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and served for several months, enduring many of the trials and toils incident to "the times that tried men's souls." He was a living witness, until his death, of the authenticity of the Mecklenburg declaration of independence, and it was his glory and boast, that although he was but a mere boy when it was made, it was signed by six Alexanders, all of whom were his kindred, and true to its sacred pledges.

At Philadelphia, COMMODORE JACOB JONES, of the United States Navy. He was in the 83d year of his age, and stood nearly at the head of the list of post captains, Commodores Barron and Stewart only preceding him. He was a native of Delaware, and one of the number who, in the war of 1812, contributed to establish the naval renown of our country. For the gallant manner in which, while in command of the brig Wasp, he captured the British brig Frolic, of superior force, he was voted a sword by each of the States of Delaware, Massachusetts, and New York. He was, until recently, the Governor of the Naval Asylum, near Philadelphia.

19th. At Frankfort, Kentucky, HON. RICHARD M. Johnson, late Vice-President of the United States. He was about seventy years of age. In 1807 he was chosen a member of the House of Representatives, which post he held twelve years. In 1813 he raised 1,000 men, to fight the British and Indians in the Northwest. In the campaign which followed, he served gallantly under Gen. Harrison as Colonel of his regiment. At the battle of the Thames, he distinguished himself by breaking the line of the British infantry. The fame of killing Tecumseh, in this battle, has been given to Colonel Johnson. In 1819 he was transferred from the House of Representatives to the Senate, to serve out an unexpired term. When that expired, he was re-chosen, and thus remained in the Senate till 1829. Then, another reelection being impossible, he went back into the House, where he remained till 1839, when he became Vice-President under Mr. Van Buren. In 1829, the Sunday Mail agitation being brought before the House, he, as Chairman of the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, presented a report against the suspension of mails on Sunday. He was also a strenuous advocate

of the abolition of imprisonment for debt.

DECEMBER, 1850.

10th. At Aleppo, GEN. BEM, the Hungarian patriot, who fled with Kossuth and others to Turkey, where he embraced the Mahometan faith, and became an officer in the service of the Sultan. He was said to be fifty-six years of age, but appeared much older.

The rites at his burial were thus described:-The washings ended, the body was wound in a sheet, and placed in a coffin, at the foot of which hung his fez. A colored shawl was spread over the coffin. A military interment is a thing unknown in Turkey; however, on this occasion, Kerim Pasha, the commandant, the French and English Consuls, many officers, and an immense crowd of soldiers, assembled.

16th. At Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, CONSTANTINE ANTOINE BEELEN, Esq., in the 84th year of his age.

Mr. Beelen came to this country with his father and mother, the Baron and Baroness de Beelen de Bertholf, the former of whom was appointed by the Emperor of Austria, Joseph the Second, to proceed to the United States in a public capacity, soon after the peace of '83, and in that capacity resided with his lady at Philadelphia for a considerable time. On the termination of his commission, political difficulties at home prevented their return, whereupon they remained in this country, and died here. They were buried at a small and beautiful chapel in the interior of this State, erected by the Baron at his own ex

pense.

The son went to Pittsburgh at an early age, where he married and passed his life.

23d. At Chester, New Hampshire, Hon. SAMUEL BELL, at the age of 81. He was educated at the ancient University of Dartmouth, and, after leaving it, entered the profession of the law, having pursued its study under the direction of the elder Judge Samuel Dana. After presiding in both branches of the State Legislature, he was appointed a Judge of the Superior Court, in 1816, and remained upon the bench of that court till 1819. He held the office of Governor of New Hampshire from 1819 to 1823, and that of Senator in the United States Congress from 1823 to 1835.

29th. In Scotland, W. H. MAXWELL, author of the Wild Sports of the West, and other works. His generally vigorous health had, of late, broken down, and he crept into the retirement of this secluded village to die. He had been, in early life, a captain in the British army; he subsequently entered the church, and was some years prebendary at Balla, a wild Connaught church living, without any congregation or cure of souls attached to it; though it afforded what he was admirably capable of dealing with, plenty of game. Of a warm-hearted, kind, and manly temperament, he made friends of all who came within the range of his wit, or the circle of his acquaintance. He was the found

er of that school which counts the "Harry Lorrequiers" and others among its humble disciples; but "The Story of My Life," and "Wild Sports of the West," will not be easily surpassed in the peculiar qualities of that gay, off-hand, and rollicking style of penmanship, of which he was the originator.

