General Intelligence

Valuation of Taxable Property.- We extract the following table, ehowing the aggregate voluation of the taxable property of the State, from the annual icport of the Auditor General. Aggregate valuation of taxable property and apporcionment of state tax, 2 milis upon each dollar, for the year 1843; Valuation. Am't TaxAllegan county $452,897 32 $905 76 Barry 402,191, 00 304 38 Branch 701,690 12 1,403 38 Berrien 593,302 00 1,396 6o Calhoun 1,594,097 00 3,188 20 Clinton 419,783 00 839 57 CafS 802,833 49 1 605 67 Eaton 455,524 48 911 05 Gencsee 948,505 25 1,897 ni Hillsdaie 1,239,858 50 L,469 71 ïonia 430,117 05 360 23 Inghnm 546,498 97 1,093 00 Jackson 1,412,160 00 1,824 32 Kent 450,439 38 000 86 Kalamazoo 737,364 00 1,474 73 Livingston 902,651 76 1,803 30 Lena wee 2,900,000 00 4000 00 Lnpeer . 427.201 17 854 40 Mackinac 124,952 50 249 90 Macomb 042,125 00 1,234 25 Monroe 1,176.277 56 2,352 56 Oakland 2,136,612 00 4,273 23 Ottawa 211,434 73 422 87 Snginaw 438,726 95 877 45 Sliiawassee 465,105 93 920 21 St. Joseph 790,983 02 1,548 97 St. Clair 800,423 44 1,600 85 Van Buren 454,545 58 909 69 Washtenaw 2,302,570 00 5,605 14 Wayne 3.603,005 22 7,096 11 $27,668,215 41 f55,337 43 Wealik of Gerrit Smith.- This distinguían v. ed advocate of emancipation is thus noticed jy a correspondent of the Mercañtile Journal, traveling in the state of New York:"I visitcd Peteiboro, the residence of Gerrit Smith and tho focus of those immense trans actions in the parchase and sale of lamled proper' y which the Hon. Peter Smith so long andeo successfnlly carried on. Aboul fortv years ngo Judge Smith purchased of the Indians 60,000 acres of land in one parcel cover ing nearly the whole connty of Madison, for the som of $22i,000. He eubsequently become the largest landholder in the State. - [Ii 3 son Gerit, who some years since inherriled the greater portion of his father's estáte, now owns more than one million acres of lani in the state of New York alone, lying in rortyeight of its fifty counties. His annu&l lanc tax is upwards of Si 0,000." TJmisual Consignment. - We understand that one of the bilis of lading of the barque Natchez, of Portland, which arrived at this port from New Orleans, yesterday, was "one negro slave, Martin, to S. L. Shaw." We do not know that this may not be the simplest way of emancipating a negro, but the phrase sounds strangely in this latitude. - Boston Daily Advcriiser. ïhe facts of the case are these: A merchant of Boston sent orders to his agent to obtain something, if possible, !rom the efFects of a man in Louisiana, who owed him 6'300. The agent replied. that in obeying his orders he had been so lucky as to secure Martin, a likely negro boy of nine years oíd; that he ïad put him in prison. and awaited further orders, wheiher to dispose of him at auction or private sale. The New Engand merchant feit a little queer about his peculiar species of property. He was not an anti-slavery man, but the buyng and selling of children affected him unj)leasantly. He accordingly ofFered to give the boy to Ellis Gray Loring. - Glad to save the little stranger from a ife of bondage, our friend accept ed the offer. He caused the human chattel to be n'ought from Louisiana. nt the expense of-50, has taken him under hisown proection, and given him the name of Marin Loring. May a blessing rest upon he deed. - A. S. Standard.We clip the following from the Globe, vhicli will go to show the pious means esorted to at the Capital to sustaiiï chartable and religious objects. A Card.- St. Matthew's Fair.- The n-oprietors of St. Matthew's Fair, rcsiedtfülly inform all who took chances in he intended raffle ibr the drab Tapestry, set of Union Chairs, Ottomans. &c.,' that, eing unable to dispose of the reqnisite number of tickets, they have soldthe enire set at private sale. They thus pubiciy iñform all who paid for their tickets, hat their money will be refunded to them on ápplication, on any dáy or evening du ring this week, at Carusi's Saloon. "The other large rafiles will positively come off on Friday or Saturd&y evening. "Jammry 12- 2t." We know not wliat denómination or vhat charity has resorted to this gambling expedient to forward their objects. This s better, however; than selling cTjoys" to aid charitable institutions and furnish churches. It is most probable that St. latthew will not consider himself honored by being represenfed as the patrón of bis copper-turning charity, whereby to ubserve the interests of a pro-sïavery religión.- Liberty Press. Frcncli Cónquests in Algérid.-kn amateur of statistics has calcuïated that ince 1830, the epoch of the conquest of Algeria, the French troops have conquered 2,184 tribes, captured 18,720,400 heep, 4,604,000 oxen, and 1,917,320 camels and horses.The fearful consequences of terror upon the health of the body, are well exhibited in the following iñcidenls, which we find related in a London paper: Effect of Fright.