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FOlt THE TA1U50RO rilFSS.
TO A YOUNG LADY.
Sayest ttuui ihat love is sweet,
Ami that it can impart
A lightness to I by feet,
A gladness to thy heart.
Thou hast not known it's pain,
Orthnsthon couldst not sing;
Twill madden all thy brain,
Twill fetter all thy wing.
And though it may not kill,
Twill cling and clip thee still;
Twill mock thee for a while,
Willi b'iss thou canst not keep,
But thou will cease to smile,
And thru will learn to weep.
Twill teach thee all thy heart,
Of sorrow in an hour.
And eat into thy heart
As the worm into the flowert
And though it may not slay,
Twill drive thy peace away.
BY A GENTLEMAN of R. Mount,"
SONG.
The vaunting flag of Liberty,
Of Freedom's sons the bnast;
lis st.irs and stripes long may they wave,
Upon Columbia's coast.
The only flag that Freedom rears,
Her emblems on the seas.
The flag that stood some fifty years,
The battle and the breezei
To aid the trampled rights of man,
And break oppression's chain;
The foremost in the battle's van,
It never floats in vaim
The mariner where'er he steers,
In every clime he sees
The flag that stood some fifty years,
The battle and the breeze.
If all unite as once we did,
To keep our flag unfurPd,
Columbia then may fearless bid,
Defiance to the world;
But fast will flow a nation's tears,
If law less hands should seize
The flag that stood some fifty years,
The battle and the breeze.
From the Pcnnsylvanian.
THE REFORM ADMINISTRATION.
The Democratic members cf Congress
are taking the right course: especiall y those
of the Senate. They are shedding floods of
light upon the destructive measures and de
igns of die Federal majority. The clear,
manly, and forcihle speeches of Benton,
Calhoun, Buchanan, Allen, Wright,
Woodbury and W alker, have already dis
pelled every delusion from the mass of the
people. Whig statesman are now found to
ofexeeedingly small dimensions, Iheir
Measures of reform as crude as cont.radict.o
ry5and their capacity lo carry on the busi
es of the nation about that of third rain
county lawyers.
It is a broad, though melancholy fact,
that within the last lour months each de
partment of the Government at Washing
ton has managed to disgrace itself in one
ay or another. The Cabinet has had its
banquet of blunders, in forming which eve
rv Secretary eagerly contributed his share.
1. Mr. Webster, were he to live a thou
Jjmd years, and every year elaborate a
ihousand letters, could never wash out the
eep stain he bus inflicted upon the nation
al honor by his instructions to Mr. Critten
aen on the McLeod b usiness. Like Lady
Jiacbethhewili in vain cry "out, out,
damned spot!"
? ,r Cr'Uenden dishonored his office
Q degraded his personal dignity, by
'endlnS himself to the fetch and carry pur
poses of the premier.
Tv lf ir vv'nS's wretched errors or
ar tul omissions, and "fiscal abortions"
J e.xasPeratingeven the Whig editors in
directions. Never did a man of the
pretensions to ability or integrity so
raPldly use himself up.
Mr. Bell v ho, by the by, resem
eenti n ' mesake ofhis of which a very old
rood iTnn used 10 5ay lhal "il is a very
Bell ' 1,111 ,las a very bad sol,nd" Mr
ind ii- a desIerale plunge into a wide
ana riminatin charSe of fraud in the
wenent of a branch of his department,
ft
tbe meanness and absurdity of which are
universally reprobated.
5. Mr. Bulger, from whom we expected
better things, ha carelessly or recklessly
exposed our gallant Navy, whose pride
and honor he should have j-alously defen
ded, to the mockery and derision of its ri
vals, by unnecessarily publishing a hasty
and illjudged correspondence.
6 And Mr. Granger in his separate do
minion of the Post OJhe, is engiged, ac
cording to the repeated avowals of his par
tisans on both fljors of Congress, in myste
riously and inexorably removing, without
cause or inquiry, at the rate of one hun
dred Democratic postmasters per week!
