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There', an aperture in JhJ chest which opens and 'huts; and it keeps opening and shutting, as I understand it? but F knew nothing about what they call J Am liAll fril T U I If 1 1 1 1 EkUt-iLA SHU HCICl injj. : if- the cane or sword goes 4.M . tnn 'lTnr.- - Well. down tipon this aperture when shut it can go no further, and the pain is dreadful. Jt U s open the weapon can go through, the apert ture closing on the weapon. The first time I -put down the cane I got it back easily, but Wt my head on the table and was yery sick, C ; Vomiting dreadfully. I tried again me iime w Afternoon, howerer, three or four hours after: ? : UardMmddidJt without paxn. J d.dat more, anu me ci j A onH mcceeded. ine J v4 or tnree time :L1 : nrlttl a T i tL..i j ihirtv-sn mcnes I word was oruai, uu .....v . , f long, an inch wide, and perhaP a ."J. an Inch thick. J felt frightened with toe cake,- but not with the sword. Before the Word waa used, it was rubbed with a hand kerchief, and made warm by friction. 1 Wallowed swords for fourteen years. At one time I used to swallow three swords, a knife, and two forks, of course keeping the handles jq my mouth, and having all the blades. in my stomach together., I felt -no pain. No doubt many of the audience felt more pain in seeing it than I did in doing it. I Tjrore a Turkish dress both in the streets and in the theatres. I never saw ladies faint at by performance no, there was no non sense of that kind. Gentlemen often pulled the; sword and knives by their handles out of my mouth, to convince themselves that it was real, and they found it was real, though the! people to this day generally believe it is not- I've sometimes seen people shudder at my performance, but I generally had loud applause. I used to bold my head back with the swords in my stomach for two or three minutes.' I've had a guinea a day for sword swallowing. This guinea a day was only for! a few days at fair times. I was with old "salt box" Brown, too, and swallowed swords and conjured with him. I swallowed swords with him thirty time! a day ; more than one each time sometimes three or four. I had a third of the profits , Brown had two thirds. We divided after all the expenses were paid. My third might have been thirty shillings a week, bat it wouldn't be half as much now, if Ij could swallow swords still. If I could swallow a tea-kettle now, the people would scarcely' look at me. Sometimes indeed, a great many times say twenty I have brought tip oysters out of my stomach after eating them, just as I swallowed them, on the end of the sword. At other times there was blood on the end of the blade. I always felt faint after the blood, and used to take gin or anything I could get at hand to relieve me, which it did for a time. At last I in 4nreiL rfty health so much that I was obliged to go to the doctor's. I used to eat well, and drink too. ' When I found myself injured by the swal lowing, I had lost my appetite, and the doc tor, advised m to take honey and liquids, tea, beer, and sometimes a drop of grog. At three months' end, he told tne if I swallow ed! swords W0UW he my death ; but for all I was forced to swallow swords to get a meal to swallow. I kept swallowing swords three orifour years after this, not feeling any great suffering. I then thought I would swallow a ive snake. I'd never heard of any one, Indian or anybody, swallowing a live snake. It came into my head once by catching a gtass snake in the fields, irj Norfolk. I said tci myself as I held it by the neck. "There seems to be no harm in this fellow ; I'll try if I can swallow him." j I tried then and there, and I did swallow him. It felt cold and slimy as it went down. I didn't feel afraid, for I kept tight hold of - nim oy me lau ; ana no one has any right to be afraid of a grass snake. When I brought 4 the snake up again m about three minutes it seemed dead. After that I introduced hake-swallowing into my public perform ancet, and did so for about four years. 1 have taken five shillings, and as low as one t smiling, wben 1 swallowed snakes in the stretts of London. I catched my own snakes a. few miles from London, and ki'led yery few through swallowing on'em. Six snakes. f woperly fed, on milk; lasted me a vear Tt 1 L " i ucBnan.es never injured me; and i should nt have gjyen it up, but the performance grew stale, and the people would not give any. ; thing for it. 1 have swallowed swords in the .streets thirty to forty times adaj, and snakes as often, both m town and country. I thought i: once 1 couldn t have followed any other sort of ' life V you see I'd been so long accustomed to public life ; besides, I may have liked it far ; better than labor as most young men do, but lio labor can be harder ttian mine has been -f- If my father had been what he ought, he ' ' itiight have checked my childish doings and v Irishes. I have tried other things thoush ii.ii :. .fL.n . o. uuu6ui in uie nope oi ueuerms myseil. l hav tr-A ihoemaking for five or six years.but couldn't - get a living at iL I wasn't, competent for it -thafs two years ago &o I'm now musirJan to a school of acrobats. Very many like me Temain in tne street. Dusmess, because they jcan't get out of it, that's the fact. Whilst! wallowed swords and snakes I played the " fire-eater. 1 did it once or twice last week J eat red-hot cinders Irom the grate : at least ii have out them in my mouth. I onlv use a bitot chaiir. inaiic my paiate, tongue and fingers ; it hardenB the skin of the ton gue and palate, but that au. i ire-eating affects the taste tor a time, or rather it pre- ' bents one tasting anything particularly. I've eaten fire for twenty years in the streets and in public places It hasn't brought any mo sey of late years. ; I wasn't afraid when I first tried it by eating a lighted linka small flambeauI felt 5- no inconvenience. The chalk did every thing that was right. You -a may stroke; a red hot poker with 'chalked hands and not be burnt. 