to be suspected was allowed to'escape from tte territories sary lo get rid of the goose, and a rat was commis- sioned to drive him awsy to his shallow private pud- Pei Oe Lees at leogth kicked up his hos!s and jed, an radical reform would be necessary. A gradual re- form, indeed, was commenced, by starting first rate can‘idates for President, Treasurer, Purveyor, and the vacancies in the board of management. Here the marrative abruptly closes. A vaat many 9 garry have, injeed, for the sake of brevity, omitted im this version of it; but enough bag been sa‘tl to supply matezias for che imagination of the reader, or, if that is not satisfactory, he may resort to what is called the philosophy of history, which pro-eeds upon maxims very simiiar to those of Sancho Pa: za's philosophpy: euch as‘ Like causes produce like effects” —" When the eky falis we shall catch larks'’—“If the idol isan ape, what must the priest be 2”. things are at the worst,” &c., &e. It way be proper, nevertheless, to allude, as brief- ¥ as porrib'e, toa few of the omitted particulars, thet the reader may neither imagine nor philosophi- cally infer, that the original was altogether so mepgre ard barren of incident as the foregoing out- line. The undertsking immediaiely concernei all the denizexa of field and forest soush of tae Balbane. | There, as in other count ies, were, by their natures, education and habits, divided into two well detiued pasties, the radical, wich constituted an immense merjority, a6 it inc uded every kind of vermis, re tile #BO b eect, and the conservative, Wo sou though often plurdered and catumnisted by tae rae dies! managers acd their agevts, aud constagtly aware that their voluntary contributions to the sup plies #@esquancered and wasted upen knaves and pu delle and upon outside acd useless schenea, yes knew enough of the brute nature of ths radic.'s to hold theirpeace sed patiently submit to be flesced ané bled, avd robbed snd aslaudered by thoss woo bsd the power. Everything was doue by the Board of Managers, or ssaumed ard sauctioned by them, whereby all individual respo: aibitity was exclnded. Evers corservative iostinctively disdainei to take the law into bis own bands, aud annibilste the rogues by physical force; and if iu an extreme case | apy of them appesled to the equity or end€avored toexcite the sympathy of his tormentors, he was teuntingly referred to the then fresh and well known table ofthe wolf and the lamb. When enor- mous frauds, s.eculations aud shaves became no- toricue, the irstinsts cf the dominavt party, who were all directly or indirectly inte: » Were ap- pealed to for approbation and applause, on tae ground of the roling moxim amongst them that he who smarsed the g eatest amouct of plancer, by whatever means, was the ablest financier, the most respectaple brute, and the fittest to carry on so great a public work. If he deceived and robbed ons of his-intimate sasociates in office, or ovsrreached any sbrewd broker or banker, his akill and ta t were the more applauded, and his vi-:tim the more sigaifi- cantly hissed and laughed at. In some cases where excess of waste and p!under reduced the supplies to the point of inc threatening starvation, a general hue and cry was raised about t.¢ importance and in- dtepensableness of the road, false accounts, affidavits, romors and assertions were given out, a new losa, cr a total Joes of all that hai been expended was shown to be necessary; and 9}] the arta of the class then krown as shavers, brokers and baukers were put in requisition. When the crisis was over, the Tapagere crowed, their enbordinates spplauded, the public laughed, end all the practices of the oid ays- tem were rencwed lod om till anotner vrisis was brought about. ‘The reader may be curious to know haw the per- sonal bickerings, jealousies, quarrels and conflicts, which could not fail to arise among tude of animals of diverse and conflicting interests, were got along with. He has only to reflect—and if he be s bit of a philceopher he will direct!y in- fer—that these difficulties, which unavoidably were of copstant occurrence, were bard by the cir- cumstance that however much the; differed in other respecte, they had a common atd pa:amount in- stin t for plunder, the pole star and sapreme de- sire of each and every one. In obedience to this un- controllable and inestiable iustinct, they were in- discriminately the victims of