than the level of the tide waters of the Hudson at Albany, and about 300 feet lower than the greatest known depth of lake Erie. Mr. Buffington thus far, we are sorry to say, has been disappointed in obtaining his object; he intends, however, to continue boring if he can obtain more assistance. We cannot but hope that so much faith and perseverance in this novel enterprise, may be amply rewarded.

Thirty-five plates, for the manufacture of counterfeit bank notes on several banks in this and the neighbouring states, have lately come into the hands of the police at New-York. A fellow lately apprehended in that city gave information where the plates could be found, and Mr. Hays, high constable, was despatched to Canada, where he fortunately obtained them. We observe that among the number is a plate for a $3 bill on the Mechanics and Farmers Bank in Albany.

The Telegraph, a newspaper recently, commenced at Rochester, near the shore of lake Ontario, in New-York, says, there have been shipped from that port, since the 1st of April last, 21,567 barrels flour,

1,153 do. pot and pearl ashes,
569 do. pork,

156 casks whiskey,

120,000 double butt standard staves, Together with considerable quantities of butter, lard, &c. &c.

And adds, that large quantities of the like articles are now lying in the ware-houses there, intended for shipment.

The State vs. the Utica Insurance Company. This important cause was decided in the Supreme Court of this state, now sitting in Albany, on Tuesday last-by this decision the said company are prohibited from carrying on banking operations of any kind, and their charter is declared to give them no other powers than those of insurance against loss by fire or otherwise."

The Franklin bank in the city of New-York has commenced discounting.

Captains Dalano and Skinner, and an agent for the Spanish patriots, were brought before the Hon. B. Livingston, one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States, charged with the violation of the law passed at the late session of congress, entitled "an act, in addition to an act, for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," &c. The charge was, fitting out two vessels, calculated for ships of war, in the port of New-York, and intended to be employed in the patriot service in South-America. After hearing counsel, viz. Messrs. Emmett and Wells, on the part of the prosecution, and Messrs. Hoffman and D. B. Ogden for the defendants, the judge decided the mere building of vessels, calculated for ships of war, and preparing to send them out with the view of their being employed in the manner above mentioned, was not an offence against the laws of the United States, but in order to render the parties liable to the penalty, such ships must be actually armed and equipped.

The following is extracted from a report of the trustees of the village of Sackett's Harbour. The report is signed by Justin Butterfield, president.

At the commencement of the peace, this village contained the accumulated filth and rubbish of a three year's war, its exhalations were as offensive as its general appearance was dis

gusting; but, since that period it has under gone an entire revolution, its inhabitants have developed their resources, and exhibited a spirit for enterprise, liberality and improvements that it would challenge a rival with any village in the state. The streets have been cleaned and flagged, the roads improved; the chaunties built during the war demolished, and many convenient and elegant buildings erected in their stead. The gospel is supported, a church organized, and schools established.Sackett's Harbour now exhibits a neat, thrifty and flourishing village-a military and naval post and depot-a port of entry and delivery;

adorned and rendered interesting by its military works and naval ships, it is now resorted to for the gratification of curiosity, and the enjoyment of pleasure;—a market for the farmer, and a metropolis for the transaction of commercial and mercantile business in this section of the country."

DELAWARE.

The late heavy rains have laid waste all the mill dams, bridges, &c. in St. Georges Hundred. The owners of Marsh and Cripple in that neighbourhood, have met with severe losses-it is said $50,000 would not repair the damages.

MARYLAND.

The steam-boat Surprise has been entirely consumed at Baltimore. It is suspected she was set on fire intentionally.

The Surprise arrived about eight o'clock last evening, from Annapolis, and, as usual, every thing on board was properly secured, and remained safe when the captain left her. We sincerely regret to state further, that the loss of the owners is estimated to be at least twentyfive thousand dollars.

A race, of sufficient importance to occupy a column of one of the largest London newspapers, for $500, was run near Baltimore on Tuesday last-a Marylander against an Englishman;-the latter, as it should be in every case, was fairly beaten. The distance, 100 yards, was run in eight seconds, by the stop watch-so say eye witnesses. A large sum was depending on its issue.

The city of Washington is represented as progressing rapidly in improvements. One hun dred new buildings are now erecting, and many more would have been commenced if mechanics and materials could have been procured.