1 make the same as the .acrobats ; perhaps I average 12s. a week, and have a wife and six children, the Oldest under eleven, to maintain ouVofihat. OAen We're obliged to live upon nothings "When I was slipper making I had from Sa. 6d. Zm ;S.w.lloiingUtItho8htloron. rtve the doctors ineir nuituu- -r . I'l froin ike London Ttmes- ' ; CHARACTERS AND "CAREERS JDF PEEL AND BROUGHAM ; Twenty yei Pfs fJl fice and opposition were led by twoTmen the most dissimilar in character and I sentiment, but who might equally claimthe mwit. of having raised themselves bir own abdi- v and uerseverance wjuunuu6..-.-.rt sftions which they held., Sir Rom ekt rEKi. was ministerial leader ot tne iou . ww DAntt im uric rhiffT At mons:-and itEK kuuu- the liberal opposition. Both haye since pas sed away from popular sight, though hardly as yet from popular remembrance. Both Have ceased to sway the thoughts and act? of men. The one by a premature fate has ab solutely been removed from the turmoil of a troubled world, while the other, by a still more heavy dispensation, has been allowed to survive in the aesh his own moral and po litical extinction. , : . I -i It hardly violates, therefore, the maxim or the classic sage, that the true estimate of men cannot be formed until their career in life has closed, if. we venture to compare the characters of these distinguished individuals, and to contrast their relative services to their country. Circumstances gave each an e4rly opportunity of displaying the pecufiar gifts where-with nature had endowed hira. Be fore entering the arena of public life, the bne had gained -as high a reputation for classical scholarship as the other had for scientific at tainments. Both seemed at starting to pos sess in an eminent degree the faculty of elo quence ; and it were difficult to say which of the two was the more indefatigably indus trious.5 -Between their entry into Parliament there was no great interval of time. The Oxonian started as a supporter of. the Tory occupants of power ; the Edinburg Reviewer avowed himself a candidate for the post of future spokesman of the powerless, and at that time, almost hopeless Wbigs. Bigotry was imputed to Peel as a reproach; sedition was the muttered taunt perpetually on the lips of Brougham's enemies. - Neith er probably was just. The youthful secreta ry for Ireland found himself flung into a lion's den, and the accusation against him is 'that he made friends of the Orange beasts of prey, and eventually tamed them. In like man ner, when a meeting at the Crown and An chor or a crowd at a contested election5 was to be amused, excited, and sent quietly home without doing themselves or any body else any mischief, Brougham was the readiest and verbally the most reckless man. Where steam was to be got up, and at the same time let off, noisily but harmlessly, there was (scarcely to be found a match for him. He was at once boiler and safety-valve ; and this double function was well understood and ap preciated by the calmer and more earnest men of the party whose colors he wore. It is a curious and not uninstructive point of re semblance, however, that, while the two champions were for years the most applauded of the States will stand as 4 8,500,000 6,650,000 1,924.000 ANALYSIS OP THE VOTE ON MB An examination ofthe yoteia United States, upon the passage , jusimeot tf the Texas boundary bill, may not be uninteresting nt this juncture. First, iffteference to the imputation oT the sey eral Slates voting for and against the bill, and ot those whose Senators were absent, j If each Sen ator from each State be considered as representing half the population or his State, and the census of iHiin hn fnlfpn S tne DaSIS Ol uie vajvui-nvu, will be found, that the population for and against the bill and absent, follows! : For the bill, in round numbers. Against the bill, , AKront ' ' ' ! a that iftfm absent Senators be regarded as opposed o the bill, it would have a small majori ti f th nonulation asrainst it; but there is little ornodonbt. that if Mr. Clay, Mr. Downs, Mr. Pratt nd Mr. Mangum, Bad beep presem, xney would have roted for the bill, kin that event, the popular vote for and against the bill and absent would stand thus: i it -- For the bill, in round numbers, 9,678,000 Against the bill, " 6'659'P Absent, " M 746,000 If, therefore, these absent Senators would have voted, haiTlhey been present, as here supposed, then the majority of the population for the bill would have been 2,282,000! But, a glance at the votes ot the Senators a gainst the bill, is sufficient to satisfy the most cur sory reader, that they have not represented their constituents faithfully upon tne passage ot mis measure. 'If the question could be put to the peo ple of the States, whose voice is recorded against this bill, whether their Senators voted their senti ments and opinions, it would not be going too far to predict, that every one of them would be left in a woful minority, not even excepting the rotten borough of South Carolina, with its twenty-five thousand voters out of the population of a q uarter of a million of inhabitants ten years ago. . Indeed, it may be safely said, and so posterity will view the case, that the Pearce adjustment of the Texas boundary bill would have received the unanimous vote of the United States Senate, had the States voting in the negative not been misrepresented, or had their Senators done ttieir duty to meir con stituents. But secondly, let the vote be examined in re ference to the supposed views of Senators, in re lation to the next Presidency. This will be an in structive chapter. The following whigs voted fur