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A reasonable deduction will be made to those who advertise by the year. IV. All Letters and Communications addressed to the Editor by mail must bo post-paid, or they will not be attended to Bearding a Zion in his Den. Ti►e following is an extract from nn arts ele in the last Knickerbocker, from the pen of J. N. Reynolds. Our readers are proba bly aware that the Sea Lion is a species of seal, which grows to an enormous size, and inhabits the shores of the South Atlantic and Pacific Ocean : "Near the entrance of Port Hatches, is a cavern, long known as a retreat of a few patriarchs ofthe ocean to whom its deep re ceases had been, until the period of which I am about to speak, a safe protection. The opening of this sea lion's den is about thirty teet-in width, its base being on a level with the tea at low water mark. The whole length or the cave, beneath the base of the precipice, is two hundred and twenty paces, beautifully arched over witn satalctites, and in some places changing its couren from a direct line, and forming We apertures, which communicate with the 'en trance. To enter this cavern, explore its recret chambers, and provoke a combat with the ancient holders and promoters of this wild citadel, was the object of one of our boat ex cursions. Preparatory to our advance into this. That stands all lonely on the sea beat shore," fires were placed ono after another, within a distance of thirty yards between each two, to, answer the double purpose of guiding our progress and of securing a speedy re• treat,ehnuldwe be too roughly recieved by, the old PUOCA, who with a number of clap• matches in his suite, had taken up position in the farthest corner of the den. ' With lighted torches, we now advanced into the abyss, which the ancient Romans, would have consecrated to deified nymphs, and the Parisians have assigned as the seat of their god Mithras. The fires cast a dim flickering light, which rendered visible the da,kness in our rear. Every thing around us seemed to partake of the gloomy silence of the tomb, until ;the stillness was suddenly broken by the roar of the old lion more appalling by far, than that of his tierce namesake of the Moorish plains. Having approached so near that we could see the monster's glaring eye balls, we die charged our muskets, and continued alter nately reti•etng to load and advancing to fire, until our ears were stunned and our heads bewildered with the reverberations of the reports, mingled with the roaring of the whole modelled group now closely press ed and severely wounded. Our lights failing for an instant, we re treated to replenish them. The la.hing of the waves at the mouth of the cavern, though distant, echoed and rumbled through the vaulted passages, and we could not hare each others' voices. As we again moved forward, to discharge our pieces, the old sea hon broke out Into a new paroxysm of rage, tearing up the garvel and rocks with his claws and teeth. 'l'he white foam mixed with blood, dropped from his large red tongue : while so hoarse, eo loud and deafening was his howl, that we wore obliged ►u stop our ears to prevent being pained by it. The scene around us had now indeed be• come ono of inconceivable wildness and horror. Two hundred paces within the mouth off% calve which man had never be• fore entered, the dim flickering light of our torches, and the 'decaying fires in gar rear, together with the surotating smoke from oar frequent firing,—whieth rendered it neces sary to retrograde. Nor did we commence In retreat a moment too soon. Wounded imferiated, the old lion began move tc wrersie us; we gradually returned, step by steps, throwing stones and fire brands, to keep him in check; untifl we 'hind reached so near The mouth of the cavern, that with deliberate aim, Capt. Palmer, of the Pen. guin,shot him. This was his death-wound, elthongh he had previously recieved no less than ten balls. After recruiting npr fires with the blub ber of our victim, we returned to the charge - Lind soon succeed'•d in taking the remaining live females and their pups. The old sea Sion (phoca jakalo) measured•ten feet six inches in length, and eight feet round the shoulders ; and, as we supposed could not weigh less than 709 pounds. The females were from six to seven feet in length and of await slender form." The yellow wilb of Col. R. M. Johnson, the same that ran nwny with the Indian, as . Just beensent down to New Orleans to o liM 'Ow Cllonel thinks her too eroo. ed a rib for hie usa.