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CORRESPONDENCE.
Milesuujrg, Sept. sth, 1853.
Thomas H. Fulton, Esq Deaii stu .
The undersigned were present at and
heard you address a meeting of Lumber
men on the 4th of July last, in Karthdus
township, Clea rfiield County. A resolu
tion was passed requesting a copy of your
peech for publication, which does not np
■ ear to have beon complied with ; and as
bore are many reasons why tho attention
: f tho public should bo directed to the sub
let at tho present juncture, wo inlto this
oethod of urging upon you a compliance
#ith the unanimous request of the meet
ing, by furnishing a copy of your remarks
on that occasion for publication.
Yours Truly,
Rob’t Lipton, E. Porks, Thos. G. gnv
der, I). M. Bilger, H. Groe, Jas. Askey
and Wm. Holt.
Bald Hills, Cloarfield Co , )
Sept. 16th, 1853. $
Gentlemen :— l received your note of
; the sth inst., requos'ing a copy of my nd
j dress at the Anti-Log Meeting, at Kart
haus, on tho 4th of July last for publica
tion. I did not design it for publication
at the time 1 prepared it, but at your re
quest and that of others I will furnish tho
Press with a copy.
Respectfully Yours, djc.,
Titos. H. Fulton.
To Rob’t Litton, E q., and others
Mb. President and Fellow Citizens:
Our meeting to-day, is one of no ordinary
character. Tho circumstances that have
convened us together here, to-day, are not
light, and trivial in their true bearings. —
No,they are of vital and momentus iqjpor.'
tanco to the interest, prosperity, and well
fare of our time honored little county.
You have chosen an appropriate day,
to meet together, to deljbera^.^
I mean the business of
flouting saw logs out of our county, in our
river and its tributary streams; a busi
ness, if tolerated much longer, must even
tually, become the regular calling anjd pur
suit of the citizens ol our county, to the
utter ruin, and final prostration, of all oth
er branches of industry and enterprise in
our land, which our citizens are proverbial
for at home and abroad. Yes, it is high
time, wo should meet to deliberate, remon
strate, and publicly protest against a busi
s ness founded in injustice towards a large
majority of our citizens, a businoss which
if allowed to run its course, will spread
ruin, desolation and decay ull over our
happy and now prosperous country.
Our meeting to-day, is not marked nor
characterized by revolution, revolt, or
trampling upon the laws and institutions
under which we live and enjoy so many
' great and glorious privileges. No, it is
with due regard, and reverence, to those
institutions, in strict conformity and har
money with their plainest teachings, that
we aro assembled here to-day, for one
common purpose, in one common cause,
to defend our rights and interests as citi
zens of this commonwealth and Freemen
of this Republic.
Yes, to protect our rights and interests,
from being disregarded, trampled upon,
' and crushed beneath the mighty few, who
aro riding over tho many, to seek self ag
grandizement, and self elevation. To pro
testagainsl such invasions and usurpations,
we have come up hero to-day.
Tho fact can no longer be denied, that
floating saw-logs,and rafting in ourstreums
cannot be carried on successfully togeth
er ; one ortho other must eventually give
way before the influence and growing
powers of the other. They are so widely
different in their nature, and their inter
ests, that no middle ground can bo taken ;
00 compromise can be. effected; oneor the
Other must tuiumph and reign supreme.
Now, the_ question comes, and is before
; lha citizens of this county to decido
whether log floating is to superceed, the
regular, ancient v and lime honored, system
of lumbering, in this county or not. To
discus that subject we have come up hero
> !to»day. £<et us examine for a moment
K ithe ruinous offects log floating would havo
jbivtbe developement and prosperity of our
'flourishing, and interesting little county.
f Tjfour ftiqem' system- of lumbering must
• go down, and be superceded by the float
ing of loose logs out of our river. . .
Thequeßtion naturally suggests itself,
who will buy thoSo ddgß, who will pay
for those togs; arid whore are they to bo
run to and ; manulhetured into lumber ?
