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( . . . . , - , u - - - ' vUi n LJL l .O j:uiiLL-' u6 - '. ' ' p 1 i A J i PUBLISHED WEEKLY BY' :s, Litcralarc end Gencml Iracftizccc, VGLUMU'VIir. NO 31. WHOLE NUMBiiUIUO. 2 virr r)" t ' T7 PTT.1 in ro! TEltMS: Two Poll nrrtnnnm In drance; if not ' ;j adrtnee, TiuEt Doixau. ; orJrr for theTir rcccirc ttteallon M em tecomptniod by the toEr.. , ' H r ertir rticnt will b inserted U O.vk Dou ' M tk Kuare iei lmc or le, for the first in. -rtion; TwcTt-nv Ccxt Tot ac.l cdn-tnoaaee- Orer one aquarc coon ted a two, oref (vm three, &e. Hie number of inerliona de. (jti roust be rnarked on the margin, or lh d. rticenenr will be Continae'd 1U forbid,- and titrfed accordingly. Court Orlcr$ will be ihirjed ail dollara, invariably.' Tb eharjre for announcing he name of a can. JJsU fr ot$ce ia $3 invariably in advance. Letter to the Editor must come free-, of poat Jf, of Uey will rcccite no attention. - ' i'J - - -' The Dflnff Wife to her Ifitkbuud. ' T MART fiOCL M'DOMALd. v Xliaj tell me life is waning faal. And Death's dark winj unfurled, Will bear ny spirit soou from earth,. , Unto an unknown w6rld. f r I fsel, beloved, it ntat b so ' ' . ; J I feci that even now ll, hand is on my fiutUring heart, 'Hi shadow o'er toy brow.' How shall I lcavo UiceJ how resign , Thy tenderneM and care? The pressure of thy clasping hand, v r . Thy blesiing and thy prayer! Tsreihr we have tasted j6yj Together wept lit all . 1 r And the love that was so bright in bliss, , In grief was brighter still.: , . Wi!l thou riot miss inc frryn thy si'do, . When twilight's hour hath come? ' Will it not seem a dewrl place, The paradise of home? ' . . i Then gather clooc, with brooding love, Our children round thy knee," Aad wipe with tondcrusA hand the tears i Vhich they will ihed for -pit. , And soothe c'arlrliUlo thr.ibrflng heart That asksftir Hie- Tn vnin. And say, that in the far-off heaven Thur mother lives again. .Unk not my natnu with thought of death, y But point them to the ky,. ? And tell thrm, in the Aettt-r Land1'- They neither wctp nor'jJle. A',9 with them to their loncty'coucfi,' ! ... '; At evening's nhnt close, ' .. . -. And softly iress each pillowed check, . ' ' 'And huxli llie'm to iqnisc; .'.!', Or bid thoin knetl, Willi cU-ped li&nds, To lup their evening priijer: Tiou muxt unite a father's lata -With all another's care. ; A mother care! a mother's loVe! And must they, never know How deeply ii Ifrr "heart of hearts' A mother's love mav rlow? ' ; ; Will they yet blooht in girlhood fair, Vi hito she who gve tlrtm birth-. , IjissTall forgotten, far away, In one hna spt,of carlhT rwrgoltcn! no, b loved ono'nol ' Thou wilt remvmbei still .. , V , llie being who hath shared fhj lot. . ', Alike in good of ill. ' ' Thou wilt icmenibci all her love, - With faithful, 'fond regret; ', And but the faults she could not hide, Tlfy heart hi'.I fe'er forge t.- And.thou wilt comff-tcrthat lone spot ' Where the green willow wave, .. And lead ur children's liiry feet "AniS the qunt graves; And read for tliein-thc" sculptured stone . " Urief record of my life Then say how . faithfully I lored, As mother, and as wife. ..... - . How can I say farewell to ihec? T .How mark tliy hitler tears?, ; ; -liook tip, beloved, wc only part o For a few fleeting year; ' They will roll o'er thy darkened path . Swiftly. a shadows flfo, . -And in a world of holier love .i ,' Will our bkfsed ruectmg be," The Ulasphemcr Icstreyctl: A few -years since, says a' writer rtonUy knotcmg the etent a party of ladies set out on donkeys frm .Margate," (Eng.) Jo vfSil a. place a few iniki distant. The animsU'wcre driven 'bv the owner of thcint h ho had enliccd a fine Vounj btv, the son f a pioui 'mother, to accorjipany Turn by way of tmuHcinent.' hen about hall ' way , ilie party were obliged to have recourse to a farm yard for stutter, in const'qnence of a violent storm of umndiir anc lightning. , , . Tiic owVer, dileat d at bei.ng stne time de Uincd there, resolved to qu,it the party, -and rrlucn. with the animals to Margate, exelainu ig. as he left the pnrt)V"D -alHhe lightning! U shall never prevent me going home, - i lie tiprcsMou hardly escaped from his quivering lips, 'lic ho was in a moment struck dead on the Pt! The boy was much burned from the cle. trie iiuiii. ami. tikpn home to his mother in a state of insensibility. . : v It is a remarkable- HcircUrastartce that,'appre henmv nf iSa tnfct nf her child's ncrson: his - 7-. r . , . mother was engaged in devotion and prayer to jo'J for his preservation.' : - Lvrr., xxiy., 13. 