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JLfi IXTEBCEPTED DESPATCH , . , , or THE , N FRENCH MINISTER. Fiocly translated from ihe original fur tho Evening Bulletin. Legation Fhavcaise, ) Washington, Sept. 20, 1849. J A. M. Louis Xapulcnn Bonaparte, President lie la Rcpxtblique Franeaise. J'ai I'honiiptir to wiito to notre grand Presi- llt-Mlt, Dut I've stirred up do wrath of dis bete gou-vernmr-nl, And tli'so villains YnnUcrs, wiz thoir chief I'liiiinan Zack, Have asked your rninistrc to Franco to go bark. Nut von wurd of warning their premier does say, But sends me despatch ilat me." pnss.-ports sottt prets. While I, nt New York, do make von grand : speech, Before do Art Union Atneiicain whecch, Dj honour and cheer and give beauooup do praise, I'pon la maoiiiilqtie Repitblicitie Franeaise, And all seems cuncoule den, before I'm aware, Conies ilis leltre sunvage, like von coup de Ah, monsieur le President, dis is too bad; Dise Yankees will drive votir Ambassador mad ; Dis notice so sudden does make me feel quite Like Louis Phillippe, disposes for flight. But, la fJnindt! Nation, if I runaway, Would bu quite dishonored, and so il faut stay. Do cause which has stirred up dis mauvais fracas, And brought two republics almost to von war, Begins with de dirty tubae, which von day, The soldats Americains did take away From von sujet de France, M. Fort, in Mexi qne : It is true dat do Colonel F.nfansdid tout queek Give back de tabae but Vhonneur Francais Was instilled a jamais, by his manner mau vais. Then comes dat affaire of la barque Eugenie, Which le Capilaine Charpendier, when at sea, Dili save from do rocks, mid don wished for some pay, Ah, quelle fnhe ! to ask in this age eclairce, From vou sensible Frenchman, some pay for von crew, For saviua some lives as vero nut worth von sou. Eh bleu : All my li tters upon dose tttfair, Have been more dan de President Taylor would bear, And so he have sent, by his premier, de note Which do hint dat I better leave by de lirst bout, I sail go, wiz nion valet, by steamer next week, And sail hasten to France--la belle France very queek, And sail traverse de land from de Ithine to de Loire, Pour eveiller de French for von grand bloody war. Meantime, it must be, dat you, quick as may be, Do prepare for invading Ihese Etas-Unis; And some bateaux flat-bottomed, at once do prepare, Like le grand Empereur, when he took l'An gleterre. Already de French have invaded dis land, And de chapeau on head and de glove on de hand, And de cane and de boot and de Paris hnbit, All show dat France rules in dene Etats-Uuis. Den your corps lilleraire has had victories too, And your galant Dumas and your brave Eugene Sue, And le bean Paul do Kock and 1'aimable (JoorsH Sand, Already have cnnqni'ied de most of di land. D mi, il reste for de President only to sail, Wiz vou annee in flat bottomed boats as cant tui . u . . To pas up da Lulsnt, or IVUwnre Bay , D, be 1 'aucimi Zuck wll for roe mercy soon iiruv. And den you sail land and de French sail re- call, . . De names of your glorious victories all, And de annee Franeaise sail go conquering on, Crying'Strasbtiurg!" "Boulogne!" and "Vive Napoleon '." (Signed) POl'SSIN, Ministre, kc. fjistovicol. WM. VESS Al WM. MEAD. To the rmToa or riTzonnAu's city item. Snt Probably the following may be new, and interesting to some of your readers. It is a summary of proceedings had asraiust W.m. Pk.ns and Wi. Mead at the Old Bailey, London, 1670, for riot, conspiracy and High Treason. The calm and dignified beariii of these honest and utiriht men, standing in the simple inu- jesty of truth, will contrail strongly with that of their persecutors the base and un principled touis oi a oase ana moru malig nant despotism. It will be seen what has constituted, or may constitute such crimes as treason in England, and display the working ol that spirit, still in existence, which would sacri fice Pen.n on its sanguinary altars, or send Washington to the scaffold. Let the peo ple doubly priie those institutions, whose records have never been stained with prtv ceedinrrg so corrupt and Infamous. Your ob't serv't Wm. Shaupe. The indictment sets forth, " "That the said William Penn anrJ Wil liam Mead, with divert other persom, to the number of three hundred, on the 1 4-th of August, in the twenty-second year of the Kin?, did unlawfully and tumultuously as semble themselves together in Uracechurcn street, to the disturbance of the peace, and