—Louisrille Jour. "0, you're a 'prentice I" said a little boy the other day tauntingly to his companion. Tho addressed turned proudly round, and while the fire of injured pride and the look of pity were strongly blended in his coun tenance, coolly answered—"So was Frank lin•" This dignified reply struck me forcibly ; and 1 turned to mark the disputants more closely, The former, I perceived by his dress, claimed a higor rank in society, than his humble but more dignified companion The latter was a sprightly, Solve lad, scarce twelve years old, and coarsely but cleverly attired. But your.g as he was,, there was visible in his countenance much of genius. manly dignity, and determinate resolution —while that of the former showed only fos tered pride, and the imagined superiority of riches. The little fellow, thought we, gazing at our young hero, displays already much of the man—though his calling be an humble one: and though poverty extends to him her dreary, cheerless reality, still ho looks on the brightest side of the scene, and al ready rises in anticipation from poverty woo and wretchedness I Once, '.so was Franklin !" and the world may one day witness in our little "'prentice" as great it philosopher, as they have already seen in hie noble pattern. And we passed on, bu ried in meditation. The motto of our infintile philosopher contains too much to be forgotten, and should be engrafted on the minds of al I.— W hat can better cheer a man in an h um• ble calling, than the reflection that the greatest statesman—the highest philoso phers—and the proudest warriors—have once graced the same prof•esion 1 Look at Cincinnatus ! At the call of his country, he laid aside the plough, and seized the sword. Bui after wielding it with entire success—when his country was no longer endangered, and public of fairs needed not his longer stay, he 'bent his sword into a plough share,' lend returned with honest delight, to his little farm. Look at Washington! what was his cousce pf life '1 He was first n farmer— next Commander-in Chief of a host of tree• men, fighting for the liberation of his coon try from the thralls of despotic oppression —next called to the big' est seat of govern ment, by his ransomed brethren„ a Presi dent of the highest republic on earth—and lastly a farmer again I Look at Franklin ! He who —With the thunder talked, asitriond to friend, And wove hit garland of the lightning's wing "cavern hoar, In sportivetwist I , Whit( wiehd ?a printer ! -- -once a mo• nial in a printing office!! Vs:Nesty stared him in The face—but the blank hollow look could nothing daunt him: He struggled against a harder current than the most are called on 'to encounter: but , he did not yield. He pressed manfully onward—bravely buffeted misfortune's billows—and gained the desi red haven What was the famous Ben .I.,hosno ! He was first a bricklayer or mason ! W hat was he in after years 7 ' Cis needless to answer I What was Burns? An Avorsh►re plough man? what was he in alter life, in the esti mation of his countrymen, and the world ? Your library gives the answer? But shall we go on, and call up in the proud array, all the mighty host of worthies that have lived & died—who were cradled in the lop of penury, and received their first lesson in the school of affliction I No; we have cited instances enough already —yea, more than enough to prove the point in question—namely, that there is no pro• festoon, however low in the opinion of the world, but has been honored with earth's greatest and her worthiest. Young man I Does the iron hand of mis fortune press hard upon you, and disappoint. menis well nigh sink yonr despairing soul ! Have courage 1 mighty ones nave been your predecessors—and have withstood the cur rent of opposition that threatened to over whelm their fragile bark Do you despise your humble station and repine that Provedence has not placed you in some noble spheral IVlurmrr not against the dispensations of an all wise Creator ! Remember that wealth is no criterion of moral rectitude, or intellectual worth—that riches, dishonestly gained, ere a lasting curse—that virtue & uprightness work out a rich reward—and then •‘An honest man's the noblest work of God" And when dark disappointment oorneq! do not wither st her stare—hut press forward —end the prize is yours ! It was thus with Franklin—it can be thus with you. He strove for the pi ize and won it ! So may you : —'Tie worth contending for—and success will attend you! and the vstars" will be brighter as The "stripes" were deeper I Norr-comiAtTrAt,.:--" Who sthruck Jim Patterson 7 who sthruck Jim