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i'i ' - 1 " ' 1 1 ' ' 1 1 I - i i 1 " i 1 I : ' . i 1' i ' r 1 1 ' h"1 """ftftBir i. Ours are tlte plans of fair delightful peace, unwarp'd by party rage, tlive lilte brotlicrs -- - - . i VjIlKEE DOLiliARS Per Aiimim ? 0E HALF IIV ADVAi'. IS PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY, jjy Joseph Gales Son. TERMS. ; r TiirDoliaus pcif aanum one halfin advance Those who do not,either at the time of iubsenbing or gUbseqaently.gjive notice of their wish to have the Paper discontinued at the expiration of the ycar.willbepresumed as desiring its continuance until countermanded. ADVERTISEMENTS, 'f?ot exceeding sixteen ?', will be inserted three timet lora Dollar and 4wenty-five cents for each subseqnent publication: those of greater length in proportion. If the number of insertions be not ma arked on them.thej will be conUnuea unui or- Jered out and charged accordingly. THE TORTOISEj-SHELL SPECTACLES. From the Ah. Journal of a late Traveller. .A I have jast left .Spa. The season is riot quite over, but is decaying. And as, though j may love theautumnal beauty of the forest, nothing is so lar irorn captivating, to ine ai icasi, ,v.u; 0f life, in a watering place, I ordered my britchsWa without loss ot lime, Dane a six onths' farewel , and nernaps longer, io .a morality and mortality of the gay town of Spa, ar4 set olit for quiet Hano ver -It is curious enough, that the old (absurdity of praising the past at the ex pense ot the present is as frequent at spa, where every season undoubtedly adds to the shows and sportings or tne lasr, as u was in the days of Homer, and among the sunburnt roc ks of the Mediterranean. However, something may be said for the complaints, ltj is -just two years-since the Congress or Aix-ia-vnapeiie , im poured a vast injnux ot idlers and spend -thrifts of all nations into the town ; and, as all things are! great or little by compa rison, and showy & useless as Congresses are, they cannot be expected to recur every day. The hotet keepers measure a full season by the year of the Con gress,?' and thitfk that the world is de populated since! that prodigious period. But 1 must tepl you an anecdote wnicn I heard of that! time, at the cot erte of a leader of fashion here, which-was vouch- I ed for by a whole circle of the first au thority, it ribands and orders go tor any thing in tins wdrld. A Count Lejsare Morteiiari, wno an nounced himself as one of the Sicilian Mortellarie, made his enire there a few years ago. He snolce of himself as mak meatourot hurope, en pliilo sopne, ana tho' evidently enfeebled in healthj . made himself acceptable by his skill in music, and general pliibility of manners. Like every body here, he played at the pubJic tables from time to time, but with a de clared reluctance for. the pursuit, which he said, disagreed as much with his ha bits as his health. He seemed a good deal . of the hypochondriac: and among m I f his more intimate circles, complained ot the . restless dissipations of continental lf I t !. 1 me, anu uie raptures ot pnuosopny, re- urement, ana sp forth, uai example is contagious ; anl as the season advanced, even the shrinking Italian was forced in to the crowd. He attended the Redoute and ether public places, and insensibly moved in the Iround of Archdukes' and Princesses j bat, unlike the general tribe of watering place Counts, who are pre eminent for whiskers, equipage, laced liveries, and boasting of their exploits in love and war, the Count's manners were remarkably simple j, his equipage was plain j his one valet plain as his equip age; his whiskers reduced to;the peace establishment,! and his tongue silent on all adventures. With a pair of feeble eyes, which seemed to be but little aided by a pair of tortoise-shell spectacles, he appeared more like a wandering son of spleen, or science, than a man of ton. Vet he was a kind of star ; his appear ance and habits were a relief, after the glare of the usual candidates for admira- of epaulettes and diadems .: -I v.. i ... f-:.: o : . uuii, anu me quietude ot ms piay,and tne simplicity with which he suffered himself to be laughed iat, and, occasionally, to be plundered by the fairest of the fair, vere considered the mostktv thins in the world. However, practice improves the dull est, and Fortune, frown as she will, can not frown forever ! Count Cesare began t0 $in a litte, and then began to win jnore.. Still the wonder was, how, with want ot all dexterity, and bis purblind ejes, he could win it all. At length, one 'gnt, when the bank happened to be pei liarly (strong, the Count, by two or three miracles of luck, suddenly broke it, and swept the boartl of its last coin, to the infinite chagrin of a circle of petty -y..Sn, and quite as nwen he; avow -ed, to his own wonder. Tjie bank was stripped and the P.m.nt. with nil his as. tonishment carried off to the amount of iDOUCJHSUUQ. 