that the said William Penn, (by agreement between him and William Mead, and being abetted by him) did then speak and preach to th taid William Mfid, and the jrfit to assembled ; whereby a great concourse and tumult was made and continued to the great terror and disturbance of his Majesty' leige people, and against the peace, &c." ' To what indictment the prisoners re spectively pleaded not guilty. Then they were set aside, and the court proceeded to other business, and the third of September, they were ordered to be brought to the bar again, and each one took off'th 'ir hats as they came into court, but the court ordered an ollicer to put on their hats again, and they stood with their hats on. The Recorder demanded of the prison ers, if they did not know it was the King's court? ami why they did not pull off their hats, and pay the respect to it they ought ? Feini answered, he knew it to be court, and he supposed it to be (lie King's, but he ditl not think the pulling off a hat showed any respect; then the court fined them li'rly marks a piece for their contempt : whereupon Penn desired it might be ob served, that they came in with their hais o(J, and the court ordered them to be put on, and therefore the bench ought rather to have been fined than they. The jury being sworn, then witnesses were called who deposed that on the 11th of August, they saw a great crowd of people of Grace church street, and heard Wm. Penn preach ing to them, but could not distinguish what he said, that one endeavored wilh his j watenmen to pull htm down, but the peo ple kicked them that Mr. Mead came to one of the deponents and desired him to let Mr. Penn go on, and w hen he had done he would bring him to the deponent that th ere might lie about four hundred people assembled there. 71 . HM . . . , jMurutr. wnat say you Air. .viea were you there ? 1tW. It is a maxim in vour law, Ne mo tenettir seipsutn acctisare ; why dost thou endeavor to ensnare me? Is this like a judge who ought to be of counsel for the prisoner? Penn. We declare it to all tho world, we believe it to be our indispensihle duty to meet incessantly upon so good an ac count, nor shall all the powers on earth di vert us from adoring our God who made us. Court. You are not here for worship ping God, but for breaking the law. Penn. I allirm I have broken no law, and would know upon what law you ground the indictment ? Recorder. Upon the common law. Venn. Win le is (hat common law? if it were common it should not be hard lo produce. j RrrorJcr. Must I run over all the a ',- j judged cases which we call common law, to satisfy your curiosity ? Lord JLiyor. It is called common fo distinguish it from statute law, you must understand that such assemblies endanger the public peace, and therefore the law deems them unlawful, unless they have a warrant for their assembling. Penn. My liberty, which is next to life, is now concerned ; and I say again, unless you show me and the people the law you ground your indictment upon, your proceedings are arbitrary : the ques tion is not, whether I am guilty ol this in dictment but if it be legal. Recorder. If I should suffer you to as! questions until to-morrow, you would be never the wiser. Penn. That is according as the answers are) I design no affront to the court, but if you deny me oyer of that law you suggest I have broken, you evidence to the whole world your resolutions to sacrifice the privi leges of Knglishmen to your sinister and arbitrary designs. Lord .Maijur. Take him away turn him into the bail-dock. Penn. Must I be taken away, because I plead for the fundamental laws of Eng land ? However, I leave it upon the con sciences of the jury, who are my sole jud ges, whether those ancient laws that re late to liberty and property, and are not limited to particular persuasions in matters of religion, ought not to be indispen.sihly inaiiitametl, olli.