I . Will they bo purchased; owned, floated,
-and manufactured: into lumber by the la
'.bbrer, and capital of the citizens of our
county, willuho nett proceeds, derived from
! thd bqsibesbbo brought back, and divided
•anrohg tbo bone and sinew of our country,
flifrhardy sons Of toil, ob it now is, under
ear present system of lumbering. No; it
is impossible morally. Tho whole work
ings of }he 'syetejn.wiH.bethe,very reverse.
The,V<Minw»s flf . roust, oil .bo-, done
by rnijl bwiiers ana boom owners. The
whole thing must be monopolized by a few,
whq : must jocato. them-
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bis kind, tho whole lumbering business
of our country, will bo monopolized and
controled by a fow wealthy, aristocratic
capitalists, who aro strangers to U 9, who
will not becomo citizens of our country,
whoso feelings, sympathies and interest,
are not with us, but must naturally be di-
rected against our interest, and prosperity
in every way, shape and form,imaginable.
Their interests will be to purchase our
logs as low as possible, when tho whole
business will pass into the hands of a few
individuals, it is easily seen how the pri
ces will bo controled by them. They
will come up here, or send their agents
up among us, to purchase our logs, and
give usjust what they mny please, as the
whole matter will be entirely in their own
hands. No choice is left us, wo must take
their prices. When it becomes tho rog
ular business of the country, you must re
collect the privilege of running, and navi
gating the river with rafl9 as now, will ho
yiolded up and gone forever, from tho
fact, that when tho\ business of floating
grows up by our encouragoment, and be
comes tho rogular system of lumbering
and a monopoly in tho hands of a few,
you will find tho rivor closed below with
booms, and saw logs running so thick
that it would bo impossible for a few rails
to get through. So no other alternative is
loft but submission to their laws, regula
tions and prices.
Sucli it is plain to sco, even to tho most
casual observer, are tho nnlurul resutls
and consequences that must inevitably fol
low the floating system. A greater, a
grander, ora more mognificant monopoly,
will never be witnessed, either in this or
any other country, than would natural-
|y grow up out of the bn^-^
It is lust as cert/"" . , , , • ,
J n luminary of the duy, is to
sink beneath the Western hills, and rise
again in the East, and usher into existence
another day. Will we stund with foldod
arms, and apparently disinterested looks,
and view the growing monster, without
making an efi'ort or nstiuggle to arrest
him in his onward career. No, there is
something within, that tells mo the citi
zens of this froe and Democratic county, l
will never submit to see their rights and
privileges disregarded and trodden under
foot. No, never, it is wholly contrary to
bur education. We have been taught
from tho crndle to manhood, to strugglo
and contend against monopoliesand against
special privileges to the few. Yes, wo Imve
imbided our free and republican principles
from our mother’s broast—it is rin us —
grown up with us ; hence we must, and
will forever resist all and every encroach
ment, upon our rights and interests. We
ask no special privileges —no charters
from the Legislature to build booms on
our river, and obstruct the great high
ways, which nature in her bountiful Prov
idence has intended for all, both rich and
! poor. No, if tho log men wish to follow
( their business, thoy are welcome to use tho
[ river the same as we do—they musfTaft
their logs, and run them the same as we
, run our lumber. We are willing to meet
! them upon this great and grund Republi
can platform of equal rights and equul
privileges. We ask no special favors, nei
ther must they. There is not a citizen in
the old Kevstono State to-day, dare get up
and deny that this is not Republican and
Democruiic doctrine. Why not enforce
I it ] Why not carry it into practice?
| That is a dolicato question to answer, j
i That is where all tho trouble lies. We j
are the aggrieved and injured party, and ;
in our hands alone lio tho means and
source of redress. We must come out in |
a united body, in a solid phalanx, and do- j
Jmand at tho hands of our legislators next |
winter, laws to protect us against sucli
j wholesale usurpations. If we remain si-j
1 lent, and view tho struggle, with indiffer
i once, it is unreasonable to expect that any-1
! ' thing will bo done to protect our rights.— j
Wo must work, we must thunder at tho
doors ofl’our Legislatvie Halls, until we are
heard and answered. We might have had
legislative action upon this subject last
winter if wo had used tho proper menns.
