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. 'l l . ‘: # ....... --- . - -- - - - . ~. - .:''', ' , ' a • ..... , - . '• • -..- .... TE 1 , . T . ... .. .4 . ' • i.?! , -i' zn7 o TOWANDA: IM==Cl ND illorninn, November 12. 185 a. cittattb ottri. A CHILD'S PRAYER. 'HI A•LICE CARET Sweeter than the songs of thrushes, When the winds are low ; Rrisider than the sprioptime blushes, Reddening out of snow— Were the voice and cheek so fair Of the little child at player. Like a white lamb of th m ea dow, ew Beaming throuah the li Like a priestess in the shadow , t)1 the temple bright— Seemed she, saying. H , b One, Thine and not my will be done. SATURDAY EVENING. llocr ,weet the evening shadows fall, Advancing. from the west ; A. end , the Weary week of toil, And comes the day of rest. Bricht o'er the earth the star of eve Her radiant beauty sheds; AO ID% riad t<tere calmly weave rhea light around our heads. Re. , , man. from labor; rest from sin; The world'. hard contest dose; The mile h.mrs with God begin ; yield them to sweet repose. 11 . ,ht o'er the earth the morning ray light will eat; yvrithlem of the glorious day Inat evermore shall lasi. THE RICH MAN AND THE BEGGAR A t , ..ezar , t,cl at a rich man's door— •I am Ingirle.s and friendless, end faint and poor,' hecaar boy• as the tear drop rolled ?h,ti check. blanched with want and cold ' r , ‘ , .• me a crust from your board today, h..rp ihe bezcar boy on his way!" -No a snit nor a crumb." the rich man said, ill work for your daily bread." r rh man went to the parish church— it • face Brew grave as he trod the porch— al the thrilnging poor, the untaught mass, lark to let the rich man pass; iu service hegsn—the choralihymn t—tearolgwelled - throtigh the long aisles dim ; the rich man knelt, and the words he said (live tii= 'hi, dny our daily bread !" Rlisttllantous. II E JAPAN • EXPEDITION. The follow in..: letter detatting, the proree.lingq ol - C. S Expedition to Japan, is from an officer of da•ed horn 'he " C. S Steamer Sus Cia:4a. Bay ol Jeddo,twen• !lye miles twin the city of Jeddo," arid is copieil : :.e 11-lishington.Sentinel: FRIDAY, July 8, 1853. • Tis. distance lends enchantment twohe view" toe are in the harbor of Jeddo, after running nearl, 30,0(10 miles of various seas and of va- • • clones—here at anchor tour miles higher up ;:.,i has ever yet anchored ship bearing a :.,an flag We a elicited at 3 P M., and soon boats, rowed cheerily with about twenty men, each siime mandarir.s, or gentlemen, with neat and well dressed, came swarm off wt h lull determination to come on board, 'mind the names, the nation, and the intention of cur craft thus coming boldly in in joy and calm. Ley were met with a wave °line hand, and " keep li,no one allowed to come on t (lard save the '..thest marniarm.': This literally took them all eirk. bit• they clus'ered together and insisted up % a.,trit-at,ce.: At last a voice said, in Dutch, Do 11.41andese Soon the commodore's Postman, was in high confab. •a* * * A! er much persuasion on their part, and their in tt.,ng ih . at one of them was a high mandarin, the tilltr,,lnre ordered - me to put on illy uniform and '=" - rdive him and the interpreter.dr,Lboard in the ruin. and to represent himself, tying that our ¢.5f1011 is a friendly one. We are the bearers of i , r ter horn the President of die United States to y ul Japan :-that it was necessary to board a hilt mandarin to receive this let a:“.l ihe sooner the belted. Again, I was to in upon It that boats should not lie by the hundred r,e,u aril around our ships, thus guarding and watch "= us, as has been their custorn—(the Columbus ar,,l 1 tnccrincs having from five hundled to a thou tttats around them cons.antly, all linked to. be "e 1 ) That we would not submit to this, but `c o 4a , ,ve them off. Here you have the basis c't 17 F in , ructions. Thus armed, I took Mr. Man and inserpreter, with. my). 'o interpreters 31r It ti,rmv ;n Chinese, and Mr. Postman, in kich—into the cabin. .titer belt% seated a moment, Mr. Mandarin made a saloon/ n la Japanese, and then ex• ending his hand, we shook hands; then seated u'lng Mr. Postman as interpreter, as the tpane,e interpreler spoke Dutch fluently. I thus eened •• Fell die Lieutenant Governor (fur such ihe mandarin) that I am the aid at our chief, Admiral', and am instructed to speak for him ‘ l e have come here on a fribndly mission, with 'madly intention to deliver a letter from the Presi. °l.' n: the United Stales to your sovereign, the t pet , t J:ipm ; that the letter is ready for de 'arty by 9 o'clock, to-morrow, , o any mandarin "" I flc'ently high to receive To this was re "'rd ''• If Must be referred to higher powers to ( now who can receive the letter." I then asked, How lung will it take to give us an answer?"