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WEDDED' LOVE.
The followintr lines are inexpressibly tender
They are addressed hy a young wife to her
desponding husband.
Come rouse thpe, dearest! tis not well
To let thy spirit brood 1
Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell
Life's currents to a flood; - .
As brooks and torrents, rivers, all
Increase the gulf in which they fill:
Such thoughts, hy gathering up the rills
Of lesser grief, spread real ills;
And with their "loomy shades, conceal
The landmarks hope would still reveal.
Come rouse thee, now! I know thy mind,
'" And would its strengtrrawakeu; "
Proud, gifted, noble, ardent, kind
Strange thou shouldst be thus shaken
But rouse afresh each energy, -And
"be whit -Heaven intended thee; -Throw
from thy thoughts this weary weight
And prove thy spirit firmly great, ,
I ould not see the bend below. -The
angry storms of earthly woi
Full well I know the generous s ml,
W hich warms thee into life;
Each spring which can its powers control,
Familiar to thy wife: .
For deem'st thou she could tstoop to bind
My f-oe unto a eouunon mind!
The Eagle-like ambition, nursed
From childhood in he heart, had first
Consumed with its Promethean flame.
The shrine that sunk her so to shame.
Then rouse thee, dearest, from the dream
That fetters now thy powers!
Shake off this gloom! Hope sheds a beam
To gild each cloud that lowers;
And though, at present, seems so far
The wished fur gold, the guiding star
With peaceful ray would liht thee on,
Uulil its bound be won;
The quencheless ray thou'll ever prove,
A fond undying Wedded love!
THE PRESIDENT AND HIS OLD
CONSTITUENTS.
The following is the reply of the Pres
ident to the letter from New Kent county,
Va. inviting htm to a public dinner.
Cedar Hill, New Kent to. Nov 1841.
Gentlemen:, . Few things would afford
me mo e pleasure than to meet my," friends
and old constituents of this county at the
festive board, in pursuance of jour polite
invitation; but the necessity which exists
for my speedy return to the Scat of Gov
ernment places it out of my power to do
so. I can however, do no less than re
turn to you, and those you represent, my
wratet'ul thanks for the kind sentiments ol
regard and confidence, which you have been
pleased to express toward me. Shall 1
not be justified by the people of this ancient
county, in the . declaration; that- when, as
long ago as twenty-hve years, they did
me the honoi to confer their almost unan
imous suffrages upon me as their Represen
tative in Congress, the political principles
which I then avowed, have been the same
which since my accession to the Presidency,
1 have dared to vindicate and maintain, at
the expense of the bitterest denunciations
which have ever heretofore assailed a pub
lic functionary?
The same opinions as to the power of
Congress to charter a National Bank,
which I then avowed in the presence of
your fathers, and of many who still survive
among you, and which, na your Representa
tive, 1 sirendously urged in 1819, are still
maintained with abidiogand undiminished
conviction. I was then sustained by the
people of this district, with almost entire
unanimity, and therefore take leave to say,
that if any of them are converts to
new opinions, they might at least have
granted -to me, as the Chief Magistrate,
bound by oath to support the Constitution,
the benefit of the new lights of reason
which have been, shed upon them before
they united w ith others in a spirit of un
qualified denunciation. What would they
have me do? Would they have me sacrj.
fiic the consistency of my past life
fur party ends? Or, whai is of far more
importance, both morally and politically,
would they require of the Chief Magistrate
of this glorhms Union, to surrender all
claim to their respect, by violating his
oath of office, in order to gratify the Mo
loch of party? If . they would have scr
great a sacrifice, then I am prond to say,
they will not teceive it at my hands. i
ctnsuie no man for his opinion on this or
any other subject but. while I award
to him the right to. think for himself,
shonld he not exempt me from his denun
ciations because 1 cannot think as he
does? :
1 beg you to be .awred, gentlemen,
that the invectives to which .. 1 have been
subjected have in no degree disturbed my
equanimity. Amid the torrents of abuse,
no matter by what motive dictated, which
are uttered against me, "my pulse has
kept a healthful music" as if nothing had
occurred. The light reflected from burning!
effisie-V has only served to render the pth
of doty more plain. In that path I shall
walk, my confidence being placed in the
patriotism, discernment and intelligence of
the A .lerican people, whose interests are
always best sustained by a firm observance
of constitutional requirement.
I tender to you individually, assurances
of great personal regard.
JOHN TYLER.
