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Vli PFVCM'K I.AW.-IF.TTF.R FROM THE ATTORNEY (IKNER Al.. RtiMK Jt'h 'M, 1350. Jens M. Rose. E-q I have received your li't f r ! t!,c Kith in-t . presenting several questions irjipn out ot the Revenue law of 1343. Jly an- .er liiiw frntpMn. - .,.. , 1.1 money med in the bu.-ii'.es? commonly c 11--f.l iiiite-Fhaving. money vested in a 'species of trade." witkia flip moaning of the set ? Amwer. I incline In tliink it is. A note is the cviilenor of Tiplit to money, and note-shaving is trading in rnoqey. Money rosy be vested in buy ing rights to money, as well as in buying rights to property. Usirolly. trading for property requires With a purchase and salf, because both are gener ally requisite to nt:in tlie rifit, wliic.li isnieasur rd by money as tlie standard. In subsUince there Can bono difloronce belweonlfiepurcliapeand sale r.f a note, and a purchase and collection c! it. And certainly, when a note is bought for $100, and sold fur &1 10, tliere in both a trading and a profit. Cut what constitutes a Unable profit in the trade of note-havinf In my opinion, trie bonght note must be Teceived, or some art done which is equi vilnt to it as the mailing it a fVbt to the puroha r IVIien this is done, if the debt U well secur ed, (that is safe) 1 think the profit is made. It is, in li-iral contemplation , collected, if it be used to buy with, or used a9 a set off against, or in pay rnent of, debt and a profit is made when there IS a nain bv the operation. It is true that by this construction of the act the ame sum, to wit, the pn.fil, is made to bear, ap parently, a double tax: first a tax on the profit, and secondly a tax on the interest which may accrue on ihe profit ; but this is the case with all taxed in comes, if they be vested on loan thus the salary of n professor of a University is taxed as a salary ; and -if it he put out at interest, the interest also is t.:xed; and such is the case with the trades ex ress1y mentioned in the act, as negro trading &c. In a word, dealing in the purchase nf securities for money,is,in myjudgment.a" species of trade,1' and when profits are realized, I know no reason why such profits are not taxable, 2. Arc the profits on Cabinet or other mechanic trades taxable under the same section 7 (Sec. 2.) Answer. They are not. The act, in Ihe use of iie term trade intends traffic and not occupation tr employment The man whose trade is that of making Cabinet ware, is very different from the man who trades in Cabinet ware. Are the profits made by a mechanic on wares if his own manufacture taxable? Or are profits made on the purchase and sale of such wares taxa ble? . Answer. The former profits are not taxable 1 the latter are taxable. When they are bought and sold by a merchant, his license covers the tax. If the trader in them do not fall under the description of merchant or pedlar, he pays a tax on the profits. 4. Are the artisans of the United States arsenal in valilo fnrihew nr diem, when it exceeds $500 during the year, under section Tj ? Answer. I tliink that no one whose contract is by (he day is the recipient of a salary. Other rea sons, perhaps, would excuse them from the tax, even if they received a salary of $500 jier yoar. 8. Are the officers of the United States taxable when their salary exceeds $506 per year Answer. In my pinion they are not. Of course no person who is not aa inhabitant of the State is taxable on account of his income. His trading here may become so.' But I tliink also that even when an officer of the United States is nn inhabitant of the State, bis salary is not, un fertile federal constitution, taxable. . The Stale lias not the power to diminish the reward with which the Government of the Union invites and in duces the citizen to accept in ollices. '6. Are mechanics who receive five hundred dol lars per year a their Stipulated wages, taxable on account of their wages 1 . Answer. In my judgment they aTe. It is true hat the reward or price of their labor cannot be called " practice" or fees -r-uut may be called, and is, a salary, as abundantly fl6ars by every hook of legal or literary definition within wry Teach. By some it is said, that u salary" is a term pecu liarly and exclusively applicable to the compensa tion of officers. Not only no definition of the term austaina tliw assertion, hi it is rejected bv the act itself. For, but for the exception which ex- npU them, ministers of the Gospel would be taxable on account of tlieir compensation by force of the word " aalary." By others, it is said the Legislature did not intend tp include such persons. II so, this . intent