— wy could not tell." I said, " I think the soon ,' lie better, as we are anxious to be oft." The I NY was," I do not think it will take long;' and ' vat then understood that, in the morning, a man -kin would be oil to receive the letter. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. I then emphatically said : " Thisship has aboard the chief—there is his pennant. All messages from shore must come here by • high mandarin. No boats most go to the other ships; their commanders havlyarclers not to permit intercourse; they have no right to think, and must obey. We insist that no boats shall hang around our vessels, to watch them." This was not palatable. They said: "It is Japanese custom, law, and we most carry them out " Says I : " Tell him, Sir, that we too, have our customs, and with men-of-war one of the laws is that no boat is allowed to come within a certain range." There was no positive consent given just then as to what they would do; they evaded it by asking questions. " Where are you from From the United States of America ?" " Yes;" "but what part, Washington, New. York, Boston?" My sur prom., was so great, that 1 smiled and told him— " Some from Washington, some from New-York, all parts; that the President of .the United States lived in Waiihington." " What is the name of the ship, how many people, guns, &c.?" "Tell him, Sir, that we are not traders, we seek no trade, we are armed skips, and our custom is never to answer such qdesi ions." The questions were again repeated in pretty mach the same way, when I told Mr. P. to make the same teply, and to add that I have no curiosity to to know how many men ate either in the Emper or's army or in hie navy ; and - also that he could see for himeelt that we had four ships; that we had others in those waters. "When will the others come I" " I don't know ; it depends upon the an• ewer to the letter." " What are the contents of the letter ?" " Tell him, sir, that the letter is from the President to the Emperor of Japan, and it wed be most indelicate in metro inquire into its contents." This rebuke was received in an apologetic manner, arid this questioning dropped. I then again allud ed to the boats which were still clustering around our ship and the-other ships; told him that it was absolutely necessar3 that they should be kept off; that this must be done. "We shall be sorry, with our kind and friendly feelings to you, to do you any harm, or to come:),into colhvion with you ; but if you do not order your boats off, we shalt fire into them, and drive them off. Our boats are now arm ed arid ready, and we Cannot allow you more than fifteen minutes to give your orders, and to keep them off. At the end of that time you must eat- Mr. Mandarin went out, told this to the boats, sent word to the othei boats, and come in. " Now I must have an answer. What have you decided about the boats?" " 1 have ordered them offltom all the ships, and with orJers only to communicate with this." " Yea, from all the ships; and if any come around you, send word to the Governor, and he will punish them." Thus was this Vint, ne• yer before Yieldid, conceded. Afier a few more remarks, I bowed Mr. Mandarin off, and away be went on shore, taking the boats off with him. My interview with my friend was again renew ed in the evening, and in rather a different phase, which does not promise to end so peacefully ; but to-morrow will tell At present lam too tired, having been up all day from an early hour—and here we are, too, our pistols loaded, our swords ready at hand, armed men and sentinels-patroting the decks, guns loaded, and trained and cast loose; for we lie down to sleep to.night in the neighbor hood of 10000,000 of men, brave, enterprising, ready, never conquered. It behooves us to be watchful. So I will to bed and rest. SUNDAY, July 11, 12 A. !VI —This hallowed day of quiet has again come around, and finds us lying quietly at our anchors, enjoying a day of rest; our broadsides upon the towns and forts on the shores; our glasses watching the marches and counter marches of their troops on shore, paraded by their different mandarins. The spirit of preparation for resistance and defence is evidently ruling them.