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I'-v. , ... jj. - .. J - f -- - ? 11U, I i. A': a ; j ; r .I t J ' Is.!! a.rrn, 'j.:; L j iA I . 1 cr I fr t' i :j iAr c . Advcrtiscrr.!"M i fr inre of ten ! .1 . i trtsrr-mc t V: r Irr cf ir -A 2' XtLA - t i ;llr!f !JI .'. J lb J coniina. C rtOr. ci i 'ii-.irr., or i' ir! r J Ml fjrlid, and Af ;.d t ) v ,l La c!.jrLj l v. i fir c "-co ii -r - 3 " & I.-'.t.rs to t!.s Hj;t:r r." c L n'-. 3 C 1 if J 3y. T '' " i -e ilt:.ti..n. i f, ' At; i. Turning asiJj fi Which day and nihi f these arterial trurAj iA i w'o arrived al the A ... !' . " ' " ... 1 ... , . i," nrJ, tl.u.Jit;'; Aha suits oi upirwr.c;.. i.: . uc: j v.cre cvpus-' ( It t-tl sundries and divers peci:hens of artisti. cal ingenuity, orrive't! ;.: the rooms i:i which .wero deposited thoso triumph' of genius whicharo the chief glories cf the place. -, V '! never weary of looking oi these pictures of Birry," remarked Campbell; ond it is realty digruceful to many who travel on the . continent, an,d hunt up MichaJ Anrlo, that they have not stu-Jied at tlu fr own ilo r ; fur of onii ptirti. cf productions the 'preat master hiitHlf miht not bt; a'shnrnt-d. L wk at iho figure of -iha Arclmncel gmrding the Gitcs of Paradise,", si id ho'.- (T1)Q picture we were guzing on wa-s il.ut of JZtsium ) "Canovarf iitl of it that Homo pos. - sevsed nuthinj superior f t!iis kind." I heard hirri declare at Rogers's that he would bYO lijjted London to havp sctn t!:it picture only,' ikad he been aware of its c-uteuce. 'Acd -x. jel," nddt d Campbell with a sncerand hi sourrurasa peculiarly giim and disngrecablo f)nc Bjrry u seldom studied by our young uru'ilJ, who fancy that the htmie-achool of ait is only n prepartaory onef wh reas inany ot "ilieoi woulJ bu better if thryiliiishcd whero ihcy had bcgunV-" t' ; Wu spnt upwards ufan hour in looking . t th'c productions'; 'but it 'wnuld be i in pos aiU; to couvcy on paper any iJon of Ciinp. bells vetbul criticism on Barry Vpieturc3. These were . interspersed with rcin'trks on . many of our. living and dead artists; but the tuuctti. were too fino aoJ. nubile ty be trans. forrtJ tn lypo.,'.-1-afterward loarticd that Cimj.Wl was. very; fotid of. Kccur.ipanying fctrangt'M t. iho Adelphi ; 'indeed j so partial Wnsht ihe puituirtj or Birry that he "cm J'loyed Stoihard to rnakd conies of- them for l is own use; and tneao-pictures ,ures ngw at Cilnsgow University, of which he wrs' elected . L'wlR.'ctor in IQ27.., -,L j - .;. - Whilst wo were strolling nb-mi the gallery he osked mo several questions about tbe city of my birth. On my petitioning Dritol, he lid ith a raising of hia eyebrows ;-r"- ; "Ah ! r;hc place lhai starved out Chatter Ion, and where Savago was buried." : "Tho sanje," I rcm nked, nd that yhich . Iad iha honor of producing a T:r 7jioms .Laro:ice and a Robert SJuthcy." v - :4Dui it didnl kcpp'thetn," interposed the l10! ''and Chattcrton,did guit- - ' Xox - ihc su2r.huckstcrinji son? of modern Jjccatiai ' Hy the way, Bristol has tiut tlics Vit K ;-rt in literary history for treatment .of authors. Chatterton Was not but of his. embryo .cxis. lencc whilst there; butSava w.i very sav. agninsl it you" knowv Coleridge .spoke "gainst it to my hcirias at llighats in 1C22. , Hume has "hit at the poor ciiy for. writing nbom Crazy Naylcr the Quaker's entrance . into it, while women strewed the road, in itn--itation of .Christ's 'cntnnce into. Jerusalem ; i ; hcsays.'he rode upon a horse, though i one can , hard a- conceive H' difTicult to f.r.J r- crs in -Bristol;, or something to that efTcct. With respecuo poor Chatterton, t! - - ' i:1 13 1 . everlastingly disgraced forcausir 'his'sclemn 5My, M 'Shelley calls lis h:t frij'.tf-l . ixL'rsle.,M , VYo forgot ir,'I venture 1 to 2y,'utVal lie was starved out of existence in London." - Ihoj-.rJ more who coir.3 hrs to . write' up their fortunes," he replied : "but, v;ht U versa 'v y.l, co-i.J, h:3 s ..