A vessel foundered in the Potomac on Saturday last in a sudden and destructive squall, near Quantico Creek. Eight persons, women and children, are said to have perished. The men on board saved themselves.

NORTH-CAROLINA.

The following extract of a letter from the vicinity of Fayetteville, detailing the wonderful cures effected by a newly discovered mineral spring near that place, is copied from a late Raleigh Star:

Extract of a letter, dated July 6, 1818. "At present I am at the Bladen Springs, much on the recovery; I have seen and heard more than I could wish to tell to a stranger. I have recovered more in one week than I had any idea of in three months; the cures are incredi ble: amongst many instances was a child of four years old, who had fits from its birth until he had neither sense nor feeling, cured perfectly

in fourteen days. I have seen the gout, dropsy, rheumatism, consumption in its last stage, wounds and old sores, twenty years standing, cured in from ten to twenty days. The town of Fayetteville alone can convince the world of its good effects."

SOUTH-CAROLINA.

The whole sea-board of South-Carolina, it is stated, as well as the waters which bound and intersect it, is strewed with carcases of fish, of various species. The appearances thus presented are at once interesting and mournful. Although the fish are, in general, when met with, perfectly dead, this is not the case; and when those which still retain signs of life, are, from motives of curiosity, thrown again from the shore in deep water, the only use they appear to make of their remaining powers of muscular action, is to escape from the element for which nature has designed them, and to regain the beach from which they have been cast. About three weeks ago five or six large fish of the whale species were discovered dead upon the beach, within a few miles of the entrance of that harbour. This unusual occurrence excited much surprise at the time, and it is more than probable that it was produced by the same cause which is now operating so fatally upon the lesser fish. With regard to what this cause is, much difference of opinion will doubtless exist. It is remarked that the surface of the sea is frequently coated over with an extraneous substance of a dark and oily appearance. The substance of this phenomena at the same time forms the belief that they are in some way connected with each other.

GEORGIA.

The President has issued orders for the arrest of captain Obed Wright, which the marshal of the district will execute forthwith. A special court has also been ordered for the trial of Wright, to be held in September next, in Savannah or Milledgeville, at which two of the judges of the supreme court are to preside. Wright is charged with having committed murder at the destruction of the Chehaw town.

The gospel of St. Mark has been translated into the Mohawk language by the celebrated late Indian chief Brandt.

INDIANA.

The Harmony Society have, within a very few years, made extensive purchases of public lands in Indiana, on the east bank of the Wabash, about thirty miles above its confluence with the Ohio. It is stated that from a field of one hundred and fifty acres, they had reaped, this year, six thousand bushels of wheat, being at the rate of forty bushels an acre. The land cost them two dollars an acre. In England, land is worth twenty or thirty years' purchase!! In Indiana, a single crop pays about twenty times the price of the land.

TENNESSEE.

A short time since a cellar was dug in the town of Fayetteville, on Elk river, in this state, not far from the lines of one of those ancient fortifications so common in the western states, and in the dirt was found, corroded with a kind of rust, a small piece of metal, which being disrobed of its covering, was ascertained to be a Roman silver coin, issued about 150 years after Christ, and in a good state of preservation. It is in the possession of a merchant of Nashville, and has been seen by hundreds, many of whom are antiquarians, and they are all satisfied it is a genuine coin, and one gentleman, who was lately in Italy, and saw the busts of the persons represented on the coin, declares the heads to be very good likenesses.

On one side around the edge these letters are seen,

ANTONINVS AGV PIVS P P III COS on the other side

AVRELIVS CAESAR AGV P III COS

which is construed to read thus, Antoninus Augustus Pins, princip. pontifex, tertio consule.

and

Aurelius Caesar Augustus, pontifex, tertio consule.

The marks, letters, &c. exactly agree, in every particular, with the probable state of the arts and the history of the times; but how the coin was brought to Tennessee we leave others to ascertain.

Some few miles above Columbia, on Duck river, are a number of fortifications and mounds, into one of which some young men dug a small distance, and found several well burnt bricks, about nine inches square and three inches thick, also several fragments of earthen ware, also a sword about two feet long, differently shaped from any in use since the whites visited the continent, apparently once highly polished, but now much eat with rust. We learn from a respectable source that a gentleman passing over one of the fields of ancient slaughter on the bank of the Caney fork, his eye caught some rude letters on a flat stone, he examined it and made out-we are all cut off. Who were the sufferers we have yet to learn, and hope that some fortunate discovery will one day satisfy the cravings of the curious.

