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POETICAL.
TnE room,.
0 happy ye whom Fortune's hand
Ha but with home and fireside blest,
For scarcely can ye understand
The woes that rend the wanderer's breast.
4. God help the poor !" to God alono
The wretched care-worn soul should pray;
Oft pity comes from heaven's throne,
When heartless man but turns away.
" God help the poor!" with shoeless feet
Ho wanders o'er the frozen ground;
Tie midnight hour, and through the street
His weary steps alone resound.
fie knows not where to lay his head--
Sad, hungry, wretched, all foam n
Without a home, without a lied,
lie watches for the lingering morn.
"God help the poor!" but lives there not,
0 charity, thy gentle sway,
To glad the homeless wanderer's lot,
And wipe his hitter tears away.
O happy ye who feel the woes
Of others deeply as your own;
No pious deed rewerdless goes,
Each brings a pleasure of its own.
MISCET,LANEOUS,
THE CROWNED HEADS OF EUROPE.
Eight of the twenty monarchs are
Protestants ; nine are Roman Catholics ;
two of the Greek Church ; and one is a
Mahomedon. Those belonging to the
Greek Church are the Emperor of Rus
sia and the King of Greece. Four of
them are men of irreproachable charac
ters. Many of them are as respectable
as our public men, whom we delight to
honor. The Queens are all of spotless
character, which could not have been
said of former times.
The King of Prussia is decidedly a
pious man. Several of the Queens are
true Christians, as I think, and among
these is the Queen of France. She reads
many religious books. As to talent,
Louis Phillippe, King of the French,
the King of Prussia, and the Emperor.
of Russia, are admitted to rank first ;
and Loui;Phillippe stands pre-eminently
above all. He was educated at a French
college; spent many years in foreign
lands, and then sixteen years in quietly
pursuing his studies. Talleyrand said
lie had no idea of his vast acquirements,
before lie was his minister after he be
came King. He speaks English with
case, and never pronounced but one
word wrong, which was ice, which he
calls Nice. He said, he and his brother
hired a boat at Pittsburg to go down the
river, but were obstructed by the hice.—
This he had learned from the English
cockneys, when lie lived in England.—
He has no minister who is his equal.
The King of Prussia is nearly the
equal of Louis Philippe ; he speaks En
glish well, but not so well as the King
of the French. He is a self-made man.
He was not allowed to get his education
at the German universities, as he desi
red, as it was thought degrading to the
King's son to associate withother young
men. He regrets to this day, that lie
was not permitted to go to the university
and associate with the students. The
King of Sweden graduated at college
and is a fine scholar
The King of Prussia is not popular.—
He is too good a man for that. He pro
poses too many reforms, and pushes
them forward with too much energy to
please the people.
The Emperor of Russia is not inferior
in talent ; but he came unexpectedly to
the throne, at the age of twenty-seven
or twenty-eight years—his brother, the
law heir to the throne, having abdicated
in his favor. He had no time to read.-.
Being a resolute monarch, his duties are
most arduous. He is most devoted to
public affairs. I spoke to him about I
temperance societies, when ho began to
make the objections which were so com
mon here—that brandy was needful for
laborers to give• strength, and protect
them in heat and cold. He also made
objections on account of the revenue
from that source, which is very great.
He, however, at once perceived the force
of my arguments, admitted their cor
rectness, and said, "As for the revenue
we will let it go, and get a revenue some
where else." Nicholas is very decided,
and independent.
A noble of great wealth and talent had
governed his brother Alexander. When
Nicholas came to the throne,in less than
three days he came to see him unasked.
Nicholas said to him, "who asked you
to appear before me know how you
governed my brother, and imposed upon
his meekness. I give you three days
to arrange your affairs in St. Petersburg,
after which time you will retire to your
country seat ;" which he did, and has
remained there ever since.
The King of Sweden is a literary man,
and is the author of several books. He
gave me a copy of his work on Prison
Discipline, just published. The King
of Holland is not so popular ; is an older
man, about fifty-four. He was distin
guished at the battle of Waterloo, and
badly wounded. The King of Denmark
is a man of fair talents, but of no decis
ion of character.