To Edward C. Crump, George Wil
liamson, John li. Crump, William U. C.
Douglass and Chesley Jones, Com
mittee. Wilmington, November 1 0. The trial
of Lewis, a slave indicted for the killing of
Nero, also a slave, occupied the whole of
Friday before the Superior Court which
held its Fall Term hereon last week. He
was found guilty of Manslaughter, and was
sentenced by Judge Pearson to be branded
in the hand, and to be confined in jail un
til all the expenses incident to his trial
shall be paid by his owner.
A good deal of attention was attracted to
this case during its progress, and in th
charge to the jury from the bench there, was
evolved a point of law novel and important.
It Ivjs never, we believe, been adjudicated
upon before.
For a proper understanding of the
case it is necessary to say that the
convict, Lewis, cohabited-in this town
with a female slave named Tina, between
whom and himself, according to the usage
among that class of our population, an
agreement was entered into toliveasman&
wife, and at the time, the owner of Tina,
(he being,however, neither a clergyman nor
a magistrate,) read to them at their desire,
the marriage ceremony of the Episcopal
Church, they assenting to its binding force.
It was in evidence on the trial that it is not
an uncommon thing for the owners of
slaves to propound to them, when they
wish to live together as husband and wife,
some ritual or other used in the ceremony
of marriage.
In April last, the parlies so living togeth
er, Lewis on going to the house of Tina
discovered the deceased, Nero, .occuping
a situation scarcely equivocal with regard
to his own relative right. A scuffle ensu
ed, then a race, during which Lewis caught
up an ax lying in his way, overtook Nero,
and struck him several blows with the eye
of the ax, of which he died in a few min
utes. His Honor charged that mere concubi
nage among slaves, or living together by
mutual consent, the man considering him
self at libertv to leave the woman when
ever he might choose to do so, was not such
a connection as would mitigate in the least
degree the crime of killing a third person
whom the man should find in his own
place. But, where some act was done, or
some ceremony performed, altusugh of no
legal force, still, one whereby the parties
j declared to the world that they devoted
i themselves exclusively each to the other,
and which approached as nearly to valid
marriage as any can which slaves have a
right to contract, .that irt such a case the
killing of another man by the husband for
adultery with his Wife, the law as in instan
ces of legal marriage, would extenuate the
homicide to Manslaughter. A verdict was
directed to be brought in accordingly.
Chronicle.
Horrid rfflfl-AsMr. John B. Mitch
ell, of Obion county, Tenn. was seated at
supper table, surrounded by his family,
on a quiet Sabbath evening, he was shot
head by some cowardly assassin outside the
door.
In Delaware,a German Tailor, by the
name of Gotleib Keen, look the life of his
son in the most deliberate and brutal man
ner, by placing the muzzle of a gun near his
breast, and firing the whole into it, of
which ihe son instantly died. The murder
er then reloaded his gun, & discharged the
ramrod into hisown bosom, which put an
end to him also.
In Frankfort, Ky. a wretch named Mo
ses Keen cut the throat of his wife with a
razor, and after seeing her dead, he made
an attempt on hisown throat with a shoe
knife, but was prevented by the neighbors
who came in the house on hearing the
shrieks of the dying wife. Ken was in
temperate, and had threatened the life of
his wife and children. He is recovering
from his wound, and is imprisoned for tri
al. '...
Two men, Bowels and David Scott, in a
state! mtoxi Cat fort, quarreled on national
politics, in De Kalb coorfty, Ky. when
Bowels dared the other to fight, which be
ing complied with, Scott was stabbed in
three places with a fcrrge knife, and died on
the spot. Bowels made his escape.
An affray took place at Troy,- Tenn. be
tween Joseph Farris and David Williams,
sonof John Williams of Obion erounty, in
which young Williams, received a stab in
the side, causing his death.
Suicide. We learn- from the Eastern
Argu7 thatMr. Daniel Cal well, a farmer
in Aii2;us1a, Maine, cooimiited soifltlei s (in
aturdav morning week, hv hanging him
self on a tr e in he Wood. He Was abodt
60 vears of agf, had h Vife living, and was
in good ciroumtanfes. hut was haun
ted with
want.
fear that he should come to
M"rder. n-utain De Hart, a pl-tnterof
Si. iMay's pirish, ) livin-j; about ten
miles from Frank li-i. Was shot while at sup
per in his own h:vis on the evening of the
lo'ih inoit The gun 'vs discharged from
theedgoof the gallery, at a dis'anc of
ahotli 20 fe-t. a-d killed bi n instantaneous
ly, blowing his-head entirely to pieces.