is far from being manifest. And the contra ry appears to me i First, because tire legislature specially excepted niintstro of the Gospel Secondly, they did not except professors, teach : ers ol schools, nor any portion of the laboring class mon7 whom there are many whose awnpensatioii is noDiiUirlv called salary, aa Engineers and many 9 ., other employees on Kail Roads. ' Third, because llie settled meaning of the term "akrv." most favorable for the tax payers, is an annual stipend" or " annual pension," or al ii .a ..,,, ,; ,,,. - lis other definitions would embrace day-labor. : Now whatever may have been tlie intent of the i legislature, I cannot abandon, in giving my opin , ion on the conatriictrflii of language, the uniform and unvaried dcmriVmn of all lexicography, and t substitute therefor another end different meaning. ; known to me to exist only by hearsay, the extent , f wbk-h I know wot. and can only know by col- i feeling the opinions of all the ritiiens of the State task which no judicial officer can undertake. jf; Imleeil saft-r conrse would be to enquire of Ihe individual members nf the legislature, and abide tlie result of a majority of voice. But such a rule ofiirterprrting the sense of the law-maker is too unsafe for the construction of any law. In a Revenue law, intolerable it can kirm the basis of ' iio judicial decision. Your obt serv't, B. F. MOORE. ' General Pillow lately gave a toast at Nashville, thai llie South would shake bands with the North over the line of the Missouri Compromise, bin wonld, not he driven beyond, except at thf point of the ba Vomit. To this a contemporary suggests. that perhaps Ti.low wonld like to mperimenij the digging of a iiich along tlut luie-.. U. ISce. For th Times. . WALTER CWYNN ESQ. Tlie last Time gave in startling iiifonnrtion in reference to he equivocal contract maae by our Rail Rivid Pieclors with this Gentleman, and which is well calculated to make the people of North Carolina " open their eyes wide ;" and that too upon the authority of tlie Richmond Enquirer. And, so it appears, that instead ol ilajor Gwynn having been secured as the Engineer, under whose daily personal supervision our Road was to be sun-eyed, located and constructed, it now turns out, that he Is not oar Engineer at all, but Is the Engineer of the Richmond Canal ; and so tied to that work, that an offer of $5,000 per arm., was not sufficient to dissolve his connection with the Virginia work, and secure his whole time and ex clusive attention to ours: and hence, that we are only to have such occasional hasty snatches of iiine,as his James River em ployers may think pro per to allow, for his rapid reconnoissance of our Road ! And this, it seems, is to be onr reliance for a judicious location of our road, and for its con struction afterwards! For one I protest against any such partnerships in our Road. Our' is a great Stale work, and it is well able toemploy and pay aa able Engineer of our own, and have his whole time and unremitting personal supervision from beginning to end; and nothing less than this, will, or ought, to satis fy tlie people of North Caro lina. If Major Gwynn cannot, or will notdothat, for a fuirand reasonable compensation, our Board should instantly dismiss him, and seek the services of some other, who can bo relied on to be ever on the spot, and, under his own eye direct every oper ation from the comment suent to tlie completion of the work. There are many other gentlemen of science and skill, in the corps of Civil, or Rail Road Engineers, who would be proud of winning fame in the employ of the old North State, and at far les? prices, than, it seems, was offered by our Board to Major Gwynn. Indeed, this wiioleaffair surprises me ; since more than three months ago, I placed In tlie hands ol both Governor Manly and another gentleman ,to be laid before the meeting of Stockholders of our Road, documents, to show, that Eihvard Warner Esq., now of New Brighton, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, would be pleased to be employed as Chief Engin eer for the construction of our road as lie wished to come to this climate for his wife's lieakh. Te documents showed, that he was a scliolar and a gentleman, and an experienced and efficient E. gineer, and under whose direction much of the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail Road (to Caaiberland) had been built; and under whose charge, said Road, is now being continued to the Ohio River. And the printed Reports of the President and Di rectors of said Roads ,show, that Mr. Warner is all we need seek or desire, to execute oar great work and execute it well. In