ST ROBERT WHITE IMDDLETOII.I
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-"With sweetest flowers enrich'd.
From various gardens cull'd with care."
TIIOU WERT NOT THERE.
BY LIEUTENANT 0. W. PATTON, 11. H. A.
Thou wart not there—from morn till night
All passion-toat, I chid the day ;
For though the sun went down in light,
The hours lie mark'd still seom'd to stay;
With lingering touch I swept the string,
But vainly rang the whiling air;
Time hasten'd not his loaded wing—
Thou wert not there.
Thou wert not there that eye to see,
To know tho long—long watch it kept ;
That eye whose light but shone for thee,
Whose every tear for thee was wept.
It was not strange for days and days
Its glances roved with vacant stare ;
Thou were not by to fix its gaze—
Thou wort not there
Thou were not there—yet fever bound—
My throbbing brow with cords of flame ;
And strangers heard, who lingered round,
My wandering tongue pronounce thy name,
They welded my temples' deepening glow,
They saw the grief my spirit hare ;
While thou—the cause of all my woe—
Thou wart not there !
THE ANGEL'S BIDDING.
brother, come up—oh leave the earth
And all ifs sordid cares awhile,
And re-assert thy heavenly birth,
Where all creations glories smile
-0 hither come !
Brother r come up—our skies are fair,
• No .clouds come o'er the face of day,
No storms deform the balmy air
That loves around our hills to play
-0 hither come!
Brother, coma up !—the flowers that bloom
In earth's fair garden, fade and die,
But here they waft their soft perfume •
Through heaven's sweet vales eternally.
0 hither come!
Brother, come up—Jet earth still lure
The heart that lovese changing scene—
Be thine the realms that still endure,
In beauty perfect and serene.
0 hither come!
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In one of the loveliest villages of old Virginia•
there lived in the year 175—, as old man, whose
daughter was declared, by universal consent, to be
the loveliest maiden in all the country round. The
veteran, In his youth, had been athletic and mus
cular above all his fellows; and his breast; where
he always wore them, could show the adornment
of three medals, received for his victories in gym
nastic feats when a young man. His daughter
was now eighteen, and had been sought in mar
riage' by many . suitors. One brought wealth—
another a fine person—another this, and another
that. But they were all refused by the old man,
who became at last a by-word for his obstinacy
among the young men of the village and neigh- 1
borhood.
At length the nineteenth birth-day of Annette,
his charming daughter, who was as amiable and
modest as she was beautiful, arrived. The morn
ing of that day, the father invited all the youth of
.the country to a hay-making frolic. Seventeen
handsome and industrious young men assembled.
They. carne not only, to make hay,but also to make
love 4 the fair Annette. In three hours they had
filled The father's barns with the newly dried grass,
and their owtOiearto with love. Annette, by her
coinidstid, had brought the malt liquor of
. '44V:crown brinalng, which she presented to each on
**aid with her own fair hands.
lOW, my boys," said the old keeper of the jewel
4 ;they all 'coveted, as leaning on their pitch-forks
assembledround - the door in the cool of the
eve g. ofpiliiit;ray,„lialis, you have nearly all of
t yolitAoa 7 prolisatalefor my Annette. Now, you
..- '•: . `"-; , cieNtilbre.t,..irinkaay,thing about money or talents,
book bitiiing:lioTeoldier lanilitg---1 can do as well
my gal neatly man in the torintry. But I want
her to marry.* man of. my own grit., Now, you
"know, or ought to kitow;:when.l was a youngster
• I could beat anything in all Virgirini in the way
o' leaping. I got my old, woman by beating the
smartest man.on the' gclSterli §hori, and I tiaire
. took the oath arid !Worn it, thakrio man shall mar
ry my daughter without jumping for it.' You un-•
.deratand me, boya. ~ There's the green, and hare's
Annette." he - aged, takinq his daughter,wheetood
timidly behind him, by thi hand. “Now,the one
that jumps the furtherest on a 'dead level; shall
marry Annetta this very night."'