16,-And the Lord spake unto' Moms, Baying', He that blaphemeth the pame of ui lx)rd, he shall surely be put to dcatn. . y God Dora a nart. and the fSlniicr Mi itnii zi iiurl: rn Vir-nr ihi crntinicnt from a class of profewors, who, if they give sufficient evidence of a work of grace on the heart also evince a muddy head. The sentiment? is happily illustra. t'd m theJollowinjr, anecdote: ' ' ' . . &ime ream am-i in the coUntvof C nd state of ew.York, a man deficient in good cnse.oflercd himself as a candidate for baptism nd church fellowship, professing to have been recently convcrti d. He was ocrmttted tq relate hi Views and fHrl'mfs to tho church, but the brevLri'm knnu'mrr hi unfortunate situation, felt "rn? hesitation. duubtinr whether he understood ha had mtH: Aftef aome pause, one of le dearmui aniil Vr isaramv. who did this ork of which vou have told us?" "Why1 said Samuel. I did a Dart, aod God did aplrt,, "Ah nd what nart did vou do. Simmy?" "Oh, God convicted me that I was a great sinner; I fought -sainsi him with all m mivhL anC . ue aia au the rest." 4m. Dap. A correspondent of the Whee ling ( Va .) Times fivei that nancr a Statement of a female in that 'icinity who, at the a;e of eighteen, married a widower, the father rn-jwreert children; at his dfth. lie left her the mother of frv more, She sfterwarde married another widower having children; at his death h left her the mother of 'ics more; and the day she became forty-nine jetra old, she married another widower, having t children; ao that at fortr.nine we find her toother and step-mother of fvrty fict children, nsof whom are grandfathers end grandmoth ers. . . y ' r MJ. ien Wort U. HtS MIUTAHY. CHARACTER AND 8ClVItES.t genera! William J. Worth isaid to be the' handsomest and most RoUierly looking officer in the arniy; Hi. height U over si fett,-ftnd .his person Commanding.. On hofsfiUcklie present, a fTguro of unequal led grace. His nature is somewhat im petuous, like many brave and frank men.' Hp'is exceedingly popular among hii sol dierj.i As one of the heroes qf Monterey, aii the victor at Molioo del Rey, his name will go down to v posterity second only to thttof Scott and Taylor! .'Worth, like nnny other able men fa tl3 army, has risen from the ranks.' He began life as a clerk,in a mercantile house id Albany, New York, the latter being his native commonwealth. On the breaking out of the4 war of 1812, however' fired with that patriotic aidor which j a lead ing trait in his character, he enfisled as k common soldier,' 1 Another clerlr was hh CQmpanion. , Fortunately for Worth, his friend soon committed some indiscretion, for which hVwas placed under arrest. lo this emergency he applied to Worth, who undertook to' write a,etition (or him .to the Gilontl. .... This -officer happened to : be Scott, who, struck with the .elegant 'si) re of the memorial, enquired the nam of tlte writer, and sending for him, made him Hi private S! secretary. He procured for Worth thn commission of a : Lieutenant in the 23d regiment of infantry. .-Fnun m ;ho.ur up to their: unhappy difference-- i Jlfc'xico, tho closckt intimacy e listed to "jwecu Worth and Scott. - . - In th battle ofChippewai Worth proved the correctness f Scott's estimato of cliar acteryby signalizing himself especially; and was cone'sjui-ntly rewarded with .the rank of Captain. ; In the battlo of Lun dyVLnne, Worthy alter eovefal hour of hard iigluiog, rlceivcd a dangerous wound Ir) consideration of this he was raised to tlie rank of Major, t 'After the pcsci, he was,-(or a considerable period -buncruj. tendent of the .West Point MilitaryAcsd. emy, a pot which is always a guarantee of high ability on the part of the occupanit.-. In lbH4 h was appointed a Ldcut; ,Cj1o tiel; ia 1832 r Major of ordnance; hud in loos, vunjuei ui uie oiu jrgiuifiiu ohii fantryj which is the rafik he stitl' hoMs in the lino. Subsequently. he' was'r.iiHrd sue- reeively to the brevet rank of Hrigadier aod afterwards of Major General, tlic first sfir hitj rritlantrv iri ' liuv Florida wnr. llio ' J1at for his brilliant conduct at Munierev. Y hen Tajlor, 1 wii;g9, and Worth mot ' at Corpus Cliristi, before the Mexican war broke out, a difiioulty aroso as. to woo hould command in caso of Tuylor S; a"u- sence. i wigga claiuieu it, tnougti only a cotonel, bocnustv ah oldr colonel than Worth.. The latter claimed - tt also. ; bc.