the bill, viz Messrs. Badeer. of North Carolina ; Bell, ol Ten nessee; Berrien and Dawson, of Georgia; Clarke and Greene, of Rhode Island , Cooper, of Penn sylvania; Davis and Wintlirup. of Massachusetts; Pearce, of Mary Ian3: Phelps, of Vermont; Smith, of Connecticut : and Spruance and Wales, of Delaware. All these gentlemen are understuod now to be in tar or ol a VY big INational Conven tion to select a Whig Presidential candidate, and with a view to the strengthening of the whig par ty, they have determined to support the present whiff administration with all their power. Neither of these gentlemen looks to himself as the proba ble candidate, and their ambition theref ore is Jimi ted to the continuance of the whig party in pow r our out ot hre or the whig absentees, viz er. KOSSUTH'S LETTER li3pASS; May 23, 185- ' Eutaly a, - (Asia Mmo0 W hs lhat I General : It Is already ; .j t j. irt many changes oi .r. !. . riAt' nean ncv dui 10 one unng jine ? -- e u t - .. ir 1 he nanss of exile v atncian of Venice, i uu iciiieiiiuer syuu i'-" - . 'xZCTVXKJn the scaffold cast who, henbanishfcI that he might at least from v over the Rialto a glance once more. ELECTltO-MXGNETISM as a mo- Messrs. Mangum, of Nprth Carolina ; Pratt, of Maryland; and Miller and Dayton, of New Jer sey, stand in the same category. I he reasons for the absence of Messrs. Mangum and Pratt, are entirely personal, and it is said tbey are for it. Messrs. Miller and Dayton, it is well known, oc cupied peculiar ground upou the Texas boundary question, and the presumption is, they did not wish to separate from the administration. The wings who voted against the bill, are, Messrs. Baldwin, of Connecticut ; Ewinsr, of Ohio ; Sew ard, of New York; Underwood, of Kentucky, Morton, of Florida ; and Upham, of Vermont. The well known relations of Messrs. Baldwin. Morton, Underwood, and Upham to the bill, will sufficiently explain their votes, and leave them in and 'caressed men in their respective camps, the same category with their political brethren l 1, . - .t . l it whj, vrttAft rr lliA Kill. K... nitn.iliin 1 Kt. neuner was ever awe 10 win mai personal loyalty which many persons confessedly their inferiors in every intellectual respect are known to have inspired. From some cause Or other, personal confidence appears to have been always wanting. Peel seldom convers ed, and still more rarely wrote, even to his most intimate friends, the platitudes about church ascendancy or the maintenance of landlord monopoly, which twice a year his position required nim to put forth in his place in Parliament. The zealots dared not Repu diate, and yet they could not cordially trust him. I hey tried to persuade one another hat it was all consummate shrewdness on their illustrious leader's part ;-but they were incessantly anxious, perplexed, and unhappy at his marvellous mysteriousness. Who has forgotten the early impatience of the celebra ted mutineer, who was -ultimately destined to overthrow the dictatorship of conversation? yr who does not remember the fitful cries of that at intervals arose, during his long reign, that "the cause was in danger? So, too.vwith the vehement clamorer of the vindication of an injured Queen the ir resistible advocate of education reform and the exultant boaster, when candidate for the Ewing to the measure must be set down to two circumstances foreign to the considerations that operated upon other whigs ; and they are a com mittal to the lay lor policy, while he was Secreta ry m the interior, and aspirations lor the next Presidency upon the strength of that policy .which he believes will yet command the populat judg ment. Governor Seward's vote asrainst the bill was a natural one. He is not the man to play second fiddle to any body. He is fookinz to the Presi dency, not now, but at some distant day, and his chief purpose is, evidently, to so vote upon all puouc measures as 10 anticipate tne leeungs 01 me public mind hereafter. He is for himself and for no other man, for the President, unless it should be, that he can make the present a stepping stone to the future. He will support the administra tion, his friends openly say, only so lar as he con siders it to be his own personal interest to do so. Some of them think, however, he has missed the mark in not going lor this bill Mr. Clay's absence, everybody knows, was owing to the state of his health. The Pearce bill was one of the best planks of the Clay adjustment scheme, and that Mr. Clay would have voted for it, the whole nation is well assured. His relation to the nex t Presidency is too well known to refer to it. 1 hat he will be the candidate of the whig party at the next election, it living, convention or no convention, no man in his senses doubts. If West Riding, that he sought the suffrages of ever he was the embodiment ol whig principles the people on the ground that he possessed " neither property, station, nor influence." Had his laugh at his colleagues for their re ally thinking their i royal client innocent never been overheard had his future deser fiL. re ' .. tion ot tne cause 01 iour universities never been foretold had his latent longing after title and rank not been self-betrayed !to all who had opportunities of judging Henry Brougham would still have failed to win the affection or confidence of the better men of his party. The fundamental cause of this result in both instances was doubtless the same. Both were eeotists eeotists hot in u - and the object of whig affections, he is so now. There is no man in the whig party who can hope 10 receive me vote ot that party, at the next trial, oeiore rur.tlay. ; - i The democrats who voted for the bill are Messrs. Norris, of New Hampshire ; Bradbury, of Maine ; urigni and Whitcomb. of Indiana; Douglass and Shields, of Illinois ; Cass and Felch, of Michigan; iving ana Clemens, of Alabama ; Sturgeon, of Pennsylvania ; Dodge, of Iowa ; Foote ot Missis sippi ; Houston and Rusk, of Texas, and Dickin son, of New York. All these gentlemen are for Gen. Cass for the next Presidency. Messrs. King, of Alabama, Foote, of Mississippi, and General lloustou, ot Texas, are prominent candidates for the Vice Presidency upon the Cass ticket. Of the i 1 - 1 ,1 tu:. f.i J:,a t Mn easily unoenwuu. f ... -o: because yon ncuu, fartberland to be I.. kntl; s n carry the dolor e :ii:-. it,- oTn or a flowniwn country in my wounded Dreaswu. ins even tho sad consolation to think that it could not otherwise be. un i naa w;.u lv from treason designea me tn nraturva T iiVP8r to Alraishty God tl fhrpatAn.nJh-.llow of despotism would have fallen like foam from the rock of my brave Kr.