"Miss Richards," said 1 . ,! , y0u have per plexed me. Whon I entered this house I •thought I had solved the problem of Human Nature, and was about to write the sum to tal—selfishness ; but I must re:Cant—human nature is not so bad after all." After a happy conversation on the part of the lovers, who, in their earnestness, al most forgot my presence, we at length left the house. • "Now," said Ilaymoinl, "one more visit one more illustration, and then we will re• 'turn home." 'No, my friend,' I said, 'we will make no more visits this afternoon. The last ter minated too pleasently to be marred by a fresh picture of selfishness." Raymond did not urge. the matter, and we therefore returned to his house. When Mr. Richards came home that evening to tea, his wife and daughter found him in most excellent humor; something had-occurred_Which_pleaspd him. Occa sionally le indulged in a silent fitlaugh ter, which for him, was very unusual ; and once an unconscious exclamation of "capi lel". escaped his lips. glad, Mr. Richards, to find you so happy," said his lady, "for I never was in a.worse humor. That Wellfard has again Called upon us, and Clara has honored him with along private conference," "I have received a note from him," said Mi,•Rißards," wherein he desires me to . ..,marriage with our daughter." "How presllbing4.l,..do declare, I quite detest him." "And I admire him," , toolry - reAed her husband. Several days since I otreced,.him \ the means to re-commence business, which' he declined—to-day, I have learned the rea- - son. in this he also informs me that his fortune has never been impaired. Ills man sion house has not been sold, but he had al lowed a friend to retain the same as the apparent owner. The fact was that he was envious of his wealth, and playing the bank rupt simply to attest the friendship of his acquaintance.who have generally acted ac cording to the fashion of the woad. Those who have slighted hint will suffer a just mortification, of which my lady, you must bear your part." "1 have never disliked him as a man," said Mrs. Richards coloring with shame.— ' .My daughter's welfare has only governed my conduct. She who has experienced on ly affluence, would make an ill companion to poverty. I have acted as a prudent mother.' Reader, all comedies end with marriage ; so does the majority of tales. And in this instance I shall not be out of fashion. I have • lived to see many cloudless years of happi ness pass over the union. Raymond is very cautious in the selection of his friends, al though their number are legions, while he and myself still retain the same opinion, that,'human nature is not so bad after all.' ------- Tile Monkey Boy, or African Wonder. This is one of strangest freaks of nature that we have yet witnessed. The African Wonder, as it is termed, represent so pecu liar an affinity between the human species and the monkey tribe, as without any pre vious knowledge of its history, to puzzle a naturalists in the effort of identification. Its neck, chin, mouth and nose, are those of a human being, while the comparatively small conformation-of the head with its retreating frontal bones, depressed temporal, pointed occiput, and peculiar physiognoinical char acteristics, represent a close affinity to the monkey tribe. It is about 33 inches in height when erect, but usually goes on all fours, The only peculiarity denoted by the general organization of the limbs is in their greater length the fino•ers and hands being attenuated, the feet and toes of the inferior extremities corresponding also with the perand superior. A peculiar develppement of the Astragus or heel bone is also percepti ble. The actions of this strange being par •take in every respect of those of the class to which it so closely tillies, the highest or der of animal ; and is, upon the whole, one of those 4.yonderful freaks of nature which opens a Wide range for speculation or cred ulity, and continues the chain of being by It graduation aught but flattering to our spe cies.—Chorloton Standard, The Ship Challenge. The challenge of the "American Naviga tion Club," offering a bet of $lO,OOO as a prize to the winning vessel, a Yankee ship against a British one, of 1,200 tons burden, to run from London to China and back has not yet been accepted. It was to stand open for 30 days. The club, unwilling that Eng land should so far forget her old chivalry, has extended the period for accepting the challenge, and will augment the stakes to $20,000, and give the British ship 14 days of a start. Is there not public spirit enough in all England to accept this challenge'?-- As this race does not involve high pressure steam, wo hope to see the challenge taken up, or an offer made to race for love to test the relative speed of American and English built ships. A.correspondence of The Lon dottilleehanice Magazine criticised Mr. Griffith's work on ship.building, and insin uated that the English •ship-wrights were better acquainted with•the science than the American ones. Hero is an opportunity for him to prove it. Ile should exert him self to fi nd some one to accept tho challenge and when he does so, he will find•the stakes by calling on . Mr. Peabody in London. 