-i cause a breveted "Brigadier. ButvTwiggs asserteJ that a brevet conferred no'.. right tb outrank a full commission, The mat- ter. was referred to Tay lor ' w her a dppt Ln g ' tho rule laid oown by Jackson, leciJyl a irainst Worih'. ijOn this, Worth, follow h-oarins : tho -iutellienco : of : whidh Worth recalled his ffsignatiou and nj'nn- ed'tlic army. Evcfy ono-knows how gh tantly he fought at;.Monterey! lie was re warded for that bloody day with tho brevet rank of Maj. General. , ' ;: When if ws determined to besiege e ra Cru?!-. Worth. : wiu most of the other G e n p' r a I s , ' w a s d ot ac h e d fi rom ' Ta y lo r V a r- my, and placed under command of SjcOtt. At tho landing, at. Vera Cruz;, Worth, com., mnnded the first di vision, . and took the lead consequently, in leaving the' ships.- Having efketed his dtsembarkaiipnMni the face of the enemy , ho drew up ,is; Croop in gallant style, and awaited the'arrival of othor division. On tho capitulation ot Vera Cruz, Worth was at tLj convention that dictated the articles, and whcn . the city was taken possession of by the Ameri cans, rodo in advancer nt tho' head r of a brilliant cortege, into the public square. fie was now appointed Governor of Vera Cri5s. '.When the army began its march for the interior, the van for a while, was .under the command of Twiggs, ; bJt "sub, j sequenily , it fell to Worth again, who was the first to enter t ueoiain consequence. It was at this city, that the unfortunate series of oiiisunderstaadings between him and Scott arosei which have -interrupted a friendship of thirty five years continuance. This is not , the 'place to canvass the.a- mouht of Wame rightly belobging to.each party. Both, perhaps, have been ; some what in the wrong. ' -m . At vhe battle on Contreras, WTorth was riot present the hero of that day was Gen. Persifor F. Smiths, But ai ChurubucoV bis' division was engaged auhe, tclc'dy point, and fought, under his own eye, with astonishing intrepidity. It is the charac teHstic of Worth that he can inspire his soldiers with a portion of his own ' head long valor, and thus secure vfttorys. The march around the southern side of Like Cnalco waflf suggested by Worth j to. wjrpm the practicability of the road was commu nicated by Col. Duncan, of J Worth V di vision. " The change in tho route of he nrmv thus induced, placed Worth again in tho van WThen Scott determined tostorw; filino,del Rer. he committed the almost rate attempt to Worth. , Owing to an insufficieDl reconnoisance the loss of the .Usmltincr V, cblumos was immensejthey were even repulsed at first, and would' have, Wn Seated but for the arrival of, Cad sl"Hfr Avhh the reserve At -Chapulte pec the storming party was principally e. lected from WorthV andj Pillow a regu lars. ing a precedent set by Scott, remind bis ,atchway,' nod ,bn killed almost instant- b',-- iyi no waicji were caueu -ia una unm Dunng'his absence the battlci of AU ' p0or w retch was taken to the watch houoi jto-and Reseca de la" Palma worn fought; Iinfi nhv-irian rn'r for- m ihn hoik- on Throughout the aLJ.; v , r, Worth has carried himselfia tho Ct 1 i v..i:i a epUo'did gatUmry th-at t.ns fascic&l.J the pjpulaV imagitiation. As en iT.ctr he msy be said partly to resemlla Murat,nd partly to resemble Ky;for4.8 has the ddshipc air of one, with the indomitable courage-of tno otner! - . , From th New Orleant Picayune. Prlltuood Johnsoiu A very slrango occurrence took 'place some years since in the .fljurishing city of Cincinnati, arid is ysl fresh in the minds of many residents there, not by any means as old.asthe oldest iuhabitant,11 who knows all Oil rigs. . It is stl!l told of a cold winter's night around a cheerlul fireside to many a wondering youngster,' nndihc moral in stilled into their young minds with grea. ter forco from the circumstance 'of its "be ing.as true v gospel." 