0n the continent those whri tiv hv hir Jts.-go like our English ja'dges, a circuit. wj may not deal quite so much injaw, 1$ are, perhaps, -quite so; fond of exhi '"n8 .their persons in its Courts ; but ;ey fuiiy equal them in inflicting pains d penalties. The Count Morteiiari was unseen e i ;i f. .. lor a wnue auer ms reuev- ing the. Pank of its opulence 5 and known till he was heard of sojourning at - r the successive round of watering places, and laughed at just as much as he had been at Spa, yet, when the laugh was at its height, by some unaccountable freak of fortuue breaking every bank in suc cession. . t j Princes and -Dutchesses do not lose their money even at German watering laces without wishing that they had pt it in their purses, nor find them selves regularly beaten, without indulg ing in suspicions of the skill which could beat them. Rumors began to thick en, that the Count was hot altogether the child of nature he seemed, the rumor even blackening into belief, when the Count suddenly appeared at Spa in person. This justified him at once. His look was more simple than ever. ; No scepticism could stand against the almost infantine helplessness of his delicate and pale phy siognomy, his eyes were even more pur blind, if possible, than before. His dress too had undergone a change for the worse, though it had preserved its neatness. His valet was gone, and his little, yet remarkably, pretty cabriolet was gone a long with him. He came to the Redoute as usual, but seemed to have lost incli nation and the faculties for play toge ther. Night after night he glanced at the ta bles, like one who had half forgotten what they were; and after lingering an hour or two round the rooms, sipping cof fee, listening to the orchestra and laughed at by every body, quietly retired to bed. Nothing could be clearer, than that the reports of his success during his absence had been mere fabrications. It was even so far evident that the Count was a ruined man, that it became a topic whether he was worth laughing at any . longer, and whether it would not be judicious to for get him to his face. In the mean time Spa began to be fill ed. The celebrated Congress of Aixla Chapellc was at hand, and the distance to Aix-la-Chapclle Was too slight to leave a doubt on the mind of the Hotel -keepers of Spa that now was the time to make their fortunes. The Congress met, the Sovereigns showed their faces, the Min isters their portfolios, the Aides de camp their feathers, the Attaches their ribbons and the grand business of their meeting being thus accomplished , and time hang ing terribly on their hands in the terribly dull city of Chat lemange, the whole Dip lomacy, Sovereigns, and the Secretaries made a general movement to Spa. After the first gaze at this display of imperial and kingly poirjp, life returned to its ordinary channels again. A day or two was enough to settle the general opinion of the ladies, that Alexander was well looking for a Russ and Empcrcr, but had a little too much of the Sclavo nian in his visage. That Constantine, notwithstanding his diamond epaulettes, Was a regular Calmuc. That the King of Prussia, with his grim form and iron colored features, would nave made a capital hussar in any day since AttiHa. That the Emperor Francis, with his small fair face, seemed thoroughly hen pecked: and as to the rest, that the crowds oftA.t taches and Aides de camp were very con venient for waltzing with, and playing with at roulette while purses lasted. But the Redoute was in its glory. Its spa cious halls never saw before so much 'of the grandeur of this world; and the card table was the centre of aircIe of Majes ties. : The poor Count tottered through this perpetual glitter naturally more unno ticed than ever. At length the Sove reigns announced that they were about to take their departure, and a grand ball was proposed to celebrate the last of.their august presence. It was