Your humble speaker spent a few days
in Harrisburg before thoy voted on that
bill. Several of the mentbers told him
they would vote for tho bill if they could
bo satisfied that the interests off our coun
ty demanded such a law ; many of thorn
were under the impression it did not. —
They spoke of several of our citizens who
wore using their influence to defeat tho
bill. They also referred him to our coun
ty paper as opposing the bill. Under these
influences many of thorn voted against the
bin. , , .
Those were facts, facts that were to be
regretted add deplored; but such lam
happv to say, is'not tho caso qt present,
nor will not bo in the way next winter. -
Our County pnpor has seen the error of
its course, has seen that it wus giving aid
and comfort to t{te enemies pfour dearest
and most cherished interests; henco, she
bus come up to our aid and support, and
I will bo a warm advocate of pup cause ana
I stand by our side. Many of thq citizens
(of our.county, \yho wore lukenvarm qr fa^
[v.orablOjtQ log floating, ,aj» PH
right and justice now, and wjll stand there,
(firm and abtcj cnpsq,^
Clearfield, I*a,, Scpi. 29, 1853.
Therefore if wo use our efforts and exert
ourselves in the proper way wo will bo
able to obtain that protection which wo so
much desire and seek, through legislation,
at the earliest possible period next winter.
We are told by thoso favorable to log float.
ing, that wo should not domand the pas
sage of any laws against it —thnt to pro
hibit men by legal enactments from doing
as they please in this country would be
unconstitutional acts —that in this land of
liberty and freedom every man has a per-
fect right to use and navigate our great
high-wavs as he may seo fit —that they
were made frea for tho use and benefit
of all —that every man may choose his
own method oT navigating them. This
is correct and true, in one senso of tho
word, but we must not looso sight of tho
groat and important fact, that it is the laws
of our country, and tho restriction of those
laws upon the action of individuals and
society, that makes our country so great,
so noble and so free. Every individual j
has a right to follow whatever pursuit or j
calling in life lie may choose in the pursuit
of happiness. Butin the pursuit of hap
piness if an individual, in following his
culling or profession, cncronchcs upon
j vour grounds, destroys your nncient rights ;
land privileges, liavo inherited j
j form time immemorial, which, as a matter j
of course, must cause you to turn aside
from tho broad and well known road which
you are following in the pursuit of happi
ness, it is your right, your duty to your
j self and to posterity, to demand of him to
stop. Tho very genius and structure of
1 our glorious and time honored institutions
under which we live, nn- I . so
' greaLnn-f “icsscd privileges will do
, fhnnd of him to stop. If he is a good citi-
zcnoflhis Republic—ft law loving and n
law abiding citizen ofthis Commonwealth,
ho will stop. Those ore rules and laws
which were observed und enforced by the
ancients. We find them existing among
men even in a savage state. They ure
the grand fundamental principles which
civilization and civilized society are based
upon and existed upon from thu earliest
history of man down to the present period
of time. In our case, wc have been dis
turbed, molested, and interrupted in the
pursuit of our regular calling by the log
Heaters, and our business threatened, seri
ouslv threatened, bv them with unuiiiiii
ation. There arc lobe seen among us to
day those who wero the Pioneers of this
country, who in the morning of life should
ered their axo and their gun, and emigrat
ed into this country, when it was a vast
wilderness, when the foot prints of the rod
man of the forost were visible here yet,'
when nothing broke llie still and quiet
nights umid those forests of pines, save the
shrill and piercing yell of the Panther or
the dismal howl of the Wolf —when no
roads, or pikes, or highways or none of
the comforts and luxuries of a civilized
life were here. Yes, when everything
around was yet a dreary wilderness, and
no mark of civilization was to be seen
came the early settlers of this country, and
commenced the work of clearing and
opening up tho country. When every dis
advantage stared them in tho face, they
begun to toil and strugglo amougour lofty
forest trees for a bare subsistence. —
Through years of perseveranco and dilli
genco their eiforls wero crowned with
success; but it must ho owned, it wus ul
most entirely owing to tho lumber which
our forests produced. They have prepar
ed for themselves comfortable and linppy
homes to cheer and enliven their declining
yoars, and will leavo a rich inheritantje
for,lhoir children if the present system of
lumbering is left unmolested and undis
turbed. They spent tho morning of life
in those forests. They wasted the noon;
lido of their strength and manhood in sub
during those wilds, and making tho wild
erness to bloom and blossom like a rose.
