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MOROCCO Manufacturers, Curriers and Im porters of FKENCH CALK.SKINS. und dealers in Red and Oak SOLE LEATHER & KIPP. Feb. 17, 18S5. w ly V. H. SMITH, POET MONNAIE, POCKET E00K, AND Drenslnar Cane Manufacturer, A". W. cor. of Fourth CAwMuf Stt., PHILADELPHIA. Always on hand a large and varied assortment o Port Moiinaies, Work Boxes, Pocket Books, Cabas. Bankers Caws, Traveling Baps, Note Holders, Backgammon Boirds, Port Folios, Chesa Men, Portable Desks, Cigar Caces, Dressing Case, Pocket Memorandum Books. Also, general assortment of English, French nd German Fancy Goods. Fine Pocket Cutlery, Razors, Raaor Strops and Gold Pens. Wholesale, Second and Third Floors. F. H. SMITH. N. VV. cor. Fourth cV Chestnut St., Philada. N. B On the receipt of $1, a Superior Gold Pen will U sent to any part of the United States, ty mail describing pen, thus, medium, hard, ot soft. . Pbila., March 31. 1855 ply. FARMERS TAKE NOTICE, -d 100 bushel Flaxseed wanted immediately at Hi Cheap olore of t. t. urigni, wr wiiuu lb highest market price will be paid. Sunborr, October 6, 1855. if HAKDWARC-Tabl CuUery. Raxors, Pock t Knivea, Hand aaws Wood uwi in framM, Aiee, UbiteU, Door Lock, and Hinge, Usui fldlla, Waitara, 4r, Just received and for Z.ur-y I. W. TEN ERA CO. KuUiry XW J. 1M. Select )Qtity. THE VOICE OP THE WINTRY WINDS. ET MILES i'AK80N', JR. Th embers ore 8loeiin;, Pnrk shndovfs nre preopinrj, Like midnipht nssn.ij.ius thry ti'tmly prowl j The taper's faint glimmer, Slow dwindle)!) dimmer. And fearfully dismal the. tempest doth howl. ITow mornful it monneth ! How Bwful it pronneth 1 How terribly tlirii-keth the voieo ofthe gnlo ! llow'feuiful it sihetU 1 How fndly it tlinth ! flow wild otid pathetic its lingering wail 1 Strnnpe Forrowful noises, Like fur-distant voirps, Of dylnc iinfortnnnte., laden the blast; The pasp of the strnnjrlorl. The pronn of the manpled, Tho shriek of the drowning seems hurrying past. Wild rvrcent!" ofhorror, I.oiul fhriekinp of terror. And deep uttered murmurs of anguish and woe : Now wild and pacific. Now wild nnd terrific Now shrill and henrt-rending no solemn and low. There comes ft loml roaring, And voice, imnlorinir For mercy and succor in tones of despair; A nd mid the wiiii clangor Ilinph voices, in onjer. Aro fitfully borne on the mimicking air. Oh ! verily, verily, Pisnml nnd drearily. Soundeth the winlrv hurricane's wail I Hiirk ! how it monneth, List how it pronneth, Hear the sad tones ot its terrible tale 1 'llfbi)Iuiioiinrjjlict( THE BATTLE OF TRENTON. The fullowinp interesting account of the battle of Trenton is believed to be the most pniticuliir and authentic yet given to the world. It is from No. 13 of the series of his torical articles published in the State Gazette at Treutun. March 17. 1843. On Wednesday, the 2illi of Poreniber, 1 1 i0, Oeiieial i iisliingtoti, with his army, was on the west bunk of tho Jelnwiire, en camped near Taylorsvillc, then M'Konkey's ferry. 8 miles above Trenton. Tho troops under Gen. Diikiiisf n were nt Yiiidleyvillo ; and detachments were encamped still further tip the river. The boats on i lie river had all been secured when Gen. Washington had crossed with his army on the first of this month. Tho Pennsylvania troops were in two bodies; one at' Bristol under General Uiulwiillader. und the other ut Morrisville, opposite Treuton, under General Kwing. At this time the Britijh under Gen. Howe were stationed in detachments at Mount Hol ly, Hlark Horse. Burlington, and Hurdentown and at Trenton there were three repiments of Hessians, uinounling to about lfillO men, and u troop of LirilUh light-horse. Divisions ofthe army wcro also at Princeton any New Brunswick. One part of the plan of Washinpton was to recross the Helaware with liisariny ut M' Konkey's ferry, in tho nifjht ofthe 2.")th of December, and for Gen. Kwing, with the part of the army under his command, to cross at or below Trenton thus both nitpht full upon the enemy ut the suuie time ; lowing at the south, anil General Washington ut the north end of the town. At dusk, thee Continental troons. comman ded by General Washington in person amounting to 240 men, with 20 pieces of ar tillery, begun to cross at M'Konkey's ferry. The troops ut Yurdleyville mid tho stations above, hud that dav assembled nt this ferrv. Among the prominent and active men who were employed in ferrying over the troops Lriali alack, illiam Green and David Lun. ing. It was between 3 and 4 o'clock in the nuriiing bpfore all the artillery and troons were over and ready to march Many of the men were very destitute as regarded clothing. The present Mr. George Muirheid, of Hope well, informed the writer that he noticed one man whose pantaloons were ragged, and who had on neither stockings nor shoes. The ground was covered with sleet and snow, which was fulling ; although before that day there was no snow, or only a little sprinkling on the ground. Gen. Washington, (who had sat in tileuce on a