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VOL. XVII.-131
P OE TRI.
for tide "Star and :tanner."
PIIANTASIA.
And nh. her soft lou• noire !night lull
The spirit to a thrum of bliss.—warrro:n
Oh, I would sleep, u•nuhl sleep, forever,
Could I thua hut drcuni of thee.--f is:Lu £ .
O! that thy heart were bliss, to-night
Thy thoughts all wore a heavenly glow,
Thy dreams were gloriously bright,
Like music's gush, thy spirit's flow!
But lo ! a cherub wing, of file,
Its glory caught from (leaven's bright throne,
Above thee sweeps a viewless lyre,
And thrills thee, with each nameless tone.
Sweetly it hover o'er thy rest,
As nestled in deep's long embrace,
Waibling the music of the bleNt
And 'rapt tired, ceiling-o'er that face.
'nen, OS it mark.: the Ire-tide's flow
That gently heaves that breast of ‘xliite,
And lends thy cheek a deeti'lling glow,
ltieathle.s it veils its dazzling light!
All trembling. still, lest the doer) bliss,
To thy rapt }wart its ‘catch has
:7 4 liould bleak thy (Ilearn,—one long, %Saint kiss
The se'riiph steels, in rapture bent.
A bertntions sight ! a child of earth
Is ;nnlc in a chernh's win g•t,
And like an angel of c. nobler birth,
St ilex 'neath a spirit's ntinisit
Too bright! no bright! the'latliant sight
This tninglit g of tvto soul. to one
t•hill selreo less deltild of light
Titan thrc blight form she re,ts upon!
I lo• N) usols a novrif , r thrill,
A [ . %%using romp] that I malt soul,
Than rfrr din if, limit -oil lilt it fool,
AVlirie Eden's oil \ riled gloric.. roll
Oh, heaven is throned within its 4yyps.,
And rapture haunts its lyie's sNvept
As in its bosom, cherished, lies
The happiest of earth's loveliest things!
rhon, Sure thy heart is bliss to-rklit,
Thy thoughts all wear a heavenly glcev,
Thy - dreams arc ebniou.ily bright,
like music's gush thy spirit s Mott'.
THASMA
Fur ":n aal 13(in»fr
'IIIE "WORKS Oh' NATURE.
That Nature's works to Art's superior are,
All human kind are forced ta and asssent.
Few have contei.ded that the works of Art
Can with the works of Nature's hand compare.
Those towering heights that wander in the sky,
On which the boldest do with trembling stand ;
ThoSe vast recesses and unthought of caves
That nature's self evpre.a.:: to our view;
Those cataracts that over rocks decline
And shake the very emits of our earth;
Those deep abysses, horrid to the sight;
Those ioft.rnumnfiiins made of earth and sand ;
Those rivers rolling in their widened course;
Those oceans deeper than frail man can count ;
Those mighty whirpools that destruction tell ;
Those groarning earthquakes that our earth over
whelm
With cries and tears and moaning - all around;
That sun, the moon, the planets and the stars,
And all the boundless universe beyond ;
Our Globe itself, with all that it contain,—
('an testify that natures's works are grand.
lint look at man—at man himself, and see
I low God his highest glory displayed
In that uncommon me.lley of affairs.
See how his muscles and his sinews all
From day today their ditty do perform.
lint look at something else that in him is,
And there behold what challenges in vain
All Arts endeavors and contrivances.
I Gs soul, his mind, his power of intellect,
('an baffle all that art has ever done. •
floe= art presume to say that she can do
A work that with the mind of man compares?
Automata she makes—'tis true—'tie true,
But not the power'of breathing, do they have;
Nor thought, nor sense, nor aught that does impel
Us frailty, men our duty to perform.
Behold themmnitments that Art has made,
U - tinting mcmorUils of the good and heave,
That admiration in the mind excite. •
Butt what are they when with the montains seen.
That quarrel with the clouds and seem at home
Whew Art can never reach. nor el cm roam.
•T,ist to Co cannon's roar, its mighty sound
Bewilders all that in its range arc found.
But hear the thunder as its rolls along,
And shakes the earth and all its occupants. ,
What is the cannon's roar with it compared ?
No more than man when with his maker seen.
Behold the fountains and the line cascades,
'That art has made to dazzle ign'rant Men ;
And mark how insignificant they are,
When with the waters of Niagara seen.
