BWHl.Mi S MATINS ATTl) VISi'lllS. f/ie V* hymn to I'ln: nr.n Y. a; iHK. hrav« iily s])l)erps to Tliet', () G«n ! f«t- ’ tunc their c vi-niniir hvmn, All-wisf, AH-lioIx, 'lliouait praiscvl Iti son" of scrapliini ! . T'nr.vinibi-i ’d systems, suns, and v «rlN ini’tc to worship 'I'hre, IVhiU- Thy mnit slic prcatiichs fills spact— time—tterniiy, Xuture,—a toinple wortliy Thrc, lh:it benms v ith lig'litand love, >Vhosi‘ flowers .so swcct1> bloom below, wliosc stars rcjoicc al)o\ c, AVhoso altars arc the TTH.'i.iiUiin cliffs that risf Along* the shore, ■\\ hose !intlieni«, th« sublime accord of storm Aixl occiin roar; Her song' of j;Tat.itudc is sung' by spring’s a- wakf ninfj hours, ll«*r summer oilers at 'l iij bhrlne its earliest, lovt licst flowers ; Her auti'nui brii gs its ripcnM fruits, in glori ous hmur} f;ivi n, Vhile winter’s silver heig-hts rcflcct Thy brightncbs bark to heaven ! On all Then smil’st—and what is man, before Tliy presc nee, (ion ! A breath b\:t yestcrduy inspired,—to-morrow but a flod ; That clod sliall moulder in the vaU,— t^l kindled, Lord by Thee, Its spirit to 'I’hy arms shall spring—to life,— to Jiberty. . . . - took h!s »cat in Congress, that year, the first Vet is he railed our second Washirgion I ftulci^h Rqiistcr. ments. Perhaps there was addetl to his distaste for tlie ofliccs t)i' rrprcsenla- tive, of setiator, of.ludj^e, ofCovcriior, atid Senator aprain, a coiisciousness of ... wai,tofca|«rilylo till them. If so.itisa 7'W/f.-._S...nd iravel, at ihe rnt,. Kom wl.iei, «„„l,l ^llltcrwi.l, unahatcl "''f «' "■’•'-'f tl.errforf ihr lu.ire amons bis laureU, were ,t no. sccnds »l„ch n,u rv. no I,ci««'o .he flash Oi’iQlual. TOR THE TATAWMA JOCilNAL. PRKSIDEX rjAL.-NO. Jll. In adfiition to \v!iat was snid in my Jast number, of the many di'^qualifying f rails in the character of Gen. Jackson, let iis h)ok a little into his ethication. It will, I presume, be readily adimtttd, that a profound knowledge of llie sci ences, an ncquaintance wilii ancient and modern literature, a cloffc application, for loany years, to the political in»>litu- tions of other countnes, and a general inyi*':fit into the whole areana of lenrn- ine would form no objection to a candi- diatc for tiie office of President. Nay, I thifik I m.i\ t>;o still further, and con- vircf all but .luck Cade and hjp crop- pi'.s, that Icarnii.c; is not a criihe. I n.'vnr heard it idlopred as such ‘agoitlst our pif-sent (^fuef Magistrate, Ify any me but Johr KiU'doljjh, who, with due difiirnee to his R( iU!jkeshipr, comes as near, in the characler of‘0 disoT • p.-nizfr, to his nanic-sakc, in tlib rrii^n of Henry the sixth, as any other man ]it ;)r(«ent on the carpet. I shouhl say, fro!)i the example of the iinniorlal .kd- lerson, that every President should he a Philo>opher. Let the forcij^ncrs, who would crowd around this great man, re turn to Wsshington and find Andrew Jackson fiH'- / his place, and what would be r eir ilter astor.ishment. Il is to the sin pie -lignity of sublime j)hi- losophy aloitc-, ihat our chief magistrate oweij the attention paid him by foreign ers, at home accustomed to the gaudy equipage'and splendor of r»'gal niagni- ficenco. We iriay say "wl.at we please of ihe contempt which we feel for the opinions of oUmms, and particularly of forcigt’eis ;—yet there is no trutli more certain, that it is the duty as well the int''r-‘st of individuals to sfcine the respect of nil around them. How ni’jcli more, then, is il the duty and intcjcst of a nation, to secure the voluntary les- pect of her neighbours. And will for cign nations, think ye, look with adnii- rat 0(1 and awe on tlie man, who hears upon his ’scutclieon the bloody heal> of a few thousantl Indians and Knglivh- men. If this were all he liad to boa^t, except tlie bhds which appear numerous and cv«-n piominent, they would inin with oiMiust and disdain from tiic man, w^re he t\vice a i^rfsi«ient. No, m\ conntrynien, it is by tl'.e niiliiff virtue? winch ever foli )\v in tfie tiaii. c,*' no.act* :u;d prospi.