ea:h other. When their cor flicts were not fatal tuey cribbed what biows, wouncs and blood they could, aai went on as gord frends as before ; when they were fatal to tboge on one cr both sides, new candidates like them, | only more hurgry and desperate, were at hand to take toeir places. Occssionally one was expelicd as | fn» longer tw be endured even 1m such a community. Bo ceneral, while the plunder lasted, cash ore felt thathe fared muoh better than “oe daserved. kven the goose, * hen driven away, amidst the jeers, eounte, hisses, growls, barkings, sqacalings, ani L ayirgs of a) around bim, helc his cead aa igh is ever, ncdded as often, had as full a crop and 4s hrill a voice, ond was cons-ious of no loss ot cha ieter, reputation or feathers. . MORAL. This, like every other Greek fable, has a thoval ; and it was no conbt for the sske of the mo-al that the facts cccurred and were published, so that the conduct of teasts might teach useful lessons to man in arslogous circumsten ‘es. The leseon of course ia one of caution for the futare—not a mere idlo and ureless iuastiation of what may have happened ia upy time past. Suppose any community or associa- tion of ren, in this or any otxer country, had atany time undertaken to construct a road, an+ that afier a while a class of speculatin less and ignorant boy who coulo neither have ori; orsvart- €¢ it at first, nor under any sircumstacces bave car ried it on without infivite was'e, peculation and plunder, arg all sorte of ay and injustice, auc: ceeded in gbtting control of it, and having affixed to it the indelible stigma of their names aud their profligate management, kept possesion because there was ro lower class to whom it could be trans. ferred--of whwt ure would tt be to cite this fable as au ifustration of euch a case in which the misoatef bac been already ¢: and ail remedy become hopa lesa and impowibl-? What sensivle reader would waste a moment's time in tracing tre avalogy bo- iwern the officer#, managers, ard rabbls of incom- petent, unscrupwious, wasteful anc seltish o-overa. tors in such # case, and those of the fable, or ia rhowing that their president was like a goose, their treasurer like # jackass, &c., & .7- That there may have been such a case ia vers likely, for the fanie 9, no éoubt, founded in nature, and therefore all bat eure to come true. But the moral of i: ix aot retro. epection—rot desigacd to remedy what is past aud insurabie—bdut to caution all furure associations for su h worke,to beware. eben they se) at the heat an ignorant cox omb, like a goose; a senseless vice president, &c., Ike an owl; a rapaciors treas: like a jackass; and ao of the reet—tie entire ging, in aud out of office, reckless of waste, and cach dients, | the cor; | and | Greece; the swiae | wit:drew in disgust; it becare absolutely neces | it began to be felt that sooner or latera | “The best time for reform is when | d alool | trom all as:ocisation with their actagonists, and, | such & multi. | seiwe only to enrich himself ont of the common In these ive times such a caution—sah a moral—may be of use even here. This is a great countes—very great, avd hae room for long roads ~ Very long once. And who can say that xs Ronest men getmore and more scstce, some great project may Lot be breached that ought, if properly conducted, to cost ten or twelve miliiona, but which if left to the Management of reckiese men might cost four times | as mucs? Does not every one see that the fable, ey, pondered leg may do 82m good? Are e rot in it furewarniug, admonition, vautiont =| The Past History and Present Position of the Crimea. rom the London Chronicle, Oct. 14.] Hi inform us that the Crimes has, at dit. | ferent periods, been partially or entirely occupied by ore than seventy distinct nations. object its Iatest masters aprears to bave been the de- struction, as far as possible, of every vestige of an- cient rale, and of every relic of former magniiicence which might onntrast unfavorably with the fortreases | axd areexals which conetitute the moauments of their own supremasy. The celebrated traveiler, Dr. | Clarke, who visited the peninsuls (eg to | the present century, was bimself a witness of | Hs aay mone aire apa orl ie 8, al , an 88 a } their leaden roofs to furnish for ri He saw stoves which bore inscriptions of almost priceless value in the eyee of the zealous rudely torn from their places, and used_up conetraction