Democratic Standard, 1840-11-24

NEWSPAPERS. A child beginning lo read becomes del ighted with a newspaper, because he reads of names and things which are fa familiar, - miliar, familiar, and he will make a progress accor- nmgiy. a newspaper m one ear save Mr. Weeks, is worth a quarter's school- ng to s child, and evey father must con Oder mat substantial iiiloimaliofi is cm nectod with its advancement. Tho moth er of the family Iwing one of its heads and having a more immediate charue of children, ought to be intelligent of mind. pure in language and always eheerfuland circumspect. A the Instructor of her children, she should herself be instructed. A mind occupied, becomes fortified a- gainst the ills of life, and is braced for any emergency. Children amused by reajing anu s:uny, are of course consid ereate and more easily governed. How many thoughtless youngmen have ."pent ineir evenings in a tavern or a greg shop, which ought to ha7e been devoted to reading! How many parents who have never spent twenty dollars for books tor their families, would gladly have gi given - ven given thousands to reclaim a son or a daughter, who had ignorantly and thought thought-lessly - lessly thought-lessly fallen into temptation. Weekly newspapers can be had at from one to three dollars per year, being from o to nve cents per week. Etcli paper costs the printer before it is printed, a licut one cent. He, therefore, obtains from one to four cents for his editorial du duties, - ties, duties, and for printing, distributing, com composition, - position, composition, Si c. This is extremely low. It is the price paid fur advertisments which must keep newspapers alive. , Thus the reader of newspapers get the cheapest of all possible reading. Frrim ike Saturdiy Conrsr. SKETCHES OF AN INDIAN CHARAC CHARACTER, - TER, CHARACTER, &.S. yonamra pom a (Joaihng Journal in a bark canoe on Lake Michigan, in 1833. INDIAN SUPERSTITION. Oa a hill oeilnoking Moquiw cova, ia th bu rial-ground. 1 noticed frme ricnt tnM. with a lo. frame Oi r the.n coitstructi-d of iplit eeda-, and roofat with a kind of rti.l hing a At th head of the grave a small aiiertura ia cut. tn al low th spirit of the deceased to past fisely in and out. Near the spot it if ru-tomary fi.r the irienns to Durn lugir, honey, ot aromatic heron, the essence or r whicil is evolved beint deem ed tits piopur fond for npirits while they linger uear the p.actol'scpullure,and before 1heir 3nal exit to the happy hunting grounds of tha blest, far nwny- beyond the setting sun. The 'spirit bird,' here over this romantic 'and hallowed spot. is wont nunngine still night to pour furth the fu-jernl lays strains of melancholy music are heard hy the n-itives, tin inouinful rsqu:em of the souls of departed bravo. The 'spirit bird' de descends - scends descends only low enou&h in tha air to be heard; it ismvorseen, nor doasit ever rest foot upon tree nrevth yet wi'l it remain the live long night, iioaiiag aixiva ins consecrated spot, and warole notas nl unesaseing melody, to mingle in ojisoQ witn iEilhn harmony and celestial snag. In one of the wigwams, e found a girl vary ill. She was evida.it ly in tha last stags of a fatal fe fever. - ver. fever. Her friends lid reasad to employ natural remedies to arre:t tha disease, anrj tba Medicine man were preparing to try thsir power. When this is the caw, there it but little hope: natural means are ns;lected, and a supernatural agsncy invoked. Tho incantation isuttertd in a wild and solemn chant, expressive of grief and despair, and inspiring fading of peculiar awe and solem solemnity. - nity. solemnity. The incantation but rarely prov.s success successful - ful successful in exercising the bad spirit from the body ol the unfortunate patient. The p can ascend in lain'topropitiats tlis relentless power, and the howling of torcery is doomed to cease with the breath of the dying victim. 