0, great Niagara, thou can'st ever stand
To Show how futile man's attempts will be
Tn take thy glory front thee, and to try
To shadow do•vn the brilliancy thou hest !
Thus can we trace all nature's works and find
How . great they are, how insurpassable !
renn.ylvania College
MISCELLANY.
lir,seisur To 01,n Aoi:.—There is some
thing sublimely beautiful in the respect al
most uniformly paid to old age. We have
a ease in point. One day, during the ses
sion oldie Old School Assembly in Phila
delphia, the venerable Dr. Green made his
appearance in the aisle, supported by two
members of the Assembly. Instantly the
whole Douse arose, with an air of rever
ence, and as the aged divine approached
the altar the Moderator addressed him as
follows:
GREEN : The General Assembly
rise to greet you, not merely out of respeet
to your advanced age, but to testify- their
reverence for your character, their high es
timatv of your long rontinned, faithful an d
valuable Seryives to the Church. The As
sembly rejoice to see you 011ee more in
this House. and beg youlil take the scat
prepared for you.
:I'M old gentlenten took ',his seat, and
when he retired the sane demonstrations
of respect were exhibited as were shown
on his entrance. The scene. must have
been deeply interesting.
Love in a Printing Office.
•
I one heard an old Jour remark that a
printing office was no place forlove-making,
and I have since experienced the
. truth - of
his observation—being now perfectly con
vinced that the flower of love can never
bloom in the midst of types, stands and
printing ink.
It was my fortune once to sojourn for a
, few days in the village of . Di
rectly opposite the office was a pretty
white cottage, with a rose bush clambering
around the casement, and I was not long in
making the discovery that the aforesaid
white cottage, with the rose-shadowed win
dow, contained a fair inmate—a flower
whose beauty far outshone the roses that
clustered around the window. She was a
little blue-eyed, saucy-looking creature, of
some sixteen summers.. She was the belle
of the village. Her name was Mary—
sweet, poetic; Mary.
"•I have a poetic• passiun for the nanie of
Mary."
It was
. a beautiful summer morning. and
I had raised the window to admit the cool
breeze from the slower-decked fields; and
it was not long before I pereieved that
the cottage window was also hoisted, and
that sweet little Mary was seated near it,
busily engaged with her needle. I work
ed but little that morning. My eves con
stantly wandered towards die cottage win
dow, where little Mary sat, and all sorts of
strange and fantastic notnms whirled through
my fancy-lighted brain, -and I began to
think I felt a slight touch of what the poets
call love slipping in at the corner of my
heart.
A few days passed away, and chance
made Inc acquainted with Mary. Ilea-
Yens ! she was a sweet creature—she had
a form that would have shamed Venus de
Medici—a cheek that out-blushed the rich
est perch—and a lip that would have tempt.
ed a bee. from his hive on a frosty morning - .
I thought, as I gazed on her in mute admi
ration, that I had never looked upon one
so exquisitely beautiful. She seemed the
embodiment of all that is lovely and be
witehiner.
Well, time passed, and one day Mary
expressed a desire to visit the printing of
fire. Gad ! thought I, what a chance !
Pll do it there, yes, in the very midst of
implements of niy- art—why should'nt I ? I I
Love in a Printing o . Bice—eh ! There
was something original in that, and I re.
solved to try it at all hazards.
Well, Mary came to the •alee, and I ,
explained to her the use of the various im
plements of the black art—the press and
the roller—the ink and the stands, and the
boxes of the A: 11. C's. 1 took an oppor
tunity to snatch her pretty lilly•white hand,
and she drew it back, knocking a stick
full of matter into pi!
"I must have a kiss for that, my pretty
one," said I, and at it I went. 1 managed
to twist my arm around her waist, and in
struggling to free herself, she upset a•gal
ley of editorial, a long article on the Ore
gon question. Nothing daunted, 1 made
at her again. This time I was more suc
cessful, for I obtained a kiss. fly tit.
