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And that confidence may be extended by the public, assurance is hereby given that the contin ual assistance of the leading men of the Whig Party has been secured, and that full trust is re posed in the views and abilities of tha Editor. Members of the Senate. WPMawrumN C S S Phelps Vl Alex Barrow La J T Morehead Ky W C Rives Va W Woodbndge Mch E H Foster Tenn WL Dayton N J John Henderson Miss Gcorse Ecans Me J J Crittenden Ky J M Berrien Geor J F Simmons R I 5 P rarce Md Bujard Del - Huntingdon Ct Members of the House. 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But to the above the Editors have to add a word. It is known that the same enterprise has been two or three times before attempted by others ; and that they .aacu as signauy as tney were weakly began. We care not to investigate the causes, but their failure ha: iiooa greatly m the way of the present under- WKIRtr. Wo nan nnl ni, imnn.llfiiol that this Review WILL appear every month for one year at least, from January, 1845. Whether U shall continue longer, must depend upon the sup port of those who can see the importance of such a work. This support we earnestly request, be lieving that the work will be in all respects able and useful. The Review will be published in the city of N. York, to be called "The American Review A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art and Sci' ence." Terms Five Dollars a year paid on receiving the first number. Each number containing a handred and twelve Pages, printed in double columns, on fine paper, will consist of a leading political article, with lit erary miscellany in history, biography, criticism, fiction, poetry, statistics, science and the arts, from the ablest writers in the country. It will contain powerful -articles from various writers, with two beautiful mezzotint engravings of Mr. Clay and lr. Prehnghuysen, with Sketches of their life and character. Every second or third number after wards will also present a likeness and sketch, of soma distinguished American. The conrinr.t nf th. K.fvmwwill be under tbe control of George II. Colton, jissociated howe ver with other gentlsraea of fcnown standing and at tahnner.ts. To Committees, "Societies Clay Clubs, fc: the following liberal terms are offered. Five cop ies for $21. Thirteen .copied for '$50. Or any person becoming responslbje for four copies will -ci,eive a nun gratia AixJSWyiJa'S are invueo for distant places. " : ' By law., remittances, may be made fre,.through ne Postmaster All communications to be addressed,. 7o.7HnV, the Editor, G. H. Coltoh :-0fiice 118 Nassau Mreet, New York. STROUD SB ORG., MONROE COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1845. Spring is Coming. BY JAMES BACK, Who teas deaf and dumb from his childhood. Spring is coming ! Spring is coming! Birds are chirping, insects humming, , Flowers are peeping from their sleeping, Streams escaped from Winter's keeping, In delightful freedom rushing, Dance along in freedom gushing, Scenes, of late in deadness saddened, Smile in animation gladdened , All is beauty, all is mirth, All is glory upon earth, Shout we then with Nature's voice, Welcome Spring ! Rejoice ! Rejoice ! Spring is coming ! come, my brother, Let us rove with one another, To our well remembered wild-wood, Flourishing in Nature's childhood ; Where a thousand flowers are springing, And a thousand birds are singing ; Where the golden sunbeams quiver On the verdure-girdled river; Let our youth of feeling out, To the youth of Nature shout, , r While the waves repeat our voice, Welcome Spring ! Rejoice ! Rejoice ! What am I? We think Dow, Jr. has succeeded in answering this question about as satisfactorily as any other searcher into the mysteries of life, with whom we have ever come in contact. His definitions may not be quite so classical or polished as many oth ers, but it is clear that but little can be alledged against him on the score of accuracy. Hear him: " When I ask myself the question, What am 1 1 it puzzles me to answer it. Materially speaking, I am a sort of increased nonentity a. small barrel of unstrained oil of nothing, thickened into sub stance by accidentally coming into contact with a cold, congealing world Chemically speaking, I am a compound of phosphoros gas, and atmos pheric wind as most of you have doubtless, long ago discovered. Mechanically speaking, I am an old clock, made, wound up and set in motion some several years ago by the great Ciockmaker of the4 Universe. It was made to run 80 years, at least; and if Fate and Fortune will keep my inner works in order, I shall expect to keep going till my weights have run the full length of their cords. Morally speaking, I am an equal mixture of vice and virtue; a kind of vinegar and molasses mess.i So nicely are they mixed together that the vinegar of vice is not so sour as to be unpalatable, nor the molasses of vhtue so sweet as to be sickening. My feelings are as tender as young toadstools my passions are as strong as a decoction of tobac co juice my sympathies are as soft as down un der an angel's wing and my desires for the pro motion of human happiness are jut as I happen to feel about the heart and stomach. Metaphorically speaking, I am a toy thing of time, played for a short period and then cast among rubbish; a foot ball of fate, kicked about till I burst, and am no more worthy