beehive, wrapped in his cloak, whilo his troopf were crossing,) as they were about to inarch, enjoined upon nil pro found silence during their march to Trenton, and said to them, I hope that vou will all Jight like men." don. nshington wished to get 12 men who should be mounted on horseback, with out arms or uniform, in plait farmers' hubit, to ride before the urmy, to reconnoitre and get w hat information they could, with respect to to the British army, their outguards, Arc. There were but three who would volunteer for this service ; these were David Laning, of Trenton and John Muirheid and Johu Guild, of Hopewell. The following pertons were also guides, and marih.d with the urmy, viz: Col. Joseph Phillips. Capt. Philip runup, ami Aujutunt Kliaa Phillips, of iUauieulinaU ; Joseph Jneloe, Kdoo Bur roughs, Ephruim Woolsey ami Henry Sim. monds, of Hopewell ; and Cupt. John Molt, Amos Scuder end William Green, of Tren ton. The army marched wilh a quick step in a body from the river up the cross-road to the Bear Tavern, about a mile from the river. The whole army marched down this road to the village of Birmingham, distant nhnut .11 miles. There they halted, examined their priming unit louna it all wet. Capt. Molt, who bad taken the precaution to wrap his handkerchief around the lock of his gun, found notwithstanding, the priming was wet. "Well," tayt General Sullivan, "we must then fight them with the bayouet." From Birmingham to Trenton, the distance by the llieer road und the Scotch road it nearly equal, being about 4J miles. The troops were formed in two divisiona One of tin-in, commanded by Gen. Sullivan, marched down by the river road. The other, cominauaea uy uenerai v asliinglou, ccom puulod by Geuerals Lord Stirling. Green. Mercer and Stevens; (with David Laning and others for their guides.) filed off to the left. crossed over to t he Scotch road, and went down this road till it enters the Pennington road, about a mile above Trenton. Scarcely a word was spoken from the time ths troop left the ferry fexcept what pnsssd between the officers anil the guides) till thev reached Trenton ; and with such stillness did the ar my move, that they were not discovered un til they came upon the out-guard of the ene my, wiueli was posted in the outskirt of the town, at or near the house of tho Rev. Mr. Frostier, when one ofthe sentries called to Laning, wbo was ft little in advance of the troops, and asked. Who is there? Laning re plied. "A friend," "A friend to whom ?" "A friend of Washington's." At this the guard fired and retreated. Tho American troopa immediately returned their fire, and rushed upon them, nnd drove them into town. At the head of King street, Capt" T. Forrest opened a six pun battery, nnder the immedi ate orders of General tV nshington and Lient. James Monroe, (afterward President of the united Mates.) perceiving 1 lint tho enemy were endeavoring to form n batterv in King street, near where tho feeder crosses the street, rushed forward with the advance guard drove the nrtilleriits from their puns, and took from them two pieces, which they were in the act of firing. These officers wcro both wounded in this successful enterprise. A part of this division marched down Qticen street, and extended to tl.o left, so ns to cut off the retreat of the enemy towards Prince ton. The division ofthe nrmv which enmo down the river rond under General Sullivan fell np on the advanced gunrd of the British nt UutheiTords s place, adinininp Col. Dickin son's, near the south-west part of tho town, about the same tune thut aslungton enter ed it nt the north. Both divisions pushed forward, keepinp np a running fire with light arms, meeting with but little opposition, until tho enemy were driven enst nurd in Second street, near the Presbyterian Church, where there was some fighting, the enemy having made a momenta ry stand; but finding themselves hemmed in and overpowered, they laid down their arms on tho field, between the Presbyterian Church and Park place, then called tho old Iron Works. Gen. Raid, who commanded the Hessians. nnd had his head-quarters nt tho house of Stacy Potts, opposite Perry street, on the west sideof Warren, (occupied for mnny years as a tavprn.) was mnrtallv wounded car'lv in the engagement, being shot from his horse, wliile exerting lumsell to fnini his dismayed and disordered troops, but where or by whom is not at present known by the writer. He has heard several statements on these sub jects, but no two of them agree. When. supported by a file or sergeants, he presented his sword to General Washington, (whose countenance beamed with complncency nt the success of the day.) he was pale, bleeding, and covered with blood : nnd. in broken ac cents, he seemed to implore those attentions wnicn tlie victor was well disposed to bestow upon him. He was taken to his head-quartern, (Stacy Totts's,) where he died of his wound. "The number of prisoners wns 23 officers and SSG privates ; 4 stand of colors, 12 drums, C bruss field pieces, and 