'Cider Milt—Mr. Daniel Knauer, near :Knau• erstown, Chester county, says the Village Re. ,cord, has inventcd a cider Mill, which is driven by water, and which grinds the apples a little .the nicest we have ever heard of. It consists of "a cylindrical block with 14 blades fitted around it, and blades also fixed slanting, a little on the principle of a threshing machine. The machine will grind 100 bushels of apples per hour, and make 30• barrels of cider per day. larWouldn't Tote. At Brunswick, Glynn county, Georgia, •no polls were opened at the Presidential elebtion—lt being the deliberate 'opinion of the goon people there thatmone ot the scanditiales were worthy of support. 1)e gel)igl) Register. Allentown, Pa. WEDNESDAY, NOVEIIIIIE/1 17, 1862. -- --- Railroad tnterprise We learn that the board of managers of the "Philadelphia, Easton and Water Cap Railroad Company," have determined upon a survey of the ground between Coopersburg, and Allen town with a view of tunneling the Lehigh moun tain. Tee efficient corps of Engineers engaged by the board are already at work on the route. It is a settled :point that four•fifths of the trade expected to be carried on this road will be brought down the Lehigh. If the same is ex tended on through the mountain by a tunnel, it will 110 i only make a straight road, but it will shorten the distance some eight or ten miles, and make a descending grade, which for heavy _freight is a matter of much consequence. The board of managers are gentlemen of - blininerssi and from:the fact of their ordering a survey to be taken of the above route, shows conclusive ly that they not only look with a view of adopt ing the nearest but also the most practicable route. If the road takes its course direct from Allentown to Philadelphia, it will surely divert the great bulk of trade to that city. But if suf fered to take an easterly direction from Allen town, it is bound to go to New York, in -spite of anything that may be done. This we have no doubt the managers are well aware of. Union Blue Artillerists This Company under the command of Capt. of Sellersville, Bucks county, visited our boreu,gl2,_,An Thursday last. They were the guests of thii‘Lehigh Fencibles," Capt. Sam son. The Artillerists made a very handsome appearance, paradeltAte principal streets, after which they took quartels at Ileller's Hotel. lti the evening they parttie4 of a collation at the American Hotel, kept billiat prince of hosts John Y. Bechtel. On Fridafiiftesnoon they re turned, highly delighted with tlikr visit. The Jollification The great Locoloco jollification came off on Saturday last. It was a very slender affair, and few took part in the proceedings ; but for—the booming of the "big gun" now and then, no one would have known that the great Pierce & King celebration had taken place. At about . 3 o'clock, two beeves were distributed to the faithlul, in front of the "wigwam," alter which banners were presented to Hanover and Lower Mactmgy townships, in honor of their increas ed majorities, accompanied by speeches from Messrs. Bridges, Stiles and Longuecker. The celebration, we must admit, was an honorable one to the party. Drunken scenes that usually attend these gatherings, visiting of taverns, and drinking of rum,"noise and con• hisiott" and disturbing of peaceable citizens-- 1 1 nothing of the kind was seen or heard. After the beet was distributed, the crowd dispersed, and I all appeared to be satified Buchanan and Secretary of State. Some of . the letter writers say it is probable ' that Mr. Buchanan will he t'ierce's Secretary of State. We have no doubt, says the Inde pendent Whig, he would aqcept the office if it was tendered to him;,. but we suppose there will be a considerable conflict among the Lo cofocos thernseliteC before such an event takes place. The °Mee would be agreeable to him at present on more accounts than one. It would give him an opportunity to reward his friends —ifho should not fall into his old habit of for getting them—and punish his enemies. It would also place him in a position in which he might "bargain anti sell"—an old and favorite business with him—with a view to secure the succession. lle is a safer, because a more timid man than Gen. Cass, but is defective in the decis. sion which would keep hint in the conserva• five pant into which his early-adopted and firmly-rooted Fedeial principles teach him to travel. A striking instance of his pliability oc curred daring the administration of Mr. Polk, when we found Mr. Buchanan taking n most radical stand upon the o.egiin question—a stand, too, which , public opinion based upon a careful examination of facts, and the action of the United States Senate soon compelled him to abandon. So overwhelming and mortifying a condemnation of a Secretary of State was never before 'pronounced by a co-ordinate branch of the government, but Mr. Buchanan, so far from avoiding the office