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Baltimore—S. E. corner of baltimore and Cal- vert streets. New York—Number 10 Nassau street. Boston—Number 16 State street. P03T.7.T. The Empty Cradle. IST 1111111 HATNIiI F. GOULD. She ids by the cradle with sadness and sighing., And holds the smell choo that her fair infant wore: Bar black-ribboned bonnet beside her is lying, tAnd dark ate her feet from the path they've come o'er; For she has been out where the light breeze was sweeping The drops from the flower., which the night hod been weeping Around the fresh grave where her Weil one was sleeping So soundly its mother could wake it no more! 'Twee there she sped forth, when the morn yet was blushing With rose-tinte arid saffron the mild Orient sky; •And there was she bowed, whilst the hot tears were gushing To shower the clod. from her wo•clouded eye. She whispered—she called—but her child did not hear her; Her lips to its bbd she brought nearer and nearer; Than life, with 411 ewe, oh, she felt it were dearer Her darling to clasp but a moment--and die! For this wait the hour, when, in beauty awaking, Her babe had been wont her glad soul to Moine; And now her worn heart-apnea we're bleedirmand w breaking, The glory of morn wept her spirit in gloom! And death and the grave seemed their suppliantb apuruing; When back, in despair, to her chamber returning, All drooping and torn and with fund bosom yearn• ing, She sought from the cradle what lay in the tomb, But drear is its void—and its coldness, how chill• ing! With soft infant breathing. it soothes not her , 06T. 'Tie grief's bitter essence all round it distilling; ;Liar cherub is gone—and death's loneliness here. Oh! kern, keen toe anguish the now childless moth. er Retires in her babe's empty cradle to smother; And, known to her soul and its God, but none other, The weight of her wo and the price of her tear! (' For the "Huntingdon Journal." The Tariff. To the author of ~ .flow it Works," in the Hun tingdon Globe, of the 7th ult.: Sin—lt was with feelings of proforind commis eration I rose from the gerund of your communica tion, in which you stigniatixe the Protective sys tem is dunconetitutional, odious, Unjust and highly oppreitive." That a yottng man should prostitute brilliant attainments by denouncing a system which hts.unfettered the whole. nation from a miserable dependence upon foreign countries for many of our supplies, rind thrown around our own laborers ind mechanics a shield which will soon enable them to defy the competition of the world, has in it sortie thing id kindle indignation and inspire scorn in Ov- ery man, whose heart beats true for the triumph of American skill and industry, over the pauper labor of Europe end the machination. of foreign foes. That you will succeed in convincing any rational mind that the policy you advocate is correct, I have no serious apprehensions; for sad experience has illustrated the deetructße tendencies of Free Trade with a clearness that "lie who runs may read, and the wayfaring man thohgh a fool cannot err therein." Your course on this vital question exhibits so much incongruity that I trust you will pardon me for briefly reverting to it here. In the campaign of 1844 you wore conspicuous in singing hotlines to James K. Polk, and your voice was loud in pro claiming Crum the stump and in bar-rooinsihat your candidates were the real friends of Protection, and to make neurone° doubly sure, you pointed the iacillating to your banners, as they fluttered in the breeze, with the inscription,..Polk, Dallas, Shunk ind the Democratic Tariff 011842," glittering up on their folds, to corroborate your assertions: they believed you, and the result was the complete tri• emph of your candidates, by means so dishonest and kandheit that it has axed a stein upon the r2=uraffßl:el2/..,•Mct), 4z.