1000 stand of arms and accoutrements, were tho trophies of vic tory, ine iJrilisli liglitliorse, and 4(1(1 or. 100 Hessians escaped at the beginning of the bat tle, over the bridge across the Assiinpink, at Trent's Mills, nnd fled to Bordentown. If Gen. lining, whose divisions of tho army were opposite Trenton, hnd been able to cross tho Delaware. a9 contemplated, and tiiKe possession ol the iirnlgo on the Assiin pink. all the enemy that were in Trenton would have been captured ; but there was so much ice on tho shores ofthe river, that it was impossible to get the artillery over." Tho Hessians lost 7 officers, and 20 or 30 men killed ; 24 of these were buried in one pit. in the Presbyterian borying-groutid, by tlie American tmnj s. Immediately Hfter Ihe victory, which great ly revived the drooping spirit's of the army. Gen. Washington commenced marching his prisoners up to tho eight mile (or McKon key's) ferrv: nnd before liiclil all were safelv 1 Hided on' the western shoioof the Delaware. nut Mr. Miiirhead (before mentioned! snid that General W. would not suffer n man In cross, more than was necesarv, until all the prisoners were over. Tho Americans lost two privates killed, ond two were frozen to death. The lute Mr. Richard Scudder in. formed the writer, that t lift niirlit after the taking ofthe Hessians, several of the Ameri can soldiers, worn down and poorly clud, and Having guile rcil much Irom tlie cold, stayed ut hi father's house, which is about two miles below the ferry; that Severn' of them were very sick in the night, nnd thut two or three died. M ight not these have been the persons reierreu to lu History as liuving Irozen to death ? Tho next day, tho British thnt were nt Princeton, marched on to Trenton in pursuit of tho American army, and went up the Scotch road us far ns Mr. Benjamin Clark's, now F.dward S. M'llvnin's, Esq., ond inquired which routo Gen. Washington had taken; and being informed that he had gone with ins prisoners up the river road, they compel led their son. John Clark, a lad of 12 years, to guide them across to Birmingham : (some ofthe American soldiers were at this time in Clark's house.) His mother, with true Spar tan courage, unwilling to trust her son with the enemy, pursued tho British and got him released. Soon after, the British, finding Washington had crossed tho Delaware, re. turned to Princeton. More Lf.ap-YeaiiJDbvei.opeme.vts. The Lowell News says thut the Leap-Year Ball ofthe carpet factory girlsjcume off according to announcement, on Thursday evening, and was a very pleasant affair. "The ladies," it says, "to the number of about seventy-five, healthy, robust, cherry ond lovely, took their carriages, called for their beaux, were driven to the hall, where ladies managed, selected their own partners, ordered the supper nnd gloriously paid all the bills !" The partners selected spoke well for the judgment of tho girU. The News says: 'Y were amused, however, on observing bright-eyed lus&es, with roguish eyes, trip up to demure young men and solicit the honor of their hand fur the 'uext cotillion.' Who could retuse? One enraptured soul engngod himself to eicht different ludiea tor 'Mouev Musk,' and to six others for 'Hall's Victory'.' Many a poor heart hid away under a vest was irretrievably ruined. But it could nut be helped." The company broke no about 2 o'clock. when the ladies escorted their beaux Lome, aua men went oa to their own. Caroline, the wife of George II, attended to her toilet and devotion at the same time. While her nymphs were adorning her bodv, the chaplain, Wbiston, stood at the door pre ferring prayers for her soul. Sometimes the nymphs would shut the door, and then the chaplain would stop. This nettled the vneen, wno inquired, "Wby do yoo stop r -uecauie,' eaia lue chaplain. -I do not chose to whistle the word of God through a An Anoodoto of Jenny Lind. After a dumb sojourn nt Paris, Jenny T.ind has gone lo give concerts In London. Eng lish ears have no terror for her. Three weeks of silence have oppressed her; for, after all, she is a woman, and, liko nil women, she loves to talk ; but she will try to indemnify herself for it. A very pleasnnt anecdote Is related of the journey orthc nightingale, the scene of which is laid in Calais some say Boulogne but it matters little whether it be Calais, Boulogne, Havre or Dieppes. Here is the story : Leaving Paris by rail, Jenny Lind arrives in the evening nt the sea coast, and Tor the sake of repose, determines to pars the night there!. Great artists take very pood care of themselves, nnd so the cantatrice will pass a comfortable night, und not cross the straights nntil tho next morning. At Calais or Bou logne her arrival is announced. There nre distinguished amateurs there, dilettnnto who will bo delighted to bear the Swedish Night ingale ; but tho nightingale is ns dumb in the provinces ns in Paris ; Jenny Lind visits with her displensuro the departments as well as the capital, and has placed nil France under her