'Die hero of tho tale was an pld man 1 named Johnson, who had lived from a boy in this "place, and fol lowed a curious trade - for a livelihood. Karly and latere was seen down by the river's side collecting driftwood, and toiled at it so incessantly day after day and year after year, that it at last became ' whis. perco about that Driftwood Johnson wa"s making money; he had invested .his liulo earniny well-and had rrnli.rd laYP tnmn" ov fortunate sacculations: but ho still clunr to his old business! 'Ho. sva"s .mean iii drv(9 and very sayingair the money he eer "spent, except for the merest necessaT riespflife, being for tho education .of a most lively daughter, forUbe old man had a wife itid child. vi" At last Driftwood bought a very largo brick house, of built one; and much lo tho surprise,' of every body, fur. oihhed it elogahily and brought his daugh te home from school to bo tho belle of his mansion.' It was a good way out of town, but' he said tho ; city Vould grfiw to it'-so it has. There was assays something mys-U-fious about tho old rna n r-f mily; a nil his wife, who w'as"'a yery :amiable woman,, had acnre'.worn anxioys look.no oneeobld account for.. Tho ; beauty-, and ? accom p'i.shmenls of the daughter Worf brought her plenty of lovers " who , stghcc'Vand pitiftd for her. hand; but the fayOfed of all was a young merchant s" clerk, connecied w iih one of the most flourishing' establish tnews iii Cihcinnatf, and sppn to-r become a partner, Uts suit. pcopeTed, -and 1iH hoped tci mnke. the daughter of old Drift-! wood his wife. lie used'to ahink it a very odd circumstance, that during all'his qven. ing visits which were far from being "few and' far, be t ween,1? ho never Could meet the old man, and all lits inquiries after him faded to elicit any sHtisfactory replies.,' bu,t knowing that -the old min was ,what is geerayy termed "an "oddish," he nevqr troubled himself much about the mtttlcf. . . On returning hoiAe to t his- jstore tatevone night, a fie r a visit to hislnd love ,. ,h& was horrified iiport opening tho 'duot at finding the mangled and hlted ing -corpse of a man, a. strunjicr. '-' IIo hud apparenly fallen from tho second or third storv through tho lie -had been dead for hours,1 and thero was nothing left but lo cndeavor.to find out who the man was, and hold an inquest over -hi body.. There ' wjs' no trace or sign about him that could possibly lead o a rccogmtiou-'-rnJ, paper, no mark onhis cTothes, and a bunch of ! skeleton ' keys, a bo x : of .rri a t e h as a nd a &m u II d a r k : 1 a n tern were all ial he had tbout him; so ihe inquest was hold the next ! morning, a .verdict in Dccordmce with'th facts ren dered, and the bod) buried, v -The next evening, upnq. visiting his in ;endedythc lover found the .family, uneasy pt the coatii.ued absence of old DriftwooAi j but. ha persuaded them that ho had been suddenly called, away' on business, and would soon return. Advertisements were put rathe-papers, but no cl"ue to him could be obtained, nod ; people Ml lastlbeliefed (hat .he, had - been i - mQrdered. or 'carried down, the Mississippi while gathering drift wood, and drbyncd. In this house there Avcre'a' number of rooms- which : haf3 art ways been. locked and the keys .of'Which old Dnftyfrqod had) always kepf, and1 when i it became necessary" to settle hi$ . affairs,' these rooms were forced open; ard found to contain -goods to , a large 'amount' of all sorts and descriptions: silks', satins, broad chi h a, li ne n s , s h a w Is , w a t che f ', je w el r y ; in short all sorts ot goous and 'valuables of every description which had been sto len in Cincinnati from difiereul places, at various times,- for years. The' secret was out. Old DriftWood had fot vears em ployed pedlars to stll v goods through, the Western country,' sent thrm down in flit boats to points on the Mississippi below Cincinnati and kll of tj cm he had-, him- self, unaided by any accomplice; vstolen. The man who was found by 4 the clerk a bleeding corpse was ofd Driftwood John son. The clerk however, convinced that the daughter ot the. old man was innocent andunaware that her father had pursued lor vears,: aystm of purciary .and tUcu ving, married her, and she is now a mo-. ther, surrounded by rrumrrous lamily; Truth is stranger than fiction. . 1-.. A StorUinz Fact. Gov. Bigss. at the temperance meeting in Fancuil Hall, Bos ton, on Tuesday, "evening last, slated rhat the report of the committee oppointed to inquire in regard jto the idiots in. the Com mon wealth showed that there were froth 1.20 to 1,300 of that unfortunate dass, and also the astounding fact that 1,100 tq 1 fiQO of them were born oi drunken pa.