Paul ! it was a sweet one—and the little
witch bore it like a martyr—and never
screamed once ; but as 1 raised my lip from
hers, she lifted her delicate little hand, and
gave me a box on the ear that made me see
more stars than were ever viewed by 11(--
schen through his big telescope. Some
what nettled, and with my cheek smarting
with pain, I again seize'd her waist and'
said, "Well, if you don't like it, just take
back the kiss." She made a desperate
struggle, and as she jerked herself front my
arms, her foot Struck the lye-pot, and'ove'r
it went ! Another galley of editorial was
sprinkled over the floor, and in her efforrs
to melt the door, her foot slipped, and
she fell, and in the effort to sustain herself,
her hand, her filly-white hand—the same
little hand that had come in contact with
my cars—oh, horrible ! was stuck up to
the ellthw in the ink keg ! Shade of
Franklin ! what a change came over the
beauty of that hand ! She slowly drew it
from the keg, dripping the ink, tind' asked
me what use I made of that tar' I began
to be seriously alarmed, and 4 pologised in
the best manner I could, and to my S
prise she seemed rattier pleased than an
gry—but there was a "lurking devil in her
eye," that told ate there was Mischief
afloat. As. I stood surveying the black!
covering of her hand, scarcely able to sup
press a laugh at its strange metamorphosis,
she quickly raised it on high, and brought
it down "ker slap" upon my cheek ! tie-;
fore I could rerover from my surprise, the
same little hand had again descended, and
again loft an inky print on my other check. ,
"Wily, Mary," I exclaimed; "what are
You about ?"
"I think you told me you rolled ink on
face of the form," with a loud laugh, and
again her hand lit upon my face—taking ,
me a broad slap in the very middle of my •,
countenance, and most wof . ,illy bedaubing,
my eyes. With a light step, and a metiy
deal of laugher, she skipped through the
door. She turned back when beyond my
reach- and with her roguish face peeping
in'at the doorway, shouted back,
"1 say, Charlev; what kind of a roller ,
does my hand make 1"
"Oh," said I,"you take too much ink.".
! ha !".she laughed—" Well, good
bye, Charley—thes.my impression ! ha
ha !"
c. M. K
I went to the glass and survered my-
Klf for a moment, and I verily believe I
From the Illinois State Gazette.
GETTYSBURG, PA., FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 12, 1846
could 'have passed for a Guinea negro
without the slightest difficulty.
"And so," said I to myself, "this is love
in a printing office. The Devil fly away
with such love I"
The next morning when the editor came
to the office, I "rather calculate" he found
things a little topsy-turvy. llowever that
made no difference to me—for I had “Aliz
zled" long before day-light.
I bore the marks of that scene for many
a day, and now, whenever I sec a lady en
ter a printing office., I think of little Mary,
and keep my eye on the ink keg—and
though she were beautiful as lithe I would
not venture to touch her with a ten foot
pole !
Talk about love in a boudoir—love in a
a boner—lode on a spring-seat sofa—love
by moonlight, starlight, lamplight, or any
other kind of light, and I am with you
heart and soul—but I pray you by the
ghost of Faust, never'talk to me about love
in a printing office.
THE CHURCH 1;I:I.LS
There is something beautiful' in the
' church bells. Beautiful and hopeful.—
i'They talk to high and low, rich and poor.
in the same voice ; there is a sound in
' them that. should scare pride, and envy,
and meanness of all sorts front the heart of
man ; that should make him lok upon the
world with kind, forgiving eves ; that
should make the earth itself seem to hint,.
at least for a time, a holy place. Y es, there
is a whole sermon in the very sound of
the church bells, if we have only the ears
rightly to understand it. There is a preach
er in every belfry, that cries, "Poor, weary, :
struggling, fighting creature—poor human
things ! take rest, be quiet. Forget your
vanities, your week-day craft, your heart-!
!turnings. And you, ye hunon vessels.'
gilt and painted, believe the iron tongue
that tells you, that for all your gilding, all
your colors, you are of the same Adam's
- earth with the beggar at your gates. Come
away, come, cries the church bell, and
learn to he wise : learn to be Immble;
learn that however daubed and 'stained,
and stuck about with jewels, you are but
grave clay ! Come. Dives, come, and be
taught that your &IT as you wear it, is
not half so beautiful in the eye of heaven
as the soul of uncompromising Lazarus ! 1
And ye, poor creatures, livid and faint !
—stinted and crushed by the pride and
hardness of the world—come, come, cries
the bill, with the voice of an angel, conic •
and learn what is laid up for ye. And
learning, take heart and walk among the
wickedness, the cruelty of the world.cahnly
as Daniel walked among the lions."