interdict. Poor France I Among the provincial dilettante ; nre somo who prido themselves upon their skill and boldness. Must thev cross the strata to hear the nightingale in London ! Of rlint avail are their wit and audacity, if they sim- piy content, incmseives witn making n journey w hich any one can accomplish who has monev and time to spare t What a delightful thing it wonld bo to hear Jenny without paving a sous, or without leaving the town, ond to cause her to break her obstinate resolution not to sing in 1' ranee! and what a triumph' could they succeed in the undertaking. But what hojie is there of success. scarcely had the nightingale been installed in the apartments prepared for her, when three gentleman make their appearance. They disregard the directions to admit no one. and enter by authority. Their severe deportment, their magisterial air, and man ner, cool and self-possessed, denote persons charged with business of importance. One of them, addressing tho nightingale, whom lie accosts without any salutation, says, in a 6harp and peremptory tone, "tiive me your passport, mudnme." Jenny Lind. astonished, but still faithful toher vow of silence while on French soil, surrenders her passport without n syllable. The pentle- mnn having examined it with a carefulness indicative of the most profound distrust, re marks, with a roughness mingled w ith irony : "Oh, you are aware that vou have neglected no precautions, and that you travel under an assumed iiame." "For whom do you take mo ?" replies Jen ny, compelled at last to speak. "Do not hope to deceive ns. You seo that wo are well informed. A very clever female impostor, who has been living in Paris for some lime past, where she has deceived num berless dupes, having collected a considerable sum of moncv, is endeavoring to reach Eng land." 'Well, and perhaps you think " "That you aro the person exactly so. ma- dame : your features, person nnd general ap pearance conform exactly to the description we have received. Our imstructions aro posi tive." The Nightingale protests loudly and indig- nantly that she is Jcnnv I ind, but her angry explanations nre met by the most ironical in credulity on the part of her visitors. The spokesman of tho party inquires if she can hnd nail or establish her identity, but Jenny ooes not know a soul in the place. " 1 lien. Madame, we must take vou into custody for the present." At these words the protest ions of the great artist nre redoubled in vigor, but are met by the following answer : "But, Madame, there is n verv simple wav of confonnd'ng or convincing us. You pre. tend to be Jenny Lind very well ; if you nre she. you have no need of procuring bail or witnesses, for yon carry with you the dtstin euished proof of vonr identity. Xothinrr is easier to prove that you nre really a great artist, a resplendent genius, a wonderful singer. 1 am enuugh ot a musician to decide that, nnd now give us the proofs. The argument was unanswerable, nnd the Nightingale, in a dilemma, hesitates before accepting the alternative offered to her. "Ah, I w as sure of it," replies the author of the proposition ; "yon nre confounded. Put oh" then this disguise, ond cense to sully an illustrious name." "Which is my own, sir." "Very well, mndanie but yonr protesta tions are of no avail if yott are unable to give lis tho proofs which we require. It remuins for ns only to execute our orders." "Well," exclaims the Nightingale, van qtiished und resigned, "if it iliust be so, listen, and judge for yourselves." Then, after a moment's pause to collect herself, animated by the cerlaiiity of the effect which she is going to produce, and of the tri oniph which awuits her. she commences the cavalina from "Norma." Her voice, so pure, so melodious, so powerful, displays all its for mer richness; the three gentlemen are in a state of ecstacy nnd delight. "Bravo I admirable ! sublime 1" they ex claim, as tho last note is uttered. "Admira ble ! sublime!" is repented from the adjoining apnrtment, the door of which opening, dis covers several other persona applauding vehe. ineutly. At the sight of these new hearers, Jenny discovers the device practised to en trap her 'You must pardon us this artifice," exclaim the culprits, "and also the discomfort we have occasioned you, and the restraint tinder which you have been placed. However enormous limy huve been our error, we have not the courage to regret it, since it has been the source of so much pleasure to u. Our ex cuse must rest in your renown, and our desire to listen to you. N'o one is more competent than yourself to detect the vugaries of musi cal fuiiatieisni. You are generous, you are charitable be appeased, then, with the re flection thnt you have sung for a charitable object. Euch of us pays u hundred franc for the inestimable happiness that he has enjoy, ed ; we are ten, and the whole will muke a purse of a thousand francs, which we shall present to the poor in your name." The culprits pleaded their cause so felici tously and