in which he was disgraced, is generally understood as courting it. It is supposed by those who know him best that his change from a passive position in the recent contest, which at first he assumed he would occupy on the ground that his ago fairly entitled him to it, to active exertions in behalf of Pierce and King, was the result of a bargain with Pierce for tire Secretaryship of State—a suggestion which we see nothing in Mr. Buchanan's past life,, in his notorious set. liAmess and his iudifierence about principle to render improbable. Singing in Churches A correspondent of the ➢lusical World has the following touching congregational dinging in churches : Concerning the music of our public worship, I could say much; but, at present, can only give you a Jew articles, by wny of showing how greatly this 'arc Sacra' Is misunderstood in NeW York. Only think that the churches and congregations, instead of joining in the singing of the psalms and hymns, keep a choir, and sometimes only a quartette,' who perform this important part of tho worship almost entirely alone.! What are psalms and hymns but prayers and praises?—And what is the inten tion of their being sung in the !house of God other than the wholAgengregaildn should unite. as with one mit . in The music, atia - , on the 'wings of melody, rise to the throne of the Moat High The Present Century. Many things have occurred in the present century, to distinguish it from any preceding age. Since its commencement many' remark able mon have lived, "strutted their brief hour," and passed away—Napoleon with his-mighty genius, shedding over France the imperishable splendor of his renown—Wellington, less great, bat more fatunate—CalhonTl, Clay, Webster, Charming, and many more, whose eloquent words, or deeds of still nobler and loftier elo quence, will sound forever "clown the corri dors of time." This age has been prolific of great men, to a degree unparalled. It has been fertile, too, in scientific and 'artistic pro gress and advancement. No age whose histo ry has come down to us, has made so many important and useful discoveries, and so proud ly demonstrated the omnipotence—not to speak profanely—of the human mind. Among the discoveries of the last filly years are some of the most wonderful ever achieved by the in tellect of man. Fifty years ago, although—the pewers.and capabilities of steam were to some extent known and understood; rota steamboat had been launched, and the great man who first projected it, was regarded by even the most scientific men of his time, as insane or worse. in 1307 the first steamboat was launch ed, by Robert Fulton, and now there is scarce ly a navigable water not traversed by means of steam, and there are, in this country Orme, over three thousand steamboats. Railroads are a comparatively recent invention, yet now they are fast taking the place of every other meth , od of land travel and transportation, and are stretching their iron arms over every section of this republic. Distances, that to the narrow comprehension of our fathers, might well seem fabulous, aro now traversed in a single day, and space and time al nost annihilated. The Eleetrive Telegraph, the greatest dis covery, but one, of any age, is of very recent date. What would a sober citizen of Boston, New York or Philadelphia, have said in 1800, if he had been told that it was possible to send a message of a dozen lines to New Orleans in as many minutes, and hi obtain an answer in as many morel At that time it took weeks to convey intelligence from one to the other ex tremity of our vast country; now it requires but a few seconds. The vast itnportat ce of this means of communication ; the acceleration j it gives to human enterprise and human thought ; its value to progress and civilization, in all its aspects, is not to be estimated or corn.) ploted. To the ninete.mth rentury, arid to man living in onr clay, are we indebted for this,' the most beautiful acid valuable invention, of.' ter that of printing, of any age. The discoveries, inventions, and improve ments of this ago are numberless. Doe's Printing Press, capable of throwing ofl from 10,000 to 20,000 impressions per hour, and in a style of neatness anti accuracy, that would have been a marvel to our predecessors in the art, is an invention of recent date. Gas light was unknown in 1600; now nearly every city and town of any pretence are lighted with it, and we have the announcement of a still great. er discovery, by which light, heat : and motive power may be produced from water with scarcely any cost. Daguerre communicated to l the world his beautiful invention in 1839. Gun cotton and chloroform are discoveries of but a c few years old. Astronomy has added a nurn , i l her of new planets, to the solar system. Agri-l! Great Sales of Short Horns. cultural chemistry has enlarged the domain 01 1 4 The auction Sale of Improved Short Horn Cat. knowledge in that important branch of scien- Vie, came off at the farm of Dr. Watts. The at bile research, and mechanics have increased ilendance was large of gentlemen from Kentucky, the facilities for production, and the moans 'lnd from Clinton, Clark, Madison, Franklin, accomplishing an amount of labor which far Pickawny, Pike acid other counties of Otis State. .:i.xteen animals were sold at the aggregate price transcends the abiliiy of united effort to ac- - 7 of $ 21,781, viz : complish. What will the next half century ac- complish ? IVe tinny look for still greater dis- Nobleman, to John J. Voltmeter, of Co. coveries; for the intellect of man is awake ex-(.' 