Six of his negroes worn airestrd. hvc of
whom were c )tc- rued in tne murder.
One, a runaway, ma le a fail confession
of having perpetrated' it.
Mobile Register.
5TT l'oere miy h1 s-j ne who have not
yet le-smed Miouiih of the .secret, to lnvt
left off von lei in-r .h t all lh:- full between
the English atul 'hiiK So is auouL Hert:
is the story in a nut. shell. It is Irani the
ttiehmoml Enquirer.
The Chiuci-e Government, finding
thai its subjects were bruialiJumg them
selves by'lhs inordinate he wing oi 'opium,
forbid its iniio lurtinn at the h zart ol
confiscttinn. The British who h id turned
the fields of Hindustan into iis cultivation,
and derived a:i immense profit from the
trade, smuggled thousands of chest into
into Canton, . g.iinst ih law of China, and
the warnings of her emperor. Th se wciv
seized by the Chinese, and burnt -and now
the British at ih month of the cannon are
demanding compensation. Canton is attack
and thousand's of the Chinese are acrtfiee I
This is a blot upon ihe British- name,
which is worse than seizor-'of the fi-ct at
Copenhagen. As the N. York Sun justly
observes, "It is with reason and iruth that
the Chinese denominate their British ene
mies barb it ians. No pt-ople ever ear ned
that title more effect u illy, or had it justly
applied to them. In the eyes of all impar
tial men, and of a righteous Heaven, the
slaughter of every Chinese in this unholy
war must be regarded as murder the ex
tortion of every dollar as robbery. Many
years cannot elapse before the question will
be tested whether England is to achieie
by means like these her darling object of
universal dominion."
(jJWe learn from the Mississippi pa
pers, that the Union Bank, and all that it
inherits, is made over to three commission
ers, who are to have four thousand p?r an
num each, for winding op the u hole Thev
will, of course, make more money out cf it
than the crcdiiLis iil.
Caution to Scolds. A f.-w days ago,-a
woman in the neighborhood of llawaidtn.
in a paroxysm of passion, whilst delivering
a family lecture to one of her daughter,
actually dislocated her iwer jaw, and
her chin faliincr on in hr chest, intantlv
paralyzed all n mers of tin ther ei aculation.
An eminent su-tenny re-iding in the neigh
foofhdod, "'a- called in. who experienced
much dimVulty in reducing it, the patient
suffering the most excruciating pain du
ring the operation Carnarvon Herald.
The firfit effect nfthe Depwcrrttic
toryinSew York. The New York Her1
aid's money ariicle -announces an improve I
msnt in the state ciedit, resulting from the
late election.
'The re-ul's of the election givfng nif h
an ovei flow iur defeat to tho ''debt con
tracting party," has already had rt t;ood
effect upon the value of the stocks of this
state. . Capitalists begin to f;el ennfi lent
that the supply of stocks ifitn the mar
ket will cease, and . consepuenMy that the
nresent amount will gradually ht? absorbed
and the prices rise until they are at leatj African; 1 624 American. Of course, there
equal to tho-e of Ma-sachusetts.- the 5 peri a grt-tfi number not yet included, b-ing
cent, stocks of wh-c'h State 4- erdav j spoken hy tribes yet beyond the reach of
brought 95J in the open markVt, w hen ; philvSophical enquiry.
those of ibis State will not br;ng MJ. The j rr - - -
policy of the new party in -power - will he'
undoubtedly to ascertain and discharge,
if practicable, all tleb's due by the State,
entirely suspend further expenses, at least
for the present."
' r-
Execution On Friday tat, William
Waters was executed, at Eiizheth Town,
agreeably to sentence, for asboe.kiog-mairh.
perpetrated upon a lit'le boy of b years
old.
We learn that before his execution a
most extraordinary change took place in
bis feelings and conduct. From a most
hardened and impenitent wretch, indiffer
ent to his fate, and utterly regardless of all
moral or religious obligation he became
mild and gentle, deeply peuilent. received
the consolations of religion gladly and fi
nally bore hi? fate with a calm seriousness
that was not less surprising than it was
gratifying to those ministers who took s:
deep an interest in his spiritu d condition.
He spoke impresjively to tne greai crown
aasHinhlpd to witness the execution warn
ing them against the evils cf ioos habit
and had cumpnv. which, he duJj hid
biuugiit him to his ignominious end.