eloquently that they were forgiven. Besides, what would have been the use of be. ing angry ! The evil was irremediable, and the cantatrice could uot recall her notes. In spite of her severity toward the French pub lic, Jenny Lind is a woman of spirit, amiable and warm-hearted, and she pardoned them. Aud this is the way in which the amateurs of a provincial town nave succeeded in getltug the start of Paris, and have heard Jenny Liud sing. Tin Enousu Lanocacb. There are ia the English language 20.500 nouns, 40 pronouns, 9.200 adjectives, 8,000 verbs, 2,600 adverbs, 69 prepositions, 19 conjunctions, 68 interjec tions, end 3 articles in all above 40,000 words, .rfccordiug to Webster's dictionary mere are luo.oou words. . From ths Boston Atlas THE WEBSTER BANQUET. The anniversary ol the birthday of Daniel Webster was celebrated nt the Re'vere House last evening, by a grand banquet, in which a large number of personal and political friends and admirers ofthe great statesman and jur ist participated, After noticing that Mr. W.'s mind wes powerfully drawn to agriculture, M r. Everett said i And whnt worthier theme, my friends, can occupy the most exalted intellect, what sub- ject is so well calculated to task the highest powers ol thought T u here in the natural world do we come so near the traces ofthe ineffable Power, which in thv great economy of vegetation, hangs orchard nnd prove nnd lorest with the pompous drapery of May, and strips? them to their shivering branches in iovemoer; which lavs out universul nature ns we see it now in this cold winding-sheet of snow, not to sleep the sleep or death, but to waken her again by tho concert of birds and warbling brooks and the soft breezes of spring; and which, when man cries to Heaven for his daily bread, instead of giving him n, stone, smites the marble clods of winter all round the globe, with his creative wnnd, and bids them bring fiirth grns for the cattlo and herb for tho service of man, nnd wine that mnketh glad the heort of man. nnd oil that causeth his face t shine, and bread which strengthenct'n thu heart of num. J he following passage concluded Mr. Ev- erett'g address. Two days before the diense of Daniel Web ster, a gentle nnd thoughtful spirit touched to "the finest issues" (Rev Mr. Frothinghum.) who knew ond revered him (as who that tru ly knew him did not) contemplating tho set ting sunns ho "shed the parting smile" on the mellow skies of October, and anticipating that a brighter Run was soon to set, which could rise no more on earth, pave utterance to his feelings in n chaste and elevated strain, which I am sure expresses the feelings, of oil present: Sink, thou autumnal sun ! Tho trees will miss the radiance of thino eye, (lail in their Joseph-coat ol manv a dve. The clouds will miss thee in tho fading sky: liut now in other climes thy raco must run, 1 Ins day ol glory done. Sink, thou nobler light ! Tho land will mourn thee in its darkling Hour, Its heavens grow gray ol thy retiring power, i lion sinning orb ot mind, thou beacon tow er I Bo thy rrrent memory still a guardian might, w lien thou art gone Irom sight Great men The Jewels of God It is man's duty so to set them that they may shine uciore the worhl. The President then introduced Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, who read the following brief poem written for the occasion. We give it in full, because wc regard it ns the gem ofthe occasion: When life hath run its largest round, UI toil nnd triumph, jov and woe, How brief a storied pago is found I o compass all its outward show 1 Tho world-tried sailor tires nnd droops; His Hug is dust, his keel forgot ; His farthest voyages seem but loops 1 hat float from life a entangled knot. But when within the narrow spneo home larger soul hutli lived and wrought, Whose skin was open to embrace 1 lie boundless realm or deed and thought, When stricken by the freezing blast, A nntiou's living pillars full, How rich tho storied page, how vast, A word, a whisper can recall ! No medal lifts its fretted face, Nor speaking marble cheats ronr eye Yet while these pictured lines 1 trace, A living linage pusses by. A roof beneath the mountain pines; The cloisters of a hill-girt plain ; Tho front of life's embattled lines : A uiuuiid beside the heaving main. These are the scenes j a boy appears ; bet li!e s round dial in the sun, Count the swift arc of seventy years, His frame is dust ; his task is doue. Yet pause upon the noontide hour, Ere the declining sun has laid His bleaching rays on manhood's power, And look upou tho mighty shade. No gloom that stately shape can hido. No change uncrow n is bruw ; behold ! Dark, calm, large-fronted, lightning eved ; Earth has no double from its mould 1 Ero from tlie field by valor won The battle-smoke had rolled away, And bared tho blood-red setting sun, His eyes were opeued ou the day. His land waft but a shelving strip Black with the strife that made it free ; He lived to see its banners dip Their fringes in tho Western sea. Their