1 have wondered at the Strang superstitions of these people. Some of them beautiful an I in teresting, conforming to original and primitive habits of thought and experience, an t originating in the beclouded reason of unenlightened human ity, yet manifesting a deep, en tiding sense of de psndence upon a higher power. Some time ago we were driven ashore in a storm. We saw smoke at a little distance, an. nehind a sandhill, where it was placed to shield it from the wind, we founds wigwam. After covering our things In, -the canoe, and making all safe, we took shelter Willi tha Indians. An old man told us we must bring ourcanoa and things over the hill, and I he. young men would help us that there would be a rirsadfut storm and no canoe could live in the lata lie said he bad been on Uie beach early in tha morning, and bad ssen the storm spirit. He thus described it. It is embodied in the shape of a female, with long hair flowing over the neck and soulders. It floates upon the waves, with the body erect and the head thrown bark. It commences blowing with tha mouth, and mnking a whistling noise, which grows louder and louder, and the gale in creases. Presently atr is spouted profusely from the mouth and nostrils tha spray is thrown up from the heaving Billow, and the storm rages ta its fury. Nor dees it subside until the potent soirit of the storm, satisfied with tbe sport of bursting clouds and the 'tempests rage, chooses tosesk her cave in tba depths or tho lake. FEMALE EDUCATION. A young lady, whom we knew by sight, once concluded a love letter thus: i shal rite to you agin ear long, jo cummins told me a orful story about suke tyler but i dident pay no atten atten-' - ' atten-' s tun at all to his sikenen tale yourn till deth parts both on us' Parsons. A- prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his hoppinessj a loss that nothing can com compensate - pensate compensate but the fidelity of his select friends, and the applause of rejoicing sub jects. Brayere: . t

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Office in the toutn end of the Market Building TYRANNY OF MEHEMET ALL ST AN ETK WITNKSS.' . , The boasted civilization which Mehe- met Ali has introduced into the countries tinder his sway is entirely superficial, and Has no origin whatever in any real im improvement, or amelioration in the con dition, or for the benefit of their respec tive populations. In Eijyptthe whole of the land belongs to the Pacha; besides himself there Is no landed proprietor, and he has the abso absolute - lute absolute monopoly of every thing that is grown in the couatry. The following if the manner in which it is cultivated: Portions of land are divided oat between the fel fellahs - lahs fellahs of a village, according to their num num-tiers; - tiers; num-tiers; seed, corn, cotton, or other produce, is given to, them: this they sow and reap, nd of the produce 75 per cent is imme immediately - diately immediately taken to the Pacha's depots. ' The remaining 25 per cent, is left with litem, with, the power to take it at a price fixed Iiy the Pacha himseif; and then resold to them at a higher rate. This is generally done, and reduces the pittance left them r.bout five per cent more; from this day they are to pay the capitation tax, which is not levied according to the real number of the inhabitants of a village, btrt accor according - ding according to numbers' at which it is rated in the Government books: so that in ono in stance with which I was acquainted, a village, originally -rated at 200, reduced ly the conscription to 100, and by death or flight to 40, was still Abliged to pay the full capitation; and wheu I went there, 28 of the 40 had been just I as'inadoed to extort from (hem their proportion of the cum claimed. After the capt capt-capitation - capitation capt-capitation comes) the tax on the date irees, raised from 30 to 60 prs by the Pacha, and that of 260 piasters a year for permission to use their own wale wheels without which the lands situated beyond the overflow of the Nile, or too high for it lo reach, would be barren. Then comes an infinity of taxe,on every article of life, even to the cakes of camels' dung, whjch the women and children collect and dry for fuel, and which pay twenty five p?r cent, in kind at the gate of Cario and the other towns. Next to tho taxur comes corvee in tho worst