&.v.r s2EO,, aEo.c.a!t. character of your party as indelible as that on the band of Lady Macbeth, "The damned spot it will not out." And, now, when it ie notorious that those whom you and yout coadjutor. elevated to power ate bit terly hostile to Protection; when they now call upon the Democracy all over the lend to aid them in crushing the Tariff of 1842, by rolling over it the free-trade car of Jugerneut, we discover that a "change has come o'er the spirit of your dreams," and find yoU with a devicable pliancy, contempti ble even in the vilest parasite, obeying the official mandate, and, with furious zeal, anathematizing the same Tariff which, a few short months ego, ;you eulogized to the skies, as heing all "your fancy painted it--inost lovely and divine." It has now become a bill of abominations that grinds down the poor, and you assert, with a recklessness in com plete harmony, however, with your party character, that its opperations are only advantageous to the cotton nabob and the iron lord, whose sole object is to amass wealth, that they may ride rough-shod over the balance of the community. If a man may believe you now, this odious and abominable Tar iff is so selfish that it would take the bread from the lips of eterving indigence—ruin Agriculture and bury Commerce beneath the ocean's wave. These ate your present sentiments; what a beau tiful iontreat they present when compared with the declarations of 1844! Yet there is nothing repug nant in thin to the eyes of modern Democracy; for she ha. established it as a dogma that every good democrat must become an automaton, and turn about and wheel about and do just as his party leader pulls the string; he must wear his principles as he does his garment., en that lie can change them as occasion may requkroe. Were there any person in your ranks who received his lessons on Democracy from the gifted Jefferson, I should think from very shame he would hang down his head, "And blush to think himself a man," were he to accommodate himself to the rapid changes required by the chameleon leaders of mod ern Locofocoism. But you can do it; oh yea!— Old Protein' was a booby compared to you, the harlequin in the circus cannot change his attitudes with half the facility that you can your principles. Why, sir, you must have acquired your skill from studying the book of Sadi, as expounded by that old veteran Fatlladeen in Torn Moore', Lana Rookh. Hear him: "When the Prince at noonday (even though the sun be shining brightly at the time) nays it is night, you must all confirm his assertion by pointing to the heavens and swear that you behold the moon and stars, for the Prince hath said it, and the Prince cannot lie." Mr. Polk. Secre tary, Walker, says that the Protective policy is ruining the whole country; and he asserts this at a time too when the United States is bounding for ward in her prosperous and happy career with the joy and rapidity of an eagle just set free. Yet you, like a good obedient Locofoco, confirm his declara tion. by asserting that boldness is languishing, and the poor mechanics end laborers are Buffering dire fully in consequence of the extortions at' cotton na bobs and iron lords, for Mr. Polk has tiadl i t through his oracle, %Volker, and it meat be no; because neither the high Priest nor the oracle cab he, Bahl You assert With much gravity that "trade is now languishing." Is this true! I answer, emphatical • ly, no; and assert that business of all kinds is now more prosperous than it has been since 1836. Dv you ask for the evidence! Look around you and behold it. You can hear its voice in every breeze, and you can see its symbols upon every canal, Rail• road and navigable stream. Go ask the mechanic and he will tell you he has as much work as he can do. The fanner will tell you that he finds a ready market fur all his product, at satisfactory prices. Go to the habitations of the furnacernan, the forge man, the woodchopper, and the collier, and you will see contentment's happy smile irradiating every countenance. Ask them about oppression and they will tell you that they never saw its image nor felt its withering blight. Do you require more evidence! Then go among our mountains, follow the sinuosities of our hundred streams in places where, but a few years ago, solitude reigned supreme, and furnacesand forges in the full tide of auccessful operation will flash upon your astonish ed vision, like the soldiers of Roderick Dhue ap peared to Fitz-James at a blast of his bugle. It will seem like enChantment, yet it is stern reality. Again. You assert that this odious Tariff ofl 1842 ..compels the farmer to sacrifice his producti at low prices, whilst he finds en increase in the price of all the implements of his vocition, and in the prices of salt, sugar, coffee, iron, &c., and on all the necessaries of food and clothing for himself and family." Really, sir, it seems to too that you know as little about the present and former prices of goods as the "man in the moon." And, were it not for your occasional reference to the year 