-ctty.wUchgavoira notrcvi . I :...rr- I C'Tpbell tl.it t!:t m wis c..:phtL.i. "- i. -' t 9- .lit 'nrJ I i- "" t.im that ,thro wc-Md he 5j;c;'.5 ty V.' 'wr-'s .:: J ly or.o who should ha t.ar.- -::t to ftl'!L 5 C ? t' : r.rlaCr rI;-.A ! A I - -I r "If-:-rizMsAI, '-Uil.:)s l: 'A I cen A. jw i J t-r.j , a.J n f . strait f hir r.:: r- -.- j; i-.oi.rt ti.j a 1 He cheer U together, I .Jaries of Vc enjered t!. ' i ( : n r .Li: ''.-r wi.li v.l.trn I ijas ftr.- ' : I : ;t t" .t I de. rivvJxorrte httla impartar.co froii er grilling vi:h Cicv l. ll, f,r consiJf ral ' rv.pntinn vrs paid to rri attentions to which I had previ ously tccn a struj.j?r. . " ' ' Ua iliowicg bin the portrait oi I i!.j UrJ cf Hope exprei-'-d hitr.. .rtoh, hi -lily -ntified, andnfu-r ! !Jng at it fr 80i..j m-yutcs, he said, "iV r child! it is n t'.rangti'and striking countenance, tut' it is t!;a f.c3of;'or.j who I should have sajid would besemo intone-." - He also -remarked that it wai. won-'-'rfjIIy hke lycats, as painted. by Serern rc.i"'- ht-lri -iT Tho. conversation then turned onjChatter. tons acknowledgrd productions. '; " "Ili powers of description were! great," he remarked, and he repeated the following on Winter1,1 ns an1 examplo : , ; K . ' ' TIo rajfjed Wintep, bending o'er bin trelit, " " Hi frizzled hair bedecked with icy dew; J f lis ejc,-la dusky . light, congealed and dead ; Hi robots tinje of light, etherial blue ; . ' His team a ruotlcy, sanguino, cabled cloudy . lie liinp along tho russet dreary moor, 1 While riinjf wliirlwinda--blaiting, keen, jiad load, - .Poll the 5-hite surges to tho sounding ah'ore." v "Herol ngnin,' he'eontinued, "is a uice distinction and a sharp bit of satire : jt occurs in Jii$ distinction of two .rival organists:. Of one he says : " ' -" " : I- 1 , ; .'Sacred to 'sleep is his inverted ky f ' - - 'Dal doleful deitposons jly awayy A nd o' n'nothcr.a, ; j , ; . . "IIowjl I kc'Allenl Allen is diffinci - -Ilia touch is sentimental, tender, fiuo I a keeps tfe passions with tt sound in play t .. And tkt tout tremhles tcilh th trem'Uing key. As. wo proceeded up Ilolborn brijthe.way back to hii chambeVa, we passed Brook street 7the street in which the marvellous . boy Committed suicid', and- the circumstances of the poet dhueath wero adverted to. MI hardly. wonuer nuns rate, remarKea uampceii, ;;ior no situation. can; possibly binore' deplorable than that-of a neglected authori whoso daily, bread drpenji, on a pen forAvhose produclioris he 'cannot find a market." 7 This led to some remarks on suicide, but uttered as they were amidst th? whirl of. a great 4horoughfareI lost much -of Avhat;. was said, fur Campbell appeared 0 bo talking more to himself than to me,- lcan only remember such snatches as tho following.: - r - . - . Sometimes, V said he, lI have a gloomy comfort-in being nearer the end of my life than I was wheta commenced , authorship, and hivo consequently a mora limited jjur. ney; to come.