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UyiO.V. TE C0XST1T0TI0N. AND THE LAWSTHE GUARDIANS OP OUR LIBERTY.
Vol. XVIII.
FRIDAY. APRIL 27, 133.
IVt. Gift.
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TO HENRY CLAY.
f oppose thia measure at every
rtf, with !! the strength that God fiat
- r c... l r.
rite inc. i iy t'r, ioy, en re
IVs-rior, A eot It C.IJ,
Truth the armour of tby breast,
rMtiiM lor tby a!iie!tf(
f timiiMi irjr rir.t.
tltib uteh wespoas ia tby hand,
Such at thoa canal Mr be .lata;
rather, "lis aar attive land,
F I 'it bald aVr acaia.
f IjJ for jittice, aaerty, Ur,
.t r Count' jr etiU t free;
Omt again Iba taantlet draw,
Cvoj c;a ia turned on lUea.
SHirper tl.aa a ta rged evord,
f iha aMa Ihoa rami wield,
k'n and piercing ia tby muni,
Siattaman, Patriot, da pit jielj.
l.rt oar ejea rrj ica again
.i tba light f freedom's ray,
N ni'. ran break opprertiun'e (Lain,
.m ic ol licxav t'iT. S.
f t.!rn, N. J.
The Adventure of (lie
.Tlatoii.
There w as once upon a time a poor
Ti'in. or bricklayer, ia Granada, who
L7'. all the taint' days and holydays,
inJ taint Monday into the bargain, and
y, i;h all his devotion, he grew poor
n ari l poorer, and could scarcely earn
for his numerous family. One night
b w routed from his first sleep by a
k ,eiiig at his door. He opened it. and
bc'.fl l before him a tall, msagrc, radive
m looking priet.
"Hark e, honcn friend," said the
e.nr.r, 1 hive obrved that you are
t c t J christian, and on to be trusted;
i.;l you nn leriake a joh this tery night!"
With all my heart. Senor I'adre, on
f '. that I am paid accordingly."
That yu shall he, hut yu mu.it suf
ft f yourself t i be blindfolded."
To this th mason mado" no objection;
tj'emg hoodwinked, he wa led by the
rr .-s: through various rough lne and
::n!mg psag(s, until they stopped be
fjff the portal of a houe. Tlie priest
:Vn Bodied a key, tnrnej a creaking
!k, and opened what sounded like a
pi ii'Mu door. They entered, the door
ui rl'tvcd and bolted, and the mason
is em ducted through an echoing corri
i! if and spacious hall, to an interior part
of the building. Mere the bandage was
rf nivcd from his eyes, and he found him
fii in a patio, or court, dimly lighted by
Single lamp. 1
In the centre was the dry basin of an j
Moorish fountain, under which the
frit requested him to form a small
vault, bricks and in irtar being at hand for
i'ie purpose. He accordingly worked all
n .'lit. but without finishing the job. Just
''Sore daybreak the priest put a piece of
! ' in'liis hand, and having again blind
f ' !e l him, conducted him back to his
dw- llmg.
" Arc yon willing," said he, to re
! .ra an 1 complete your work!"
" Oladlv, Nenor I'adre, provided I am
v wed p,."id."
Well then, to-morrow at midnight I
fall again "
He did so, and the vault was complc
'td. ' Now," said the prieot, you
wit help me to bring forth the bodies
l'i 't are to be buried in this vault."
The poor mason's hair roe on his head
at these words: ho followed the priest
vith trembling steps, into a retired cham
ber of the mansion, es peeling to behold
r'ine ghastly spectacle of death, but was
relieved on perceiving three or four port
ly prs standing in one corner. They
were evidently full of money, and it was
with great labor that he and the priest
"fried them forth and consigned them to
their tomb. The vault was then closed.
the pavement replaced, and all traces of
the work obliterated.
The mason was again hoodwinked and
'fid forth hy a route different from that
'y which he had come. After they had
wandered for a long time through a per
tWed maze of lanes and alleys, they
ll'ed. The Driest then nut two pieces of I
Old into his bunds. Wait here," said 1
llP. urn!!
toll for matin. If you presume to wnco
cryonr eyes before that time, evil will
'', 'II you." So saying he departed.