given. Spa had never seen any thing half so embroidered before. Rouge et noir was the imperial game. The difficulty was, how to make way to its table, through circle on circle But though fainting Princesses and) panting Arch dukes were unable to advance a step, by some unaccountable accident, Morteiiari had wormed his way until he stood under the very elbow of the Autocrat of all the Russias. . ' v. The bank on that night was worth tlirow in against indeed. It was turgid with gold. Every coin of Europe, from the du cat to the doubloon, was shining; in heaps before the gaze. The play went on, as usual, with various chances. Nessselrode lost enough to wish that he had contented himself with ctrinmnrr P1onl T.ipvpn shrugged up his shoulders, as he looked at the long Cossack purse emptied of the Ion savings of his British embassy. Metternich staked a year's income of Johannesburg, and saw us instant accession to tne neap wim a sign, as u ne naa seen the loss oi an Austrian province:. Iri the meanUme, the litde Count staked down his ducats, bowed his feeble, eyes close to the table, and play ed his card. The bank cave a scream. ? It had won. . An irrepressibles exclamation of chagrin burst from the whole circle. It spread through the building, and alt was MMnr.ie:nn TlTiL - . --1 'lV-1 '- wuuucr anu vuiHusiuiu . uuui were n pos sible, increased 'when on the circle's open ing, the count's lost valet was seen ad vancing with a huge chamois bag, into which he scraped the whole contents ot the table TrjESnjMY9JUJmJE 13, 1837. un-lThe bag was borne away, and deposited, before two thousand pairs of eyes, in the lost cabriolet. f - A more detailed investigation nat urally took place next day; which proved thai, not merely every card which nad been used on the previous night was mar ked, but that every card which had been used for a twelvemonth before was simi larly marked, and that every pack in possession of the bank. had its figures. Further still, it was shown by the bank, in its own defence, that the packs of the various hotels were figured, and finally that the system had extended to every hotel in the chief watering places. The little Count's luck was thus easily com prehended. Wherever he went, his mag nifiers had read the cards for him. Of Course he plundered wherever he chose, though he cautiously reserved his grand achievements for. -something, worth a chieving. But how was the extent of the scheme to be explained? Two years be fore, a card manufactory had been set up near Strasburg, remarkable for the beautv, still more for the cheapness of its caj:ds. Amounting to little more than two-thirds of the usual price; they had rapidly-thrown the common cards out of the market, and 'been purchased by all the hotel keepers and masters of gaming houses, without exception. The Count was one of the chief partners in this cheap card company. The company was formed expressly to give him and his associates the command of the card playing world, and their year's circuit had most handsomely repaid them the outlay of their capital. The watering places were fleeced in very exemplary style. Yet, as no one much regrets the losses of those, who are all sharpers alike, or ready to be so when they have an opportunity, there was at least as much laughing as lamentation among honest men in Germany, The young Aid-de-Camp got a step from the Emperor for his share in the affair, and II Signor Ce saro Morteiiari, though if caught he would have jeen sent to improve his morals by twenty years hard labour in the ditches of Spanllau Ehrenbreitstein, got credit for his knowledge of the true use of spec tacles; and may be, at this time, when ge nius finds its level everywhere, is a mem ber of the Chamber of Deputies, a Pacha of Turkey, or a rising character of that land of every thing rising the Peninsula. The higher orders, of course, acquies ced in their ill luck, but there are hang ers on in the vicinity of the Continental tables, who are not so easily satisfied with the caprices of fortune, and who have cut the throat of many a winner be fore he reached his escrutoire. A rush was made against the decrepid Count by those Chevaliers d'Industrie. But they gained little by their exploit. Morteiiari was on his guard. He started up into sudden stature ; and while with one hand he struck back his foremost assailant with a powerful blow, which sent him reeling through the crowd, with the other he