of government buildings. He ene told, in answer to bis application for mission to pur- cbase the treasures which he wo highly estimated, that, for reasons of State policy, no igaer could be allowed to carry to other sountries material evi- dence of the former civiljzation of the Crimea, and of the’barbarism of those int» whose hands it had fallen. It is not surprising that he should have re- corded, in terms as strong as lsn, could sup ply, his unfavorable impression of the Russian ay iborities. ‘They have,’ he says, “laid waste the o anes ey have cut down the trees, and pulled down the houses;”.and after proceedivg to enume: rete other similar acta of wauton tyranny, ho closes bir catalogue with the well-kaown qaotation, soli- tudinem taciunt, pacem appellant. The port of Kuffs wren visited by Dr, Clarke, afforded a habitation to only about fifty famities ; and readers n)% fami- liar with those melancholy pages of history which rarrate the decadence of natious, will scarcely credit the glowing de:cription given by Sismondi of the sume place as it exinted four centuries ago Tt was sen the principal colony of Genoa, rivaliing the mother city in. ulation and wealth, and it was the great market forthe wood, wax, and fare sn)- p by northern regions. It fc the central int of communication between Europe and the it received, by way of Astracan, the silks | and cottons of Persia, and the spiess of Todia—and | the wealth of the foreigners establisned within its | walls was employed in developing the resources of | the Caucasian mines. The native Khans, whether | under compnision or from policy, had granted to | the coloutats the most liberal privileges, including | that of exemption from all jurisdiction except that | of their own authorities. Trade throve and wealth increased, until, in an evil hour, the conquering | arms of Mahomet II. assailed tue! colony by sea, while an adverse party in the Peninsula be- seiged it by land. The Genoese were not back- ward in assisting their fellow-citizens ; and, as the er of the enemy prevented them from sending maritime succor, ‘hey despat hed five hun- dred soldiers, who, having maple their way throagh Hungary, Poland, and Lesser Tartary, reached their destination in safety , but too late to render efficient service. The Crimea no longer afforded a safe res;- ing place for the merchants of the West, and its commercial eminence was lost. The finat expulsion | ot the Genoese occurred in the PA 1475, and the history of the next three centuries is only a record of Ruestan aggression, often Tepe and systemati- caily renewed. In 1771, logorouki forced the Jines of Perekop, and the conquest of the Peninsula almost immediately followed. Nominally, it remain- ed for afew years independent, but its complete | subingation, had been fully determined on by the ambitions Czarina; and effective measures were | taken for accomplishing her design, In direct | breach of the understanding which had been ea- tered into on the conquest of the province, Rassian | | villages were erected, avd colonists were cent to in- | habit them— 75,000 Christian natives were expelled | from their homes by the protectors, for the tune be- | ing, of the orthodox faith—and in 1784 the country | was formall incorporated with the gigantic empire | of which it has until now formed a part. If Russiaa accounts may be c:edited, the commerce of Kaffa, | during the period subsequent to the annexation, in- creased at & marvelously rapid rate. Hs importa, which are stated to have amounted in 1800 only to | 37,141 roubles, rose to 3,998,895 in 1819; and in the | Qi exports there was a corresyording avgmention, is | wae alterwards deemed expedient, however, to sacri | fice the Comra i order to promo'e the prosverity | | Of Odcsss; aid the official repors on the commer e | { of the empire, prosented a fow years ago, euffisicatly shows that no effort would ever nave been mada to | | develope those Latural advantages which, ia accient | imes, gave so much importance to the provinen. We bave been compelled to speek in terms of re- | gret as to the past conduct of our Turkish allies ia | ths Crimea; but between thoir misdeeds aud tyose | | Of Rossia ibere is one difference, too importaat j to be overooked. At the cicse of the fittseath | | century, the Ottomans had not enjoyed tne og | eas of acquiring European _ civilization. | bey were then a barbarous people, who