form, and in contin continual - ual continual action; at any moment the fellah are . liable to be seized far public works, for the traneportctf tho baggage of the troops or to track the boats of the Government or its officers, and thie without pay or ref reference - erence reference to the state of their crops. When Meheraet Ali made his famous capal from Alexandria to the Nile, he did it by forcibly marching down 150,000 from all parts of the country, and obliging them to excavate with their hands, as tools they Hid not, or perhaps ceuid not le provided! The ezcavation was com completed - pleted completed in thipb months. 30,000 men oied in the operation. Tbeivcomes the curse of the conscription, which is exercised in a most cruel and arbitrary manner, without any sort of rule or law to regulate it. An order given, tojthe chief of a district to furnish a certain number of men; these he seizes like wild beasts wherever he can find them, 'without dis distinction - tinction distinction or exemption, the weak as well aa the strong, the sick as well as those u health ; and as there if no better road to tho Pacha's ; favor '.ban showing great zeal in thia branch" of the service, he, if possible, collects more even than were demanded. These are chained, march ed downto the river, nd embarked amidst the team land lamentations of their " families, who know that they shall props bly never see them again for change of climate, bad treatment, and, above all, despair, cause a mortality iu the Pacha's . army beyond belief: mutulationisnotnow considered an exemption, and the conse consequence - quence consequence of the system is, that from Assou an, at the first cataract, to Aleppo, you, literally speaking, never see a young man in a village, and such is the depopulation, that if things continue as they now are, for two years more, and the Pacha insisisti on keeping op bis army. to its present force it will be utterly impossible for the crops to ' be got in, of for any of the oper ationa of sericulture to be carried on. . The whole of this atrocious system is carried veto action e? the cruellest means no justice of any sort for the weak ; no security ror those who are better on; a the bastinado and other tortures applied

proftier.' I covered her with kisses and tried 4o escape frorM m arms, crying, 'Sir vou hurt ma with mn beard.' Then I placed heron my knees uoTuurmgner witn my eyes, and contin ued. 'Mary, can'st thou read?' 'Yes,' sns answered. 'I can read very well Mamma makes me read ray letters. Well, then, reads little to me,' said I, pointing to a printed psper which sb. neid crumpled in one of her dimpled hands. She shook her pretty head, say saying, - ing, saying, 'oh! dear me. I can nnlvb-arl fnl.U. ) a.. j ' ' " "7 "y a.-unpg;come, open onr pv per. S.ie unfolded the pitier and beifan ... 1 1 'II I r- " ' oi zpeu wnri ner nngers, 'sen len ience Sentence.'' I snatched it from I i .1 t. iiernanas. II was mv own seiitenr.P nl death she was reading lo me. Her nurse had hottoht her the onuer for a I o me it had cost more. No words can convey what I felt: mv violence had alarm ed the child, who waseady to cry sud- uoiuy sua sita to me, 'Uo give me buck my paper, I want to plav with if' I re stored her to nurse. 'Take her hence. And I fell back in mv chair, sloomv des olate in despair. Now thev mav come. I care tor nothing more, that last fibre of rny heart is bioken. INCENDARY RATS. Miss Roberts, in the lust number of her intelligent and interesting "Notes of a Journey through Franca and Egypt to Bombay," published iu the Asiatic Jour Journal, - nal, Journal, stales that: "Amongst the various accidents to which houses in Bombay ur subjected, tho one to be most apprehended, tlut of fiie, is olien brought about by rats. Tliuv will carry off a lighted candle at every conven convenient - ient convenient opportunity, setting fire to dwellings by this means. They have been also known to upset tumblers containing oil. which is thus spread abroad, and likely to be ignited by the falling wick. It is perhaps, imposniblo totally to cxtcrmin ate this race of vermin, which in tho fort set cats