drew a double-barrelled pistol from his pocket, which he presented to the gang. In the effort to strike the ruffian, how- ever, tne v;ountiiau uroppeu ms specia cles, and by the; look which he gave his proktrate adversary, and the alertness with which he wound his way through the multitude, it was evident that he had recovered his sight as quickly as his strength and stature. His escape, it mUst be allowed, was the more easily effected, through the rashness of his as sailants, who had made their attempt al most at the threshhold of the Redoute. The fracas had Instantly brought out a concourse ol thie visitants, and the as sailants were, in consequence, prevented from following up their violence, and were given over to the police. The Count, with a bow of thanks, whipped his little but remarkably active Norman pony, and the cabriolet went on at lull speed. m le ; and the fresh ness of the open air held -some ot the oungers talking of the event on the pro menade, outside of the building, lhe vexation of the nlavers. the ill-luck of the honest world in general, and tne ex ... , traordinary good fortune of the extraor dinary little Count, were topics . that might have kept a less taiKing, people x. But a young German, an Aid-de-Camp of the Emperor Alexan der, saw something glittering Dy the moonlight in the grass, and sprang lor- W - gm ward to seize the prize, ine group con . rmit jectured that he had found the star of some Prince, or at least tne uracil or hracelet of some young belle, ana were prepared to congratulate him on his uis coverv. But the young German return - .. . I. ed, in great disdain of what he had found, which was simdIv a pair ot tortoise sneii spectacles. He was a good deal laughed at : but. at length, some more sagacious observer pronounced that they were pro digiously like the Count's spectecles." Opinions were compared ; the place, the circumstance, j tne spectacle, : & wu firmed the idea. Spectacles bad notori nntlv hoan nil the nose of the Count Mortellarri. and the nose had as notori mi sin- Kaan 'n wiftiout thera. ana on the verv snnt too where, they were, found Proof was no more necessary to those rapid reasoners, and the young Ixcrman pledging himself by Thor and" Woden that the secret of MortelTarri's juk was in his spectacles, put them on and re turned laughingly into the roonfsfit? try his last ducat. But he was too late ; the bank was bankrupt j play was! oyer for the night ; a. few broken gamester alone remained, lingering over the $Cne of their ruin, and all the relics of the hour of bustle and brilliancy were some -of the cards which had been played wjtb scat tered over lhe table and the floors;: The German took up one of them, and'gazed on it with a look of surprise. He brought It nearer to the decaying ligljtjbf the chandelier. At length he called to some of the; bystanders, and asked 'whether 4 they; could perceive any thing on the card which he held in his hand.iflf No thing,' was the answer, after Curbing it in all directions. . 44 Try these specta cles," said the Aid-de-Camp. jAf single glance was enough on the backfjof tlie card, among. the profusion of flourishes common on continental packs, was a fig ure of 2! To the naked eye, nothing. But to the glass every card had S pecu liar hgure. The secret was nowlout. The spectacles were powerful inagni were marked, and the fiers ; the cards Count!, on the) back what was on the ?Hont of every lone of the pack. But 44 yks it of this ick alone ?" The croupier is call ed. He produced another. It ad its figures too : a dozen, all had the't share. The room was by this time crowded, and the discovery produced violent ex citement. Those. who had lost, ofixourse, expected that their losses should be re paid, jand they were the clamorous ma jority; ten to one. The next f proposal was, that the Count's lodgings iliould be instantly searched, and the Monsignor Morteiiari brought to justice jBut it was now three in the morning, land the police lieutenant was in his first slee. The order was at last obtained. But it was found, that the Count had j hot re turned to his hotel that night. ; A bribe, and another hour of entreaties obtained an order to have him arrested at the bar rier or. wherever he should be discovered within the district. But by daylight, it was found that a cabriolet, withja Nor man pony, and two men w rapped ,in furs, had passed the barrier half an hour be fore twelve