The mason waited patiently, amusing
miim lf ,y weighing the gold pieces in
hand and clinking them against each
wher. The moment the cathedral bell
ra"g its matin peal, he uncovered his eyes
found himself rn the banks of the
Xenil; from whence lie made the beat of
hit way liome, and revelled with hie fa
only far a whole fortnight on the profits
of liia two nights work, after which be
an at poor as ever.
He continued to work a little ami pray
a good ilr-l, and keen aainu' Java and
l.olvdays from year to year, while Lis
family Crcw up as gaunt and ragged as a
crew of gypsies.
As he v as seated one morning at the
door of Lis hov el. he was accosted by a
ri'-h old curmudgeon, w ho was noted for
owning many houses and being a griping
landlord.
The man of money eyed him for a mo
ment from beneath a pair of thaggy eye
brow 8.
I am told, friend, that you are rery
poor.
There ii no denying the fact, Senor;
u speaks lor itself."
I presume, then, yon will be glad of
a joo, ana ww work cheap."
As cheap, my muter, as any mason
in Granada."
" That's what I want. I have an old
house fallen to decay, that costs me more
limner than it is worth to keen it in re
pair, for nobody will live in it; ao I must
contrive to patch it up and keep it toge
ther at as email expense as possible.
The mason was accordingly conduct
ed to a huge deserted house that seemed
coin? to ruin. Passing through several
empty halt and chamber, he entered an
inner court where his eye was eaught by
an old .Moorihii fountain.
He paused for a moment. It seems,"
said he, as if I had been in this place
before; but it is like a dream pray who
occupied tins house formerly?
A pest upon him!' cried the land
lord. It was an old miserly priest, who
cared for nobody but himsell. He was
said to be immensely rich, and having no
relations, it was thought he would leave
all his treasure to the church. lie died
suddenly, and the priests and friars
thronged to take possession of his wealth,
but nothing could they find but a tew du
cats in a leathern purse. The worst luck
has fallen on me; for since his death, the
old fellow continues to occupy my house
without paying rent, and there's no tak
ing the law of a detd man. The people
pretend to hear at night the clinking of
goM all night long in the chamber where
the old priest slept, as if ho were count
ing over his money, and sometime
groaning and moaning is heard about the
court. Whcthci true or false, these sto
ries have brought a had name on my
house, and not a tenant will remain in
it."
Enough," saiJ the mason, sturdily;
I.ct me live in your house rem free un
til some better tenant present, and 1 wil
engage to put it in repair, and quiet the
troubled stunts that disturb it. I am
good christian and a poor nisn, and am
not to be daunted by the devil himself,
eterf though he come in the shape of a
big bag of money.
Hie oiler of the honest maon was
gladly accented; he moved with his fa
roily into the house, anJ fulfilled nil hi
engagement. IJv Itule and little he re
stored it to its former state. The cliuk
ing of gold was no longer heard at night
in the chamber of the defunct priest, but
began to he heard by day in the pocket
of the living mason. In a word, he in
creased rapidly in wealth, to the admira
lion of all his neighbor, and became one
of the richest men in Granada, lie gave
large hi inn to the church, by way, no
doubt, of sntisfvini? his conscience, am:
never rcvealed the secret of the wealth
until on his death bed. to his son and
heir. Irving.
RELIGION.
We pity the young man who has no
religion in his heart no high and irretisii
blc yearning after a better and holier ex
iftence - who is contented wan the sensu
allity and grossness of earthwhose
spirit never revolts at the darkness of its
prison house, nor exults at the thought
oi its nnai emancipation, tie uy
for be affords no evidence of his high
origin no manifestations of that Intel
leciual prerogative, which renders him
the delegated lord of the visible creation
He can rank no higher than anima
nature the spiritual could never stoop
to low. To seek for beastly excitements
to minuter, with a bountiful hand, to
depraved and strange appetites are the
attributes of the animal alone. To limit
our hopes and aspirations to this life, and
world, is like remaining forever in the
place of our birth, without ever lifting
the veil of the visible horizon which bent
over our infancy
There is religion in every thing around
us; a calm and holy religion in the un
breathing things of nature, which man
would do well to imitate. It is a mee
and blessed influence, stealing in as it
were, upon the heart. It comet quietly
and without excitement. It has no terror
nor olooin. in its approaches. It does hot
aa
rouse op the passions; it it tmtrarameled
by lb creeds anJ unshadowed by the
superstitions of men. It it from the
hands of the Author, and growing from
Ui immediate nresenea of thm r&t
pint, which pretades and auk-kens it.