of a kick; a wind-mill ex citement, that moves with the popular breeze, but it is still a calm; and a current thermometer, my mercury rising to summer heat by the warm rays of hope, and sinking to below zero in the cold at mosphere of doubt, a mean tallow candle already burnt one third of the way to the socket, and eve ry moment in danger of being extinguished by the suffers of death; an old boot worn by a pilgrim with a wooden leg over the rough road of exist ence, till it is .neither worth heeling, soleing, patch ing nor preserving. In fact, my friends, I don't see that I am any more use to the universe, (con sidered as a whole,) than a shovel of pbudrette to a ten acre cornfield. When I ani dead and gono, I shall be as a thing that never has been; and the children of posterity will shoot marbles across my grave, as unconscious of their sacraligious doings as a. parcel, of mice gnawing at the greasy leaves of an old and fayorte Family Bible. - 'Ma ! Ma ! Cousin Bill, he's in the parlor with siijter.Sal, and he keeps bitin her.' ' Cousin Bill bitin my Sal,!' : , ' Ves'in I see him do it ever so many times ! bile her right on the mouth and the tarnal gal did'nt holler a bit, nother.' Oh ah! never mind Ned, T guess he did'nt hurt her much.' lHurl her! by gosh she loves it, she docs, cos she keeps a lettin him, and did'nt say nothing, but just smacked her lips as though 'twas good, she did. I seed it ail through the key-hole. 1 1. lire taters at -him by gosh.' It is staid that by planting tansey .around-the roots'of peach trees, the peach worm vylU'be effec tually driven off. . ' '. Prentice says, he hopes the. gentleman in Phila delphia, who manufactured a hat."(or.Mr. Polk, has adapted it to the President's head, by making it as soft as possible, The Great Lakes. A writer in the Cincinnati Atlas (says the New York Evening Post,) furnishes some interesting particulars of the vast extent of our great North ern Lakes. It appears from a narrative of profes sor Drake, who visited these lakes last summer, that-they extend ov.er nearly eight and a half de grees of latitude in breadth and sixteen degrees of longitude in length. The extent of their surfaces is estimated at 93,000 square miles ; and the area of country drained by them, is computed at 400, 000 square miles. Their relative sizes are as follows : Ontario, ; 6,300 square miles Erie, St. Clair, Huron, Michigan, Superior, 9.G00 360 20,000 24,400 25,000 do do do do do The average depth of water in the different Lakes, is a question upon which there is no cer tain information. Authorities differ. Dr. Drake gives it-as follows : St. Clair, 20 feet Erie, . . 84 Ontario, - 500 Superior, 900 " Huron and Michigan, 1000 " In ourstandard works, Lake Erie is usually stated to have a depth of 120 feet. The deepest soundings have been taken in Lake Huron. Off Saginaw Bay, 1800 feet of line have been sent down without finding bottom. The altitude of these lakes varies stejl by step from Ontario to Superior. Lake Ontario is 232 feet above the tide-water of the St. Lawrence. Erie is 333 feet above Ontario, and 565 feet above tide-water at Albany. St. Clair is six feet higher than Erie : Huron and Michigan are thirteen' feet above St. Clair, and, Superior lies 44 feet above them. This shows the curious fact, that while the sur face of Huron is 684 feet above the level of the ocean, its bottom at Saginaw Bay, is more than 1100 feet below the same level. The waters of those lakes, with the exception of Erie and St. Clair, are remarkable for their trans parency and delicious flavor.- Of Lake Huron, Professor Drake ascertained that the water at the surface and two hundred feet below at the same place, indicated precisely the same temperature, to wit fifty-six degrees His explanation of this, fact is, that the waters are so pure that the rays of j the sun meet with no solid matter in suspension to i arrest and retain the heat.. The writer adds : . "There is a great curiosity connected with these lakes about 30 miles from Kingston, near the out let of the bay of Quinte, in Canada. The writer of this visited it a few years ago, in company with Professor Lyell of London, who pronounced it one of the greatest curiosities of the kind he ever saw. It is what is called in Scotland "a Tarn" or moun tain lake. It is situated upon a conical hill about 350 feet high. It is circular about half a mile in diameter, and occupies nearly the whole surface of the hill. "The lake is consequently entirely without inlet; a small stream constantly escapes from one edge of it, down the side of the hill, turning the wheels of a flouring mill, which has been erected near the summit. The level of the water in the lake is supposed to be. about 350 feet above that of the bay below. As there are no high lands within fifty or sixty miles, or perhaps a greater distance, the curious question arises, whence comes the supply for this mountain lake 1 " Professor Lyell supposes it to occupy the cra ter of an extinct volcano, and to receive its waters through hidden syphons, from a great distance ; but did not coincide with the popular belief in the neighborhood, that the fountain head was Lake Erie, although it is supposed that they occupy the same level." Au American Heroine. The anti-rent rebellion in Delaware county, N Y. has brought out one character at least worthy of celebration the wife of Mr. Hunting, a tavern, keeper