- rents. ; A Tela Sazxttc Story. ' The subjoined sdake ory from fho Tex as Democnt, will compare favorably with the Sea Sirpint of Cape. Cod memory. Texas it a great country,' but as the Brian- imous man said of Mississippi, they have tome vefy gfeil liars there far a new, country. ' . y , , The Largest S.nAke Yet. We are no'l -in the habit of giving credence to snake stories in general, nor would" Ave wish our readers to bvlieve, from the fact of our givinpublici:y lo the following, that we are entirely converted into ; willing' belie-: vers. 'We give the statement exactly as i.t was made to. us 7 by Mr. Cruze, wlw re sides at the stock farm of the Hon. Thos. F. McKinnyj-oa Onion creek, - about nine miles south west of this city. Mr, Crbze states jhat' some time since Fie was inform ed, by idefienda Mores, a Mexican, who now resides pt San Antonio that he (Mo res) had seen about six years, agov very high up on the Colorado river, a snake or serpent of such enormous size,", that 'it could easily destroy tho largest onlmuls femnd in this country subh -as deer, bears, palitheri, and even full grown bufTilocs. It wasiatso represented that' this large ser pent, for tfte distance offivo or six hun dred yards Could surpass in floetness the fastest horse; Tho statement was " cor roborated by aome Caddo Ihdiansv who now live oft or near the premises - of Mr. Cruze, and from their willingness to ac company him to the place where -they had stated they had seen the snake, 'HtJruzfl fi nally concluded to , go with them to the place designated. After travelling six day and a' half up the west side ot the Colora do, thejodians announced themselves in tho immediate vicinity ol tho. jpol where the serpenf had-been seen. All were now busy iu examining for "signs'," and in a short time they- ciirne on.a Jarga track, or trail, which evidently had been." fnSde.'by" something of tha snake kind? -Following this trail, whieh is represented' by Mr. Cruzc as beingabout four . feet in width, they were soonMed tdi a considerable a. ter hole in a valley neat Ihe foot of a mounndn. The) then retraced their stepa (o t Iijp place where ihey had first discov eted the trail, , whicb they - continued to fo! lo w ; ti od, At t ho. fool or on the s ide of the mountain, whieh is about a mile from ihe 'uforesaid waier hole, they discovered something resembling1 the entrance of a overfly to which Ihe trad evidently Jed. After approaching wiihin about ; six or se. ven hunirt-d yards of tle moullr of. the cave, the Indians hiked', "and irj,ststrd that it was highly dangerous to advance' any further; and oii an intimation byCruzc that he was willing to make a farther advance, they posiiively declared;5 that it would be iinpussible fir him to escape if. he should do so. . They slated that some yenrs ago ihcre was & f ui'mibr serpent ; discovered high up on ll;d Uiyer, that-1. pursued and "caujiht: a h India h who had always been acknowledged the fleetest oJ his tribe and who could run nearly as fast as a hursH. 1 hey said this Indian had ,the bold or 83 to advance -.within fourror five .hundred yards of the den -of .tht snake,-. "Tbe(. fierco . ani. miil.'on perceiving htm, instanlUy darted forth in 'pursuit ,5i-nd in a Very', short f time orrtook and devoured him.- . This thry stated was witnessed by their chief and several oihrs who had repaire.d thither on I the iieejem norses -itiev couiu procure, to witness -the Indian's .temerity. , After this, iho Chief cave orders for nono of their tribe to hunt within -twenjy mile .of the haunt of this terrible- monster.i ; -, s r Mr, Cruze; listened to. 