This uniquiliaddiess was receiv*by the young
men with applietie. bumf* youth, as he
'bounded gaily# . 7virdialhaiiieria..of trial, cast a
glance of eiylntektriaon the lovely
object oi4iliefirr. "";
The maidens left their
16idiiiiiting'franies, the child?eti their noisy
sports, the sliyes their labors,' and the old men
,their chairs and lorigpipes; to witness and tri
umph in - the success of tho victor. All prophesied
and many wished that it would be young Carroll.
.:‘4lti was the:
_handsomest and beet humored youth
the country, and all knew that a strong mutual
attachment existed belwesn hinx end the fair An.
trailtili had wen the repritation of being
the . abeat - . leerier," and la a country where such
athletic achievements wertMhe einequa non of a
=Wit cleverness, this was wtdinary honor. In
a contest like the present b e ad, ad, therefore, every
:advantage over his fellow edam.
The arena allotted for this hymonial contest was
- st level space in front 'of 'the village inn, and near
centre of a grass plat, reserved in the midst of
the - village, denominited the “green." The ver
dure was quite worn off at this place by previous
exercises of a similar kind, and a hard surface of
sand, more befittingly for the, purpose to which it
wad to be u•od, supplied its place.
The father of the lovely, bltishing, and withal!
happy Prise, (for she well knew who would win.)
with three other 'patriarchal villagers, were the
judges appointed to decide upon the claims of the
several c.orupetitors. The last time Carroll tried
his skill in this exercise, be , teleared," to use the
lciper'sphriscology-twenty-one feet and one inch
"I WISH NO OTUER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF HT LivrNO ACTIONS, TO BEEP HINE HONOR FROM CORRIIPTION."..."4IIAXS•
The signal was given, and by lot the young men
stepped into the arena.
"Edward Grayson, seventeen feet," cried ono of
th e judges. The youth had done his utmost. He
was a pale, intellectual student, But what had
intellect to do in such an arenal Without a look
at the maiden ho left the ground.
"Dick Boulden, nineteen feet." Dick with a
laugh turned away, and replaced his coat.
"Harry Preston, nineteen feet and three inches."
"Well done Harry Preston," shouted the specta
tors, "you have tried hard for the acres and home
stead."
Harry also laughed, and swore he only jumped
for the fun of the thing. Henry was a rattle•brain
ed fellow, but never thought of matrimony. Ho
loved to walk and talk, and laugh and romp with
Annette, but sober marriage never came into his
head. He only jumped for the fun of the thing.
He would not have said so, if ho was sure of win
ning.
"Charley Simms, fifteen feet and a half—Hur
rah for Charley ! Charley'll win !" Cried the
crowd good humouredly. Charley Simms was the
cleverest. fellow in the world. His mother had ad
vised him to stay at home, and told him if he ever
won a wife, she would fall iii love with his good
temper, rather than his legs. Charley, however,
made the trial of the latter's capabilities and lost.
Many refused to enter the lists altogether. Others
made the trinhand only one of the !capers had yet.
cleared twenty feet.
"Now," cried the villagers, '•let's see Henry Car
roll. He ought to beat that;" and every ono ap
peared, as they called to mind the mutual love of
the last competitor and the sweet Annette,as if they
heartily wished his success.
Henry stepped to his post with a firm tread.—
His eye glanced with confidence around upon the
villagers and rested, before he bounded forward,
upon the face of Annette, as if to catch therefrom
that spirit and assurance which the occasion called
for. Returning the encouraging glance with
which she met his own, with a proud smile upon
his lip, he bounded forward.
“Twenty-one feet and a half!" shouted the
multitude, repeating the announcement of one of
the judges, "twenty-one feet and a half. Harry
Carroll forever. Annette and Harry." Hands,
caps, and handkerchiefs waved over the heads of
the spectators, and the eyes of the delighted An
nette sparkled with joy.
When Henry Carroll moved to his station to
strive for the prize, a tall, gentlemanly young
man, in a military undress frock coat, who had
redo up to the inn, dismounted and , joined the
spectators, unperceived, while the contest was go
ing on, stepped suddenly forward, and with a
knowing eye measured deliberately the space ac
complished by the lust leaper. He was a stranger
in the village. His handsome face and easy ad
dress attracted the eyes of the village maidens,
and his manly and sinewy frame, in which sym
metry and strength were happily united, called
forth the admiration of the young men.