had been tanght by experience to regard themselves as | , fa isclated race, and as the hereditary foes of | Chrietendom ; and if their hand was agaist every | map, it is not less true that every man’s hand | as against them. For the conduct of Russia | at the cloze of the 18th century, the same claim to indulgence cannot be preferred. A Christian power which has systematically disregarded the ruies of jrstice—which has ou at every pretext for war and conquest—which has followed up victory by extermir ation, and been a ter terror to its subjects than to its enemi 13 not to be jadged by the rules wbich are applicable to remote periods and to the uncultivated champions of a faith in theory less pure. Yet let it not be forgotten that, some five centur es ago, the first conflict between Russia and Turkey originated in the efforts of the latter to ac- compish @ commercial achievement as | i 8, in its own day as the division of the } | | great, per: Isthmas ama wonld be at the prevent time. The farks Were engeged in cutting a canal, with the view of uniting the Don and ths Voiga, aud thus affording the facilities of water ssrriage to the merchandise of | the East, when they were, for the firs: time, assailed by the horges of Muscovy. Ever since that period, the motto of Ruseia has been gualis ab incepto; and Lepeath her i hte AC to as well as [ political freedom has Japguished and decayed. | Now toat this iocabus is about to be cast off by | the arma of the Western Powers, we cannot but an- | ticipate fcr the porta of the Crimea, and for tne ex- | tensive districta borderiog upon the Black Sea, a} partie! revival of their former proepesity, Although our commercial intercourse with East baa, siace | the period to which we lest referred, tound a more | convenient highway, the valne of the market now | thrown open to us is not to be despised. Nor can | it be doubted that the losses occasioned by a re: | atricted intercourse with Ros.ia—aud even by the | abeolute interd ction of traffic with that country, | | shonld the exigencies of the war reader such & step necessary—will, in a few years, be amply repaid by the new chanvels which will be rendered accessible to the entergrise of our | Merclunts. Itis easy 10 parade, in exaggerated language, the population ued the wealth of that vast potion of tre Emopean contineus which is | suject to the sway of the Antoorat ; bat tigures | tw clear to be misunderstood show us thst Cada, | Chili, and Pern have been us good sus‘omers a3 Russia foc the produce snd manufactares of the Uut:d Kingdom, while even the Dacubian Priaci- politics hsve obsorbed one fourth as ma nas the H | “bole of the immense empire which eeeka to annex | them to its territories. From Galatz aad B ailow, | we may rely ugon supplies of corn abunda:t'y sofil cvp\ to meet any deficisocy in our own stores; and | we may fre) confideat that the mouth of Barops’s | Tevet map Bifisent river will sreotny be cleaced from ‘hose obstructions whch, an: Rossian role, have ten pliowed to impede its vavigation. [t pay not | been forgotten that the same eelfich policy which | bas suffered the Volga to become almost impassable | at its lower extremity, has also permi ted the Sulina | exit of the Danube to become almost a ma-sh—we | will not say in ceflance of the exprees wo:ds of any | binding tieaty, but clearly in violation of the arran- | gemements entered into at the C of Visn- ne. Passing evstwards in our rapid glance, we | come to Odessa, the favorite port of its ore- | rent master. The events of last summer have satis- | factorily shown that it rests with England and France to determire whether it shall continue, as heretofore, a Hoaesehing eniparsest of commerce, or sink into its crigina) insignificance. It may be matter for considsraiiou hereafter on what terms it sh-nld be suffered to remain a Russian port; bu’ one thing we may regard as certain—the cannon balls which batter down granite walla will prove more than a match for kectestire tariffs, and the concession of lal freedom | ) | | i : euggest iteelf as one of the most impor- tant od to be insisted on when the proper time hes arrived. Of the Crimea we have sl- ready spoken, Its southern districts are rich in na- turai productions, and some of the axcounta which have reached us, afford s parallel to those which the back as to the fertility of the alation is, no dyubt, a poor ig to ita full extent the