completely nl defiance, but something might be done to keep the population down. I have been told that there ire (daces in the more crowded portion- rendered perfectly impassible at night in consequence of the effluvia aris arising - ing arising from the immense quantities of musk musk-rais, - rais, musk-rais, which, together with the commmon sort, and bandicoots of an incredible size, abound, the narrow close lanes being op-, parently built for the purpose of affording accommodations lo vermin of every des cription. Nevertheless, some bftho na tive housesoftho fort would form very igrcuble resideiicen to persons accustom ed to the utmost refinement. Being ex exceedingly - ceedingly exceedingly l.ofiy, the upper apartments have the advantago of every breeze that blows, while the views both of the sea and land are splendid. Tho immense s'ze of these houses, and the elegance of their decorations, evince tho spirit and wealth or their owners; they become ab solutely beacons at night, in consequence ol the frequency and extent ol their illu uminations. Numerous are the occa sions, either holidays or other rejoicings, in which the natives ol tiombay light up their houses; ro s ol lamps hung along the front of the verandahs, upon every Moor, produce a good etlect, which is of often - ten often heightened by the flood of light pour ed out of apartments decorated with chandeliers and lumps 'of every descrip tion. In passing through the bazaar at night, every third and fourth house is lit up by some festive occasion; one fa vorite and very pretty method consists ol a number of small lamps, arranged to re semble bunches of grapes, and hung up na court-yard. Sometimes in tho eve ning, a sort of market is hold in the na ive town beyond (he hsplanade, and ev ery stall is profusely lighted; the hawkers who carry about their goods in an hum ble way, upon their heads, in baskets, have them stuck with candles, and the wild shadow effects produced, amid the quaint buildings thus partially lighted, afford a continual phantasmagoria. They must be destitute of imagination, inddeed, who cannot find pleasure in the contempla contemplation - tion contemplation of the uight scenes at Bombay, eith either - er either from its native crowds, or the delicious solitude of its sylvan shades. The ear is thenly organ absolutely uoblest in this sunny island, the noise being incessant. and most discordanti the, shieking of jackalls by night is music, compared to mat ti om native instruments, which is the most remote places, are continually stri striking1 - king1 striking1 np: the drums, trumpets, bells, and squeaking pipes, of a neighboring village, are now inflicting their torments upon my distracted brain- in the most barbarious manner possible. The exertions of the performors never appear to relax, and by night or (Jay it is all the same and make therosehes heard at any distance, para parading - ding parading along the roads for the sole purpose, it seems, of annoying the more peace peaceable - able peaceable inhabitauts. Certainly, the sister arts of, music and painting have yet to maao meir way into India, ihe laste lor both being at present perfectly barbarous. The European bends, when playing on

ule n it m tier of natives: but wither con gregated for the purpose of listening lo iuv musx or merely tor me sake or pas sing the time, seems verv doubtful A fjw, certainly, manifest a predilection for "concord of sweet sounds," and no diffi difficulty - culty difficulty is experienced by band misters in recruiting their force from natives, the be;., learning readily, tnd 1 acquitting memse.ves very well upon instruments foreign to tho country. There is hnwev er, no mamfestaron at present of the spread of a refined taste, nd many years win pronani elapse belore anytimig like zooa music will be common in Ibis dun oi Asia. ' " The grest varietv of relirlous extam in Bombay"' each being distinguished by numerous clivals, all celebrated in the same manner lhat is, by noise and illu illuminations - minations illuminations sufficiently accounts for the perpetual recurrence of lump lighting andtliumming in nil