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SELECT POETRY.
SABBATH READING.
LET tS OIVE THANKS.
BY ELIZA COOK.
Let us give thanks, with grateful soul,
To Him who semletU all ;
To Him who bids iho planets roll,
And sees a "sparrow fall."
Though grief and tears may dim our joys,
And enru nnd strife arrest,
'Tis man, loo often, that alloys
The lot his Maker blest:
While sunshine lights the boundless sky,
And dew drop feed the sod
While stars and rainbows live on high
Let us giro thanks to God.
We till the earlh in labor's health,
We plant Ihe acorn cup;
The lii-hla are crowned with eolden wealth,
The (rreen tree sprintrelh upj
The sweet, eternal waters push
From fountain nnd from vale;
The vineyards blush wilh purple flush,
The yellow hop leaves trail;
And while Ihe Harvest fiines its gold,
And cowslips deck the sod
While limpid streams are clear and cold,
Let us jn'va thanks to God.
Tho flower yields its odor breath,
As gentle winds fro past ;
The trinsshoper that links beneath
Chirps merily and fast ;
The ring dove coos upon Ihe spray,
The larks full ntilhems pour:
The bees start wilh a jocund lay,
The waves sine; on the shore ;
Hosannas fill the wood and wild,
Where human step ne'er trod :
And nature, like an unwearied child,
Smiles on its parent God.
Say, Brothers, shall the bird and bloom
Thus teach, and tench in vain 1
Shall all the love-rays that illume,
B') lost in clouds of pain 1
Shall hearts be dead ami vision blind
To nil that mercy deals'?
Shall nu and reason fail to find
The shrine where instinct kneelb?
Ah, no ! while plory lights the sky,
And beauty paints ihe sod
While stars and rainbows live on high,
Let us give thanks to God.
Select (Talc.
THE SAILOR PRELATE.
It was in tho year 1580. that Sir Francis
Drake returned in triumph to his native land,
after a successful expedition against the
Spaniards in the South Seas He anchored
at Deptford, and Queen Elizabeth honored
the brave admiral by dining on board his
hip. After the banquet, her majesty con
ferred the order of knighlhoud on her enter
tainer, nnd inquired of him whether he wish
ed to name any captain in his fleet as pecu
liarly distinguished for valor.
"So pleaso your majesty," said Drake,
"many there are in every ship who have
borne themselves right bravelv, as the sub
jects of their gracious mistress should; but
one there is who merits praise above all, for
by his steady daring alone three goodly gal
leons were taken. He stood himself at tho
guns until victory was declared, although a
ringer of his right hand was shot ofT, and he
received variousgrievous wounds. His name
is William Lyon, commander of the Albion.
'Let him be introduced into our presence,"
said the Queen ; "we love to look on a brave
man."
Sir James bowed, gave the necessary di-
rections, and after a brief delay Captain
Lyon was uehered into the royal presence.
He was a good featured finely formed man.
with Ihe blunt, manly bearing of a British
sailor; in the present instance slightly dash
ed by a consciousness of his position. Her
majesty received him with that kindly man
ner which she knew so well how to combine
with oijrnitv a species of "kinn-crafl"
which seldom fails to secure for sovereigns
the warm love of their people. She asked
him several questions touching the late ex
pedition, which he answered in a sensible)
respectful manner: and the Queen dismissed
him, aying, ':'you deserve to rise, Captain
Lyon ; and we now pledge our royal word,
that you shall have ihe first vacancy that
oflers." She then gave him her hand to
to kiss, aud the gallant seamen retired.
About three months afterwards, as the
queen on u slate day was giving audience to
her nobles, Captain Williom Lyon presented
himself, and craved an interview wilh her
majesty. Good Queen Bess, among whose
faults indifference to the wants and wishes
of her subjects could not be classed, willingly
granted bis request, and smiled as the asked
him to make known his wishes.
"Please your majesty, I come," he said,
"to remind you of your gracious promise.
You said I could have the first vacancy that
offered ; and I have just heard that the See
of Cork, in the south of Ireland, is vacated
by the demise of the bishop; therefore 1
hope your majesty will give it me, and so
fulfil your royal word."