near Delhi. The " Indians" ha'1 pursued two officers who had process against therrj, to the tavern, where they found refuge 'in thy garret. The pursuers took possession of a lower room, and resolved to seize the officers and execute them cn the spot. In this exigency, Mis. Hunting, the spirited and handsome W'.e of the Inn, keeper, seized a large carving "knife from the larder, rushed up to the at tic, whither the intended victims had retired Ranted herself on the nnrrow stairway, an 1 swore that no "Indian" should pass up except over her corpse, arid then, as wc afe informed by advices direct from this scene, there; thus armed, and thus determined, stood this heroic woman for six hours, .braving the . whole force of Indian miscreants, The.expected succor al length. arrived from Delhi. The Anti-renters retired, and'Mrs. Hunting was relieved from the post she had so noblf maijituin- i v ...- n,.;i A ,iv . ; . Subterraneous Scenes in New York. "Irenajus," in the last New York Observer, quotes from the notes of a friend the following sad accounts of a recent exploration of one of the liv ing hells in that city, which corroborates the re ports heretofore made by Dickens : " It was midnight. We had made an appoint ment with an officer of the city police, one of the oldest and truest of that department, to meet us at the House, and we were all ready. The neighborhood we proposed to visit, was unsafe for any man to enter in the night unless well protect ed, and we had therefore taken such precautions as the first law of nature dictates in such cases. Turning down L to C St., we came to a large white-washed door at which the officer tap ped as if giving a signal to be understood within. The door was cautiously opened and we stood en veloped in darkness, but the sound of distant mu sic brokfi upon our ears. We groped our way to a, flight of stairs duu)n which we marched, the of ficer being at the head till we came to another door guarded by a- porter, who proved to be the presiding genius of the establishment. He knew the officer at a glance, arid was as complaisant as if a new customer had come; and on being in formed that we were on a pleasure excursion through, his dominions, he threw open his infernal ball room door, and there, as sure as life, was a sight such as the disordered brain of a madman might conjure, but which we had never ventured to believe was one of nightly similar scenes in this christian city. A motley multitude of men and women, yellow and white, black and dingy, old and young, ugly and no not handsome : God forbid that beauty should ever bloom in such a hot-bed as this but there they were, a set of male and female Bacchanale dancing to the tam bourine and fiddle; giggling and laughing in a style peculiar to the remote descendants of Ham, and making "night hideous" with their lascivious orgies. Talk of the degradation of the heathen, of savage pow-wows, and pagan carnivals; and stir up sympathy for the slaves of sin inthe depths of Africa or Asia. Here we were within a stone's throw of the City Hall, in the centre of the first city in the most christian country on the earth, and here was a sight to make the heart sicken and bleed. On one side of the room was a bar, tend ed by a-rascally looking wretch who dealt out the liquors to the frequent calls of his customers,jand as the drinking and fiddling went on, the fury waxed fiercer, until the scene was as unreal and bewildering as if we had been suddenly ushered into the revelling hall of the Prince of darkness. Wandering through this horrid group was a young man whom we recognized as of a respecta ble family but his bloated face and bloody eyes, and the loose familiarity with which he addressed the company, showed that he was at homo among them, and was already near the napir point of his downward career. We thought of the mother that gave him birth, and whose heart would be wrung with agony at the ruin of her son," were she not one of the many mothers iu the rank3 of fashion and pride, perhaps this moment flaunting at a more splendid ball, yielding to the voluptuous blandish ments of elegant vine, and listening to the flatter ing tongue that will lure her to meet her lost boy at the door of a lower hell. That gaudy girl, (said the officer,) decked wth so much finery, makes it her profession to recoy men into houses kept for the purpose, an.d there she robs them. Many men from the. country, prompted by curiosity, follow srach persons as you see her to be, and before th;ey ar aware of their danger, they are in a snave from which escape is impossible. Resistar.ee is useless, and to com plain to the Police, is attended with an exposure worse than the loss of money. In fact the rob bery of their; victims is the chef pursuit of the class of WDmen -of whom "that girl is one of the queens. liut we were glad to emerge from this den, arid breathe again the pure air of heaven. A bright full irioon poured on us a flood of light as we gained the upper regions, and what a contrast to the murky atinosphere from which we had just es caped ! It was a beautiful night! The mild moon sailed in glory over us, and the stars whose pufu tv and distance make them faiii," danced like celestial virgins " in the blue ethereal -sky," and we could scarcely believe that, under sUchuv can- opy, thqre could be such scenes as wcrjhadjust left." Agricultural Value off Bones. Many