boundless prairies learned his name, His words the mountain echoes knew, Tho Northern breezes swept his fame From icy lake to warm bayou. In toil be lived ; in peace he died ; When life's full cycle was complete, Put ofThls robes of power ond pride And laid them at his Makers feet. His rest is by the storm-swept waves. Whom life's wild tempests roughly tried, Whose heart was like the streaming cuves Of ocean, throbbing at his side. Denth's cold white hand is like the snow Laid softly on the furrowed hill, . It hides the broken seams below, Aud leaves its glories brigter still. In vain the envious tongue upbraids. His uuiuu a Nation's heart ahull keep, Till morning's latest suulight fudes On the blue tablet of llw deep ! Profits of tub Nkw York Tress The profits ofthe last year of several of the leal ing papers of New York are given as follows, by the Mirror t Where it got its information it does not say: Tnbuue, $95,000; Herald, $75,000; Journal of Commerce, 50,0'J0; Courier and Enquirer, $50,000 ; Commercial Advertiser, 15,000. Rki.ics or1 tbb Rzvoltjtiok. Gun barrels have lutely been found on the field of Hub bardton battle, in' Vermout, some ot which after being buried more than, seventy-five years, contain cartridges that exploded with considerable violence, when the barrel was heated in the fire. Prom the London Times, December M.J Return of the Irish to IrelandTheir Conduct and Fortune in America. A "multitndinnns" immigration of Irish men into Ireland is one of many fncf3 which no man with the least regard to his reputa tion wonld have predicted twenty years ago. Nevertheless, it is a fact. The provincial journals nre daily announcing the return of numbers to the old country, nil with money in their pockets. Some of them have even had the precaution to send home orders for pnnno nnd seaweed in anticipation So far, of conrse, it has been with these emigrants a question between moral and physical con. siderat inns. Few men, certainly not fathers of families, will leavo their native soil but from the necessity of subsistence, or, whnt is equivalent, the maintenance of their rank in society. Numbers, famine nnd the inextrica ble entanglements of landed propriety re duced it to a matter of self-preservation, and there wns no choice but to fly to a land, if not of kind hearts, nt. least of good cheer. Hence that unparalleled migration in which two millions went "with n run" in les: then ten yea: s. Now, considering the. very little progress we hnve made ourselves in the course of seven centuries in assimilating the Irish element considering thnt nt the end of ihe seven centuries the relations of the two I countries were hardly lietter than nt the first. we ought not to undertake the difficulty or tho task thus suddenly thrown upon our trnns-ntlnntic cousins. Tho Irish carried with them not only their rngs, their dirt, their diseases, b'at. what wns more serious, their unthrifty find slovenly habits, their turbu lence ; their love of combination on every pretence, and all thnt sets them at war with civilized society. Happily for the Irish, happily for human nature, there were pood men in the Union, who seeing a good work to be done, buckled themselves to it; and, at great cost and trouble, made all sorts of ar rangements to liphten tho misery of the im migrant and save him from the temptations nnd snares of a new country. The struggle that has been going on for years in the great ports of the Union between the swindlers who prey on the immigrant nnd the societies formed for his guidance and protection would furnish ns many materials for the novelist ns the contest bet ween the , slaveholder and the abolitionist. The results have been of a very mixed character. It cannot be said that the immigration has been disastrous when railways have been carried into the heart of that vast continent, and new cities, ports, and even universities, have been raised out of the wilderness by tho labor of Irish men, nnd when it is contested that without the Celt, nothing could hnve Deen done. On tho other hand, there is the melancholy fact that nearty a third of the immigrants are computed to have died through poverty, chance of climate, or the seeds of disease brought with them, within ft twelvemonth of their landing. There is, too, the not less serious fact of a permanent hostility of feeling between the Irish nnd a large portion of tho native Americans. Tho moral tie that binds the heart of tho emigrant to the soil of his birth cannot but be weakened every year. The parent who carries the tradit on becomes feebler and feebler. The children acquire new ties. Present scenes engross their attention, and it is only, as it were, through a bright and living viel that they dimly Fee the far land of their infnncy. Wait a few years, nnd the Ireland ofthe Irish settler will be only the region of harmless legends, unless, indeed, the commixture of American blood and re publican ideas convert the grand sons of tlio original immigrant into sober, calculating