FARMERS AND Timm CIIILDREN.—The
paramount duty of the agriculturist • is to
elevate his class, and place himself in the
position to which he is entitled. No idea
11101 V fatal to the supremacy of the farmer
ever possessed him than that or educating
smite one child in particular for what is
denominated the learned professions. Mr.
President, let agriculturists educate their
children thoroughly, regardless of any such
partial, unfair and unjust consideration.—
As agriculturists, let them educate
. their
children for agriculturists. Let them not
give bread to one and stones and serpents
to the others. Let them bear in mind that
education adorns and improves the culti
vator of the soil, as much as it does the
lawyer, the doctor, the divine. It is a
false notion and unworthy the citizens of
a free repuhlie, that edneation is not ne
cessary to the cultivator of the soil. IVhen
we reflect that this is a free country, and
that free out can only be preserved by t h e
pure light that is reflected by knowledge,
can the cultivator of the soil hesitate a mo
ment to pot his shoulder to the wheel ? If
he loves his children, educate 'them ; if he
loves his country, educate them. It is a
duty he owes to both children and coun
try.
FRIGHTENING A ROGUE.--111 the St. Lou
is Recorder's Court, recently, Alexander
Me Janus, was lined $5, for stealing wood
Iron the steamer 'Hannibal, and was ask
ed to "Ibrk up" by his honor.
"C-e -c-cant do it," stuttered he, "a-a-a
ain't got th-th-the p-p-pewter, your Hon
or."
"Are you a married man ?" inquired the
Recorder.
"N-n-a-not exactly s-s-s- . so far gone yet,
"Well, I will have to send -you to the
work house,'' said the Recorder.
4 0 T-t-t-taint nothitf t-t-to go th-th-there,"
said Alick, "1-1-I-'m used to it ; 13-1)-but
when von t-t-t-talked about in-In-marriage,
old fellow, you fifffrightened mfr.!.
DISTRESSINM-A lady in Boston, the
other day, in passing down Ileacon street,
had her light dress torn by a nail in a plank
which a laborer was removing. Thp lat
ter did not hear the appeals of the lady un
til her dress was torn almost completely
off, and revealed to the astonished specta
tors the well known commercial phrase.
"Prime old Java," written on the skirt
underneath. The lady took the first cab.
I'vrty Gooo.—The New York Mirror
thinks that . the cause of so much cloudy
weather as we have had of- late, may he
attributed to the fact that Congress won't
employ Prof. Espy any longer.
EXTRAORDINARY FECUNDITY OF A SHEEP.
—A ewe, belonging to the thick of Mr.
Henry Williams, of Salem, Mass., was de
livered of four lambs at a birth, on the 6th
day of April last: Three of them are now
alive, and doing well.
"FEARLESS' A
A LITTLE Boy HANGELL—The son of
Mr. Duffee, of P2cahontas county, came
to his death in a rather singular manner.
IA bag of beets was placed by the door on
the outside of the house; the little boy got
on tht bag, and placed his head in a crup
_
per that hung over the bag; after getting
his head through the crupper, his feet slip
:ed and the little fellow hung by the neck
until he was dead. His mother had just
missed him, and he had been but a few mo
ments absent, when she found her little
son in the condition above described.—
, What her feelings must have been is left to
those who are parents to enter into; for it
is beyond our descriptive powers to por
tray: Lewisburg Chron.
.The New Bedford Mercury says :
On Saturday evening week, the lightning
struck the house of Mr. John P. Ed
dy, at Swanser. Ile came home from
Fall "River during the storm, and found his
four children sitting in the corner, and told
them to move out: They did so, and im
mediately the beam under which they had
been sitting. was struck. Mr. Eddy was
himself touched with the fluid, but will
survive. It ran into the closet and tore
the gilding off the edges of the china, and
cut up the grass around the house, etc.
SENTENCE OF POSTMASTER TOR MAIL
ROBBERT.- Eben 11. Clark, late Postmas
ter at Cherry Ridge, Wayne 'county, Pa.
convicted of abstracting lnonei• from let
ters. was sentenced at Philadelphia by
Jude Randall, on Saturday to ten years'
imprisonment in the Eastern Penitentiary.
This was the minimum amount of punish-
ment under the act of Congress. Clark is
a young man, only a little past 30, and has
a wife and several children. lie had al
ways borne a good character, and commit
ted the WE:Lice in an unfortunate moment
of tempiation. The whole sutn he obtain
ed was less than one hundred dollars.—
When detected he Mande a frank confes
sion and restored every dollar. Fatal
error.