-rity that we must I;;' Jistidcfui ^iu (! ys a nation. \\’e iia\ e no I'.frc^sitV for ariy cMiquests but thcfso tJrctf'd by itMsoii alo'.e. ^V(' have im r:ccessi!\ f(>r war, but to lepcl ag- "rrs^ion. Wi^y ihen seek anmiig the onitin^»led host for nne eloil in lliick rn.t’l, to i^f'riinister the functions of the ci * i n;’';ii'>t'':)tf ? 'i’he \'ty first situation in which we licsi I 1 Andrew Jr>; ksof , is a volurteei jjnder .'.ims, at a vf ty early age. "I'his ivas tl'.e time that iiis n.ind to(di the ini- prrssions that were to gover n his fu ture 3 er.i'.-.. Here it was thut he became cna.rored w'tt; tlie science of war, and Jierf' ituiis that !i is d isgu*;t \\ ilh “the dull pursuits of civil liu ’’ eommenefd. \Ve nviy trace almost all the f»ro})pnsi- linsofour riner y‘‘ius, to some appa- re illy tri\Ti evehi Tn youtli. 'fv/i}if fiii-bi^l cfi mu'^kct, and the cliividrv of tho camp, thp age of fourteen, is ow- obscnred by his aspiring tea post, more diflicult to fill with honor to himselt’, and profit to his country. We are told that \V'ashington early addicteil himself to arms. ’'J'is true. Hut Washington early addicted himself likewise, to ileep study and rellection ;—“to look through nature uj> to nature’s God.” All 1 isto- ty informs us of but one Washington ; while every century has producetl ma ny JSIarlboroughs and many Jackson*. It is the exigencies of turbulent times that make great Generals. The Philo sopher rises up in the Academic grove, or even, like pur own Fianklin, in the shop of the arti/an. ^V"ashington would have been great, had there been no civ il convulsion in his time, lint where would have been Andrew Jackson, had the liritish Ministry directed the expe dition against New-Orleans to some nor thern section of the continent ? Peace fully rearing ponies at the “hermitage,’’ or training them to the course at N;ish- vilie, .'is little thoi;j\ht of for Piesident an(,l as little dreaming of the elevation, as Mr. Senator Eaton, or even his hon or Judge Isaacs. 13ut Washington long objected to receiving the ollice on the ground, that as he had commanded our armies, during the struggle which made us a nation, the precedent would he a had one. Let him who doubts this, examine Marshall’s Life of Washing ton and ho vviJI fiml it true. Jn our and tlie report he mulnplied by this num ber, the product will be the distance of the cloud. If the thunder he no; half a minute alter the lif^hinini^' is seen, the cloud is distant six iiiiles and a halt'. Mode of sl0j)ping Episiriis, (hkcdini; at the nose.)—A yountj man, 19 ytars of a^e, bled fron> the rose, so profusely, that he fainted several times. Mineral' acids, ice to the nap of the neck. Sec. \vcre tried, hut withoutstopping the flow of blofid. Dr. lii uner was called in on the third day, and he blew up powdured. (ium Arabic through a (juill—the h* m- orrhaf'e ceased .\\r^c\.\)[^Philadtlphin Juur- nal of the Medical and Fhysicnl Sciencr.'i. Mixing togftht-r prolit and delight. I'roni the Western Monthly Review, T/ie Norlhcrn I.nkes and Niagura Fa//6'. This chain commences on tlie north east with J^ake Ontario. Its exitjnt is IJSO by '10 miles. At its eastern extre^ mity is a group of islands, known by Ihe name of the ‘thousand islands.’ From this lake wc :u»cend by a strait, called Niagara River, a mile in average t ha^^n nfllnned, also, that they perceptible diurnal tides. We doubt this also ; for weie it-even true, that the same causes, which raised tides in the sea, ojierated perceptibl}- here, the sur face that coiihl be operated upon, is so small, comparel with tlmt of Ihe ocean, any general movement of the waters would be so arrested by ca[»es, points islands, and headlanils, that such a uni form result, as tfiat of a diurnal tide, could hardly be eah dated to take place in any sensible degree. The waters of the lakes, in many instances collected from the same mar shes, as exist at the source* of the Mis sissippi, lillered through oozy swamps, and numberless fields of wild ricc, where the shallow and stagnant mass, among this rank and compact vegetation, be comes slimy and un|)orfable, is soon as they find their level in the deep beds of the lakes, lose their dark red color, and their swampy taste, and become as tran- s{)arent almost as air. Wl.en the lakes sleep, the fishes can be seen sporting at immense depths below*. The lower strata ofthe water never gains the tem- pcrpture of summer. A bottle sunk a hundred feet in lake Su|)erior, and filled at that depth, feels, when it comes up, as if filled with ice water. Imagination cannot hut expatiate in traversiiig the lofty precipices, the pathless morasses, and the dark and inhosjiitable forests of these remote and lonely oceans of fresh water where the tempests have raged, width, very swift and deep, and f|,jrj ^ have dashed lor couiit- six iniles long to Lake Erie. This is a unwitnessed except here and broad and beatitiful sheet of water, e- of a hundred leagues qually transparent with the former, hut unassuminfi;- .!nys, thereare those who even i.retend I 'a'l'-gof it in general depth. Its to think And/fW Jackson a second i^30 by 45 mile.^.—In varied Washington. What parallel is ,i,ere |voy- between the two? The one modest and |on mid the other insolei.t and ^. V Ascending still larther fault “that flesh is heir to”--the ^"‘^tber strait, as the with hioiis ^ . . as a serpent and harmless as a ilove”— miles in length, the other diametrically reversMigthe or- '^‘‘Ur is another clear and der;-theone longing for the sw’eets of re-! of water thirty miles in tirementatCO; the other seekingthetoils st’ait between this lake &. anxious to learn the arts tfdi| lomacy ' Lake Huron islhirty-two miles in a superabundance of huinan i ^imports. It con- s and failings the one vise I at seventy;—the one only brought f^^,\ ; and thee quarters of a mile in ward to the Presidential chair, by the ' V " ‘ current, unanimous voice of his countrymen, , ‘ ' and even then accepting ittogivestahihty • to the new government by the’weia;ht i bas the usual cold tronspar- ofhis name atid character—the other and deep waters, is studded with bustling through the crowd, proclaim- ing his own j)rctensions, avowing him- 'cifopenlya candidate, and soliciting, , . - the votes of the multitude :~the one the straits of INlKhilunackinac, it corn- many islands, and of a depth to be every wheie navigated by the largest vessels. At ils western extremity, by holding the sway for the benefit of his country—the other seeking it for his own personal aggrandizement ;—the one greater than Cincinnatus—the other less than Tiberius Gracchus. How, let me ask, if Gen. Jackson be the pure and unspotted patriot he would fain have us believe him, is he to recon cile to his conscience, his personally stepping forward, against all rule, in de- municates with the singular lake I^Iichi- gan. I’his lake seenis to be a super- num«*rary, a kind of episode is the great chain, not appearing necessary for the exjiansion or conveyance of the waters collected above in- Lake Superior. If is wholly in thw limits of the United States, while half of the rest pertains to the dominions of Great Britain. Its extent is 300 by oO miles. Jt receives forty consi«Jerable rivers, has valuable fiance of all decorum, and presenting considerable rivers, has valuable himself as a candidate to the people ? of sturgeon and white fish, and Does he not know, that on the purity of elections depends our very exist uce as a republic ? Or has he yet to learn, that where the candidates openly soli cit for thcmsleves, the dangers ar.d ojj- portunitie* for bribrey and corrupti('n are more than doubled ? How, then, does he reconcile with his very nirciMul delicate sense of honor, or his stern Ho man patriotiiim, this aberration from all who have gone before him ? Surely, he must know, that the exam[>le is fraught with much danger, and t!)at many ills will l.'cfal our counlrv in cf'.'