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LIFE'S SUNNY SPOTS.
Through life's flat k and thorn path,
its goal thesih-nt tomb.
Arid yt some spots ol sunshine hath,
That smile amidst the gloom.
The friend Vho weal, and wo partakes,
Unchanged, what e'er our lot.
Who kindly soothes the bent that aches
Js sure a sunny spot.
The wife who half otir burden bears.
And utters not a moan;
Whose ready hand wipes IF our tears,
Unheeded! all her own;
Vho treisures every kindly word,
ch haisherone lorg t,
And carols blithely as a bird
She's too a sunny spot.
The child who lifts nt morn and eve,
In prayer its tiny voice;
Who grieves whene'er its parents grieve,
And joys when they rejoice;
In whose bright eye young genius glows,
Whose heart's without a blot,
Is fresh and pure as summer's rose
That child's a sunny spot.
There's yet upon life's veary road,
One spot ot brighter glow,
Where sorrow half forgets in load,
And tears no longer How;
Friendship may wither, love decline,
Our child dishonor blotj
But still undimmed that spot will shine
Religion lights that spot.
From the N. York Sunday Mercury.
SHORT PATENT SERMON.
BY DOW, JU.
lhe text to my present discourse is in
cluded in these wuros
Ages and ages yet away must pis;
hre time aside shad cast Ins scythe and
glass.
My hearers as a river is constantly
emptying itself imo the sea, ami still con
tinues to run as it is wont, so lhe stream of
time is c mlmually losing its. If in the great
ocean of eternity, and et Hows on for ever;
that is, it always has moved with the same
regularity ever since the beginning of the
creation, and will continue on uninterrup
ted forages yet lo come till the dissolu
tion of the earth ami tie whole universe -which
period is so far distant that even the
s rung and swift wings of im igina'ion be
come weary in endeavoring 10 reach it.
The earth is but an ii.fant yet in the cradle
of time; dnd when we consider how long
since it was a mere foetus in the womb of
chaos; we cannot but be brought to the
conclusion that millions of yens must still
roll away ere it can be said to have arrived
at the age of maturity. Man's memory can
give him no information relative to the be
ginning of the world, and neiiher can his
foresight tell him of the end thereof. All
surmises, predictions, and foolish specula
tions, that arise from the niys'ilied and
rnysteiious prophecies of old, are as non
sensical as they are useless; and they are as
useless in determining the dt stt uction of
Hie universe as the psalm books in a deaf
nnd dumb asy him. As .for any mortal be
ing able to unroll the map ol the future be
fore the eyes of h:s fellow mortals, he
might as soon think of dragging eternity
with a shad tu t for lhe pearls of 'departed
worth.'
My friends it closes my heart to swim
in the very suds of sympathy to see how
many of my brother and sister beings are
being carried away by what is termed
the 'Miller Delu sion' a peculiar and des
tructive doctrine; the principle tenet of
which is, that the human rac: has become
an evil excrescence, a corrupt carnosity,
Upon the bosom of the earth, and that the
earth will, some lime this year, shake itself,
as a lion when heshaketh the dew from his
ifiane, spilling the ungodly into the lap of
destruction, and casting the righteous (what
few there are) upwards into the heavens
above-there to remain till a new earth is
manu.artnre.i; and then they are to come 1
down unharmed and uninjured to abid
with the Saviour, and the sons and daugh
lets of holiness for ever and ever. I pitv
brother Miller, from the bottom of mv
soul; and Iv.iVe any quantity of commisera
tion in store for his deluded followers.
Poor man. he is mad! but there is a myste
rious method in his madness, that op-rates
most powerfully on the credulity of man v
I conversed with him once, and discovered
that almost every word ha uttered was ac
comp -nitccl with a nervous tremor an in
voluntary shaking of the heal which
plainly indicated that his mental machine
ry was not altogether in what is called ap
pie pi;; order, and that no more faith should
be placed upon bis predictions than upon
those of the small jobbernowls who have
proplvcicd belore him.
My hearers the material wot Id as yet
is none the woise for wear; and 1 see no
reason why you should be under any fear
ful apprehensions of its spedy dissolution.
