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General Intelligence

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
April
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
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Paupkrisu in New York Cty. - From a lite report ot the Comptroller of the city of New York, t appears that thefo are 4.823 persons íupported in that cliy at the public expense. - Vlore tlinn onc-hnlt of tho whole number, us will be secn by the following rccapitulation, are ■fforcign birth: Nativcs of tho City, 1,3' 5 " " State, 2.S8 " " other States, 731 " " foreign couatric8, 2,491 Per centage increase of population in the sevcral Conntics of tlus State, eince tho census of 1840. Counties. Per cent. Counties. Per cent. Allegan, 77 Lnpccr, 59 Bnrry, 141 Lenawee, 28 Bcrricn, 5Q Livingston, 45 Uranch, 53 Mncinaw, 80 Calhoun, 48 Maconib, 3ü Cosa, 41 Monroc, 34 Chippewa, 90 Oakland, 28 Clinton, 86 Ot:awn, 103 Eaton, 91 Snginaw, 37 Genesec, 78 Shiawasso, 82 Hillsdalc, 63 St. Clair, 6G Inghnm, 110 St. Jo6eph, 42 lonia, 160 Van Buren, 9G Jackson, 28 VVashtenaw, 14 Knlamazoo, 38 VVayne, 33 Kent, 137 G. Rapitls Enj. A Titlk. - Mr. Cist, the editor of Oic Cincinnati Advertiser asks hls correspondents lo reirain from placing "Esq." at the end of hisname for the following reason: - 'It is napplicnble to me. Ksquirc sdcrived from ihe French Ecuyer, a stable boy or osiler. l have not cleancd a stoble for forty je trs." An emir.entaurgeun has lodged at Bali's Bank, Dublin, a soaled cnvclope contnining a hur.drcd pound note which hc proposea to bestow on nny mesmerist who can teil the number ol t by clairvoyonce! The depositor ia quite sure of noi osing his moncy. The New York Sun says there are in that city ten thousand places at which are sold intoxicating drinks, and that each place receives, on an average, three dollars a day, which makes thirty thousanc dollars spent for rum and other intoxicating drinks every day in the city, whicl would amount to over nine millions o dollars a year.Tho editor of the Haverhill Gazette includes the foüowing in n humorous enun.eration of the advantagesof a war: "We can carry on a war of fifteen or twcnty years, if we are ogreed io e.xert our utmost strcnglh. We raise about 50.DQ0 young mena year,which we can hare killed ana holdour own. We can give up uur foreign commerce, and our revenue, and boirow $1CO.OUO,000 a year for twenty years, and then not be so much ín debt as Kngland, and it would not take us more than two hundred years of pcacs and prosperity to pay it up." A Free Country f - "Our Dcar SoutJiern Brethrenü" - A Northern man, named William Torris, has been lalely convicted in Alabama, of having followed the example of the Apostle Paul, in advis'ng slaves not to be servante of men! For this truly apostolic service he has been sentenced to thirty years imprisonment in the penitentiaryf Learning is obtaind only by labor - it cannot be bought with money ; otherwise the rich would be unifomily intelligent.