truth, as a go ahead, push along, Massachusetts man, few men exceed I hint for effectiveness, or for having more work done, and well done, for the money, than he. Why, this information was suppressed, or overlooked, in considering who should be employed as Engineer on our Road, I cannot imagine ' I have nodoabt, Mr. Warner could be immediately secured and on reasonable terms, and would bring testimonials with him to satisfy every mind ; and would give unremitting attention and diligence to the work until it is completed. A STOCKHOLDER. LETTER FROM MR. FILLMORE. The Buffalo Com. Advertiser, of Nov. 15,1818, contains the following extract from a private let ter, written from Albany, by Mr. Fillmore, then Comptroller of the State of New York, immediate ly after the result of the election had shown that he was chosen Vice President. The letter not he ing intended for publication, the Editor of the Ad vertiser prefaced it with an apology, declaring that the sentiments avowed by Mr. Fillmore were so J honorable and just, so truly patriotic and national, that he felt justified, rendering a service to the pub lic, in laying them before the people. Mr. Fillmore's Mrr sai "To me there is no manifestation of popular sentiment which calls up such deep feelings of gratitude, as that generous vote of my old friends and early constituents of the roonly of Erie. It is now twenty years since they first elected me to the Assembly, and from that day to this, they have stood by me through evil report, and sustained me under all circumstances, with a zeal an fidelity almost unknown in this country. And the last crowning act oT their continued kind ness and confidence awakens the deepest emotions of a grateful hen t. "I trust, too, that you will not blame me for ex pressing the pride and gratification which I feel in receiving so flattering a vote in my native State. But these things are, in a measure, personal to my self, and therefore of little importance. But the cordiality and unanimity with which the Whig ticket has been sustained everywhere, north, south, east and west, is a just cause of national felicita tion. It proves that the great Whig party is truly a National party that it occupies that safe and conservative ground which secures to every sec tion of the country all that it has a right to claim under the guaranty of ihe constitution ; that such rights are inviolate ; and a to all other questions of mere policy, where Congress has the eor:itu lional right to legislate, the will of the people, as expressed through their representatives in Con gress, is to control, and that will is not to be de feated by the arbitrary interposition of the Veto power. Tins Bin pte rule, wnicn noias saerea an constitutional guaranties, and leaves the law-making power where tlie constitution placed it, in Con cress, relieves the party at once from all the em barrassing qneslinns that arise out of sectional dif ferences of opinion, and enables it to act harmoni oiisly for the good of the country. When the Pre. sident ceases to control the law-making power, his individaaVfipinions of what tlie kw ought to be become comparatively unimportant. Hence, we have seen General Taylor, though attacked as a slaveholder and pro-slavery man at the North, cor iially supported and triumphantly elected by men opposed to slavery In alt its forms; and thongh I have been charged at the South, in the most gross and wanton manner, with beln? an abolitionist and incendiary, yet the Whigs of the South hare cart these Calumnies to the winds ; and, without as ing or expecting anything more than what lliron stltmion guaranties to'tliemoa this subject, they have yielded to me a mast hearty and enthusiastic support This was particularly so in NewOrleana and Georgia, where the attack was most violent. , "Really these Southern Whigs are noble fellows. Would you not lament to see the Union dissolved, if for no other cause than that it separates us from such nobleand high-minded associates ? But I re gard Ibis election as putting an end to all ideas of disunion. It raises p a national party, occupying a middle ground, and leaves the fanatics and dis Unionists, North and South, without the lair fabric of the constitution. May it be perpetual." THE WENTWORTU CERTIFICATE. The Raleigh Standard publishes certificate, dated Wentworth, July 16, 1850, over the signa tures of T. B. Wheeler, Joseph S. Robinson, jr., E. W. Hancock, J. W. Ellington and T.Ruffin, jr., in which it is stated that Gov. Manly, in his speech in Wentworth, "declaVed most distinctly and une quivocally that he ww in favor of abolishing the present black or federal basis and of