Cruelly is always cowardly: and he does
not mike public the proscriplive wholesale
butchery with which he is glutting party
vengeance. lie does the work as we sup
posed it might have been done by Thad
deus Stevens: no oiVr man.
And such are the lirsl sleps of the best
men of the great Whig party! These are
they who were to throw into shade the
lights of Democracy ! who were to lilt the
pride of the country, illustrate its progress,
reform all its abuses, allay its heart burn
ings, and push forward its prosperity!
They have stumbled at I he very threshold;
not one, or two, but all of them: and were
it not for the galling sense of public humili
ation, the jeers and laughter of their coun
trymen, of both political parties, would
have already driven them from stations
they are not li'ted to occupy. The whole
scheme brings to the recollection the cari
cature of the Parisian wag, immediately on
the first abdication of Napoleon, which de
picted a fl ick of fat geese waddling in state
up the steps and through the hall of the
Thuilleries, w hile the Ivtgles were flying
in dismay from the windows and turiets.
From the New York Herald, July 12.
The progress of affairs at Washington is
very slow, but full of interest. The Uni
ted States Bank bill labors very hard, and
patty may prove unequal to the task of
forcing an unpopular bank upon the peo
ple. The great measure of the dominant
party, the distribution of the public lands,
has passed the House, and will probably
pass the Senate, under the immediate su
pervision of Mr. Bates, the active partner
of the House of Baring, Brothers &. Co.,
from whom the proposition was firt made.
The following is the letter of that House,
dated in October 1839, wherein the iniqui
tous scheme was proposed.
"The continued fall in their (stocks)
market value destroyed speculation, while
years will be required for real investments
to absorb all that is at present in our mar
ket. We do not doubt but that such grad
ual purchases will continue of the stock cf
well known states which do not over issue
and which faithfully meet their engage
ments to their creditors, as the confidence
in the resources and national honor of the
United States remains undiminished in
this country, as well as the conviction
that, by such investments, England em
ploys her annual surplus of capital both
safely and profitably, encourages her best
customer, and binds more closely the ties
of mutual interest between the two coun
tries. But if the whole scheme of intern
al improvements in the Union is to be
carried into effect on the vast scale, and
with the rapidity lately projected, and by
the means of foreign capital a more com
prehensive guarantee than that of individ
ual states will be required to raise so large
an amount in so short a time. A national
pledge would undoubtedly collect capital
together from all parts of Europe hut the
forced sales of loans made separately by all
the individual states in reckless competi
tion through a number of channels, render
terms more and more onerous for all,
lower the reputation of Ameiican credit
ar.d as (reliance is almost exclusively pla
ced on the London market) produce tem
porary mischief here, by absorbing the
floating capital, diverting money from reg
ular business, deranging banking opera
tions, and producing an unnatural balance
of trade against this country; It would
seem, therefore, as if most of the states
must either pause in the execution of their
works of improvement or some general
system of combination must be adopted.
All corporation slocks are neglected, nor
do we hear of any transactions in bank
shares, except, in those of the United
States Bank.
We have the honor to be
Your obedient servants,
BARING, BROTHERS & CO.
Simultaneously with the appearance of
this circular, the New York American,
which is owned by the agents of the house
here, and edited by a brother of one of the
agents, contained the details of a scheme,
the leading feature of which was, for the
United States to issue gl50, 000,000 of a
four per cent, stock," to be substituted for
the 200,000,000 outstanding State stocks,
bearing an average of 5 1 2 per cent. It
was argued that the 4 per cent, national
stock, being one per cent, more than Brit.
ish consols, which were at 90, could be
readily exchanged at 25 per cent, premi
um for the state stocks. This was the
impudent scheme proposed by these men,
through the columns of a New York paper,
and was concocted about the time that
Daniel Webster's letter to the Barings on
state stock, appeared in the London prints.