"Mayhap, sir stranger, you think you can beat
that," said one of the bystanders, remarking the
manner in which the eye of the stranger scanned
the arena. "If you can leap beyond Harry Car
roll. you'll beat the best man in the colonies."—
The truth of this observation was assented to by
a general murmur.
d.ls it for mere amusement you are pursuing
this pastime 1" inquired the youthful stranger, ""or
is there a prize for the winner ?"
"Annette, the loveliest and wealthiest of our vil
lage maidens, is to be the reward of the victor,"
cried one of the judges.
“Are•the lists open to all!"
young sir," replied the father of Annette,
with interest, his youthful ardor rising as ho sur
veyed the proportions of the straight limbed young
stranger. "She is the bride of him who outleaps
Henry Carroll. If you will try you are free to do
so. But lot me tell you, Harry Carroll has no
wife in Virginia. Here is my daughter, air, look
at her and make your trial." Tho officer glanced
upon the trembling maiden about to be offered on
the altar of her father's unconquerable monomania
with ait admiring eye. The poor girl looked at
Harry, who stood near. With a troubled brow and
angry eye, and theft cot upon - the new competitor
an imploring glance._
Placing his coat in the hands of ono of the
judges, he drown sash he wore beneath it tighter
around his waist, and taking the appointed stand,
made, apparently without , effort, the bound that
was to decide the happiness or misery of Henry
and Annette.
“Twenty-two feel. and an incb,” shouted the
judge. The .announcement was repeated with
surprise by the spectators, who crowded around
the victor, filling the air with congratulations, not
unmingled,. however, with louereuirmurs froni
those who were more nearly interested in the hap
piness of the lovers.
The old man approached, and grasping his hand
exultingly, called him his son, and said he felt
prouder of hirrillaanif he were... prinCe. .Phyer
cal activity and strength were the old leaper's true
patents of nobility.
Resuming his coat, the victor sought with his
eye the fair prize he had, although nameless and
unknown, so fairly won. She leaned upon her
father's arm pale and distressed.
Her lover stood aloof, gloomy and mortified,
admiring the superiority of the stranger in an ex-
ercise in which ho prided himself unrivalled, while
he hated him for his success.
“Annette, my pretty prize,” said the victor, ta•
king her passive hand--4 , 1 have won you fairly."
Annette's cheek became paler then marble; she
trembled like an aspen leaf; and clung closer to
her father, while the drooping eye sought the form
of her lover. Hie brow grew dark at the stranger's
anguage.
"I have won you, my pretty flower, to make you
a bride !—tromblo not so violently—l mean not
myself, however proud I might he," ho added with
gallantry, "to _wear so fair a gem next my heart.
PerhaPs," and he cast his eyes round inquiringly,
while the current of life leaped joyfully to her
brow, and a 'murmur of surprise ran through the
crowd--"perhaps .there is some favored youth
among the competitors, who has a higher claim to
this jewel.—Young sir," he continued, turning to
the surprised Henry, "methinks you were the vic
tor in the list before mo—l strove not for the mai
den, though one could not well strive for a fairer
—but from love of the manly sport in which I saw
you engaged. You are the victor, and u such,.
with the periniseiln of this worthy assembly, re-.
artirPff e lretrarPorlieXte akito ICI 221 e aploortmazium efit ammo
ceive from my hand the pdr,6 you have so well and
So honorably vrct:'
The youth sprang forward and grasped his hand
with gratitude, and the next moment Annette was
weeping from pure joy upon his shoulders. The
welkin rung with acclamations of the delighted
villagers, and amid the temporary excitement pro-
_ .
duced by this act, the stranger withdrew from the
crowd, mounted his horse, and spurred at a brisk
trot through the village.
That night Henry and Annette were married,
and the health of the mysterious and noble heart
ed stranger, was drunk in overflowing bumpers of
rustic beverage.
In process of time, there wore born unto the
married pair sons and daughters, and Harry Car
roll had become Colonel Henry Carroll of the re
volutionary army.