- i : Sir Tnpmas T Browne says : It is the heaviest stone melancholy jean fling at n rnanNo tell him he is at the ejnd of his line. He was! I think, rather aitud::v' to the extension hVlijc beyond death s but' I think there is comfort in such stone notwithstanding, ior oe is uiso nv inc enu oi ois misery.; ror rriyowh part L consider such dicadjf total cOssation of existence-raihec aSiOi fruit f over refined musings and inordinate desire of tcoftay.cmijyrnenii.inan irug pouusupuj least, that; it springs, frorn a, sort. of . hypo. ch ond r iazol i philosophy .that hardly jusuues Its dcrivitirc title love of wisdom.' ; :' 1 said sOme'thihV about us being contented with the stations n jsigncd us by Providence. Av." he said. A'it is to be content as far ' - . , . - ' tks contentment is under the; control of our i.nrntal operations J': and surely it if ;in some t"3e"rce. The Romans (of the garden as well iss of tho jcademy) felt nono of tjiat horror tof tho 'encfof their line expressed bv Browne; find pcrhajs tho disbelief in futurity of being jjivca zcijlo their enjoyment of present being; jit ! ,st the carp diem1 faith of the Epicure jins mtat "have extracted a stronger charac ier frcr.ith3 very .tenets which to us r jar 4o- rboray'ond . tho Apai::ijL rr.ors.f .oat, Always t"-r car; hive induced them to snatch up and gobbla all lIVy could of lia Htundering tha door shc::!J ct i.i.1 iRhht!-j wel..:d :.;c!.:J Us rccms, jjcd en rcciivirg what I bc'.L wJ to lz a cor CIJ : I an-ia enter jJ r.:-' v.hilst l.e Vu.Ad'uway, we talked, or rat'. :r 1 i C'J co a ,vir. ,T I.. tr.c.T.cs.- ; I reAJ ia t!- ir.'.crl' " a cf d.':r 1 r t ' t I - - thr.J," z-.Uui :t I r.A :t cj:.Ass ;ti A At :A-Arjr;' -ban. ' -1 1 . - - 1 i- ' " ; -t 1 jo!3 :,t..:.. ' : I JA J.:.A. A... Ii'..rA.JIAjioki.w -i i' - : 'r-. . i r A t J A:.i l.-d uA" i to r.oril l!. it tcrri.A'. Lj::' p?r. f.tratvJI;- At very L.t i." I A ? It i really i.o.-.JerfJ l.j;v .e, C'rJ.:.".:f and .:r,T cf i.it jrl fec'iijs. t'Alv cf. j c -t!s, oiJ n.-J v. ''i t' .r.i, about such a beastly, as well ci i :r !,r . JAjroce l 1.: rpeci's rs Au. gu:u, A.:..jt a word of honest human'cxe. cr.iioaj of iha proacriLing-triuuiviri--tl.t rr.urdcr! Lf his fjier.J Cijlro cl"J," added C- :);.b!!, with a f ere e grin, i!;e incest uou-, the cJul.jrcr; the Crr ; , ' " 1 enured to j s'jrpruo at his J to thoro gene- h-j - opinions c; i Aly tr.-iintair.jJ. '0:1! said h- I t claii.i anyorigi. c-.lty for my 1 c.i bcorc. JtiAcy, of the Ediuburgh Review, with whom I had the honor bod pleasure -of conversing fre quently, both in Edinburgh and Chraigcrook , (his country .residence,) launched-out or.: ; almost as earnestly as 1 do ou this topic ; and t remeinber, in the Review a writer, whu I know to have been Jeffrey J reviewing Eur. ta hceJ Tour in Italy,1 has broached a' similar judgment No, no; the R.muns wero not such herges, after all; they were a detestable band of Conspirators against tho rest. of man kind, wh4 carried fire and sword into the re; motest countries. - Tho 'immortal Romans!' They began as fugitive robbers;, and if their society did for awhile, for self-preservation, practice, some few of the virluestof savages, ihev did so no longer that their, weakness re. quired bL'comrng' at home ' poor "Trembling slaves, under a "race of despicable ty rants, while abrpad jheyk played the' tyrants over nations superior to them in all virtues and in frue jirivili ttion. I was gratified that JetTrey had a strong correspondent feeling with niy own in m disaffection to tho dcad monstcrs of the world. !rom talking of Rome, the conversation toot ajump to the present times. " y.We were speaking, just no'wsaid Camp, bell," uof 'Vulgar errors : I think our boasted age is guilty of a capital one.', A-Half of the literary coin now in circulation is spurious; not like the old hoarded stuff which rings as well as shines. , People seem, now.a.days, in poetry at least, to mistake fine Words for, fine things the holyday dress of thoughts for glorious thoughts themselves. Diction' as I v . f take it, is surely but the imagery to express the substance the idea; Words are but :he pic. turo .of