Voting ladies, who are now busy in prepar
ing lor themselves ascension robes and pan
taloons to wear under them, ought to turn
their attention to subjects equally impor
tant and far inor necessary, a knowledge of
which cannot fail to prove useful in aftei
years. Those of the masculine geodcr wh
are troubled with an) thing like a weakness
in the upper story, should turn a deaf ear
to whatever may be said in support of this
misrhen ous doctrine, and nevi r allow
'h-ir minds to dwell upon the si bj ct for a
smgle moment, lest a .foolish leir cause
what li'ttle philosophy and judgment thev
possess to quit the premises, and leave them
exposed to the scorn, contempt and ridicule
f the world.
My dear friends this tern strial orb of
ours, wh ch as 3 et exhibits no symptoms
ol disease or decline, will continue to rnl;
on its axis when we all shall be mouldering
in our sepulchres, and lhe monuments erec
ted to our mcrr.crics shall have fallen and
become buried in the dost of oblivion.
Earth is constantly under going a mirac
ulous change, hut it is subject to no decay.
The rose thai failed yesterday we can never
behold again; and still the same family of
(lowers that now bloom around the graves
of our kindred, will blossom at the tombs
of millions yet unborn. The feet of future
generations will tread upon the dust of otir
bodies, and the great grand children of our
children's children will pluck posies from
the very bosoms of their ancestors. Na
ture produces as fast as she destrovs; and
so long as this conservative principle is
ooserveu and wen carrieu out. you need ue ; demand lor Minglish manufacturers can
under no apprehension, my friends, of the 'save us from this evil: and without a refot m
world making a hurst of it. 'The scythejof the American tariff, there is very little
of Old Time is just as keen and no keener hope of any revival at all equal to the ne
now than when he nioncd down a cock J ct ssiticsof the case, but we must consent
sparrow in the (Jarden of Eden, by way of! to make liberal concessions if we wish to
experiment; and the sands in hi glass have j receive them. London paper.
never b-en clogged for a single moment; J
nor wont be. tdl the earth grows hoary, the ; A Hard Customer. Tne Wetumpka
sun l'S"s its lustre wi'h age. and the b .Id A rgus contains au oiler ol one thousand
paled moon furnishes itself with a cjg. J aei e of land, made by Obadiah Langs'on,
My hearers -when you see wonders in t ol Bibb county, Ala., for the arrest of a
the heavens that have been witnessed be-'man named lark W. Doss, and, hisdeliv
fore; when the bowels of the earth inces-jery into the custody of any keeper of a
santlv rumble, like an empty stomach he-'j til in 'Texas. Said Doss-is represented as
fore dinner; when you discovt r a single j having deserted his vrte, stolen "a wagon
screw loose in the grand machinery of Na- and team" in Alabama, and gone over to
tore: when thunder comes before lightning; j Texas, where he turned to preaching as a
when young ducks exhibit , an instinctive liapti-t minister, making a gteat outward
antipa'hy to water; when the young men , show of sanctity. He ingratiated himself
cease to run after the girls, and the gir Is I into the good favor of a widow lady, and
wont marry; and when the Orange county then stole her gold watch and decamped,
butter can be made from the milk in the co-( lie then reappeared in another part of
coa nut; then, and not till then, bS lit :i'e j 'Texas, represented his wife in Alabama to
mat the end oi ail things is at nana. so
mote it be!
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From the N. V. Journal of Commerce.
American Clocks. The Connecticut
clock makers Send their machines to Eng
land made with brass wheels and warranted
d L-aun tltvrn iiiviifpil At nnp rtidl.ir anil n
half each; and when the English excise-
men threaten to seize them for being un
devalued, the owners consent, knowing
'ing
that they must allow ten per cent, advance.
The Clack Trade A paragraph in the
New Yor't lit raid has some interesting
particulars on the subject, showing that the
trade has already beconre important in ex
tent as vvell as largely profitable to those
who carry it on.