The manners of Princes are polished,
easy and simple. Such are the charac
ters of the nobles of Europe, whom I
have seen. It is easy to converse with
them. They are, however, more formal
to diplomatists. There is more difficulty
to get along with our distinguished men,
who sometimes assume a tone of haugh
tiness which I never saw in a Prince.—
The monarchs ordinarily, and their
Queens, dress in the same plain way as
other well bred people. In public they
of course appear in splendor. The
Queens wear, on ordinary occasions,
very little jewelry.
In the families of the Emperor of
Russia and the King of the French there
is great affectation. —Dr. Baird.
A FAIR OFFER.—Make a full estimate
of all you owe, and all that is owing to
you. Reduce the same to note. As fast
as you collect, pay over to those you owe
—if you cannot collect, renew your notes
every year, and get the best security you
can. Go to business diligently, and.be
industrious—lose no time—waste no mo
ments—be very prudent and economical
in all things—discard all pride but the
pride of acting justly and well—be faith
ful in your duty to God, by regular and
hearty prayer, morning and night—at
tend church and meeting every Sunday,
and "do unto all men as you would they
should do unto you." If you are too
needy in your circumstances to give to
the poor, do whatever else you have in
your power to do for them cheerfully ;
but if you can, always help the worthy
poor and unfortunate. Pursue this course
diligently and sincerely for seven years,
and, if you are not happy, comfortable,
and independent in your circumstances,
come to me and I will pay your debts.
—Franklin.
White Slavery in Mexico,
An officer in the Arkansas Mounted
Riflemen, in the course of a highly in
telligent and graphic letter, dated at
Monclova, and addressed *to the editor
of the New York Spirit of the Times,
mentions the following facts, illustrative
of the odious system of Slavery in Mex
ico :—" I noticed, one evening, our host
ess busily counting money and making
calculations, and curiosity led me to in
quire into the cause. She was about to
buy a girl for a cook, for a debt of 4386,-
60. I learned then and afterwards, that
a man or woman may be sold for debt,
Or a parent may contract a debt, and
pledge his or her child for its payment,
and if it is not paid at the time, the
child is sold. A man so sold, receives,
towards payment of his debt, five dol
lars, and a woman, two, per month. If
the person sold does not like hismaster,
he may procure another to pay the debt
and take him : and when such other
person offers to do so, and the slave con
sents, the first buyer cannot refuse to
take the money. A girl so sold may
marry ; if her husband pays the debt,
she is free—if not, she remains a slave."
WHAT GEN. TAYLOR DOES ENJOY AND
WHAT HE DOES NOT ENJOY.—Gen. Taylor
enjoys the glory of having conquered
the Northern Indians at Fort Harrison.
He enjoys the glory of having conquer
ed the Southern Indians on the Withla
coochie. He enjoys the glory of having
conquered the Mexicans on the immor
tal fields of Palo Alto, Resaca de la Pal
ma, and Monterey. He enjoys the glory
of exhibiting a moderation, a modesty,
and a magnanimity in the hour of vic
tory equal to his transcendent coolness
and skill and courage in the hour of
conflict. But, alas for the unfortunate
old hero, he does not enjoy the honor of
an approving mention inJaines K. Polk's
message to Congress ! Wanting this
glory, what are all his other blended
glories worth'!—Louisville Journal.
CORRECT PRINCIPLES-SUPPORTED Y TRUTH,
HUNTINGDON, PA., JANUARY 27, 1847.
[Correspondence of the North American.]
FROM MONTEREY—INTERESTING LETTER,
.Monterey, (Jlfexico,) Dec. 13, 1846.
GENTLEMEN—Your kind and very ac
ceptable favor of the 28th September,
reached me in November, and found me
busily engaged in my appropriate duties
at this place. On the eve of commenc
ing a long and wearisome march of some
400 miles, first to Victoria, the capital
of Tamaulipas, '2OO miles, and then per-
Imps to Tampico, 200 more, I snatch a
moment from business to thank you for
remembering me so kindly. I should
have written to you before, but my
whole time has been occupied by my
duties. I rise at early dawn at reveille,
and the rising sun finds me at work at
my table, and I stick to it till bed time
with very little relaxation.
