19 OCTOBER 1839, Page 8

" The state of Massachusetts (under the Claim that it

make to a certain portion of the land upon the Aroostook) has issued through its land -agent it great number of ' permits,' its they are called, to cut thither; these permits have been sold to certain citizens of New Brunswick ; and, armed with this kind of send-otlieial authority, many persons from New Brunswick have corn- Illenced the lumbering operations on a lags scale. Governor Fairfield has therefore issued his orders to the land-agent of Maine to take measures to stop these trespassers, anti declares it to be his determioation to use all the force at his command to prevent the cutting of any timber by airy one, until this vexed question is settled."

The sickness ani mortality in the Southern cities of the "Union con- tinued.