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porter,) for the information of our friends at a distance, that the banks of Philadelphia are about to resume. No time however, as yet, has been agreed upon. They, of course, discount very little, and yet money cannot be said to be in a very great de mand. A joint resolution has been introduced into and passed by the Lower House of the Tennessee Legislature. to compel the banks to resume specie payments forthwith. The mormons, having been driven from Missouri, have settled in Illinois on a tract of land which they have purchased at the head of the Des Moine rapids of the Mississippi. They have laid out a town which is called Nauvoo. A deputation of three persons of their fraternity has been despatched to Washington to petition Congress for relief on account of losses experienced by the Missouri tronbles. Persecution in their case has had its usual effect in strengthening those who are its victims. The mormon sect has increased largely; and it is said that many families of respectobility and influence in the adjoining counties have united themselves with this new denomination, A female is now living in Roxbury, Mass., at the age of 70, who has spent the whole of her life there, and never had the curiosity to visit Boston or to approach it nearer than the view which is afforded at the top of Parker's Hill, near the foot of which, in the house of the late Gen. William Heath and his decendants, she had resided as a domestic since the age of seven. A horned frog 18 stated to have been brought from Fort Towson, by Lieut. Willott Martin, of the 3d infantry, as a present from an officer stationed there, to Col. Hook of Washington. The body resembles that of a frog, and is about the same size, but the skin is like that of the lizard-scaly-and has a tail half as long as the body, tapering to a point. In New Orleans, it is the custom to farm out the markets annually. The beef marS ket of that city has been rented for the presf year for $54,000, being $3100 more than e last year, and the vegetable market for the same period for $36,000, being an advance of $2700. r Twelve hundred passengers arrived at l Texas in three days, with the intention of e setting permanently in that country. It is estimated that thirty thousand emigrants e have arrived at Galveston alone. during the 1 past season. Among the Chartist prisoners recently 19 arrested in Wales, was an American, who is said to be a quack doctor, called Israel, and who was thought to be deeply concerned in the treasonable plot to overturn the established institutions of the country. He is ninety-thee Years old, and is a remarkast ble shrewd mana S The bank of Wisconsin is "done." On e the 2d inst., the Sheriff of Green Bay took is the keys and sent the cashier, clerks and all, about their business. Cause,-The ineability or unwillingness to cash $300 of their issues. 1. d Ten thousand hogs were for sale in Coe lumbus county, Indiana, on the 11th inst. 1000 only had been sold, and they at $2 50 it to $3 the hundred, nett. No advance exer pected on these prices. d The condition of society in Portugal. e particularly in the large city Lisbor, must e be dreadful indeed. From an official reof turn published in the Diario, it appears that as during the months of April, May and June, as of 1839, 2778 crimes were known to have been committed in Lisbon, of which 333 were assassinations. During the three foled nt lowing months, there were 170 assassinations. 11y A bill to provide against the suspension nd by the Banks of South Carolina, is before he the Legislature of that State. It provides for the payment of seven per cent., interest by the suspended bank, on the whole ahe mount of notes in circulation,monthly stateby ments of its condition, and a forfeiture of g charter for refusing compliance with the provisions of the bill.
