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Aguting Song.,
131(.1. C. PERCIVILL,
Oh! eee how t h e red deer houndeth;
As - she hears the horn inlthit morning;
lie Inaps, as the blast resound th„
In his.'' flight, the bunter sco ning,
And sity, away, Oh away,
Ile,fleets tlif:ough the forest rear;
'Tis more wild freedom's pia
TharEihe hurried speed 'oft ear.
He leaps, as the blast resound th.
In his flight,ahe hunter scorning;
And away, away, he Ix undeth,
— Air he hears the horn in the[morning.
. ,Then ohn! oho! oho!
Away to chase thedeet—
, Olio! oho! oho!
The free, the free are Pere.
And, on,. through the forest fleeting,
Ile hies to the rock-built ft untain.
And hears but the echo, retrering
To the dells and glens of tl e mountain,
itan.ts by the welcome sprang,
And looks an the mirror belw—
When, hark ! through the gree lwood ring
The horn and the load oho
•Ileleaps.na the blast resoundeth ;
•In his (light the hunter scoring;
And away, away he boaindeth.
As he hedrs the horn in the
r Then oho !phi)! oho
Away to chase the de
Oho! oho! oho!
. The free, the free are
From the Magn .
bision of al
DT. NARLII.' GEATRIIf
, ..
; • it,:wias night, the suihmer •it was full of holy
i , ellmneis, the lightest hinds is err a sleep in tteir un-
I
1 kno w n resting placeit=even the tremulous leaves of
the mimosa were still, amid the
( lily's bell of purity
hung without 'motion. Them on was nnt,in Heav
en, but the innumerable stars wire there—in undim
med briAhtness they shone Girt ; not even the tini-
est elqu t!iretT its light draper around their born
ing thrones. No - -frown hung arkly on the mighty
brow of the tameless ocean, fort the sang of the sea
nymphs had lulled the storm-spirit to rest in their
coral caves . ilia its waters kissefd .he silver sand 8n
softly, that 'echo failed to give wick an answering
kiss. The green world of wd ids filled not the air
with the melanch ,ly music of its unquiet leaves: it
was antdasevery other; fold of ature's robe.
On this night of undisturbed repose: II was alone.
if solitude edn dwell where th million tongues of
earth, sky i land ocean. speak a I nguage to the heart
which bath , ' amysterious totv4 to calm . its hatigh
tiesttpassts. The universal Spirit of stillness had
covered Me, also, with his inviable wing, and ?s I
yielded to its dreamy infl.ieqe, behold! his twin
stater meditation stood before mile. Her countenance
Was inexpressibly beautiful, a d a majestic grace
dwelt in her perfect form—her ow was peaceful as
ei infant's dream, and yet Cher was a strange hright
ness about it—it seemed as if t rough its marble and
transparent whiteness shone orth the radiance of
some acme') source of lustre. She waserrayed in
a robe like the_mantle of twilight—half sunshine and"
half .hale; and the rays of pn+less diamonds threw
their sunny light on the darkness of her raven hair.
She placed her hand gently -onlmy head, and turned
her thou.4htful eyes on the ocean—mine followed the
gaze. Lo ! a change had taken place. Nature had
flung aside her drapery , of silence, and the lion roar
of the vexed sea came upon ru ear. The beautemis
smile of its cairn had disappei red; and its 'waters
dashed in foaming waves against the strong sides of
a stately ship. One form was alone visible on the
wide deck, but . when my eyes l ested on it, it forgot
to seek another. He was above the common height
of man—strength swelled in his lofty - .proportions,
and the hand. of symMetry h d moulded them rill.
Oenitis had stamped his princely signet on the
broad brow, and Mire also the soaring schemes, had
left their impress in .aleep lines. The compressed
and arched lip spoke of a On and haughty soul,
while its craved lines showed that smiles were no
stranger theft.. In the Cleerl light of the oriental
eye, the. beautiful spirit. of,, his. mind dwelt as in a
diamond shrine, before whose nagi --- c power the com
mon hard bowed as to a divini y ; but, deepest :mel
ancholy, and the clear olive of !the Cheek was pale as
with watching. Though night had now reached her.
starry noon, hp was still gazing out upon the ocean
and the sky,—naught else met his view, and as he
looked on them words of thril:ling soiled came from
his lips, and were borne on the night air to my ear.