-t- '^cquencn of it ; if not during the present generation, at least to posterity. Put Gen. Jackson has no descendants. His very anxiety t(.r the eh vation may be tiaced to the early lessons imbibed in the “tented ridd,” where ambition is ♦ he seed planted in ti.e mind of the young eadi t. He is taught to seek I rotTiolior even in the ranks *»f death, iieeause j'lory and the “ bubble, rejiuta- tion," w.tn him an* all. Is there not, liiet., s' l ious dangr*r to be aj)prehended Iroma (.1 ^efMagistrate, with a milita ry ediication 'I’liat ambition wliich was planted at fourteen and is not wilii- ered at three score and ten, will descend to the grave with the [lossessor. Give a man of this description all the power, consistent with the constitution, and is it likily, especially if he has been in the habit of coiiter.»ning all law, that thispap.er bulwarji will (!eter him from grasping more ? 0 my countrymen, pause and ponder. v'7 Cvitiva/nr of tha Soil. endnjsoms some islands towards its northern extremity. R( turnine; to Lake Huron, we find it connected with lake Suj>erior f)y a strait twenty-seven miles in length. The current ofthis river is shallow, rapid and rendered difficult of navigation bv fiugp nias.ses of rock. Lak»> Suj)erior is by tar the largest collection of fresh waters on the globe, being J50 by 100 imles in ( \t#nt, anil reputed nearly 1500 niile# in circuiiiference. The water is transi)arent, and is d'j#per and colder than any ofthe rest. The shores, es- f)ecially the north,eni, are walled with frowning and lolly preeipices of granite rock. All the lakes abouhd, and this more than the rest, with fish. I'liey consist of diilerent kinds of trout, allot them delicious, stuige(,n, pike, pick erel, carp, bass, herrings, i^e. and the best kind of all, white fish, which is found in this lake in greater perfection, than in either of the rest. It embo-1 have echoed with (he exido(^-n-'r;';,;;;,; s(mis some large isl.mds. The princpsW of confiicting lleef^. 'I’hu "^n.irthein Gen. JncL'i.iiii‘ — hen Cien*'ral ^Vash- inpion delivered his last Presidential Address to Conf^ress, in l?9f>, a resolu (if, In- of by a few red sA'ins, or more recently Canadian ct)V7'eurs du hois scrambling over the tuecijiices to llsh or paddling their periogues in agonies ofierror to find shelter in the little bays from the com ing storm. Hundreds of rivers, though none of great length, discharge themselves into these inland seas. Situated as they are in a climate, geticrally remarkable for the dryness of its atmosjihcre, they must evaporate inconceivable (juantities ofw’atcr. It has been commonly' sup posed, that the ^Niagara, their only vis ible drain, does not ilischarge a tenth part of the wateis and melted snows, which they receive. 'I’hey spread such an immense surface, anti have so munh of the grand levelling power of the ocean, that neither they, nor their out let, ti e St. LaAvrence, l.avt- anythin'^ of that flood and subsidence, that form s*uch a distinguishing feature in the :\Iissi,ssi[;- pi and its waters. Hence, too, the Niagara has little of marked alluvial character in common with the Mis- si.ssij)pi. It rolls down its prodigious volume of waters alike uninfluenced bv droughts, or rains, by the heat and evaporation of the accumuialed snow's and ices of winter. V/ill the shores of these vast and re mote waters be ever settled, except by a few wandering trapjiers, tishermen and savages —Shoals of eniij^rants from the old world are continually land-’ng at Quebec and Montreal. Upper Canada IS becoming populou.s. Wave is pr»- pelled beyond wave. Much of the country on the shores ofthe lake is of an inhosj,'itaLile and sterile character, never to be cultivated. 