One evening, having just returned home after a
hard campaign, he was sitting with his family on
the gallery of his handsome country house, when
an advance courier rode up and announced the
approach of General Washington and suite, in
forming him that he should crave his hospitality
for the night. The necessary directions were giv
en in reference to the household preparations, and
Colonel Carroll, ordering his horse, rode forward
to meet and escort to his house the distinguished
guest, whom ho had never yet seen, although ser
ving in the same widely extended army.
That evening at the table, Annette, now become
the dignified, matronly, and still handsome Mrs.
Carroll, could not keep her eyes from the face of
her illustrious visiter.' Every moment or two she
would steal a glance at his commanding features,
and half-doubtingly, half-assuredly, shake her
head, and look again, to be still more puzzled.—.
Her absence of mind and embarrassment at length
became evident to her husband, who inquired af
fectionately if she were ill.
"I suspect, colonel," said the general, who had
been some time, with a quiet, meaning smile, ob
serving the lady's curious and puzzled survey of
his features—uthat Mrs. Carroll thinks she recog
nizes in me an old acquaintance." And ho smiled
with a mysterious air, as ho gazed upon both al
ternately.
The colonel stored, and a faint memory of the
past seemed to be revived as ho gazed, while the
lady rose impulsively from her chair, and bending
eagerly forward over the tea-um, with clasped
hands and an eye of intense inquiry, fixed full
upon him, stood for a moment with her lips parted
as if she would speak.
"Pardon me, my dear madam—pardon me' col
onel—l must put an end to this scene. I have be
come, by dint of camp-fare and hard usage, too
unwieldly to leap again twenty-two feet one inch,
even for so fair a brido as one I wot of."
The recognition, with the surprise, delight and
happiness that followed,are loft to the imagination
of the reader.
General Washington was indeed the handsome
young "termer," whose mysterious uppearturce and
disappearance in the native village of the lovers,
is still traitionary—and whose claim to a substan
tial bode of bona fide flesh and blood, vvasstoutly
contested by the village story-tellers, until the hap
py denoument which took place at the hospitable
mansion of Colonel Carroll.
CONGRESSIONAL
EXTRACTS FROM
Webstees Remarks
the Senate, on the Bill imposing additional du
ties as depositories of the public monies, on cer
fain officers of the Government
Mr. President—When I heard of the sus
pension of the banks, I was by the side of
the Ohio, on a journey, in the course of
which I had occasion, frequently to express
, my opinion on this new state of things ; and
those who may have heard me, or noticed
my remarks, will bear witness that I con
stantly expressed the opinion that a new era
had commenced; thut a question of princi
ple, and a question of the highest impor
tance had arisen, or would immediately
arise; that hereafter the dispute would not
be so much about means as ends; that the
extent of the constitutional obligation of the
Government would be controverted; in short,
that the question, whether it was the duty
of Congress to concern itself with the na
tional currency, must,:. inevitabli 4 become
the leadinitopic of tbe &riles. So I thought
whenever I had the pleasure of addressing
my fellow citizens, and so I feet..and think
now, I said often on these occasions, and I
say now, that it is a question which the
People, by the regular exercise of their
ective franchise, must decide. The sub
lid is one of so much permanent impor
tance, and public men have become SOClJM
mined, on one side or the other,-that the
deeisiOn must as I think be made by the
country. We see an entirely new state of
things. We behold new and untried twin-
Ciples of administration advanced and adopt
ed. We witness an avowed and bold rejec
tion of the policy hitherto always prevailing.
The Government has come, not to a pause,
but to a revolution. It not only stops, but
it starts back ; it abandons the course which
it has been pursuing for near fifty years,and
it reproaches itself with having been acting
all that time, beyond the limits of its consti.
tutional power.
It was my second proposition, sir, that
the Message, the bill, and the amendment,
taken together, deny, in substance, that this
government has any power or duty connect.
ed with the currency, or the exchanges,
beyond the mere regulation of the coins.
And, sir, is this not true? We are to
judge of the Message by what it omits, as
well as by what it proposes. Congress is
called together in a great commercial crisis.