Patherson demanded a wee voter from the land of turf and glory, elbowing himself through the crowd Assembled at the poll. and intimating a bloody nose and black eyes to any one who dared to use the first person singular num hor in his replv—"ounly show me the man who knocked down Jim Patherenn"—•& his little red hands resolved themselves into fists, & his little voice struggled up from his belly u an attempt to be deep— "ounly show me the man that knocked down Jim Patherson," "1 knocked him down," said a voter step ping from the crowd, "and what have you to say about it !" "By my sowl, and yer did it like a man," replied our Mars, bowing very courteously. S 0 TY•11 S FR.I.7VK ..1.7‘• C. W. EVEIIEST. ROBERT S. P.IXTO.Tr, EDITOR .IXD PROPRIETOR. azatewasazuwazase wtrazathax alverate amh flow to tell a Drunken alan If you wish to ascertain whether a man is really in liquor, put the word "municipal ity," in his mouth. If he can shell that out —pronounce it plain and distinct— he is so ber enough to deliver a temperance lecture r take our word for it. The words "Nation al-Intelligencer" are even hard to get over, and may be given as a test to any one where the least suspicion is entertained that lie is "how come you so." Some fifteen years since, there lived in a pleasant "down east" village a worthy min ister of the Presbyterian persuasion, Dr. [l—. The Doctor had a hard case of a son, a wild, heroin searum dog as ever lived, named David. David was a gond hearted fellow, fond of stories and Santa Craz rum slings, and seldom came home at night with• out betraying that he had rubbed hard against every tavern in the village. Fre quent were the admonitions and excellent the advice his worthy father gave David,. and one night, after a lecture rather more severe than common, the young nape grace faithfully promised amendment. Some few days after this, while the min ister was nut visiting his flock, lie saw his hopeful mouired oi. a young colt with a large bush tied to his tail, riding furinual down the road towards him. fly whit ling his hat and cane and shouting the old gen tleman arrested his progress, and brought him to a halt: "Why, David !" said the minister, "you told me faithhilly you had sown all your 'veld oats." "So 1 have father; I'm only brushing them in now," & away he went down the street as fast as ever, the brush top tied to the colt's tail whisking about in every di rection. That night David came home, as the say ing is, "rather the worse for liquor." It is a known fact th it a drunken man, in trying to make himself appear sober, always over does the thing, and by the very means he uses detects himself. So it was with David. 'Father," laud he, "has the Nuciul la tellencer come yet ?" "A h ! you dog, you have been to the triv. ern again. You are drunk, sir : get out of my house, and never enter that door again." David went as he was bid, but the next morning his father was astonished at Seeing him walk down ties chamber „stairs, and seat himself at the hreaktist table. Sirrah ! Did'ut I tell you never to enter that•door again ?" said the father. "Tea, sir., I know you did ; so I got up on the shed and came in at the chamber window. I did'nt come in. at the door at all." 'David is sti:l living and has serie,wlin bid fair to become - as wild as ever he Was him self.-IV. 0. Picayrtne, The "Committee of Safety." By Senutor Williams, of All Who were the members of this Commit tee of Safety? Of what material WHH it coin posed? Was it made up of men !of high character acting under the getter /US iin pulse of a lofty patriotism, as has been so frequently asserted? 'I have the honor ofd knowing very few of them personally, but on the faith :if the information which 1 have been able to collect, I take it upon me to de- I ny this claim in the face of the Senate, and in the face of the whole people of Permsyl , vanut as false and unfounded in each nod ev ery particular. I venture to affirm that so ler from being entitled to the panegyrics which have been lavished upon them, they were generally men of depraved morals, and of broken and desperate fortunes; men who had every thing to gain and nothing to lose by. revolution ; such men, in short, as Cata line is represented by his historians to have raked from the sewers of ancient Rome in the most profligate and degenerate era of that republic. if there were any exceptions to this description, they were "like angels" visits, "few and far between." The men of the revolution were of a different character, and acted under a different impulse. They fought for their