At Burlington, New Jersey, Hon. GARRET D. WALL, at the age of sixty-seven. From 1834 to 1842 he was a member of the Senate of the United States, and exhibited in the discharge of the duties of that office, talents of a high order. He was at one time elected, by the legislature, governor of New Jersey, but declined to accept it. His sterling worth, talents and acquirements, won for him the esteem and respect of all who knew him.

APPENDIX TO CHRONICLE OF 1850.

Signs of the Times.-Bruno Bauer, the master spirit of German philosophy, and professor in one of the German Colleges, has not only attacked orthodoxy, but in three volumes of criticism on the evangelists, represents the gospels as of no higher historical value than Xenophon's Cyropedia, or Fenelon's Telemachus, and doubts even whether such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed.

The Icarian community at Nauvoo, Illinois, founded by M. Cabet, a French gentleman, is represented as in a very flourishing condition. They number nearly five hundred persons, and have all things in common. Sunday is devoted to amusement, to dances, vaudevilles, &c. They have no religious ceremonies on that day or at any time.

The Mormon Society is increasing in numbers and wealth. The disciples of Joe Smith and the Golden Bible, may now be said to constitute a nation, governed by laws founded upon the doctrines of their peculiar sect.

The popular delusions of the day, connected with mesmerism and psychology, still find believers and advocates, and from recent demonstrations are fast verging towards infidelity. Andrew Jackson Davis, the noted clairvoyant, has issued a declaration of independence from Springfield, Massachusetts, in which he rejects all revelation but nature, and affirms that human reason is the only safe guide and unerring exponent of nature. He denounces Christian theology, and assigns fourteen causes for doing so. He proclaims that heaven is only attainable by self-development and self-harmonization, and that he and his associates are "not merely disciples to the science of human magnetism and to its sublime and spiritual phenomena; not merely anti-slavery, anti-capital punishment and prison reformers; not merely social, philosophical and religious reformers; but the germinal constituents of a harmonious brotherhood!"

The Roman Catholics, under the spiritual rule of the Pontifex Maximus, Pio IX., are gaining proselytes, and filling England and America with new dignitaries. The late creations of Cardinals and Archbishops have been noticed in a preceding page, and we gather from recent statements that in England, Wales and Scotland they have 680 chapels, 898 priests, 11 colleges, and 154 convents; a much larger force than was supposed. The Protestant denominations are also flourishing. New and magnificent churches are being erected everywhere-popular preachers are drawing immense crowds to hear them. The anniversaries of benevolent institutions are largely attended, and vast sums of money contributed to support them. In India, the missionary establishments are sustained upon a grand and imposing scale; in China, Christianity is obtaining a foothold; in the Turkish dominions, Protestants have received chartered rights; in the Sandwich Islands, the once poor and humble missionaries are now the political directors of a kingdom and the dignitaries of a court. Bible Societies meantime are sending the Scriptures to all parts of the earth, translated into every language. Recently it was stated at a meeting of the American Bible Society, that Bibles had been sent abroad in the Dutch, Danish, Portuguese, Spanish, and French languages; that the Chinese version was completing, (the word Shin being used to designate the Divine being); that Bibles in several languages were transmitted to Hayti, in Grebe, to West Africa, in the Ojibwa to the Indians; and English Bibles had been distributed to slaves of the South, on the application of Southern clergymen, to vessels of war, to the convicts in prisons, and books with raised letters to the blind.

Truly, this is a day of free thought, of free action, and of enterprise in every thing! In the great whirl of agitation and strife,-amidst the magnificent displays of genius and wealth, and the subtle teachings of a new philosophy, it becomes also the trial-day of true religion and common sense. The vanities of luxury, and ostentation, and worldliness, of novelties and superstition and atheism are to be met by the simple, selfdenying and truth-searching doctrines of the Bible, and the sober thought of enlightened intellects, and we believe that these latter will eventually triumph over all opposing influences.

STATISTICS.

STATISTICS OF THE UNITED STATES.

COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION.

IMPORTS.

A STATEMENT exhibiting the total value of imports, and the imports consumed in the United States, exclusive of specie, during each fiscal year, from 1821 to 1850.

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