citizens. Nothing, indeed, is so remarkable ns the rapid assimilation of English, Irish, Scotch, German, ond even French nationali ties, not to sneak of some half a dozen lesser distinction of race, in the average American type. Jt might have been expected. that the fact or this continual fusion would huve led the citizens ofthe Union to assume it as a political condition, to reckon upon it, to pro mote it, to remove all obstacles, and to nail as second only to those who signed the decla ration of American independence any one who should devote himself to the task of concilliating and harmonizing the heteroge neous muss of immigration. There are men who do this great work. There ore others who do their best to hinder it. Thanks to the efforts of this latter class, the Irish im migrant finds, if not actual persecution, ut least the treatment of uliens and intruders. He is confronted by cold looks, invidious rules, by factious demonstrations, and every thing short of law and worse than law. No doubt this, as fur as it goes, drives the Celt back to his old country. He will not make his home where he dm s not find himself at home. This unkindly rebuff hus already sent back many, it has discouraged still mora from ever leaving Ireland; it may ultimately stop the immigration altogether, and produce the most serious results on the social and commercial condition of the States. The working classes aro there kept in a certain degiee of submission, if not subordination, by the continual influx of immigrant labor. When that influx ceases the working man w ill soon feel himself better able to make his own terms, and Ihe contest of labor and cap ital will probably assume a character injuri ous to trade, if not dangerous to order. It is the very fact of the immigration keeping dowu the pretensions of labor that chiefly inspires the movement against it. Ireland, there is little doubt, is now a bet. ter country tor the farmer than it was ten or twenty years ago. The land is generally in a better slate as regards the proprietor ship ; there is not the same burden of pover ty ;' the potato is sound ; and, what is more, prices ore high, and will probably continue so as long as the war lasts. In a mere com. mercial point of view, tillage, and still more pasturage, must be more profitable within a hundred miles of the market than across the Atlautic. In other respects Ireland is a more agree able place to live in than it was Political agitation is almost extinct ; no demagogue is able to take the place of O'Connell j the question of tenant right is but a poor substi tute .or the repeal ofthe Union, assassiua tious there still are, but few ; and there is no longer that frantic competition for furms that once beggard the small class of farmers. The railways have thrown open parts of Ireland that once were almost inaccessible ; and there is now hardly a poiut where the farmer can. uot bring hi crops or his cattle to a good market expeditiously and cheaply. It may be observed, by the way. that' the three Queen's Colleges have received as unexpec ted testimony in the shape of pupils sent to them from America by Irish emigrants, now at liberty to educate their sons as they please. Thus it appears that these colleges will serve for the States as well as for Ireland, ud will be a link between the two countries. (Fioea tb Publia Bvsauug Mail of Dm. n The exodus Is coming back. Vast num. bers of our nomadic tribes, to whom we thought Old Irolaud bad bidden a final adieu, ftre droppiug homtwsrda, as4 making about "the cabin door close by the wild wood, with a strong feeling of the immortality of tenant right. Politicians may be disposed to regard this ns tho advance guard of the projected invasion; but. if they ore connected, in any way with (he promoters of that scheme, .we) should say that they belonged to the com missnrint, for they come unarmed. No re. volver, no bowie knives, no pitchforks, no nothing. But they bring dollars ; and, like the Earl of Richmond, goat once "into the bowels of the land ;" their first inquiries be. ing about potato soil, and the probability of obtaining manure for tho next year's crop. Some are even so provident os to have writ ten over from the States to bespeak seaweed and guano, to be deposited against the time of their arrival in the locality where they purpose te commence operatiops. The most probable solution therefore of this turn ofthe tide is, that the soundness of last year's potato crop has revived a foith in the old soil, and that these poor people are coming back in full belief in the restitution of things to the status quo. The unconcealed dislike of the American citizens for the turbulent and unthrifty habile of the Irish settlers hns also, no doubt, had a considerable effect in disgusting the latter with their transatlantic homes. The fact of the multitudinous return of Irish emigraets is true, and not unimportant. Enomrti Nkwsfapkrs anJ) AiyF.nTisu;o.