Since tiien, tbe federal government has
changed, and these men have come into
power. Their first act was to call an ex
tra session, and the next steamer from
England after the receipt there of the
proclamation of the President, brought I
Mr. Bales, the partner of the house, to
this country. He has been in attendance
at Washington, and the only measure
wnicii his, up to this time, passed the
lower house, is precisely that advised in
the above letter, viz: "National pledge,"
or 'Some general system of combinations''
This has taken the form of a "pledge" of
ine pumic lands tor the payment of the
interest. The deficiency caused in the
Treasury by giving away these lands, is to
be supplied by a loan, to be negotiated
through this house, and for which they will
receive a large commission, at tbe expense,
of the people of this country. While this
great juggle and public wrong is going on,
the actors claim the immunities of private
citizens, and shrink from the gaze of the
public.
The National Domain. We learn
from the Madisonian that the estimated
quantity of public land unsold and now
subject to private entry is 118,173,441
acres.
The estimated quantity, surveyed and
unsurveyed, not offered at public sale, is
103.4 1G,S63 acres.
The quantity which has been sold from
the ear liest period of the sales is 6,708,
721 acres.
The amount paid therefor by the purcha
sers has been S121, 1 13,435.
The quantit- granted to each State and
Territory, exclusive of the 16th section,
has been 3,S2G,S3G acres.
The quantity reserved from sale, exclu
sive of the 16th section, has been S37,583
acres.
The estimated quantity of public land lo
which the Indian title has not been extin
guished in the States and Territories, is
735,915,699.
Miami Indians. A treaty has been
made with this tribe, within the state of
Indiana, by which they cede all their lands
in that state, commonly known as the
'residue of the big reserve. " The United
States are to pay for this land S550,000.
The Indians are to remove to the lands as
signed them west of ihe Mississippi, within
five years from the ratification of the trea
ty. The treaty lias been confirmed by and
with the advice of the senate. The rem
oval of the whole tr ibe to be done at the
expenc?s of the United States, which is
also bound to supply them with pro
visions for one year after their settlement'
in their new country.
(JA young lawyer, of Buffalo, res
pectably connected, and just married, has
been arrested for forgery. . The cause
which led to the crime, was pecuniary em
barrassment, brought on by extravagant
living.
Hank Robbery. The Branch of the
State Bank of Illinois,, at Jacksonville, was
robbed on the night of the 11th inst. of a
bout S90,000, viz: S7S,000 in paper, about
SS,0(0 in gold, and 3 or S4, 000 in silver.
A reward of S5C00 has been offered.
Strange A man died on one of the
flat-boats on the New Orleans Levee, on
the 6th instant, of a disease which baffled
his physician. A post mortem examina
tion took place, and, upon examining his
brain, it was discovered that an insect about
an inch long, known by the name of a
centipede or thousand legs, had crawled
into his ear, causing thereby an excruciat
ing death.
IjJFour individuals recently in Chicok
county Arkansas, who took upon them
selves to chastise one Solomon Crosby,
were tried for assault and battery, and the
jury rendered a verdict of 1512,000. A
lew verdicts like this will put a slop to
Ivnch law.
wq New Mode of Earning a Dollar.
An amusing incident occurred in New
13th inst. A man ask-
lorKun
ed alms of a gentleman, who, in return, ask-
ed him "vvny ne urn wui iw
Willingly I would, replied the man, if 1
could get any thing to do, and not be choice
about the kind either. Very well, said
the gentleman, you shall be supplied; and,
in furtherance of his charitable object,
brought a brick, which he gave him, di
recting him to take it in one hand and car
ry it to the pump at the entrance of the
Park and lay it down; then to take it up
with the other and bring it to the place
from which he started. This was to be
repeated ten hours, when he would receive;
a dollar. The man willimrlu fnrL- I hp
j. i lurmeu me task, and was paid
his dollar. The condition was that he
should walk at the rate of at least five miles
an hour, and the first hour, by actual mea
surement, it was found that he had cone six
:i i i . . . i
wine anu almost inree quarters. Up to
12 o'clock, (5 hours) he had finished 27
miles. He commenced again at one, and
finished the day's work at six, having walk
ed 51 1-2 miles in exactly ten hours.
