Aug. 27.
Yesterday the coroner, according to custom, was called to view, the body of Hervy Jessup, an unfortunate debtor, confined in the limits of the debtor’s gaol. - The jurors, after a studied investigation reported his death to have been occasioned by the visitation of God, under a deep depression of mind and body brought on by the cruelty of ABEL CLAPP, on whose account the poor unfortunate deceased has been confined, since the 23d day of October last, for the paltry sum of $40 32 cents.

Humanity shudders at the facts which came out in the investigation, one of which it may not be amiss to mention, viz. - the sheriff, a day or two previous to the death of the deceased, applied to his creditor for permission to remove him to the hospital at Bellevue; but, shocking to relate, no permission, could be obtained! [Nat. Adv.

Sept. 3.
Our Northern Boundary Line. – The Plattsburg Republican of Saturday last, states that the scientific agent appointed by our government to ascertain the boundary line between the United States and Lower Canada, concurring with the observations made last year, expresses the opinion that the military works at Rouse’s Point are north of the 45th degree of latitude.

The Boston Centinel of Wednesday, on the same subject, remarks on the authority of letters from Vermont, that the commissioners on the Northern boundary line have finished their surveys and observations, and that it was generally understood, though not officially promulgated, that the boundary line between the United States and Lower Canada has fallen a mile and a half to the southward of Rouse’s Point.

New-Orleans, Aug. 3.
The important suit of Jasper Lynch vs. the Natchez Steam-Boat Company, was determined on Friday last in the supreme court of this State, judgment was given in favor of the plaintiff for $45,000.

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