"Gramercy," said the Queen, "this is ta
king u at our word with a witness ', . How
say you, tny lord," she continued, turning to
the Earl of Essex, who stood beside the
throne; "would a brave sailor, think you,
answer for a bishop in our troublous king
dom of Ireland V
"If Captain Lyon's clerkly skill, please
your majesty, be equal to so grave a charge,
his worth and valor, (of which I have heard
much) will I doubt not, render him worthy
of your Grace's favor."
"Besides," chimed in the captain, as un
dauntedly as though he stood on bis own
quarter deck, "her majesty promised me the
first vacancy; and God foibid she should be
the first of her royal house who was worse
than the word of thcii lip!"
SUN BURY, NORTHUM
A less absolute sovereign than Elizabeth
might probably have been offended at these
blunt words, and dismissed the unlucky
speaker with scant ceremony ; but thoroughly
secure in power, she liked to reign in her
people's hearts, and besides she had the rou jh
old Tudor love for words of truth and deeds
of boldness therefore a right royal burst of
laughter proceeded from the throne, echoed
by the attendant courtiers; and when the
Queen's merriment had subsided, she gra
ciously dismissed Captain Lyon, with the as
surance that his request should meet with
due attention. An enquiry into the seaman's
qualifications was accordingly instituted, and
the result as to his moral character being
perfectly satisfaclor)', nnd the fact of his
having received a tolerable literary educa
tion being established, the Queen was gra
ciously pleased lo giant his request, and Wil
liam Lyon was duly consecrated Bishop of
Cork, Cloyne, and Ross.
Elizabeth said to him on the occasion, "I
trust, Master Lyon, you will take as good
care of the church as you have done of the
state;" nnd indeed, contrary to all reasonable
expectation, he did make a most excellent
prelatecarefully extending his patronage to
tho most exemplary men, and laboring with
unwearied zeal to promote the interests of Ihe
diocese. He built the present episcopal pal
ace, situated near the cathedral ; and over
the mantel-piece in the dining room hang8
his portrait, very finely painted. Ho is rep
resented in his naval uniform, and his right
hand is minus the fourth finger.
Bishop Lyon enjoyed his elevation for
twenty-five years, with reputation to himself
and benefit to his diocese. He never at
tempted to preach but once on the occasion
of the Queen's death. When that melan
choly event occurred, he thought it his duty
to pay the last honors lo his royal mistress.
and uecoidiugly ascended the pulpit in Christ
Church, in the city of Cork. After giving a
good discourse on thrj uncertainty of life, and
the great aud amiable qualities of the Queen,
he concluded in tho following characteristic
manner :"Lct those who feel this loss, de
plore with me on tho melancholy occasion;
but if there bo any that hear me, (as perhaps
there may,) who have secretly longed for
this event, they have now got their wish,
and the devil do them cnod with it !"
The remains of Bishop Lvon have recently
been discovered by some workmen employed
in repairing lho palace. In a corner of the
lawn are the ruins of what was once the
chapel; and when some slones and earth
were removed, a tombstone was discovered,
wilh an inscription in old English raised
characters, slating that tho tomb was, erect
ed for "William Lion, an Engls man born
Bishop of Coike, Clou, and Ross, in the happi
raigne of Queen Elizabet defender of the an-
cent apostolike faithe."
TWO IN A BED.
Ned and Charley were two room mates,
but they occupied different beds. Ned's
sleeping apparatus was so situated that he
could get into either side that is to say
there were two lore sides to his bed, and no
back side which Ned found very convenient
on certain occasions.
One night Ned and Charley had been out,
and on returning, which they did near morn
ing, both were considerably elevated. How-
ever, they walked op lo their rooms with an
air that seemed to say, "not very drunk after
all," and sought long and patiently for
matches and a lamp. After knocking tho
pitcher off the washstnud and smashing the
ooking glass, they finally gave up the search
and went to bed.
Went to bed yes, that's the word, but
owing to the darkness, and confusion of their
senses they made a slight mistake. In short
Ned's bed had the honor of receiving the
two friends Charley getting in one side, and
his companion rolling in on the other.
"I say, Ned," cried Charley, touching some
body's calf, "there's a fellow in my bed !"
"Wonderful coincidence !" exclaimed Ned,
feeling a strange elbow in the region of his
ribs, there's somebody in my bed, too."
"Is there, though V cried Charley, "let's
kick -em out s"
"Aareed," said Ned.
. And accordingly the two friends began to
kick. It lasted about a minute and a half,
and Ned was sprawling on the floor; Charley
was left in possession of the bed. For a mo
ment all was silent.