SERVED HIM RIGHT.—On a trial in the
Philadelphia Quarter Sessions on Wednes
day fternoon. to ascertain the paternity
of a bastard child, a witness for the de
fence, in order to discredit the prosecu
tion, coolly and with unparalleled- effron
tery swore that he had criminal inter
course with the mother. Upon this de
on he was utterly surprised on leav
ing the witness box to find himself trans
ferred by order of the Judge to the priso
ners' dock, to answer the offence which he
had thus openly confessed.
The dwelling of Richard Mott, Esq.,
at,Toledo, (O.) was struck by lightning on
the 23d ult. and considerably - shattered.
The chimney was demolished, the wood
en siding to the house ripped ow and splin
tered, and divers other mischief done.—
Of four ladies who were in the house one
was thrown senseless to the ground, but
lia,ppily not seriously injured, and the oth
er% klt the shock but slightly, though they
sat in apparently dangerous proxiMity to
the cause of the electric fluid.
A SNAKE EJECTED.—On Thursday last
a little boy, son of Mr. Lotland, residing
at Frankford, Pa. was seized with violent
retching, and in a few moments forced
up a snake. The child had been sick for
nearly two years, and for the best part of
that time was under the
.care of a physi
cian. Every etThrt to restore the little
fellow to health failed. Tlie snake is about
ti inches long, and covered with black
scales, and has been preserved.—Philtul.
Sun.
I.I:GACV CASE.—Some time ago a Mr.
Brand, of Richmond, Va. left a legacy to
the Presbyterian Board of Publication,
supposed at the time to amount to $20,000,
but which was reduced subsequently, by
claims on the estate, to $12,000. The
will was contested by the heirs at law, en
couraged by the laws of Virginia, which
does not recognize the existence of any re
ligious corporation. The Board of Publi
cation consequently have abandoned the
hope and design of recovering it.—Phila
dclphia paper.
PAY OF THE VOLUNTEERS.—The Hon.
'l'hos. J. Reidy, oflndiana, after inquiries
at the office of the Adjutant Gen - . at Wash
ington, states the following as the pay of
the volunteers : Ist Sergeant, $l6 per
month ; 2d, 3d and 4th do. $l3 do. ; Cor
poral, $9 do. ; Musician, $8 do. ; Private,
The volunteers will be required to cloth
t!ir'mselves, for which they will receive the
following allowances from the government :
Ser , eant for one year.s3B; usieians do.
; Corporal and private do., $36.
Mr. Willy is of opinion that the pay of
volunteers serving on foot will be advanced
by Congress to $8 per month, the same
as allowed to mounted men.
GEN. Woot..—This officer left N. York
on Monday evening, for Troy, whence he
gill proceed with all possible despatch to
the Northwestern States bordering on the
Ohio and Mississippi rivers, having been
commissioned by the President to muster
the quota of troops required of those States
into the service of the, U. States, and to
expedite them to the scene of action on the
Mexican frontier.
Henri• Horn, whose nomination as Col
lector of the-port of Philadelphia, was re
jected by the Senate last week, liar been
rL•nominated by the President 1.
From Alorrir's National l'reF
MANFIELD'S LIFE OF
General Winfield Scott.
We have been greatly interested in the
' recently published life of Gen. Scott, It
is not solely or chiefly the distinguished
part which he took in the war of 1812,
I though with the exception of Gen. Jack
son no one acted in that contest a more
honorable and distinguished part. Amongst
the brave, he was always foremost. Ile
lin fact might be called the hero of the Ni
agara frontier, so gallant Was his bearing on
those hard fought fields. Nowhere, during
the whole war, was there such a succession
of bloody actions or so large a proportion
of the troops engaged numbered among the
killed or wounded. The Battles of Queens
town, of Chippewa, and of Niagara, (call
ed also Lundy's. Land;) brought into re
quisition all the personal courage both
of officers and men, while it displayed
on the part of the former, great milita
ry skill. In the first mentioned action,
Gen. Scott was taken poisoner, and in the
twice severely wounded. it was in con
sequence of Ih^ dangers then encountered
that he was enabled without loss of charac
ter, even among his military brethren, to
decline the proffered duel with Gen. Jack
son, a refusal which men of peace must I
count not among the-least of his well earn
ed honors.
