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PUBLIC LANDS.
Extract from the Report of the minority of
the Committee on Manufactures of the
4 Jtjdnse oj Representatives, signed by
Messrs. Jldams and Condict.
, TliC recommendations of the message
are, -li that the public land shall cease,
as soon as practicable, to .be a source of re
venue that they, be sold to. settlers, in
JimUedparcels, at a price barely suflici
entto reimburse to the United States the
expenses. of the present system, anil the
cost arising under our Indian compacts,
and that, in convenient time, the machine
ry of accurate surveys and undoubted ti
tles be withdrawn from the States, and
the right yf soil, and the future dispositi
on ofjt, be surrendered fto the States re
spectively in which it lies-"
The proposition is to give away all the
public lands -first, to enable individual
adventurers to secure an independent free
hold, because.cultivators of the soil are; the
lest part of the population ; and finally to
surrender all the remainder to the States
a a . t ' . a . .1-
in wnicn the lanus are situated, because
lt cannot be expected that the new
States willj remain longer contented with
the present policy after payment of the
public. debt."
The public lands are the property ot
the whole! people of the United States;
"-they are tjie national domain. To give
them away to individual adventurers, is
to take away the property of one- portion
of the ettfiens and bestow it upon another;
and, as if ; this outrage upon 'the right of
property were not sufficient without the
euperaddition of insult, the plundered
portion of the community are told that
those. on whom their lands are lavished,
are the best p.art of the population. It is
said in the message, that the proceeds
arising from the sale of the lands are dis
tributed chiefly among states winch had
not originally any xlaifn to them." Were
this assertion true, what possible bearing
can the places where the proceeds of the
ft:Je of nrooerty are distributed, have up-
On the right of the proprietor to the pro
ceeds of the sale ? The proceeds of the
sales of public lands are not distributed
in gratuities -What is meant by the as
sertion that they are distributed among
States ? They are. not distributed among
States at all. "What is meant by "States
which had not originally any claim to
them i". What State had originally any
claim to the public lands in Louisiana or
, Florida ? What portion of the public
lands is there to winch the whole Union,
and of course every Srate in the Union,
had not originally a chum ? From the
very formationof the confederation, all
Ihe States, within which not an inch of
public land existed, had a claim to
their ,tju-at proportion of the public
lands situated within the boundaries
of tfre otlvei States and that claim
was 'just ; in deference to the justice of
that claim ali the cessions of public lands
Avere made by the States in which they
were situated ; and withoutthose cessions,
the confederation never would have been
formed. The right of the whole people,
therefore, toll the public lands, is a per
fect right, independent'', totally independ
ent of all consideration of the localities
vheie the proceeds of the sales of them
may be distributed, and for the enjoyment
of which, as a rij;ht founded in the first
.'elements of human society, the States
wherein the lands are situated have no
more right n' be discontented thanthe
tenant ofil d welling - house belongipvs to
JiuotJier has the right to be discontented
that fhftifee of the possession is in his
Jandlord and not in himself.
This right :of property, is however, not
ivlvolly nualified. Tlie cessions of ter
ritory made to the fUntt?d, States by the
tatesofNew-York, Virginia, Massachu;,
tts, Connecticut, South-Carolina and
Aycor;ia, were all t conditional ; a no tne
ommon condition of all the grants was,
that the lands by them respectively ceded
oho-nld be held and disposed f for the use
x and benefit of all the United States, the
eding State included, and for no other
use whatsoever. Upon this condition, all
the cessions were accepted 4by the United
States in Congress assembled, and the
United States thereby contracted the sol
emn and positive engagement to hold and
f dispose of all the lands thus ceded, con
formably to that .condition and to no
"Hhcr use?, whatever.
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The Constitution of the United States, !
in the third section of the fourth article,
declares that Congress shall have pow
er to dispose ofv. and make all needful
rules and regulations respecting the terri.
tory or other property belonging to the
United States ;'f with the express addi
tion that nottiing in this Constitution
shall be so construed as. to prejudice any
claims of the United States, or of any par
ticular Stated' 1 Andin the sixth article,
it provides that all debts contracted
and engagement entered into, betore the
adoption of ithisiConstitution-, shall be as
valid against the-U. States under this
Constitution asunder the confederation."