The clocks in question have bras works
cut by machinery, out of brass plates made
for that use in Connecticut. They are fit
ted up in polished .mahogany frames, in a
neat manner, and when finished, form an
e'ghlday timepiece, which cannot be rival
led in the world for accuracy. These arti
cles have long been known to the public ol
this country, but are sirangers to Europe,
until introduced there in the spring oi
1 841, by the firm of Sperry and Shaw, No
8 Courtlandt st. The first invoice was ta
ken as an experiment. The duty is 20 per
cent, in England. The astonishment with
which these specimens of American work
were vievved was very great, not only for
th- beauty and excellence of the clocks
themselves, but the beautiful and enduriii
polish of the cases excited great admir tinn
and is a perfect novelty there, and cannot
yet be imitated. The first invoice sold at
I to 1 each, or about $20; since that
time not only has every packet to E lglan I
earned some, but large quantities are sent
to th- north of Europe, and the late India
bound ships have also taken considerable
quantities. They are also finding their
wa v into all the ports of Europe at a greai
profit to the enterprising makers. The
am 111 111 slipped since the first experiment in
1 11 . has been near 40.000 clocks, which at
$20 reaches the impot tantsumof SSOO.000
and stands next to the article of rice in ex
p rts of American produce. The number
ol these clocks manufactured annuilly in
Connecticut is 300.000 Messrs. Spefry
and Shaw turn out 300 per week.
Decline of the Trade with America.
It appears from a return just laid belore
Parliament, on the motion of Mr. Thome
ly, that the exports of British goods to th
United States of America, in the year
1S42. were less in value by the sum of
nearly Twelve Hundred Thousand Pounds
bin thev were in any previous yeor sine
1833, and that they were less by more than
one hall than the average annual exports of j
the nine preceding years! the average'
yearly exports of the nine proceeding
yeirs: the average yearly exports from
IS33 to 1S41 (both years exclusive) being
of th- value of 7, SS(),000l., whilst those of
ltS4i were not of more value than 3.523,
S()7l. The alarming decline in lhe largest
brtnch of the foreign trade of the country,
we regret to say, is not confined to a few
or even to sex end at tides, but extends to
all, with the single exception of tin and
linned plates.
The imports from the United States in
to this country show a very different re
sult. With regard to shipping, the American
tonnage (entered) has increased from 229,
869 tons to 319,524; and the Hritish ton
nage from 1 14.200 to 195,745 tons.
After making every allowance for the
more than usual embarrassments of trade
in th" United Slates, in 1842 the first pait
of the above return cannot be regarded as
being otherwise than most unfavorable to
the prospects of the English industry,
while the second shows that the balance of
trade is turning against this country in a
manner which renders it doubtful whether
we shall not shortly have to pay for Amer
ican cotton in specie instead of goods.
Nothing but a very great revival of the
00 oeao, lurneo 10 preacmng me vu-pei
again, married a yellow woman, quarreled
Uvith lhe brother of his first wife, and way
laid and shot him. For this he was
thiowu into jail, but broke out twice, and
tile last time made good his escape. lie
is now supposed to be in Tennessee or
Mississippi, either secreted or preaching
glad tidings as before. The fellow sings
j well, and when a resident ol Bibb county,
A,a" USed t0 1,1 s,nS,n8 9cho1
Editors are requested to pass him round,
that, if in the United States, be maybe
rooted out and returned to Texas. We
accordingly annex a description of his love
ly person:
'lle is six feet one inch high; has a thin,
sharp looking face, sharp-looking nose,
and is about forty five years of age. One
of his big toes has been broken, and it
turns op so as to be plainly seen with a
shoe on.''
The farmers in Ohio are already sel
ling their hogs deliverable next winter.
The asking price is S3 00, but sales have
been made to some extent at $2 50 per
cwt. 'The quantity of pork will be about
equal to thai ol last season.
Horrible Death. We learn from the
Cincinnati Sun, that a woman was gored to
death by a mad bull in that city on Mon
day evening of last week. The animal
was confined in an enclosure near the head
of Vine street, and being teased by some
boys soon began to show signs of madness
n attempt was ma le to S'curf hi:ri, but he
knocked one down, tossed another over th"
fence, gore I a third severely; and then le
pel out of the enclosure. In a state of the
wildest fury he rushed up an alley, wen a
woman sat in tlv door of a house hoi ling a
child in her arms, and when opposite to
her stopped suddenly, and plunged his
horn into her abdomen, lacerating her in a
most shocking an I indescribable manner,
taking her life in-taotly. The Child escaped
unhurt.