the night before. The chase was then hopeless. The Coufit'iwas as impalpable as so much lightedi gunpow der. U j, tjj iiic iiciii ui ilia iua" uiuvia saw V l F 1 k knl n nf In. m niknl Ai I r. n i GOVERNMENT aoaikst tue MERCHANTS The official organ of the Administration has come out with a manifesto and decla ration of WAR against the merchants of the country. This is but one ofvthe many indications we have observed of late in that paper! of the determination of thelAdminis- tratioin to rally one class of the communi- ty against anotner, anu to enust uie worst passions of the human heart, - and the strongest prejudices of the uninformed, in the conflict which they are evidently dis ced to wage. 4The natural hostility of the poor against the rich ,'? said Mr. VVriirht. in Uie Senate. 'will always en- able jus to TiccOmplish our purposes." A more; demoniacal sentiment wasiS never ut tered by' a profligate demagogue ; yet it becajne the cue ot the party in 4 $13, and is again to be adopted, though hot openly avowed, by the present Administration. lnejwar is to ue wageu against? uie mer chants, and the People, the-dear Peo ple!" as Robespierre or Couthbn called them, are to be invoked to aid j the Gov ernment in putting down thosej who have the control of the bank and the' Wealth of the country, and who are the alleged au thors of aft the troubles and niistartunes which now afflict the country, j.,; Ine whole tenor of the article to which we allude is calculated to excitei the pre judices and lead astray the judnents of those who have neither time nor; opportu nity; to acquire a thorough knowledge ot the pauses ot the pressure under which they are suffering, and who are ever ready to believe any charge made agfinst those whoi they think suffer less than themselves. lhe extraordinary spectacle is now pre sented in a country boasting of jits virtue, intelligence, and freedom, of ahf Adminis tration elected by the People "attempting to throw the responsibility of its; own mad and ruinous measures upon that class which protested against them from the commence ment, and foretold their disastrous result ! It attempts to "escape from the rctahflagra- lion u uas Kinuieu uy turning ttsaury up- !a I I a. ; e ' on those who would have stayed tneir hands, and forewarned them ofjthe deso latirig effects which must inevitably follow ther mad "experiment!" and, strange to sayi there are those who are ready to visit it I ! 1 " 1 1 me j sins oi uie incendiaries upon- uie very persons who endeavored to snatcja the torch from their hands! ere it had been applied! 'f he Administration relies upon the ig norance of those whose passions they would excite. It has once deceived them by the hypocritical pretence of filling their purses with gold and silver; and though, the reo plej now see that this gold and silver cur rency which they were promised was a mere humbug, wmcn was uesigneu to ef fect, and did effect, a political object, yet the y are abou t to raise the same s c ry agai n, in hopes to be equal successful. WhethH CI llcjf Will uuu uib jiwii un iguwinut wu gullible now as they were on tlia) occasion remains to be seen : if the 'experiment" they are now about to try proves them to be so, the country will find there is a still lower depth of suffering than it now suffers. Whether these will be borne with patience and in silence, we will not undertake to predict. Let . the Administration prosecute the war against the merchants; "let it rally the vile arid worthless against them aud other estimable citizens; let it appeal to 44 the democracy" whom they have humbugged by canting about gold and silver, while they were encouraging the establishment of banks and the most enormous issues of pa per; let the whole country, prostrated by their measures, be excited to commotion and civil war by their demoniacal machin ations; and when all this is done, do they expect, are they so fool-hardy and vain as to believe, they can escape the fury of the storm they have raised ? The best blood of France flowed in tor- rents from the guillotine to gratify the ma lignity of a Robespierre and his associates while they professed their ardent love for "the dear people." But did their crimes go unpunished? Did they escape the ven geance ot Heaven? No: the same page which records their enormities, also bears records of their awful, but merited, fate. Let others learn wisdom from the past. Phil