It appears to the subscribers that Con
gress could neither give away the public
lands to individual settlers, to enable them
16 acquire independent freeholds, nor sur
render them to he States in which they
are situated, without a threefold violation
of the Constitution first, by abdicating
the power entrusted to them of disposing
of the territory of the U. States, conform
ably to the conditions under which it is
held, and of making all needful rules and
regulations respecting it : secondly, by
prejudicing tlfd just and undoubted claims
both of the U. .States, and of eveary parti
cular State within which there are no pub
lic lands ; and,vt-hirdly, by .trampling un
der foot solemn engagements entered into
before the adoption of the Constitution.
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In the list ot powers to be exercised by
Congress, when the Government shall be
reduced to the simple machine, avowed to
jbe the purpose ofjj the President by the re
commendations ot the message, this pow
er of disposing of, and making needful
rules and regulations for the territory and
other property of the United States, is
entirely overlooked ; very consistently,,
indeed, for if the whole property should
be squandered away to make indepen
dent freeholders, or surrendered to the
States wherein the common ' possession
happens to be located, there will be no
longer any territory oeionging to ne uni
ted States to 'dispose of, or needing rules
and regulations to be prescribed by Con
ine Government will be made a
much simpler machine ; but it will be a
simplicity purchased with all the wealth,
with all the rights, and all the good taith
of the nation ; purchased by prejudicing
the claims of theU. States, and of every
State other thanfthose in. which the lands
are situated ; purchased by setting at
naught the first 'principle of justice, the
sacred rights of property, and the explicit
engagements .not; only entered into before
me adoption or tree constitution, Dut pledg
es of faith, without which the confedera
tion itself never! would have been sanc
tioned. I '
The same principles are applicable to
the public lands jsiluated within the states
formed from thej territories included in
the purchase of Louisiana, and in the
Floridas. These are lands not only be
longing, to the Y. Slates, but purchased
with mone3's fi on their common treasury.
Upon the principles recommended in the
message, the whole mass of them may
be given away tjj foreigners, to emigrants
from every quater of the globe, aliens,
and perhaps enemies to this country, who
may thus be converted into independent
freeholders, anil constitute, under this
improved code f morals, the best part of
the population.? The subscribers deem
it an excellent part of the policy of the
Union, to welcome the useful industry of
foreign frecmeni seeking the enjoyment of
liberty and equhl rights, and honest sub
sistence, and the chances of affluence
upon our shores; but they conceive it
neither politic tor just to bestow upon
them, or upon rny adventurers, whether
of foreign or of domestic birth, the acqui
sitions of the nation, made with the mo
neys levied updn all the people in all the
States. ! .
Gongress are told in the message, that
it cannot be expected that the new States
will ' remain onger contented with the
present policy after the payment of the
public debt." 1 1? v the present policy, is
here meant, thespolicy of holding and dis
posing of the ipublic lands as public
property. The? proposal is, jherefore to
change the present policy, for that of i
:..:T. ..u; nrn0rfV. n; rtl
r- individual venturers, and the re-
mainder to the "new States'" one of
which is Tennessee. And what are the ar
guments by which this change of policy,
or, in other wi6rds, this surrender of
property, is urj;fed ? It is said, that 'the
adventurous .aijjd hardy population of
the West, besides contributing their
equal share of taxation, under our impost
sy stem, have, i$ the progress of our Go-
ail,intot;e t4sury a large proporti
'f mH lintis oKiulla rs: &,of therev
vernment, tor jjthe lands tney occupy,
tion of
forty million? ot dollars: &,ot therevenue
received I herefrom, but a sm;ill pa0 has
been expended amongst them." Is this a
reason for givijhg away to new adventur
ers, orto new Spates, the property belong
ing to the adventurous and hardy popula
tion of the West, in common with the ad
venturous and hardy population of all the
rest of the Union ? To the epithets of ad
venturous and liacdy, applied to the popu
lation of the fcst, the subscribers take
no exception, as descriptive of qualities
truly belongingfto thatclass of our fellow
citizens : that population went forth from
the old afitflbDSg'BeUled States, fionj the
it"
thirteen confederates of the Revolution, : gain for t the approbation of every rea
and left behind them a population not les reader. Th e purpose, and objects desired
adventurous and hardy than themselves.