hyerogliphics, whereby to acquaint others, with what we think or know ; but, in rending Annual, .'Poet a. Corners,!, and all that; sort of thing, how common is It, after haying gone'through a '3et of words,, mere sounds, like listening to a tune', to' find ones "self at a loss to say whatidiajl has conveyed. Yetj in a great .deal of recent poetry, maga. zinc and other,-this fraudulent stuff seems to pgss off very will with such editors. as Rey nolds and Lady' Blessingtbn, swelling ;out Magaztce and Annual,;aRtrding employment for artists and copperplate engravers."r ; :: .,4tAnd yet,11: said I, ?'this sort of literature A"'' I " . .1 ".I : . ...1 V ' ' e ' . ' ! .4 is Qimpsi oevourea, 19 ipe exclusion 01 :sonu productions." 1' ' " '" f' yrrue; .said he ; "and why t Because tho mass of the readers resemble Pygmalion ; they doal upon the mere picture of statue, be cause of the musclj and' nerve" and "bone are apparent. : Such verses 7 arc my mortal aversion." J " ' . A. - On a - subsequent occasion, he talked of some of our modern poet V, and from a volume ofi Keats' Poems, he read a portion of Keats' Ode toa Nightingale. . t , ;; 'That," said her ','is unquestionably the finest thing Keats ever did ; and he had more of the pure spirit of poetry in him,' Shelley alone excepted, perhaps', that any other writer of. modern daysAWhat a pity .that z e! uuld hate been so thin skinned. Huut, -i.J the rest of the squad, dfdhim no' good by nurs tng his conceits ; but had he lived ho would have taken his own ground and kept it. A Crabbe was mentioned. .-"Byron was a little wrong,", be remarkr J, 'in calling him Na turo's sternest painter l.c should have written Nature's truest painter, and therefore the best. No man ever touched off humble every day.life as Crabbe did. . IV.s IT:!icoh was a stan-rnaot pool, and - his Pc-is-js a horse; in parish round," . . ' . - '-'.' 1 Cf Cray s "Elegy in a Country Churrh yard 1.3 spoke with (fcr ' " A entui3srn. 1 : r u ' .jC.i u &:iuj 01 urutiar.1 pctur r.e srJd, had nsve: been depicted Lyany ...er writer, ia -o limited a number tf stanzas. I ' humtlc tpinion," ho &JoJ, it is n. .t psrfcct poem of which the English Thzrc -M hs, pointing i0,a :ot 1 i ,t 7 A j V 2 writer. 4 :A:-.i; L:-t A.:i::jl - I-r..r-,t'r:n thzt th c t . 1 ' to ; . . ... ,cr ... t.. s-fjCij i..irrvHs, .in wI.A'.i il.j cf rituro cro rr.'!oc,'l wi f-..j . '.1 ; :iA.i .L!j those -.t'fra- L-.'ity. Ll.el.y s prcjjcticr.s tcz. r..Irrors i!.?v orc Lii iner.ts. What a gljrI--3 would "del. ley's ccccjr.t cf Ui d-ath ter 1. . have t,.", could it have been rosiibM for him ta have ud us how the water tf xm B iy cf 2.2 i a sounded ;-. " sj Y '"A friend of mine he contirjed, "said he once jaw Shelley. II-1 was iro tram rrer.t, spiritual, fragile loolJnr a beinj, hs told me that when gizing 0:1 I : one fancied l.s could be seen through." r A! - In the cour;;3 of the .'c?"! Tuition, v Mr. Campbell induced in sev - -ant rcmi. r.iscencrs con:v.-c!" 1 with vrorks. Spehkingof th.it nngnificci.: pr Action, the "Mariners af England," he sii i, 4,it was a !k inr stnrtv T.r f m .w. j m it l...n. L. ...rough a street in-Hamburg. 1 paced, up and down the thoroughfare j until 1 had com pleted it, and I th-n wenthome'and comndt. ted it ti paper."" When 'i3r?hain"8ang it in Edeiiburgh, I was in a box Virath Jeffreyr, and the audience recognising, me,. I had to make my, bow.. t I can truly sajj I. enjoyed the mui sic more than any other J lever -heard, arid never felt so like a poet as whilst hearing how wellmy verses were mafrfj-d to melody .A Perhaps, , after , all,"aid -be, shatl be more remembered by my lyrics thn anything else I have written1 ' ! V "Av " I ' Tho reader must remember that I have sc. iected these scraps of conrsaiion because they are the best rememberc portion of it.