'their tale with some trepidation, but having more Con. fidence in the ability xjf hisV horsxf; (which was a fine blood gelding) to take him out of danger than they had,' he advanced wjihio about thre hundred . yards of tho mouth of the cavern, where he halted be lievmg it unsnfe j to approach, .nearer Frorrr this position he Could plainly see hwzc mass Iving' in the 'entrance of the cavern; which he at once, discovered to be something having lift; for he could observe jt slightly vibrate. It may seem strange that at .the distance of three hundred yards the ordinary vibrations caused by the breathing; of even as ptmderous Tan animal as ihteL could be discernible to the naked eye in truth, we were of the opinion that thisparj 6f iho story emanated more from imaiiinatioii tnan rcahtv. but . wnen- . we were: informed that the vjew of Jlhe en. trance of the cavern wis whollv uhob- struCtedthat lhe'sun bejng on the decline. threyr the full force of its light immediate., ty oaine ponion oi me serpent percept1 blc,,we became less- astonished at Tlh statement:, and readily believed lhat such a thing- might be possible, inasmuch a the cirdumfe'rencc o! the irilile wa estimated at nut !e."s thfn seven' feel To use the angoage; of Mr; Cruzer,,it 'seemed as Inrgfl or larger han the chest of a stout hore,7" OAs but a lew feevol it Were seen, in consequence ot its position in tho mouth of ' the cernj its full length oold not bn even roughly estimated but Cruze, judg- ins from the usual length pj snakes.' in proportion to their thickness, 'supposed this could, not have been Irsa than sixty or se venty feet long. From'ihe advantage ci eh by tho light of the, sun, he was enabled to dist inguish that the skin of the serpent was variegated with large pied or- spot of black, and a dpsky reddti color,. ine oasao Indiana slated that' it about mile west of the present den where they first saw it; this led Cruze U bflieye thit there v re others of the same kind in that region;for it was - evident thai the present occupant ot tho eatern. or some otner jat a similar description. had inhab jited it for a great while, a ther? was an imsaeosc qnanllty of the bone of different, ; PAYABLE animals sputtered around its entrance fvr at least two hundred' and fifty yards. Je uggsted to th Indian the , probability that this wai not tb nk they had be fore seen, aud proposed miking a search for another; i'Hiis 'proposition wa In iaoi!y objected to, They said that' in searching for another tnake, they' might accidentally come too close" upon one be fore discovtring him; or possibly , on a den where there were several, and In that event, the Immcdiatri destruction ol tho ;whoto party would be in?yitable, Cruxe, 'hoxs ever, - was determined upon a reconnoi saace of the approximate ; country, and when the Indiana found out his determine ation, they followed him, i with 'much fear and trembling.' iThey made a cir cuit around the mountain, never venturing nearer than a half mile of the cavlrn, and using great cauttonji lest they should come in accidental contact with one of those ter rifle monsters. No important discoveries, however were" mad, .excepting everil othiir trails of th same kind as that lea. ing to the aierhole, all of.;, which con, verged toward tho abova , mentioned cave; Tliis induced the belief that there probably might be an immense dert of thus huge serpens in the cavern, which opioion, the facts as stated, would certainly in a jCdn siderable degree justify, . Cruz and his Indian.guides returned to thrt settlements without 'extending tho.area of thfir discoveries any further, being well mtisfied that the upper Colorado, in the way ot snakes "can't be beaC1 - Mr. Cruze is anxious to gel a qcynpapyj or hltecrl or twenty well armed inen, muunn ted on the fleetest horses that can be pro cured, to accompany him on a second ex pedition to the cavern. (which he ayi he can find; without arjy . trouble,) to rrtake further discoveries concerning this "gen eration of vipers-" ; tie purposes storting in the cutuse of two or three week, or as soon thef'esfier as a 'sufficient number of men art? ready to accompany him. ' ' Imporfanco f Cducatluc the Farmer ; c , I It is calculated that tho division of tho occupations of mn in the ! United. States is nearly in the following proportions. ' ; Lngaged in Internal Navigation,. 23,"07G Ocean - . 50,021 the learned professions 65,25-1 Commerce, . . r 11Q.C07 ManUaCturors, -791,740 Agriculture. 