"I say, Ned," cried Charley.
"What!" asked Ned sulkily.
"I've kicked my fellow out!"
"You are luckier than 1 am, then," said
Ned, "for mine hus kicked me out."
Tin Oldest Inhabitant Dead. A writer
in the Savannah Republican mentions the
death, on the 29th of March, of Mrs. I.oura-
nia Thrower, at her lesidence on the Oghe
hee, who was at least one hundred and thir
ty-three years of age. At a census taken in
1825, her age wag put down at 1 10, and some
accounts made her 137 at the time of her
death. She had seven children before the
revolution ; her youngest living child is be
t ween 70 and 80; she has great-grand-chil
dren SO years old, and a number of great-
great-great-grand children living in Florida.
Her sight failed her furs while, but returned
about twenty years ago, so that she could
thread a fine needle, or read the finest print.
Her faculties remained unimpaired till her
death. She had been s member of the Bap
tist Church for more than a hundred years.
"The New Zealanders," says Blackwood
being civilued have become dyspeptic
They cat mote, fijht Ices and die faster-
DERLA1N I) COUNTY, PA., SATURDAY, JULY 28. 1849.
MRS. MADISON.
The life and character of this distinguish
ed lady belong to her country. Mrs Madison
was born on Ihe 20th May , 1767, new style;
which makes her to be 83 years, 1 month
and 22 days old at Ihe lime of hor death.
Upon the expiration of Mr. Madison. s presi
dnntial service, she retired wilh him to Mont
pelirr, in Ornngo county, Virginia, where she
administered, with a warmth and a grace of
manner never surpassed, all the rites of hos
pitality, in tho house of her distinguished
husband. Visited by crowds of American
citizens, nnd by strangers from Europe, who
wero desirous of seeing nool a statesman,
no ont) ever left his house without carrying
away with him the strongest sense of the
courtesJesand nceomplishmenls of his lady.
After his death, sho continued to reside at
Monlpelier until 1837, when she removed for
a short time lo this city. Thence sho return
ed to Monlpelier, and finally came to Wash
ington, in 1844, to reside at her house on
President's Square, where she breathed her
last on Thursday night, between 10 and 11
o'clock, after a lingering illness of five days.
No distinguished stranger ever visited
Washington who did not consider it his duty
as well as his pleasure to wait upon her and
pay his respects lo her. Blessed almost
lo tho last wilh good spirits and thu kindest
social feelings, sho mixed in the society of
all her old friends in Washington wilh a kind
ness and warmth of manner which attracted
every heart and eye around her. There was
a charm in her manners which proved irre
sistible. Even when she was possessed of
tho highest buoyancy of spirits, and presided
as the tutelary genius of the White House,
she never suffered her head to be turned bv
the most devoted attentions which were al
ways paid to her. She preserved that equan
imity of spirits, that simplicity of character,
that warmth aud sympathy of heart, which
preserved her from all allectation and arro
gance of manner. She was the most consi
derate and polite person we have ever known.
Instead of pushing heiself forward on any oc
casion, and even claiming what was due to
her, she would, on the contrary, disclaim nil
pretensions and distinctions. She seemed
determined to sacrifice ull idlo etiquette, and
all selfish discrimination, to the ease and hap
piness of others. With that exquisite tact
which arose from her spacious mind, nnd
with that delicate sympathy which was the
fruit of hr coiiil and uonernns feelinns, she
was ever willinc to give- up her own place
and her own comfort for those nrninid her.
This remark was true of her at all times ami
places in the most crowded assemblies, ns
well as in the smallest circles. No woman
ever seemed to think so little of herself, and
none more of others. Was it any wonder,
then, that wilh her position in society, her
fine accomplishments, her simplo yet polish
ed manners, her long acquaintance with poli-
Ileal matters and with the most distinguished
men of our countrv, and wilh that utlcr dis
regard of all pretensions, and her great con-
siderntion of the happiness of others, Mrs.
Madison should have been so lour; the
idol of her friends and the centre of general
admiration; and more than all, of the vene
ration and ihe love of every one who knew
her 1 Washington Union.