(fcj9 The number of wrecks and casta
ways on our Atlantic seaboard is astound
ing. It averages from four hundred to five
hundred a year. In January, 1S39, there
were nineiy-one American vessels, of all
sizes, wrecked on the Atlantic Coast,
making, on an average, a case of shipwreck
once in every eight hours for a month.
fJFrom the 1st July, 1840, to the 3d
April, 1S41, eleven slavers were captured
by British cruisers on the coast of Africa,
and carried into St. Helena on board of
which were found fourteen hundred and
seventy-six slaves.
(yThe Georgia schoolmasters have
certainly been 'abroad,' if the last census is
to be depended on, and they ought to go
home aud go to work as speedily as possi
ble. It appears that the number of whitt
persons over the age of twenty years in
that State, who can neither read nor write,
is 80,784!
Improved Flail-Car. A model Rail
way Car has just been completed and pa
tented by P. G. Gardiner of New York,
designed to obviate the difficulty and dan
ger now experienced in passing over short
curves on a Railroad. On this plan a Car,
twenty -four feet in length, passes over a
curve of one hundred Sfect radius with a
switch at its commencement, not only
without difficulty or danger, but absolute
ly without lessening its speed. In fact,
the train will run just as safely and easily
in successive circles as in a straight line,
and no Passenger could tell in the night
when a switch or a curve was passed. This
improvement is of immense value, not on
ly in the saving of life and limb, and the
increase of speed and power, but in redu
cing the expense of constructing the Rail
roads. Hereafier it will be just as easy
and safe to wind round and round hills, as
to pierce through them at a vastly greater
cost. The Engineer on a great Railroad,
half completed, has given his opinion that
Half a Million Dollars may yet be saved
in its construction by this improvement.
flicful effects oj Intemperance. A
most horrible accident occurred last week
in the county of Two Mountains, lower
Canada; a man while in a state of intoxica
tion, having fallen into a kettle of boiling
potash, and being completely dissolved!
Search was made for his bod', but not the
east particle of it could be found.
Execution. -The four blacks who late
ly murdered two clerks in a store in St.
Louis, and then set fire to the premises,
suffered the penalty or their crime on the
9th inst. The St. Louis papers state that
the spectacle was witnessed by many thou
sand persons one of the papers says twelve
to fifteen thousand among whom were
many females. The excitement on the
occasion is said to have been very great.
nrtin r Dmirtfnfp. An nrr.urrrnp
of a shocking character the fruit of the !
reprehensible practice of carrying deadly
weapons about ine person iook place a
few days ago at Lancaster, Kentucky. A
quarrel occurred between two men named
Blackaby and Comely, when both parties
drew pistols. As Comely advanced upon
his adversary, the latter shot him through I
the body and fled. 'I he perpetrator was
pursued by two men, and when overtaken
was literally hewn to pieces with a large
Bowie knife. A matt supposed lo have been
concerned in the murder of Blackaby was
soon arrested, and it is said that there is
sufficient circumstantial evidence to con
vict him.
Providential preservation. The New
Orleans Picayune publishes the following
story, which incredible as it may seem, the
editor, assures the public is strictly and
literally true:
"On Monday, the 14th inst , at night a
while woman gave birth lo an infant in a
car of the Pontchartrain railroad. She
threw the child out, as the cars were going
down to the lake oposite to Dr. Luzenberg's
Hospital; and believing as she says, that it
was dead, continued on her journey. The
child was found alive and well at five
o'clock on Tuesday morning, and taken into
the Hospital, where a slave of the doctor's
performed the duties of a mother toward
it. On the same day, (Tuesday,) at half
past 11 o'clock, A. M-, the mother was
arrested by the Third Municipality police,
and at one o'clock she was sent to the hos
pital to give that nourishment and succor
to her infant which nature should prompt
hrr In Intro I !