You ask about the people we have
been making war against. They are a
mongrel, breed. The basis is the Abo
riginal Indian. This remains to some
extent unmixed, but the Spanish cross
is perceptible with very wide range; and
in the upper classes clearly defined.—
Some boast of unmixed Spanish blood.
There is, too, an infusion of African
blood sometimes perceptible in the lower , 1
grades; that, however, diminishes, as
we proceed interior. The people are
ignorant and debased, and steeped in,
superstition, the Priests holding des
potic sway over their minds, and guid
ing all their actions. I say they are ig
norant, and yet they have a certain de
gree of learning. There are Lancaste
lien schools in all the towns and villages
where children are.taught to read, but I
believe their reading is limited to the re
ligious formulas. It does not extend to
objects of general information.
I have been greatly surprised at the
sterility of the country. It arises main
ly from the absence of seasonable rains.
We have had no rains for three months.
From the Rio Grande to this valley, the
cultivation is Emitted to a little corn,
with the most scanty supplies of vege
tables and fruit. The people seem to
live on corn made into tortillas. a spe
cies of hoe-cuke, the corn being cracked
between two stones, wetted and baked
in thin cakes, and on goat's milk. The
excessive droughts have a singular ef
fect on vegetation. The only trees I
have seen in Mexico, saving half a doz
en near the springs at Seralvo, are at
the Walnut Grove, where our camp is
pitched, four miles from this city, and
where there are several hundred acres
of the live oak, pecan, walnut and other
large trees. The face of the country
generally is a sterile waste. The stint
ed shrubbery showing dead wood among
the branches, having the appearance of
some hardy shrubs with us, acted on by
the frost, the severe drought killing the
branches, as the frost does with us. The
implements of husbandry in use are rude
as can be imagined. The ploughs are
entirely of wood, a sharpened stick be
ing made to stir the surface of the
ground slightly. The carts are rude as
it is possible to imagine, the wheels be
ing of solid timber hewn out and pinned
together. Everything is in the same
way, denoting ignorance, and the slight
est remove from barbarism.
The country is uninteresting as pos
sible, till we approach the Sierre Madre,
the lofty range of mountains that over
hang this city, and stretch for hundreds
of miles north and south. These moun
tains are grand beyond description,shoot
ing their jagged peaks into the very
clouds, and exhibiting light and shade
in more gorgeous colors than I ever be
fore beheld. We all agree that such im
posing and rich mountain scenery is no
where to be found in the United States.
The valley in which this city is built
is nearly surrounded by these moun
tains, and is a rich agricultural district
in spite of imperfect tillage. One thing
is well done—it is thoroughly irrigated
by a well-arranged system of irrigating
canals, by which the mountain stream is
conducted in small rills through every
garden and the fields for two or three
miles outside the town. The water is
let in upon garden squares or whole
fields through small gates, and then con
ducted off at will, and supplies, so far
as can be done, the want of seasonable
rains. The field cultivation of this val
ley is mainly corn, sugar cane, pepper
and beans; but the crops are none of
them of luxuriant growth as they should
be, for want of deep ploughing and pro
per tillage. The gardens in the city are
exceedingly beautiful, abounding in tro
pical fruits ' • the orange and fig predo
minating. The city is built after the
Moorish fashion; the houses of massive
stone, one story high, flat roofs, each
forming an interior court enclosed by
high stone walls or out-buildings, so as
to be perfectly secluded from the intru
sive curiosity of inquisitive neighbors.
The view of the town and valley from
the Bishop's Palace and other surround
ing heights, is of surpassing beauty—
the gardens looking like rich orange
groves, and the enclosures outside the
city having the semblance of high culti
vation, which they have not in fact.