The Sfaifc System it is said, says the
Newark Advertiser, that more than a thou
sand slaves esctp :d from the island of Gua
daloude to British 13'ands, in lhe confusion
which followed the grett earthquake A
gentleman well acquainted with M. (luizoi
(tlv F re.it h premier) says that the latter
is full .' bent upon achieving the abolition
ol slreerv in the French Colonies, ami he
Ins no dotibi it will soon be effected. The
Portuges ; Chambers ae also contemplating
its abolition in their colonies."
Cipt. Stockton's piece of ordnance
An experiment was made last A'eek with
this enot' nous piece of ordnance which
carries a 242 pound ball, at its station near
the light house, belovV Sandy Hook. A
point biank shot struck a line on a target
three miles dis'ant, ami penetrated through
and through the target, which was con
structed with iron and wood combined.
rendering it more strong ami solid than the
hull of the largest s ve.iy-lour. lhe gun
is made of wrought iron, and is of immense
s ze N Y Herald
(J A negro who was Iving on the track
of lhe R and Petersburg Rail Road was kil
led on Saturday last by the cars passing
over his head.
.T G illanl Act Tne Philadelphia
Ledger learns that, on Sunday afternoon, as
the train of cars proceeded to New York,
the engineer, Jackson Veinon, saw a man
walkingon the track, and immediately re
versed the engine, when he found the man
could not be saved but at lhe peril of his
own life; he jumped on to the cow-catcher,
and caught the man in his arms. Both came
off with only a trifling injury. The man
was deaf and dumb.
Lightning... During a drenching rain and
thunder storm in Virginia onTuesday week,
the leader and Saddle horse of a team of
five horses was struck dead in the road a
few miles from Lynchburg. Va ; and
strange to say, the middle horre escaped,
aod stranger still, tlie driver, who was set
ting on lhe saddle-horse w s uninjured. A
dog tinder lhe wagon was killed. Two
boys were in the wagon, and they like the
driver escaped with a stunning The flu
id first struck a chesnut iree opposite the
lead horse and then glanced and killed
him. 'The Virginian attr ihutes the sp-edy
recovery of the driver a::d surviving hor
ses to the vast rjrnnty cf rain which was
falling at the time.
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From the lia'.e gh Ilegister.
The Kentucky Affray. We published
r ecently t wo contradictory par agraphs about
the rencontre between C. M. Clay and
S. M. Brown, in which the latter was cut
up with a1)owjp knife. Thequirrel grew
out of the old feud between the Clay and
Wickliffe families oich "of which aspires
to rule the Stale of Kentucky, and this it is
which has given so much impot tance to the
affair The original statement was '.hat the
lie passed between the parties, and then
Mr. Clay drew his bowie knife and cut
Mr. Brown, who afterwards got a pistol
and fired it at his enemy. Mr. Clay pub
lished a card, in which he avers there was a
conspiracy to assassinate him that Brown
ruhed at him, and struck him with his
whip & was then separated to some distance
from Brown by the crowd that he then
saw Broun aiming steadily at him with a
six barrel pistol, which he fired, the ball
lodging in his knife scabbard. 'That he then
rushed on him with his bowie knife.
On his side Brown has replied with a
card, in which the original statement is re
asserted, and the certificates of many gen
tlemen who witnessed Hie affiir are given,
all declaring 'hat Brown was cut with the
bo-.vie knife before he used the pistol,
which was handed to him by a person pre
sent, and that Jit the time he fired it hi
face was covered with blood. It was a
beastly aff drat any rate.
From the Raleigh Independent.
A Floral Hoax The Hudson, N. Y
Gazette rela'es that an amateur vender of
roses visited that city with a collection,
(ns he said) of foreign roses. The news
of his arrival spread like wild fire, and
there was quite a rush to secure some of his
choice) roses, which were beautifully
marked with fine flourishing names, and
laid off in lots of dozens and half-dozens,
and sold at only five dollars per dozen!
The rich prizes were fakeri home, anol
nourished with care add attention, and
their grows h watched with gr at minu'e
ness This spring thev put forth beauti
f dly, and ail wns anxie'y for the period of
their liud lug, when !o! ihey turned out
to be nothing more than whortleberry
bushes
Suicide -Mi-s Jane Herring, a youn
lady of Franklin (Jo Indiana, lately com
mitt'ed suicide by hanging herself, because
1 er parents oppose I her union with a
young man on whom she ha I p'aced her
arT-ctions. H r pirents are wealthy and
respectable. ib.