directions. Everv week brings round the anniversary of some day of rejoicing of tho Mohamen Mohamen-daiis, - daiis, Mohamen-daiis, Hindus, Parsees, Jews, Roman Catholics, or Americans, and Bombay tmy theiefore be said lo present ono uni universal - versal universal holiday. Passing the othor eve evening - ning evening one of the hansoinest pagodas in he island, an oblona square build of vel- low stone, with a mitre-shaped tower at one end, 1 was surprised by the number of European carriages iu wailing. The exterior had all ti.e uir of a christian church, the situation beautiful, a platform of rock overlooked the sea; and 1 could not help indulging the hone, that the sub. stitutiun of chariots and buggies for pal anquins and rhuts would lead to the in roduclion of a purer and better creed." DESTRUCTION OF LIFE IN AX AX-.CIENT - .CIENT AX-.CIENT WARS. Accustomed as we Hre to ' the effects of war tncivil zed times, when the most loody contests are followed by an in crease in the numbers of tho people, it is dilticult to torrn a conception of the des desolation - olation desolation which it produced in barbarous gea; wnea me void produced by the sword is not supplied by the impulse of public tranquility. A few facts will low its prodigious influence in former ages. It is ascertained by an exat com putation, that when the three great cap capitals - itals capitals Khorasaa were destroyed by Timour, 4,317,000 persons were put to the sword. At the same time 700,000 people were slain in the city of Monsul, which had isen in the neighborhood of the annieut Ninevuh;and the desolation produced a century and a half before by the sick of Genghis Khan, hnd been at least a great. Sue!) were t'uo ravages of this nighty conqueror and his Moiml follow ers in the country between the Caspian and the Indus, that they almost extermin ated the inhabitants, and five subsequent centuries have been unable to repair the ravages of four years. An army of 500,- 000 Moguls, under the sons of Genghis, so completely laid waste tho provinces to the north of the Danube, that they have never since legttined their former number; and in the famine cousequcht upon the irruption of the same barbari barbarians - ans barbarians into the Chinese empire, 13,003,000 are computed to have perished. During the invasions of 1 imour, twelve of the most flourishing cities of Asia, including Delhi, Ispahan, Bagdad, and Damascus, were utterly destroyed; and pyramids of human treads, one of which contained 00,000 skulls, erected on their ruins. During thirty-two years of the reign of Justinian, the barbarians aomntlly made an incursion into the Grecian empire; and they cairicd off or destroyed at an average on each occasion 200,000 per persons. - sons. persons. Nor was the depopulation of the southern and western provinces less du during - ring during the same disastrous period. In the wars of BelisariuS in Africa, 5,000,000 of its inhabitants are computed by a con contemporary - temporary contemporary writer to have perished; and during the contests between that illus illustrious - trious illustrious warrior and his successor Norset, and the barbarian arms in Italy, the whole Gothic nation and nearly fifteen millions which followed those sanguinary contests, carried offstill greater numbers than the sword; and during the fiftv-two years that it desolated the Roman empire, it is said to have destroyed a hundred millions of inhabitants. Aluoa Principle of Pop Population. - ulation. Population. ' Appropbi ATB- 1 1 appears from the re returns - turns returns that there is in Illinois a new county- called Suspension county, and it will be some comfort doubtless, in the midst of all disasters in that State, for federal wbiggery, , to learn that "Suspension" county is their's. As -our opponents go hr Suspension it is no more than fair tlipt Suspension should go for them. Pen Pen-syfoanian. - syfoanian. Pen-syfoanian. : .11' )5gf ' PorotXTion of Njsthrrujim. On the 1st of Jan, 1840, was 2,002,489 souls, of which 1,698,342 were Protestants, 910, 910,-082 - 082 910,-082 .Roman Catholics, 51,127 Jews, and 2,936 of other denominations.