-rwise who can sav he has right to the coat upon his back? Our liberties may be invaded our wivps abus ed, our children made slaves, our families ruined, and our estates carried off in Iri timph by every sturdy beggar and mali cious informer. Then h e was carried awav in the bail- dock. .Mend. You men of the jury. I stand here to answer an indictment, which is a bundle of stud', full of lies and falsehood; they charge me that I met Vidamus illute et liimultanous. Time was indeed, when I had freedom to use a carnal weapon, and then I thought I feared no man, but now I tear the living Ood, and dare not make use thereof or hurt any man ; jior do I know I demeaned myself as a tumultuous person, and therefore William Penn, properly de- maimeu oyer vf me law on vvlncu tne in dictment is founded. You men of the jury, though Mr. Re- I corder will not tell vou what makes a riot. a rout or an unlawful assembly, Coke tells us, a riot is, when three or more are met i together to beat a man, to enter forcibly into his laud, or to cut down his grass, wood, pales, &c. 7?fc Or to do any other unlawful act, but I thank you Mr. Mead for telling me what the law i (pulling of' hit hat.) Mead. 'Thou mayest put on thy hat ; I have never a fee for thee now, , Ld, .M'tyor. You profess to be a meek man, but deserve to have your longue c.it out for affronting. ' The Court. ' Mead. Thou didst promise me I should be fairly heard : wtiy may I Dot have the privilege of an Englishman? You may be ashamed of this dealing. . . Rec.v You are an enemy to the laws of England, and do not drierva the privilege other have. JIead. The Lord judge between trie and thee in this matter. Then he was put into the bail-dock, and the ' Recorder directed the jury, which, while he was doing, Penn and Mead cried out from the bail-dock, that it was illegal to direct the jury in the absence of the prisoner, and quottd Coke's second insti tute on the chapter of Magna charta. Rec. Why you are present, you do hear, do you not ? Then the prisoners cried out they had several other things to offer, and that they had been violently thrust into the bail-dock, and nut still! red to make their defence. The court ordered the jury lo go togeth er, and after half an hour, eight of them came down, and the court sent lor the other four and demanded if the prisoners were guilty. The foreman answered that Penn was guilty of speaking in Gracechurch street. Ktc -You had as good say nothing. Ld. .M.iyar. Was it not an unlawful assembly? You mean he was speaking to a tumult of people there. Forem tn. That is all I have in commis sion. Pre Go and consider of it again. After some time the jury returned into court. Ctrk. I low say you, is William Penn guilty in manner and form, as he stands in dicted J Then the foreman tendered the follow ing paper lo the com!, signed by all the jury. We, the jurors hereafter named, do find William Penn to be guiity of speaking or preaching to an assembly met tog-ther in Gracechurch street, the l-1'.h of August last, 1070. And that William Mead" is not guilty of the said indictment. Some ol the bench were for accepting this verdict, but the evidence being as full against Mead, as against Penn, the court re fused it. Ld. .Miyor. You have heard that he preached, that he thereby created atumult, and that Mead abetted him, and they not only disobeyed the martial, but the civil power. Penn. We did not make the tumult, but they that interrupted us. We were by force and arms kept out of our lawful house, and met together in a peaceable manner as near to it as the soldiers would give us leave. The court swore a'l ofiir.ir to keep the jury without iv.i-at, drir.k, lire or candle, and iu'j i;imi-'! tmiil n, xt tiioriiiie' : when ... . 0 the pirv ( m e n;i.i c.irr! .1 j.ii:i. L:i,rk. i, o r. Ml .:y. 1 ov m-:i. Willhin Poll!! is guilty of speaking i:i Graced, ;ui h s'r.-: !. Lord Jf 'tint. To an unlawful nemblv. Juror. No, my lord, we five no other verdict than that w e gave la' ni :ht. Ld. .Mnyor.ou are a luriotis fellow and a course ought to be taken with vuu. Ric. I will have a positive verdict, or you shall starve for it. Penn. Have they not found William Mead not guilty ? Is not that a verdict? AVr. It cannot be a verdictbecau.se you were indicted of a conspiracy, and one be ing found not guilty, and not the other, it cannot be a verdict. Penn. The consent of the jury is a ver dict, and if William Mead be not guilty, it follows that 1 am clear: for I could not conspire alone. The court adjourned until next day, and directed the jury lo be kept as before: but when they r-turned into court the next morning, they gave a verdict that the pris oners were neither of them guilty. Whereupon the court set a fine of forty marks upon the head of every one of the jury, and ordered them to be imprisoned until paid. Pi-mi. I demand my liberty, being ac quitted by the jury. Ld. .Mayor. No, you are in for your fines, and contempt ot the court. Then the jury as well as the prisoners were commanded to be carried to