Fuyelleville Observer.
A Mid Picture.. The Vork Siin
gives the following as an extract ot a letter
from Upper California, rated
t'Mohtery. tue26 lS4t.
California is in a most wreiehed sutrv
Jrh' re h is not been a drop of rain for
over thirteen months,aiwl all Vegetation l as
in cohsi'cjderide reaped. On the "h dr
eoa? there is not a month's supply of bre !
s'utTsor vegetables of any description. N
cattle will be killed this year, an.lpf ooue'
all business in hides will he stopped. The
distil will bs dreadful."'
Taking the Veil Two young jadie.,
Miss Juliana Saxion, of St. Maiy's Mary
land, now lister Veronica, and Miss Julia
Wiicox, of New York, now Sister Xava
ia, took the black Veil at the Carmelite
Nunnery in that City, a few days since;
nis is the ceivmouyj we belieVe, which
consigns the Religious votary to seclusion
for lifejafur undergoing which, the world,
society, and all the kindlier feelings of Our
natures, are abjured, to setk within the so!
itaty limits of a monastic cell, these devo
tional enjoyments denied by the . Conven
tional rule of society. -tlal. Keg.
Annher Fltire up. Gen. McDonald
states in his late Mc-S ge to the Legisla
ture of Georgia, that in the month of April
!as, a Slave was ftulen hy a person who
escap - d to the Slate of New York, and that
the proper papers were prepared and au
thenticate!, and a demand made upon Gov.
Reward for the arrest and delivery of the
lugiuve; Gov. Seward declined to comply
with thedmand until he received proof of
die lads and circumstances. " This proof
although entirely conveneint," status tho
Mess ge, "I decline procuring, as 1 was
fully saiisfid that I had complied with the
letter and spii'it of the Constitution and Act
of Congress." . Consequently he recom
mends to the Legis'atuie to pass a law sub
jecting to inspection any package of goods
that shall be shipped, either directly or in
directly, from the the State of New York
or any other State manifesting a similar'
disposition and that competent officers ber
appointed to execute the same j and that all
suspected persons coming from such States
be required ".o find security for thetr good
behavior, or have no intercourse with the
Slave papulation'' ib.
Antiquity of the Baptists. The
weight ol the following testimony is in-
created not a little by the character of its
authors, Dr. Upeij. Professor of Theology
at Gotlir gen, a.d Rev. J. J. Dermontj
chaplain to the King of Netherlands, both
learned Pedohaptists. It is from a work
published hy them at Breda in 1816:
We have -now sen that the Baptist.
who were formerly called Anabaptists, and
, in latter times Menonifes, were iheorginal
Waldenses: and who have long in the?
I hisn.ry of the Church received the honor'
ot lh.it origin. On this account the Bap
tists may be considered as the only Chris
tian community which ha stood since the
days of the Aposiles, and as a Christiart So
ciety whicji has preserved pure the doc
ti ines of the gospel through all ages. The
perfectly correct external and internal
economy of the Baptist denomination,
u-nus to conlirm the tiUth, disputed hy the
I "ornisn Church, that the reformation ot
I the sixteenth century was in the highest
'degrt e necessary; and, at the same time
goes to conf ute the erroneous notion of the
Catholics that their communion is the most
ancient.' " Portland Jidv. .
(jyTherc are 9664 languages ascertain
ed to be now in ue in the world. Of
i these, 937 ate Asiatic; 5S7 European; 516
riling an account of his own ueath
-A young man named Luther Harris:.'
aged about 21, comitted suicide at Marlbo
rough, N. Hampshire, week befor6 fanf,
having fitst written a notice of his death
which l-e forwarded to the Editors of ihts
Keene Sentinel. It is as follows:'
Mctancholly Died -at Marlborough
October 1st, Luther Harris, lie took hi
own life. He wa teacher of the select
school in Marlborough when he died, and
ave no reason for the act, but appeared to
have a icason which no erne else has
thought of. fi is body was carried to his
friends in Windham. His soul is in anoth
er another, another, world. May it be
warning to others not to lake their own
lives. His connections were respectable
ois father is a ministef of the gospel. His
school, by this act, is broken' up, ami will
iot soon be started again.
jjfGood hearts, if accompanied with goocf
iiiderstandiog, seldom evtn when? mista-
ten, commit lasting evil; llicy rupair aod'
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