on every occasion, at me arbitrary w of every servant of the Government. In addition lo this, the natives of the coun try are rarely employed never in office of trust and the whole government is entrusted to Turks; In short tho worst features of the JVlameluke and Turkish rules are still in active operation! but the method of applying them is much more ingenious, and the boasted -civilization of Mehtmet All amounts to this that being beyond doubt a man or extraordinary tal talents, - ents, talents, he knows how to bring into play the tesources of the country better than his predecessors did, but, like them, entire entirely - ly entirely for his own ititerest, and without any reference tothe well being f the people; and that with the n'd of his European instruments he has, if I m:iy say so, ap plied the screw with a mauler ha id, and squeezed from the wretches under his sway the very last drop of their blood. Such is the state of these two coun tries. Syria is perhaps the worst of the two; for the Egyptians used to such op pression, bear tt without a struggle; whilst the Syrians, who had been less harshly treated in old times, writhe un der and gnaw their chain. Meheruet Ali is now 71 years old. THE PUNISHMENT OF DEATH The introduction into the Brinish Par liament f a Bill to abolish the Punish ment of Death has induced the publica tion of several meritorious woika on the subject, and among them of a translation from the trench of Victor Hugos "Last Day of a Condemned." This consists of a series of paper, supposed to be tiai ly writings during six weeks of a condein ned criminal, eoufiiied during that period in the Uicturo prison, previous to his ex edition. These preseiit a a powerful pictu.e of the houf less despair of one Ifisltned to end his life on the scaffold. We have not space for ex'racts from the augmentative part of the work, nor yet to present more than. one oFthe many thril thrilling - ling thrilling scenes which Victor Hugo has depic depicted. - ted. depicted. From near (he close of the volume wd copy an account of the prisoner's last interview with his little child, who ndda to his grief by not remembering him; it is powerfully written: "My child looked rosy and huppy, and her largo eyes were bright oh! she is so pretty! .'J drew her towards me, I raised her in my arms, and, placing her on my knees,.' kissed her dear hair. 1 asked, "why is her mother not with her!" and I learned that she was very ill. and my poor old mother also. Mary looked at me with astonishment. Caressed, embraced, devoured with kisses, she submitted qui quietly: - etly: quietly: but from timu to time cat an unea sy look towards her nurse, who was cry ing in the corner. A length I was able to speak. 'Mary I exclaimed, 'my own little Mary,' and i pressed her violently to my breast, which was heaving with sobs. Siie uttered a little cry' and then said, 'Oh, )nu hurt me, sir.' Sir! it is nearly a year since she has seen mo, foor child! She has forgotten me face, words, voice; and then who could know me with this beard, this dress, this pallor t What! al already - ready already effaced from that memory, the only one where i' wished to survive! What! already no longer a faiiier, am I condem condemned - ned condemned to hear no more that word, so soft in the language of children,' that it cannot remain in the language of men, 'papa?' And yet to have heard it from the sweet mouth once? more, only once more, thai is all I would have asked in the payment for the forty years of Ufa they will take from me. Listen, Mary,' said I to her, ioininc her two little hands .in mine. 'Do vou not know me?" She looked at me with her bright beautiful eyes, and answered, lib! no, indeed. 1'Look at me well. I repeated, 'what! dost thou not know who I amf Yes, sir,' she answered, 'you are a gentleman.' Alas! while loving one being on earth, loving with all your deep affections, having that being beforo you, whojees and looks at yon, speaks and answers you, and yet knows you not; you wish tor consolation but from this one being, who is the only one that does not know that you require it because vou are going to die! 'Mary ,', f continued, -hast thou a papa!' 'Yes, sir, said the child. Well, then, dearest, where is her. She raised her large eyes, in astonishment; 'ah,you don't know, sir,papa is dead;' here she began to cry; 1 nearly let the little angel tall. 'Dead !' 1 exclaimed 'Mary, knowest thou what it is to be dead?' 'Yes, sir. she answered, he is ia earth and in heaven.1 and ,sh$ cou'jnued of her own accord, 'I pray to God for him every morning and evening at mamma's knees I kissed her on the forehead. 'Mary, say lo m thy prayres.' 'I could not sir; a prayer yon do not say in the middle of the day. Come to night to the house and you shall bear me say it.' This was enough, I interrupted her. 'Darling Mary, it is I who am thy papa.' 'You T returned she. I added, 'wouldst thou like me for toy papaf . Thehild turned awiy;'No, sir, my papa was much