--In the office of the Londoo Ti'me9 there is a sort of a map which gives a graphic represen tatinn ofthe fluctuations in the circulation of that journal. It is like the sectional profiles , ofour railroads and canals, an increased cir culation being indicated by a rise in the sur- , face line, while a fulling ofTin the circulation is represented by a depression. During the ' yenr 1845 the circulation of the Times aver aged only 23,000. and it begaii the year 1P43 with nn edition of no more than 20.000. The excitsment consequent on the revolution of February raised it nt once to 43,000. It fell, however, with the full of libertynnd averaged but 3R.000 during 1852. . The long suspense preceding the present war gradually raised it until tho war nctnajly broke out; since which time the edition has fluctuated be. tween 58,000 and 68,000 copies, affording so income . from the sale of paper? alone of about $26,000 per week. Advertisements ore, however, the great source of profit,, as the cost ofthe paper on which the Times ia printed, nearly equals the amount received for it. Common advertisements of five lines or less, pay seven shillings and sixpence each, or nearly 82. The Times has an average of eight or ten pages of advertisements, which cannot amount to less than 30 000 per week. The receipts from this source have, in .some single weeks, amounted to neaily 40,000. The weekly average of entire receipts can scarcely be set down at less than 860,000, or three millions a year. Nowhere is,adfertise. ing carried on to so great an extent 83 In England. "Professor" II olloway's Pills are advertised to the amount of $150,000 an-; nually; Moses & Son pay 850.000; $50,000 if almi paid by Rowland for his Macassar Oil; S50.000 by De Jongh for Cd Liver Oil. Heal & Sens pay $30,000 per. year for advertising their bedsteads and bed furni ture, and Eben Nicholls. a tailor, advertises to the extent of $20,000. Inojt and Gctta Pf.rcha CARS.-Somebody in Albany is getting up a railroad car out of wrought iron and pntta percha. Such a car can be jammed, but not broken. It may smash up, but it can make no splinters or la. cerate limbs. The idea is a good one. If they should make some ofthe employees on railroads of India rubber, they would be quite a useful, and less likely (o suffer injury from the results of their own carelessness ond in efficiency. Railroad 'operators," of course, could not be made of gutta percha, (or it is necessary for them to break sometimes.-ZJo-ton Courier. Crckltv PcNisnnD. Wm. Bell, a planter of Tensas Parish, La., was tried at the late term of the District Court fer that rarisb. for erne' treatment of one of his slaves, end convicted. Ho was fined two hundred dollars, apd the jury decreed that the slave should be sold away from him, Wokdekfi'i. Escape. A few days sinre a woman, while drawing-water from a well at Burlington Illinois, fell head-foremost (0 the bottom, a distonco of 30 feet. She managed to get herself "right side np," and was extri cated with very little injury. A Prxiesyt.TA.vtAK Gonsj to Rcssia Vi. eholas K. Wade, of Pittsburg, Pa., left New York for Russia on Saturday, for the purpose of superintending the manufacture of ordi nance at St. Petersburg. He is to receive g.'iOOO per annum, to commence on the day he left home, and continue nntil the day of his return. Robert Buchanan, of Cincinnati, sat that he sold lust year, from his vineyard, 140.000 cuttings, end thinks that the whole number sold iu one season would number 2,000 009 cuttings ond 300,000 stalks. IIorbib!.e Affair. An Easlon (ra.) pa per state that on old man, a laborer, n some public improvemrn s near White Haven wns beaten to death by some others who had struck for wnges. and wanted to compel the old man to join them in the strike. Three or four of the party have been arrested. TniC SUAI.I POT Yl A1U....V T T .... ,.i.iiT.i..jlqir. nal learns that this nrn,t ti...,. u epidemic at Prattsville, Greene coo nty. N. .. and it has raged there so violently that stranger hnve been prohibited from pattinr throuch (he villuo-o. " O " The citizen of Loubville have decided, by a majority nt thirteen only, to loan $1,000 000 to the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. Major Oeneral Williams, the gallant de. tender or Kara, has no immediate relatives in Ensrland. Ilia family i. ..... , J mvw resiuillif in America. 6 The averairji ttl..!.. e v- r. . . - .l.t . i . " i,rw J'nFlrl -Me- "iu, (wu a j ear. Old Ireland and Yonn-Ireland, in (he per sons of Mackenzie and O'lWn have had a personal encounter ia the offloe of the New York Daily Times. SoMRTHIKa TO Driww A -J . gwu siiiry was once told at a temperance meeting in Now ItaninahiM A -1 0 . . '""it" cam ap tea ashingtonian with the inquiry r (oMdCr!nVr UK " Wh,W C" tbin8 "Oh, yes-," said the other, "follow mej miK" fo'lowd h'-n twe or three streets', till he begin to be discouraged r.n0W m;ch fnrtW' B,Mt 1 fr said le. , Only a few steps farther, said the Wash. The man turned tibout aud "tooted, bia
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