— The sounds of many guns away towards Jeddo come frequently booming on the ear. Thecountry is evidently awake from its long slumbers of peace. What excitement in Jeddo! When before has the Warlike tiumpet been 'so unded in her walls, "To foot, to horse, arm !" " Hang out you banners on the outward wall, the My is still they come !" Long freedom, overbearing conduct to other nations, a conviction of their oupetiority, doubtless tend to make these people proud, sensitive, chivalric, and' brave; and then, attain, a long peace, and disuse to war and its horrors, have in a measure eflemina ted them ; the effects of shot, shell, earnest fight ing, will doubtless 'shock them ; but yet, I think, they will resist bravely ; they are organizing with spirit, showing cautiousness, but no tear. Yet their downfall was commenced from the Bth ofJuly,lBs3, Yes, this day the cross waved above our colors, stud under it we worshipped the Christian's God—the, Savior. Yes, here within twenty miles of the seat of' the haughty tyrant who has caused for centuries that emblem of mercy to be trampled under foot by his heathen subjects. Let me renew-my narrative of the events of the Bth. In about one hour alter the mandarin left I again received him with directions not to palaver much. In a long wilily set speech be said that the Governor did not feel himself justified in receiving the letter from the President to the Emperorthat he had not the power—Nagasaki was the place for the conduct of all foreign affairs—that it was not Japanese customi—that indeed the Governor was much bothered to think why four ships should have come together—that he appreciated the great trou ble we bad taken to comes* very tar todeliverthe letter, but that he could not receive it.• To which I replied : " The distance, to be sure, was very, long, and we had come a great way—thaime could. not think of going to Nagasaki—that the letter was an important one, and that our President had or. dered us.to deliver it as near the city of Jeddu.as possible; therefore we were here, and I trusted that the letter would be received in the morning." To this be answered—" No one here can receive it. It would bring harm wen him—Nagasiki is the only place—that he did not believe if the letter " REGARDLESS or DE?ItINCLATIOR Flom AST QUARTER." was received that the Emperor would answer it." To this I replied, " Does your Governor dare to take upon himself the responsibility to refuse to receive a letter written to his sovereign, and to for ward it to him? It is a very grave responsibility to refuse to receive a letter sent from one sovereign to another." He then said, " The Governor may receive it, but we can't tell when the answer may come;" but then added, " that he bad not the power o receive it, and must wait and refer ii." 1 replied that that " this letter was a very impor tant one—that it would be a great insult to the Pre sident or the United States not to receive it. That as to the Emperor's not answering it, that was not our business now, that would be settled after."— He said, " This is Japanese custom; you Ameri cans don't understand Japanese customs," Br.c. I replied, "We Americans do business decidedly, promptly." At this point I went out, and referred this new phase of the discussion to the commodore, and by his order I broke up the interview, telling him, " that if the Government did not send off for the letter in the morning, we would ourselves de liver it in the town of Orogama He was rather taken aback by this decision, and requested per mission to come oft in the morning. To this I as sented. He-then took his leave. Before going off he stepped back to our long gun aft, which is all clear, and showing its massive proportions, and ex amining it, said, looking interrogatorily, "Paixhan." II he has an acquaintance with " Paixhan," I trust it is from reading and not horn practice. At six o'clock the r.ext morning I was called on deck to receive the mandarin; so I dressed hur riedly and went up. There was the same story, but he proposed to send to Jeddo fot permission.