Newgate, and the court arose. Ktsxruvn i.trE of xvirt. From this forthcoming work, which will be isNiicd from the press in a short time, and it looked for with much interest, we have been permitted to extract the follow ing letters the first, from Mr. Wrt to a member of the Virginia bar, and the second, from John Adams to Mr. Wirt : TO riiANClS W. GILMER. Richmond, August 29,1315. My Dear Fba.ncis : I received last night your letter of the 1 5th inst., announcing your arrival at Win chester, and thank you for this early atten tion to my anxiety for your welfare. We have you at last fairly pitted on the arre na, stripped, oiled, your joints all lubri cated vour muscles braced your nerves strung; 'and I hope, that ere long we shall hear you have the victim bull by the horn, with your left hand, -,luri)s'tie. redttrta Libravit dextia media inter enmua cipstus A,rdtins, erlractoqne illisit in ossa cerebri Slennlur. t-xaiiimisque tremens procumbit huuii bos. I perceive that you are going to work, pell inell, nec mora, nec requires: that' your sort give it to them thicker and fast- Nunc de.vlra ingeminans citus, nunc sinistra, It is this glow and enthusiasm of enter prise that is to carry you to the stars. Rut then bear in mind, that it is a long journey to the stars, and that they are not to be reached per solium. "Perseverando Vin ces," ought to be your motto and you should write in the first page of every book in your library. Ours is not a profession in which a man gets along by a nop, step and jump. Jt is the ixVady march of a heavy armed legionary soldier. Tins ar mor you have yet, in a great measure, to f sin , to lsrn how to put it on ; to wear it without fatigue ; to fight in it with ease, and use every piece of it to the best advantage. I am against your extending your practice, therefore, to too many courts, in the begin ning. I would not wish you to plunge into an extensive practice at once. It will break up your reading, and prevent you from preparing properly for that higher theatre which you ought always to keep in your mind's eye. For two or three years, you must read, sir read read delve meditate study and make the whole mine of the law your own. For two or three years, I had much rather that your appearance should be ran? and splendid, than frequently light and vapid, like those of the young country practitioner about you. Let me tise the privilege of my age and experience to give you a few hints, which, now that you are beginning the practice, you may not find useless : 1. Adopt a system oflife, as to business and exercise: and never deviate from it, except so far as you may be occasionally forced by imperious and uncontrollable cir cumstances. 2. Live in your ofiice, i. p. be always seen in it except at the hours of eating or exercise. 3. Answer all letters as soon as they are received; vou know not how many heart aches it may save you. Then fold neatly, endow neatlv, and file awav neatlv, alpha betically, and by the year, all the letters so received. Let your letb-rs on business be short, and keep copies of them. 4. Put every law paper in its place as soon as received, and let no scrap of paper be seen lying, for a moment, on your wri ting chair or tables. This will strike the eye of everv man of business who enter. 5. Keep regular accounts of every cent of income and expenditure, and file your receipts neatly, alphabetically, and by the month, or at least, by the year. (i. patient with your foolish clients, and hear all their tedious circumlocution and repetitions wilh calm and kind atten tion : cross examine and sift them, 'till you know all the strength and weakness of their cause, and take notes of it at once whenever you can do so. 7. File your bills in Chancery at the moment of ordering the suit, and w hile your client is yet with you to correct your statement ol his case ; also prepare every declaration the moment the suit is ordered, and have it ready to file. 8. Cultivate a simple style of speaking, si as to be aide to inject the strongest thought into the weakest capacity. You wiil never be a good jury lawyer without this faculty. Never attempt to be grand and mag nificent, before common tribunals and the most you will address are common. The neglect of this principle of common sense has ruined with all men of sense. !0. Keep your Latin and Greek, and science to yourself, and to that very small circle which they may suit. The mean and envious world will never forgive you your knowledge, if you make it too public. It will require the most unceasing urbanity and habitual gentleness of manners, almost to humility, to make your superior attain ments tolerable to your associates. 