The whole business of the country is arrest.
ed by a sudden disorder .of the country.—
And what is proposed ? Any thing to re.
store this currency 1 Any thing, with a
direct view of producing the resumption of
payment.by the banks ? Is a single mea
sure offered, nr suggested, the main purpose
of which is general relief to the countrv?—..
Not one. No, sir e not one. The Admin
istration confrotee its measures to the Gov.
eminent itself. It proposes a loan, by
means of 'Creasury notes, to make good the
deficiency in the revenue; and it proposes
secure vaults, and strong boxes, for the safe
keeping of the public moneys; and here its
paternal care ends. Does the Message pro
pose to grapple, in any way, with the main
evil of the times? Seeing that that evil is
one affecting the currency, does the Mes
sage, like that of Mr. Madison, in 1815,
address itself directly to that point, and re
ceinmend measures of adequate relief? No
such thing. It abstains from all general'
relief: It looks out for the interest of the
Government, as a government and it looks
no further. Sir, let me turn to the Message
itself, to show that all its recommendations,
and, indeed, all the objects in calling Con
gress together, are confined to the narrow
and exclusive purpose of relieving the wants
of Government.
The President says that the regulations
established by Congress for the deposite and
safe keeping of the public money having be
come inoperative by the suspension of pay
ment by the banks ; and apprehending that
the same cause would so diminish the reven•
ue that the receipts into the Treasury would
not he sugicient to defray the expenses of
the Government ; and as questions were also
expected to arise respecting the October
instalment of the deposit° to the States, and
doubting whether Government would be
able to pay its creditors in specie, or , its
equivalent, according to law, he felt it to be
his duty to call Congress together. These
are the reasons for calling Congress. They
are all the reasons; and they all have exclu
sive regard to the Government itself. -
In the next place, let us see what mea.
sures the Message recommends to Congress.
hi its own language, the objects demanding
its attention are—
"To regulate, by law, the safe keeping,
transfer, and disbursement of the public me.
nies; to designate the funds to be received
and paid by the Government; to enable the
Treasury to meet promptly every demand
upon it, to prescribe the terms of indulgence,
and the mode of settlement to be adopted,
as well in collecting from individuals the
revenue that has accrued, as in withdraw.
ing it -from former deposited."
These are all the objects recommended
particularly to the care of Congress, and
the enumeretion of them is followed by a
general suggestion that Congress will adopt
such further measures as may promote the
prosperity of the country. This whole enu
meration, it is obvious, is confined to the
wants mid convenience of the Government
itself.
And now, sir, let us see on what grounds
it is that the Message refrains from recom
mendeag Anensurfa of general relief. The ,
President says—
"lt was not designed by the Constitution
that the Government should assume the
management of domestic or foreign ex-
change It is indeed, authorised to regulate,
by law, the commerce between the States,
acd to provide a general standard of value
or medium of exchange in gold and silver,
but it is not its province to aid individuals
in the transfer of their funds, otherwise than
through the facilities afforded by the Post
Office Department. As justly might it be
called on to provide for the transportation
of their merchandize."
And again:
"If, therefore, I refrain from suggesting
to Congress any specific plan for regulating
the exchanges of the country, relieving
mercantile embarrassment, or interfering
with the ordinary operations of foreign or
domestic commerce, it is from a conviction
that such measures are not within the con•
stitutional province of the General Govern-
ment, and that their adoption would not pro-
mote the real and permanent welfare of
those they might be designed to aid."
The President, then, sir, declines to re
commend any measure for the relief ofcom
merce, for the restoration of the currency.
or for the benefit of exchanges, on the
avowed ground, that, in his opinion, such
measures are not within the constitutional
poWei of Congress. He is distinct and ex
plicit, and so tar entitled to credit. He de
nies, broadly and flatly, that theie is any
authority in this Government fCrirguldte
thiicurrenck and the exchanges,leyond the
- care 9r the coin. The question,*.:,then, is
fairly stated. It cannot bellitarinderetood ;
and we are now to see how . Con(gress, and,
what is much more impo4nt, how the .
country will settle it. .