— We gave him until Thursday, at 12 o'clock, saying, " if the letter was not received we would regard it as an insult to the President, and act accordingly." So it rests. • JOLT 17 —One week has passed since I have written a word, and a week of much excitement, and great events. And here we are, thank heaven, safe; and in nine days we have effected much—so much, that the world will be gratified, and our country feel herself honored. We have landed in Japan, within twenty-five miles of Jeddo, with armed cooks and armed men, and delivered our credentials, and the President's letter to the com missioners—one a councitlor of the realm, and ap pointed by his majesty to receive as. But we are are ahead of events, and must more leisurl) de• tail the interviews, arrangements, &c , which led to an issue so happy, so peaceful, so desirable, and which have reflected much eclat upon the firmness and w i sdom of Corn. PERRY. He has certainly se lected a course of conduct which reflects great cred it upon himself. I left off by telling you that we had given Text woe, Governor, highest authority in Crags, or, by his other title, " the learned scholar who rides," tritil Tuesday, at 12 o'cicick, to get an answer from Jeddo to our propositions; that is, that the copies of the letters and credentials, with a letter of the Commodore's inclosed, were to be received by a high mandarin, accredited by his master to receive them. On Monday we were to receive information 'rim him of the advancement of matters On that morning he came ofl quite pleased, and said that he thought the letters would be received. By the by, we showed him the letter, which is beautifully done op in a case, and the seal enclosed in a gold box, costing 51,000 ; so also with the Commodore's credentials. Welted talked and palavered over mat ters, answering many questions, and amongst others diplomatizing about the propriety of surveying the harbor, &c., for in the morning, the boats well arm ed, with the Mississippi to guard them, had preced ed her up the bay, sounding, and had advanced ten miles nearer to Jed'lo, finding plenty of water, and a fine, large, capacious, magnificent harbor: when it has always been supposed that Uraga was about as tar as vessels of any size could go, so great is the mystery that hangs around this lend. On the advance of the boat., the forts were arm ed, the dungaree and canvas screens, behind whir) rested the pikes of the soldiery, fairy flapped with anger, and armed boats with about 25 men each started out from every point by the hundreds, look lag defiance; but onward went our little boats throwing their leads and making the rounding. and steadily advanced the Mississippi on her pur pose. Our steam way up, and all the vessels hove short to slip and run to their assistance. and thro'w in Japanese forts, dungaree, cotton, boats and all, a few paixhan shell. My opinion is that for these thirty-six hours, (ind more particularly for these silo the Japanese hesitated whether or not they should resist, and try with us the fortunes of war. But so steady wse our determination, both in coun cil and in a contract, so utterly careless of any ac• lion on their part, so perfectly confident of cur own resources and power, and Ito regardless of all . dan• ger, that they were paralyzed, and prudent and friendly measures were decided. It is well to remark here, that they have been making the most extensive preparations of forts, &c., lately, as is evident by their new works and those not yet finished. Doubtless, there are full 1000 boats averaging, with rowers and soldiers, 25 men. In these waters we have seen, and could have counted 500 ; some on the water, their ban ners flying, forty and fifty together; others hauled upon the beach ready to launch out—at first mista ken for villages. But a new era is marked in their history; they have been placed on the defensive; they dare I not begin the game, though I yet believe that any harsh measures, on our part, of encroach ment or injuiy, would cause a determined and bloody resistance, for they are a free, frank, pleas ing, Sociable, tearless people, and 'would stand bravely to the-slaughter. These traits may he ex. pouted in a land where " the wives and mothers are proverbially vistuois"%—the exception 'being - the rarity and proving thwrele. Well will it belt we Can make the people our Mends and our allies.