View them to-duy—their heads aro silver
ed o’er with ago; their robust and stal
wart forms aro bent wiih tho hardships]
they have endured in this country. Andj
now must they ho doprived o( that busi
ness which they have struggled so long to
bring to perfection, and which has been
the great secret of their success and pros
perity? The sun of their life has shed
its morning rays, which was so cheerful,
encouraging and so promising; has wast
ed away its noon.duyof vigor and strength
and glory, and is now fast sinking be
neath the horizon of time to rise no more.
Must thick clouds of trouble and voxntion
arise to ruffle their serenity and obscure
its declining eve ? No ! .methinks hero
the responce from every bosom present
saying, forbid it heaven! forbid it justice..
In justice to ourselves, our country and
posterity, wo should cause the 16g floaters
to desist. If through our own supinenQss
and indifference to our interests, we lot
the thing run on a few years longer it will
then havo arrived at a point beyond our
reach and control, The time is here that
requires firm,, decided and dntvavering
action. Anpthcr year or two and you will
see hundreds of thousands of dollars of
capital invested in closing the river below
with new booms; and building new saw
mills.. Already we are pointed to thocup
ital inVestad thero in booms and mills, arid
told that we daye not take any action to
prevent the floating of saw logs, or olse
those mill owners and boom owners will
bo broken up! How uncharitable they
are in their demands; they never take into
consideration the millionsof dollars invest
ed hore in saw-mills and lumbering estab
lishments ; they never think or tho sad
and sickening results the consummation of
their plans would have upon our opera
tions hero; they never raiso the curtain
and look beyond to soc the hundreds and
thousands of tho honest struggling sons of
(oil engaged in this country in the lumber
ing business, who, through the aid of our
system, will bo able to securo for them
selves comfortable and easy homes through
i life that would be compolled to seek other
I and new callings to obtain a livelihood.
They never think of the innumerable
mills in operation here ; nor, consider for
a moment, the toil and labor of the bod) —
the anxieties, uneasiness, excitement and
vexations of mind, they cost the country
and their proprietors. Those establish
ments now arc building up and enriching
the country —still we nrc asked by tho log
(loaters to abandon them all for their spe
cial benefit.
There are to be found to-day, several of
the hardy yeomanry of our country, at this
early period in tho his.ory ofsaw log float
ing, who are in a manner ruined by it. —
All the bright and glowing prospects of fu
ture happiness, and future greatness, which
was just beginning to dawn upon them are
blasted, and blotted out forever by tlic ef
fects of the floating system. For the
of this I would refer mo Mushonon
nnf) ,v.„ „;.izens who lumber upon its wa
ters. Go there, and you will find, that
most all tho lumber, is yet remaining in
the creek; floods enough to run it, but tho
saw logs prevented them from doing so. —
They were deprived of the privilege of re
alizing for tho lumber in the Spring, tho
highest prices ever paid for lumber, since
it became a buisness —they aro compelled
after a whole years labor spent upon it,
with all the toil, and vcxntion incident in
preparing it for market, to lay out of their
j money, their lumber laying in the streams
j where doubtless it must lay till Full, then
| to be hauled out or go adrift, with the ice
[freshets. Without something is done, to
I prevent the. log floating, another Spring will
not see their condition bettered. It is not
the interest of largo land holders in this
country, to go in fur the floating system. —
By no means, it is not. 'I he way they
can realize most out of their lands, and tim
ber, is to build mills and saw it up, and
mako it into square timber, or sell them
out in lots to settlers who will erect mills,
' and make square limber.