If the population of the West have con
tributed their equal share of taxation un
der our impost system, so have the popu
lation of all the rest of the Union. If in
the progress of the Government, they have
paid into the Treasury a large portion of
forty millions of dollars for the lands they
occupy, they have received, in the proper
ty of those lands transmitted to them by
the nation, the value to them of many
hundred millions ofulollars as an equiva
lent. That a small part of the revenue
received from the proceeds of the public
lands has been expended amongst thejn,
if estimated in proportion to the relative
amount of revenue collected amongf them,
may be doubted ; but the subscribers be
lieve that justice and policy would alike
dictate a larger expenditure of the reve
nue amongst the population in the West,
than has yet been authorized. It is in the
Western country that the greatest the
most useful, and the most expensive works
of internal improvement have been under
taken, or are most urgently needed. To
such works, unquestionably of a national
character, the subscribers believe that a
full and ample proportion of the public
revenue, whether collected from the sales
of public lands or.-om other sources, ought
to be applied, and that the moneys so ap
propriated would be almost exclusively
expended among the population of the
West. It is in this manner that, without
doing injustice to any, other part of the U
uion, the proceeds of the sales of the pub
lic lands may be applied to the special
improvement of the Western country ;
that they may be, beneficially to all, ex
pended among the settlers on the public
lands themselves, and, while contributino-
to the improvement of the whole Union,
facilitate and encourage .the progress of
the new settlements, by furnishing it, at
once, occupation for industry, reward for
labor, and the rapid appreciation of the
lands upon which the settlers may fix
their abode. Such, the subscribers be
lieve, are the dictates of a policy, at once
prudent and magnanimous ; but this po
licy cannot be promoted by arresting the
progress of works already commenced
-by refusing appropriations for works
demonstrated to .be of a national charac
ter, or by giving away to single adventur
ers, or to the new States, the whloe invalua
ble fund, inexhaustible,! fduly managed, for
long centuries to come, of lands purchas
ed by the blood of our Revolutionary fa
thers, and by their treasures or our own.
In this examination of the proposal to
give away all the public lands of the Uni
on, the subscribers have deemed it their
indispensable duty, though a painful one
it has been, to resort to the first principle
of natural justice, to the sacred right of
property, and to the positive injunctions
of the Constitution, to prove that it is a
like subversive of them all. The project
itself is not new ; the subscribers are un
willing either to trace its origin, or to
scan the motives and purposes from which
it proceeded. .But never before have they
witnessed never again, Nthey will hope,
may it be seriously recommended in a
message from the President to the Con
gress of the United States. The public
lands are the property of the Union ; the
possession, the use, and the disposal of
them, for the benefit ' of the whole, are
guarantied by the elementary principle at
the foundation of civil society, by the im
mutable laws of justice, and by the ex
press terms of the. Constitution, which we
have all sworn to support. The power
to give them away, has not only never
been delegated to Congress, but .it, has
been by directmplication, prohibited.
The attempt to giv;- them away by an act
ot Congress, would be an act of transcen
dant usurpation, null and void in itself,
and substituting arbitrary power in the
place of constitutional right. Theattempt
to carry it into effect would be a dissolu
tion of the Union, an inextinguishable brand
of civil war. 'This "the subscribers do,
with the profoundest conviction, believe :
this they cannot, without violating the
trust reposed in them by their constitu
ents, refrain from declaring. ,lhey so-
" ' i y tieprccaie me coium-euuv
ii i j i
that
such a proposal should ever again be made
From the National Intellegencer
A small volume, entitled 44 A brief
Exposition of the' Constitution of the
United States," by Jamrs Bayard, Esq.