— Yea, heretofore they have arrogantly dicated to all others; bet with us the game is changed. We have said : so you must do—This is out way. These steamers too, moving without Sails,* agaipst wind and tide, have struck, if not terror, at leeast wonder and wisdom into their souls. But to the interviews—this of Monday •evening ended. Tuesday morning, about noon, they.again came oft, and our " learned scholar," evidently wore a more contented air—bye the bye. Thins is a gentleman, clever, polished, well informed, a fine huge man, of most excellent countenance, takee t his wine freely, and a baon companion- His age is thirty-four. He told as that the letters would be received; that the Emperor was going to send down a high prince, and councillor to take them " When I" "On day atter to-morrow. We are pnttjng up new houses to receive you, and it can not lie ready before then; our will the prince be down before to-morrow." It was now that we un derstood that they experced to receive the letter of the President, and the Commodore's letter of cre dence, instead of the copies of which it was the in tention to send first, reserving the last in hopes of forcing an interview at Jeddo. This was explain ed to them—when the change that came over.them was plain—they persisted that they had understood that the letters were to be received, not the copiei —the fear of the permission to rip himself up, (the Hari Kam) was evident in his face—yet the Com modore presisted in this point, and we sent him off to give notice to higher powers that such was the lac t. In the afternoon he again came, and the Comma- dore at last agreed to deliver the originals and land at the place fixed upon. THIMIDAY, July 14.—Early in the morning we dropped our steamer down and neat in as possible The bay is nearly circular, with two small forts on each point of the entrance. We went off in our boats. (in all,) officers, landsmen, and marines, 428 strong, armed to the teeth, each man carrying with him the lives of five Japanese. It was a beautiful sight as we pulled in. We were in sight of a hundred armed Japanese boats, with banners flying, averaging twenty-five men each; then on the shores ahead were stretched lines of painted cloths, with various mottoes, for a full mile in length —armed men, and cavalry and artillery in front and human figures thick in the rear. On advanced our boats, and our little band landed : drew up in line and formed, in all, on shore, 350 men, leaving 80 in the boats. The Commodore and stafl then landing, we form ed a close line; and, to the tone of Hail Columbia, with the American flag proudly waving over us, we marched up 'to the Conncil-house. There we halted—our little band drew up, and thus, with 20 feet between ne, face to tam., stood the sons of America and the troops of Japan. We went into the Council-house where sat the commissioner with his coadjutor, Prince of Iwami. Proudly we walked in, and bowed in our way, which was re. turned by the commissioner rising and bowing.— We were then seated. Thus wedelivered thecre. dentials ; and, after a few words we withdrew, formed our line, and, to the tune of flail Columbia and Yankee Doodle returned to our boats We were accompanied off by Tezemon and other men. chains, and got underway, and stood up the bay.— We went seidtin eight miles of Jeddo, carrying plenty of water, but could sets nothing of the city . THE DEATH or CHILDREN—The loss of children— how deplorable is the bereavement !* A depriva tion of some, of the dearest of human hopes—no one left of our flesh and bone—no offspring to cherish our remembrance, to bear up our name This rupture of the happiest dream of life is follow ed by days spent without nn aim. They may be still filled with labor and occupation; but the re flection is still in the heart, and sometimes on the tongue—for whatl—for whom? They who first gave the motive for toil are gone; there is only vacancy before one, for the images that filled it are vanished; the air-drawn fl4ures have marshall ed the way that we All are going; their mission is ended, and we having nothing to do but to make up our minds to follow. Col:mink AND Fssa.