Oh!' 'majestic sea! long, long,-have I, vainly sailed
on thy. vast .and unquiet bosom ; long has the wild
mug . ; of the crested billows been, to me, as the song
of angels, for I trusted they would, ere this, have
borne me to.that unknown land toward which the
departiog car of day urges. if a weary wheels, that
laud whose existence so mi n ty have denied., but
which has - been the golden ou , around whose beau
tevit 'centre the many worlds., of my varied thoughts
have en long revolved, and - vShich I believe 'would
have foraied an unfailing basis, on which. to rear the
splendid temple of an immortal fame. But naught
has been4ny portion but the `sick fever of the heart
—hope deferred. Oft has tit i morning risen on the
golden wings to meet the day, and no distant shore
grown bright beneath her a,. Night after night
have the stars stolen with silent steps upon my watch
mg-gaze, but the stars of my topee rosenot from her
pcean bed, and now. if with t e returturrg day comes
not on my-view this long wither] for land, the mag..
nilicent vision of a life must be unrealized, the iron
fetters of the Will of comment . men must bind down
my alining aspirationa—on [another brow must , be
plaied the gem of thewestenkworld, and the rest of
my esistence s will'be only lighted by' the sun of . my
eternal hope. • 1.
As the echo °filen melancholy words was borne
from mortal hearing on the 14ht wings of the air, I
turned' away ' and when 1 'again looked, another
- change had clime. ' ,
The dim twilight of the ea
i t!, dawn, the infancy,of
the day, was struggling to fife the world heti' the
alreamy arms of darkness, lit in vain, anon dive's
laughing childhood: the merry morn sprankup„and
threw her veil of sunbeams bn the brow of the sol.,
_
emu 'night, and darkpess'ild.—The image of that
gorgeous veil was roirrpred oil the bosom of the deep,
arid each snowy wave blushed' crimson as it reUeci,
edits burntog hues.
.But tthe ocean rejoieed not
alone in the beauty_ of the ning. Lend, fair and
unsullied as that fresh from the Maker''' . band, 'pot
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my view, and surely never did ocean cradle in its gi
ant arms amore lovely creation. My' eye wander-.
ed teith delight , from the Majestic woods, whose green
and dewy leaves sparkled 'like - emcee'lda, to the glad
light-of the sun, to the atreams clear and pure enough
to mirror the face of Bagels; from the dark moun
tains to the verdant glades, where flowers gloried in
their rainboev being. ' I turned from this scene of.en
chantment to
, took once more upon the watch,
er, of the de e p, lwt he was no longer alone, many
were around him, and heplood, among them - es stands
tho lordly oak amid the lowest shrubs. The night
of doubt had passed from his soul, and the bright day
spring of certainty had burst upon him. • His right
arm of, triumph was extended towards the new world,
and the bitty exultation of the flashing eye which
drank .in its fair beauty. spoke a language, which my
heart fond - it not difficult to read.
My kind has added a virgin pagel to the history of
a world, and- displayed a new and priceless gem in
the C0101:141i of Nature-:--and_the echo of its name will
only cease when the last wave of the stream of time
mingles with the boundless waters of eternity. Con
templating the radiant joy, of this noble sou l; of mor
tality, the spell of my beautiful companion caused a - -
nother scene to appear.
This e.inny land was before. me, but oh ! how
changed. The woods had bowed to the power oldie
glittering axe, and the sun now looked with uncheck
ed eye on the flowery earth. which for ages had been
shadowed.. Nature had fl 11 with angry brow from
many a spot, where Art had reared the polished
structures of architecture.--The vast lakes whose
waters had been ruffled only .hy the wing of the hu
'ricane. or the stroke of the light paddle, now, foamed
and boiled in the wake 'of many a proud alp.
Thylimeless children of the forest, they on,whose
haugrtty brow the sun looks with te redder and butte':
gaze than on ours, where are they—the scattered
remnant's of their tribes which the white man had fail
ed to mingle with the dust, had fled covered with
vengeance as with a mantle, to deeper wilds, where
cih - eir intruder's voice had never echbed. The demon
MIN
L l ere !
enta.
LIUEa
' f war was passing from theland, but his dark shad
ow of desolation still hovered i over it. The sons of
Ibis infant world as if ditching the inspiration of the
free uir which they breathed, had just thrown from
their souls the golden fetters of kingly sway—long
hail been the struggle, for those fetters were fastened
by the iron rivets of superior power, but the Loh!
spirit of freedom in their breasts, had; win the over
whelming force of a mountain cataract, leaped over
every barrier; and now they stood a free and. inde
pendent perlple.