1842, the lamentable ignorance you display of facts and figu sea would induce me to suppose that you are a second Rip Van Winkle, who has been sojourning in the lard of dreams for the last six or seven years, and stow, having just waked up, seize your pen . and describe things as they were at the time yoU fell asleep, under the impression that you are giv ing an accurate portraiture of things as they now exist. But, be that as it may, lam extremely W- I py to have it to my power, (thanks to the Tariff, of 1842,) to show you that your assertions, as quilted above, are as far from the truth as are the soles asunder. Why, air, there is not a single ipicle that you have enumerated but has very materially fallen in price since the paisage of the Protective Taiiff. If it be true, (and you assert in the most positive terms bat it is,) that the duties imposed by the present tariff must increase the price of eve ry article consumed by the farmer, the laborer, and the mechiMie, hOw does ithappen then that Cloths, Cassimeres, atinets, Muslins, Calicoes, Alpachas, Groceries of all kinds, Iron, Nails, Boots, Shoes, Hats, Hardwar'e of ail kinds, and indeed every arti cle upon which this horrible Tariff of 1942 imposes a duty, are now mold match lower than they were in 1841 and 1842, when there was in operation what was about equivolent to no tariff at all? An swer me that master Brook. As the proof of the pudding is in the eating, to use o trite adage, allow me to refer you to the following table made up from my own experience, aided by the books of a merchant in this town, where you rill be able to ascertain the average prices of the articles enumera ted, for thefour years preceding the passage of the present Tariff, and the average prices of the same articles in the time that has elapsed since the bill went into operation. Previous to 1942. Since 1842. Plaister per ton 1,11.00 no duty. $7.50 Salt per bus. 1.00 62i do LK 3.00 2.00 Coffee per lb. 15/ same quality 10 Sugar do 11 do do 8 Domestic Muslin per yd. 11 do do 9 Calica per yard 18i do do 12/ Broadieloth per yard 6.50 do do 5.00 Cassimerea do 3.00 do do 2.00 Merino. do 75 do do 50 Nails per lb. 8 6/ do per keg 6.50 5.00 Glass per box 4.75 3.25 And I here defy you to name a single article, either of domestic or foreign manufacture (except I liquors and silks) which has not been reduced in stead of raised in price since the passage of the present Tariff, notwithstanding the advance in the *ice of labor and material. Is thin grinding down the poor, oppressing the mechanics and robbing the farmer? Every man who has brains enough to draw an inference from established facts will an- over no. Why, sir, the farmer finds a ready market and good prices for his Rye, Corn, Oats, Hay; beef, Pork, Potatoes, Hinter and indeed every other ag ricultural product, at the very forges and furnaces which the Tariff of 1842 caused to be erected. Is this not affording him a home marker! le this no advantage to the farmer? Go ask the two (Inners in our town whether the Tariff of 1942 has de pressed their business, end they will answer no. Go to our tailor. with the some question and they will tell you, notwithstanding the Israeli. you al lude to is in town, that their art was never more prosperous. Go to the man who toils ~f rom dewey morn till duakey eve" for his daily bread, and he too will tell you that he experiences none of the eppressions you have so pathetically described; and that he can buy more for his dollar now than he could before the year 1842. It is melee. to multi ply instances. In a word, then, go to any and ev ery anon who is engaged in a legitimate or lawful pursuit, and they will all give the lie to your reek less assertion "that trade languishes," or that any class of the community endures the wrongs you ra j tribute to the Protective system, except Shylocks and foreign Importers. mud have opticks sharp I weep, Who sees what is net to be seen." Experience, that unerring arbiter, has demon strated beyond all doubt or cavil, that a Protective Tariff like the present is the great desideratum we have so long needed to regulate and adjust the in equalities which have heretofore existed in our com merce with foreign nations. Previous to its estab liehmout our country was annually drained of its specie to supply the deficiency occasioned by our imports exceeding our exports. In a word—We bought more than we sold, and it does not r;quire a very