—lt has been often observed that a man will readily face danger and death in one form, ar•.d be afraid of it in another; and this remark was strikingly exemplified in Junot, one of Bonaparte's Generals, who raised himself by cool ness when Bonaparte was besieging Toulon. Ile was writing something by order of the latter, when a bombshell burst near him; he promptly observed that he wanted sand, and it had come in due time . Yet I remember to have heard Sir Sidney Smith, speaking of Junot in the captain's room at ihe ad miralty, say, that when lie was going on board the Tiger, Sir Sidney's ship, he was so frightened in mounting the I rider that it was found necessary to take him on board through one of the port holes. DESTINY —The young duke of Burgundy, while playing with one of his attendants, fell from his rocking•horse with great violence. He was appa• rently unhurt, and the gentleman entreated him not to mention it, thinking there was no danger. From that time, however, he became ill, and the physi cians were unable to discover his malady. At length he died. This prince gave promise of a noble disposition, great talent and sensibility. Had he lived, Louis the sixteenth (his younger brother,) would never have been , king Thus a child's play- thing, a rocking horse, perhaps, changed the desti ny of France, and that of all Europe. Otr- What is man without the hope of future life'? How feeble, how disconsolate, how unsatis fied ! Earth, it is true, has a thottrandallaremints, and opens to on► tastes unnumbered ~aces of joy; but in the mit:st of them is a certain some. thing wanting to gratify the soot; if the hope of im• mortality be absent. Qtr A yntmginan witboUt money aatearn , boat without fuel. He can't go ahead., Among the ladies he it like the moor"! on a r.leudy night-be can't aline. iVrom :he New York Evading Po*t.) COL. BENTON'S lIISTORY. Death of II Mama Ploitaey. . LANNO MONROE PRZMUENT.) He died at ‘tiattliii-gton during the session of the Congress of which he was a member, and ot 'the supreme court of which he was a praCtitioner. He fell like the warrior, in the plenitude of his strength, anti on the field of his (erne—under the double la bors of the supreme , court and of the Senate, and under the immense concentration of thought which he gave to the preparation of his speeches. He was considerei in his day the first of American orators, but will hardly keep that place with pos• terity, because he spoke more to the hearer than to the reader—to the present than to the absent— and avoided the careful pnbhcation of his own speeches. He labored them hard, but it was for the effect of their delivery, and the triumph of prep• eat victory. He loved the admiration of the crowd. ed gallery—the trumpet tongued Lime which went forth from the forum—the victory which .crowned the effort; but avoided the publictruni of what was received with so much applause, gifing as a rea son that the published speech would not sustain the renown of the delivered one. His forte as a speaker lay in his judgment, his logicihis power oh argument; hut, like many other men of acknow ledged pre-eminence in some gift of nature, and who are still ambitions of some inferior gilt, he oourted hi.; imagination too much, and laid too much stress up-nn action and delivery—so potent upon the small circle of actual hearers, but so lost upon the national audience which the press now gives to a great speaker In other tespects, Mr. Piiikney was truly a great orator, rich in his ma• terial, strong in his argument—clear, 'natural, and regular in the ex posi , ion of his sul•ject, comprehen sive in his views, and chaste in his diction. His speeches, bath senatorial and forensic, were fully studied and laboriously prepared 7 —all the argnmen- tative parts carefully digested under appropriate heads, and the showy passages often hilly written out and committed to memory. He would not speak at all except upon preparation; and at sexa• genarian age—that at which I knew him—tray a model of study and of labor to all young men. His last .peecti in the Senate was in reply to Mr Rufus King, ou the Missouri question, and was ihe mas• ter effort of his life. The subjoset, the place, the audience, the antagonist, were all such as to excite him to the utmost exertion. The subject was a national controversy, convulsing the Union and menacing it with dissolution; the place was the American Senate ; the audience Europe and Amer-- ca; the antagonist was Prenceps Senutus, illustrinns for thirty years of diplomatic and senatorial service, and for great dignity of life and charabter. H• had amide time for preparation, and availed himself of it. Mr. King had spoken the session belore, and published the "substance'' of his speeches (for there were two of them) alter