Once more the scene changed, and the pure star
light disclosed in this beauteous land a crowded
dwelling plsce of men. The bright clusters of migh
ty worlds, which from the magnificent dials of night
were waning in the west, as the hoarse thunder of
cannon fell upon my ear. Long and loud it swelled,
until morning. as if at its cell drawing aside with
resplendent hand the curtain of her eastern bed, look
-Ed forth with glad and sunny eyes. It seemed as if
Natureland Art,-those rival sovereigns of dominion
of mind', had extended the hand of fellowship to en
hance the beauty of the scene; but neither, had now
the power to attract my attention—it was flied with
eager wonder on a a multitude as unquiet and almost
as countless as the leaves of the forest, which filled
the wide street of that,Capitol. The cold North had
unchained her gates of ice, and sent forth her hardy
sons ; the sunny South had open r ed a passage through
budding leaves and springing flowers for her favored
children—the bright East, the grand gallery of arts
of this new world, gave heriniellectual off-spring,
and the vigorous &yellers of the fertile West strode
across the giant trunks of monarchs of the forest,
shich their strength had laid prostrate with the dust
—to swell the mighty number. And there,
were gathered many from the Eastern Hemisphere
—the lofty ones of the far-famed kingdom of the
green and sister isles—the fur-clad noble t I that vast
Empire stretching across two ,quarters of the earth,
and the gay child of the land tYhere the lily &looms,
in embroidered beauty on its waving flag. These
were arrayed in princely and ermined lobes chile
the sunbeams flashed back from the dazzling rays of
the jewels which adorned them, but they who wor
shipped at the i shrine of liberty had no ornament'save
her princelessimantle, and .he unfading gems of the
mind. On, on, swept the vast, throng—triumphant
and war-like music measured its stately march, and
snowy plumes and countless, banners tossed and
waved in the clear air. ,-And now a lofty and mar
ble structure rises before me, and at the base of its
broad steps the unquiet sea of human beings is still
ed. Its waves are suddenly . parted, and behold a
manly figure 'is seen. Age 'hes silverfd his locks,
and slightly furrowed hie cheek, but the eye flashes
with much of the firo and energy of youth—his
dress is simple, but the more than imperial dignity
of a brave and generous soul regulates his movements.
With calm an&firm tread he passes onward with
those whom the poople.have chosen to feed thalami)
of the undying lamps which burn on the alter of Lib
erty. The marble steps are ascending, and now they
Stand in a room of state. Corinthian pillars, adorn
ed with damask hangings support the lofty
while the light,stealis wilt a richer hue through crim
son draperies.
With noiseless step, and hushed voice the train
gathers around him, who stand in the shadow of the
outstretched wings of the golden eagle—the thick
folds al the star-studded banner lioating above him,
and his hand resting on ; the , open page of the book
of life. - His browlis solemn and his voice full of awe,
as thrilling wgrds Pass from his lips. • They cease—
the seal of a nation's destiny is given him, and be
passed from that chamber its inaugurated head. Air
he roaches the marble platform 'around which the
multitudes are gathered, and stands in simple digni
ty above them in the zeinith of his power, a stillness,
deep as midnight, spreads its wide wings over, the
welcoming thousands—his %vice alone is heard, and
from it pouts a flood of eluqueuce, full of pasSion, of
beauty, and of 'leeling•, - which falls on the ear with
the thrilling power of wildest music. The. master
chord •olpatrtotism is struck in every breast, and its
tones rise to loud and triumphant shouts into the
'echoing air.. I gazed—l listened—,and said, this is
the sunshine of life. • Has the shadow already comal. ,
—Who is that iu tpe distance! A giant - and terri
ble form 7 zhis drapery is a sable pall. Tied to his
dreaded chariot are the
,drooping .figures 4:earthly
hope, end joy„and love, and on the bsniier, whose
'etm and heavi folds fill the'surroundiag ir with
darkness, is' described the .one • tremendous Word,
D BATH. His mighty bow .is raised—the unerring ar
row poised—it moves with the overwhelming power,
and the dread silence of !lessee's fiery Atoll!, Who
is the mark of this ".King of TM . Dal
ing nation apsatets----Hininsiii
Sgertnnah!
IMiC
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"I wititeach you toltieree the bowels of the Ea rtb,and bring out from the Caverns of Mountaina,ldetals which will givestrength to ourliaturiaed subjects!! lgatoreto °erase andpleasure".—Dn•Jouasort
VOL. XVII.
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Ei3SIE
i AND POT
Weekly by Benjamin , Bannon, Pottsville, Scliaytkill Cl:flinty, Pennsylvania
Highly important—the movements in PAID?
ament under the new Regime—Sir Robert
, Peel's position In regard to the Corn Laws
.-Continued Agitation—Blom Failures I
Prorogation of Parliament s New Loan •
Distress and Stagnation in Trade.
The steam packet Columbia,' Captain Judkins,
reached Boston between seigin and eight o'clock on
Thursday morning, the Flat insi. She had a most
nausualy rough passage; and head winds nearly all
the way, with very heavy gales. She left on the
sth inst., and made the passage in 15 days 16 hours,
thus proving these Boston Steamers to be capital
sea boats. •
She brings us ourifull files up to Oct.'slb, inclu•
sive..
She brought out 117 passengers, among whom is
Lord Morpeth. He makes a four months tour in
the trilled States.
The overland mad from India had not arrived,
conacquently there io'nothing later from china.
The news by the Bntannia of the Reeonit teto,
reached Liverpool Sept. 30th, and created great ex
citement all over thalountry.
Parliament was to be prorogued on the 7th of Oc
tober, until January.