It is not the interest of mill ownors, in
this country, or of men engaged in squuro
timber They are draining nwuy the tim
ber from us, and keep the prices down in
mnrkot. To my certain knowledge tho
mills from Lock Haven to Williamsport,
have time over and again, sold lumber in
the Philadelphia markets, below tho actu
al costs. Here again they are an injury
to us. Tho lumbermen in this country
who devote their timo and attention to
square timber, live in this country, their
funds and means are spent among us, their
feelings and sympathies arc with us, and
go for tho prosperity and welfare of,our
county. Hence if you cut olfand destroy
their buisness, you will paralize and weak
en the efforts and enterpnzo of our coun
try to u very great extent,. It is not tho
interest of tho farmers in our country who
own farms and timber, who farm and lum
ber in connection with cuch other. There
are many of tho citizens of our country,
who havo purchased and own farms, with
considerable limber standing upon them.
Under our present system of lumbering
and living along, they will realize enough
from their limber. A great deul of it per
haps may bo Oak, which is getting now
to be very valuable in squaro limber, but
would be worth nothing at all in saw logs.
There are a great many men now, who
live remote from tho river, that make and
haul a raft a year of pine and Oak, for
which they realize from three to four hun
dred dollars for in clear cash; their timber
perhaps may bo cull timber, and of that
class that would not be worth one cent to
them in saw logs. I moan such men will
roalizo enough from their timber, tp enable
them to cleur uplheir farms, enrich it, put
up neot and comfortable buildings, and fix
themselves, so by tho time their timber is
done und gone, they can live easy and
comfortable o(V their (firms, (or you must
bear in mind that timber is not going to he
with ud always, the day is not far distant
when the country will bo stripped of her
valuable Pines.
Neither is it the interest ol'the laboring
portion of opr fellow citizens, tho hone
and sinew of our country. To give support
to the floating systerp, they would not be
employed ns now in the Spring to run
lumber. Many of them, have learned to
navigate our river, aud redpcod it to a sci
ence, make a regular,and a grapd profes
sion of it. All this would be lost to them
Wholly lost, iftlio floating system must be
adopted.’ Tlie hundreds and thousands
of dollars, spent in blowing out rocks, and
making thig river fit for navigation, would
then be of no avail.
Gentleman, "the floating system is itn-
practible with us, and not adapted to our
country, our streams, or our wonts. It is
wholly imprncliblo, absolutely so. It is all
wrong, mad wrong from beginning toend;
and the sooner we bring it to a close, the
better it will bo for ourselves, our country
and those who are engaged in it and others
about entering into it. Look at it for a
moment, examine it, and dccido for your-
selves, whether it is practicable or not. —
1 will venture to sav, there is not a school
boy in our lund to-day,but will tell you, it
is impossible to float our square timber,
from the heads of our streams to Fort Dc
posito, owned as it is, by hundreds of dif
ferent individuals, nnd its places of market
and consumption, at every landing nnd
town from Northumberland to Fort Depos
ito. Even if it could be floated down, it
could not be stopped at these points need
ed, neither would the ownars be able to re
cognize it. No, you might as well attempt
to lay a Telegraph wire to the Moon,and
converse with the inhabitants of the lunar
World, as to attempt floating square timbor
down this river nnd make it pay the ow
ners, and supply the eastern markets as wo
now do. As long as wo have a Fine tree
left standing in our country, the eastern
markets will require a certain portion of
it to be taken to them in square timber
to meet the demands, and necessities of
their consumption, regardless of the pri
ces. No matter what we sec fit lochnrgc
them for it, they must have it. And as
lone as we Inmlwi, vvo must make more
or less of it into square timber. A certain
portion, and a certain quality of it will al
ways pay better in that, than any thing it
can bo made into. It is true, in somo lum
bering countries, the floating system ap
pears peculiarly adapted to the country,
but with us it is entirely diflerent. In Maine
on many of the streams thero, they float
every thing down them, from the fact that
those streams aro short, from one hundred
toono hundred and fifty miles, and in many
places so rapid thut thoy could not be nav
igated by rafts. There the floating sys
loin is suitable and pays. In many of the
lumbering districts of Cnnada, they float
evory thing, for the same reasons. T heir |
timberis only laid and juggled.