The prices of everything are enor
mously high. These people only labor
enough to support animal life, without
any systematic effort to accumulate pro
perty. They live in ranches—a ranch
is a cluster of huts made of unburnt
bricks, or more slightly of the cane ;
the occupants being of one kin, and
turning out young ones in a way per
' fectly amazing. The common country
costume is, for men, overalls and hat,
without shirt or shoes ; for women, che
mise, sans everything else; children au
natural, as naked as they are born into
the world. Their ranches are filthy
enough. •In the city the better class
dress well ; indeed, genteelly and extra
vagantly; but the women wear no hats,
nor other covering for the head but the
reboza, a very rich long shawl neatly
folded and falling down around the neck
and chest gracefully.
I have written in great haste, without
time to read over what I have written.
If you find time and inclination to write
again, I shall be gratified to hear from
you. Yours, &c.
Petrified human Body Found,
We gathered the following facts from
a gentleman of intelligence and undoubt
ed veracity, who was an eye witness ;
they may therefore be relied upon as
substantially correct:
A few weeks since, while engaged in
digging a well in the lower part of
Lowndes county, Georgia, within about
a mile of the Florida Line, the workmen
found a human body completely turned
to chalk. They had mutilated the body
considerably before they were aware
what it was. After they discovered it
was a human body, they succeeded in
getting nearly or quite all the parts.—
Our informant, with several other gen
tlemen of the vicinity, visited the spot,
and examined it carefully. They say
there is not the least doubt of its being
a human body. There were several
teeth still remaining in the jaw, and the
appearance of three having been extract
ed while the subject was living. The
body, was embedded in a stiff clay about
thirty feet from the surface. The sur
rounding country is a flat pine forest,
heavily timbered, no stream of water of
any magnitude within ten miles. Our
informant was strongly of the opinion
that this body had belonged to one of
the antediluvian race.—.dlbany (Ga.)
Patriot.
Politics in the Army.
The Monterey correspondent of the
New Orleans Bee tells this anecdote :
The mail from your city arrived
here on the sth, with dates up to the
18th ult. Politics do not rage much in
camp or in the town ; but the news from
New York surprised all parties to such
an extent that during Sunday the terms
Democrat and Whig were often heard.
Gen. Taylor received the National In
telligencer with the returns several days
ago, and though by no means a violent
politician, thought the news was too
good to keep, and immediately informed
Generals Butler, Twiggs and Quitman
of the result. He is said to have made
a pun on the occasion, but for the truth
of which I cannot vouch. 'Well how is
New York V asked Butler. 'Right,' was
the answer of Taylor. 'lt will never be
anything else, whilst Silas lives,' replied
Butler. 'Oh,' rejoined Taylor, do not
mean she's old Wright, but Young right'
—and here lie chuckled at perhaps the
first wit he ever attempted.'
A Good One
Hon. Andrew Stewart, a distinguish
ed member of Congress from Pennsyl
vania, has recently paid a visit to Low
ell. He relates, in a letter to the Union
town (Pa.) Democrat, the following an
ecdote :
" In looking over the pay roll or book,
which I accidentally picked up from the
table, I found on twenty-seven consecu
tive pages, containing eight hundred sig
natures, nearly all girls, but a single one
that made a mark or X, all written in a
good and many of them in a most ele
gant hand. The clerk observed to me
that Lord Morpeth, when on a visit to
this country some years ago, happened
to be present on pay day, and with some
surprise, enquired, 'What ! do your ope
ratives write I"Certainly, sir,' said the
clerk, 'Americans all write.' Directly
there came in a man who made his
mark. 'Ah !' said his lordship, with a
smile, thought you said all wrote.'
'All ./Imericans, your lordship—this was
an Englishman.' Whereupon his lord
ship grinned a ghastly smile."
NOBLE.—When Sir Walter Scott was
urged not to prop the falling credit of
an acquaintance, he replied : "The man
was my friend when friends were few ;
and 1 will be his now that his enemies
are many,"
Young Men—Agriculture.