- On Wednesday week, a girl, named Margaret Pete, in order td amuse somo companions, dressed herself in a white garment, and put on a hideous black mask, in which disguise, issuing suddenly from her residence in Palmer's folly, Ratcliffe-highway, London, she caused so much terror to a child, that it died on the following Friday morning. The girl was taken into custody, and detained till after the coroner's inquest, when she was reprimanded and discharged. A short time since,at Croydon, a fellow with a long black beard and hair, attired as a sailor, asked charity from a servant girl. She refused on which he threatened to stab her with a dagger. She was so terrified, that for some days after her life was in danger. The fellow was taken into custody, and committed to jail for three months. Sickening Speciacle in a Slaver. - The following is an extract of a letter: dated Her Majesty's ship Fisguard, Rio ie Janeiro, Sept. 11, 1843: - "The Frolc arrived here last night with a slaver she had captured off Cape Frio, having Dn board, 360 slaves, men, women, and ïhildren. This slaver was only about iouble thpsize of one of our launches, md the poor unfortunate beings were packed in her like as many herrings would be in a cask. It appears that they had been stowed in like this for the space of forty-five days. Dcath had happily released a great many of them from their torture. But oh! the sight of the living masses of corruption was enough to strike terror into the most flinty heart, as they were as soon as possible relieved from their forty-five day región, being -takenout and placed on board the receivingship for that purpose. You can more easüy imagine that I can describe the skeleton frames of these poor wretches, when I teil you that 220 of them were taken at once inlo our launch, and conveyed to the receiving ship. Our men really sickened at the spectacles they had to behold in the shape of humanity; and I was glad when the last had been taken out, for 1 never beheld such a sight before. There were among them fifty female children supposed to be under seven years of age, and forty-five males under ten." Effect of the Foreígn News. - The effect of the foreign news by the Brittannia has been to give cotton a start. The money article of the New York iïerakl observes that in that city the cotton market was quite innctive, but on receipt of the Liverpool advices sales were naadeof about two thousand bales, at an advance of one-eighth, The ad va nee in Liverpool was full a l-4d. with very extensive sales. The Herald says : - "The great importanceof this news, os regards the cotton erop of this country, can be been very plainly by the additional value it gives to that great staple. The new crop-=- eetimating far below the probable'yiold - will reach 1.500,000 bales ; which, with the balance of the cld erop on hand, will amount to not fnr from 2,000,000 bales; which, al 600 pounds the ba'e; amountsto 1,200,000 pounds at the advance of 1 ,4d. cqual to one cent per pound, adds to the value of this one single item of production the enormotib sum of $12, 000,0fl0. This shows the effect of a slight advance on so Iarge a quantity, prodticing an amount sufficient to pay the interest on the delt of every state in the Union, and a'dding millions to the actual wealth of the country. Slave Represaitaüon in Congress.The slaves of the south are held and owned by their masters as mere property, like cattle and horses; and yet five of these slaves, in poinl of suffrnge, are equal, by the constitution, to three free white voters of the north, af non slaveholding States. That is, the nwnber of Representatives in Congress, from the several States, "öhall be determined by adding to the whole number of free white persons, three fifths of all other persons;" so says the Constitution. So that slavery gives tñe slaveholding States eighleen Representativos in Congress. And the state of Virginia nlone havmg at least half of the slaves in the Union, has nirie more Reprssematives in Congress, than shc wotild have Without slavery. With equal propriety and justice might the cattle and horses, owned by the people of the North, non-slave holding States, increase the number from those States - slaves,] cattle oud horses, being mere property. - Monroe Advocate. The Way to Süccked. - There is a talisman that never fails of success. Let a man choose any honorable employment and pursue it with diligence tind persevero nee, through storm and through sunshirie - in adversity and prosperit, never dislieartened by the frowns of fortune, but ever at h is post, encounteringwith firmness nnd determirration every difficulty that impedes his progress, and success will never fail ullimately to crown his endea..vors. Such have been the means by wliich a majorLfj of the great men of our nat Joh and of the world, have arisen to prosperiiy and eminènce. Gredt and Lltlle Debts. - -Dr. Johnson says,1 of èmall delfts, that like small shot they, ire on every side and can scaróely je escaped without a wound. Great debts ire like a cannony of great noiso and lutle dan er. Thè Buffalo Adverliser, in some reTiarks on the trials for kissing, which seemto be in -yogue at this timé, èays" with much feason - 