instituting a white basis in its stead." Knowing, as we do, two or three of the gentle men whose names are signed to the certificate, we are farfrom attributing to them any disposition to mis-state or misrepresent facte; but we are inclin ed to believe that they have misapprehended Gov. Manly on the free suffrage question mistaking his arguments and illustrations Air positive state ments of position. But the certificate goes on to say that "some whose signatures are hereunto annexed are whigx, and have therefore no wish to injure Got. Manly or his election." .' Some whose signartirps are hereunto annexed are W'higs1, This is news among the acquain tances of the gentlemen. Their conversion from rank partisan Democracy must have been as sud den as it has been unexpected ! It is too notorious to make a joke of, that all whose names appear to the certificate in qnestion are Democrats "of the most straiten sect," with tlie exception of Joseph S. Robinson, jr., of whose pontics wo are not informed ; though we understand that he is prob ably a Democrat, being a young man, and his con nexions of the Democratic school. But no mat ter if Mr. Robinson is a Whig lie has only one signature, not some signatures to the certificate. Insteadflf being signed by some Whigs, therefore, there is only some Whig, ani all the rest are- some ptmkins. How our Rockingham friends come to make this sFippance we cannot imagine; unless they pre pared their certificate for Whig signatures, and af terwards found that the Whigs had looked at Gov. Manly 's speech through different spectacles, (as was very natural.) Under such circumstances they may have ove'looked the expression alluded to, or concluded just toiei rt go s, any fcnte. i Greensb. Pat. BULLETIN OF GENERAI.T0PEZ. Our Savannah correspondent informs us that the subjoined bulletin is posted up in the coffee room of the City Hotel, to which Genera1. I.o pex, after being discharged by Judge Nichols, was c8corted,amid the acclamations of tlj mul titude: ;' ' "Citizens ! "We have bin and offered the blesuns of our free institutions to the enslaved and benighted Cubans. We found wo was a castin our pearls afore swine. But I estimate we've larnt 'em what it is to slight the advances of generus republicans. Oh, yes! I reckon we've Toad 'em a lesson in manners, -Eternal History will pint to the Cuban expedition from New Orleans. It is a 0 as Pos terity wirl never obliviate. "Our little band of heroes arrove atCardenas with the olive branch in one hand and tlie hag ganet in the other. Their fraternal overtoora was met by a charge of lancers. Our gallant fellers was riled with sitch ongntitude. They paid back the enemy noways slow. It was shot for shot, slash for slash, dig for dig, sockdologor for sockdologer. In less than no time we had chawed vp the whole troop, and left nothin of the biggest on ' but a little grease spot. "We marched on victorious to within six yards of the Governor's where showers of balls from the house-tops rained, hailed, and anew upon us. They galled our army considerable, but co wus. Colonel IVheat come in for a sprinkle of the pepper, and a eptce or two on it stuck in Col. O" Hara. After an hoar's fighlin, the Governor and his slaflknocVed under, and histed the White flag. We sot fire to his house, and locked our prieoneis up in the barracks, and then went and let the con victs out of goal. "The enemy having cleared off, leavin us mas ters of the city, we calculated we had licked 'em elegant, but when the evenin come they again ril. Two hundred horse wasthe amount oftheir sqnad, and by the Time we had done with them, we had whittled 'em down to a doten. Twelve of our fearless warriors breathed out their magnanimui sperrits on the Held tf glory. - : - "Lieutenant Jones, of Alabama had daylight let through his side, hut the bullet cleared his vit- tals. Captain Logan, Kentucky, and Quartermas ter Seixaa, of Miss., have bin took from us. Ma jor Hawkins,' Kentucky, was wounded serious, but the Major haa been spared. "Nothin would have made as pause in our ca reer of victory, but overwhelmin numbers. The convicts we had extended the blessings of liberty to, refused to jine us, not heinthe rogues we look 'em for. Not mecfin with the sympathy we expected, we indignantly absqtmtilated. We fit our way backwards to the steamer Creole i and I guess that arter ages will locate this here exploit alongside of General Moor s and call it the Ameii can Co-runner. "Head Quarters, City llolel, Saeannah. ' (Signed) :' "LorE." ' , A western editor thus notices a tillle erent which transpired in his family on the 4th of July last "Privatmd confidential. Joy to the world! Sour.ie hewgag! the event happehed otl the nlonAis blrth-day ot American independence I will add new lustre to the 4th of July In after ages It II w an uncommon noun I ! I singula number 1 1 1 1 masculine gender!!!!! And i shall I culled George WHliiiii'tn Jiflvrson Jack son Hancock Tom Benlnn Martin Van Buren Quincy Adams Benjamin Franklin Fuurthof Ju ly !!!!!! SuiUhall. CONGRESSIONAL. , Washington, July 2G r ; , : SENATE. After some morning business, the compromise bill was taken np the amendment of Mr. Rusk to the caucus amendment, establishing a commis sion, pending.