i is written on the arched kr. It looks
out from every star. It is on the tailing
clouds and in the invisible wind. It ia
among the bills and velleyt of the earth
where the thrublest mountain loo
piereee the thin atmosphere el eternal
winter or where the michty forest fluc
tuates before the strong wind, with its
dark watet of green foliage. It ia spread
nut like a legible language upon the broad
lace i tit unsleeping ocean. It ia the
poetry of nature. Ii ia this which lifts
the spirit within as, until it it tall enough
to overlook the thadowa of cur place of
probation which breaks, link after link,
the chain which bind us to materiality,
and opens to our imagination a world of
spiritual beauty anJ holiness.
Utter fiaz.
A BRAVE GIRL.
Fm lbs Illinois Backwoodaman.
In this slate, no minor can obtain from
the county commissioner courts a li
cense to marry, ithoul first obtaining the
consent of Ins or her parent or guardian.
ami wnnouisucii license, cannot marry in
this state. Young couplet frequently fly
to the opposite tide of the Mississippi,
wnere no license it required.
These runaway matches, at they are !
called, are very frequent. A laughable
occurrence of that kind happened a few
ilayt ago, which hat made much sport
in ihit region.
A Mist , about 1? years of age.
who it the heiress to an estate valued at
SI 0,000, lately ran away in company
with a bridesmaid and her lover, who was
nearly thirty. Her guardian, believing '
.i . .11 i . i
the man totally unworthy of her, had re
fused hit content. When they reached
the bank of the Mississippi, ihe ice wat
running Tunously in the rivr, but the
voung lady, expecting every moment her
guardian would arrive there in pursuit.
irrd her lover to lose nol an instant in '
pushing the boat from the shore. His
courage seemed In have a good deal abat
ed: but he, with the owner of a large skiff,
and the bridesmaid, embarked with his
intended bride. They had nearly reach
ed the head of an island, about a third of
the distance from the opposite shore,
when the cuirent became more rapid, the
cakes of ice very Urge, and their situation
extremely dangerous. The lover, exeet
sively frightened, and forgetful of every
body but hit own dtur tttf, bawled out
in the most piteout accent, Oh! I shall
be drowned! I shall be drowned!" and
bitterly reproaehed his lady love as the
cause of his probable death. She uttered
not a word, her courage and presence of
mind teemed to increase wiih the peril.
A tremendous cake of ice fairly capsized
the boat, but il was so large that all got on
it; the lover tendered her no assistance at
idl. It bore them to the head of the isl
and, nod, as fortune would have it, the
chute between it and the .Missouri thore
was frozen over, and they crossed il with
out difficulty. They reached a tavern
near the river, and, after changing their
net garments and becoming warm at a
good lire, the lover hinted to the young
I nlv that it was lime now for them to
have the knot tied, as the magistrate had
arrived for that purpose, and was in the
next room. She gave him A most with
ering look of contempt, and declared the
would never unite her destiny with one
who was to selfish and cowardly. It
was in vain that he attempted by entrea
ty and argument to change her resolution.
She was immoveable, and replied to him
with scorn.
A few days afterwards she relumed to
ihe house of ber guardian, thankful that
she had escaped marrying a man whose
only object was her fortune.
Her lover returned to this side of the
river alto; but such showers of ridicule
and contempt were bestowed upon him,
thai he found it best to decamp, which
he did a few nights ago. leaving behind
him a host of unpaid demands.
ADVANTAGES OF REPUBLICAN
ISM. Judge Stoty remarked with great justice
as well as force, in his speech in the
Massachusetts Convention:" In our
country ihe richest man is not above the
people; the humblest is not below the
people. If the rich may be eaid to have
additional protection, lliey have not ad
ditional power. Nor doet wealth here
form a permanent distinction of families.
Those who are wealthy to day, pass to
the tomb, and their children divide their
estates. Properly thus is dwindled quite
as fast as it accumulates. No family can,
without iis own exertions, stand erect for
a long time tinder our statute of deacenta
and distributions, ihe true and legitimate
Agrarian law. It silently and quietly
dissolvrs the mass hesped up by toil and
diligence of a long life of enterprise and
industry. Property it continually chang
ing like the waea of the tea.