sagacious or astute man to foresee what the consequence would be if this system of ruin and extravagance was adhered to for any considerable length of time. Our great staple products were taken from us by the English and French and paid fur with their manufactured goods instead of their dollars. And in addition to this they forced theii goods into our markets (there being, comparatively, no duty ut the time) sod sold theta at auction in such immense quantal's, fur the cash, that our markets becoming overstocked our own manufactti rem were compelled toiuspend business, and thou sands of them, paynient too. The tariff bill was passed, and the very next year proved that it had realized the predictons and anticipations of its friends—England ant' France unable to do without our raw materials, timid that under the beneficient influence of Protectiin we had gone to work and were making many t the same fahricka with which they had been in the 'habit of exchanging with us for our cotton and Other staple pioducts, so that they were compellel to pay us in silver instead of bread cloths, cvssinerea, calicos &c. The balance of trade was in ow favor ; we sold more than we bought and the happy result is our present inde pendent and flourishing condition. And now for south, this well trieC and glorious system, which has lavished "permaneit benefits and blessings" all over the land with aprodigality unparalelled in the history of any nation tart bo crushed ; the whole some restraints which unposes upon trade must be abolished to make 4om for Mr. Walker's poi dragon—Free Trade! Pray, Sir, what VI. Tariff of 1842 was est try was agitated with our condition before the fished The whorticouti ery convulsion eiiiving out of the disordered state of trade. The wheels of the mannfacturer had ceased to revolve—the hammer of the Forgo was silent—the fires of the Furnace were extinguished—the arm of industry was paralyzed—the spirit of enterprise had folded her wings and dark cloud., big with portentous ruin, hung like a pall over every branch of business threatening to burst and wheiin the whole American System in an abyss of destruction. The Tariff of 1842 was eatabllshed. Now mark the change.— The coverint was made and the radiant bow of Protection rested upon the sable bosom of the clouds. The people hailed it with bon fires, illu minations and rejoicing; those whom the evils of the times had prostrated in the rind rose, Phcenix like, and with happy hearts began to restore that which had been so ruthlessly destroyed ; all classes of the community felt its revivifying influence; the air again became vocal with the tumult of a vast and industrious people once more engaged in the thousand branches of social occupation ; everything moves on as "merrily as a marriage bet!," and the whole country once more realizeir the declaration at General Jackson of being 'Free, prosperous,And happy"— . This is not an exaggeratedpiitirre; it even falls short of the reality, and yet, with arguments en compassing you on every hand as with an atmos phere, showing you clearly that you are recommen ding a system which has proved as ruinous in prac tice as it is false in theory, you still persist, with aurprismg pertinacity, in your endeavors to convince the people that a Protective Tariff is "unjust and highly oppressive." Vain attempt! Our Ameri can mechanics have purchased their knowledge of Free Trade at too great a sacrifice to ever forget its admonitions; besides Sir, I am proud to say that they do not possess those cringing and fawning attributes which makes the spaniel o Crouch, with blind instinct, moo the rod, And lick the foot that trends him in the dust." In conclusion allow me to assure you, (for you seem not to know the fact) that our mechanics and laborers possess too touch "sound sense and solid information," ever to become captivated or lead astray by your Utopian arguments, which, perhaps, would sound like the harmony of truth in the ears of adolescency, but when proclaimed to full grown men they vibrate upon their understanding with all the discord of a lie, and sad experience has taught many of them that free trade, which you represent as possesing all the beauty and gentleness of the dove, will, when adopted and taken to their bosorrts display the viler and more destructive attributes of the Vulture. VIA'I'OR. nurlarsadon, Jan. 85, 1846. Roger W illiams, In February of the first year of the colony of Massachusetts, but