the adjournment of Congress. They were the signal guns for the Mis souri controversy. It was to these published speech es that Mr Pinkney replied, and with the interval between two sessions M prepare It was a dazzling and overpowering reply, with the prestige of hav ing the union and thel armony of the States for its ob j ect, and crowded with rich material. The most brilliant part of it was a highly wrought and splen did amplification (with illustrations from Greek and Roman history) of that passage in Mr. Burke's speech upon't Conciliation with the Colonies," in which, and in looking to the elements of American resistance to British. power. he looks to the spirit of the slave.holding colonies as a main ingredient, and wiributes to the masters of slaves, who are not themselves slaves, the highest love of liberty, and the most difficult task of subjection; It was the most gorgeous speech ever delivered in the Senate, and the most applauded ; but it was only a magni cent exhibition, as Mr Pinkney knew, and could not sustain in the readim, the plaudits it received in delivery ; and therefore he avoided its publica tion. He gave but little attention to the current busi ness of the S-itate, only appearing in .his when the if Salamintan galley was to be launched," some special occasion called him—giving his time _and labor to the bar, where his pride and . glory was.— He had previous!y set veil in House of Representa times, acid his tirst speech there was attended by incident illustrative of Mr. Eattilt.lph's talen for delicate intimation, and his punctilious sense of par hamentary etiquota.. Mr Piiikney came into the House wah a national reputation, in the fullness of hi• lame, and exciting a great elspectivinn which he was obliged to fulfil. He spoke on the Lea.) -mak log power—a question of diplomatic and c : tiistiintimial law ; and he having been minister to hall the courts of Eu'ope, attorney-general of the United S rites, and a jtui a by pi ofession, could only speak uptut it in one way—as a great master of the subjoei ; arid, conseqesmily. appeared as it instruct ine the House. Mr Randolph—a veteran of twen ty year's parliamentaty service—thought a new member should serve n little apprin•reeship befere he became an instructor, and wished to signify that in Mr. Piiikney. He had a gilt, such{ as man nev er had, at a delicate intima ion whereihe rimed to give a bunt without offence; end he displayed it no' this occasion. lie replied to Mr. Putkney, refer rim: to him by the parliamentary JNsigua iOll 01 It the member from Maryland aid then pausing, as if riot Certain, added; .4 I believe he is from Ma ryland " Ti..A implied doubt as to where he came from, and consequently as to who he 'was, amused Mr. Pitiktiey, who understood it pet leanly, 'and tak lug it light, went over to Mr.' RandolPh's seat, in troduced himself, and' assured him 'that he was " froth Maryland." They became Close fri&nds for ever after ;and it Was Mr Ranifolith 'Vibe first made known his death in the House of Representa fives, intemipting, for 'that purpose, in angry; - tie. bate, tberi mine with's beautiful 0.4 i" apt 'quota :lotion from the quarrel' of Adam ani.l .l Eta it their !viiitoulaion from Parodist. The' publiiihe'd abates give 'Woo:aunt of it : ' -r---- Mr. Randolph rose lb announce to the House an event t tut.la he hoped would put an end, at least fur this day, to all further jar or collision, here or elseu here, all ong o the members of this body.— Yes, for this one clay, at least, let us say, as our fir •t mother said to oar first father.— While yet are bee. Pearce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace." " I rise to announce to the House the not unlock ed for death of a man who filled the first place in the public estimation, in this or in any other coun try. We have been talking of General 'Jackerul, and a greater than he is, not here, but gone forever. I allude, sir, to the boast of Maryland; and the pride of the United States—the pride of all of us, but more particularly tl.e pride and ornament of the profession of which you, Mr. Speaker (Mr. Philip P. Barbour,) are a member, and an eminent one." Mr. Pinkney was kind and affable in his temper, free from every taint of envy or jealously, consci ous of his powers, and relying upon them alone for success. He was a model, as I have already said, arid it will bear repetition, to all young men in his habits of study and application, and at more than sixty years of age was still a severe student. In politics he classed democratically, and was one of .he tew of our eminent public men who never seemed to think of the Presidency. Oratory was his glory, the law his profession, the bar his thea tre ; aild service in Congress was only a brief epi sode. dauhrig each House, for he was a momenta ry member of each, with a single and splendid 13131 IRTALITY OF MAN.