--I cannot pretend to chroniclb half of what oc curred; and I have purposely nvoA'edns fur as possible, mentioning my share 'of it; from uisiise. 10 usinj tne personal pronoun any more -than is absolutely- necessary in these Sketches, especially as it ieems I have' un wittingly been,', guilty, , in ; the ; opinion of, I dare say, a very well mennirjg critic cf " John UuIIish pomposity and; hajvo run. my-head against a AN ust-.by -the affection cf "fine writing," a sin which I am sorry should have heen . laid , to my charge, but of vhich I remain to this day iu innocent unconscious." nes9 1 always have,-and shall have,; more anxiety to impart accurate information, than to impertinently parade before the public the very nunoie maiviouai wno imparts 11. The last time I ever saw Campbell was in the.early part of 1843v He vas then scarcely heard of, or, seen in socipty, andpaiuful rumors were afloat" as to his iiabits, and-to which reference has already", been made- Some lines "which were published in one; of he London newspapers, on he circumstances of his having met a very; jbeautiful child in one of the Parks, and whom he addressed as his Child Sweetheart," rnye sad evidence! of tho decline of his powers,' which had already shown symptoms Vof brewing down in his ?Pilgrims of GIencoe."'V He might have ic. casionally been seen in the' reading room of the Museum, or'.walking.rpiind Lincols's nn ields; but the gay4 jair?tly attired, even spruce Thomas' Campbell; had vanished with the "light of otherdays."' i-' T 'I was, one morning, .ia the year l .haye mentioned, about the hour pf ten, jn a pub- Usher's 'shop ( Virtue's) rnear Paternoster uow, wncn,naving occasion 10 5pc;K 10 me foreman of the. establishment, I went up stairs 1 to the printing office. The imposing stone 1 I . . I ' ' .1 ... -. . i was piaceq m ine iuriner exiremuy xt me long dingy apartment, and I noticed around it a group "of workmen." An 3 'drew; "near the spot, I "observed that a gentleman was in their midst, and supposing that he was engaged in business with them, I waited for a little lime,' and then, as I was in haste! to be gone, ap proached them. On the stpne wasn hugn pot of, London stout, from which" the workmen and the gentleman in their co;r:any tookjfre qucnt draughts in turn j and t Ay all seemed "hail fellows well met" togvth jr. Tho Vgen tleman": was shabbily dressed, and his linen was hone of : the 'cleanest j he looked like a faded beau. Tliere was a Js: 7 iu his shoul ders, and a turn on the figujre, which 1 fancied I had sc?" x. roret but could not rcmcnAer where. Ay t..n:edaWpy, with a proi sheet h ! A ..:.is. to my niter surprise I be. held5 Mr. CaiopbelL who r'cc -rnisc-d me; and held c ji his thin finders for r.:e to hi';e. His voa wprn rt nil filmv nni wnlt'TV- 30 i vlO lo ' :d coarso and wriukfed. He ' z l:j " ."v . sl.- .cn, too ; and a new glossy hat cr.ly added to the lick-! : recess of ils wh. i appear ance. - As he 5 Ae, his voice wzs thicks and muHIed, bur, 'tlthouj'i ' ho v.:. perf ectly i.r1 - 1 "it Tir want cf a cutter trm, i-j.tlic-i":! " .I-1 r t Vf'- t o r ,ri. fin-.-. nr.J.l i.vcr ..3rltim: sa v the 1 v. .1 wards Aft A. (-'Ad h , L " Tl.jcrc"! - iff v.! lir.J foKEouh;. U:t3u:r.. :r t to cr ii. !t:. JA.n '. , .1 - - 1 V' V : Tl.iid A: ..:".( . .mv !-.! Al i r ' ' .A l", .tho stood VI r ; t-r ,r - ,,A.A! agiitiHt hi .ret:. j". ..!, Lif .! ? ' A. cuinb to his suj eriors in power, uhj c. ed it, as the only rr.e sin cf .. uirr h". .. Theoc of Mr. A ,vard Cni.!i U a h - ' and creates "much sympathy.