pis of old bron promised Jand. fe One; yet, withont boest of our disting) stateaman who ‘‘ called | into existence a new world to redresa the balance of | the old,” we may express @ conviction that tho in- | genuity of British merchants will ere long devise a syeeta of exchange = to both parties, Of | tbe good will of “we mgt have had deci- rive proofs, apd in this kindly Feeling we have the | first ard most reliable seenrance of sucovas, ! The came may be raid of Circassia, which, with the exception of the cea const—with the exception | tened with much delight to his that is toeay, of all oe acceasib'c merce—hes hitherto and we ma) will for ever continusto be, an independer What the inhabitants of that region m give in retarn for the supplies which ws ‘We cannot as yet wit) Seominnes protict; again we have the assurance that friend.y| cation eith England will be tae best Ty that guarentee will be. ‘valued antee valued evil assures us. On the sout! ore wile inal Sos aaa € no on van the fleet, wh: could at an: in }, bat ‘whelm in common ruin onr ships and tb which tiey ley. Of thie danger tne t| Sinope effords a sufficient evidence, and i Sec Nesta il ea repetition, command -of ¢ Dann hanks, ond # will bo cer own, 2: proofs of pearance of British produce from who have ap to official showing that, year after , We were be to dist 0 and to lees profi sec that new marts, at no home, ate now thrown even the on scourze bese its train—blessioga which w | weigh the evils which it necegsariiy enta: ‘Visit of the Ciipper Ship Lady 1| Japan. (From the China Mail.) The American cli; ship Lady Pierce Burr, fiited up at San Francisco in an wanner for a ‘* peace expedition” to Japa with her owner, Mr. Silas E, Buirows, Kong, on the 14th of August. Mr. 3u seribes his visit as having been attende mcet oon. and satisfactory results. been favored by him with the following 1 pe journal:— Lady Pierce arrived in Jeddo B days alter Commodore Perry had left, ‘ of amity apd pesce, and without any pr for war,’ and tee high Japanese officer: | visit was much more pl to them th Commocore Perry, who bad with bin | er, utmost re; or tg e a sup ified at Sau with every comfort and evs tikely to vuterest the Japanese, who were surpri uch an elegant): furnished vesuel used a: | gentleman’s yacht. Her dimensions wer« | tackle’ See the. authociion aging tho Bc. le, ant ities 8 ie Ec tended to have two vessels bak oo the On board was a Japanese map, thet yor of a crew of fifteen men belonging - which had been b'own ont to sea, and Ww up near the Sandwich Islands, after havi ut for seven months. This man, name no-skee, was received with the most liv strations of pleasure by his county, me ic of bis rescue from the junk, ind tre: the Americans, espectal'y on board the La in which he had been, by the kirdnoss of _ Tmitted a free passace to bis native cou japanese, especially the lower orders, we _ in expression, by words and gestures, of t tude to M-. Burrows, who seems to bec that Dee-yee-no-skee, a man of fair talents” by bis account of Amerisan manners ani to accempiish more than hosts of samba: wards forming and cementing an intimac the Japanese and forsigners. Bhortly after the arrival of the Lady — Urago, orders were received from tho ca Mr. Burrows should be supplied with eve: might require, end received with “similar | ° | to that displayed toward Commodore Perr , a party of the Urago officials on board, © Pierce proceeded to within ten miles of J” het owner expressed a desire tognchor off | ‘pat this was objecied to by the officers, — “It is not good ; Commodore Perry.did not | aud we hope you will not.” During the a veseel every part of hér was crowded wit! who were peters regi With the ref’ with which the vessel had been provi: oysters and peaches being their favorite — with champegne as @ beverags; aud alt one time there must have been several tho aud around the ship, and though everythi | } ware included, was thrown open to their i not @ single article waa sto! Large 1) silk, porcelain, lacquered ware, &o., were. |] fie name of the emperor to Mr. Burrows, | |] ever, was requested to give publicity to — | mivation that henceforward, in accords | stipulations in the treaty, no foreign ir) whatever would be permitted with ee ‘ all veesels must proceed either to Simodo | otier ports thrown open to American trad’ From Jedco Bay, therefore, the Lady P ceeded to Simoda, under the