One wave rises and ia toon swallowed
p ia the vast abyss, and ia aeea no more.
Another rise, and having readied ita
destined limits, falls gently a ay. and ia
succeeded by another, which, in Ut turn.
breakt and diet away ailently a the
snore, i ne richest man among oa nay
be brought down to the humblest level;
and the child with scarcely clothes to
eoser bis nakedness, may rise to the
highest nffiee in our government; and the
poor man who rnckt tut infaut on hit
knee, may juady indulge the consolation.
that, il he possesses taienie and virtue,
there it no of&ce beyond the reach of his
honorable ambition. It ia a mistaken
theory that government it founded for
one object only. It it organized for the
nroteciion of life liberty property, and
all the comforts of society to enable us
to indulge in our domestic affection, and
quietly to enjoy our hornet and our fire-
idea."
ANTI-DUELLING BILL
The Senate on Monday, passed the
Duelling bill, 33 to 1 Mr. Sevier, of Ar
kansas, being the only negative. It was
then tent to the House of Representative!.
frevious to taking the vote-
Mr. Clay, of Kentucky, laid, that he
had taken no part heretofore in the debate
to
Inch thia bill had given me; but hit
ailence did not proceed from any indif
ference which he felt to the laudable ob
ject which the Senator from Vermont
(Mr. Prentiss) proposed to accomplish by
its introduction. No man would rejoice
more sincerely than he should, in wit
nessing the absolute suppression, forever,
of the unjustifiable practice which the bill
denounce and seeks to discountenance.
But he (Mr. Clay) thought that the great
!". r . i .
onjrci ni irgiaiauon, nn una suojeci,
ahouhl be directed to the correction and
purification of public opinion. In sec
tions of the Union, where the practice
was not tolerated, it was public opinion
that kept it down, by discouraging a re-
tort In private combat to avenge or set
tie personal injustice. I here it w as no
disgrace to decline such a combat. The
man w ho should decline ii was more, cer
lainly not less, respected than if he had
engaged in ii. But it was otherwise in
those sections where the practice prevail
ed. In these, the man who fights a duel
acts under the constraint of public opi
nion, which brands him with cowsrdice
and dishonor if he does not resent with
spirit, a personal insuli or wrong. There
the alternative presented to a person of
honor and nice sensibility is, whether
he shall live, covered with disgrace, an
object of reproach, acorn and contempt,
or encounter trie nazaru oi ueam, wiin
out dishonor. But few honorable and
high spirited men, were resolute enough
to avoid the contest. Public opinion,
which exacts the sacrifice, it as censu
rable as those who fall victims or conform
to its stern commands. It was when pub
lic opinion should be rectified in this re
spect, that we might expect to see the s
bandonmnel of a practice which wts con
trary to humanity, abhorrent to reason,
and condemned by our religion. In the
mean time, it is the duty of the legislator
to exert all hit authority lo bring about
this desirable stale of things. And he
(Mr. C.) should vote, wiih pleasure, for
the passage of the bill before the Senate,
under ihe anxious hope that, being the
deliberate expression of the judgment of
Congress, it may contribute to enlighten
the public mind; and if it should not to
tally eradicate, il may tend materially to
diminish, a practice which all ought to
unite in completely destroying.
DUELLING ANECDOTES.
The American Magazine for April has
a chapter on duelling, in which the fol
lowing anecdotes are related:
Lord Brudenell ran away with a mar
ried lady, who was afterwards divorced,
and he married her. But not receiving,
as he expected, a challenge from her first
husband, he wrote hnn a note as follows:
Sir: Having done you the greatest in
jury lhai one man can do another, I think
it incumbent upon me to offer you the
satisfaction which one gentleman owes lo
anther in tuch circumttances." The re
ply was this: My Lord, in taking off
my hands a woman who has proved her
self a wreich, you have done me the great
est favor that one man can do another;
and 1 think il incumbent upon me to offer
you the acknowledgments which one gen
tleman owet to auother in tuch circum
ttances." r
The once notorious Baron Von Hoff
man lost a letter of introduction to Mr.
j R , who declined to lake his
word as evidence of his rank, and did not
invite him to dinner. The Baron tent
him a challenge, which being lefi uncere
moniously at the door, Mn. It open
ed it, and immediately replied to it as fol
lows: "Sir: your note it received.. My
husband will not have any thing u dtf
wiin yoa under any circumstances; but
henever yoa produce official proof that
ym have been aid-de-eamp to Prince Bio
eher, at yon tay, I will light duel nti
yoa myself. MatT I
out the last and best anecdote if tree
it related of a Bosiost Bachelor Mr.