Mr. President, if, in May last, when Om
cie payment was suspended, the . President
done of the banks had called his council
and directors together, informed them that
their affairs were threatened vitiith ,danger,
that they could not collect their -ttebts in
specie, and might not be able to pay their
creditors in specie, and recommended such
measures as he thought their interest regui.
red; his policy, in all this, would have been
no snore exclusively confined to the interests
of his corporation than the policy of the
Message is confined to the, interest of this
great corporation of Government. Both in
practice, therefore, and on princmle, in re.
ality and avowedly, the Administration
abandons the currency to its fate. It sur.
renders all care over it, declines all concern
about it, and denies that tt has any duty
connected with it.
Sir, the question then comes to be this:
Shall one of the great powers of the ciihsti
tution, a power essential to it, on any just
plan, or theory of government, a power ab-
aolutely necessary and indispensable to. the
proper regulaiion of the commerce of the
country, be now surrendered and abandoned
forever 1 To this point, we have come, sir,
after pursuing the "experiment" of the late
Administration for five years. And from
his point, 1 am persuaded, the country will
move, and move steadily, in_ one direction
or another.' We shall either go over to the
&entlenum from Missouri. and suffer hitft,l4
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embrace us in his gold and silver arms, and
hug us to his hard money breast; or we shall
return to the long tned, well approved, and,
constitutional practice of the Government.
• As to the employment of State Banks, for
the purpose of maintaining the currency,
and carrying on the operations ofexchange.
1 certainly never had any confidence in that
system, and have none now.
I think the State Banks can never furnish
a medium for circulation, which shall have
universal credit, and be of equal value every
whore.
I think they have no powers or faculties,
which can enable them to restrain excessive ;
issues of paper.
I think their respective spheres of action
are so limited, and their currencies so local,
that they can never accomplish what is de
sired in relation to exchanges.
Still, 1 prefer the employment of State
banks to the project before us—because it
is less of a project—because it is less dan
gerous: and, chiefly, because it does not
surrender, efrectuaily, and in terms, a great
power of the Constitution.
In every respect, this project is objection.
able. It is but another "experiment;" and
those who recommend it so zealously, were
the authors of the last, and were equally
full of confidence and assurance in regard to
that.
Who invite us to try this experiment?—
What voice do we hear raised an its recom,
mendation 7 Are they not the well known
voices which we heard so of en "when the
late "experiment" was begun 7 We know
of but one accession. The voice of the
honorable member from South Carolina is
heard, it is true, now mingling with the
general strain; and that is all. Where,
then, is the ground for confidence in this
experiment, more than there was fot, it in
the last ?
The scheme, too, is against all our usa•
get; and all our habits. It locks up the re.
venue, under bolts and bars, from the time
of collection to the time of disbursement.—
Our practice has been otherwise, and it has
been a useful practice. In 1833, the Sec
rotary of the Treasury admonished the de
posate banks, since they had obtained the
custody of the public funds, to accommodate
'the Public, to loan freely, especially to im
porting merchants.. And now a system is
proposed to us, according to which, any , use
of the Public funds, by way of loan or ac.
commodation to the public, is made a crim
inal' offence, and to be prosecuted by indict
ment ! Admirable, admirable consistency !
But the great objection to the measbre,
that which so much diminishes the impor
tance of alt other oblectiens, is its abandOo.
meat of the duty of . Government. The
character of this project is, severance of the
Government from the People. This like
the mark of Cain, is branded on its!fore
head. Government separates itself, not
from the banks merely, but from the com
munity. It withdraws its care, it denies
its protection, It renounces its own high
duties.
I am against the project, therefore, in
principle mid in detail; I am for no now ex
periments; but I am for a sound currency
for the country. And I mean by this a
convertible currency, so far as it consists of
daper. I differ, altogether, in this respect,
from the gentleman from South Carolina.--
Mere Government paper, not payable oth
erwise than by being received for taxes, has
no pretence to be called a currency. Mier
all that can be said about it, and such paper
is more paper. money. It is nothing but
bills of credit. Sir, we want specie and we
want paper of universal credit, and which
is convertible into specie at the will of the
holder. That system of currency, the ex
perience of the world, and our owe experi
ence, have both fully approved.