-.t fTo have this firm convic tion, sir, and, instead of the well-deserved vJr tnrv nf freedoml to find one's self in exile, the fatherland in chains, is a profound sor row, 4 nameless grief. Neither have II the consolation to Have found mitijrations of this grief at the hospita ble hearth of a great free people, theontem plationof which, jby the imposing view of freedom's wonderful powers, warms the des pondent heart, making it in the destiny of mankind believe, j -. ' r- It is not a coward lamentation which makes me say all this, Geheralrut the lively sense of gratitude and thankful acknowledgments for your generous j sympathy. Ijwanted to sketch the darkness of my destiny, that you might feel what benefit roust iiaye been to me vour beam of i li?ht. by which you, from the capital of free! America, have heightened my night. 1 1 It was in Broussa, General, that the notice of your imposing speech has reached me : in yonder Broussa, where Hannibal bewailed his country's mischief, and foretold the fall of its oppressorsj-rlannibal, exiled like my sell, but still unhappier, as he was accompa nied in exile by the. ingratitude of his people, but I by the love of mine. , Yes, General, your powertul speecn was not only the inspiration of sympathy for un merited misforturje, so natural to noble, fee ling hearts ; it wS the revelation, of the jus tice of God it was a leaf from the book of fate, unveiled to j the world. On that day, General, you were silting,' iq the pame of mankind, in tribikiial, passing judgment on despotism and the despots of the world ; and as sure as the God of justice lives, your ver dict will be accomplished. Shall I yet haye my share in tins great work or not ? I do not know. Once al most an efficient j instrument in the hands of Providence. I am1 how buried alive. With humble heart will I accent the call to action should I be deemed worthy of it, or submit to the doom of inactive sufferings, if it must be so. But, be it one or the other, I know that your sentence will be fulfilled. I know that aged Europe, at the sun of freedom's young America, wi'l herself grow young a gain. I know that my people who proved so worthy of liberty, will yet, notwithstand ing their present degradation, weigh heavy in this balance of fate ; and I know that, as long as one Hungarian lives.your namc.Gen eral, will be counted among the most cher ished in my native land, as the distinguish ed man who, a worthy interpreter of the generous sentiments of the great 'American people, has upon us poor Hungarians the consolation bestowed of a confident hope, at a moment whenj CuropeV decrepit politics seemed our unmerited fate forever to seal. May you be pleased, General, to accept the mosffervent thanks of an honest friend of freedom. Let me hope that should Mr. Ujhazy, (my oldest and best friend, and pre sent representative to the United States,) in the interest of trie holy cause to which you have so generouilypur. protection accorded, address himself jto you for something which you might, in ypur wisdom, judge conve nient and practicable, you will hot withhold from us your powerful support ; and please to accept the assurance of my high .esteem and most peculiar veneration. L. KOSSUTH, j Anc. Gov. of Hungary. To the Hon. the Gen. Cass, Washington. I hope you will excuse my bad English. I thought it myjduty to address you in your own language. Mr. Lawrence, our minister at London, has i . . - . ' ! i i npan mftfllt: l a wmAiilhlMI mwAAt ..ft ftK ry y,rtu ' banquet of the Royal Agricultural Society of ThM important Question Settled.' rrotes- England, new at JKxeter on the lth Jul v. sor Page, id the lecture which he is deliver- From the following extract it appears that in before the Smithsonian Institution, states some other distinguished Americans were in that there is no longer any doubt of the ap- attendance t ' plication of thia power as a - substitute for " I am happy to state to'you on this occasion, mu xTt:i tii:- -avo i tnai me united steams 1 ne xiatiuuiu iuws5ui BUJ He exhibited the most imposing experi ments ever witnessed in this branch Of science. An immense bar of iron, weighing one hun dred and sixty pounds, was made to spring up by magnetic action, and to move rapiaiy uoand down, dancing; like a feather in the air. without anv visible support, i ne lorce ' - ..... that the United States is not represented alone by me. l have on my right one of the most distin guished statesmen of the United States, and, what is better, one of the best and greatest farmers ot the United States. Cheers, and cries of' Name.'' The gentleman is the American Ambassador at Fans, and came here to meet you, cheers ;J his excellency William C. Rives, of Virginia. Mr. Rives and myself are not the only representatives of the United States. I am proud to say that in STEAMnn.m .... ,SUie . r'Vlml t! iiMm. tVi'ia to viila A in svnirA 1 Ol tl . i jT-i i. it u 4 : UA.flthisroomthere is aieentleman.oneof thecrreatesl inree nmure inruug. breeders, of