'I’hereare, also, along their shores and tributary waters, sheN tiy-ed valliesand large extents of fertile soil, suflicient for numerous and populous settlements. It is-nn inexplicable part • )1 the composition of human nature, that men love to congregate and form the most populous cities and settlements in nortliern and inhospitable climes, rather than in the country of the ban ana and the piiie-apple. 'The a.,toni^!i- ir.g advance of population and improve- oient, botli on the Americaii and ]iri- tishside of the coifhtry, has caused, that the bosoms of the remotest lakfs has been whitened with the sails of com- merce. I he smc^ke oi the passing steam boats is seen ri'in;^ in columns among their green island**. Tho shores forests of Dliio ha\ o already «e«*n the red cross of a hostile squadron giving place to the .v/r/;-,9 and .sfripcs. Roals are eonstructed to reach th*'ir shores. Ca nals are excavating to ronneet the wiiol" extent of tins vast chain wilh the At lantic and the gul.'’(;rMcxi-o._l5 u too sanguine to ppr.-liM, compass of a en.-.',,,y ,. |11 count a huii(!i,,(i |ni|iii|ous towns where senates wi!! flri-uij n.nd p:,efs sing 'I !.;,* rivers that disehar'ce th(,*mselv( s into it, are the Michipicoten, St. Louis, Ni- pegon, and Pie. Peyond this lake, and stretching still farther to the northwest, towards the frozen regions of Jied River of the North, and the Arctie Sea, is the loug and narrow Lake of the Woods, a[)parenlly the lUima T/iu/e of our continent. 1 hese lakes, from the circumstRnce, "’T? Tr” T!.,,;! si. u.n:l giavity than that of the ocean, and tlie comparative shallowness of their hods* and it may be from oth‘.r causes, when swept by the winds, raise waves, if not so extensive and mountainous, 'uore ; o! natioinTl imf.orfan.:^, nruv'thos.'' id t!ic f anno;.- rough and dangerous, than those oi the , of Nev. fuuitf'larirl ‘ r.ui?. for a ii.omrnt sir;pr;u!« (j. >3usM^ sea. It has been repeatedly ;.sseited, , it is o-;t ofonr‘'’'^'nided II i|iH| II iiiwmpi ly stream. Commencing Via oouv or* another ocean, and movint opposite direellon, he seea? • . ' determined to resemble > . , ^ ty rival in nothing, hut i v ofT the tribute of waters fron ,t v , The former is continually s\ en . . subsiding, and in his springflerdK,7r\,v* ing with a front many leagues in wirii,,* he has no resemblance in hks autumnal courke in a deep chan*;- I, ^nd u by beaches atid sandiurs. vial forests are wide and dark, with vegetation of surpassing rrandeur. Ujg sides are marly and crumbling, ai.d h[^ fjottoni is oczy and of b.'unc. Jlis tur- i)ld waters, whenuniied with those of th% sea color it for fifty miles from his mouth* i The other is perpetually the same steady, full, clear, and his current always sweeping. His bed is worn in strata of stone. IHsbanksi isc at onee atthe prim, iiive soil. Rlufls of rock impend hia course. Forests, in ilair season tifully verdant, but bearinfy t„c more healtny, stinted a?.d sterile cfiaructer of the north, the larch, the pine and thfc white bit ch bend over his waters, and be fore he m«fts the sea, vision can sc.nrcel7 rcach the»oppobite shore. At the powit,where this river issue* from lake Eric, i; assumes the name of N'.agara. It is something more- than three quarters of a mile in width, and ti.e broud and powerful current crnbo- soms two islands,* on.* of them (irand Isle, the seat of Mr. Noah’s famous Jew- jsh colony, containing, it is said, eleven thousand acres,-—and the other Naw island, opposite to the liritish villuee of Cliippeway. lielow tins island the river again be- comes an unbroken sheet,a mile in width. Tor a hall a mile below, the river seems to be waxing in wrath and power. Were this rapid in any other place, itself would be noted, as one of the sublimcat features of river scenery. Along this rai)hi, the broad and irresistible mass of rolling waters is not entirely whitened, lor it is too deep to become so. But i* has something of that curling and angrv a-pect, whicn the. sea exhrhiis, wheii swept by the first bursts ofatenuxst. 