Trade of moat kinds looks gloomy ; money has
been in great demand, the general tendency of the
funds is downwards, and no improvement expected
at present. The cotton market seems gradually
creeping up; the demand has been healthy and good,
at a slight.advance. The wheat trade hal been live
ly, and at on advance; flour remains firm—the har
vests in Ireland and Scotland are bad.
The new Chancellorftas advertised a loan of three
millions sterling.
There is great discussion in the London papers
about-McLeod. The "London Times," after spea
king of his certain acquittal, goes'on 'to say _
Then, the further question arises, is nothing to
be demanded for Mr. McLeod in the way of person
al sohifium for his twelvemonth's unjust imprison
ment? That it hes been unjust is clearly admitted
by the federal government, who earnestly interceded
fur his release. That he has been a heavy sufferer
by his long incarceration, no reasonable person con
doubt. How then is this man to be indemnified for
such a protracted term of cruel and arbitrary oppres
sion 1 Even if this point were satisfactorily disposed
Of, the far more important one concerning Her Ma
jesty's power to protect her loyal subjects must sub
remain to be solved. In the hands of Lord Palmers
ton, who must be held mainly responsible for Mr.
Fox's quiescence, this untoward accident, which
might have been healed months ego by vigorous
treatment, has festered, we fear, into an incurable
s2re. The accession of Lord Aberdeen to the for
eign seals came too late, unfortunately, to enable-his
Lordship's vigilant sagacity to do more than merely
to lament and condemn the errors of his predecessor.
What could prudently and honorably be done to re
pair this mischief has, we doubt not, been already
attended to ; but any thing like a creditable issue, as
far as regards Great Britain, 'it is new beyond the
power of human statesmanship to achieve.
The Queen was in good health, but was not to
prorogue Parliament in person, for obvious reasons.
The' Court were to return to Buckingham Palace,
and the Queen to stay there till alter her accouch
ntent. Robert Peel and his lady were on a visit to
the Queen Sept., 28.
Our Minister, Mr. Stevenson, comes out in the
Great Western.
Prorogation of Parliament.—The first session of
the Parliament-which made Sir Robert Peel minis?
ter, was to terminate either on Thursday or Friday,
the 7th or Bth, by an adjournment to the month of
January or February. he principal exploits have
been to defeat the plans of the late government, for
furnishing the people with a regular and abundant
supply of corn—to Bunion Sir Robert Peel in post
poning the consideration of the prevailing hational
distress until the spring of next year—to - authorise
Mr. Goulburn to add some millions to the national
debt.
Parliament continued ; its sittings, but the new
ministry appeared very much at a loss as to, what
measures it were best to propose for the relief ofsthe
country. Sir Robert Pbel finds' it much easier to
pOll down than to build up. , The people were evi
dently growing impatient, and were beginning to
inquire for the tokens of that public prosperity so
loudly promised them upon - the accession'of the con
servative administration.
House of Lords, Sept. 20.—Lord Brougham pre
sented a petition from the British and Foreign
Slavery Society, setting forth that British subjects
were still concerned in promoting several branches of
the slave trade. Lord Cottenham withdrew e ll hi s
bills fog improving the administration of justice-till
next session. 2:3l—The business was confined
chiefly to tt.ct reception of petitions. Adjoarnid, to
27th Sept.
On the 22d, Sit Robert Peel said it was the inten
tion of government to carry into effect the Irish poor
law act, and-also to Maintain the leading principal
of the English poor law bill, though he should be
ready to consider, in the 'next session, any proposal
for its improvement. Mr.Ferrami said that the bill
had destroyed-the last government, and that it would
destroy any govern cent which would identify itself
with its harsher clauses'.
Sept. 24th.--On the motion for going into com
mittee for supply, a long debate homed on the state
of the country. Sir Robert Peel said he would not
deny or underrate the present distress, but he lids
led it was not so severe as some represent it to, be.
The House resolved itself into a committee of supply,
and voted a sum of between ten and - eleven millions
sterling, to make good the supplies granted in the
last session.' The House then adjourned to.the 27th
September. -
Sir Charles Napier called the attention of Sir Ro
bert Peel to the danger of Mr. McLeod, end hoped
Perlitiment would -not be prorogued , without means
being taken to protect him. Sir Robert Peel could
not give Sir Charles Napier any assurance' on, the
subject. The poor Itiw bill - was discussed - at Consi
derable length; and several motions• were. made to
°meml the law; but thti l y were rill' defeated by the
ministry.
, •
Corn Low Agitation.—The agitation on the
subject of .the pirn laws atilt goes on t end ban wimp
ed
. the shape of public Meetings to petition against
tiny prorogation of parltsMint until tbt subject bait
been dieePeeth
SATURDAY MORNING. OCTOBER 30. 1541.
BIXTEEY DAYS LATER
FRO3II EUKOPE.
ARRIVAL OP THE •
STEAMSHIP COLVEIBIA.
PARLIAMENTARY
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•'• - -
'• 1 C* ‘.?