Com. Herald. Credit, the mighty lever by which,this country has been lifted up to the elevation it now has among the nations of the world; is also another object of the Globe's es pecial attack. The men who. 4 do busi nese on borrowed capital," it is not now said, ought to break for this saying is a little too unpopular now but 44 millio naires," " mammoth merchant," h the new term intended to signify a like idea. Again, this Eutopian chimera of a specie currency is but another term for hostil ity to credit, for specie can be the cur rency only where credit cannot exist not in a new and free country, never but in an old one, sueh as Turkey, Italy or Spain. Is it not a curiosity in this, enlightened age of the worPd, 1857, that the new and powerful agent of civiliza tion, credit, must in the United States of America be made the especial object of defence ? If any thing was necessary o prove that our rulers were behind the age in wnicn tney lived, and were last relapsing into barbarism, we should want no further proof than their, hostility to credit, and their specie currency hum bug. Credit is not only the mighty lever that las lifted our country up, and the new and powerful agent of civilization, but it s the poor man's lever too, by which he ifts himself up and makes himself rich, Credit is the poor man's capital and his whole stock in trade. The poor man bus," who has a character, can be made as rich, the interest of the money except ed , as the capitalist who may sit upon his t)ags of gold, and be the money-king of the day. Credit is the republican and egalized agent of levelling the property of society. Credit gathers together the materials for the best structure which industry, enterprise, and skill may raise. Credit is the fulcrum on which the poor man rears his 'structure up. Credit is the republican name for dollars & cents. Credit is a new mechanical power which Great Britain devised in part, which the United States was perfecting, but which the rough fingers of rude experimenters have destroyed for the present. Credit is life, is food ay, the very air in which a republic breathes. Credit it is which takes the guarled oak from the State of Maine, and fashions it into the keel, Credit creates out of the materials of the wildest forest the majestv and magnifi cence of that proudest of man's achieve ment the beautiful ship, Credit des patches it over the sea, and brings it home laden with the richest freight. Credit takes the clay out of the earth, and forms and fashions it into the gran deur of architectural proportion. Credit it is that clears off the wilderness, where the savage hunted, 'and rears up there the village and the church to resound with the praises ot the living God. . Credit sends the locomotive hissing over the railway track ; and Credit it is which stems the Mississippi for hundreds and hundreds of miles. Credit unites the city, the county and town. Wherever Credit is, prosperity walks too. Credit,, in short, is liberty's great handmaid, and they are sisters in every free land. The freer the land, the greater the prosperi ty, and the greater the credit too. Cre dit tent the gal ley i of Venice all over the Mediterranean sea : but when despotism approached, credit fell, and scarcely a Venetian galley is upon the deep. Cre dit has carried the nag of old England from the little island ot its home over the four quarters of the globe, and do miciliated our language and laws in hun dreds of colonies from Hindostan to the Canadas. Credit was making the Ui nited States the commercial as well as the nolitical wonder of thjs world, but despotism touched it, and credit and pros- : a a , . n fi..i wimntt m Proof that a man is cfead -A Sabscri ber to one of the Eastern papers, a fev years ago, Jei rig sadly! t arrears for "the same, promised the Editor, that if his life VOLUME XXXT1U. was spared to a certain day, he would, - wunoui lau, uiscnarge nis'Ditu xne uav (jasseu ana me diu was not paid, xne natural conclusion therefore was. that the man was dead absolute! v defunct. Proceeding on this conclusion, the Editor- in his next paper, placed the name of! the delinquent under his obituary head,, with- the attending circumstance ot time and. place. Pretty soon after this announce--ment, the subject of it appeared to! the Editor, not with the pale ghastly coun tenance usually ascribed to apparitions but with a face as red as' scarlet. Nei ther did it like other apparitions, wait to be first' spoken to but broke silence with "What the devil, sir did you .mean by publishing my death?" 