62 Master Denville, to George Renick, of Ross ploring every mine of knowledge, and search I Co " V2 ' 2lo ' ittg for useful inforrnation in every departnidi hoot Nelson, to John L. Meyers, of Fayette of art and-industry. But what may be the re 1 $1.825. salt of this un,•aralleleil activity of mind, it i Alderman, to Alexander Waddle, of Clark Co., impossible to foriell. SI,IOW Gamboy, to M. L. Sullivan, of Franklin Co., The Soramble for the Spoils A change of Ailtriiiiktration in this countri always implies a change in the prominent an 3 profitable places under the Government. Inas• Ingeli, moreover, as the outs are always more numerous than the iris, the advantage at an election is with the former. The office hold- j eis may be counted by hundreds—the office hunters by thousands. Our Democratic breth ren have been out of place for nearly tour . years, and hence their keenness for the flesh pots of Egypt is truly extraordinary. Already the scramble for the spoils has commenced, and the names of a score or so of the most promi nent among the leaders have been mentioned in connection with the Custom (louse, the Postbflie and foreign Missions, &e., &c.— Alas! for the slanders that will be inculcated, for the bitterness of spirit that will be engen dered for the diappointment of heart that will be experienced! There aro five loaves and two small fishes to distribute, and there are more than the multitude uf five thousand to divide thorn aMong. Many who have already expended much time and much money, will be called upon to expend still more in tooting up the unpaid bills, and yet when the names of the fortunate few are chronicled in the of ficial gazette—how bitter will be the mortifir tion, how keen the moil - Mutely despair of the: who will then discover that they have bee neglected, forgotten, avoided or overslaughe . The game of, politics. is a lottery, in whi there is one prize to an Hundred blanks. An I like a lottery, even those who sometimes dra a prize i aro only tempted to their 4011. T contest is over,—we at 4e,Ast aro .out of t, woodsi and we may therefore be permitted moralise for a moment. IN - Fourteen boxes of marble, and four box s of granite, intended to be erected as a monumen over the .remains of the late Col. Richard M Johiuson,lately arrixeVat - Cleveland,..on .tbei way to Kentucky. Rights of a Landlord and Tenant. The following ease which was recently tried in•Monigomery county, will also be of impor tance to landlords and tenants of Lehigh coon. ty, as well as to purchasers of grain : _ Sumac/ We !ford es. /1/ichac/ C. Boyer and Sam ad Gilbert. This was an action of (rover, brought to recover the value of certain grain, under the following circumstances : Reiner.] P. March was the tenant of a farm in Marlbo rough township, owned by William &hall, un• der a lease for three years. During the con tinuance of the term Schall sold a part of the demised premises to Michael C. Boyer, whom the said tenant reeignised as his landlord and paid his rent. In the month of January, prior to the expiration of his lease, Match, the ten ant held a public sale, and sold eleven acres of grain in the ground to Samuel kVolford, the plaintill in this case, and received cash for it. At the time of this sale no rent was due to Boy er, the landlord, but on:ihe first of April follow the-rent-was_alue_under_the_lease,_aud be. ing unpaid by March, Boyer distrained upon these eleven acres of grain in the ground, and li under such distress they were sold by the con stable to Samuel Gilbert, one of the defendants who brought after having_ notice that ‘Volford claimed the grain by virtue of the sale to him by .March. • The question to be decided was whether the landlord, Boyer, had a fight to destrain upon, the grain for rent under the circumstances, and the Court instructed the jury that he had, and that the sale to Wolford, by the tenant did not deprive the landlord [ruin the right to make a distress upon it, if he found it upon the prem ises, and directed them to find a verdict for de fendants, which was done. Look Ahead We trust Whigs will profit by the experi ence of the past. Though dearly bought the ! lesson of this defeat will work out our future success. ‘Ve have already ceased to mourn the result. The very next six months will See I the Democracy onvironed in difficulties more than those which beset the Whigs alter the election of Harrison, and with a like result.- I .The IVhigs who survive the defeat will be t "good men and true." Bickerings will cease, contentions at an end, jealousies appeased.