Yet distinguished as Gen. Scott has
been in the field, he has gained rarer and
other laurels. If it is much to be great in
war, it is more to be great in peace. 'lf
honor is due to him who wins a battle, or
conducts a successful campaign, what is
not due to him who renders the fight un
necessary, who averts the horrors of war
and turns the threatened campaign into
rejoicings for peace ? On three several oc
casions, Ndien the peace of the country was
threatened' by the conduct of misguided cit
izens and of inflamed partisans on both
sides of the line, was Gen. Scott sent into
disturbed districts bearing the olive branch,
and on each occasion was lie' greatly and
gloriously successful. Well may Virginia,
whose soil has been prolific of great men,
he proud to enrol Gen. Scott on the list.
Who among her sons at the present day
bears a more honored name ? Though a
military man by education as well as by
profession, he has fairly earned the title- of
pacificator. In his whole career he has
been distinguished by compassion for the
unfortunate, and by courtesy and generos
ity toward his foes. For their prisoners
of distinction he interceded with the geii
eral government, and procured as a favor
to himself, their release or parole at a time
when such filvors were very rarely shown
and very difficult to be procured.
lie conducted with great consideration
and humanity the very difficult operation
of ;removing the Cherokees to their distant
home, and for his treatment of them de
serves the thanks of every friend of the
red man.
His mission to South Carolina during
the prevalence of the doctrines of nullifica- .
Lion, was one of extreme delicacy and im
portance, which, ifentrusted to the hands
of a bold and energetic, yet imprudent man,
might have ended in bloodshed. General
Scott's firmness, prudence, courtesy and
tact, may have saved the nation at that
time from civil war, as they had not
im
probably before done from a foreign con
test. No qualities of Scott deserve higher
commendation than his candour, frankness
and moral courage. Memorable also are
his declarations in favor of peace princi
ples : It is the highest moral obligation to
treat our national differences with temper,
justice, fairness; always to see -that the
cause of war is not onlyjust but stOcient;
to be sure that we do not covet our neigh
bor's lands, "nor any thing that is his ;"
that we are as ready to give as to demand
explanation, apology, indemnity ; in short
we should especially remember : "Ml
things whatsoever ye would that men should
do unto you, do ye even so to them."
We cannot better close this notice than
by an extract from a publication of Dr.
Charming found in the able and interesting
work mentioned at the head of this article.
We 'nay hereafter make other extracts—
"To this distinguished man belongs the
rare honor of uniting with military energy
and daring, the spirit of a philanthropist. •
His exploits in the field, which placed him
in the first rank of our soldiers, have been
obscured by the purer and more lastingglo
ry of a pacificator, and of a friend of man
kind. In the whple history of the inter
course of civilized with barbarous ... or •
halicivilizedcammunities, we doubt w
er a brighter page can he found than that
which records his agency in the removal
of the Cherokees. As fiir as the wrongs
done to this race can be atoned for, Gen- 1
end Scott has made the expiation.
In his recent mission to the disturbed
borders of our country, he has succeeded
not so much by policy as by the nobleness
and generosity of his cloreter, by._moral
influences, by the earnest conviction 'with
which he has enforced on all with whom he
had to do, the obligations of patriotism,
jus
tice, humanity and religion. It would not',
he easy to find among us a man who has
won a purer fame ; and I am happy to of-1
ter this tribute, because I would do some
thing, no matter how little, to‘hasten the
time when the spirit of Christiait 'humanity
shall be accounted an essential attribute:
and the brightest ornament of a public
man. "
• At the National Fair a shirt was exhibi
ted in which there were 63,000 stiches.,
TERMS-TWO DOLLARM PER ANSFYI.
WHOLE NO. ‘845.
ME COURSE OF TIIE WHIGS
The ungenerous assaults sia frequently made
upon the Whigs, in contineetion with the Mexican
War, by Journals devoted to the Administration,
which seem to regard every unfriendly criticism
upon the conduct of the President as ay-norm:nous
with a want of attachment to the country—in the
prosperity of which, by the way, it may safely b.)
assumed, tbo Whigs, as a party, have at least 33
deep an interest as their assaildpts—fullyjustify
the following revere retort, which we find in the
New Yor,k xpress
The "Urtion," as the organ of the Goi•4ti,
ernment, is making itself contemptible int
the imputations it throws out against id,
patriotism of the' Whigs, and the meti/g
Press, in this Mexican War.