pilotugs ot sent on board by the authoritirs, and esco government cutter, manred by two of twenty men, who had recaived orders to re: ‘Besistance that might be required. Dario; tire stay of the vessel no guard was plavec ber was any restriction pu’ upon jaudng, Mr. Burrows twice took advaatage while Bay, atd on both oveasions was received ¥ mark of . He is, however, of opi: | the officers of the United States squadrox extensive foreign commerce can possibly J for meny years to come, be carried on wit He says he applied ior coal, and was tol that “government had determined not to ¢ their sea coal ;” but, after reference to . was informed that he might have as much | quired at $1 65 per picul. or $28 a ton—au_ | he eaw at the denot ig of @ very inferis tion to that sold in Oregon at $8 a ton. Mr. Burrows says the Japanese are fully| || the present disturbed state of China, w! meee entirely to the effects of foreign in’ and considers the enormous prices fixed 0! commodities as he desired purchase index that fear alone dictated their acquiescence in the demand made by Co Perry. He likewise asserts the Japanese nation of atheists, ing the existence | and aclecting a8 am o! of worship e 5 eeieeres Raperer at Meaco or any other | le was told by the interpreters that form | Teligionswas similar to that of China, but belief in 8 Supreme Being bad latterly bee) |} discarded; and they professed to be a] on Dee-yee no-akee declaring his beliafin to whom, snd not to the spiritual or tem: MasiAl sexuouistaeenteet: aati aD) acl LA ents Oo! iverance _ drifting junk had been directed. i! * Whe Inebriate Asylum. | TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. | Lobserved in your paper of the 14th inst. 4 the meeting of the directors of the United Sia ate Asylum, for the reformation of the poor) tute inebriate. Iwas not aware that such tion had been incorporated, although I had time to time, in the daily papers, articles set | the necessity of such an organization in thi modus operandi does not appear; yotT traat will soon enlighten us on the matter, The who have devised this asylum, and procured i are certainly worthy of the name of philar and we hope its benevolent design will meet ation of the public. It must appear toe hat an asylum of ihis kind has long beon de New York; for the numerous elass of these un ave hitherto been uncaved fory nay, regarded he light of criminals, and undeserving our sy Let him who bag no friend or acquaintance cholhas enslaved turna deaf ear to the drunkard’s wife, or the cry of his starving ebil || Intemperance and critne have almost becom mous terms in this community. Let him w lok at our eriminal calenday for one month have been so intent of late years in laying the root of the tree, that’ we have forzotten already produced. While temperance men“ devising ways and means to pogpross the liq the inebriate has been left to his fate, too « irreclaimable. Butin the appearance of this trust we shall find a platform of charity to lished upon which all ean meet and aid in resc and body from destruction. ‘This city is em: mie: ground, and our friend and wrothe our assistance. If an epidemic rages in our midst, how soon) itals opened for the care of the infected, Y proay of intemperance, coeval with our city, myriads daily, sapping the foundation of vor] lating hearths, until a ery cometh up like that for her first-born, has hitherto been unheard atill be unheeded? We trust not. Asylums are indeed necessary, and none, more worthy of support thau that of the Here the physical and moral welfare of this w class can be attended to, ani numbers would b ) 4 } i to sobriety and virtue, And society reclaim so brightest ornaments. A FRIEND TO THE INEE eout in the upper part of the Brewery, at the corner of Union. and. Wolke this place, This was a large and valuable esta i owned by Mr. Wm. H, Irwin, and was at (he t operation, The building itself was of stone, wooden roofs, It was filled with all the noc : chinery for brewing on a large acale, with stea drying kilns, caske, &e., together with a co quantity of manufactured ale and beer, and of barley, hops, &c. The fire was first disc? onw place, in a'small flame on the top of theh aoon eprend over the roof, and in a few whole pile was ina binge, ‘and was rap | Along with the bri building, the drick 1 joining, used as a co i room, ant for a connected with th Weshiagton Sentinel, Nov, » was de