— lit the next Congress will be a band of as able and patriotic Whigs as ever consultud.ovor tho destines of the .no the 'country. They will bo there from all parts of the country and Indy wall send forth an appeal which will again rally the Whig party to victory. Age of the Men of the Time• President Fillmore is 52 years old, having been born in 1800, in Cayuga county, N. Macauly, the historian, is 52 years old, and so is Bancroft, the author cf the history of Amer- 1 ice. Abbott Lawrence, the late popular and able Minister to the Court of St. James, was born in Croton, Mass., in 1792, and is now consequently about 60 years of age. Edward Everett, the new Secretary of State, was born in Dorchester, Mass., in 1793, and is now 58 years old. ‘Vashingion Irving was born in N. V., in 1783, and is therefore not far from the mature age of 70. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, President of the French Republic, was boot at the Tuileries, in 1808; and is therefore in his forty-fourth year. $1,400, Count Fathom, to N. Perrill, of Clinton, Co., $1,075. Young Whitington, to A. Waits, of Ross Co. $450. Rising Sun, to G, W. Herod, of Scioto Co. $1,3000. Isaac, to Geo. Gregg, of Pickaway Co., $6OO. Moss Rose, to . Alexander Waddle, ofClarlt Co $1,200: Strawberry, to George Renick, of Ross Co., $l,lOO. • Raspberry, to George Gregg, of Pickaway, Co., $l,lOO. Sunrise, to John Van meter, of Pike CO., $1,200 Mary, to Alexander Waddle, of Clark Co., $l . : G5O. Enchantress, to Alexander. Renick, of Ross Co., $9OO - . Blue Bonnet, to Felix W. Renick, of Picket. way Co., $1,225. j The company have another good bull, Adam, at Columbus, not in good case fur selling. These prices are believed to be higher than any ever before paid fur the same number of cattle.—Scioto (Ohio) Gazelle. President Pillmore.—The Buffalo Rough Notes warmly defends Mr. Fillmore from the attacks of his enemies In alluding front an attack upon the President, by' the Albany Knickerbocker, the Rough Notes says, ' , There is no occasion fur us to defend .the President from the attacks from such a source. When the Cuban difficulties are ended, and when the country has had sufficient time to examine the matter fully and thoroughly, the verdict of the people will be. very different from that of the Knickerbocker. In less than ten years from now, the present Administration will be looked back upon by candid and impar• tial men, as one of the ableit and most discreed that has.ever controlled tbe destinies of the mt. don." rinThe Mississippi Fltig, atlv.ocates Governor Foote, [or V. S. Seoitto,r. , • Common Schools Guardians resident within a district of wards residing elsewhere, may be required to pay the school tax upon all the taxable personal proper• ty they represent on behalf of their wards. Real estate is taxable only in the district in which it is located. .School Directors acting together as a board, (where there are no sub districts) alone. may properly employ and fix the salaries of teachers. Where there are sub districts the committees se lect the teacher, subject to the approval of the board of directors.' The I Ith section of the general School law of 180, provides: '•lf it shall be found that on account of great distance from or difficulty of access to the proper school house in any district, some of the pupils thereof could be more conve niently accommodated in the schools of an ad joining district,. itshall be the duty of the three.. tors of such two adjoining districts, to make an arrangement by which such pupils may be in structed in the most convenient school of the -adjoining-districtsoari_the expense of such in. struction shall be paid as may be agreed upon by the directors of such adjoining district." From this extract the duty of the directors to make, under the circumstance there contempla ted, the necessary arrangement, is expressly en' joined, and directors cannot avoid making the same, upon proper requests, without n clear vi olation of such duty and proper liability for such delinquency. The basis of the arrangement is, that ' , the expense of such instruction" shall be paid to the board of directors of the district • teaching the pupils, ,by the adjoining district.— The amount paid by the parents or guardians of the pupils should not be regarded in making the arrangement, for all the children of a district have an equal right to the benefit of the common school system. "The expense of such instruc tion" can be readily ascertained by a reference to the whole number of.ptipils taught in any one district, and the entire cost of teaching the same. The right of pupils who are thus located in re• ference to the schools of their own and of an ad joining district, is as undoubted and well sustain cd by the law as the right of a pupil to be taught in it own district. A Singular Fact A wife not know her husband.