In that rude state it is hauled, and floated i
to the mouth of those rivers which discharge!
| their waters into lakes, the bays, andgulfofl
Si. Lawrence: thore they haul it outunlo
yards, and how it ; then it is loaded iftto
ships and carried to tbo remotest corners
of tbo earth.
Other countries may boast of their rich
es, and inoxanstiblc beds, and mountains
lof Iron ore. Some are prized, nnd sought
alter for the precious metnis they contain;
j their mountains producing rich mines of
' silver, nnd their plains all studded with
1 diamonds, and glittering with fine particles
of gold. Others again, may point you to
1 their fertile plains and vallies, groaning bo
-1 neath luxurious crops of grain, their gra
neries filled to overflowing, at all times
prepared to feed a starving world. The
citizens of Clearfield county, if asked for
their riches, their treasure, or their jewols,
can point you to our sturdy oaks and tow
ering pines—they are our jewels, brighter
by far, than all the gems that glitter and
shine in tbo country of the Ganges, and of
more real worth than California’s gold.
There are many, very mnny reasons,
why we should prize our pines, and not
be prodigal of them, nor tolerate ;i business
thnt is calculated to sweep them down like
a tornado nnd hurl them from us with elec
tric speed, nnd give us at the same timo
no equivalent for them. One in particular
and an alarming one it is, that there is not
to be found to day, one single, solitary or
isolated spot on the whole American Con
tinent from Behrings Strait to the Straits
of Magellen thnt you can lay your linger
upon where you can find young, growing
snppllng forests of pines. And it is no
loss strange than truo, that whilst no
young forests of pines arc growing up on
the American Continent, you will find bv
examination thnt the pine regions are con
fined to but small spots nnd localities over
this continent —that many of them now
are ulready exliuusted. Hundreds of the
Fineries in tho United States have boon
swept down nnd totally destroyed by the
irresistnble march of civilization. Yes,
the pine is a doomed species of timber. —
It appears to bo an irrevocable docree of |
fate that it must vanish away nnd for over
disappear from tho American Continent. —
Like the original inhabitants of this coun
try, it is wasiing, dwindling and fast melt
ing away before the rupid strides ofcivili
zation. When the pines urc ull hewn
down nnd exhausted in Clearfield county,
they will lie growing scarce on the conti
nent. Their valuo will be increasing ev
ery year. Wo should husband them with
becoming care and appreciate their real
them vyo possess a store of
real wealth, which wo are only boginning
to /eel and know. In travelling over our
country and through our forests qf pings,
it has e.vex filled my .bosom .with feelings
of, pleasure and pride in viewing our ma
jestic pines with tlioir beautiful .trunks and
wide sprgad brandies extended far ttbovo
our hetids. Truly, it. presentsi n scene that
is at onca.impressivaauuj sublime and,has
repeatedly urought tp my mind Uiq beau
tiful language of the poet:
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•‘Brentlirs there n man ivilli nnnl no dead
Tlint never lo liimsell him a.-ud,
Tine is my utvn my native land.
Now, in conclusion, permit mo to nsitife
you my humblo prayer slmll ever be, for
the prosperity nnd advancement of our
country, and that tho citizens one und all
will cordially unite in suppressing the ru
inous system of log floating.
Gonf. Astray. —Cold words lo fall on
a loving heart—*|te has gono astray. And
is this tho time to dcsort him’ This the
time to tjaunt him with worth that roll like
lava frobn vour passion, nnd only sear
his soul?' No! he passes under clouds;
be his light now; perhaps ho has no other.
Mnny°a true heart, that would haVo
I come back liWe the dove to tho ark after
its first transgression, has boon frightend
beyond recall by the angry look and men
ace, the taunt, tho savage charity of an un
forgiving soul. Be careful how you freezo
tho first warm emotions of repentance,—
Bcwure lest those pleading words, un
heeded now, sting you in some shadowy
vale of your future sorrow. Repentance,
1 changed by neglect or unkindness,becomes
like melted iron hardened in tho mould.—
Trifle with it never. Bo the first to meet
’ tho erring with outstretched arm 9. Wipo
the tear from his eye—pour the balm of
consolation on the wounds that guilt hns
made. Let your heart bo the gravo for
i Ins transgressions, your pity find vent hi
bearing his burden, notin useless words.