It is hardly a joking subject, says the
N. Y. Sun, aud yet it seems a good joke to
hear the Autocrat of all the Tinssias, a regu
lar serf-keeper and man-butcher, tell his as
sembly of bishops, that there was no true
failh in the West, meaning Europo. "The
Pope," says Nicholas, '-is a good, but a weak
man ; he allows himself to bo shaken he
lacks faith!" But, says a bishop, "ho has
acled in accordance with the spirit of the
age, it is the people w ho have shaken him -God
moves in the hearts of the people, anil
we must respect God and the people." 1
dont care, says old Nick iu a rage, "tho trou
ble in the West has all risen from a want of
failh ! I shall take the mutter in hand, and
restore faith lo Europe." We should like lo
know whether it is faith iu God, or tho Auto
crat, that Nicholas means to restore. If it be
failh in God, he will find it plenty and con
fident in Italy and Hungary; but if it be faith
in "I Nicholas," then he will find a host of
unbelievers and infidels, as may well frighten
him back to his more liberal bishops at St.
Petersburgh.
Brtant, the Poet. The writer of the
leading article of the Boston Monthly Law
Reporter for June, remembers to have heard
our present learned Chief Justice relate, upon
the circuit, that after a hard fought contest,
iu which Mr. Bryant, the poet, had once a
verdict of considerable consequence, in Berk
shire, in a suit for slander, exception was ta
ken for a defect in respect to a colliquium.
The Supreme Court, upou argument, were,
by strict rule of law, relucianlly obliged to
set aside the verdict, though convinced of the
equity of Ihe existing posture of the case.
Mr. Bkvant was so chagrined by the deci
sion, that he at once quitted the practice, and
abandoned a professional life so beset, as it
seemed to him, wilh practical perils. Though
the world may have thereby gained many a
noble poem the bar lost an honest man.
Who Cam Beat It! A talor it Bucyrous,
Ohio named Wm M. Scroggs, lecently made
a fine cloth coat from sun-up till son-down.
Mr. S siys he can cut out and make up a
dress coat in the same time. Rather tough
story. ' .
"For people to live happily together, the
real secret is, that they should not live too
much together." v
Stfcnec an! the Slrts, Sflrtcutture,
"WAnlTS TIRE IIOSS?"
Some years since, when the Slate of Mis
souri w as considered "Far West," there lived
on the bank of the river of the same name
ns the Stale, a substantial farmer, who, by
years of toil, had accumulated a tolerably
pretty pile of castings; owing, as he said,
principally to the fact that he didn't raise
much taters and ungtins, but rito smart of
corn. This farmer hearing that good land
was much cheaper further south, concluded
to move there. Accordingly, he provided
his oldest son with a good horse, and a suffi
ciency of the needful to defray his travelling
and contingent expenses, and instructed him
to purchase two hundred acres of good land,
at Ihe lowest possible price, and return im
mediately home. The next day Jcrmj start
ed for Arkansas, and after an ubsenco of
some six weeks, returns home.
"Well, Jeems,' said the old man, "how'd
yu find land in Arkensawr!"
"Tolerable cheep, Dad."
"Yu didn't by morno til hundred acers, did
yu, Jeems?"
"No, Dad, not orrr tu hundred, I reckon."
"How much money hev yu got left !
"Nary red. Dad ! cleaned rite out !"
"Why, I had no idee travelin was so spen
sive in them parts, Jeems "
"Wal ! jes yu try it wonst, an yule find
out, I reckon."
"Wal ! never min that, let's heare 'bout
the land, and but Ware yure hoss ?' "
"Why, yu see, Dad, I was agoin along one
day "
"But, 'Ware's yure hoss?' "
"Yu hole on, Dad, an I'll tell yu all 'bout
it. Yu see, 1 was anoin along one day, an I
met a feller as said he was goin my wav
tu "
"But, 'War's yure hossV "
"Dod darn mi hide, ef yu don't shet up,
Dad, I'll never git tu the hoss. Wal, as we
was both goin the same way, me and this
feller jined cumpenuy, and bout noon, we
hitched our critters, and set down aside uv a
branch, and went tu eatin a snack. Arter
we'd got thru, this feller sez tu me : 'Try a
drap of ihis ere red-eye, slrannger !' 'Wal, 1
don't mind, sez I "
"But, 'Wur's yure hoss ?' "
"Kummin lu him bime-by dad! So me
an this feller sot ther, sorter toikin and
driukin, and then he sez: 'Strannger, let's
play a lectio game uv Seven up;' a takiu out
uv his pocket a greasy, roun-cornered deck
uv IcrJs. 'Don't keer ef I du," sez I. So
we sut up side uv a stump, an kummenced
to bet a quortcr up, an I was a slauin him
oufuld ! "
"But, 'Ware's yure Aoss!"