- Mr. Rusk's amendment provides that the State of Texas is entitled to all rights which she possessed to the territory east of the Rio Grande at the day of the ratification of the treaty atGaudaloupe Hidalgo and since. A discussion followed, in which Mr. Clay, Mr. Rusk, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Hale, Mr. Seward, Mr. Day ton, Mr. Houston and Mr. Mason, took part. Mr, Rusk's amendment was then rejected yeas 12, nays 35. Mr. Seward offered an amendment for the admis sion of New Mexico as a State as soon as her con stitution is presented, and spoke at length in "its support. - . Mr. Pratt opposed it, and insisted that the Sena tor from New York had avowed doctrines here, for which he ought to be turned out. : Mr. Seward said he would vote for the proposi tion if he stood alone. He proceeded to vindicate it. If he was expelled, he should still assert that there was a law higher than human despotism justice was above law. He read the declaration of rights of the State of New Mexico, and stated that the Senator from Maryland could not succeed in his opposition to those principles. Mr. Pratt said if the Senator imputed lo him op position to those principles, he was bound to say that be bad undertaken to say what was Bot true. Mr. Hale said if Senators were to be expelled for maintaining that there is a King ol Kings and a Ixirdof Iwds before even whom stubborn Repub lics must bend that there was a law above hu man government be must also be expelled. If it was a crime, he would plead guilty to it. He would not put the Senate to the trouble to prove it. It was adverse to tlie constitution, to law, to Divine Providence. Mr. Pratt said it was tasy to utter a state of facts. I, said he, have a higher respect for the most High, than tliose wlio daily desecrate His name here. If he made the motion to expel llie Senator from New York, lie would include the Senator from N. Hampshire with pleasure, if he held that the Con stitution was not to be regarded so far as it protect ed Slavery. Mr. Hale denied that he ever uttered such a doc- j trine or opinion. Mr. Tratt reverled to his original allegation, that the Senator from New York had appealed to a law higher titan the Constitution, not to Divine wisdom in haTmony with the Constitution. In the Divine i power he (Mr. Pratt) was an humble believer. i Mr. Baldwin read and explained Mr. Seward's higher late" speech, showing that it had been, as he thought, misconstrued. He also opposed tlie a inendment of the Senator from New York. Mr. Chase said it was better to act than threat en. IT gentlemen chose, he wished they would move the expulsion of these who maintained the doctrine referred to and just read. Mr. Foote said he would gratify the Senator, and make tlie motion. If he would ant the earons principle in distinct language, that Senators were bound lo resist the constitution, be would move his expulsion. Now, the principle was disavowed, and ingeniously sought to he explained away, though it was certainly understood by every one, to have been asserted here in the first speech of Mr. Se ward, Mr. Seward's amendment was rejected yeas Mr. SewaTCfc, nays 42. . HOUSE. The Speaker announced that the first business in order was tlie bill reported from the committee on agriculture, to encourage agriculture by donat ing to each head of a family in the U. States 160 acres of land, on condition of tlieir residing theret on and cultivating the ame; and that the gentle man from Mississippi (Mr. Brown) had the floor. Mr. Brown rose and expressed his approbation of the bill. His judgment, he said, approved ol tlie policy of supplying every citizen of this conn- try with a home, Mr, B. gave notice of his inten tion to offer a resolution for the hill. Mr. Stanton, of Tenn., moved the previous ques tion on the motion to refer the bill to the Commit tee ef the Whole; it was seconded, and the prop osition was carried in the affirmative. Mr. Morse moved to reconsider the vote, with a view to mske some remarks. He denounced the measure as a monstrous