I maintain, sir, that the People of this
country are entitled, at the hand of this
Government, to a sound, safe and uniform
currency. If they agree with me, they
will say so. They will siiy, 'qt . is our right;
we have enjoyed it forty yearejie-practi
cable, it is the duty of: the - GOVeinment to
furnish it; We ought to have it, We can have
it, and We will have it." -
The lane,uage - of theAdrilnistration;,on
the other hand is, "Good makers, you are
mistaken. You haye - misuch right. You
are entitled to no such thing from us. The
constitution has beep misunderstood. We
have suddenly found out its meaning. A
new light has flashed' upon us. It is no bu
staesa,of ours to furnish a national currency.
You cannot have it, and you will not get it.
Mr. Preildent, I have thus stated what I
think to Untie real question' now before the
country. I trust mrelf, cheerfully, to the
result. lam willing to abide the test of
time, and the ultimate judgment of the Peo
ple; for it is a sentiment dee* infused into
me, it is a conviction which pervades every
faculty I possipti, that there can be no set
tled and pertnalent -prosperity_ to the com
merce and businesia'af the connfry, until the
constitutional duty of Governmeqt, in regard
to the cdrrency, be honestly add faithfully
fulhlled.
Pittsburg, according ton late census, em-
bracing the adjoiningiowne ! ,containa a point.
Intim of 44,000.
GALE AT NEW O.IILEARIN--On October
the th,a most tremendous and dreadfillgale
took place at Neiv Orleans,and much injury
was done to the city and to the shipping.—
Chimnies, were blown down, the mats of
ships at the wharves were swept away, two
steamboats were set adrift and en much in I
jured as to be unfit for use. , The roofs of I
several dwellings were carried away, and
part of the marble front of the Citizens' Bank
was blown down. Several hves were last,
and the destruct ion of property immense.
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TAW
SrEczn.—The Columb ia -OW *
•
Saturday,states that eight blind
thOusand dollars We in speo:e,'rtilaki
that town , on weaciesday!asts _Alf!
from the Weit,in one of Leeoh 4 ectlM- 7 .
and was for Warded to PhiliideilAaatk
rail road. It was understood to' bn
erty of the U . S. Bank.'
'
Gormmattertir-Thef eilit „ 1
the District Attorney of . Netii! York, fsitLi%
siogift week, it is stated,a4tounted W
to;
000. Mr. Sanford, the fortrier.Mairter#Y,:y r ,,,
torney, according to the Ittai;'reciei*ifdAr : c) , : i i
one swoop $70,000 from ttie Ootiettiinist‘,4
for fees on bonds. =
Joseph Bonaparte, ex.Kintof
;2 -
now known by the name of the c;#o
Suivilliers, has taken Brettenham 'Mk . *
Suffolk, Eng and,for a permanent reside
The arrangements of the boUsetteldiTtkin,?.
a most princely scale.
Lsws.—Paley. says, the cars of the pot
ought to be the principal object . oral, WO,
for this plain reason, that the rich areable,'
o take care of themselves.
Learning is the dictionary, but sense the
grammar of science. Poetry is inspiration
—it was breathed into the soul when iffirat,
quickened, and should neither be syledait,,::: ,
nor science, but genius: -
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Sourrtana CoNverrrtori.—TheSouthertv't-:
Convention which met at Augusta,,peo,; - .,".2 - ,
adjourned sine die on the 18th ult.' 'Ttai
report and resolutions submitted by Mie..oo:,
DtliFIN, from the select comtatteei
ted for that purpose, Were adopted: WhenA
these shall be published; there
portunity for ascertaining the ebjects'ettbtr,?l l ...-
Convention, and means proposed to
plish them, as also a boilable oecisiottibitb
expression of opinion as to the genend
pediency of the measure. 'tithe mean'
we may say that Conventions confined .to:_ `
geographical limits = whether
eastern, or western or southern, do riot itriltit!
us favorably, Their tendency we think id'
inauspicious' upon',those social and buititiltaly4:.