Whatever may be your choice of fu
ture occupation—whatever call or pro
fession you may select, there is cer
tainly none more honorable or enviable
than that of a farmer. The patriarch
of the fields, as he sits besides his cot
tage door when his daily toil is over,-
feels an inward calm never known in the
halls of pride. His labor yields him
unpurchaseable health and repose. I
have observed with more grief and pain
than I can now express, the visible to
kens which appear in all directions of a
growing disposition to avoid agricultu
ral pursuits, and to rush into some of
the over-crowded professions, because a
corrupt and debasing fashion has thrown
around them the tinsel of imaginary re
spectability. Hence the farmer, instead
of preparing his child to follow in the
path of usefulness that he himself has
trod, educates him for a sloth; labor is
considered vulgar ; to work is not gen
teel ; the jack-plane is less respectable
than the lawyer's green-bag ; the han
dles of the plough less dignified than
the yard-stick. Unfortunate infatuation!
How melancholy is this delusion which,
unless it be checked by a wholesome re
form in public opinion, will cover our
country with reek and ruin. This state
of things is striking at the very founda
tion of our national greatness ; it is
upon agriculture that we mainly depend
for our continued prosperity, and dark
and evil will be the day when it falls
into disrepute. What other pursuit of
fers so sure a guaranty of an honest in
dependence, a comfortable support for a
dependent family '1 Where else can we
look but to the productions of the soil
for safety of investment, and for an am
ple return 1 In commercial speculations
all is chance and uncertainty, change
and fluctuations, rise and fall. In the
learned prof ions scarce one in ten
make enough to meet their incidental
expenses ; how, then, are we to account
for this fatal misdirection of public
opinion I—Fisk's ./Iddress.
Decrease of Crime.
It seems, from a charge recently de
livered by Judge Parsons, of Philadel
phia, that the indictments tried in the
court over which he presides, were 102
less during the past year than they were
during the year preceding. It is conso
latory to see even a small diminuti"n in
the number of criminals. It is to be
hoped that, as intelligence becomes more
generally diffused among the people,
still greater improvement in public mo
rals will be observed ; for much of crime
is doubtless attributable to the want of
proper education. We happily live at a
time and in a country that afford no ex
cuse for raising children in ignorance;
as there is scarcely a State in which
provision, more or less ample, has not
been made for the gratuitous instruction
of such children as are too poor to pay
for their education ; whilst cheap books
of every description are so abundant,
that it is almost literally true, that "he
who runs may read." The rising gene
ration have certainly advantages great
ly above those enjoyed in former times,
in respect to the acqusiAon of knowl
edge; and it might, therefore, be ex
pected, that their advadtages would pro
mote their moral improvement. Under
our system of government, nothing is
more important than to have the people
well instructed ; for " virtue and intel
ligence," says an eminent writer, "are
indispensible to a republican govern
ment." If the people be not qualified
by education to exercise the rights
which they possess judiciously, it must
be apparent that republican institutions
may be perverted to the worst of pur
poses ; and, instead of being a blessing,
become a curse."
ABORIGINAL RELICS.-Mr. John How
ard, of Fairhaven, Mass., says the New
Bedford Mercury, while digging sand in
his field, about a mile North of the vil
lage, found the remains of a human ske
leton, which had been apparently buried
in a sitting posture, and had upon its
head a brass kettle with iron bail and
rim, containing a remnant of plaited mat
ting, a girdle of sheet brass about 4 or
5 inches wide, and several brass arrow
heads. They are supposed to have been
buried there in the earliest years of the
colony.
FEDERAL RELATIONS.-A member of
the lowa Legislature was highly indig
nont at the Speaker of the House, when
he announced him a member of the com
mittee on Federal Relations. He consi
dered it a rank, biting insult. "Look
here, Mr. Speaker," said he, " none of
your tricks upon travellers. You need'n t
think that, because I am a new member,
you can run your rigs upon me. I am
not as green as you suppose. Go to
thunder with your federal relations ! I
hain't one of them in the world—and
wonld'nt own him if I had."
[EDITOR AND PROPRIETON,
WHOLE NO, 574.
MOM BRAZIL.