altars and their firesides, and pledged their private fortunes on the struggle. These men, without risk to pri vate fortunes, were fighting only for "the spoils," and they have been rewarded ; sortie with offices and others in the charac ter of assistant door-keepers of the House of Representatives, by "the eternal gratitude of the country," to which the Senator from the county has declared them to be entitled, computed in money at the round sum done dollar and a belle day 1 Patriots at one dol lar and a half a day Eternal gratitude re duced to arithmetical admeasurement ! And these are the men who have been corn pared with the worthies of the Revolution ! Sir, 1 could have borne, almost anything ! but this ; but when I hear such men as . khese compared with Washington and Hancock, and Adams :—when I hear the name of General Diller gravely associated with that of the immortal Washington, I want lan guage to express, as an American citizen, my deep abhorrence and indignation, at the insults thus offered to the memories of the great patriots, and statesmen, and warriors of the revolution ! It is too much fur any man, possessing the feelings which ought to animate every American bosom, to hear patiently the declaration that these men act ed under the same impulses of patriotism which directed and governed the armies of the revolution. Sir, they acted under no other than such as could be purchased by rewards and rum. These men engaged in a struggle like that of our forefathers ! Our forefathers made resistance to parliamenta ry usurpation. Was This the fact witb re gard to these wuuld be patriots? No. sir; their resistance was to the laws of their own enactment, to those very principles which were then established by our ancestors, and 1:1- FE ARLE S 13 AND FRICE • -CU entrusted for safe keeping, to their prosper• ity. Aye, sir, they were recreant to the principles for which the men of the revolu tion contended, they were traitors to the cause in which La' Fe - yetto bled on the plains I Brandywine, and Warren died on the field of Bunker Elall. Wns it not enough, then, t; it the image of the immortal Wash ington,which looks down upon us from pm der wall, placed there as it would seem, Cu order that his spirit might preside over our deliberation, should have been scandalized by the exhibition which we have witnessed here, and that the Senator front the county should have turned his back on that image, as he did upon the principles of the man whom it was intended to respect, when he addressed his fellow citizens in the galleries? Was it not enough that this sacred hail, whickohas been provided for our reception, and dedicated to a high and holy purpose. ' should have been turned into n pandemoni uin, by the presence of nn unhallowed mob? Was it not enough that the principles of the revolution had been disregarded, and the constitution and the laws trampled under fool? Was all this not profanation enough, that Our ears must he habitually offended with the blasphemy which would place these:inen oil a level with the Washington*/ and Ilancocks and Adainses of the revolu tion? Sir, thus is too much Ibr my patience. I flatter myself that I am blessed with as much equanimity, and as much philosophi cal lorbearance as other men . ; but I cannot listence in silence, when such blasphemies as these ore uttered of the' father of our common country, and those who co-opera. ted with him in the great work of American independence. If it be cptisidered in order to refer to what has occurred elsewheral will take the liberty of suiting now, because the occasion 8.'0015 to bf' altogether aporopsiate, that I have enjoyed the privilege of cross exarnin• ing on Oath a distinguished member of this same Committee of Safety, in reference to the purposes of its organization. The re• plies with which. I was favored wore of the same vague and indefinite character, and in this Same general •laagiinge as the remarks of the Senloor from Adams on the same sub. jent. Like the Senator from Adams, he declared the i.bject of the committee to have berm the support of the constitution and the tv4 A ve,-Sir, the support of the consti• tut ten and the laws in accordance, I suppose, witti the troci.lacksne and Van Buren doe triae—thrit is to say, as they understood hem ! Not the. MO= luvo# as they were interpreol497.4bose tribuneNAO. whir.ll that trust hitdi'lieen confided; bit in accordance 4 :Vit lit*rist ruct ion which had bete placed upon ihore,by a few individuals :rad never r'iud* the tine- or studieriAlie. principles of tho other? They prate about supporting the constittitionend the laws!