system of corruption for tlie purpose of rending the power of this Govern ment to make voters they In turn to support the Government. He condemned the thine as a dis gusting system of demagogueism, to which even distinguished Senators were lending themselves. This was not so in the better days ol the Repub lic. He held it to be a rascally, gouging system, that should be spumed by every friend t honest industry. The price of land was low enough, and a man could not, by his labor, acquire sufficient to boy himself a home at such a low price, he did not deserve a home. Mr. Hubbard, of Ala., advocated the policy of giving homesteads as the best made of raising rev enue to support the Government and that ia by having the lands cultivated and thns adding to the wealth of thenatlon instead of being permitted to lie idle. The House resolved itself into Committee of the Whole (Mr. Boyd in the ihair) and resumed the Consideration of the bill making appropriations for the Hupport of the Military Academy al West Point. The bill was finally passed under the, operation o the previous question. The House then adjourned. WismsoToX, July 2?. - ' SENATE, Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, appeared and took his. syat in the Senate to-day, as successor to Mr. Cor in. A thessage Was received from the House, an trouncing the death of Daniel P. King, of Mas sachnsetts a member of the House of Represen tatives. Mr, Davis, of Mass., pronounced an eloqnent eulogy upon the deceased, and then the, Sanate adjourned. ! f ousr.. The death of P. King, of Mass., was announced in he II, .use, by Mr. Rockwell, in eluquent and feeling torma. Mr. Winthrup and - Mr. Chandler followed in shorl eulogiums upon the character of the deceased. 1 : ' - After which the House adjourned.. THE ADVENTURES OF A MASON. BT WASHINGTON IRVING. There was once upon a time a poor mason, or bricklayer in Grenada, who kept all the Saints' days and holidays, and Saint Mondays into the bargain, and yet, 'with all his devotion, he grew poorer and poorer every day, and coald scarcely earn bread lor his numerous family. One night he was roused from his sleep by a knocking at his door, he opened" it, and beheld before him a tall, meagre cadaverous looking priest. 'Hark ye, honest friend 1" said the stranger, "I have observed that you are a good Christian, and one to be trusted, will you undertake a job this very night ?" "With all my heart, Senor Padre, oa the condi tion that I am paid accordingly." "That you shall be, but you must suffer yourself to be blindfolded." To this the mason made no objection. So being hoodwinked, he was led by the priest through vari ous rough lanes and winding passages, until they Mopped before the portal of a house. The priest then applied a key, turned a creaking lock, and o pened what sounded like a ponderous door. They entered ; the door was closed and bolted, and the mason was conducted through an echoing corri dor, and spacious hall, to an interior part of Ihe building. Here the bandage was removed from his eyes, and he found himself in a patio or court, dimly lighted by a single lamp.: In the centre was the dry basin of an old Moorish fountain, under which the priest requested to form a Muall vault, brick and mortal being at hand for the purpose. He accordingly worked all night without finishing the job. Just before daybreak, the priest put a piece of gold into his hand and having again blind folded him,condncted him back to his dwelling. "Are you willing." said he,"to return and fin ish tout work 7" "Gladly, Senor Padre, provided I am o well paid." "Well then to-morrow at midnight I will call a- gam." . He did so, the vault was completed, "Now." said the prieut,"yon must help me bring forth the bodies that are to be buried in the vault." The poor mason's hair rose on his head at these words ;hefollowed the priest, with trembling steps into a retired chamber of the mansion, expecting to behold some ghastly spectacle of death, but was relieved on perceiving three or four portly jars standing in one corner. They were evidently full of money, and it was with great labor that he and the priest carried them forth and consigned them to their tomb. The vault was then closed, the pavement replaced, and all traces of the work ob literated. The mason was again hoodwinked and led forth by a route different from that by which became. After they had wandered for along time through a perplexed maxe of lanes and alleys, they halted. The priest then put two pieces of gold into his hand: "Wait here," said he, "until yon hoar the ca thedral bell toll for matins. If you presume to un cover your eyes before