Another Failure.--Messrs. ..W. R. dr...S,
old established and highly, respectable Vir* India
merchants. and proprietors of.vast estates in Jamai•
ca, &c. had tailed, in conseridence, it is said, of the .
shortness of the crops.
Still Another Failure.—A great failure. invol
ving' £70,000, had occurred at Huddersfield, and'
thrown's: large number, of persons out of employ
ment. •
Mrs. Trollope.—Sir 'Archibald Trollops, .er bro
ther-in law of Mrs. Trollops, the famous traveller
and authoress, had committed suicide.
A good deal of' excitement had been occasioned
in Lancashire, on account of .a discovered sale of
diseased — meat. No less than seventeen persons
were violently skit at Whitworgt„ . in consequence
of pertakmg of this meat, and several-had died. An
investigation was going'on.
Commercial Affaire.—We do not perceive that
the commercial affairs of Great Britain have amend
ed since the arrival of the list previous news. Oa
the contrary, almost every species of trade appeared
to be weighed down by a,depression °twit without
a parallel. There is an evident design on the part
of the British press to conceal in a measure the act
nal state of the country, lest the.foreign relations and
the credit of English merchants, should be unfavor
ably influenced thereby. This remark applies more
particularly to the manufac;uring districts. But
facts will show out involuntarily sometimes.
The Mr. James Curtis, an .American from Ohio,
whose speeches against the corn laws in various
public places in England we have heretofore noticed,
appears to have created quite a sensation there, and
is, rather roughly handled by some • of the papers in
the interest of the corn law monopoly. •
The British Queen aria not leave for New York
until the spring. Meanwhile ehe is to go to Con
stantinople.
• The Columbia brings out 12,500 letters. The
postage on those to New York alone amounts to
1550 dollars.
Many vessels of war are getting ready for service,
at the different dock-yards. The object seems to be
to reinforce the China squadron.
Miss Kelly, the distinguished cemedian, comes to
New York for six months. bhe is engaged, we be
lieve, at the Park.
The widow of the lamented Tower has ado.inis.
tered on his estate. His personal property was
sworn to be under £ 5000.
A meeting was held on the 29th ult., for tho elec
tion of Lord Mayor for the city of London, when
Alderman John Pirie, by trade a plasterman, was
elected. Mr. Pirie, in returning thanks, said he lit
tle thought, forty years ego, when he came to the
city of London a poor lad from the banks of the
Tweed, that he would arrive at such distinction.
. We observed a lull detail, in the London papers,
of Wise and Stanley scene in the House, last sum
mer.
The news . of the U. S. Bank bankruptcy and - of
the dissolution of the Cabinet caused no little ex
citement in England.
Lord Honick was shot et, while be was in the act
of being chaired, alter his election for Sunderland.
France.—The news from this country is of es lit
tle general interest as -that from England. - Duller
papers we novel looked over, in search for news
than the stupid files brought by the Columbia.
Several of the leading journals Pads had been
seized by the government, on various 'pretences.
The press was much excited on the subject.
No further disturbances.
There is no later news from China, by this arri
val, nor from Spain, if we except an account of a
bull fight at Lisbon, which ended in a mob, and the
loss of several lives. From Portugal we finol i but one
important item, the failure of the great house of Cur
pas. Gracia & Co., for a very large amount. From
the East we learn that Mahemitilli is preparing for
formidable opposition to the Porte.
A frightful and horrid murder, which caused great
excitement throughout London, was committed on
the 21st ult. on a Mr. Bandon, the Landlord of the
King's Hotel, Eastcheap, by a man named Blokes
ley, who had married Burden's wife'S sister. '1 he.
connexion did nen prave a happy one, owing to tLe
Misconduct of Blakesley, and his wife had returned
to her brother•in-law as bar maid. On the evening
of the 21st Blakcsley tent into the hotel, walked
deliberately behind the counter and stabbed his wife
first, and then stabbed Mr. Burden, and made a has
ty attempt to stab Mrs. Burden. He then ran out
and made his escape.
Mr. Hyrdon died immediately. of his wounds, but
Milt. Burden and her sister. are out of danger. The
murderer was apprehended and examined at the
Mansion House, after which he was committed to
Newgate to wait for hia trial at the Old Bailey.
From - the N. Y. American of Saturday.
ARRIVAL OF THE .NARAGANSFM.
LATE AND HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM CHINA.
ILEV,EN .I)ATS
Attack on the City of Canton by the Cove.
blued Britt" Forces.
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We despatched the steamboat Wave, at en
early hour this morning, in search of the Narragm
sett, and have the pleasure of laying bef.,re our rea
ders of the American, maims vets later news from
Canton. " .