a few months after the arrival of Winthrop, and before either Cotton or Hooker embarked ftd New England, there arrived ut Nan tucket, after a stormy passage of thirty-six days, a young minister, godly and zerilens, having pre cious gifts.' It was ROGER WILLIAM, He was then but little moro than thirty years of age; but his mind had already matured a doctrine which se cures him an immortality of fame, as its applica tion baa given perice to the American world. He was a puritan, and a fugitive from Englislipersecu tion ; but his wrongs had not clouded Id. mourate understanding. In the capacious recesses of his own mind he had revolved the nature of intole:ance, and he alone had arrived at the great principle which is its sole remedy. He announced his dis covery under the simple proposition under the saw tity of conscience. The civil magistrate should re strain crime, but never control public opinion— should punish guilt, but never violate the freedom of the soul. The doctrine contained within itiplf a complete reformation of theologteul jurispruderolte; it would blot from the statute book the felony k non-conformity ; quench the fires that persecutiou l had so long been burning ; would repeal every law compelling attendance on public worship ; would abolish tithes and all forced contributions to the maintainanco of religion ; would give an equal protection to every form of religious faith ; and nev er suffer the authority of the civil government to be enlisted against the mosque of the Massulman or the altar of the fire worshiper. ; against the Jewish synagogue or the RomoM Cathedral. It is wonder ful with what distinctness Roger Williams deduced those inferreiMes from his great prim iPle—the con sistency with which, like Pascal and Edwards, those bold and profound reasoners on other subjects, he accepted every fair inference from his doctrine., and the circumspection with which he repelled every unjust imputation. In the unwaveiing as sertion of his views he never changed his position ; the sanctity of conscience be defended, as he first trod on shores of New England ; and in his ex treme old age, it was the last pulsation of his I heart. At a time when Germany was the battle field of all Europe in the implacable wars of the revolution ; when even Holland was bleeding with the anger of vengeful factions ; when France was still to go through the fearful struggle with bigotry; when England was gasping under the despotism of intol erance ; almost half a century before William Penn became proprietary ; and two years before Descartes founded modern philosophy on the method of free reflection—Roger Williams asserted the great doc- trine of intellectual liberti. It became his glory to stamp himself upon its rising institutions in char acter so deep that the impress has remained to the present day, and can nem be erased without tbs total destruction of the work. The principle which he first sustained amidst the bickering of a colonial parish, next in the general Court of Massachusets, and then introduced into the wilds on the Norm ganset Boy, he soon found occasion to publish it to the world, and to defend as the basis of the religious freedom of mankind; so that, borrowing the rhet oric employed by his antagonist in derision, we may compare him to the lark, the pleasaUt bird of the peaceful summer, that affecting to soar aloft, springs upward from the ground, takes his rise front pale to tree,' and at last surmounting the highest hills, utters his clear carols through the Alea of the morning. He was the first person in modern chris tendom to assert in its plentitude the doctrine of the liberty of conscience, the equality of opinions be fore law, and in its defence he was the harbinger of Milton, the precursor and the superior of Jeremy Taylor. For Taylor limited his toleration to a few christian sects; the philanthropy of N.Villiants com- I Passed the earth ;—Taylor favored partial reform, commended lenity, argued for forbearance, and en tered a special plea in behalf of each tolerable sect; Williams would permit persecution of no opinion, of no religion, leaning heresy unharmed by law, and orthodoxy unprotected by the 'terrors of penal statutes. Taylor still clung to the necessity of positive reg• ulntions enforcing religion and eradicating error ; he resembled the poets, who, in their folly, first de clare their hero to be invulnerable, and clothe him in earthly armor:, Williams was willing to let truth alone, in her own panoply of light, believing that if, in the ancient feud between truth and error, the 1 employment of force could be entrely abrogated, 1 truth would have the best of the bargain. It is the custom of mankind to award high honors to the successful enquirer into the laws of nature, to those who advance the bounds of human knowledge.