3.719.951 it i ! ir iThus it will bo seen that those who are engaged ' in agriculture are three :. and a half times greater in number than" those in all ' other divisiogs. The agriculturists consequently have tho. physical and num erical power, and can at any lime control every government - in the United States and give tone lo public opinion. But do tllcyi - No, indeed for. however powerful they may be in number they are' weak in influence r and this arises from a want of proper education. The Eiit-fiTO thous and, two hundrei and fifty, jive, engaged in ihn learned professions, are intellectu-' jurv ntroncer than tne tliree rniiiion. seven 1 hundrea and nineteen thotisaiid, nine hun dred and fifty one; engaged in agriculture, and therefore rulo them It ; it Vvere riot seven eighths; of thi offices'' in the country : would not be held by lawyers afid doctors; nor would alt the colleges and high schools be endowed priocipally for the rbenefit of the learned profi jm banners, when will .you arousn your se've to ihe dignity and imparlance of your and educate yourselves r to inat height of intelligence which wilt moke you the ruler instead of the rult d of the other professions? Thcro is" surely nothing to reveof this if you Will only be '.rue to ourselves. Look at tbeVmilHins annually throwed awav upon the horri'J barbarities of war or. the preparation for it,' and the honors that are awardc I . Vi those"who engage in sheddingv brother's blood and Compare these with the pitiful and down right contemptible sums which are grudg ogly dosed out for your benefit. . livt-ry occupation in the country ?pms to be bountifully 4 provided for, patre that of the farmer, and surely no oni is lr Llime lor this iul yourselves -for if you chosrfyou need only speak to your rervcn;v your rulers, and a j-eform rngiil to in if stopce. Ponder these t hires well, tl.ru, nnd inthe egislatures, assembled this vvitcr, ? out and demand equal brnctus v.i:h. the. mast favored of the other professions. Am rriian Agriculturist , . ' . . . ELoq.tJi?tCE. ,Fc!lfr cr.izr r said a country candidate on tlfj firrn for "h Legislature, 'I an can JiJi'f fr th? - g?sla:or, and as all gojd'refiulIicans slir.uld do, 1 will give you my vie v. rf r, ., and thinj's in nneral. The r-r' ' 1 i mankind m general, gincf ally pjj(i!,i- nr most ginerally in f.vor of a, rc; ,.l'.,z a ism, and so am'L .1 am also jn ivorpf a liberal expropriation of fur-di for tl ? ro. fane asswum. I am in favtt.ol il j ix propriaiing money for Ihe pr.tn.! ft jilt-r ing ol the senptera. - les, fe!lrr-citzrrn,' these are my coriviciions nd-if therj r. i chick-a-ret used in the election, I am tov i to be electedvto the Legitlaier. A terrible accident lately oceu'rrc ; I i one of 'the French fouodries. T!.i ' - -mense receptacle: for the melted iron v. . j full of th . metal infusion, when rv. !. ! broke through in the bottom and it ran c all around tho placcdj seycrl cf men who werv not able to escape in- Im. .-, had their feet covered to-, lha ancle v . , the molt e stream, and amputation evcrj case considered nrcessary. had since died; six were at the h a critical atate! arid somo t -.,-.!', . in vro wercccafifled to their bauj.; IN ADVANCE. Speech cf Jlr Duer, cf Hzr YcrL The Hali'se being In Committea f tha Whole on the Sta; of the Union, and having under consideration the bill author. . iting a loan for 318,500,OOCf Mr, DuEit said: , ' t '.Mr. Chairman: Somo lim ago, when the House had under consideration th ' message of the President, 1 desired la taf. something on th subject of the Mexican war, -vl wa not however, so fortunate at i to obtain th floor. Whai I then wished to; say, H would not, I topposej ba out of order fjr ro to ay row. do not deairo to fatigoo the ' commltte by going over beaten ground. Mny thjngt Hav bfren aaid .and, well sid, which, at I could nut hope to give them either eddi. tional force or ihovelty, it would be useless to repeat, rl shall, thrreforeentirrTy omit the consideration of y som of these quc lion which have been so ably 'discussed here; and with respect to others", I ahall content myself with expressing my pin ions without, at Vast in. any, detail, dlTtt tnf argument in theif i support. ; it seems to mo unquestionable that thit - .war had its origin In the annexation of 4exas. , It is weak and incorrect mods ofciprcssion to say . that the aAneiatfon ltd to war; the annexation hxi war. It if not necessary, to prove this, to.Tefef to GrfVut, or Vattel, or any oilier writer on the law ofnations Il ls capable of being made plain to the commonest Understand. ing. It is in the nature of an axiomafid .truth. It fbllows inevitubly ,frbtn Indnpu. table faetSj r ;Nono 1 suppose, will deny that, when" the measure of r.nexatk'H consummated, Meircq and Texas Were at war. Whut, then, beenrm .'of that War The sf parate existence of Texas waa gun her nationality becaift? mi?Vged In 00r Unless the ! annexation of Tetai' operated so as to pfodfirce petXc between Texas and Mexico, (which is ahsOrd,) the" war con tinuing, Would continue-only vvith us. Sirr when we annexed Texa we trnnJted the ; war.