Passenger in the Narragansett Mr. William. IL
Dear Sir—You will see by the inclosed that hos
tilities have again commenced—the trade entirely
stopped. MI the foreigners haveieft Canton except
the English forces. , _ •
Several of the factories have been partly demolish
ed, and nearly all entirely plundered by the rabble
and Chinese soldiers: ' Ww,have news from Canton
up to the morning of the 26th—at which time the
English were still storming the city, The land for
ces bad possession of tbii heights in the rear of the
city, while; the men-of-war had possession of the ri
ver in-front and •-to the westward.: The loss of life
on. the part of, the'Chinese lasi been tremendous.
There are between. forty and' .fitty thousand Tester
and Chinese troops inside, the city, into which the`
men-of-war are pouring' incessant willies 'of shells
and rocket, in order to drive them opt to teloire
en
gagement with the Englieb soldiers on the heights.
• The English have 'austained_considerablelosi. A
portion of our establishment is here:some on board
ship, at Whip:vas. and - Mr. Delano close to the city. .
intending to land first oppernmity . in orde r . to look
afteethe factort . end property left here;
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RTISER.
MAcoi. May 23, 1841
We have been fortunate enough to get on board
ship, and at this place in safetyrevery book, paper
and account that we possess, though we evacuated
the factory in great baste, and but a few hours be
fore the Chinese commenced the attack.
On the 2 tit: captain Elliot issued at Canton ,the
following
CIIICVLAII
"In the presetit situation of circumstances. Her
Britannic Majesty's Plenipotentiary feels it his duty
to recommend'that.the British end other foreigners
now remaining in the factories should retire froo
Canton before sunset."
. OCHATILE.B ELL2OT,
s.H. M. Plenipotentiary.
oßritish Factory. 21st May, 1841."
On Friday the 'list ult. all foreigners left Canton
pursuant to the 'thine notice of Captain Elliot, and
went to Whampoaor retired on board the boats in
the river, with the eception of Mr. Coolidge and Mr.
Morse, two Arnericrin merchants. Immediately on
the Factories being thus abandoned, the mob broke
in. and were with great difficulty driven %by the sol
diery, who wetted no shares in the plunder.
Extract of a letter, dated
Macoa, 30th May 184 i•
On the morning of the 22J, an American resident
was seized by the Chinese and taken from his facto•
ry ; at the same time that a boat, belonging to the
American sbtp Morrison, with three passengers and
seven seamen„were captured soon after leaving tho
factories far Whompoa, and the party carried prison
ers into the city.
From this, the time was occupied by the EngHA
in concentrating their forces near the chi-, until the
24th, at 4P. M. The Hyacinth 18, Modesto 18,
Pylades 18, Nimrod 18, Columbus 16, Cruiser 16,
and Algerine 10, having taken up their position in
front of the city and suburbs, opened their'fird upon
every offensive point of the Chinese, who returned it
with considerable spiritt i at first, but were soon corn;
pelted to desert their guns. At,s P, M., a body of
soldiers, abwit 400, were landed at the foreign facto
ries, in the vicintty of which I.e Americans, who
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had been taken prisoners two day before, and exam
fined by the authorities were rele ed.
The firing was continued untt bout 9P. M. when
the suburbs were on the, in several places, and near
ly all the batteries on shore in posses-ion of, or des
troyed by the English.
While ;his was going on in front of Canton, Gen.
Gough was landing his troops, 1800 men, at the foot
of the heights, in the rear of the city, and on the
morning of the 25th he cmornenced operations; par
ticulars of the day's work are not yet known further,
than that, with's loss of some forty killed and wound
ed, four batteries were taken from the Chinese, and
great numbers of their officers and soldiers killed. the
heietbs commanding the city taken, and the British
forces entrenched upon, them.
Tho loss of the Chinese on this occasion is vari-
ously estimated at from 3 to 5000, and even as high
as 10,000 men; and they now 60 to their cost and
extreme disal.pointment, that they are unable to cope
with European troops on shore, as they hate before,
proved themselves in *twit encounters with British
forces afloat.
On the Troth . ' the vessels of war. were engaged in
quieting and destroying the Las remains of opposi
tion, and in the evening, manderins called on the
Captain with flags of truce, to negotiate fur the pre
servation of the city.
Our advice's from the seat of actjnn and negotiii-
tion are to the morning of the 27th, when it was
said the Chinese had capitulated, and offered a larga
sum of money for the ransom of the city,_ which, it
was supposed, would then be saved.
A ButursreT STUCCO WIIITEW63II.—Many
have probably often beard of the brilliant and lasting
whitewash upon the east end of the President's
House at Washington city. The following is a cor
rect recipe for.making it: Take clean lumps of well
burnt lime, (say five or six quarts.) slack the same
with hot water, - in a tub, covered to keep in the
..team, pass it in the fluid form through a fine sieve ;
add one forth of a pound of whiting or burned alum,
pulvt rized; ono pound of sugar; three pints of rice
flour, made into a thin and well boiled paste, and one
pound of clean glue, disi;olved by first soaking it well,
and then putting it over a erloo fire. Add five gal
lons of hot watefto the whole mixture. This wash
is applied where particular neatness is required,
with a painters brush, It must be •put on, while
warm, if on the outside of the building—if within
doors, cold, It will retain its brilliancy for many
years. There is nothing of the kind that will com
pare with it. About one pint of this mixture will
cover a square yard upon the outside of a house, if
properly applied. If • larger quantity than five
gallons is wanted, the same proportion to he observed
in preparing. Coloring matter may be added to
give it any shade.—Genesee Fanner.