stock. Col. Morris, the vice president its motion. He said he could raise tnis oar one hundred feet as readily as through ten inches, and he expected no difficulty in do me the same with a bar weighing one ton, or a hundred tons. He could make a pile driver, or a forge-hammer, with great sim Dhcitv. and could make an ensine with a stroke of six, twelve, twenty, or any num beroffeet. The, most beautiful experiment we ever witnessed was the loud sound and brilliant flash from the galvanic spark, when produ ccd near a certain point in his great magnet. Each snap was as loud as a pistol ; aud when tie produced tne same sparic at a niue ais tance from this point, it made no noise at all. The recent discovery he stated to have a oractical beannsr upon the construction of an electro-magnetic engine. Truly, a great power is here ; and where is the limit to it ? He then exhibited his engine, of between four an live horse power, operated by a of the New York, Agricultural Association a gentleman who has been purchasing the stock of England very largely, that we in the western world may improve our own. Cheers. What ever you may think of these on this side of the Atlantic, I can only state to you, as their repre sentative, that they are proud ot their origin, and rejoice to be descended from Devonshire men. I hope at no distant day, increasing as we doat the rate of a million a year in population and we rejaice that we do increase, (cheers,) for we have room enough, and food enough, and labor enough for all cheers 1 say, I hope at no distantday, that we, your humble cousins, may return to you the farmers of England, to some considerable ex tent, (it must be done by instalments,) the debt that we owe you in the agricultural line, for the improvements that you have made, for the instruc tions we have received, and the great benefit the whole country has derived from your exhibi tions, j" I beg to thank the president and council for the opportunity afforded me -to-day of being in this ohl Roman city of Exeter, and in this renowned county of Devon, distinguished for, its -rich red Steam ft, their thanks t. .h. received during lhe J luiorm 1 1 ft .L lo na mpanv i k CB' to.r? e .Kte..,,, J . Tjg sate me ri-, ... .y,ih.n. ' tiT hiPlerSb,thi$llfle LT"h.l .r good, up without de 7 rt.b'S eaon. wl,n the River i. ,1, f t i Bet. of ordioarv ZT The8learaerfj0, G -a. Mike Brotvq 1w Ex ore,, ". Tow Boats All the above Boai. ... : .. th Poii .... : c. "'"let. battery contained within a space of three cu- M beautiful red cattle, and in olden time for Die leer, it looiceo very unuite a nagiieuc its noe and beautitul red cloaks, celebrated in Doe- machine. It was a reciprocating engine of try as well as in prose. fCheers.1 This is the two feet stroke, and the whole engine and battery weighed about one ton. When the powfer was thrown on by the motion of the lever, the engine started off magnificently, makinsr one hundred and fourteen strokes per minute ; though, when it drove a circu- lar saw ten inches in diameter, sawing up boards an inch and a quarter thick into laths, the engine made but about eighty strokes per minute. There was great anxiety on the part of the spectators to obtain speci mens of these laths, to preserve as trophies of this great mechanical triumph ' The force operating upon this magnetic cylinder throughout the. tvhole motion of two feet, was stated to be six hundred pounds when the engine was moving very slowly, but he had not been able to ascertain what the force was w hen the engine was running at a working speed, though it was considera bly less. The most important and interes ting point, however, is the expense of the power. Professor Page stated that he had reduced the cost so far, that it was less than steam under many and most conditions, though not so low as the cheapest steam en- it ft gines. vv un an tne impenecuonsoi me en gine, the consumption of three pounds of ainc per day would produce one horse pow er. The larger his engines (contrary to what has been known before) the greater the e conomy. Professor Page was himself sur prised at the result. There were yet practi cal difficulties to be overcome ; the battery had vet to be improved : and it remained yet to try the experiment on a grander scale, to make a power of one hundred horses or more." m t ""Mi. .. ure i an UMn,S!i warrant. , appealing ,0 ,h"Y och an mcreased ,i,0n,.. ' T, io.orreeit;Lt a! Ieat for .h . .VI K - . J j i 6 fui an i ,. ii oeiay. ""bub,. Our rates fir Freight at tim . rent rate charged ,y oXm, " '314, TIill nf I. -.ill..- f .,U1U niitd up to the rear cieamuoai ;o., VV'il iuS eeui oy man to r (J. Wr,K i w k 'nglon: On. DIBBLE & BUnTHPr' JI T. (J. WOKTH, ij n a. r. n i, IM . K land of that great and mighty mau. Sir Walter Raleigh (cheers) the man who first went lo the country of my respected friend, Mr. Rives a man renowned in English history, and who will live as long as history exists. I cannot sit down without offering my humble thanks to the inhabi tants of the city of Exeter, wherein this exhibition has taken place. (Cheers.) I think you fortun ate in finding a city presenting so much neat ness, so much simplicity, so much taste, and so much cheerfulness, that one feels at home the mo ment one comes here. (Loud cheers.) It is the firsl time that I have ever set my foot in the re nowned county of Devon. I hope that it will not be the last. (Loud cheers.) FILING NEWSPAPERS. One of the many things which I regret when I review my past life is, that 1 (Jul not, irom ear- ! liest youth, at least as soon ns I was able to do it, ; take and preserve (I be'ieve the technical word is j file") some good newspaper. How interesting i it would be to a sexagenarian lb look into the pa- j per which he read when he was twelve, or six-1 teen, or twenty years old ! How many events j would this call to mind which he has entirely lor- cntien ! now many interesting associations and feelings would it revive! What a view it would give one of past years! What a knowledge it would preserve by assisting the memory ! Aud how many valuable puroes of a literary kind even might it be rendered subservient to! How much I wish I could look into such a record, while composing this article. Cor. British Ban. I 11 Wll I I t w.. 1 W I ll l.l 11 - Company, Fayrttevi'le r ' July 19. Jf-GO. RAIL ROAD HOTELT HENDERSON X. c. rpHE Subscriber havina taken .1,..,. JL House, recently kept bv Mn M T 1 all. would respectfullinf,! tf. rl?H public generally, that the hoDse m reception of Rail Roa,t P.. " . may favor him going North or elsewhere, are e h em sorted to by hiui or iiis sertn Rail Road Pj m wnli a call vi...?. . bles are large and comfortable, rdlfBrli fjl expenencea Ustler in coutaui .ttendjBM h!3 taken by the day, week or m(,,i aW shall be satUfaciorjr No e!eci,nWri0i, ft Xlirifll 1(1 IV llllll ItT lnu 'r,. m., . . - "B lfc!jrri,lofJ THE FAILURE IN THE SENATE OF THE COMPROMISE. The combination of hostile extremes prov ed too strong for the union of national and temperate Statesman'. Men who agree in nothing beside,found,in the illusion of a com mon, though irreconcilable ultraism, motives to co-operate against moderate, wise and just councils. It was a combination more remarkable than that which Burke has ren dered memorable. Soule and Chase, Mason and Hale, Butler and Seward, constitute stri king parts of the tesselated Mosaic, and were the white and black btones, which stood their places against Webster and Cass, Ciay and Dickinson, Foote and Cooper. It is not the first time that hostile factions have combined to baffle the efforts of patriotic men to extin guish the grounds of intestine agitation and discord. Incapable of acting together, in any temperate efforts to reconcile their an gry differences, factions do not refuse to com bine against moderate and comprehensive views interposed to preserve the peace of the Mate. Ricn. nnig. the VUlgat sense ol the term, but in thedeen- democratic absentees. Messrs. Hamlin, of Maine. er and subtler meaning of the pbrase--men I Joes of Iowa, and Downs, ol Louisiana, are also tnorougniy sell engrossed and unsympathi- r"1 Vya" mougn noi so warmiy, pernaps, zing, .wrapt up in their own views, projects !?5ey Kl-be' Thev incline, it is said j rather arJ TihJv.t.1 nn xritKrtt iJii: " Mr- D-tkinsOn, of New York, for the next uuiiiiuni i i-r.ai I ii t . - i j . . rvt i for the time being, but essentially without tic Senators who veted against the hill, are Measrs. nxed or rooted taith in any opinion. '1 . Turney, ol Tennessee t Atchison and Benton, of Ana tnanKina are wisely ; lunmhed with missoun; Uarnwell and Butler, ol South Carolina; an insunci mat io: faith in those who x am ihcij luraunea wun own, uamweu ana uuuer, oi south Carolina; forbids them tb put ; much Chase of Ohio ; Davis, of Mississippi ; Dodge and ho have little in themselves. JYa,ker' oasiu ; Hale of New Hampshire; . . 1 ! '- Peel in his latter days seemed to have keenly ieu and silently to nare mourned over his his political isolation. But, even to the last, ne knew not now to confide frankly or affec tionately ; , the habit bad never been formed in early life, and when the solace of chival rous and intimate sympathy would have been. riiicieu io nim, it came not for it could not come. As for the eontmrwwir rWK whom we have been comparing him, it may be enough to say that the difference belween Ti- ini8,C8seQat respect.was, that while PeeUistened to every friend's thought! with out disclosing his own, Brougham wai ever iy -ta every one a11 tha cam to his ttnnd, without carmg to hear what any one felt, or thought or desired. The physical propensity was the most moral want and tendency was the same. i heir dreams and their aspiration! wbo shall yenture to surmise ? Theagerness i of the one to snatch a coronet, and the interdict im posed by the other on his family receiving thr distinction of ennoblement, aire rather in dwaUons of diversity of temperament than proofs of diversity of feeling It i, too soon to pry too curiously into fheae things S l ' . ' " - r wbmeht of Arabic foETav-An Arabian having brought a Mush to a maiden's cheek by ue cuaeswess oi ma gaze, said to her: "My look hare planted roses in your cheeks : why forbid me to gather them? The law pertnits him who sows torran ihk hrnl : Mason and Hunter, of Virginia : Soule, of Louis- ana, and Yulee, ol Florida. All these gentlemen, except Messrs. Benton. Chase and Hale, are warmly for Mr. Buchanan for the next Presiden cy. Messrs. Borland and Sebastian, of Arkansas, are also included among Mr. Buchanan's friends. Col. Benton is for himself for President. Messrs. Chase and Hale do not hope to see any man, whom they prefer, put in nomination ; and they are therefore ready to side with the strongest par ty, if they can be benefitted by the act. Their vote against the bill astonishes no one. It was in con sonance with their extreme opinions. The promi nent candidates for Vice President amongst these Buch.anan men, upon his ticket, are Col. Davis, of Mississippi, Mr. Mason, ol Virginia, Mr. But ler, of South Carolina, and Mr. Yulee, of Flor ida, j . It will be SCeiY. frnm tht Taminatii iit iU political predilections and ambition of Senators, that the contest in the ranks of the dnmtir lil W!6'? le f"ds of Gen. Cass and !r.Wananufort,bLe. nnmation, and lhat the grea body of the Whig Senators has rallied and ?nH I ; yi,nSL-01 he S?PP f he administration, niriv iLking t0 Perpetuation of the Whig party in PowerJfalt. Clipper. t So0thew Assocutioh.A BtateBiihts As sociatwn has been organized at Jack9on3liss lhe President of the association is