— Sir, the member of that committee whom it was my fortune to examine, after decla ring the foregoing to have been the purposes for which the committee was raised, was ob liged to cr nfess that he was entirely igno rant of the appropriate provisions either of the constitution or the laws ! And yet these are men who are worthy to be compared with the Hancocks and the Adamses of the revolution—who aro to be elevated for all future time in the etPctions of the people of Pennsylvania, and who have deserved the ‘‘eternal gratitude" of the country—arith metically computed at the value of one dol. tar and a halt a day ! Ample payment be yond doubt for the whole of this band el lie roes—ample indeed, considering that it would furnish food enough to sustain their bodies, and drink enough to keep olive their patriotism. OF TAE PER.ONAL& PUBLIC CIIABAC PER OF DEAR Sin : —Y6ti remark that M r. WEB. STEIL is cold and distant in his manners.— Have you been accustomed to view him, through tho magnifying 'glass of his great reputation, and has not this magic of your own fancy thrown over him a false coloring, which belongs rather to you than to him?— Have you not been accustomed to see him at Washington, where, while other great men are smiling, and smiling, and playing the villain,Webster is deeply pondering up on his duties? where, while others are try ing to make friends and flattering their Way to preferment, he is care-worn from labora tory of where he has been subject ing "Nullification," or the "sub-Treasury," or some similar scheme, to the crucible of troth? In either of these cases, you could not see Mr.. Webster in a right light. Let me take yoit,in imagination,to his residence, which you know is Marshfield, near the sea shore, and some twenty miles southeast from Boston. A few years since, Mr. Webster was near his grounds,and close to the .bank of a small stream. The showers had been plentiful, and this river was now full to the brim.— An old man came along on foot and meet ing Mr. Webster, without knowing him, in quired the way to a certain house in the vi cinity. Mr. Webster told him that he must take a path which led across the stream.— The old man remarked that the river ap pear to be deep, and asked if there was no other way of reaching the place of his desti nation. Being informed that there was no other,he seemed to l,e in some anxtety,wheo Mr. Webster offered to carry him over.--- After some parley, this offer was accepted, and, mounting a pair of broad shoulders, the old man rode safely across the stream on Daniel Webster's back. there was no thing in the circumstances winch seemed to strike him as peculiar. save the gond nature of the act ; and in this way he mentioned it Fi oni the National Intelligenrer. SKETCH ES DANIEL WEBSTER. R Mass. July, 1839. at the place ho • was going to. The story led to some inquiries, and the old man soon learnt who it was that, as a friend in need. had been a friend indeed. Perhaps, my dear sir, if you have found kVebster haughty at WasWngton, you could learn better at Marshfield. The late Mr. Wilier was a man of ele gant, yet winning, manners. lie had not the sunny address of thrum ('tar, which mikes every man's heart as he approaches melt like wax within hill); nor had he the fits. eination of CALHOUN, which would he irre sistible, were it not for the sinister rattle that comes faint but distinct to the ear; nor bad he the elaborate and bloated politesse of BENTON ; nor the smooth and aippant court• !Mess of VAN BUREN ; but he had the best sty le of Virginian manners of the old school; he was hearty, yet dignified; sincere, the' polite. lie had often met Webster, and as they were of the same politics they' had a mutual respect for each other. Wirt re marked, however, that, in spite of the ma ray circumstances likely to draw • them to get her,.there was a kiwi of distance between them. At length, Webster had occasion to call in Wirt, at his office, for he was then At orney Genornl. Being engaired in writing it the moment, he asked Mr. Webster to sit down a few minuies at the file, while he continued writing at the further end of the room. Webster took his seat, and gazed intently into the mass of glowing anthracite. Presently, Wirt's daughter a beautiful child of five or six years old, came in, and, not seeing Webster's face, mistook him for her lather. She walked. round, and, placing her arms over Webster's knee, looked up familiarly in his face. At this instant lie withdrew his gaze from the fire, and halite