JOHN C. CA.T.—The Norwich (Conn.) Courier
in speaking of ihe many and diversified statements
made by the New York press concerning this in
dividual says:
Wo wish we could transfer IP the minds of the
thousands who so eagerly read .all that was said
of him, the one impressive lesson , we are laq/ht. as
'we trace the evil in this case back to its •germ.
The germ whose growth has been so bitter, was
insubordination from his childhood upwards.-11is
whole course has beer. markeil by self-will, break.
ing through all the common restraints of the farni—
ly, of the school-room, of the counting house, of so.
dial life, and of the law of God. • John C. Cult, has
been for fourteen years a voluntary exile from the
Parental roof. Let the child rho will not submit
to be checked and guided, tremble for the cud of
his own career; and let the parent tremble for the
child who cannot be made to yield to the just au.
thoritz, and let him never dare to hope that the
youth whom he cannot control; will learn to con.
trol himself, and•curb his pwn wild passions.
We copy the following article from. the New
England Review :
GEL GAREDON Posorren.—We have learned
from private sources that when - the body of Gen.
Harrison waidisinterred, previous to its removal
to North Bend, on opening the coffins in which it
was enclosed, the head had swollen so
,large as to
burst the glass case fitted around it. It was ex
amined by medical men, and others, and the con
clusion to which they came. left room"for the hoe
tibia suspicion that he had been poisoned to death!
It is said, that the opinion that Gen. Elrrison
was murdered has become prevalent among the
people at Waahington.
ID Jefferion Griffith. who Was on Wednesday
convicted for the murder of a Mr. Bighorn at Bait.
more. iethe same man whciwas arrested and tried
for the murder of Mr. Laughlin, one.
_of the. Mar.
shale of the Whig National. Convention, in May.
1841. He escaped then from the incompleteness
of the evidence. . Ho has long been a terror add a
pest to the people of Baltimore.
• gro tile 'Autumn orcot.
Resplendeat hues are thine! -
Triumphant beauty—glorious as brief f
• Burdening with holy love the heart's purstiltrtrak
711 tears afford relict
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What thy' thy deintm be hushed! ,
More eloquent in handl:est silence Smut..
Than when the Music ofgliid songsteregthaitifo.
• From everygreem.tobed,bough. -
- Gone from thj walks the Bowen! ' - = °' •
Thou arkeat not their forms ihyr paths to Reek;
The datmlitig radiance of these sunlit boivers,
Their bras emitd not bedeck. •
•• - I love teem the Spring, .1 • • • :
Rarth.cmiening fittest! when amid thy *Wag' . The gentle South first waves her Wants *Ong.
And joy fills all thy glades. , •'
In the hot Summer time. *.
With deep delight thy sombre airiest roam., • '
Or; soothed by some cold brook's melodious chit**.
Rest on thy verdant loam. . -
But oh! when Autemn's band
'bath marked thy beauteous foliage for the grate.
How doth thy splendor, as entranced I stand.-
- My willing heart enslave!
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I linger then with thee,.
Like some fond lover o'ei his. stricken bride;
Whose bright. unearthly beauty tells that she,
' Here may not long abide.
NO. 44
When my last hours are come,',
Great Gud !ere yet life's span shall nil be filled.
And theie warm lips in death'be ever drab,
This breathing heart be stilled; "
Bathe thou in hoes as blest—
Let gleams of !leaven about my spirit play !
So shall my soul to its eternal rest, -
In glory pass nosy! •
Beautiful - picture.
A canx's YISST menzsmos or a sTaa.
She bad been told that God made all the stare .
That twinkled op in heaven, and now she stoo d
Watching the coming of the twilight on,
As Wit were a new and perfect world,
And this were its first eve. She stood alone
By the low window, with the silken lash
01 her soft eye up raised. and her sweet mouth
Half parted with the new and strange delight'
(H beauty that she could not coraprehehd,
And bad not seen before. The purple folds
Of the tow sunset clouds, and the blue sky
That looked so still and delicate above,
Filled her young heart with gladness, and the eve
Sto:e on with its deep shadows, and she still
looking at the West with that half smile.
As if a pleasant thought were at her heart. .
Pesently, in the edge of the last tint
Of sunset, where the blue was melted in
To the taint golden mellowness. a star
Stood suddenly. A laugh of wild delight
Burst from her lips, mad putting up her bands,
ller simple thought °mike fonh expiessively--
Father, dear Ilither,God has made a star!'