"Kummin lu him, Dad! Bime by luck
changed, an he gol tu winuin, an pretty sunci
I hadn't not nary nuilier duller. Then, sez
ho : 'Slrannger, I'll gin yu a chatiso tu get
even, an play you one more game, I sware,
an we was both six and six, and ''
" 'War's yure ioss?"
"Kummin !u him, Dad! We was six and
six, Dad, an 'twas his deal "
"Will yu tell me 'Wars yure hossV " said
the old man, giffiii riled.
"Yes, we was six and six, an he turned
the Jack !"
"'I'r' yurehossV"
"The stranger won him a-turning that Jack!"
N. O. Delta.
It often happens that people who talk but
very little, think just us much
DISCI SSI.Mi A ttSTARD.
Delicious custard ! and delicious Mary
Who baked it maiden with the raven hair,
And face und hand exceedingly cuulruiy
I u other words a maiden passing fair
I hold ihe bakery delicious, very,
Aud fall comfortably in my chair
Between ihe tnuutlifuls, and am meditative
About this custard that I have a plate of.
Delicious custard ! what uncommon ei'gs
Fiesli us your face, my dear, those must
have been,
No chickens therein being, with short legs.
Waiting to enter on this outdoor scene,
And very humbly your inquirer begs
That extra care be paid the mother hen,
For giving us such splendid specimens
So much above the brood of common hens.
Apiopos, Mary, is it China, Dorking,
Or common fowl you keep 1 1 recommend
Ileus w ith a cluck that sounds like wine un
corking, A bill extremely yellow at the end :
The kind 1 mentioned, with five toes uutfork
iug Are very good and may be made to mend
By certain oilier mixtures, fur which aim,
Eschew especially all fowls called "game."
Another plate yes thank you : I would say
This milk has boon delicious almost cream.
You milk, of course, quite early every day,
Something before the rising sun's first
beum ;
It must be tine, this getting up in May,
Just when we sluggards first begin to
dream ;
You have the dew upon the grass, I think
A glassfull of the milk, and I will drink.
Sugar, milk, eggs, no butter did you say !
No butter; would it not improve the tustet
Perhaps not; would it keep it put away!
Of course not milk giows acid iu such
haste
Be careful. Mary, custard for to-day,
But fresh to morrow, 'tis a shame to waste,
And you, t know, are careful, and so clean
Fifteen! Ah more! seventeen, sweet seven
teen !
You use fine custard sugar loaf of course,
Whita as your forehead never use the
brown,
And white Havana is one quarter worse,
Stuart's best loaf will always bear the
crown
For crystal uniform, but not too course
- So much milk, to smooth the custard down,
I'll have you, Mary dear, when 1 get rich,
l or cook, or wife, or both. I don't cat which-
iwarfeets, amusements, c.
THE GREAT VALVE OF A TRIEST'S CER.
TIFICATE.
A woman, named Betsey McLaughlin, re
siding in Shippen street, near Seventh, died
on Wednesday from an attack of the cholera.
She was attended by a physician, who gave
a certificate for bnrial. On Wednesday eve
ning at 6 o'clock, the coffin conlaining the
body of the deceased, was placed in a hearse,
and was followed by two men only, to the
Roman Catholic burial ground, on Passayunk
road for interment. The physician's certifi
cate was presented, but the superintendent
of the ground would not permit the body to
be buried there without a certificate from
the priest of the church. The hcarso was
compelled lo return with its unconscious in
mate to the house in Shippen street near
Seventh, but the landlady would not permit
the corpse to bo taken in. Those having
charge of the body were thus in a dilemma,
and scarcely knew what to do to extricate
themselves from it. Finally un empty house,
the property of Mr Heddleson, located in an
obscure alley not far distant, was broken
open, and the coffin was taken in and placed
on the floor.
In tlio evening an Irishman called on Al
derman McKinley, (acting for the coroner.)
to hold an inquest on the body of a woman,
who had died from cholera. Tho worthy
magistrate repaired promptly to the chamber
of death, and was led to tho house of Mr.