ally deserted. The t;young' un" is a fine
healthy boy, and yesterday they were both
doing well. The mother received no as
sistance during her travaile; and the child
withstood the assaults of the musqui
toes, the effectsof the night air, and the other
contingent inconveniences of a night in the
woods, in a manner that would have done
credit to a squatter more inured to hard
ships. Even the fall from the carriage
did him no other in jurv than to leave a
small blue mar k on his forehead.
tisfonishing Sagacity. A young lady,
while crossing a river in South Carolina,
a short time since on horseback was, by
a blunder of the horse, accidentally thrown
offinto the stream. She was borne down
some distance by the current. When the
animal recovered its feet and found that its
rider had been placed in so perilous a situ
ation, it immediately went in pursuit,
overtook the fair prize, caught her gar
ments in its teeth and carried her triumph
antly and safely to the shore, thus saving
a life which otherwise, in all probability,
would have been lost in a watery grave.
The memory of so faithful an animal
should be immortalized with a marble
monument.
Captured Slavers. The bark Harvest,
which arrived at Fairhaven on Sunday
last, reports that eleven slaver s have recent
ly been captured by H. B. M. cruisers, and
carried into St. Helena, ft om July 1st, 1S40,
to April 3d, 1S41.
(jfA slave, belonging to Dr. Beau
mont, of West Baton Rogue, was recently
kii.'ed by on alligator. It appears
that the slave was in the act of drawing
some water from the Mississippi, when he
was seized by the monster and instantly
torn to pieces.
(jfovcrnor Call, of Florida, has issued
a proclamation stating"lhat the persons who
admitted Will is Alston to trial, were not
magistrates, their commissions having ex
pired, and offering two hundred dollars re
ward for Alston's apprehension.
Wilmington July 21, 1841.
Dreadful effects of Lightning. Dur
ing a thunder storm on Thursday evening
last, the house of Mr. Armstrong, on
Wrightsville sound, about eight miles from
town, was struck by the lightning. Mr.
Armstrong, his wife, and three or four of
children, who were all on the lower floor,
were laid prostrate in a state of insensibil
ity. Mrs. A. was the first to recover. On
looking about she found that one of her
children, a boy about twelve years of age
was dead, and her husband so badly burnt
as to be helpless. It is doubtful now if he
will live. Three children abed in a gar
ret room were uninjured. A horse stand
ing near the house and a hog under it
were alio killed by the same shock.
Chronicle,
Hands off. The Catholic Bishop of
Detroit, Mr. Reese, an American citizen,
having been imprisoned at home by the
Pope, for some ecclesiastical delinquency,
now prays the interposition of our Govern
ment in his behalf. This is a novel case;
but it appears to us perfectly clear that he
has no claim upon the Government for re
dress of his grievance, and that any inter
ference on our part would be improper.
In accepting office from the Pope of Rome,
!,e .voluntarily placed himself under the
!ju"suiction and control ot the sovereign
pontill, and in a measure expatriated him
self. Although we do not recognise the
power of his Holiness over our citizens in
this country, yet if a citizen prefers to be
come his subject, and chooses to make a
P"S'ige to Rome to do him homage, ho
has a riant to do so, and should be readv to
submit without complaint lo the consequen
ces. rW. Star
JThe McLeod excitement appears to
have been but a flame of straw. It has died
away, and we hear nothing more of Mr
Fox's departure, & the 4dogs of war." ib.
Rebellion. Late accounts from Madrid
slate, that uthe Spaniards have struck a
notherblowat Popery, by refusing lo al
low the circulation of the Pope's bulls
briefs, rescripts, monitories, or any other
documents issuing from the Papal See,
which have not had the fiat of the Spanish
govern merit.'
The government decrees also the sup
pression of 'The Society for the Propaga
lion of the Faith," enjoins the civil and
ecclesiastical authorities to prevent its as
sembling, and to stop the circulation of its
papers. The judges and alcaldes are or
dered to sequester the funds of the Socie
ty, wherever they are to be found.
The Pope, in his fiery indignation, has
refused to recognize the Marquis de Villal
ba, as Spanish envoy to the court of Rome.
Vhe Marquis has therefore quilted that city
on his return to Madrid,
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