- II'1 ! f.iiirily imd- is p'-or, end i is - ". A who is th daughter or Maj r I) J.t j; i c!s. mitsed n3 Warden of tho . . j,n:i..i , A.s been selAring from severe i:A.-4 '. .; Ar a long time at the house of lwr fat! I am informed todiy that il:e . . . rc::::v als in the various. Departments in this city, amount in till, thus far, In one I .'.J r twenty.twotclerks, heids-of bur . i ::J mt-'Sisetirs, whose salaries would ave: - r.t Nst QVZ'JO.- Thus Mr. P.dk, in t.j five months of his administratioti, hurl ' j the Pecv!ss rTc not his own h;re i A cily nloue, tne hundred and twenly.two r j w ith an aggregate compemaiiun for their i-r- i viees..uf gH9,403! Something of, an in. coma to be taken frr-n one clas of citizens, in a city of 25,003 inhabitants, and given to mother , class..., Add , to this numljeruf re." movafs, all those'of Land Office Surveyors, Registers and Receivers i Custom 'House Cillector.-if Surveyors, and Nvy Agents; corcign .Mtntsters, Umsuls, and Government Agents, and Deputy Postmasters, all over thrs land, anl then sav how uh a furious and cold-bloo. J system of -proscription agrees tvun mo proressiont; uttered on ".the 4m of March last, by James K. Polk; 'that minori. tth's had rights which ho would neither train, pie upon nurabu-j! . ' f A--A t ' . -V A Mr.. Buchanan has cone to the Springs, and as he is to be .away some tinie, Mr. Ms. son, the Attorney General, hns been appoint.- rd Secretary, of State ad interim. .Mrj Buch; an in is unquestionably preparing. himselLfur u seal upon the Supreme Bnch.; . . A great deal has been said in praise of . the G overnrncnt's safe .system of depositing the public moneys making the' B inks', or indi. vidual, hand over as secortty, as much Uoi. ied Stairs Stock, or, Slate Slock, Vas ttherc shall be Public Money deposited with them-Tr jUnitcd ; Slates Stock is' considered the best and saf. sl. Brit ' even this is fi-jctuaiinsr in value. . Some .two or three, yen rs ngo, it was below p-ir ; now U is considerably above-lowing to the fact ;j tlmlhe.Ta riff, of 42..haa steadily yielded no annual- revenue bf about 023,000,000,- It is thought; however, that it will fall off several millions of dollars al e current ,y'ar. Should this prive.true, and the revenue be found insufiicieiitto meet.; the expenditures of , the Government, dow.will go United States Stock, and tlieu how natti. i ii "i e . r- - " 1' ti . i . rat u win ue lor ine ucposiiaries 10 ion inc Government to keep its own Stock .as securi ty, while they, will keep the public "money, which is in their hands ! The Government will be the loser.. t K - , . , -. A-r - . "'. But it js said that the Administration will, with the aid of Congress, .effect a large re duction of the -Tariff, 'forthe:encouraging importations to such an extent, as shall keep the revenue up to its present.point, notwith standing the reduction of duties. VVho does notsee the inevitable consequences' of such a step? The exportation ofour specie" to purchase the goods with,-iBnd a consequent revulsion in the money .nfFiirs: of the; whole country ! A repetition of the tenible shock of 1S37, from the. efTocts; of which mi .coin- munily in tho Uuion" has yet entirely recov ered! . - I - I observe that-the letter writers from this city, for the public press , are bearing down with great constancy and ' severity upon Mr.: Dieken.O h' Secretary bf the Senate : for not sending Lis accouor of tho suppositions, mil- age paid to several Senators 'for travelling to ih;ir respective homes and returning to Wash ington,' between .j the. JJd and .4th of Maicti) Iri45, to the First Auditors ofhee for settle- ment ; It seems thai: Mr. Hill s' allowed this iDnstructive