— We praise the man who first analysed the air, or resolved water into elements, or drew the light nings from the clouds; even though the discover -1 ies may have been as much the fruit of time as of genies. A moral principle has a much wider and nearer influence on human haPpiness , nor can any discovery of truth be of more direct benefit to soci ety than that which establishes a perpetual religious peace, and spreads tranquility through every com munity and every bosom. If Copernicus is held in perpetual reverence, because on his death bed, he published to the world that the sun is in the centre o . f our system; if the Mime of Kelper is p reserved in tho annals of human excellence fir liii sagacity lin detecting the hiws of the plitifetary motion ; if the genius of Newton 13119 been almost adored for i dissecting a ray of light and yea/glair., heavenly bodies as in a balance—let there be for Roger Wil- I hams at least autos humble place among those who I have advanced moral science and made themselves the benefactors of mankind. wttx. roitami TXIE I US xiTIE ,LEVEL/FD. I will forget the when the spring in over, I whispered faintly tn thy IMUnting shade, When murmuring bees from out the sweet breathed clover Steal honey-laden down the silent glade ; When deep, dark forests wills their penciled sha dows, Thick dressed with summer foliage repose ; And when like ocean isles the upland meadows, Unrol their verdure to the dewy skies. But now, the spring with magic light and beauty, But bids me fold these memories to my breast, The sterner voice cf pride, and woman ' s duty; Not note may break my sweet, delicious rest I will forget thee ! Ah, the summer breezes Come stealing softly through my casement bars,-- : 3till memory faithful to the by-gone seizes Upon the past: and hero beneath the stare, Where summer dews dros downward with a bless ing, Where none might dream of earthly sin or ill, ridnet my very will, and wish transgressing, .f kneel and clasp this love-dream closer still! \ Oct in summer, when each flower is Wiling tale of passion to the dainty .air„ , 0 Bee. ve me of,the bliss my bosom swelling, T .lunge mo outward into deep despair. I Anil ~r e.,et thee, when the year is dying, Vt h rosy hours no moro throng round the y; And col std co:orless the leaven are lying, That q Ivered,brightly in the solstice ray: When ea. thing fair and lovely has hens stricken, And Be. ty's children level lie in dtist; When tern • t bearing clouds more darkly thicker.. And birds he sunshine and the air distrust,— Then, shall a tuinnal spirits grieving wander Among the „ ins of the seasons past, And this fond tart shall cease to hold and pon der The hopes, no and cherished to the last' AtrecnoTs.— the late Richard ni date for the repro 1, , told his father tha "; a label on his ford side with tho party I *Right, , add the word 'unfurl Cu , tY et on Thomas elherideh, eon of -inky bheritlan, wee a candi- Aation of n COrnieh borough, be 'he succeeded Le should phtl./ id, with the words , to let,' and it node the beet Wet. it , father, 'but don't forget to •What are you writ) hand (or, Pat!' dale, and I'm wriiin' a auch a diundcring big lu see Yny grandntd.heee tette,' to her? `QTESiIIn. (1.)r1.c €) A BEAuTIVUL Fsce- 7 is like a lovely end fra gile , flower fair and delightetil to look upon.-- Painted by a master hand, we watch its colorings with a tender cegard-.--saaeon it with greet Wee tion--would bear it to our bosom, and win it os our own. For a while it is the. living idol of our daily praisp—the charm which binds ue with a willing power. But time breeds the canker. Its beauty diminishes—its freshness is gone; decay scarce leases a trace of what svas once et pride and a wor ship. It iron our bosom still, but elari . .itis there in pity that it should be mortal, and must parish. A 13act:Fisi, Mr.ern—ds like it precious and prolific seed--the mother of lovelinene=the foun tain of bliss 7 -the produce of many treasured and ineatimabla flowers—Which neither canker can de far; nor tine destroy. Even should there be those of its lovely produce pass twiny, yet the source is there--the Seed remains to revive—to remodify— to place again on our bosom and near our hearts, in renewed beauty—in the same deep interest and winning power its at find. We Would geiher it as the richest possession--as the well spring of the purest,. most abundant and enduring joys—as our support—our comfort--and, the cherished o& ject, worthy of our highest admiration; end we could cling to it, thanking (led that it is immortal —living forever.