(From the "Manoeitt ..oct Cubtonte of Society in India."
by ittro.Clemenej ,
Love anb ilcvAnge..
B— entered early into the honorable East
India Company's service, and came out to,Madras-ta
fine, bold-spirited and elegant youth. He served,
through the %hole of the war with the Burmese,
which broke out soon slier he arrived in India, with
an intrepidity and bravery equal to that of the other
officers who where engagedin that hard service, and
many-of whom were cut off in tliVi midst of their
glorious career. At the conclusion of the war his
regiment was ordered buck to Madras, while his
heart beat high with gratitude fog having been per.
milted to escape unhurt.
At one of the native feasts which was held about
this time, he became enamored of one of the dancing
girls, whose soft mild eye and beautiful figure, for
which this particular class is so famed, so completely
infatuated his affections, that for a time hQ thought
himself completely happy in the possession of the
lovely syren.
Two years passed away, during wbich time he
had become too indolent to &nerd one who was
the object of his atTections ; but these affections bad
become cooled by habit aid intercourse, and it was
not till the arrival from England of the lovely Miss
H—, the highly talented and accomplished dough.
ter of Captain —, that he found how visionary
and inconstant had been his former attachment.
Miss Ii was, indeed, all that a man could
paint of beauty, wit and accomplishments ; there
was the rosy cheek, the fair open brow, the round
and polished Mil ; in short all that distinguishes
our fair and lovely country-watnen.
Lieutenant had many rivals, but he wooed'
and won her. The day, the happy day, was axed
fur their marriage ; all his friehtla partook in the
pleasure that beam. d from hie - eye, save one:—
that ono was Mena, the dancing girl. Ho had, u
soon as he had become acquainted with Miss H--,
sent the girl from him with money and jewels, ac
cording to the general custom in India, and Bopp°.
end that she had gone to some other protection, or
returned to her own country, as he had nut seen her
* for two or three months. A month, however, pre
vious to hie marriage, she came to him arid told him
to beware—that though parted from him she'etilllo.
ved ; that she could bear to be seperated, but to see
him married to another, that she could not endure. •
Ll thought this was only to extort money from .
him, he therefore agai _loaded her with TrePents
and sent her to her frien4p:_n,
The day before the iniVitige was spent in.thei
bustle and feverish anxiety which is so natural to'"
the occasion, in making his.final errangementa• in
his new bungalom, that was to soon to receive its.
lovely mistress. All was love and hope with him.
The night came—the lust ho was to sleep in his pre.
sent quarters.—Meiza, the now hateful Mena. stood
before hie bed. "Beware I" said she, ' , beware!.
Spurn not the heart and love of-Merzi ; lead not to
the altar the fair 'European ; my bitterest bate and
revenge shall folbrw. If thie, my second warning,
be unheeded, this day month shall see a mouthing
widow. Chgose now between my fondest rove of
burning hate—beware !"
About a week after their marriage I called upon
them; the bride's eye was lighted up with love, end
her mouth was graced with the happiest smiles; ITS
B -- himself looked ill, and he complained slight.
15 of a burning at his stomach. which 'he bad felt,;
lie said; for the liwt two days.' In anothey week I
again called, and I saw him lying listlessly upon a
sofa, with bis lovely wife beside him, • looking Sim.
iously in his face. He could 'eat nothing,.and,was
eii,dently wearing away. The medical attendant
ordered change of air, and be was moved from Pis.
hiveram to the Mount, where he disclosed to his sor
rowing wife the prediction of Merza, the dancing
girl, related his former connection with her'. and ex
pressed his full persuasion that his do int wbs sealed.
The last;week came; deep was the anxiety of his
brother officers, the anguish of his doting wife, L
cannot describe; all aid was in vain; the day month_
of his marriage he was laid in his coffin, a senseless
corpse—his widow well nigh a maniac, Wbo bad
scarcely numbered seveoteen years. Poor
body was opened, and it was found that 'intend glass
had been administered to' him, which `• completely
wore away the coats of the stomach, and - which no
medicine that had been given him had been ableur
dislodge. Thus died one of the bravest'of the' RIM;
goon heroes. With how much less regret Would his
brother officers have beheld'him stretched tmongst
the dead on the battle
Irr The poetry of the Boston post is rather glorious. -
take a specimen and try it: .
" htiles awry, sixteen months of age.,
„ le haste halt quit his fay'rite stake;
Dry od of vitriol spill rd on him,
, He was consumes., by the dame.
The child who infrar ed by Misfire:
His faihees.nante was Nehemiah,
. He wait aright down' godly man; ..
His mother's vale was Mary Ann.•_
He, running round in childish play,'
Did knock the cupboard shelfaway. 1 .-
" Oa which the jar of vitriol lay; .
It ran o'er his forta in diTreht
Which carried him off betvreewthree dare
Isn't that pastier—isn't it enonskui .
-.• Draw iron team down Pluto's Oa* r
SY N. P. WILLIS.
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