11. Enter with warmth and kindness into the interesting concerns of others whether you care much for them or not f not with the condescension of a superior, but with the tenderness and simplicity of an equal. It is this benevolent trait which mukv- anl such universal favor ites and more than anything else, has smoothed my own path of life, and strewed it with flowers. 1-. He never flurried in speaking, but learn to assume the exterior of composure and self-collectedness, whatever riot and confusion may .be within .: speak slowly, firmly, distinctly, and mark your periods with proper pauses, and a steady significant look: "Trick !" True, but a good trick, and a sensible trick. You talk of complimenting your adver saries. Take care of your munmr of doing this. Let it be humble and sincere, and not as if you thought it was in your power to give them importance by your Ji'it. Yon see how natural it is lor old men to preach, and how much easier to preach than to practice. Yet yon must not slight my sermons, for I wish you to be much greater than I ever was or can hope to be. Our friend Carr will tell you that my max ims are all sound. Practise them, and I will warrant your success'. You have more science and literature than 1 : but I know a good deal more of the world and of life, and it will be much cheaper for you to profit by my experience nd miscarriages than by your own. No'.hing is so apt to tincture, the manners of a young man with hauteur, and with a cold and disdainful in difference towards others; as conscious su periority ; and nothing is o fatal to his progress through life, as such a tincture : witness . My friend himself, is not without some ill effect from it, aud, since you must feel this superiority, I can not be without f.-ar of its usual effects. You must not suppose because I give you precepts cn particular subjects that I have observed you deficient in Ihese respects; on the contrary, it Is only by way of pre vention ; and," whether my precepts are necessary to you or not, you are too well assured of my affection, to take them other wise than in good part. Farewell my letters shall not all be lectures. Yours affectionately, . . " WM. WIRT. . ' JQHX ADAMS TO WM. WIRT. , ' Qtixct, January 23, 1818. Sir: I thank you for your kind letter of the 12th of this month.. A I esteem the character, of Mr. Henry an honor to our country, and your volume a masterly de lineation of it, I gave orders to purchase it at toon a-1 heard of it ; but war told it wat not to be had in Boston. I have seen it only, by great favor, on loan. A copy by the author would be esteemed worth many by purchase. It may be sent me by the mail. From a perconal acquaintance, perhaps I might say, a friendship with Mr. Henry, and from all I have heard or read of him for more than lorty years, I have always considered him a gentleman of deep reflec tion, keen sagacity, clear foresight, daring enterprise, inflexible intrepidity and un tainted integrity ; with an ardent zeal for the liberties, the honor and felicity of his country and species. All this you (justly, as 1 believe) represent him to have been. There are, however, some remarks to be made upon your work, which, if I had eyes and hands, I would, in the spirit of friend ship attempt, lint my hands, eyes and life are but for a moment. When Congress had finished their busi ness, as they thought, in the autumn of 1774, I had, with Mr. Henry, before we took leave of each other, some familiar con versation, in which I expressed a full con viction that all our resolves, declarations of rights, enumeration of wrongs, petitions and remonstrances and addresses, associa tions and non-importation agreements, though they might be expected by the people of America, and necessary to ce ment their union, would be but waste wa ter in England. He thought they might be of some use among the people of Eng land, but would be totally lost upon the go vernment. 1 had ju.,t received a hasty let ter, written to nie by Major Joseph Haw ley, of Northampton, containing "a few broken hints,"' as he called them, of what was proper fo be done, and concluding with these words 'Alter all we must light." This letter I read to Mr. Henry, who listened to it with great attention, and as soon as I pronounced tho wods "after all we must tight" he erected his head, and, with an energy and vehemence that I can never forget, broke out with "By G nm v f t ni d mm mind'.'' 