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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
September
Year
1842
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Public Domain
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A report lately made to the Legislatura of New York estiraates the number of houses for prostitution in the State at more than fifteen hundred; and connected with them are more than 10,000 abandoned females. Ifso great an amount of licentioueness prevails in one State, in defiance both of law and public sentiment, how general must it be in thethirteen slave States, where more than a a milÜon of females are placed iinder the absolute power of the other sex, who are unrestrained by any law, and encouraged by so great a legradation in the feraalea that the prostitutioc■ - - " "fl' ofihis classis so habitual and general in alj parte of the country that in a great measure )t supercedes the necessity of houses of ill fa me. Iron Cqffitis.-They have begun to make thcm at Pittsburg. They are said to be very benutiful, and much bettor than ny other kind, and at a much less price. Populalion of London. -The census of 1341 shows the present population of the British metropolis to be 1,870,727. Over 4000 people assomb led in the M.ller tent U Albany. a night or two ago, when Mr. Fiich spokc for two Koure, and endcavorcd to prove that the23dof April, 1S43, would be the hs t day.Hard The U. S. Hotel, at Sarntogn, is estimated. at the present time lo be in the receiptof 1003 per day. The Courier and Enquirer says the cntirecost of the Crotón Water Works, the greatest work of the kind in any country or any age of the world, is estimated at $14,000t00.Cheap Transportation. - Tiio fine New York built ship Andironbach, of 700 tons burden, sailed yesterday for Liverpool- took 4000 barrels of of tilrpentine and 1500 barrels offlour.ata freip-ht ofone shilling per barrel- 233 bnles of cotton at one 1-8 of a penny per pound, being less than a dollar a bule, and 2:0 odd passengess in the steerage, at an average of four dollars a head big and little! -JYew York Jour of Com. Grand Shipment of Humanüy.-N ot many days ago we had the comfort of nssisting in shipping towurds the north pole.sixteen bales of colored humanity all in one lot,and twojin another, the d:iy before, well labelcd by the hand of their inaïcer, all impressed with his own image on their souls. Among them was a mother with four children - all giris; odc grown up, and the others quite small. Where are tliosethat should il II uptheclmsm - where her hilaba nd: - torn from her by the peculiar institution,to be seen no more t'his side of eternityü This wonmn (the Lord only knows how she did it) eflected her escupe, to avoid the fate of being put up with her litile ones and her gro n up daugfiler, and sold with the other property (such as iiogs, cattele &c.) of a bankrupt owner. - Athaay Tocsin.From the Mercnhtile Journal. POWER OF CONSCIENCE. Mr. Spencer: - I received the following note, post-marked Charleston, Mass., (in which town I lived seventeen yeurs ago,) August 12th, 1842. cnclosing Si 50. I do most tnily and sincerely forgive the unknown writer, not haying suspicion of any person deirauding uie while in business. James EusTis. South Reading, August 15, 1842. Mr. Eusiis: - I owed you this with interest sinccyou ]ived hcre - vvill you forgive me - and hope God will , You r 'friend, It is said, thal more thnn fifty Teniperance meetings are held evëry week in the city of Kew York. The New York Temporance Society in their late circular, made the foltowwg estímate of the effcets of teniperance in this country. "Licenses for liquor shops have decreased in the ratio of G3 per cent; the manufacture and importation of intoxicating drinks, 57 per cent; pauperism about 33 and crime about 75 per cent."The Slave Trade in Cuba.- The Charleston (S. C.) Patriot gives the foilowing extract f rom a letter, dated 'Havana, March 23 1342. The slave ti ade may now be considered as entirelyat anend. Very strict orders have been given bv our Government to the different 'Capitanes de Parido' to report and seizoevery carg-o which may bc larded on the cost; and about threo woeks ago a Poriaguese schooner was brotighi. in by a Spanhsh brïg-of-war. Faclfor farmers. Rvv. Mr. Choules in his lecture before the American Institution at New York. says: 'The revival of Aricuiture commcnced in Flanders about 700 years ago. Títere the foü was little better" than white barren sniul- now its increpe is said to bo twice as great as in Enjrland. The grane! miixim on which the Pljêmish farmer acts, is 'witliout manurc, no corn - without cultle, no manurc- and without root croas, no cattle.' " J Jndima. - The Liberty pnrty seenis to be goïng aliead in the Siatc of Indiana. Tlie Western irneman of Aucust 15tli s.iys: ''At the recent election in Indiana, the Liberty ticket, m Wnynecounty. received 'from 199 to 233 votes. In the townshipof New Gnrden, the Liberty vote run up to 9S. while the highest vote for either of the other caadidates was but 81."loica. - The majorííy of the voters of the Territory of Iowa decide against the expediency of ninking application for admission intr the Union. althougb tliey have a population of 70,000. And tliey are wise. We savv nn able bodied negro sold yesterday in the Arcade, for 100 in specie, 'without a blemish. and wi [h a good title.' In the palmy days of ragocracy the snme boy would have brought $1000 at least. So wc ga.- New Orlcans Paper. OIt is statod in a handbill from Liverpool, that Sir Ilobert Peel's Mansion has been burned to the ground by the mob.

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