attachments,those moral ligamfOliiilMt
bind tbe Union together, and Whlchartitteria:
too strong already, as many fehr;
anxious for the long continuance of the'ilA,
UniOn.--Baltimore
DEATH sr Fnut —Two children of Kr. •
ADAM ADNOLD,Of Windsor toty ip, York
County, Pe., one aged b aniithe 'other -w
years, were burnt to death,
taking fire, on the Bth ult. 'Tlieir'ptirentio
were absent, and the children were
„left ter
the house with an aged grandfather: While
the latter was engaged in reading, the chtl 2q
dren, who were amusing themselves in the,
kitchen,'
kitchen, by some means came 'in Contact
with the fire, and before :misplace could.;
reach thern, were so dreadfully, burnt
cause their death, in great agony ) in
than an hour. -
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Forty-nine carrier pigeons were tritely :' . :4
sent by the Albcona Society from Brussels ,•:,...:,',,
to Tours, a distance of 400 miles. . The':',,li,z l,
birds were'started from Totirslit nine in th'ei'r '
Morning on Sunday, and one of thetn Ireint,', l' i . '; 'f ,.
ed Brussels on the 8111110 day at. filifli#o- '!1 '..
minutes after five in theafternoon,liainfit;,,,t
flown at the rate of forty-five miles militia ",.'':li4l.:`,l
This pigeon has won the first rize, ciMitit4-; 44
ing of a time- piece valued at aqo frapps;ty.iAl.
The second pigeon arrived isventy•One:nl4l.:-.''
utes afterwards, and the third tlfieti big )
hop -?"...;,.
after the first . The pigeon which - arri 3''Yf
last had flown at the'rate of 38 mtleiiii b ' I ,
kfoßizinix, imaT Ilorisimia!—TbeNlikik'r,-
burgh Sentinel, sa3rr., that an - old Put . ..
name of Grace, who had giveri'ffreit(im a.riiWi-'-ti,',
to negroes, having been ,arrested'abfl 'ilflii? . 77',.,
charged for want of evidence, the Mairthal,"-. , :h
in iihose custody he had been, twat on lbw '.--.%,,
28th September, seized bold °flora mob of ; ;-.31,
lynchers, stripped and severely flogged. 21A. ', -k
'few weeks previous, Mr. Saunders a reripel—
table planter of Madison County, was'etrat • • ,:,
god from his bed, horribly mutilated, 'hur :=;
ears cropped off, and his body marred tithe '',lt
ribs! A week before this outrage on the , ‘,,,'
Marshal, a mob of 4 or 5 broke into the`,. : :;;
house of Mr. Scott, of,Wilkinson County, a
~,,,.,
respectable member of the bar, forced him . ~,i
out, and hung him dead on the neat tree!! • ':(-
03. We should be satisfied to hear (says the . ,e ,
Chambersburg Whig,) that every man in Madi- = F‘ .
mppi who btu; in any way countenanced Lynchiir. -,':::.-;
or who has not done what he could to arrest its pro. :;':-.
gross, shall have, in due tim •b • , .. . , , ‘:,
account by an executive officer of the same blirid
and sanguinary tribunal.
FREDICRICR CORPORATIDN NOTIN.-TllO
Frederick Herald cautions the public against
imposition from forged checks purporting
to be of the corporation of that city, and 49
signed by Thomas Carlton, Mayor, which,.
are,said to be in circulation irtyhiladelptsin •
and on the Eastern Shore of Mary rand. The
Herald states that all the genuine checks or
the corporation - of Frederick, ere rlited4-.ky
D Kolb, as Mayo:. None base beat idd
above 50 cents.
!PARISIAN' 001111AOltr--*/ . as 00 1, 90144111111111 ).
lately wanting through one oldie etre*, eilhaiin '. ` l -,
at midnight. a patrol* called oat,'"WidiliOnl* : • .1
“It le 1,1 mid she, “dont ba aheiti q 7 • .I.4,:*'AT:
• • •
Carrzczax,—*Calt Chia a 11% . . 6 * . ripot
claims.] a raw critic strilltini &via)* , '
Johntort's Live* orthe Poets, volsigik toiiii: '-
the life of illackmore, who we n ,
ntise
on the Camden of the Worid. *Oriebf,l 4 ::,
now t The foilea ewe of ihis
tag Olvadort ho wit*, thealiVaahe egifigt
oildasti° I , '5A , -
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