44Why,j,sir the same that.I mean when I publish the death of any other person, viz: to Jet the world know that you were dead." 4Well but I'll be c s d if I am dea!!" Not dead! then it's your own fault,! for you told me you would positively pay your bill by such a day, if you lived, till mat time, xne uay is past, tne bin- is not paid, and you positively must be dead fori do not believe you would forfeit your word O no." I see you have got round me, Mr. Editor but say no more about it here's the money. And harkee, you wag, just contradict my death nextweek, will you?" ;'0 certainly, sir just to please yoa though upon my word I cant help thinking 'vou died at the specified time, and that you have merely come back to nay this bill; on accouut of your friendship for nie." The following queer and characteristic Advertisement, was' taken from a Dutch Tavern, in Western Pennsylvania, j "DISH IS MINE ADVERTISHMENT: Vare as my vifc Catherine S'toflefubger has pen run a vay mit a fellow vat 1 1 has hired to vork mit me, ant has pait him too dollars a veek, pesites eating, I ant drinking, ant sleeping, ant poarting-and ne has also strayed or stolen rait him mine large hne gray horse, vat is a rdne ctiller nut white and black hares all over his potty unter his pelly, ant top his pack, ant unon bote sides. Hp hascmf Inner ( - o IIVC U pull UIIC CIIU UI UIB pUliy, Hill 0 IUIlj l.t .1 pnr Ann n,l nf L!. 11.. ? X 1 .. J?' taie de tother end of Ins potty, and ven he canters his legs goes too uo ant too down, easy ant shentle like a sheep but yen vonce he scare he runs avay mit every: potty in de world. Now my vife ant dish lellow hash pen run off to redder: pish is tarefore to notefy de publick noit to. pay any dets vat mine vife has pen con tracting as I am turmed not to pay clem: but if de fellow vill pring pack hiine horse mitout trublc, I vill giv him mine vife mit a bill-of sate of all his property py me. ' '- S i ORE N STOFLEFUNGER. Great buttonwood tree A tree has late ly been cut down in South Reading, Mass. which is well deserving notice on account of its size. - i ! The main body of the tree is 8 feet longr and of this length sixteen feet are hollow. At one foot from the butt end its circumference is twenty feet. At six and a half feet, it is sixteen and a half feet. And at twelve feet, it is nearly fifteen feet it circumference. The'; hoi-, low trunk now lies nearly horizontal, and a man nearly six feet in height may stand erect within it. Seme mischievous... person lately kindled a fire in the hol low trunk and the tree came near being consumed; but the fire was extinguished by means of an engine. ,Since .then it has been cut down. - Preparations are making we understand, o furnish the President's House ! in a new and costly style of magnificence, which will eclipse the former gorgeous- nes3 which was exhibited in some f the rooms of that mansion. This for a-plain,. republican government, with & 44 Democ- . ratic" Administration, is excel lentru-r 1 ly i t is patent Democracy. iWf nereti-t cal republicans, can only look on in won der and amazement at the impudence of 4our masters.". Jilex Gaz. Rich Alerts Wases Two neighbors met, one of whom was exceedingly rich. and the other in moderate circumstances. The latter . began to congratulate the first on his great possessions, and on the happiness he must enjoy; and ended by contrasting it with his, own condition. 4My friend," said the! rich .map,! ;!'let? me ask you one question, wouia you be willing to take my tnopertyf- and take . the whole care of it for your board and . clothing?" "No! indeed." 4Well, that is all I get." Blooded Slocks, frev-i-We arc, reques ted to state that at a meeting which took" place in this Town, at Uhe Mansion Ho-' el, on the 16th inst. the Association for the encouragement of blooded stocks was organized by appointing Gen. -Thomas U. Polk President, Col. tC -VVs Long Secretary, and Major? Junaus Sneed, Treasurer. -The Association have deter mined to put the44racV in'gi0,!Ier and prepare for having facs at this8 place in me rail, oi wnicn7 one uwMvw-;w....r- given by the Secretary The purses we utitlerstanllwill be respectaWe, and amusemeBts eond octettwi thest-jsti and liberal principles.) Ibid. :i it
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