a member of the Philadelphia Rar, has
recently issued from the press of Hogan
& Thompson, Philadelphia. The design
of the work, as its title informs us, is to
give a brief, simple, and accurate 44 ex
position" of the principles ot that Oon
stifution, under the authority of which our
Government is administered. In the
prosecution of his design, the author has
considered each article and clause of the
Constitution separately, and given each
the interpretation and construction sanc
tioned by the decision of the highest ju
dicial tribunals of our country. This
work appears in every respect admirably
adapted to the use of our colleges and
schools, whether we. consider its con
ciseness, its accuracy, its Simplicity or
its most excellent method. Its merit is
sttch as will, we doubt not, on perusal
io ue at,a.;neu oy ine worK are so well
set forth in the preface, that we will, ag
its bestjcotnnietulatiou, annex it to this
notice. ' ; '
" Ih'a country like this, where all have
a share rn the Government, every one
should be :arquainted with its structure
and principles. The Constitution by
which ipQ t Government is formed, and
upon whc i depends the validity of the
iaws, tny union ot tne states, and the
peace, ; t1f;iity, and happiness of the na
tion, slut j Id be a part of the education of
of everyNi:tiz,eh, whatever his situation
or occuffition.'' Although several wprks
have beeii written on tliis subject by men
of great Jearrfing and ability, which are
highly useful to professional men, and
those: wh a have the leisure and disposi
tion to engage in this important study, it
is believivd that nothing has been attempt
ed in the. way of a short and simple expo
sition of ih principles of the Constitution, ;
for the u )e of young persons and such as
may not! Ji$ve time or inclination for a'
more ext'iMed research. With this im
pression,' the foil wing treatise was under
taken, aj the suggestion of a friend, whose
situation,; led him particularly to notice
the wantv df such a book, in the instruc
tion o'fYpyth". In compiling it, the au
thor has Relied principally upon the Fede
ralist, th ?; Commentaries of Chancellor
Kent, th ; iTreatiscs of Mr. Rawle and
Mr. Servant, and the Reports of t!i
Decision I ;of the Supreme . Court. The
sentimer Island some times the language
of these ,Hks are Used without marks of
quotatioi , because the nature of the work
did not iTqujre it ; but they may be
readily observed, by the professional
-reader., f '
k The; limits "of the work would not
permit i'i extensive discussion of the
question, f wnich have arisen, as tothe
construe 'ion of various parts of the Con
stitution When doubts have been enter
tained as tb tile true meaning of any part
of it, the y are 4 stated, and what is be
lieved U ' he the correct interpretation
srivcn.
?n air cases decided by the Su
C7
preme Cilurt- the Judgment of that Tri
bunal iai (he 'standard of construction ;
and great Jcare has been taken to avoid
party q unions as much as possible. As
this trea ie is intended principally for
the use fjthose who cannot be presumed
to be acquainted with the technical terms
and phrj ss, . the author has endeavored
to expUjrf all such as would be likely
to occas; tj any difficulty. The arange
meut of le Constitution has been follow
ed both cause it is good in itself, and
because t will probably be the best mode
of coTive lpg instruction to those for whom
this work ;.s intended.
' If it : Should be the means of intro
ducing artore general acquaintance with
the GorLiVitutibn, or of leading the youth
of the ce aritry to a more minute exam
ination qfts structure, by which they
will acq ife a knowledge of its excellen
cies, an. 1 ,a stronger attachment to the
Union, t je object of the author will be
attained, ahd he will congratulate him
self upoi tne performance of his humblft
task. " . , I
It mayVe? remarked, in conclusion, that
this worl ; has received the approval of
Chi ef it'ice Marshall, Mr. Justice Sto
ry, cham eHor Kent, and , other eminent
Jurists. :"' l:
MYRTLE-WAX.
,fi'ttm the Columbia Gazette.
We bee livfe to call the attention of our read
ers ty,y; following communication in relation,
to :MyV.;'jjVa'x, from a very scientific cor
respond! f who has invesiigMted the irj ct
liiunselfji: atid left with us various specimens.
It wifl.b lound that the cultivation of t.'ie
Myrtle l;iy Merry can be mails a very pro
fitable tt fsiiess to the cultivator, besides do
aiJjs irife good to the community.
The yo Stable wax called Bay-berry in
the Jfortiitirn, and tyrtle-vvux in the
Southern. pitrts of" the United States, is the
produce i f ii shrub called by Botanists,
( Myrncd 'Jqltfera) wlrtch sometimes grows
to the. siz.gijbi' a small tree, and is found
abundant yfalong the coast, from Maine
in the ISi)rth, to Texas on tle Gulf of
Mexico. . The wax is extracted from this
shrub by .Collecting th-e berries, boiling
themwitl water, and bruising them at
the same tiin, by which the wax will rise
to the irojaVa thick oily scum, easily se
parated, wiiiirh when cold, turns out a
moderately! bard substance, of a green,
dingy co r After chemical investigati
on, tliat.iubstance has been found to re
semble, b jesvax so closely in the most
iinportanuprbperties. that they may be
clashed u iidjer t,he same genus of chemical
bodies.
Until n )v the use of this wax has been
very limned :.ihe farmers pick up in the
swamps nil woods a sufficient quantity
to supply y .etnstil ves with candles 5 and
if there if - 'any surplus, they send it to
parketi! New-York, Boston, or other
Northern pjaces, where it is bought by
eandleMOlksbrs, who mix it with their tal
low, iti or. l;r to correct, in summer, the
extreu6 s )fness of their candles.