A Phenomenon. A friend who hai
j isi returned from the South,. lells us that
about forty mil s this side of Tuscaloosa'
on the road to Hun'svi'le, the driver poin
t"d to a large hole in a fi Id, which he said
was ih . geitest curiosity in the world.
The passengers went to the spot, and found,
a round hole about seventy feet in diame
ter, with the earth on al! sides apparently,
solid, and ov i-gr wn with grass. 'There
was water at the bottom, apparently a hun
dred fet from the surface. It is at the top
of a ridge of earth, upon which, at the dis
tance of twenty rods, stood the deserted
dwelling of the owner of the plantation;
The driver stated that about three year
ago, in the dusk of evening, the planter'
was startle I by a rumbling noise, and step
ping from his door was astonished to find
that a magnificent pine tree and a noblo
oak which s'ood by its side in the open
field, had both disappeared! On going to
the spot, this hole appeared, but nothing
wa to he seen of the trees, nor has the
top of them ever been reached, though a
sounding line has been sent down three
hundred feet. The planter thought it un
safe id remain so near a neighbor to such a
catastrophe, lest that should befal him and
his family which befel the pine and the
oakj and so he removed to another house a
mile distant; yet riothing of the kind has
happened since, and the wonder still re
mains unaccounted for.
A Melancholy Story. A letter datdf
on the lith inst. at Jacksonville, East F'o'
rida, and published in the Savannah Re
publican, relates tlie following truly mel
ancholy details of an event that lately oc
curred in the npi irhhnrhnnrt of Alligator:
"The father cf a family, consisting of a
wife and two sons, in the vicinity of that
place, was taken sick, and during his ill-
urss muie ueuig nu iuuo 111 111c uuuc, 111c
iwife took the gun for the purpose of procu-
1 ring game. Having wandered out of the
way she got lost, and alter three days solita
ry adventure in the wilderness, she at latt
weary and sick, found her home, and her
husband a corpse! Being unable to act fur
ther, she sent h r eldest boy to the house
j ol a neighbor, some seven or eight miles
off, for asis!ance. The little fellowj
'shortly aficr his arrival beneath thefriend-
jly roof, through previous sickness and pre
sent excitement beyond his vrrtr$; r?'a'rh
! Ill, and before he could tell his tale died. A
! I'hw ilaiN after. 1 hmisf wna l imited Cirhpn
j oh, deplorable sight ! along side of the fa
ther were found lhe dead bodies of his wife
nn remaining son! The tale is short but'
I true. They all bail perished through star
; vation. 'The tear of sympathy will freely
flow whi n recounting such even's.
j A Rich Royal Bride The P ris Mori-;
j it'iic contains a roval ordinance promo ing
the Brince de Joinville to the rank of Rear
i Admiral 'This ordinance is followed by
I the marriage act of the Prince with the
Princess of the Brazils which was sig.ied
on lhe 31st ult, in the palace of Neuilly.
The princess brought her husband, -as a
dowry first, l,000,000f in specie; second
ly, a revenue of 180,000f. arising from
Brazilian stock; thirdly, 25 leagues of ter
ritory, in the province of Santa Catarina, at
the choice of th" Prince; fourthly, a yearly
income of 26, OOOf., together with jewels'
to the amount of 200,000f; firlhly, a present"
from the Kmp-ror 1 the Brazils of - 300,-.
OOOf., for her outfit. Independently of
these advantages, she is to succeed to lh
Brazils, to the exclusion even of her eldest
sister, if the Emperor, Bon Pedro 111, and
tlie Princess .lanuaria, the presumptive?
heir to the crown, should die without issue.
A letter from Brest gives the following
description of the Princess de Joinvillef
'The Princess has an agreeable expression
of countenance; she is young and graceful;"
her hair is of a clear chesnut color; and she'
has all the freshness and beauty of yeaVj$.
Her figure is elegant and slender, and" she
possesses both grace and elasticity. "
White Slate Pencils. A stone,' of i
whitish color, easily cut into slender cyU
inders, which seise admirably .well for
slate pencils has lately been discovered A
Castleton, in Vermont. The quarry i
owned by Mr. Cain, and is supposed lo b&
the only one in the United States. The?
pencils make a white and therefore a morfc
distinct mark than the ordinary slate peta-cili.