into the eyes of the, child, who shrunk back in fear. As soon, however, as tho image of the child had reached Webster's brain, a smile come over his face, and the little girl, completely won by it, smiled back spine& instantly returned to her former position of familiarity and confidence. Wirt noticed this little scene, and his bosom was of a na. tore to feel it. lie did feel it; and coming thrwart4 shook Webster's hand heartily,the tears brimming in his eyes. From that time according to the report of his own words, lie:Kelt that to suspect Webster of coldness either of m Inner or heart, was to du him injnstice ; and he himself confessed that he believed the kind of non conductor which hadseperated them before was a want .d simplicity and naturalness in his mode of . • • Approachi9s . have but. this remnrk majt . e,Alyit. if. 'Webster is distant gild haughty in 1441tr.n ner to the'conrey,add•al!courtilt seems not 'to . be indulged either to an 'oltrritnic Who wishes to cross a stream, or a child whose face reflects the soul as the lake gives back the image of (leaven. May we not suppose that Webster has not forgotten his village breeding, and that, heing. simple in his fool. ' hips, simplicity is best a dapted to draw out his kindly nature? Gen. hhairrison• In our Into excursion to Columbus we wore gratified to find in the coach with us the venerable Farmer of North Bend, and still more to find him in excelleht health and spirits. As evidence of his vigorous constitution, it may not be amiss to state a fact which occurred on the way. The stage let: Xenia about stindown,44 drove all night. The night being chilly, and some of the passengers thinly clothed, several were complaining of cold. About 2 o'clock in ' the morning, when the stage stopped to change horses, Gen. Harrison proposed that we . get out and walk until the stage should overtake us. He and some others did so, and we were surprised to witness the lightness of his step. When the stage overtook us, we found, by inquiring of the driver, that we had walked three miles, and although the road was very rough, being newly paved with stone, the General show ed no signs of fatigue. On being asked how long he would tarry in Columbus, he replied, he "was called there as a witness in a case pending in the U. S. Court, and would leavens soon as the Court would al• low him : he had a pretty large harvest, and had just set hands to work in cutting it on the morning he left home, and must re turn as soon as possible." Thus while Mr. Clay is visiting the Niagara Falls, Saratoga and other watering places, Gen. H. is in the harvest field. With qualifications equal which of those two men, in the Presidential Chair, will be most likely to think of the greet interest of the nation ? 01 the answer of the people we have no doubt, but we fear the answer of the Na tional Convention will be different. ALLIGATOR VERSV9 STEAM—TIIN was a forced, and unavoidable'combat and a brief one.—The captain of a steamboat, while, at his post, perceived one of 'the inhabitants of the river pushing his way directly across before the boat. At its approach, the ani mal sank, & rose immediately before the wheel. He rushed at the shall, which struck him with great violence, dragged him upwards in its revolution, and flung him through the shivered boards of the wheel house, a mangled and quivering vic tim upon the deck. This anecdote was told us by the captain himself, and struck us as being very horrible.—Darien Herald. A CHANCE FOR SOME !WART YANKEE. —A man on the Maumee advertise 4 some lands which are ' not only very fertile fin corn and other prodtiee, but he says that an activei.sthart man can make a fortune it. two years, by catching and training rattle. snakes for the northern market [WiIOJI.4II3 From the Now Offeare Picayt. Ttxas (J H d art attc,... • We nro indebted t' the polite, gentleman of this city for the pero:... letter dated City of Mexico, .1, ;, • 1839. It contains a proclainntio: Gen. Tomei, Minister of War, : Chamber of Deputies. It is. n dictated, no doubt by Santa.Aona. 