- We took her, and we foot)r quarrel with her.J" , -, - v There is another harerf in adiuslihi? th iffspuristbiliiy fdr this yar, ' thai properly belongs to the original author 6( annej(i -tion..; ? A distinguislred gemtemap, about ft : year go tlaimd to be the auihdr 6f. ne, nexatiori;' ho said that wboteter praise of blame was due to anj man for" that meai ure was due' to hrm. I allude' to the gen tleman ; by whom the negotiation were ; principally conducted. -4 : There fs one not Itiori of the blame which a uorjuestiofiably ' his. i no iiuvjpiD; uiuii niiv.ll innt cen tleman justified the measure ofUnnexatiorf is,lf welLfoundedj a perfect justification-; to the ' Preside ni of...' the lUnned Slate H prosecuting this yar novr What was that principle? It is nnVlelt to conjf-cturt. It .4s ;of record; we find it in the pointed doc urhents ofthe'Senatp. 'Jo .his "e brfcsporV donee with the Briitsh' minister, Mr. Cal houn placcd.hrs'deJdocB of the measure of annexation on fn ground, and on tbe sole ground,' that it w us-necessary to protect and strengthen the; institution: of slavery irt ik. rtAiVot Sii.i?sTl,i'''lM-.K n. r Hi, Ulliiru uiukvsi -x tin ytr II9I UUITIII. ment.had frankly avowedthnt it was fari of their policy,- wherever they could do so without improper interference, by peM unsipn and advice:,: to seek, the abolition -"of slavery throtgboOt the- world." And as afitftgomstic to this -policy, Mr. Calhoon ' eppaking not fur hitnell, mt for South' Larwlina, i ot speaking lor the ; people fof the United. State uVoWed -it Vo be - tne pollcyrof; the Arrtftican Government td prfVnMheabotition of slavery throughout the world, wherever Jts abid it ion might have the effect of .wakning Ihe ifislilO lion within the. United Slates, - He de chired slavery lo' be .a philanthropic; a hu nr'Bfie irtsmution; ibnt it irjiproved the con daionof Ihe 'African" ruce, morally end phjsically, savmg them.fiorrt idiocy, patfr pcrism j and insanity. And he laid it dowfl ftsa principle" th.it it wa unsafe to slavery within thfc ; United. State to permit any ; slnTefioldifg Stile of the Union to be bor deredbya foreign-Sijaie in which slavery did not. exist. Now, air, when Texas be came n part uf the Unimwith Mexico! free Staie,upbn her border, was ft not as much the duty of the Government W j)rotrct slavery in Texa as before in Lou- -itiana, of Arkansas! If ilr. Calhoun wa justifiable m' jtuing to war with Meiifo (a esuiblisri.slavtry ip lixas, is not 31 f- roIK justifiablein praserotmg that war for the purpose of f stab'ishinj' slavery in M.exicol Nor doc it a'op htr; but upon Mr. CaN -Vmni pnnciplu, we must gw on, makiog war, annexing, conquering, untif we have introflurt-d sfayery into tytry Iree rrpuk he of this contitwm ' I make these remark IrV fitf invidious1 :,rl twaEfs jh dttirjiuishrd man trj whom I have,, alluded, but- because 1 be Jicvetherrr just, and Hup, and , imporlf cf j and because', further, I .belietr it due ta the great Whig party, which wm, in the xnairi, and front the beginning, the consist ten' "rponenl ol aunexdtion the fruitful (f'allou woe;" because I brliive' it c',. ? : thal'party thatjhese. fact hould) I - I ' f.r.h, dwtinrtly hnd "prominently, ! ; u cruntry I ihink it also-Josf for , ,y tl'.dt I have no idea ihat Mr. CalhourJ desired r intended ctuat war wih Mex- io, or that he intended or desired th in troduction of slavery in V Mexico, jotlihf r pect I think bat be va il'oicaf, ndli -i nk' frorn the, legitimate stfonsrquoncef ! I is owe principles. 1 believe him tolV t fi lend of peace. His trror roe frocT . most oi hu errors have arisen, a. . j , - : .: m- . - - - . - - , I iticiKffi I use th" word not offensively, . out mere js tannticism, t ineooutn, weH as at ht Nurth a fanaticism which hit caused him to believe that slavery lies 1 r : :-V-i . "I t f
Highland Messenger (Asheville, N.C.)
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March 30, 1848, edition 1
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