A. who ten yeara ago challenged Mr.
B-. a married man. with one rhtld, whd
replied that the condition! were not equal,
that he must necessarily put more at risk
with bit life than the other, and be de
clined. A year afterwards be received
another challenge from Mr. A. who sta
ted that he too had now a wife and rhild.
and he tu noosed therefore the objection
of Mr. B. waa bo longer valid. Mr. B.
replied that lie no had two children,
consequently the inequality mil subsist
ed. The next year Mr. A renewed hit
challenge, having then two children also,
but r.it adversary Dad three.
The matter ia not yet settled the re
sponsibilities' being six te tereo, and iha
challenge yearly renewed.
iSotlon Trantcnpt.
ADVANTAGES OF DRESS.
The following anecdote, illustrative of
the advantages sometimes to be derived
from gaudy apparel, it from a late num
ber of the Virginia Advocate.
While Mr. Rites, the American Minis
ter, resided in Paris, General Wool, the
Inspector General of the United Siaua
Army, being on a tour of observation in
Europe, expressed a desire to visit the
Tuilleries. Mr. R. readily consented to
introduce him at the next Levee. But
when Gen. W. anived at iha Hotel oi the
American Minister, on hit way to the Pa
lace, Mr. R. waa astonished at the splen
dor of hit drrtt and trappings, which,
added to a fine person, made a very im
posing display. On hit name being an
nounced in the audience chamber, wiih
hit title of Inspector General of all the
Armiea of the United Stales, (the gay
courtiers were probably not aware of iha
extent of ihe American Peace Establish
ment, 5000 men, scarcely sufficient to
guard the King's person from the machi
nations of assassins,) the richness of the
court dress, and the splendor of hit epau
lette and feathers, immediately attracted
the eyes of the whole court. Indeed,
the Inspector General wat evidently the
lion of the evening, and waa toon teen
in dote confab with the citizen King.
The next day. General W. again call
ed on Mr. Rivet, equipped at before, and
said he waa on hit way to dine with the
King, and asked Mr. R. if he wat not
going aiso. Mr. R. not being invited,
never before having heard of a stranger
dining at the Tuilleries. assured General
W. he had been quizzed. But he repli
ed, there was no mistake in the matter,
for Louis Phillipe had invited him him
self. It then appeared that General W.
had informed the King of hit intenliona
to set out in a few daya for Antwerp, for
the purpose of examining the fortrrssra
and dock yards there, and that hit Majes
ty, having a similar visit in contempla
tion, proposed that they should travel to
geiher; and in order to become better ac
quainted before they set out, invited Gen.
W. to dine with him next day. In this
case at least, nothing was lost by fine
dress and splendid trappings. Mr. Rivet,
whose unostentatious dress and diminu
tive proportions were so completely e
clipsed by his more happy countryman,
was left to eat his own ragout and drink
his own wine solitary and alone, at hit
own hotel.
lanlee Ingenuity. A gentleman of
Albany has invented a machine represent
ing a female figure as large as life, sitting
on, a pedestal, holding in her hand an
accordion, on which she performs several
pieces of music. This figure, it is said,
so nearly resembles life, thai the motion
of the chest in the act of respiration is
distinctly visible. Mie moves her head,
fingers the keys of the instrument with
her right hand, and draws and presses
the bellows with her left; the also beau
lime with her foot to the music, and does
many other wonderful thing!. The own
er intends to take the machine to England
fur exhibition. Boston Pott
If orlh Trying. h is said, on the au
thority of a paper read before the Ento
mological Society of London, that a net
of fine black thread, with the meshes an
inch square, placed against an open win
dow, will effectually exclude flies, owing
to an optical illusion produced by the net
in the eyes of the insect. If this he true,
tidy housewives and watchful nurses may
find it a discovery of much importance.
The imperial palace al St Petersburg,
recently destroyed by fire, waa 707 feet
in length. 559 feel in breadth, and co
vered 654,237 feet of ground.
Against fottune oppose courage; agiin.it
passion, rtason.
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