farmers are surprised that any substance so apparently destitute of nutritive matter as bone dust, should be capable of effecting such " won derful results." The mysteryjshowever, is easily explicable, for instead of being composed of a sim ple, amort substance, ns many suppose and con tend, it consists of three distinct and highly valu able ingredients, viz : cartgjjtepne-earlh, and carbonate of lime all of -whi&afare essentially concerned in the production and maturation of crops. No. 44. "The bone-earth may be estimated at ono half the weight. It is a peculiar phosphate of lime, containing 8 parts of lime to 3 parts of phosphoric: acid. A great part of the value of bone as a ma nure depends on its cartilage. The animal part of bones being one third of their weight, the am monia is equal to 8 to 10 times that of cow dung. If we regard the salts only, 100 lbs. of bone-dust contain 66 times as an equal weight of cow dung. Such statements, while they express the chemical facts, are almost, if not quite, supported by testi mony nf those who have, in practical agriculture, applied those concentrated animal manures. It i a common opinion that bones from the soap-boilers have lost a portion of their animal matter. It is erroneous. Boiling, except under high pres sure, extracts very little of the gelatine, and not all the fat and marrow. Heads and shoulder-blades, and the smaller bones, still contain after boiling, 3 1-2 per cent, of fat and tallow. If the phosphate of lime of suck bones is dissolved out by the acid, the animal por tion remains with all the form and bulk of tho bone. .Bones which are offered in the market, are quite as rich in the elements above stated, as are unboiled bones. The phosphate of lime is ren dered quite soluble by its combination with gela tine and albumen " We will remember you, Henry Clay." The eloquent address of the Clay Clubs of New York, to Henry Clat, thus concludes : " And therefore,we will remember you, HENRY CLAY, while the memory of the glorious or the sense of the good remains in us, with a grateful and admi ring affection, which shall strengthen with our strength, and shall not decay with our decline. We will remember you in all our future trials and. reverses, as him whose name honored defeat and. gave it a glory which victory could not have brought. We will remember you when patriotic: hope rallies, again to successful contest with the agencies of corruption and ruin ; for we will nev er know a triumph which you do not share in life whose glory does not accrue to you in death. We will remember you while national peace and pros perity continues ; and when the (var clouds now darkening and muttering over the horizon have risen to overcast the clear and placid sky yet above us, and have bmst over the whole land, the peo ple will remember you too ; and all will remember you when the bloodhounds so long baying on our track, and the wolves now howling around our fold, shall have rent their prey, where the vultures are already screaming for the offal. We will re member you,, whenever we meet again in the mighty gatherings of the faithful, and in the hap piness of our homes. "We will remember you through life, and we. will not forget you at tho gates of death, t'.ius everywhere and at all times, in bur most sacr.ed and solemn moments, and in our purest thoughts, gratefully cherishing your name and dr.er9j nd as now and here, invoking blessings jn you and yours forever," Catching the DeviL Mi. Kellogg, the Buckeye Orator, tell3 a story of a drunkard in Ashtabula, Ohio, who, in a fit of 'delirium tremens, rushed into the street, and meet ing the Mayor, demanded of his Honor a warrant to arrest the DeviL The Mayor refused the ma niac's request, but wildly seizing him by the throat he demanded a warrant, or he would tear the heart frem his "body. The Mayor seeing how it was, to appease him, granted the following warrant which is a correct copy of the original now in posses sion of Mr. Kellogg : " Borough of Ashtabula. To any constable ,,of said Borough Greeting.. You are hereby . com manded to take the Devil, and bring him beforo mo to answer unto Samuel Gifford in a plea of " Delirium Trc.mens," To his damage of one bar rel of Whiskey amount $500. John J. Posey, Mayor." The poor demented man seized the warrant and hurried away, feeling as if half his troubles would soon be at end. Descending into the black re gions of despair with an old Bible under his arm, 'lib commenced his Herculean task of arresting the oUFEvil One himself and all his imps who had so sorelyfflictod him. Some resistance was made by tjlcftnhabUn.nts of the nether world, hut soon they .became frightened, ran away, at.d left the brimstone coast entirely clear. The maniac as cended from the dark abodes, feeling as if he had gained a great victory, and as he was walking along tho streots of the Borough in triumph, he met a Presbyterian minister who accosted him very politely and inquired after his health. " Say nothing to me sir," said tho maniac. " You've been preaching here several years, and nover been able to drive the Devil out of the place, but I, sir, (and he spoke very pompously) in a half an hour have licked all hell with only one poor old Bible," taking the sacred volume from under his arm and showing it to trie minister apparently in much triumph. Boston Mail.
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