1 -put the let ter into his hand, and when he had read it, he returned it to me, with an equally so lemn asseveration, that lie agreed entirely ill opinion with the writer. I considered this to be a sacred oath upon a very great cccaion. T could have sworn it as reli giously as he did. It was no contradic tion to what you sny in some part of your book. that he never took the name of God in vain. As 1 know the sentiments with which Mr. Henry left Congress in 177 1, and knew the chapter and verse from which he had borrowed the sublime phrase iwe must I'ght," I Was not at all surprised at your history in the 122d page, in the note, and tome of tin? preceding and following pages. Mr. Henry only pursued in March, 177."), the views ind vows of November, 1774. The other delegates from Virginia re turned to their State in full confidence that all our grievances would be redressed. The last words which R. H. Leo said to me, when we parted, were "We shall, infallibly, carry all our poin'.s. You will be completely relieved. All the offensive acts will be repealed! The ermy and fleet will be recalled, and Britain will give up her foolish project." Washington, only', was in doubt. He never spoke in public". In private, he ad vocated a non-exportation as well as a non importation agreement. With both, he thought, we should prevail : without either, he thought it doubtful. Henry was clear in one opinion ; Lee in an opposite opin ion ; and Washington doubted between them. Oratory will always command admira tion. Hut it deserves no great veneration. It consists in grace of attitude and motion, intonations of the voice and expressions of the countenance. Could Demosthenes comprehend these three things in his action !'' To speak of American ontors, ancient or modern would lead me too far, and indeed, out of my depth. . I mut conclude, with fresh assurances of ihe high esteem of Your humble servant, JOHN ADAMS. The heroic Bern und the immortal Kossuth have arrived safely at Adriunoplo, on their way to England. They will bo warmly welcomed here. They intend to settle in the United States. From the N A Blrvcry StmiJatil 1 KOSSl Til. A race of nobles may die out, A rival line may leave no heir: WisJ Nature sets no guards about Har pewter plate and wooden ware. But they fail not, the kinglier breed, Who eturry diadems attain; To dungeon, ue, mid stake succeed Heirs of the old heroic strain The rea! of Nature tievrr coo!, Nor is she thwarted of her ends; When gapped and dulled her cheap r tool, Theu she a saint and prophet spends. I and of the Magyars! thourh it be, Tho tyrant may relink hi chain, Aheady thine the victory, As the just future measures gain Thou kit succeeded, thou least won, The deathly travail's amplest worth; A mil ion ' duty thou bast done, Giving a hoto to our earth. And he, let come what will of woo, Has saved the land he sought to save; No Cossack hordes, no traitor's How, Can quench the voice shall h-tuut his grave. 'I Kossuth am : 0! Future, thou, That dear's! the jus! and blot's! the vile, O'er this small dust In reverence bow, . .Remembering what l was orew hile. ( "I v-m the chosen trump whore, through, Our tied sent jWth awakening brwith i Came chaias! Came death 1 iho strain Ha biew, - ; fr4n,ds cn, out hun- chaias tod death." USSIAS VENGEANCE. Behind tho chapel was a rack; and on both sides of the rack wero several rows of gal lows soino miles in length, and instruments of torture ready forthe unfortunate victims. The punishments wero in accordance with the degree of culpability and station in so cicly of the rebels. In the fust row of gal lows tho most gni!ty were executed; after being subject to the lack they were quar tered, alive. Tho leaJera had their hand and less cut off, and afterward impaled on long spike?, and leu to their horrible fate. Their groans wero heard for miles, and their bo.! ie?t foaMed the eyes of the panic stricken population I,i ihe second row of gallows they vrer'; only quartered, and their suffer ings were at least shorter. In the third row the parties were simply beheaded, In the fourth row they were merely hanged. In the fifth they ran the gtiant'et and tho knout. All ihe ecclesiastics wero burned. There were sepeiato gallows for woman, married and maiden. Even children of thirteen years were subjected to ihe great cruelly. Married couples were occasionally hanged on the same gallows, as well as whole families- During Ihe space of three mouths, 13.000 human beings were executed in presence of Dolgourouki Sleuku lioshvs nephew and par ticular friend was quartered. Among the fe male prisoners was a handsome nun, who over her female garments had a male attire. She eunimau.'e.'d a corps of 7.C00 men, gave I snore !!'