1 he momentum, may be conceived, when we are mstrucied, that in half a mile the river has a descent of fifty fi ef. A column of water, a mile broad, tv.c-n^ ty five feet deep, and propelled onward by the weight of surplus waters of tlie, whole prodigious basin of the lakes, ro!- ling down this rapid declivity, at length ponrs over the cataract, as if falling to ihc central depths of the earth. Instead of sublimity, the first feeling, excited by this stupendous cataract, is amazement. 1 he mind, accustomed only to ordiaary phti.omena and common exhibitions oV • power, feels a revulsion and recoil froi^ the new train of thought and feeling, forced m an instant upon it. There is hard!) suflicient coolness for distinct im- pressions ; much less for calculations. We witnessed the while and terrific sheets—for an island, on the very verge of the cataract, divides the fall—descend- itigmoie than one htuidred .'iiid seventy feet into fhe abyss below. We feel tho' earth trembling under our feet. The spray painted witli rainbows, envelopes us. We imagine the fatlSomless caverns, which such an impetus, conrinued fora ges, has won;. Nature arrays herself before us, in this spectacle, as an angry 8c irresistible power, that has broken away from the bcnificent control of Providence. VVhen we have gazed upon the spectacle, and heard the roar, until the mind has re- co\ered from its amazement, we believ® the first obvious thought in most minds is a shrinkir.g compuriscn of the liule- ncssand belples>;ncss of man,and the in- significancp of his pigmy e«orts, wheu mcasunng strength with nature. Tukts il all in all. it is one of the most sublime and aston.hhing spectacles, seen on our Klobe. I’be eye distinctly measures the amount of the mass, atid we can hardly avtdd thinking with the peasant, that the waters of the upper world must shortly hr drained down the cataract. iJut the s!i’(*am continues to |)otir down, and thi"; concentf red aruj iioj^ressive s) mhol ofthe power of Omnipotence proclaims his ma jesty t hn^ugh the Idi ests Irom age to age. It may he, that the beautiful atui roman tic country betueen ICrie and Oniafif* receives a richer coloring from the im- :ir:ination, excited so sironjriy to acrion. i)v dwellirj,^- on the contif^uiiy o| the i-reat !ak>"-, at.u the deej) thunder of the falls, heard in the ilistan^e. H« ineni!)rances ofthe bloody field »if liridgewater will be naturally awakened by this view. I3c the cause what il ma\, evTy one ap proaches tfie falls, fiiu/ing the sccnery and accompaniments just what they should be. (v.et v one iinds this to boj t!u- \erv ]>lace, u !,ere t!ie xvaters of the •ippci- WO! !1 ;ihrj;,l;i p.ilir np,-i, ti.e b’VCC. N'vhave fleurci to onis. lv s the bloody* .".Viler bv ’he tmrer'.uiii every nook r,f ii;r wij] be vi;itcd by ! int.M'v.U of mooi’.ljjjhi,'a,r: the'ferjings* ve^sel'^^:lnd sk'uni bopts, and conn''Ofed j " *''‘'h tbc co'Dliataiit ^ have ?r,d elerna? by mail roa.N, and iislif,;i(^s on t lo th«; Teaf. ; I hem will bccor iO Ptl cbir I rnar of liic ruriaract, u i-ici, bet.amc and- fidress to i.onfrress, in l?9f>, a resolu '’een repeateoly i.sseited, , it is o-n ofour t.lan (o o 'oice ofn.i'd-- .1. was introdix ed as usual, to re;nond H-'it they have sepl('M)ia) fluxes and re-; river?, that cn,*^'v i-io the ' ''''" r i ■' ‘ iro;; v, (i .1 .■csp.-r,l,,l;,,!,i,.c,s lo._hcs«i.iri„-o is lliixcs. Fiom the silencc Ol'li.c ncpnl, j it v.-iil rs >:pf,n('d,Jh^t wo shvr^n.ll'l i ”ur:,f, („• n, .hcUiiefMagisiiaie. i he resolution ; ai.J intelligent trav;'l-;., i;„. hav. 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