Hon. J.A. Uuitman Governor of the Stele. It will be re collected that there is some probability of Gov. Q. having to answer to the United States asko alles- voi.ueciion with the Cuba invasionad this State Rizhta novmunt n L. ... .u 5S fk i?ksrnething like acung on the prin nftuM "Preservation is the. first law of THE LATE PRESIDENT. A Reminiscence. General Tavlor was elevated to the Presidency of the Republic under peculiar ; circumstances. Before his nomination as a candidate for that office, but little was known to the public of his political sentiments, and the prevailing opinion was that he had never acted as a partisan. An incident with which we became ac quainted many! years since led us to form a high estimate of the character of the late President. As this incident has never been made public td our knowledge, and as its publication noV may contribute something to the truth of history, and work no possible harm in any quarter, we take the liberty to reter io ii. i About sixteen years ago, the Hon. Abiiah Mann, jr . thenja representative in Congress from the district composed of this and Lewis county, made an attempt to introduce certain reforms into the army service. We do not re member even the outlines much less the de tails of his plan but we know that Mr. Mann J L- . " . ..... auu ins proposea reiorms were assailed with great earnestness, not to say virulence, by the army omcers sojourning at Washington. With characteristic energy and persever ance, Mr. M persisted in urging his points, against leanui oaas, wnen, to nis surprise, he received a letter from Zachary Taylor- then colonel comraahdingat Prairie Du Chien, and an utter stranger personally to himself -ex. pressing in strbng terms his approbation of wr, Mann s course, and frankly tendering the aid of such suggestions as his experience in lus ovi i ivc nuiHu cuauic IJ II 11 io ITIUke. I ni3 letter having been properly acknowledged, was ioilowed by another Co verinsr some sirht ? i :u. i , i . , J jmcs viuscij iucn, m wnicn me proposed iwurui ui uicafmy wasoiscussed elaborately, and the arguments of its adversaries in detail. At the conclusion of this letter, the writer avowed himseijt m favor of a searching reform of all the abuses of the several denartmenta ik- : .ii... , . r uc wiYiw, ufu recommended as a remedy for those abuses a return to the first principles v. wm, uuniumiTO! SimDllCltV and Mnnnmv His - declaratidn of principles of oolitical e- conomy, announced prorostro. bv Michal O-i . - """",au uc .rauei loung, would have crea ted no surpnsfe; but coming from a veteran !3ril? ne .nole life had been spent vUC luugn and Hazardous duties of the e,!idence. of Peculiar mind extraordinary character. . Jtfohawk Courier. Denmark amd the Duchies The war has now commenced in earnest, un the ith the two armies met, and after some skirmishing, a jular engagement ensued, in which the Danes were victorious. I he oat ne oeon at dawn ot day, and lasted eleven hours. The Danes attack ed with about a5,UU0 men, and the insurrection ary army was about 20,000 strong. The centre of the Schleswig Ilolsteiners, under Gen. Willi sen, occupied the village of Iustedt, a little distance north of the town of Schfeswie. The Danes at tacked both wing of their euemies, and after combat which lasted eight hours, brought all their disposable strength against the centre oi VVilhsen's troops.anU at length lorced him to return through Schleswig towards Rendsburg. But the defeat was most signal, and the result must be highly important lor the uanes. By dates from Hamburg of the 27th, we learn that the killed, wounded and missing in the battle of Idstedt, are now stated at 7,000, of which the greater share has fallen on the Danes. The num ber in action is estimated at 40,000 Danes, and oU.UUO Ilolsteiners. !!.-.""'. The " Borsenhalle" states that Gen. Von Wil lisen refused to accept the Danish General's offer of three days truce. On the 29th the Danes had advanced to within a few miles of he Eider, near Cropos. Of the sixteen guns at Ekenford, the Ilolsteiners carried oil two and spiked and abandoned the others. A Danish war steamer was seized, but released oh learning that she was manned by Russians. It was stated that lOl. Von Z.am and his corps naa reioineu tne main ooay oi tne insurgent army but the news wants confirmation. The Danes are now in possession of the town of Schleswig wnere tney nave iormed their head quarters. Gen. Taylor's De ath Meetirig ofAme ricans in London On hearing of the death of Gen.Taylor, the American citizens sojour ning in London, held a meeting at the Ame rican Legation, to consider what steps should oe iaicen on tne occasion, i On the motion of Mr. Dudley Seldon. oi New York, his Excellency, the American Miuister took tne chair ; and on the motion o Mr. Davis, Mr. Charles Leyi Woodbury, q Massachusetts, was chosen Secretary. The Hon. David Hoffman, of Maryland, the non. jonn vy, Davis, ot Indiana, U. States Commissioner to China, Mr. George Peabody, of London, Colonel Isaac O.i Barnes of Mas sachusetts, and Mr. Dudley Seldon, of New i one, were appointed a Committee to prepare and report resolutions expressing the sen&e of the meeting on the event which had caused it to be called. They reported a series of reso lutions which were, on the motion of Col. Aspinwall,. U. States Consul at London, un animously adopted. TUG ASS AH A JLi XI J J ill I il 1 1 i 136, Greenwich Street, JVw York. j TH C proprietors beg to call the attention of! couuoiaeurs in Tea, and iLe heads of families I to tue choice and kase selection of Teas imported I by them, and hitherto nnknown in this country, wbicb, by their fragrance aud delicacy, combined with virgin purity and strength, produce an iufu- sion. of surpassing richnesa aud fl itor. - FHfc. TEAS OFFERED ARE THE FOL LOWING. The Jeddo Blora a Illack l ea. Nipbon do Diari, do Oiacca, 'a Green Tea, Too-tsimt, do Ticki-tsiaa, do " Ud-fi Mixture, a compoand of the mut rare and choice Teas grown on the fertile and genial soil of Assam, With a view to encourage the introduction of their matchlea Teas, it is the iuteuiionof the proprietors o distributes by lot, among the purchasers, a quan tity of Tea equal to THE HIST YEARS' PROFITS ON THE SALES EFFECTED. 