.:ri .nee pniol'.i ef extraordinary cour. ago a;;.: roat -bilily in the field, and in- tlieted terrible losses on the Russians. When Mmmuwd lelctt) Dolg-iiiiouki, she pisplayed a firmness and presence of mind difficult to describe, and said, il' every one under her command had dune his duty in such a manr ner a. s;.c had done, Dolgourouki, instead of erecting gallows, would have taken to his heels. As fur a nun in Russia to run away from a monastery b a capital offence, she lay down ijtaellv on tiiis funeral pile, and was burned to a.-h-s. The dangling dead bodies of so many thousand veterans brought manv vruws and ravens, which devoured the corpse. From that time that suburb is call ed the subeib of iA.The Cossacks of 'the I tklUiltil. Tkassi'lamu: Trixs. We find in the t tiea (! r.ttl? fads showing that it h net ne cessary to select small trees fur transplant iii2, in ordei tj ensure their growth. Largo trvs may Le a successfully planted as small one. The mode and result of a:i experi ment, made by Messrs. Pomerot and Dt'T ton, of L'tiea, are thus given : These gentle men transplanted trees, comprising maples', elms, Vcech, &c , some . li'rly feet iu height) which were transplanted w ithout being sliorri of any uf their branches. Tho process of re moval was as fellows: In tHe fal before tHo frost, a trench was dug around the trees se lecled, f-nm ten to fifteen feet in diameter, and the roots severed, lu the winter when the ground had become solid from freezing, tho trees were pulled out by the aid of oxen and levers, with the mass of earth firmly at tached to the roots. They were then tran sported ticct ca a st rone; sled, built forthe purpose, and set out. These trees grew in ojien laud, a mile and a half from the city. 1 hey put on their foliage last spring as if wholly unconscious that they were not still in their native soil, and the enterprising gen tlemen who undertook this unusual course, are rewarded with shade trees which by the old practice it would have required twenty years lo produce. This plan is not a novel one. We saw it practised in our boyhood, an 1 the giau! trees are still waving their branches as freshly us if never transplanted from their otiginal location. At the same lime that l!c trenches a-c dug around the se lected trees, ihe holes should bo prepared in the places to which they are to bo removed. Ma. Pot-ssix, whoso namo in English' is' young chick, h is I ecuma ihe mark for the new. -paper w ily to rhoct their paper pellets' at. They tay thct ihe Gallic Cock is well represented by a nvnis'.er who crows so loud ly, but thai ho will not be able, with all his noise to rerntch tip a fiodit. This presump tion must be founded upon tho well known magnanimity cf the bird which represents our national power, for tho adage in the American piitner is that ' The LV.'i' futieis little birds lo sing." A Few Thincs to Avoid. A bottle 6f wine ot a public dinner. A fhort cut when you are in a hurry. Walking between two umbrellas on a rainy day. "Just another glass before you ao " Going to church with out a shilling. rL-iug tho mediator of a quar rel In-tween a man and his wife. And, luslly, taking a new hat U an evening party. A Frenchman, who was exhibiting soma sacred relics and other curiosities, produced, amor; the olher things, a sword, which ho assured his visiters was "de sword dat Bal aam haJ when he would kill de ass." A spectator remaiked that lialaam had ur swoid, but only wished for one. "erweH dis is de one ho w ish for." The following curious advertisment lately appeared in a provincial print : "To be sold by private contract, beautiful monkey, a par rot, two squirrels, and a tortoise shell ton cat, the property of a lady just married, Mho has no further occasion for tho same." .. r - Olp 'fob, his ace. An office-seeker out u-aai commenced a speech wilh "Fellow citizens', notwithstanding' my youthful ap- c pearaiw, 1 am the JjiUer ol two cmiarea i Martll If, -
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