Notwitianding the abundance of its
growth il eE picking up of the ferries a
mong the 'amps, thick wood and mire,
js so iaboj t(us, that people who have at
tempted t M collection of tne wax as a
t
special business and mafterof trade, have
found that one single bushel of berries is
the utmost a.stout active man can collect
in one day's work, hence its price in mar
ket is very high, fluctuating between 18
and 25 cents a pound. '
The object of this publication is to in
vite the attention of farmers to the culti
vation of the shrub affording the Myrtle
wax, in order to, bring its price down to
that of tallow. It is obvious that should
the shrubs be collected in one field, con
sequently ready at hand it is obviou, I
say, that the same man who, under the
difficulty of wandering in swamps, wood
and mire, cab collect but one bushel, shall
be able when he finds the shrubs gathered
together ia the sa ne field, to pick up in
the same space of time, from three to four
bushels consequently deliver his w.u ar
a price roportionably reduced ; that is to
say, from 25, to 8, 9, or 10 cents per
pound. v
The question now is, to investigate what
will be the net produce of an acre plant
ed in Myrtle-wat, the wax sellina; at the
reduced price of 10 cents per pound
Let us suppose each shrub .planted at
two and a half feet from each other, there
will be in one acre 6r24 of them : sup
posing, next, the average product of each
shrub to be only one pint of the berries
then the whole crop will amount to 6724
pints making up 105 bushels. Now ex
perience has shown by those who follow
that trade, that the quantity of wax ob
tained from a bushel of berries, averages
from 5 to 10' pounds, then our 105 bushels
of berries would yield.630 pounds of wax,
which at 10 cents a pound, tallow price,
would make 5563. '
As wfi have stated already, one man
will pick upina field from S to 4 bushels
in one day, it follows that the picking of
the whole 105 bushels will require the la
bor of a hand during a whole month : ad
mitting SI 8 for the. wages and finding
theh 18 deducted from 863, the value
of the crop as before s-tated, the balance
S4.") will bathe nett profit accruing to the
farmer.
Resides such a valuable income, this
culture receives additional' recommenda
tions from the following circumstances :
1. It grows in the woraf of soils, especially if
damp and 9undy.
2. It requires no fences, as the cattle do not
meddle with it.
3. Once planted, it requires no attendance ex
cept in picking-time.
4. The picking may be performed by boys,
fril ls, old men and old women, w ho else would
De useless on ine puouation.
5. Myrtle-wax may be bleached to a degree ot
whiteness equal to that oi bees wax. In is pro
cess adds only five cents per pound to the orl
ffinal price, is dom; in a short time, and within
the power of every individual to perform.
6. A Soap equal, if not superior to any shitv-
or tancy soap impurie tr m hurope, cwi ue
manufactured of the Myitlewax.
We may say in conclusion, that by
cultivating the Myrtle-wax, a most im-
portant staple will be introduced into the
United States. The most probable coo-
sequences of this introduction will be
1st, that this wax will supersede tallow
in making candles,'on account of its su
perior hardness and cleanliness next,
the establishment of bleaching and soap
manufactories on the largest 9cale that
it will become an article f exportation,
especially to he West-Indies, and hovre
ver abundant it may become in the mark
et, will always meet with a ready sale.
DEFERRED ARTICLES.
Mr. Woodbury, Secretary of the Navy, ha
efr V af.hinirtoii on a visit to tne boutnern am
Western S'ates on public dutv, as the orKvia
piper at Washington sias. Of the nature or that
tlutv, there are many surmises in the pjpeis.
Weffv that the follwwincr, cont,i'ned in a lettf-r
from Washington to the Ktlit(r of the Uichinund
Whi, discloses the real object :
" I understand, from what may be considered
.jood auihority, that Mr. Woodbury will he trans
ferred to the Treasury Department, and thai his
visit to Nw-Orleans SavanmJi, and Cliark-ston,
is for the purpose of making Mrraiiirementso
transfer the' deposites li-om the Bank ot the U.
Slates to the State Banks. "
Mr. Woodburv's tour has excited much spe
culation amo' the poliiicuns of Wall-street,
and their hypothesis that his object was to ar
range for the removal ot the.dirposites from the
Hank, was announced trouj$ ih-.-ir favorite
journal the 'National Intelligencer N Y. Stand.