that time, evil will befall you." So saying he departed. Tlie mason waited faithfully, amusing himself by weighing the gold pieces in hishand. and clink ing them against each o!her. The moment the cathedral bell rang its matin peal, he uncovered his eyes, and found himself on the banks of the Xenil, from whence he made the best of his way heme, and revelled with his family a whole fort night on the profits of his two night's labor; after which he wis as poor as eveT. He continued to work a little and pray a good deal, and keep saints' days and holydays, from year to year, while his family grew up as gaunt and ragged as a crew of gypsies. As he was sea led one evening at the door of Ins hovel, he was ac costed by a rich old curmudgeon, who was noted for owning many houses, and being a griping land lord The man of money eyed him for a moment from between a pair of anxious shaggy eyebrows. I am told, mend, that you are very poor." "Tliere is no denying the fact, Senor it speaks for itself." "I presume, then, that you will U glad ofa job, and will work cheap f "As cheap, my master, as any mason in Gren ada" "That's what I want: I have anold house fall en into decay, that cost me more money than its worth to keep in repair, for nobody will live In it ; so I most contrive to keep it together at as small expense as possible." : The mason was accordingly conducted to a large deserted house that seemed going to ruin. Pass ing through several empty hall and chambers, he entered an inner court where his eye was caught by anold Moorish fountain. He paused for 4 mo ment, for a dreaming leeollection of the place came over him. ' Pray," said he "who occupied this house for merly t" "A pest upon him ! cried the landlord, "it was an old mierly priest, who cared fof nobody but himself. He was said to be Jmmetlsely rich, and, having no relatives il Was thought he would leave all his treasures to the church, He died suddenly. and Ihe priest and friars thronged to take possess ion or his wealth J but nothing could they find but a few ducats In a leathern purse. The worst luck has fallen on me, since his death; the old fellow continues to occupy tny house without paying any rent, and there s ho taking the law of a dead man. The people pretend to hear theclinking of gold all night in the cham'ier where tin ok) priest slept, as if he were counting hia money, and sometime a groaning and moaning about tlie court. Whether true or false, these stories brought a bad name up on my house, tnii not a tenant will neenpy it." "Enough." said the msson, sturdily, "let me live in your house rent free, until om better tenant present, and I will engage to pm it In rppalr, and ta quiet the troubled spirit that distarb it. I am not daunted by Ihe devil himsolf, even llionch he should come in ihe shape of a bag of money !" ' The OiTi-r of the mason w.k gl.i,!f- sreepted : he moved with his family imo th lio, n I fill filled his engagements. By linl- .I I- l,e re strred it lo its former slate ;tl,e clip.kinsr wax hear! no more al night in the clu.ml.-r nl rhe uVlnra-r priest, but began to be heard by day in , pucket of the living mason. - ; In a word be increased rapidly in wealth, to the admiration of all his neighbors, and became Pneof the richest men in Grenada ; he gave Urge sums to the church, by way no doubt, of satisfying hi conscience, and never revealed the secret of the vault until on his death bed to his son and heir. BANGS ON DISUNION. Bangs gave a dinner the other day to several of his Southern friends, who were 01 a visit lo the "Old Bay State ;" and after the cloth was removed the wine circulated freely, when a hot Southern State Rights' nun and an ultri Free Soiler entered into a warm discussion. "I contend for the rights of the South, sir," said the Southerner ; "we have n right to take onr slaves to California if we want lo, without asking the North anything about it, sir." "Well, sir, admit it, but you say you don't want to lake them there," replied the Free Soiler. "Yes, but the North says we shall not, sir." "But, sir, the people of California themselves have decid ed llie question, and they say they don't want sla very." "Who cares for the people of Californis sir ; they have no right, sir, to make a constitution,"' 'But, sir, if you say you don't want to take your slaves there, and that the country is not adapted fbrtVra, what is the use of contending for a thing of no practical utility t" "Thai's not the quest"- ion, sir ; 11 s the right I contend for, sir. The North has no right to draw lines for us, sir, or to say what we shall do, or what we shall not do.and d n me, by this course you will