—A Southern Journal has the following: In Saturday's Con stitution a paragraph stating that an inquest sad been held . on the body of a man, named William Make, a carpenter, who was drowned in the Markyke stream. While the body lay at the bridewel I, poor llake's wife and daughter called to see it before the inquest, and left the bridewell with tears and lamentations.— They returned home and the inquest was held— the Comer thinking it unnecessary to call for the evidence of the mourners—and the jury came to a verdict , :iltat the deceased, William Dorke, was accidently drowned." When the wife and daughter returned home, what was their aston ishment to see him whom they thought they hail just seen dead, alive and well, warming himself comfortably by the fire. The frightened woman for some time refusEd to believe the evidence of their senses; and it was not moil some neigh. hors called in and effected a mutual understand ing between the parties, that anything like quiet was restored. A Sign in Georgia The Southern Central _Agricultural Society has issued an address, proposing to hold an Ag ricuhural Congress of' the Slaveholding States, fur the following purposes: •.'l'o adopt measures to improve the present system of Agriculture; to develope the resources and combine the energies of the Slaveholding states, so as to increase their wealth, power, and dignity, as members of the Confederacy ; to for tify a public opinion within the borders of the Slaveholding States, in antagonism to that with, out ; to enforce the growing sentiment that the children of the south shall be reared and educa ted at home, instead of abroad; to foster scienti• fie pursuits, promote the mi!chanics arts, and aid in establishing a system of public Schools ; to assist in bringing the South in direct commer" cial intecourse with distant countries; and to cultivate the aptitudes of the negro race for civ" ilization, and consequently Christianity—so that by the time that slavery shall have fulfilled its benrficient mission in these States, a system may ' be authorized by the social condition of that race here, to relieve it from its present servitude, with out sinking it to the condition of the free negroes of the North anti West Indies." A Spiritual 111u8tralion.--“Let the mention to you an incident. know it to be true for it oc curred at Zanesvine. Judge H—, the indP victual mentioned, is our . present member of Congress, and Parson Jones, the old negro preacher—Heaven rest his bones!—with his old grey mare and rickety cart, has long since re turned to dust. The Judge wns present at the delivery of one of his sermons, and was brought in by the speaker, by way of illustrating a cer' min position, then and there taken by him : 'My dear friends and brethren,' said he, 'de soul oh do black man is as dear in de sight ob de Lord as de soul of tie white man. Now you all see Judge H—, a sittin' dah; Icanin' on his gold en headed cane; you all know de Judge, niggas, an' a berry fine man he is, too. Well, now, I'se gwine to make a little comparishment. Suppos in' de Judge some fine mornin' puts his basket on his arm, anti goes to market to buy a piece of meat. lie soon God a nice, fat piece ob mutton, and goes off with it. 1)o you s'pose de Judge would stop to 'quire wedder dat mutton was oh a white sheep, or ob a black shecpi No, nuffite oh the land! If de tnutton was nice an' fat, it would . be all de same to de Judge ; he would not stop to ax wedder de sheep had white or black wool. Well; jes so it is, my friens, wid our heti enly master. does not stop to ax wedder n soul 'long to a white man or a black man, wed 'der his head was livered wid might bar, or kiv. ered wid wool ; de only, question he ax will be, .Is dis a good soul l'—an' if so, de Massa will say, 'Enter into de joy ob de Lord, and set down on de same bench wid de white man.; ye'.s.all on a perfect !quality!" r4"Ogtober, has just closed, was tile xvarmeat of the last fifteen years, ; • Voyage up Salt River As we have voyaged the whole length of Salt River, up to the "head of sloop navigation," we are quite desirous that our readers should know what a time we had, and how we ate satisfied with the new "location." —We- started-in-the-grand old_steamer Connectt. cut, Captain Steady• Habits commander, with the rest of the large Whig fleet, on the evening of the 2d of November, on our course up the stream. As we entered the bay into which that famous river discharges its waters, there was a univer sal expression of grief throughout the whole fleet. The first ebullition being over, we had then an • opportunity; "quiet, thcliith sad," to mark the rapid progress of our voyage, and the interest' ing objects before us. As we pasted up the bay, there loomed up before us the low sandy po i nt or Cape Harbor improvements; but we gave its structions a wide berth, and sighed was we !entry bade adieu for years. The wrecks of steamers were strewed all along its yellow sands: Cape Protection then showed its headland. The long breakwater, erected in 1842 against the dashing waves of the broad ocean, which rolled its billows from far England upon it, had taken' down and washed away ; and foolishly, on landward side of the point, another barrier