> O, forgive tho erring! Did not He who
died on Calvary, shield him from tho con
tempt of grosser minds; make brightness
t and beauty where all was cloud and storm
■ before in bis sad life ?
End of an Eventful Life. —Gov. Po
indexter, who died at Jackson, the capital
of Mississippi, on Monday lost, closed an
evontful political lili). The Herald says
he was tho first delegate to Congress from
Mississippi, nnd, on her admission into tho
Union, was immediately chosen United
States Senator, which position he held for
a great number of years. Ho was like
wise, at ono tunc, Governor ol tlie Slate.
In early life he was a supporter ol Gon.
Jucltson, hut iu later yours ho <iunrrolled
with nnd becamo an inveterate opponent
of the Old Hero, withdrew from the Dem
ocratic rnnks, joined tho Whigs, advocat
ed a reclmrlcr of the United States Bank,
and supported Whig measures generally.
Owing to his inconstancy in politics Mis
sissippi eventually repudatod iiiin, and he
was compelled to retire to private hie. Air.
Poindexter possessed talents of a high or
der, und, while a Senator of tho United
Slates, his position was among the fore
most men of the country.
Capacity of Friendship. — We may
often exercise a choice as to who shall tyc
our companions, but we have little control
over the circumstances outof which friend
ship grows; and therefore ihstunco's of
its sccessful formation, though delightful
to hoar of, can seldom be held fpf|h for
imitation. Yet the experienced may vvoll
warn the warm-hearted o nd confiding not to
rely implicitly on any man, however kind
anil generous may bo his present conduct,
if he does not possoss, besides a naturally
amiablo disposition, a conscience regulat
ed by principle, and an understanding
cloar of discernment, uml too strong to bo
swayed by ibo opinions of a multitude,
or, —what is not less influential on the
wealt-minded—the vicissitudes of fortune.
Ibimortai.itv op Man. —Why is it that
the rain-bow and clouds come over us
with a beauty that is not of -earth, and
then pass away and leavo us to muse on
their faded loveliness ? Why is it that
the stars, which hold their fostival around
their midnight throne, nro set above the
grasp, of our limited faculties, forever
mocking us with unapproachable glory I
And why is it that the bright forms of hu
man beauty are presented to our view and
taken from us, the thousand stream of af
fection to llow bank in Alpine torrents up
on our earth. There it a realm whore
the rainbow never fades, where the stars
will set out bofore us liko islands that slum
ber on the oceun, and whero the beautiful
being that now passes before us like the
meteor will stay in our presence forever.
Prentice.
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Feuding Houses. —A Correspondent'of
the Scientific- American snya,: : Having
two horses to feed I tried tho twoifolloy
ing methods:—Firs', l took a grist to the
mill, consisting of half corn anti halfonts
for feed. Counting the toll at lllio npili,
waste, und loss of time, it cost one-sopcnjli
of the grist. I s.iilo all this nowby sunk
ing tbo Iced in water fur about two hours,
with just about as much as will covor jt,
which makes it greatly increase in: built,
and the horses thrive just its, well on it Us
on dthcr feed.; . . im •.
' OO’-The York (IV) lic P MipQi£mi*>
that ortho commissioned officers hlb<np
-1 tain M. Or. SiMingjefV.Co/npa«y i <£York
Volunteers, who .marched fp; ILhe idftlenfo
1 of Baltimore, in IM4, CglUfi'al Jacob,!%-
1 nil/., the Fral I>i|leh>>nl, is. yin.onlyjSac
‘ v iv ( or ; and the tp-oaknnjrojikf}
I pnny show lliu Imvoc m by. dcjllns[>d
| disease.
Cin. Ee/iquirer.