4 ; (4 ,1 I. u at $1 00 per lb. u 0 75 A SO 1 00 0 75 0 SO 1 00 rv. i . . v.w, ,...uu uclUg ieu 0 tis own cW J ptitronise any house in i he place Le wi till Xn r.Krap will h mHA f,. . ""M unless full itl!.f:ii'!mn m mr.. ; : felltu lu cre-usujjj , JAMLSGliESflii Henderson, July Stli 1850. jMEDIC.iL COLLEGEOFGmai THE ANNUAL CQUUsE ofLectoJ commence on the first Monday in NoffgJ dcii. nuu cnnnnue umu nrslol .March G M NEWTON, M. D.-Awtumt. L A. DUG AS. M. D. Pbjsioiogy wdpJ logical Aualomy. J ALEXANDEll .MEANS, M. D -Ctaiij J Pharmacy. L. P. GARVIN, M. D.-.!terii MeaiTta speuues, and Metlieul Jurisprudence. P. F. EVE. M. D Surgery. L D FORD, M. D. Insiimtes aud PnaaJ i Medicine. J.A EVE, M. D. Obstetrics indDiKw Women and hif.mfs. H. F.CAMP CELL, M D.-Demo&stratora'hl atomy. ROBERT CAMPBELL. M. D.-.WutatM monstritor. Clinical Instruction ill be gireo as kenlw without extra charge. The fee for the eut'ut urs 'n $1151 Rlatrjculition, (t.iken wtx ii Demonstration Ticket. opuonaV UK, G. M. A'EWTON.MO.Dm. August 7th, 1850. 9f2wO. THE COCLIiU or sntm Washington County, Md. The Diosesan College of the Ma copal Church. THE Ninth Annual Session willopa W Or.toher 7th. 1S50. nnd MDtinN fllS neit ''Commencement Dv,:' iht la Thnaj ! Julv. 1351. New students arerwnnntoM tpr l the ooeninz of the session. buiirerecaw I any time they apply, owl the chirpuati from the date of thiur entMnce. 1 The College has the usual number of ctee.' I fords all the opportunities for complete edw i I . lli. Iprmillaliiin of the IW ,UU, i . 1 11 " OUUVI.ul . . . u . . . -j ) raduates toe - course, confers upon i!8 g t-icb. purchu-er will receive enclosed in the pack- "ul uri1"5- r.i.l.iiioiiiaffl College, aud under the immediate! ninr hut imdpr ilistinct discioline, rtcei at the beginning of their acidemia! cwJJ prepares them for the collegmte cli l sight aud direction of the PwfeWW j secure special adauUges to tne fipiw ' " mar acnooi. . . , .,a.ri In th Me-o.ntile ChnnMMV'-A is ouiitiedaud iMPhff"l,J ing. Commerciat-AriiiiineiH.. - The location of the mu'j ad,byiU distance from u ' favorable to good moraa -"-- i( fob The whole nuuat cnirg. ; --. lege and Gruuimar sciiooij m - months is two huudredmid tireu J able seml-aunually made to age, a u umbered certificaie. entitling him to ne Chance in the Distribution!!! rrT" FOR EVERY FIFTY CENTS XI laid out, and on the receipts amounting tp $20,000, the uhderrneutioned parcels of i et, to tb value ef ten per cent, or TWO THOUSAND DOLLvlRS, WILL BE ! GIVEN" AWAY AS BONUSES!!! ACCORDING TO THE FOLLOWING too per tk S rrxer 30 Iks. ml TEA rack at 50 10 " ta 100 " & " " 250 " 1 " C4 SSOlk. o 50(1 " 500 " 500 250 ' asa 500 500 500 250. 425 Prizes in all. S.OOOlbs $2,000. Those persons rrho prefer lower priced Teas, can receive their prizes in proportion, on THEY WILL BE RE PURCHASED FOR CASH, i AT A DEDUCTION OF 10 PER CENT. K Country A cents required. Applicatons to be addressed (post paid,) to the Company's Depot, is above. June 2nd. 1850. , 45, Pianos! Pianos ! Pianos ! rillHE undersigned respectfully informs the La- U dina anil tht Pnhlif rfiiratl v that tin in rtailv putting up Pianos in different parts Inf the' Stale, He will aeud Itistrumeuta to any part of North Carolina; and if they do not give satisfaction, they will be taken back and uo charge made for the transport tioo. All . orders and letters must be addressed i'o ANTHONY KUHNJ BaliimoM. No. 75; Baltimore St. LIST OP PRICES. Pianos in beautiful Mahogany a d Rosewood ca ses, built of the finest material, of the latest styles aud improvements, metallic plate, and eulire metallic ramea, cot as follows : i I ! ... , 6 Octave 180 to $250; 25Q jo $300 H ' 250to$:J00i 275 to $350 6 300 to $350 ; 300 to I50Q Grand Pianoa, from $50 0 to $1000. 'The above named Pianos are constantly manufac tared at my Establishment, aud are not to bu ,sur passed. I would particularly recoiijimend thoe with entire metallic Irame, as they can jbe readily trans ported auy dislauca, without jarring oi beiujr put oat of tone. j ; A. K. Jane, let 185.0. i 4? Armistcaa's fiue Cbcwiug Tobacco. WE have jast received 52 boxes and half boxes Armiateaors fine Chewing Tobacco. . BRITTON &TODD t eoruary Htb, 1850. , m 15 JOti-M n Rector Allege of St. Jn.r.-rt August 7th. . TTniversitvofMarylani. THE NEXT SESSION wi hci'il r, v ., Uih dav of OctOS". close 1st March, 151. Nathan w.-m E. A.Aiken, M- f.tuilw macy. -ri...,niticMlB'j Samuel Chew, M. f-t J osepb Koby, u .v 1" b.rdRTUonta.M.DI J!, of Women and Ch, George M. Wittenberger, i Anatomy. ...;iea for tk'! The most ample opaortuf of Practical Anatomy (eif ri.i1 lectures fife tttnM a S0 Riband Power, i witn me pnvurgo . ,v - . , t hrre to the st'ident forlnc.. v-' for the l.Mtures 9" t0 . "...i..,;, 5: trou;;ii tomy 9 , v i i.iiaM K- A- Baltimore, August 71850. National Hoi J oniiDTI AMfl STREET, "JJ A kin IV1M O lUU 11 I tniw " " " . ..i'vt n"-' i ... r.rfl.&tl I.SH.I' -tW hio uir,:. srtiff.Tif .1.. k.,J nf r. Ut ' -iNPT I IUC II-" - , . I,-,, iw . K..i.. Pearl St. House, It the aim oi , ... 9: ,i MATIOA L qui. eq raries in all loose ". " .'."-ted reputauon of a well e - Wltnm mree - by the atldi An.l has oeru " : a.. ished for lh accomodation o it i. the aim of the 1 . . of i.nl conveniently .rr"g l" rstflM .tfnllv nvited to 01 ., .rf mm ma Hotel during the ir sty qQRG$'' ..A 28, Tew York.Ju"e 2 1 . . - . VERY TIGHTLY BOUND