mileage ; 'tint Mr. Dickens urg rd the Senators to take it; and that, the sums being handsome a r.J ::olhird Ukct stverut of them did lake it ; that the l.tter writers ut hula ot tho tJict, nnu used u ; . mai Mr, Dickens got. vexed in consequence, tco.Jed his clerks' for divuljiin the maiter and.lhen, learning that a Senator :t was whu let the rat out f the bag, hid up the. proofs and records of the matter a ni withheld ihe account trom ihe Auditor's office, as the safest t. j.r,s of keeping th matter quiet, warding off. ihe dfs. pleasure of the benatpn, nna securing there, bv his own re-election ! . For all this tho let- ter writers are'down npoi Mr. Dickens, and for one, 1 do not much care if?they deleal his re-election. .' A , A A V By the way, the letter writers in this city are doing a" great deal of good., They fire in. dependent and speak out the free ;though.s of their hearts." . They are untirinj; in;their ef forts to huni down b k! ; ;blic r fficersof those servants whom they !.i3 p... in higli places. They hold ihe red i f swift exposure; terra r; : over the U ' cf the AJ.rir.ibtr-.lLn, and often, .no. douht, deter t! c..i frm the perpetration of simcof their bid V::,' tho the gentry manage to accompl s'i eneugh of them; ' goodness knows." . 1 maintain that ll.esa letter wi iters do more in the tvay of ex hibiting to the people the true conduct of iheir public servants, than ons' half of t!;3. eleven hundred editors'.scaitered over "llw United T Tl ' r.re the silt cf t' e editorial c rr:,c:.J yet ci mush to.rJi saving t' i "country "f t- fc" ived- . A trem?r.viius sensation en created in . i.ti.nore, :rson v. !;o . rrwilhinlere; A n.A. a!!.-J ir.to a t i!-.r's shop ar (..r'..;:.:i4 whA ; .. J c'rr'h t;. . A .er i suit 3 ,-arj -o. c" Christ, it cur own ten t- 1 Ir t! : . :iex7. t . . - - J tr. j, were v tf ! ( -n. Taylor; who is puc' 1 rt Ct. J et 'r:J, immedutely de-rr.:'. ! a i " Ij t rnor .Aiouton,at t assL-.trftr c r "Ifition of TWO REGIMEN"." CUNTEEUS, (of ton coi. . iz. one to c v.s'n of Intantry and cr.) of Ri. ijsen; ar.j two cur. -rtms cf Art.... ry; . . i ' eight field pieces., . The requision waViinmoi Ji aely granted, and will be put forthwith ictd csecuiiori.- , ... .The two .Volunteer RegirnVnts tro to bi stationed j ntt the Forts and Barracks thrj Gulf, subject to orders of the Croveriim'erit and the United States troops at ; present fa garrison at these stations are to be immedu utely transferred to Texas. The two Com pirries oft Volunteer Artillery will leave on '.".'ednesday on Bard the steamship , Ala- , : i , e jcthe f w i : '.i four corr.p a rfies Of Uihs3 A '.A 3 troops, (7th Regiment, Infaatry-iwo i " li cr? cxp c'.ed to morrow, morning; ffl - O.rl!'--, r-Jer Captiirs Moort and i. .."' Tl. An ir.ay.be relied izsa as autliCik.-. - .'. , ... ,h 'A' Ncv"" ' -7, At: texas a:,j a !,a Tr-Tynrftnt AT ivp merit cf Trcr "i j... .Lt for Me a o:t cur Lrovcrnor us Lcilre sponded to. ' ' , - , ,'"... A ; 1 ' l: j' "About 11 o'clock yesterday forenoon busi ncss took. us out of our office; end aVflf went down, Camp on to the Post OA;cj wa saw citizens grouped together at every cof- ner", .talking intently nbjut we then knsW hot what. ; They seemed elated . and In .:H A spirits; and as tney consisuo pro'. ,iz: ;-. t)f Whigs and Dtn znxtii we l:nev thilthij- cause ot tneir rejoicing ce someinnrj more than a jmerc political parly friu'r.'e !; When two men met we'could hear one tell fh3 . other, with a significant smile,, to sharpen Uncl Alexander," (h3 big sword) and tha. latter would remind his friend how necesf-Jry it now was for. him u burnish up histf'd ri3. ru'ed-muzzle IJcss." We soori' fearned 1 ."What had Caused th's great eozA.