Who is Gen. Taylor, now leading our
arms to Victory and to Glory, in Mexico ?
A warm-hearted, staunch, high-minded,
Henry Clay Whig. Mr. Clay has not a
warmer friend in the world,one more devoted
to him, one who was more anxious for his
election to the Presidency. Nor was
there a man in the country more opposed
to the Texas annexation or to TILE WAY IT,
WAS DOSE."
Who is Major Ringgold, whose life has
just been offered up on the battle-field ?
Another Whig, and a Henry Clay Whig !
who was thoroughly opposed to the Texas
annexation, and THE WAY IT WAS DONE.--•
We did not know Col. M'lntosh and the
others, who have fallen, but - front' their gal.
lant bearing in the discharge of their duty,
we have no doubt they were men of the
same school.
Commodore Conner, who has rushed
to the scene of the war off the Brazos, as
soon as he heard of it, is, we are told, an.
other Whig. Gen. Scott, who is to lead
our• forces in Mexico, has been a leading
Whig candidate for the Presidency, and
has poured out his blood freely for his
country.
The Whigs are not SPOUTEII9, froth-ma
kers, declaimers, rampant orators, such as
the 54 40 men are, and all that clan and
school of - Mock patriots ; but when any—
hard fighting is to be done . for their coun
try, when men or money arc wanted in
the battle-field, they are there,--not spout
ing, nor making speeches, but AcTiNo as
Gen. Taylor does. If there are any cow
ards in the day of trial, any distinguished
for ,their words, and recreants in their acts,
they will be found among •the frothy
Democracy. " When Whigs make
pledges they MEAN what they say, which is
much more than can be said of the Dorr
democracy men."
SEVERE • BUT TRUE.—The Baltimore
Clipper thus sarcastically shows off the
Aliens, Casses, Hannegans and other war
spirits of Congress : "How puny and;
contemptible do political tricksters appear,
when contrasted with such men as Major
Ringgold ! How heartless the demagogue
who would unnecessarily involve his coun
try in war, in which brave hearts must
bleed; and the truly ° patrotic men become
victims. Whore are the reckless politic►ans
(*Congress who would war for "the whole
of Oregon or none ;" and who prate about
handling England as 'a helpless infant ?' Arc
they now seen, sword in hand, assisting
to repel an inferior foe from our soil, and
courting honor at the canon's mouth ?
No—they brag, but do not perform : they
kindle the flame, and thrust others for
ward to extinguish it : they talk bravely
of deeds of, mins, but are careful to keep
out of the•way of harm to themselves :
they raise the whirlwind but avoid the
storm. We would direct such men to the
tomb of Major Ringgold to learn a lesson
of patriotism► and of duty."
DESTINATION OF TILE CAVALRICO/ifOrltiet tO
Le taken.—We find the following in the last Nash
ville Union, Mr. Polk's organ in Tennessee:
We understand from a reliable source
'that it is the intention of the government to
send a force . to California sufficient to take
possession of that country and to hold on
to it. It is supposed thut the mounted
men from Arkansas, Missouri, andprobably
from Tennessee, will be directed to Cali
fornia: We sincerely hope that this in
formation maybe true, and from the source
through which is derived, we are satisfied
that it is reliable. We regard California
now as ours, and with that result .all will
be satisfied.
A PROPRECT.—A writer in the Boston Post
makes the following predictions, with regard to
our national troubles:
Ist, That the outlines of settlement of
the Oregon question will be determined
upon within six weeks from date, (May
25th.) 2d, That the war with Mexico
will be concluded, on terms dictated by the
United States, Within the same period of
time as stated above. 3d, That money
will be very plenty within nir.ely days,
and the business of the country (hiring the
next year will bo very largo. '
Mr. Webster, in the discussion ir. the Foliate on
Monday statelLhis.-I+elierf - tffilithe Oregon contra.
rersy would be sailed and a pmnanent boundary
esitsblished before the adjournment of Congress. So .
explicit an opinion from Mr. Webster would OA
be expressed without some semiofficial astittrAto
positive and reliable of the fact.
STRANGE OPERATION. - -A French Sur
geon lately removol the cornea from 'the
eye of a female, wild had been blinded by
smallpox, anti, replacing it with that of ti
young (log, enabled the girl to dintinguith
between day and night,.
There are brae aortal of rrien;ilayera
they which 'Will: they w ilia hate: and
.they which detract:.