'Kissing is getting to' be x hazardous business, and should not be sngaged in without careful circumspeciion."Reasons for not payingfor a NeicspaVer' - Thé Richmond Christian Advocate, publishés the following extract from a letter: "Pleaee say to the editor of the Richmond CÍhristian Advocate that it would doubtless be weíl to erase the name of C. C. from his boöks, and give up as gone, that $7 62. He says, in the first place he never ordered the paper, and if he did, 'twas as an agent; and besides he thinks he paid for it long ago, and if he did'nt, he's got nothing to pay, and i f he had he could plead the act of limitation." New York Moráis. - A report presented to the Board of Aldermen in N. York city says there are three hundred and fifty houses of ill fame in one ward alone, and that a majority of the owners of the houses devoted to such infamy are considered as worthy, respeciable and pious men. The high rents which houses of this kind pay are probably the motive which induces the owners to let them to such purposes. G. M. Frecman. The Florida FvgiCives. - "The United States Revenue Cutlcr Nautilus had "arrived at Nassau, to demand the slaves who fled rom Florida some timo 6nce, committed a minder at Key Biscayne, and then took refuge at Nassau. Tlie Nautilus "was compelled,how ever to sail ogain withuut nccomplishing her object. The authoriües of Nassau refused io Sfive up the fugitives from justice on the plea Lhat the proofs were not sufficient. - Cour. and Enq. It was veil remarked the other day by a gentleman who has something to do with the publication of political newspa:ers, that about half the politicians think they have done their part towards sustaining a paper when they have subscribed for it, while the idea of paying for it, never enters their heads. - Western Citizen. Latest from Texas. - Texas, it seems, is making a move towards annexing herself with this Union. We learn by the Galveston papers to the 31st uit., that a bilí has been introduced into the lowc House, providing for the annexation o the Republic to the United States, in cas the latter consents. It will pass, it i said, almost unanimously: Slaveholding Abolitionists. - t: Thai' the Dcacon for me. "-The New Yor Tribune says: "Cassius M. Clay, is just such an ab olitionist as we like, and a good Whiga at the back of it." Without wishing t deprecíate the merits tif Cassius M. Cla} we must say that he ís not just such a abolitionist as we like - for he is (!Ci SLAVEHOLDER- and slaveholding ab olitionists are about as great an a'nomal as Atheistic Christians; Making belicve. - -Is he alive?" inquirec a litile boy the other day, as he' gazed o a large turtle. crawling in front of a res taurant. ';xlive!!) exclaimed a fat man, who wa also looking at the fat monster with in tense interest, "sartinly boy! He act like a lité turtle. don't he?" "Why, yes, he acts like one," answei ed the litile querist: "but I thought h might be makin b'lieve. Á Mr. Ford of Troy N. Y., has in vented a type-setting machine, "which i playea with keys like a piano, with th utmost facility." We have nothing t say against its being played with all th facility its maker desires; but we'll ven ture to say it can never be wor ked. Ñ type-setting machine can súcceed unies, it contains a reasonable soul. - Marshal Expoundefi Desperate Jíffray. - A desperate encounter took place on the 21st uit., near Hornensville La., between Dr. JeweH and Mr. Banks Marshaíl which resuïted in the deatli of the form'er'. Marshall aJso received a ball in his abdomen Trom the hands of Jewell, and n ball in the shoulder frö'm the hands of a third party. A Grave Disciissiori. - Dr. Pot f?, a Presbyterian, and Dr. Wainrighr, a Puseyite Episcopalian, are discussing, through the New York papers, ihe questjon whether i Church can exist without a Bishop. This soft and enphonic word means The art ofacqüiTMÏg memory. Á Mr. Fauvel Gourard [of cours8 Professor] ïé delivering lecturës on this subject, and teaching it to classes iñ New York; W hat next?- Alb. Vatriot. Sir Robert Peel is iñ ncgociatioh for the' purchase of a gaílery of paintings. in Italy, for which three millions of dollstrs are asked: 'Father, wliat does the printer live on?' 'Why, my child? 'You said you had not paid him for two or thrGe years, andyet you have his paper èvery week!' fljWm. J. Graves, the murderer of Cilley, was recê'nOy defèated as a candiiatefo'rthe Speakership of the ïventucky House of Representatives. He was the federal caücüs cahdidate; - Bost. Times. Á place lo lite cheap.- In the vicinity )f Bastrop in Texas, cor n sells for twelve ind a half cents a bushels, and pork one ;ent a pound; {TThe first bank in America, was estab lished by the Legislature of South Caro lina, in 1711. It issued L18,000 in bilis of trust, which were lent out at interest. Forfy ihousand dollars worfh of propert1 have been recovered from Ihe wreek of the Missouri, by means of divers, in eubmarine ar mor. "Be content with v.hat you have," as the rat said to the trap, when he saw that ie had left a part of his tail in it.