LOUISIANA.

The New-Orleans Chronicle gives us a list of twenty steam boats, carrying near 4,000 tons, which trade to that port from the upper and adjacent country.

ALABAMA.

There is to be a town somewhere in the Alabama territory, to be called " Florence"-fiftytwo lots in it were lately sold for eighty-two thonsand dollars.

first noticed in some districts of the principality of Wales, in the year 1787, and the demand increasing, a proposal was made to the Society for promoting Christian Knowledge, at the instance of a benevolent and practical clergyman, for a new and large impression; but the expensive nature of the undertaking, and the difficulty of procuring an adequate number of subscribers, at first, were obstacles to its success. The venerable society, however, to which the application was made, about the commencement of the year 1792, published a new edition of the Welsh Bible, Common Prayer Book, and singing Psalms, amounting to 10,000 copies, with 2000 extra Testaments in 1799, for circulation in Wales, through the medium of its members, at one half the cost price. But considerable districts still remained unprovided for, and the inhabitants evinced the most lively sorrow and disappointment at the deficiency of this supply. The society had either done its utmost, or conceived it had done sufficient. But for more than two years the disappointed candidates for Welsh Bibles, amongst whom were many diligent and laborious parish ministers, persevered in their applications; the progress which education was making, chiefly through the medium of Sunday schools, tended very much to augment this demand.

In the summer of 1802, a project was conceived to furnish a competent number of Bibles for sale at reduced prices, or where necessary, for gratuitous distribution amongst the poor, through the medium of a private subscription; and the step in consequence taken, suggested the idea of a general dispersion of the Holy Scriptures, which led to the formation of this great society. The Rev. Thomas Charles, B. A. of Bala, an ordained minister of the church, but officiating in conjunction with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists, and by his habit of itinerating and promoting Sunday schools familiar with the wants of his countrymen, now prevailed on Mr. Joseph Tarn, the present assistant secretary and accountant of the society, to introduce the subject amongst his friends, at a meeting in London of the committee of the Religious Tract Society, and thus afford him an opportunity of preferring his claim on behalf of his countrymen, and urging the propriety of an appeal to individual benevolence. It being suggested, in the course of conversation, that Wales was not peculiarly situated in this respect, the Rev. Joseph Hughes, a Baptist minister, and since one

of the illustrious secretaries of the society, proposed to excite the public mind to a general dispersion of the scriptures. The suggestion was warmly received, and Mr. Hughes was, in consequence, requested to commit to writing, in a diges ted form, the substance of his observations, in order, that if on consideration it should be deemed expedient, the project might be committed to the public. During the short peace of Amiens, this benevolent scheme was matured; some of the most distinguished characters for piety and philanthropy, were consulted upon it, and queries were addressed to the public at large, to ascertain the real extent of the want, and the demand which might be anticipated. At the same time the Rev. C. F. A. Steinkopff, minister of the German Lutheran Church in the Savoy, and at present one of the most able servants and greatest ornaments of the society, voluntarily tendered his services to obtain this information in the course of a journey he was about to make on the continent of Europe. In May, 1803, Mr. Hughes, in his Essay,* prepared on the subject, proposed his plan. He pointed out the importance and advantages likely to result from an association of Christians at large, directed to such an object. With a view to the inadequacy of the means at that time employed, after a due allowance for, and an acknowledgment of what had been done, he proceeds to a short analysis of the following societies:

1st. The Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, founded in 1698. This is composed of subscribers and persons at home and in Protestant countries, selected to distribute religious books, suggest such methods of doing good as may occur to them, and remit occasional or stated contributions. Under its patronage charity schools have been erected, and foreign missions, particularly in the East Indies, supported. It has printed an Arabic and Mankse Bible, and also four editions of the Welsh Bible.

2d. The Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign Parts, founded in 1701, which appears to have grown out of the preceding, and refers to it, we believe, in its annual accounts. It is limited, as its charter expresses, to foreign parts, and more especially to English possessions. Missionaries, catechists and schoolmasters are employed by this society in

* Entitled, "The Excellence of the Holy Scriptures, an Argument for their more general Dispersion."