Heddleson, above alluded to. Here he found
the coffin on the floor, and the husband of
the deceased, stretched along side of it. Ilo
and his face turned towards it, and his arm
thrown over the coffin. Ho was quite drunk-
The Alderman at Ihis time was informed of
the facts ns above staled, and of course de
termined it useless to hold an inquest. The
Physicians' certificate, however, was kept
by ihe keeper of the ground.
Tho hall drunken husband was raised to
a partly upright position, and he stated (hat
he was unable to have the deceased buried,
because he had no certificate from the priest,
and had not money enough to purchase one.
All lho money he had in tho world was
two dollars and a quarter, nnd tho price of
tho priest's certificate was three dollars.
The Alderman finding his official service to
be useless, returned, arid left tho unhappy
parly to their sad and melancholy fato
Phila. Sun.
Shoe Business in Lynn The shoo busi
ness is lho life of Lynn. Only women's mis
ses' and children's shoes are made here. En
caged in this business there are of manufac
tures or men who "carry on tho business,"
78 ; of cutters or men who "cut out" ihe
shoes, 175; of men and boys employed in
making shoes, 2458 ; of men and boys so em
ployed but living out of town, 900 ; of women
and girls employed in binding shoes, 4925;
of tho same so employed and living out of
town, 1600 ;. making of employers an aggre
gate of 10,058. The number of men und boys
employed in making shoes is more lhan 70
percent larger now lhan it was in 1842. The
increase in the number of women and girls
employed in binding shoes has, we presume,
been correspondingly great. But it should
be stated that the shoe business in 1842 was
unusually depressed ; that much less of it
was done during last, than will probably be
done duaing the present year. The number
of pairs of shoes made during the last year
was 3,190.000; the number purchased from
from other towns was 350,000 ; making in
all 3.540,000 pairs. Tho cost of the material
oi ineso was &i,4Jo,0do; mat ot making
ihem $957,050 ; making the cost of the
3;540,000 pairs ofshoes lo have been $2,382,.
575. The cost of making shoes is ubout one
sixth less than it was a dozen years ago.
Lynn Pion'er.
Terrible Destruction or the Wheat
Crop in Ohio. The news pours in upon us
from almost every quarter of the State, of the
terrible destruction of the w heat crop, by rust
and fly, (red weevil.) Thousands upon thou
sands of acres are not worth cutting ; whole
fields remain untouched by scythe or sickle.
Our own wheat isa pretty faircrop, and about
lho only one we know of in this region. Ohio
Salesman, 8th.
Gold Mines in Ohio A farmer in Harri
son county, ploughed and hoed up $100 iu
gold ofT three acres of his ground. It was in
yellow grains, beautiful lo the eye, and finer
than 22 or any other number of carats. In
fact, it was 392 bushels of shelled corn, and
the gold was obtained by the attractive quali
ties of the grain overmastering that of the
metal Cleveland Herald.
Tub Cholera. The cholera has at length
broken out in Baltimore Almshouse, where
30 cases and 11 deaths had occurred up lo
Sunday afternoon At lho West it continues
to prevail with but slight abatement, and in
Ihe Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, creating
sad havoc; nearly 100 prisoneis having died.
Fourteen died on the 11th.
Why is a lady getting married in an error 1
Because she is miss-taken. Burfingfon Gat.
How about the widows who are a second
time married, friend Gax ! Providence Dai)
Star,
As to the widows, friend Shaw, they are
re-paired, as all errrors ought to be as soon as
possible. Phila, Sun,
Ths Hostility of France, Austria, Naples
and Spain, lo Rome, calls lu mind the follow
ing lines:
"Father and mother and I,
Wilh a strong and trusty band,
Beat a poor little boy
Till he could hardly stand."
OLD SERIES VOL. 9, NO. 44.
SYNOPSIS OF THE DEFENCE OF Mr. CAt
HObN.
The CWiearon Courier of the 17th contains
tho speech of the Hon. John C. Calhoun, in
reply to Col. Benton. It begins wilh declar.
ing that Col. Benton is unworthy of notice,
and he personally he (Mr. Calhoun) has never
thought it worth while to raise him to the
dignity of a rival, nor considered it important
whether he was put down or not; but as
Benton strikes at the Southern cause through
him, (Mr. Calhoun) he feels it his duty to re
pel his attacks. Ho says that Benton's effort
appears to prove him unfaithful to the South
ern cause, as aiding the Free Soilists and Ab
olitionists. This, says he,' they well under
stand, nnd rejoice at his speech as helping to
weaken Southern confidence in me. It is
not the first time a deserter has had the assu
rance to denounce those who are faithful.