AV'e are glad to hear that'the Natinal
Intelligencer is a favorite m so respecta
ble a quarter as that which Is designated
in this sentence. But, if it be meant by
it, that it has been announced, on the au
thority of the National Intelligencer, that
the object of Mr. VVo6tlbury' tour" is
i to arange for the removal d the depos
ites from the Bank," we take leave to de
ny the statement. We have said no
Such thing. We know nothing about the.
Object of Mr. Woodbury's tour ; but we
know that it is worse than absurdtp
su ppose t hat he has g.Jhnoe9
of Fiorida,?as same pretend '.j.o alsertain
by personaircxamfntttion; the cmiiah
of the I live -Oak timber, or, as ntherRay",
o the harbor of Pensacola, to satisfy him
self, by actual sounding, of the quantity
of water On the bar Ir-A'af. Int.
In England, recently; a,mans was sen
tenced to be transport Hforfotirtoet
years, for stealing his ownpoperty I
lThe Prisoner? on hearing hi sentence;
very naturally jburst into tears, and was
earned out t court crying bitten v
-
jx-aJj-i-juiiiii' " ? -mi ; - if.;.;.. rt--j
This case excited considerable interest
as it involved'a rather singular and novel
question viz : whether the prisoner had
or had not been gujfty of stealing his ,
adduced, it appeared that therisoner had
called at the wahouse of MessrsPicki
ford & Co. the well known carriers, and.
aked if they had a box for him,whiclt
he expectedlwould be sent, addressed to
him from Birmingham, .by their convey--ance?
.The porter of 'Messrs. Pickfqrd
& Co. whom he questioned, told him
that it had arrived, and was in the ware
house ; but that he had better go into the
clerk's office, and pay the carriage before
thebox was giveivto him. He accordingly
went into the office asked one" of the
clerks what was the charge for carriage.
The clerk told him, andMie went away
without paying any thing; but he said
le would call again about it. In two .or
three days afterwards, he' again called at
the office, and asked for the box, saying
hat he hud. brought the mony to. pay for
the carriage. On searching for the box in
the warehouse it was not to be found, and
the .prisoner appeared to be exceedingly
enraged, declaring that he would bring
ah action at law against Messrs. Pickfont
or the value of the box and its contents.
The clerks and werehousemen had a con
versation on the subject, and after con
sidering i he circumstances of the prison
er's previous viit to the warehouse, to
gether with the fact of the box not being
seen since that visit, they began--. to sus
pect that the prisoner himself must hiyve
aken it awav. Messrs. rtckfbrd in con-
sequeuce applied-to the magistrates, and
obtained a warrant to search the pri
soner's premises, which thev did. ami
there found the identical boxmptied of its
contents !
'Intemperance and Death. -Yesterday a
singular, and in its termination, fatal ac-
cident.oecunred in this city. An United
5tates soldier belonging to the garrison at
this-post, was led into a shop in a state of
intoxication, bv a comrade. The mail
who led him in, wishing to go away, and
being; anxious to screen the one intoxica
ted from the observation of an v officer who -
might pass that way, asked permission of
a lad in the store to put him into a corn
bin which closed with a lid. He was
thrust into this strange hiding place, andf
remained there for about half an hour,
when the clerk returned, to the shop, and
being infornied of the cii'c.u rtl stance, lifted!
up the lid of the bin to have, him taken
out. What was his surprise on finding
that the man displayed no symptoms of
life!. Medical aid was immediately pro
cured, but it was too late, the vivUyiog ;
principle had fled forever.
Savannah' paper.
New Sketch Bonk. It is stated in a
m.;i.wivi..i,;. ii,. w,., t.:., t'
ving is, preparing; a hew Sketch Book, the.
result of his personal observation of
scenes and characters in the West -
There is no writer living better.qualifiVd '
to do justice to the peculiarities of the
West than " Geoffrey Crayon Gent." The
appearance of tuch a work, from him
would be hailed witlv'delightby the' iite
rary world both at home arid abroad.
"We learn with pleasure,4hat our di
tinguislicd countvvman, Charles It. Les
lie, has accepted the appointment of Jro
fessor oJDrarwg at the Military Aca
demy, West-Point.
Mr. Leslie has added much to our
country's reputation abroad ; and in the
department of IListoi,c Painting, towhich -
forbears, his attention has been directed,
he has produced works of no ordinary
character, which have deservedly rankr .
el him high among Academicians of tho
RoyaPAcademy in London. Coin. IIer.
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