had been built in '46, which only checked the cur^ rant of the inland river. As we passed it, it was enveloped in fog, which had settled on gloomy wreathes on the side of Mount American System, that rose behind it. "Farewell," we said, "old. landmark!" Thou wilt guide our fleet to victo ry no more! Thy whole stupendous mass it to be carted offend deposited in the deep ocean of Free Trade ! lie who once stood proudly on thy top to cheer us on to the contest, sleeps the last long sleep of death, and his system has per ished with him. It is marked on the tombstone, as the fruitless labor of one who would have es tablished his country's prosperity, had factions permitted. Soon after we approached the hidden rocks of Slavery Extension. Here a great debate sprung op in the different vessels of the fleet as to which side of the rocks we should pass. The contest grew exciting, when old Caption Consideration settled the difficulty by remarking that it made no difference when we were going up the river.. The old rocky shore of Point Notional Bank next presented itself. But the regular action of the currant and the tide had so fretted off the pro jecting rocks, that it was no longer dangerous. Here we passed the large 1/?lnoeratic fleet, com ing down the bay, with streamers and Pennons and flags flying, with bands of music playing. and the passengers shouting in the highest glee. What was rather strange in all cases the' British. flag was flying above the Anurican, and tho. shouts of "burnt for England's interests" rent the air, while the bands played "God Save the King.”. The New Hampshire, an old fashioned, slow sail_ ing craft, led the van, looking as if her model, was a century old. She was the Bag ship, and, bore aloft on her mizzen a (lag, with the inscrip - • t ion tt rirginia Resolutions of '93." Fran k in, Pierce stood at her bow, smiling as the morn•• ing, sun, his eye fixed steadily on the. Munn' view of the White House. The rest of the lime, seemed vexed at the little progress which was made under the "'Mt" flag. The squadron of the. West, under the command of Rear Admiral, Douglas, were evidently determined to sail faster as soon as the bay widened. Douglas has show ed his cunning by so constructing his ensign that the side which turned toward the flag ship pre. seated the motto of •the Virginia Resolutions."' while on the other was faintly written "River and Harbor Improvement." He declared In his men that as soon as there was room enough to pass the Commodore, he should lead off himself, haul down the Virginia flag, and up with the black flag of piracy, with its skull and cross, bones. We passed very rapidly up the river, for the tide Was seniag strong in that direction. Gen.. Scott examined with much curiosity both banks of the river as we sailed on. It was the very first—time that he had been on the stream, and everything was new to him. am not dishear" tened," said the old veteran, have troops of friends around me, who have fallen with me.— My life has been devoted to the Republic, and I , bow to its decisions now. This vote cannot blot , out the record of my services from my country's history. Posterity will do me justice." As we neared the extremity of the stream, we passed many beautiful country residences. At one of the finest, in his large cabbage garden, stood Martin Van Buren. lie had not yet recov ered from his grief at seeing the Democratic fleet sail by without taking him on board. "The buckwheat cake was in his mouth, The tear was in his eye." We inquired for the Prince, and found that he had followed the fleet in a small skiff, and there were many fears entertained for his safety. A little further up was Buchanan. Poor man! he looked haggard. The Democratic garment with which he hail covered up his principles su long, was growing thin, and the old Federal lin— ing showed through in many places. On the next turn of the river. we found Cass,• wringing his hands in agony at the desertion of his friends. • With his coat and hat off, he was exclaiming amid "the noise and confusion" of: the surf around him, in the words of the captive' Knight "They "are gone! they have all passed by !!, The'y in whose wars I have borne a part, • They that lloved with a brothers heart, , . They have left me here to die . l Sound again, clarion ! Clarion, pour thy blast r Sound for the Presidential dream of hope is past !" • SOOT, after we came to the place where the whole Free Soil party were disembarking. John P. Hale, in a very good natured frame of mind, was making preparation fur a permanent resi^ dence, as he 'had on idea that four years would carry him down the stream again. Many of them were seated on'the rocks, with long Muck poles, stirring up the mud of the stream, while certain inky looking fellows were calling upon,. them to "agitate, agitate I" Mitst of the Massa' • chusetts members were sitting in'thetr boats, Cl'.. peOling that the Democrats woulth•charter the ohl steamboat ati./it;vmatl Come , up, after..thern... CZE
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