drive us to disu nion, sir." "Well, sir, the South has no right to dicta te to the North, sir, and dang me, if we will stand it, and you may dissolve as soon, as you please, sir." The good natured Bangs here inter fered, and said : "Come, come, gentlemen, I real ly believe you are about to quarrel. Now, let me settle the controversy by tellina vou a little storv." "Story, story, Bang's story," hiccoughed a gentle- manat the upper end or the table. "Well,", said Bangs, "I recollect when a boy, n harvest time, two of the field hands had laid down about noon, under the ahade of some trees, when Tom said to Joe, looking np at the clouds, "Joe, if that cloud up there was all land, I'd bulk! my house on that end of it, and put the other end in pasture for shep." "No you would'nt either," said Joe, "for I'd build on t'other end myself." "But I would'nt let you," said Tom. "I would'nt ask you though," said Joe. "But, if yon came on my land, I'd lick you," said Tom. "It is'ntyourland,though,"said Joe, "and I have as much right to it as you have." "I'll be whipt if you have."said Tom. and the iwn men thereupon clinched ; when after a hard fight, said Tom, "Let's quit, Joe, the land don't belong to eitherof us, and is only a white cloud after all." "Agreed," said Joe, "what fools we were to fight about it at the start." Bangs's story produced a hearty I augh, the two gentlemen touched glasses, and agreed that Bangs had settled the question. JV. O.-Pie. A QUESTION. The Washington Union, referring to the report that an American squadron had cone ta Lisbon for the purpose of bombarding the town to enferce pay ment of American claims, propounds, among a number of other questions, this, which it asks only for information : "3d. Does it not partake of the character of war 1 or, ai lean, may 11 not lead to- war 7 And can the President exercise such a power by his oan authority V i. One would think that if any body could answer me question whether the President of the United States can exercise a power by his own authori ty which may lead to war, it would be the organ of the administration which ordered the celebrated march to the Rio Grande. AHEAD OF ALL CREATION. The arrival of the Atlantic yesterday morning, in ten days and fifteen hours from Liverpool, puts ns where our orators sometimes place us in every thing, ahead of ail creation, in steam navigation at least. We own the fastest traveller on the great highway of waters, and we shall claim the credit therefore until we are outdistanced by a new com er. According to the log of the Atlautic. she was but just six days and one hour from land to land, that is, from Cape Fear tc Cape Race ; thus mak ing the passage from Europe to America in less than a week, and with only five hours fair wind. V - : . N. Y. Mirror. REID AND VICTORV U IInl,!n :. tice in the assurance that ha la In nnu.inn .ri ... . ,- - sci which render 11 certain mat a vigorous ef- uiri nn our pari win eiect L.01. Keid and redeem the Slate. Arouse, then, friends of Equsl suffrage, arouse, and make that vigorous effort. Line. Rep. Mr. & Mrs. T. Bioelow Ijwbehce. The N Y. Merchant's Day Book, noticing the onarre! off the Red Kose of Kentucky and the White Flower of Boston, declare that it is altogether the una INI es,, meanest, tannest ami most humiliating alTaii that haa recently been k irfcpil nvttr It, 1. high life and down the back stairs of nuhli ma 4. . 4. at . r I lempi. --never ma 1110 tiiper-cartionaie F pwi-I isuisin ami me lanaricacid ol southwestern heTe. hood come in contact with so ridieutos aaal Jim grceable a sizzlo." ? RALEIGH CLIQUE-STANDARD. The Raleigh Standard is doincall it nn in at; np a prejudice in the Eastern and Western sec iiumof the State against Iho W higaof the Cen tre. Tho following sfnleare brfray, howrveri the whole object and aim of the Editor, to wit : . "Will they (the Eastern and Western peoide miction me conduct t tins 'ci-tyrR. and pive In ineir nppronanon and confidence. Erny r-ct letfii 4 rives?! ndanlr iiia s 4iianiy,oeot its tools and represonunv Thcreitis.ascreaiaslhesiin. TheStanda fuss is only intended to We fen I Gov'r. Manly an elect David S. Reid. For the tnccest of this wis he makes no bones to snail the whole eommnnii inwhirb, he h'res, and from whom he derives I living In a great measure. To do this he wnu' excite the bitterest feelings in lb" East and Wes and produce anything h.il harmony between ll sections. Such aWn deserves, lie meritt, tl scorn of all well-u Miers to tlie Slate. So fuf this section l concerned, his ink and psper. t lost. Siilishury Wmchnanx ' ' ' ' I
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