-A - The city through.' ; . . . It was, at the time we rpcak of, ruV.I and very generally known thaVthd vcteraw. Gen. G iines," commanding tho Southern mili-. tary division of the United Slateshad i..acf(l ' " a demand on-Gov. Mouton for. one thouaancj men or more" for tho national ccmc&jVar.J" that the Governor promptly made a requisitjori , on Gen. Lewisj commanding the first division .of, the .Louisiana mjlitiar hr the required force., viz: two A regiments of volunteers, of ten companies each ono of them to consist of musketeers and one' of ".riflemen, and twd companies of a'rtillery with r; ;ht field pieces'; The rcqhisitionwas of co-.so immediately rcsponde ndedto,and will-be put forthwith itld execution. lArl.Tf Af t hl fart th " CauJ - .t ...w. ...... ew .-..- i;d the excitement amongst our citizens wcica we have attempted lo describe ; it was thtJ that made them seem as if : A . ' r" ,! -.Their 'souls were in arms ; ., . , ' ""And eager forthe. fray I " 1 VVq uDders'tarid that iheAvhoW of the artij lory-force of thcity ia'most effective and well armed, corpshavcvoluntfcered fhelf services' and that they have been accepted. Uur gallant unilormea joianiry cuuipauics not, in the' meantime listlessly resting on their arms : calls Vor . mcetingsVr the! officers of. tha' .Washington r Regiment, ond Louisiani . Volunteers irn iy be seen 'in our p'a per, id-day. In fact, the ques'tiou 'willf not bo J S wid be sufftired to remain at'home?" but Vho will be permitted to" enrol' themselves amor.jnt - them, the 'defenders of their countrymen be : ' i.L C . I.Tn T ' r?ufV t InmnrMUl'. tun" uscends;the meridian, the draftin'mercantiftj. : phra?e, will be honoredand wero i. rvjmeri- callv tr.i times the amount s .t :s,-.u would be met with the same alacrity urtd good." will. . The movement is. said to be,LAr.: 1,1 upon authentic information which has reached A Gen.J Gaines - of the nd va ncR of 10,CJ0 f.lex- icau troops to k 4runi .within' eightdayV : march of General . .Taylor's qua i.ers. yt arerridt' a ware of tho precise disposition whicli - A; istobo mado:of ths volunteer force; jlw -great body of .them, 'we. believej go - to reitl- . - ; force Gen. TaylorTs comma nd, - ; AVe, like the rest of our citizens; havo nor . '. apprehehsioriof the-, lestllt." If V 'con.lict -' - ': A. comes,1 "the,-vain' and pusi!inimoii3r.-'ioii.. - which excites .it will inevitably re theu..er-. -. , ers. crsoeia tneir lenierny c-rry isirn u such lengths, we u J that tAjy will ta rrl at. 'A the outset by .a force that W: teach lhe;n th A ' prowess of our pci-, e, ii-.:-. ,y Utopian is the idea that ads l.-.i to bttli?v.,! '.. they can cope v :,h uA ; r- . r't th-.i. . in arls-A lhis humdnity, t vtii l. valor,' A. ' demands of us; 'for, by a tA?" v r.r A.o ' one that will inspire tl.-m wi.li . c. jrea . of terror thousands of poor vr.lchc: , h' may dr? ! in chains fro:., .heir hornu, will j seeing the uttert .hopelessriess of their -cau-e, savo thir livefl by at ontfe makic-, in do A A quick tinie, an 'advzr.c i hacktsards. I V. ' r strategy or riilhcbvring cf cir ; er.Jir.A l:t them l:U provoke i ostilities, and vietory vill cer'tiinly bo .'found folded in. Iha s L'T ol our Ur'on." Picayune. . . Ths ship Cuarlotte;C-pt." Tripe",, has l:so; : A chiric'rc-to traLjiorl U.S. troopi, rz..u " iocs, dec, Lc, to the Biy f Aransas, y ...:h , crsh-jwill shortly z. Itii .. . . ' ; , F At on r.iy I"? - ----.r L.:3," - A ' " Nar.t ... wn't do nor thisr. .r t . . . r : J i- 's wo. T- T alt :i i. c.:..i . . ;. Ac i.i'At r : J tO . hj C'.i ,3 r, l.h a 'The Perisacc'i Gaietta r.it:J l:.-t s- A3 t U3 place i AX-? A: 4 1 1 ..." .A 4