-Why is it that the rain bow and cloud come over us with a beauty that ie not of earth, and then pass away and leave us to muse on their faded loveliness? Why is tl^ that the stars, which hold their festival around their midnight throne, are set above the grasp of our limited faculties, forever mocking us with unap proachable glory? And why is it that bright forms of human beauty are presented to our view and taken from us, leaving the thousands streams of af fection to flow back in Alpine torrents upon our heart? We are born for a higher destiny than that of earth. There is a realm where the rainbow nev- Pr fades where the stars will set out before us like islands dist slumber on the ocean, and where the bearmitil being that now passes before us like the meteor will stay in our presence forever.—Prrn . BAD AND Goor.—Men are not positively but relit lively bad. Henry VIII. would have been consid ered "a mild and benevokint monarch" in India or Morocco, while the most thorough-going relormer of Great Britain, if removed to America, would be looked upon as "an siistocrat." Men should be judged not so much by their acts, as by the circum stances by which these acts are surrounded. A tax of twenty-five cents on a yard of sheeting would create in Ilindostan not even a remonstrance. In the United States a pitiful tax of three cents on a pond of tea led to a revolution that robbed the ca-ket of England of her choicest jewels. To PREPARE WATER•PROOF PUOTS --BOOM and shoes may be rendered impervious to water by the following composition: Take three ounces of sper maceti, and melt it in a pipkin, or other earthen vessel, over a slow fire; add thereto six drachms of India rubber cut into slices, and these will pres ently dissolve. Then add, serialim, of tallow, eight ounces; hogs lard, two ounces ; amber varnish, four ounces. Mix, and it will be tit for use imme diately. The boots, or other material to be treated, are to receive two or three coats with a common blacking brush, and a fine polish is the result. AN EXCELLENT Lte-Sstv E.—Take an ounce of myrrh, as much Inflame in fine poe - der, four ounces of honey, Iwo ounces of beesivax, er:d six ounces of oil of roses; mix them over a slow fire. Or, take armenian bole, myrrh, and cerase in fine pow. der, of each an ounce, mix with a sufficient quan tity of goose greese into a proper consistence. It cures chaps in any part of the body. (*-- It is virtually settled, by a Bowe of ver dicts, running through the last twenty years, that a seducer ma) be killed 1 y his swim, or men by her brother or husband. He is a wild beast, whom aly one, whom he has specially injurel, may alarm or stab witlkimpuitcy. trr in the streets of Leicester, one day, Dean Swift was accosted by a.drunken weaver who staggeriog against his reverence, said: have tMert spinning it ont " " Yes," said the Dean.' I see you have, and now you are reelin.it home." Ton Litt —An Irish lady wrote to her lover, bt , ggii,g him to send tier some money. She added, by way of postscript, " I am so ashamed of the re quest 1 have made in tlits letter that 1 sent alter the l aso mall to get it bat•k, but the servant could'nt overtake hem:" 0:!7- The middle aged lady of respectable con nection, " toteinever minted a tree or Hower," has gone South, to niarty the btaeimitith by whom the I. a link waa broken," A Western editor says that a "'child was run user in the streets, by a waggon three years old, and cross eyed, with pantalets on which never spode afterwards." (*-- It is with narrow-souied people as with oar. .ow-flecked bottles—the less they hare in them, the niore noise they make in pouring it out. f A kale boy once said 10 his grandmother.: " Utadmother I hope you will die film." " Why PI my child 1" " Because I call stand IFouble bet ter theu,you can .9 Otyt. A man's receprtoc_deponds upon his coat • ; his dim:lie-et) o.i the will he shows. II SVSgrIMM 114,