DIIULTIES BETWEEN THE
I R OF THE U. S. AND THE
BR ZILLIAN AUTHORITIES.
The following account of the difficul ,
ties which has recently occurred between
the Brazillian Government, and Mr,
Wise the U. S. Minister, is taken from
the New York Sun :
"The difficulty originated in the arrest
of two men from the U. S. Ship Colum
bus, who were on shore while the ves
sel was at anchor in the harbor of Rio.
The men got intoxicated, and while pro
ceeding through the streets to go on
board, were placed under arrest and con
veyed to prison. Lieut. Davis, of the
Columbus, was on shore with the men ;
being at some distance at the time of
their arrest, he followed, calling on them
to accompany him. Before he got up,
they were taken into the fort, he drew
his sword in evidence of his authority
as an officer of the United States, and
demanded their release.
The guards then beckoned to him to
come in, and supposing them desirous
of having an interview with him in re
lation to the men, he did so but imme
diately found himself and his men pris
oners. Mr. Wise, the U. S. Minister,
being apprised of the occurrence by Com
modore Rosseau, of the Columbia, open
ed a correspondence with the Brazilian
government, demanding their release.—
The reply being deemed unsatisfactory,
was answered by another communication
from the Minister, informing them that
the Columbia would open her batteries
upon the city in two hours, if Lt. Davis
and his men were not released within
that time. The Lieutenant was prompt- ,
ly released, but the men were detained
under a plea that being found intoxica
ted in the streets, they were amenable
to punishment by the civil authorities.
Farther correspondence ensued, the men
still remaining in custody. 'A day or
two after this occurrence, the Emperor's
youngest child, the infanta Isabella was
christened, the ceremonies being honor
ed by salutes from vessels of war, and
the illumination of the dwellings of the
foreign ministers. The fete lasted a
whole week. But Commodore Rosseau
and Mr. Wise declined to join in any
ceremonies of this character until full
reparation had been made for the insult
offered to their country. The author
ities requested the Commodore to fire a
salute, which he declined doing. Mr.
Wise and the other Americans did not
illuminate their dwellings, and have con
sequently been subjected to repeated in
sults. The son of the Consul was as•
saulted in the streets, and seriously
wounded. The subject was taken up in
the national Parliament, then in session.
The House of Commons passed a bill
requesting the withdrawal of Mr. Wise,
but the upper House rejected it, and the
Commons tendered their resignation in
a body. Thus the affair rested at last
advices, the men being still in prison.—
During the excitement at Rio, the Cali
fornia boys arrived and resolved to have
an opposition christening of one of our
American sovreigns, two of whom were
born on the passage. A splendid silver
cup was provided as a present for the
young volunteer, whom the Chaplain
duly christened ..alto California. Col.
Stevenson stood God-father on the occa
sion. All the officers of the ships and
many of the Americans were present.—
The volunteers were allowed full privi
leges on shore, but there had not been
a single desertion.
Capt. Morer, of the California Volun
teers, was sent home with despatches
from Mr. Wise, and has proceeded di
rectly to Washington.
Hostilities were daily anticipated be
tween Brazil and the Argentine Repub
lic. A large body of Brazillian troops
had already marched to the frontier.
klr It was in the church of St. Nich
olas, that I first became aware of a very.
sensible German custom—that of con
centrating the cough and nose-blowing
during service time. The clergyman
stops at different periods of his dis
course, steps back from his pulpit stand
and blows his nose—the entire congre
gation imitating his example, and dis
turbing the service with the operation
at no other time.—.N. P. Willis.
ID- " Sam, is you 'quainted with any
legal gemman ob dis place 7"
"None, 'cen t by repudiation—reputa
tion I means. '
" Well, den, why am lawyers like
, fishes '?"
--- T , lcioerent meddle wid dat subjee, at
all."
“Why, 'kaae dey am fond ob de bait!”
(debate.)
fa- The special election for Senator
in Delaware and Marion counties, Ohio,
has resulted in the election of the Whig
candidate, by a majority of 1080—a gain
of 775 on the Governor's vote.