He (Calhoun) denies being favorable to dis
union and says that he was always favorable
to a compromise, but that Northern fanatics
prevented it. He claims merit for voting for
Clayton's compromise and taunts Benton as
Ihe cause of its rejection. He denies being
the author of the Missouri Compromise
which is Clay's, and argues lho difference
between that and the Proviso charge against
him of having, in Mr. Monroe's Cabinet, sus
tained the power of Congress to restrict
Slavery in the Territory. Ho denied, in fact,
every assertion in Benton's address, and char
ges that Benton offered a proposition to abol
ish slavery in the half of Texas, so as to hem
in the South with Abolition. He states that
Haywood's resolutions went further, and that
Benton was his coadjutor in excluding Slave
ry from the Territory which he charged Cal
houn with giving away to the Indians and
thus loosing it to the South. The Indians are
Slaveholders and allies to the South. Hay
wood endeavored to deprive the South of this
advantage, and Benton asserted that he was
willing to take the responsibility for taking
tho resolution of the House as originally pas
sed in annexing Texas. Tyler's Cabinet
were unanimous on the subject on account of
its simplicity. The details were fewer and
less complex. A half-million was saved and
the Senate's Amendment could not have
been carried out.
The whole address is bitter and strong, but
the details nro uninteresting, being chiefly
devoted to rc-cmancipation and abuse of Col.
Benton.
I:FFECT OF GOLD HUNTING
Looking over "Pollock's Course of Time,"
the annexed passage struck me as quito pro
phetic, compared, with the accounts wo
have received from the gold region of Cali
fornia. Although lho writer has been dead
near a quarter of a century, the picture he
has draw n bears all the fulness and truth of
an eye-witness. A Subscriber.
"Gold mnny hunted sweat and bled for
gold ;
Waked all the night, and labored all the
day,
And what was this allurement, dost thou
ask T
A dust dug from the bowels of the earth,
Which, being cast into the fire, came out
A shining thing that fools admired, and
called
A God ; and in devout and horrible plight,
Before it kneeled the greater to the less;
And on its altar sacrificed ease, peace,
Truth, faith, integrity j good conscience,
friends,
Love, charity, benevolence, and all
The svvi-Kt and tcndir sympathies of life;
And lo complete Ihe horrid, murderous rite,
And signalize their folly, offered up
Their souls and an eternity of bliss,
To gain ihem--what? an hour of dream
inir joy !
A feverish hour, that hasted to be done,
And ended in ihe bitterness of woe."
Touching Expression. A certain lady
had two children, both young and neariy of
of the same age. But the older one, by
some whim or accidenv, possessed all the
mother's affections; there was none for the
younger nothing but harshness. Very late
ly the mother fell sick and was confined to
her bed. While lying there she heard gen
tle footsteps approaching it. "Is that you,
wiy child!" .aid the sick woman. "No,
mamma," naively and softly said the re
signed one, it is 'we."-.Most parents and all
mothers will understand this simple answer.
Consolations. A passenger on board the
ship Regulus, of Boston, states they had oil
board their vessel a Ihin and feeble member
of their company, who had been sea-sick alt
the way out to the line. One day this man
went to the doctor, and in a sad, supplicating
tone, accosted him wilh
"Doctor, can you tell me what 1 shall be
good for when I get to San Francisco, if I
keep on in this way !"
"Tell you ! To bo sure I can. You are
just the man ve want to begin a grave-yard
with 1"
Items or Canadian News. The cholera
continues on the increase in the cities of
Montreal, Quebec aud Toronto. A complolo
panio exists. The 71st Regiment has gone
to St. Johns, and the Governor has consented
to the removal of the 19th Regiment to Ibe
Island of St. Elena. The delegates returned
for Montreal are the Hon. G. Moffat, Mr.
Montgomery Mack, and Colonel Gugu. Tho
funeral of the murdered man Cloonan, was
attended by upwards of 3000 Irish Roman
Catholics. The body was covered with s rod
cloth, emblematical of vengeance.
Upwards op eight hundred persons ar
annually destroyed by accidents ths work
ing ths mines of England.
Scolding is ths pepper of matrimony; tbs)
Itdiss srs the psppsr boxes.