'rho principle fenturce of tide pro (ion nre, that emu m:nitha 611(C0 01' ident, ad toferitn, took the teinu uf v, ment wit:t a firm and en( and the result at hie measur, toile dc.c. haw bettoby tavour of L'l,,v: the exterior and interior peaco - ot . Ow I public. Santa Anna thiulta, or 6.5y4 thinks that as ho. Luta dune little tier country, while any thing calculated t good romaine undono, ho has therefore od hie views ou the "llepartwout" and is anxious that sho may again brought into the bosom of tho gr• Mexican family. In order to bring this stray child to the fold, Santa Anna proposes slit the plan meet with tho approbation Mexican nation whoso wishes aw own, to fit out another expedition vd; shall offer the Texicans peace or war, dulgonco or punishment. In this way • thinks the Mexicans show that they i sees love to their country, honoe, virtue t; stoney and bravery. He admits that fortune was capricir• • in one. instance, (San Jacinto,) but she will not treat him• or the Moxiciir . ano'her"scurvy trick. Ho says that ! nation knows the ,oils, suffarin is s and inr: nities he underwent on his former v. ofTexas but that it is not to assuage ti chains and contempt ho suffered, nor t.; silence the calumny Which dared to tar • nish his name, nor private interest, 11 , mean resentments that animate him, but all for the glory and good of Mexico. The proclamation then advises the depu ties to empower Santa Anna to incur in the pasificatioh of the aforesaid Departrnent.uf Texas, and to dictate all measures whit+ ruiliy be considered necessary to attain end. The proclamation ends with "Go(' arid Liberty," and is signed by Jose Muni. From all this it appears that Santa Anna has "shortn his hand," and is anxious to get up another crusade against - Texas. the rascal will succeed in raising an artily' w e have little doubt, as since his recent suc ceises ho is as high in favor as ever, but that he will e'Ver succeed in. pacifying TOKtIB by fdreel'wecatinot believe, 'fa vroctamation, arniy . !Stipta, and all; will meet 'witb, 'airrtilyil.;4o . Pijon, the .Sivetle.s at Fort Chii - slinti;:gaytt fruition and force . of the celebrated Dutch Governor of New York in old times, with this exception, that there will be a little more fighting. Santa Anna will make the Texicans all sorts of offers of peace ito, pardon if they will lay down their arrre , and threaten them with utter annihilatio.. in a most bombastic style, in case they dz. not. After the manner of the Swede, "the . , will see him d---d" before they lay dow... their arms, and as for annihilation, tho:, will toll him to "go ahead." The Mormons have excited a good de of interest in Cincinnati, where one of . 01, sect has been giving a history of that pie, and of the persecutions to which have been recently exposed in Missouri. It is stated, in the report given in the C. einnati News, that they were ruthlessly chi• yen from their homes, their property des• troyed, the women and childronforced into the woods without shelter from the inclem ency of the weather of January, where they roamed about till their feet became so sore that their enemies tracked them by their foot prints of blood. The Mormons stated that there were. instances whore men were murdered in cold blood, and boys who had tuken shelter from the fury of the mob, were dragged from their hiding places, and after being cruelly maltreated, deliberately shot. In one case, an - old man, a soldier. of the Revolution, was pursued by a mob:but find. ing he could oot escape,. turned and suppli cated their mercy. The reply he received was a shot from a rifle which wounded him mortally ; he still besought them to spare him ,when one of the party picked up a scythe or sickle, and literally hacked him ' to pieces as ho lay on the ground. Tiromas Monnts,formerly If. S. Senator, addressed the meeting. Ile said he had been in the. vicinity of these transactions, and had taken some pains to acquaint himself with the facts ; and from all he could learn, the Mormons were an in dustrious and nar.nless people ; that ne ape. cific charge had been breught against. them - by the Executive of Missouri, but that their persecution was for no other rea son than that their religion gave offence to a mob—for causes which may, at.any time, induce the same persecuton of any religious sect in our land. Ho said ho be. leived the statements made to be true, and that they were corroborated by those who' resided in the vicinity of their occurrence. There is an old instance illustrating the commercial mistakes which happen from neglecting the proper positions of points The •lady of a mariner about to sail on st. distant voyage, sent a note to the clergy man of the parish, expressing i tbe folloiskit meaning • "A husband going to sea, his wife &sine , the prayers of the congregation." Unforttriately,the gotid tnatioostas not OEN hid in punctuniii)ii,tiqr lied the minivterquick Ile read the now as it was wtitten husiy.r.d goilig to Eekt ltis wir , desire% - .Nut. lutelt.
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