PREsRTLNG APPLE3. Apples intended for long ' keeping houij be such ss ripen late, sad if the bold on well, ss is usislly tbe esse witk those that ripen late, they should rtmiia. on the tree as long thei aa safely with regard to frost. T y should Iw gathered ia tfetr, irj wether, and in tht warts part rf the day, and if the cellar be dry, it is better to put them immediately into it, thst tbey may maybe - be maybe kept close and cool, than to put tbera where ihey will be much exposed to tbs air, and to the warm weather that ensues. Wo have found by experiment that this method is best, but if tbe cellar be damp, the moisture will affect the apples, espe cially while ihe weather is warm, and there may be nothing gained by porting them into tbe cellar unmediaielj after gathering. Apples will keen better if tbey are en closed in a close box or cask, as all sub substances, - stances, substances, subject to decay, decompose the faster the more tbey are exposed. If ap pies could be enclosed in air tight cask they will keep the better for it. Various methods of keeping applet hare been recommended. Mans dry substances are used that pack , closely around apples aud absorb the moisture that exudes from apples, (nd protect them Irom the effects of moisture in tbe cellar. In some cases dry substances hire been used to preserve apples without any good, when not well secured in a. close cask; as the dry stuff soon becomes most in a damp cellar, tbe apples are con , tinually surrounded by a body which causes their decay. Apples are occasionally packed down in layers with some of the following sub stances, for the purpose of preserving them Dry sand, Hue cut straw, drr brakes, grain of any kind, flaxseed chaf ground plaster, fine joineis sharings, cot cot-ton - ton cot-ton and other dry stuff. VThatever is used should be pure and dry, and free fiorn any unpleasant odor. S iw dust and gr-iund cork ate excellent for preserving grapes, and are doubtless good for saving apples. We have kept apples ia a fiae condi- ion in the ground in tbe m inner of sav saving - ing saving potatoes, by burying them below the region of the frost, enclosed iu straw or boards, in dry greund. The earth should he heaped up at the top and beaten close to throw off the water, and.it is best to. lay some boards over the top. Apples keep better in this way when there is but a small quantity in one place. Apples hare been so well kept in pul terised plaster that they were ss fair the next summer as when taken front tht tree. Apples packed closely in any of tbe nbove substances will be less likely to freeze, and may on that account be kept in a cooler place, and this will cause them to keep better; the colder spples can be kept without fteez'ng the tetter tbey will be preserved.-Yankee Farmer. GALE AND SHIP-WRECK ON LAKE HUrlON. ' The Detroit Free Ptess of Saturday contains the following distressing so sodium - dium sodium of a sh'pwreck on Lake Iluron: STORM AND STEAMBOAT ACCI.. DENT. The M'ssouri met a tremendous gale in S.igniaw Bny on Friday night lastda ring the early pirt or winch tbe con connections - nections connections of the boilers gave way, and let off the whole of the steam. The boat, of course, became unmanageable, and was drif.ed more than 75 miles by the hardest blow ever known upon the lake. The seas were overwhelming racking the boat at every seam, and dashing im- . mense quantities of water into the bold at every swell. The passengers manned the pumps and kept her above water un until - til until the 8 1 nun abated. The smoke pipes were blown sway the lower po.riion of the wheel-house, dashYth ijiand other injury done, but aa lives'-lr: .. , Ten Hjmsor goods were thrown over--board to lighten tbe vescel, during the gale. After Ihe gale subsided, the injuries to the machinery were temporarily repaired, and the boat came in last evening. Three or four days will be necessary to place her "upon ber feet" again. MoBTaixnr is London. Tbe number of deaths from all causes for the week endiog the 12th September I840,wasS57. The average weekly number for the year 1 838 was 1013. The population asena merated in 1831 was 1.49 L890. Tha average weekly number for the year 1838, wasootainerj by dividing the deaths reg registered - istered registered in that year by 52. In comparing it with the weekly deaths in 1840, it must bs born in m'nd that tbe metropolis is creases nearly two per cent, annually, and that if the population bad been thr-Vme in 1838 as is 1S40, the deaths would bait been 49Tth put mure numordrjs. . i . . iy. "