--.4dvocale. 'P. Tarn DocTntnx.--A Iriend 11.3 eloquent• ly speaks: "The true doctrine ie this—if a man has ten cents in his pocket and owes ho men any thing, he is rich, yea +ich !--,far above three who, with ail the externals of wealth and pomp and hol low hearted fashion, are In reality poor in puree, poor in pleasure. must as a man increaser in dal ' lars,lie decreases in the capapility of enjoying this life. And 1 hold it true that the world was made to be enjoyed, and that drily- 7 hourly—every minute. I would not give a fig for etch pleasure as springs alone from wealth. A man must have it in him, There is no blood in a turnir —but there is life in a dry pebble to the Men that can era it. There is fire in a flint—and power in a drop of water, if ! you will only take the pains to bring it out. It ie the internals that makes the man, not the Wet , nals." r.":"fA New Englander,. riding ins railroad car, off South West somewhere, seemed particularly disposed to astonish the Other passengers with . tough stories about Yankeetloni. At last he men ' tioned that one of his neighbors owned an immense dairy, and made a million pounds of butter and • million pounds of cheese y early. This story pro duced some sensation, and the Yankee perceistni thatl,t. veracity was in danger of being questioned, appealed to n friend en follenvel— .True„ isn't it, Mr. P. speak ufDeacon Brevity —you know Deacon Brown?' 'Ye-e•s, replied the friend, that is yes; I know Dcaciin brown, I dbn't know as I ever heard pre cisely how many pounds of butter and cheese he 1-;nicen a year, but I know that he has twelve saw• mills that by Futter milk.' Geou.—A few days ago, a gentleman, looking over his tailor's account, observed a charge of sev en shillings more on a coat than he had been ue, costumed to pay. On inquiring, the tailor inform• ed him that he had lee obliged to take up an ad ditional quantity ofcloth. 'Why,' exclaimed the gentleman, 'it was leered) , half a year ego that you told meyoii managed to get a waistcoat for your little boy froM What remained of the cloth you made my coat from; I cannot conceive why I should require more now, as I ern convinced I have not increased any in size since that period.' 'Pio sir,' said the tailor, 'you are .inuch the santq es, tisual, but my little boy is so suprisingly grown that you would scarcely know him.' The following linos aro not remarkable for poo• try, biit the sentiment is excellent. An ohaereancei of the direction would make the world happier an 4 wetter • What are another's faults to me I've not a vulture!. bill. To pick at every flaw I see, And Make it wider 0111: It is enough for me tp know I've follies of tni own And on pay hettrA the care bestows And let my friend's alone:" ita!eigh Regieler. t'Wq never yet knew a bpy or a man who from early life spoke, truth and si.untied a falsehood. that was not virtuous in all other respects, and who did not acquire and enjoy the confidence end esteem of society. Truthfulness hi one of the chief corner stones in a good and reer.ectable character. Youeg man !--never utter a falsehood f--never be tempted . to depart front st;ict truth in all you say. False words cotrie kom a false heart and a false beset breeds emruption that. Soon taints sod spoils the whole charoctet." Lusa no Peon., ,—The, Cineionati Atlas of Thursday last gives a list of eighteen flat boats, firineilitilly laden with dour, 9it 0.1 and sunk by the ice between that city. and Louisville; The cargo'es of acme were cored inn damaged con dition, while others were wholly lost. Thesiearn bout Little Ben is reported Sunk and a total near Liberty, en the Upper Mississippi. The Lucy Long, ditto, in the Ohio, below Louisville. Th Palestine has also been demolished by ice a ft, mile. below the mouth of the Ohio ; Also the Ar , ,4kansaa No. b, boat and cargo total less; also, the Diligence. Then were all steamboats. Five of elk ethers were aground in hazardous conaitieti: