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4 VOL I. Salisbury; north ci FRIDAY MORNING,. MARCH V 1853.' IN 'NO; 18. S. W. JAMES MILLEll & JAMES, EDITORS k PROPRIETORS. ! ;, '- -TERMS. ;.: j JTwa Dollars If paid within two months; Twff Dol ,lats and Fifty Cte if payment be delayed eix moBtkfl, and Threp Dollars if not paid within the 1 sear. . LilrertisemenU will be inserted at the usual rates. Court Order charged 25 per cent, higher. A lib eral deduction made to those who advertise by the year. All advertiseuienU must hare the number of times they are to be published marked on them, .or they will be inserted till forbid, and charged -accordingly. ..' . sUl Letters most be post-paid, to receive attention. -THE GREAT CONVERSATIONISTS. Jefferson the Sage of Monticello.. . To the Editor of the Xfiic York Daiiy Time: In my last, I painted Chief Justice Mar uall ; not at the full length of his - public . character, but in the miniature of private life ; for such is the whnle scope which I propose to myselfin these limning. &f -markable individuals.1 . Were I to aim at more each of these sketches would, swell in spite of nic, to a biography Next to the reat light of bur law comes, in my youth ful recollections, he who did niore than all others to subvert, or at least, to confuse it: I mean the author of the doctrines of Nul lification, of debt and charter repudiation, and of that general system of political gib berish which has now obtained the. name ' of Virginia Abstractions; but is, after all. quite as little abstruse -and, altogether as practical as many a favorite . kink of other regions-, which I will not now more direct ly specify, lest I should tread on toes that I must respeet; your own, for instance. Almost from infancy I was accustomed to see Mr. Jefferson. " It was with reverence ; for 1 was a son of those men of ninety-eight, who regarded him as the greatest "of all'civ it geniuses, the very impersonation of phi losophic statcnianship ;;but it was without affection. For, though possessed in an ex traordinary . degree of the exterior arts which conciliate the mature, he .had none of that naturalness, thosa unstudied syui- pathies, which please children ; to whose instinctive judginent,'wily people, because less on their guard, usually betray the most their lack of heart. A child at the breast would have nestled tp the arms Judge Mar-, tfhall; I have seen John Randolph, when at the height of his sarcastic fame in Con gfess, the favorite playmate of my next el- i." -it . , ' ' .I li i i. 1.:.:. i tier urmuer, seating uiuisun uy iiiiu uu iuu ". floor at his call, and entering with . delight into alLhis childish sports ; but nobody, I imagine, ever saw Mr. "Jefferson or Mr. Calhoun pay the slightest - attention 'to' a child. Their attentions were a ina'ter ,of the head, not hearff -They had . ..brains j I think, but nor soul. 1 doubt ' if they ever felt any strong emotion towards their -m Own offspring,, save those of their idea that fan tastic procrea ion of their wits, when in a vagary of political illumination. ; A little later, as the pupil of Mr. Jeffer son's favorite nephew, Pete Garr, and, by- and-by; as youthful visitor at Monticello, L I had opportunity enough to admire and to study him. Captivated at once! by his boundless reputation among those from whom my early qpmions were derived, and y . nm rcuiumuuiu i-uuiiu vl xis iucusbuul conversation, I heard and I observed him with not less of reverence than of curiosity, i f My last and best occasionvfor doing so oc . curred in 1833, during a stay of two days I which I then, in company with but an el S der friend, made at his mansion; on the mountain top, from which he ; seemed (so 1 wide was the prospeep to look down from ' his abdicated realm of Virginia, a philoso y " phic monarch, who had, like Charles V. i and Dioclesian, exchanged thc crown for a 1 . tloisterandcabbages.IhitssizCj its shades, Jte singularity of design its seclusion, the L character of "its grounds and every thing j but piety and fasts wifhing its walls, Mon- ticello looVpd nolUftlQ the monastery ; and' T fis to the cahiages, in culture of which the isclf-unkinged Boriian placed his conso lation they were supplied to tthe sage- by more modern fancies of husbandry, which amused not only him, but all his- neigh bors; at one while upon some new concep tion of profit, he laid down all. his planta tion in Irish. potatoes; at another, he sow d it in black-eyed j peas, making always excellent but rather imaginary crops, which he could neither sell nor consume.! Meanr time he was obliged to buy bread-corn for his negroes, while his outless horses were by the laughing farmers- around, ; affirmed to be fed with philosophy. . I cannot aver that such was their provender though their usual condition did not manifest any mu nificence of kittle. It could not be said of him, however, as by jDrydcn of another State. reformer! . . ' ! ' 'D6ol was his kitchen, though his brainfwas ho"' for there was much good entertainment at jjlonticello, for man,, if not for horse. The hospitality there was most perpetual; the 'cheer elegant, but rather skilful than pro fuse. Their table was never one for which dainties seemed to have been collected, as if they were the master's main solicitude: but it was made up of good things, and looked (as one would .have unstudied though refined, as if the result of taste and habit, not of a particular effort or expense: G. A.. MILLER. In that realm of good living, where, on ma ny of the old estates it is an incessant feast, I have seen boards far more lavish and lfix urions than the sage's; but few, on the whole that better hit the mark Df what just suffi ciently ministers to the palate.' " His learn ing in some other matters, to which (class ical and scientific) he made pretensions, might be questioned ; butlj in eating he was certainly an adept, admirably a friend of the .belly. No. man in the .country ever bet ter than he understood all the French prin ciples, whether the Religion, Morals, Poli tics, or Cookery. He had! materialized' as far as he could, every thing, sacred and civ il; to complcte'thc total subversion, it was only necessary to; sensualizp; and, for this purpose, the aptest means were to bring about a revolution of the , kitchen, unteaeh" tbe Ancient Dominion of all its old English ideas of roast and boiled, and let it down i from joints and solid surliofa, hog and horn-' iny, to frog, fricassee and ragout. To give the last blow, therefore, to our institutions . and manners, he imported d French cook, 'taught the Galliq science-toj'his sable min isters of the mouth, and set Rip the reform of the larder, which Patrick jllenry dreaded' as sure to lead to degeneracy, and denounc ed to the common people, iulthe contest of -Ninety-eight; when he told tliem ("as he was wont,) in their dialect, that "they should beware -of this man, who had got so many outlandish ways and lived iu Paris till he had so Frenchified himself that j he could no longer eat the vittles they were j all fetch t up on ; and so he had brought back to old Yirgiriny a white. Frenchman, to cook for him." If the great Patrick-i-fitest of all Pmen to deal, with emier usurping kings or, pernicious demagogues-had pived a little longer, the story: of Ninety-eight and the whole Jefferson ian history would probably have been a" very deffercut one. ' 1 1 So much for the administrative order whiph reigiied at Monticello, jwithout and within. The mansion stood half-embosom-ed in fine trees,' many of them the ancient natives of the spot,, but mixet with others of exotic growth, whose presence gave the necessary air of! cultivated : and arranged beauty td the scene. The habitation fron ted the east, and stretched north and south, in a long lofr range, terminating in their tiirta each by small pavilion , that sers'ed a t pleasure For a'still quieter p ace of retreat to the naster of his family, when studious ly disposod. These With a h.wn, occupied the artificially-levelled crest o: ' the- moun tain a space of some six -acres. On the north and east, this) fell off in wild declivities, jon.the south, o abrupt arid in a lallinr garden, was, I think, much better situated than worked.' V For the sage was' strong f in executing them. Iifthc rehr a slight depression, such as the, uplundcrs call a bench,. inteiTenting, where crosses a Toad to th'e- neighboring town ! of Charlottesville, there joined by tht tp the mansion rose the superior elevation of Carter's 3Iountain; celebrated else-whcre in Fedeialist ballads, as. the scene of. the sage's t'wc military jexT ploits his flight, as Governor of Virginia from Tarleton's j dragoons. His escapade at KichmOnd, before the hangldog array of Arnold, was his. other warlike! achievement of the llevolutioin. " One majr, no doubt, be a patriot without being a hero : for these were the only occasions, during that great and oft eui forlorn struggle for freedom which called up all the valor and "virtue of our land, when the 'jApostle of Deniocracy" ev er saw the face of. the foe; 'and, both times, he; ;(the Apostle) took to hisj heels. No matter: he lived tof denounce, 'as "sold; to England," as "tories," traitors," "monarch ists," "aristoesats," -"enemies of liberty," Vrashingtoii and ricarly all the brave men who had won it for us on the battlefield and confirmed it in agoodand sobei government: yea", he not only lived to slaner them but of tbe popular affections and into their graves but to set his heels and those j of every par asite of nonsense and falsehood upon them, in shocking triumph from thajt dayto this! So much for haying served rather than flat tered the people ; who, after all, are - quite as apt as Kings to take the wprst men ;for . r ? i -1 -' their , favorites, provided the make the loudest professions to them of Admiring their power and adoring their persons. To pro ceed, however : for I am playing the small historian, and mijst "not tren;h upon jthe province of the greater, in pronouncing the award of time on men's deeds. . There could be no spot more enchanting than that in which the patriarch and polit ical theorists had thus fixed the retreat of his -old age. It. seemed designed by Na ture the very seat from which1, lifted above the worhPs turmoil, one. who, had 'exhaust ed what it can bestow of eminence might look widely down upon it, withdrawn from its personal troubles, but contemplating, at pleasure the distant animation of the scene. It was a place scarcely less fijt for the vis ionary abode of the philosophic Speculatist than, by its far-spread and shifting beauties of the landscape, to inspire a; potes senses Tfith perpetual delight. I am familiar with the wildest views which our mountain rang es, the softest picture which jour vales jaf ford,from Maiue tote Missisippi. Nowhere have I seen them more charmingly at once blended and contrasted them in the prospect which on all sides greets the eye from Mon ticello. Had you ever looked forth,1 'as I have often done, from the cloven diadem of vast rocks that crown the conical Peak of otter-like Monticello,. an outwork (but a still greater one) of thes Blue Kidgq, pro jecting into the Plain df Lowland Yirgin- I could only tell you that this does not exceed it, except in the height from which you gaze. But you are, no doubt, acquaint ed, with the valley of the . Hudson, jas be-: held from the Catskill Mountain House : I do not think the view tLence, though from a much loftier elevation, by any means as wide, or as variously picturesque as that from this Appalachian watch-tower of Vir ginia. At a single point only is the pros pect shut in-p-by CuitctV TJountain, on the West. In every pther direction the nearest limit of the vision is the fa ntastic range of the Blue Ridge, in its closest ap- proach, some twenty-five miles off; hut vis-1 l ble, north-east and south-west, : Until, full eight miles away, the airy line of iti -bold pinnacles is at last lost in the clouds. A- long its base'stretches a sylvan jscene the most- agreeable that vale of the famous Red Lands of the Old Dominion, noted for its iertihty of the two plans by ; many es- I teemed to have been any thing'but ! bless- ings to the soil Tobacco and Presidents, Some three miles off, in t-bis.vah?, lies tbe pretty town. - pf Charlottesville; ' behind which rise, in a long quadrangle, on a flat- tened hill, the, many-columned porticos and domes of the University. From this side comes wandering along by the -mountain s foot the-quiet .stream cf the Ilivanna, seen this philosophic improvement in architec here and there only, in au occasional gleam turc. I " J ' . - through the trees that border its course. I Straying on by Sliadwell, the Sage's birth- place now, alas ! desecrated by a eotton- mill and through, the small town of Mil- ton, which is, in spite of its n'athb, a very unpoetical place, the river, in aj lent kind of a way, as if (like I ITery indo- a . genuine Virginian) it neither knew nor cared.whcre it was going, or had lost itself in! some ab- stractiori, proceeds to disappear in itlio vast champaign whichj stretching- iaway from Jiast to South m cn.dless perspective tjll it one weredetained by ushers," and ccrenio fades in the dim distance, lies spread before nial; blut when you are about to pay your you, like an immense garden, laid out with a fanciful avoidance of regularity, 'dotted 1 with pigmy habitations and woods' and fields, J in gay variety, that look like interminable pleasure' grounds. The country; is not, flat but a gently-waving one ; yet, from above and afar, its inequalities of 'surface vajnish into: a map-like smoothness, and; are ttace- ?ble only m the light and shadp cast by ljill and plain. The prospect here has a diameter of near a hundred niile its s;ope is therciyre such that atmospheric effects areiconstantly flickering over . it, cyeii in; Uie mostcloutlless day3 of a climate as bright if "not quite so sofas that cf j Italy; kmd thus each varying aspect cf the Wcathct i reflected, all the while, from the features of tne, land-scape, asjthe passions pje oyer the face of some capricious beauty, that jauths, and frowns, and weeps,-almost jin the same breath .. Near you, perhaps, all -is smiling in tue sunlight ; yonder broods! or i bursts a storm; while, in a third quarter dark- nest and light contended upon the prOspect, and chase each other. The sky itsel thus not more shifting than the :sccr e may have before you. It takes a now you a- pect at almost every moment, and bewitch es you with a perpetual novelty ivmong the novelties is often seen, about sunrise; . ' - . i i I ! . i ; i " the phenomena which science calls jmirage day, but, dismounting at a fence breast and sailors. "looming." I never witnessed, high, wouldileap over it, by only placing and have only been told the feet ; for I in- dulgc in few of the popular errors, andfeast of all in that of early rising. ' The . distant and detached pinnacle of. Willis's Moun- tain which, alone, some fifty mi due south, cuts, with its . singularly cone, thc otherwise unbroken line csj eff, sharp of the sea-like horizon is the object on which is chiefly exhibited the optical'. illusion in question. . Through it that insulated peak ak'es a hundred fantastic shapes; sometimes shooting up into the air, like a tower or a column ; then suddenly disolving atyay,' or perhaps changing to the figure of a huge tree, or a montrous giahs, or a big wind-will, such as Don Quixote himself would! not have dared tilt with. Lam inclined to think that there was also a backward illusion, by which those below saw the philosopher of the mountain himself, in the! same misty, magnified niultiftfrini ty of shapes For no- body among us ever knew, better than he, seated in his library in alow Spanish chair the use to be made of airy doctrines the c held i forth o his visitors in almost end advantage of a politician's showing himself - !css flow of fine discourse;' his body seemed through a vapor. .He was anj ablej cloud- impatient ' bf keeping still for his mind, compeller,. and certainly befogged mankind shifted his position all the while and so with not a little success. j , I have been minute in my description. The rare beauty of the scene: never, ji think so exactly delineated must justify kne; nor less the celebrity which the'spot lias bor rowed from the master. Vere ij; but a common one," it would still be full of infer- est, as the habitation of one of the" most i remarkable men ever produced by this Coun try, exuberant as it is of remarkable! pro ductions j-especially in the iqe of self-sacrificing patriots and philosophic statesmen. Led away by the natural wonders of the place, I have only said of the building thgt it was long land low. ! It was of red brick; the main entrance, by a handsome enough portico; while a sort of cupola, half dome, surmounted and lighted, the central hall, its gallery and stairs. To this the access was by the portico, ilts floor was tessella ted; its sides adorned with 'feonic works of art, and many ' objects of Natural History; conspicuous ? among which were bones of mammoth, and gigantic horns of the elk, moose, &c.. i Behind it lay a reception room its walls covered with pictures, portraits, and lofty mirrors. Corridors from the hall led, right and left, to other apartments and wings j-to other parlors, a. dining saloon, the library, the Sage's .workshop, (he, tin kered much in other wheels," levers, balan ces, checksrand :euriositfcsofmotion,bc-. sides those of political mechanism,) "his chambers, and those far visitors-r-more than it would please either me or you to describe. As for the upper "story, (thj only other of the house) it was indescribable, and indeed from' its peculiarly of structure, I may say, uninhabitable.; For doubtless, upon the great projector's favorite; principle of sac- rificing all orders and eradations to the low- est he; had, in building his first story.no regard to the second; but giving to each room of the ground floor, a height of ceiling proportioned to its size, had of course made the superior floor all ' up"' and down, high and low,, a mcre4 series of brak-necks, from one room of, which, to another, (though in the same story,) you could only get by clambering.' The very rats, who could on- ly agVcc to dwell there,: must have cursed I have led you with some delays, into the presencce of the sage himself. But when the principal object is grand, its accessories that should be previously examined,- inust be many.. To i a noble residence, the ap- proacn, can nay De only- Dy a: long avenue, when you ,'vjsit a renowned general in his camp, you cannot' expect to be carried to headquarters, without calling at the- out- posts. It would be bom , provoking and stupid if,, in going to see an obscure person, 'court to a sovereign, yous like to see him in all his state, and you judge of his digni- ty in proportion to your detention. fliiTi ArrJ ne T aw hi loof vugvuj -u ixiiiA, uvvyij ji rim iui xwuw no longer in the red breeches, which were once famous as his favorite and rather con spicuous attire; but still" vindicating by a sanguine waistcoat, his attachment to that Republican color; in gray shorts, small sil- Ycr knee buckjes, gray woollen stockings, black slippers,, a blue body-coat, surmoun ted by a gray spencer; tall, and though lit- tie of person V and i decidedly, graceful and agile of.motion and carriage, yet long and JH-limbed, Mr. Jefferson's figure was com manding and striking, though bad, and his face most animated and agreeable, although remarkably ugly. His legs, you perceive, by no means shunned observation; yet they were scarcely larger at the knee than at lie ankle, and had never been 'conscious of a, calf. Still, though without strength, they had always borne him along with vig or and suppleness. These bodily qualities ,s: and a health almost unfailing, he preserved, jD a singular . degree, to the very close of his long , life. ! At the time 1 speak ot, when he was in his eighty-first year, he not oniy mounted his horse witnout assistance f and rode habiiuallv some ten miles every his hand on the topmost rail. He then walk eJ not only well and swiftly, but with light- ness an4 springiness of tread, such as few young men even have. If was a restless activity of mind, which informed all this unusualj mobility of body; and the two, I think, were in himJ greatly alike. For . his intellect had, like his person -more size than' ' shape, more; adroitness than force, more suppleness than solidity, and effected its ends by' continuity of action, not mas3 cf power, by manipulation not muscularity, You may . batter jtb' pieces with a small hammer that ' which a cannon ball would not shiver, i He was never idle: nay'hard- ly a moment still, j He rose early and was up latejthrough his life; and was all day whenever out ort foot or a horse-back) at studv. at work or in conversation. If his legs and Jingcre werb at rest, his tongue was sure to be a-going. Indeed even when twisted itself about 'that you might almost have thou gut he was attitudinizing. Mean time, his face, expressive as it was ugly, was not less busy (than his limbs, in bear-' ing iti part in the -conversation, and kept up all the while, the most speaking by -play an eloqacnee of the countenance as great, as ugly ieautures could well have. It stood to' his conversation jlike the artful help of well-imagined illustrations, to the text of a book; a 'graphic commentary on every word that was as convincing to the eyes, as was bis discourse to the ears. The impression which it conveyed was la strong auxiliary of all he uttered; for it begat in you am al most unavoidable persuasion of his f incer ity a virtue of the appearance of which he. made great use, and had vast need, i Ygu have seen" his portraits, his busts, the bronze statuefaithful enough, except J as to thc limbs which the Israelite navy captain bought in Paris at thc price of old clothes, and offered to Congress, but which it put by with, disdain, as a stroke, of spec ulation," meant to procure professional ad vancement liot carned in any other way. From all these, one gets 'a just enough idea of the mere inould of his physiognomy; but none, of course, of that nobility which was its only fine! quality, nor of the oddity of his complexion. This was much, in its general tict7 of the color of cream; but as that substance is -one of which you good people of thegreat city of Gotham, conceive only as a modification of prepared chalk, let me explain by what 'they' have oftener seen -the fixity part of ji" pumpkin pie. The fade looked as if it tvere buttered with 1 such a paste; but, in; addition tothis ghast liness of hue, it was besprinkled with small poz-pits, all of which were of a lively pur ple. , Bad as was the J uncontested, you may imagine what its beauty became, when set off by such a foil. As to the features, he had not one that was good; except the y'cs; they were a, greyijh blue, clear and sparkling. His head was well set and well 'curried, but had the J.aepbinical shape and air; his hair- was origijially reddish, but turned to an ill-bleached; foxiness: his fore head was large, but nowell modelled in those main frontal regipns which bespeak loftiness of thought and treat iven ess of imr jagination; it indicated: clearness not great ness. - His brows were neither strong nor soft, but irregular and uncertain, as those of one who was wanting ' int will, and ye had not much feeling.!! His hose was mean a small tube ending; in; a small bulb; it was much cocked up", and derived from that shape a character ot. pertuess and vulgari ty. His mouth was rattier large, but the lips thin and not well jj cit, the expression fitting on thein bland but not benevolent, conciliating rat;uertnan randiy; its meaning assigned : his emotions j Jta the manners, hot theheart to- policy, not the temper5. The chin was, like the forehead, broader than it was strong.. Such were liiis lineal ments in detail; quite indifferent, separated ly; ana yei aiiogetner,; very expressive ana agreeable. : lAs his motions, light and easy, Were the contradiction ;of liis ill-made limbs, so was his pleasing, and s animated counted nance tlitit of features, of themselves, igno- ble apart. "-I - J ' . - . I "':' i ' 1 'J' y ' .''" ' Lastly his conversation; he certainly was; pne of the best talkers; I Lave ever listened to;' copious in the. extreme, without ever growing tedious; easy yet compact; flowing. but never loose; very variously, and to all aspearanee soundly informed, and jeontmu-i illy dealing out his infomation, but rath er as if to: gratify youj not himself; his blind seemed to' me, tie-the great reposi tory of the knowledge . that is gotten from ithers,J and bf the wisdom that must come from one's self- Trained in what was once its best school -Parisian? saloons he derstood conversation thoroughly as an art; i and he madd the most of it, as an engine )f personal influence andfor the propaga tion of his party opinions.! Towards the in culcation of these, his conversation, what ever thc subject,, was .usually bent except when a .scientific matter was in question; either he knew no literature, law, history, philosophy, ! morals, nor theology, or he could not talk of them, unless as connected in some direct, or indirect way, with Deni pcratic theories. His jpower,' indeed, of Winning and ot controlling men, always lay chiefly in his skill of pc-roual communica tion; for, even in "public bodies, he rarely ina Jo .speeches; nor have we any record of liis haying ever ' shone a? an orator. In short, not feeling strong enough to attack men's convictions by the front gate of mah ful eloquence, hp stole in by the back-door of addresses and of insinuation in private j; ? At least, lioweycr he gfit in; which is, no! doubt, .the great end; jind when the end is great, few people are delicate about the means. His were perhaps, a little burgla rious; but then I must confess that the picklock of his talk was admirable.; i i - ' ;t ' I Ib, Segketauio. : - An Incident in:! tiie Capitol. rA Washington correspondent of thd Concord Democrat says : j . ; .;' . .- 1 Yesterdav. in the "House, a poor lady bver 60 years of age, who; had bee for six, the name of her mother, woman -of 89 years of age, was the occasion of quite a fecene. The bill at last, after so.many days of hope, deferred, and anxjous poverty, was brought up. The' lady Herself, who wasj present, in a scant attire of sable, listened to the debate witn painiui mteresr, ana when at last Jthe indications that the till would pass became! too evident j to be doubted, the long pent emotions of her heart were stronger than her strength,; tM she fainted and fell ipsensible' on the.1 floor, i The claim; amounting' to some $2, 000. was -put through iristanter. - Never did woman faint in better time. ; There was hardly a show of opposition. I The Public Landrf ' The land bill reported by Mr. Bennett at the last session of Congress, still remains unacted upon. The bill provided for distri buting, among all the States of the Union, the proceeds of tho sale otthe public lands, to ibe applied to the construction of works thc siensot the bill, apart from . the .:x l : i -1 rri, :..-.:. e great public advantage which would result from its being made a law, ought to have secured for it the early action of Congress and their cordial adoption. But ittill lin gers, undecided Upon, and in the meantime other acts are passed giving public lands to seine of the new stages for their local ben efit. The following paragraph from . the Kepublic will ishow what has been done in this way: , ' . J , "i -4 '. The lleport of the Public Land Comniis sipner. presented to Congress last session, shows that upwards of 81,000,000 acres had been granted to the liew btates andUimuiing responsible and; dehnito proposi Territories for purposes of local benefit, j tiona to the planters for tne establisnment, Of this. quantity more than 40,000,000 acres were for schools; more the 28,00l), 000 were swamp grants, and more than , 13,000,000 were for internal improvements. To the last item Congress last session' ad ded largely, Missouri being the (gainerl: aiid an item of 5,000,000 acres has already been added this session cn account of Ar kansas. : i j There are, we say, other objects pending before Congress looking to the disposition of the public lands for local improvements inj particular .States ; and another absorbing orie is proposed to cede thc pubKc lands, td the Skites in which1 they lie. To the bbject sought to be attained by the first of these propositions internal improvements an the hew States we make no objection. We are in favor of the object, an! would have Congress grant lauds to ( secure f it. But we would have this done justlj-by distributing the public lands equally, and equitably among all the States. Then . the new States would haye the propei? shard of the: public lauds to aid in carrying 4ut their iriiprovcments, and the old Statesthe 'eld thirteen among others, by whom the iude- pendence of the States was established, hd the right to dispose of -the lauds secured to Congress would. have their-share for tlicir improvements, which are essentially ncf cbssary to the full development of thelrc-' sources of the Union. ' ' -i ; f These will be -secured by the passage -1 of ; Mr. Bennett's land bill. It is therefore just. to all. Let. then thisL&mgress.,'.'by.' passing the bill, show that it is moved by i a sense of justice, and it will haye norhlng to fear. Ball. Tut. ' A r . jl:p ..'. The Works Of Daniel Webster. J j It speaks favorably, we think, for the intelligence and sound national feeling df the people ot this country, that MessfS. Little,( Brown & Co.. have been caUedup qn to issue the' sixth ediUchTFf 3Tr. Web sker's works. We have been struck 'with the justice of the opinion . expressed by a distmguisued clergyman of l'hiJadelphiajin a discourse on the" character of 31r. Web--, siter, that "the best. thing we can -do. for training our young men' is to place in their Hands the works of this -great, statesman ;' and also of liis remark' upon the influence 4f that recommendation, "1 feel that I have, rendered every 1 family a useful service, vhich may have been induced through my iCcommeuuatioii to give it a place among their household books.';' From a generhl eonviction of the truth here expressed, in addition to the interest which every, intel ligent reader, who ouce enters . upon the persual of any.. of Mr.- u ebster s specchfs": or. writings, cither from the importance of; the subjecjts treated, . the i soundness end force of tbe views expressed, or from the charm of thc style 'and manner of tdiscuT sion, we have no doubt that these works will attain a much wider circulation andrK jar more general persual than those of any Other American author. The excellent manner in which the work, is published: and the reasonableness of the price, reconi-1 tneud it to a general circulation. ..' '!&; We learn that an idea' has been enter tained to some' extent that the edition abovW referred to, edited by Mr. S Everett, may be hereafter superseded by another and more complete edition. This is a mistake.. This edition was compiled and pdited with great care during the lifetime of Mr. Webster, with all the assistance ; which he could af ford for rendering it complete, and no new edition can' supersede it. Should there. be a further publication of correspondence or i miscellanies, it will be m the form of an addition which will in no degree impair the vahjie of the -present edition, but will iteud to' increase its interests. - . . ' ! Boston. Advertiser The Press Indispensable. The newspaper, at the present day, , is not ; consulted only for events that are; transpi ring all over the world, or for interesting essays, or instructive and pleasant reading. It is consulted as eagerly in regard to the, .wants of the community, or ia redundancy -4 as for any other matter of information. The "advantage is reciprocal. I haye an article; to sell some one, perhaps many,; are in wnt of that very article. They pa tiently await the issue of that map of "mo ving incidents by; flood and held," the newspaper, and there find, what weeks of personal, anxious enquiry, havcotkerwise failed to"disclosc, that the article they want the ship -the house, the- goods'; are with me. A Halt dozen or nines a irtung suin expended,' have saved that purchaser-the.f'pal church $outh, left Xashville on the 8th trouble that otherwise ensued, and cf days j inst., for California, via New Orleans, time lost. "Both, parties are pleased 'and j '-' ' ' : . r - bepefitted-the trae.1( The colored cities of ihWiheld a State eS;from one to the o her and ne , Gonvcntion ;at Columbu3, Jan;. i9th prizesgoon, indeed so inaiu s mis system; oeeome, iuj.l ummvoij vm. munity of the most modest size, would be almost thrown into chaos if it were broken up.' Men consult the morning sheet, and more business' is done through hints gath ered from that, than by all other hints put together. That sheet has become as indisr pensable as the ledger, and is now as im-; plicitly" studied and heeded by the mercan-j tile community. . i i Important Hevement. - The Baltimore Patrio't announces posi- tively that the wealthiest, and most influ- J ential organi-sation in Hurope, has deter mined to send out an agent whose1 visit is for the purpose of ascertaining whether or i not the cotton-growers of the- Southern- i "States arc disposed to throAv off the Liver pool, morioply, of cotton-and, thereby, by a conjunction with the planters of the cot ton districts, fo create a continental depot for cotton. I The Patriot; has seen la coxn municationj from a distinguished j foreiga minister on the part of his Oovcrnment to the President of the Conipanynow enlisted in this 'momentous scheme. This compa- i ny, writes as such to an ofiicial journal in this country stating that; they are disposed to carry out-the plan proposed .in a. conti-' nental depot. for cotton. - According tothc Patriot, tn-rc isno doubt that 4 powerful- Ji.uropcan organization for trade is about by direct ShipmentlTTra depot b cotton, on the.coiitinejnt There is! no mistake about The evidence is of the highst charaoi tcr; It is intended that 1 thc agent'visitine '' America .sliall proceed tq the planting Vdis- tncts, see, the planters for which purpose tuey win up inviieu, to meet at certain ac cessible pbrnts and ascertain exactly what ' . the disposition for direct shipments is - ! the ability jef planters to I act the v difficult '---' ties, the oppositioii4f any, and every thing else necessary, for the information of the .. company.- j 'Idiis preliinary step is taken and there have been tvo representations ; made in Europe; one that the planters are- -Vr irresponsible aniindspdseTto co-operate"; .V the :othci that they" can be relied on, and are. determined, if tumished with the fa- -fcilities and j responsible agencies, to- make' direct shipments. The. thing no doubt will-be tried, as the company in Europe -arayery mtich interested in its. success, and everyw'ay disposedjo favor the move ment. If It is carried .out, 'and a'" depot for. cotton established onjthe continent, ve- ry iportautr results -must, touow. It is . confidently I believed by) the continental powers, that they: will nipet with a hearty co-operation' from the Jcottbn interest, which is suppjsed, to banot dvertondoi Liiverpoo.' "Ve watch this movement with interest. lli(Jdnond Enyuiref. j Hev. Albert Barnes. We learn from the ' 2srew York Evange listthat almost touching apd interesting scene 'occurred at the First Presbyterian Church in SPhiladclphia, a fetf : evenings since, in the congregatioh overwhichr the llev. Dr. : Barnes has exjercised his pasto ral care .for .more than twenty years. . Dr. B. it is known, : has tendered his resign nation upoin the delicate ground that from the partial loss of ! his leye-sight, he was uuauttj iu iuuii iiib puri :oi lue . con tation. :'i : Mobile, Feb. 11. i 1Ievv EFALCATioN. Much excite- nient lias" pecasioned: lierc to-day by a rumor that Postmaster has been dis- covcrod to. be a defaulter to government ix; mo uinuuiii ui -, j - ! ': "-.:: , . r. - - '' Decline; in Iron. Late English papers state, that Iron speculations haye received . a check. There had ' been a decline in Scotch pigs! in a' fortnight, from 73sto 00s., these being the highest and; lowest quotations. i , Cf. HaMil ton" Jones, private secretary to Hon. Wr. R. Kingr-lefti Washington on Friday, for Havana, via Charleston, under an appointment from the penate, to inform Mr.' King oi bis election. Sidney' Webster, Esq.jj of Concord, N. JI has been appointed private secretary to -the. President elect. . 1 Hon. Humphrey 3Iarshall; the ' United States Commissioner to China, on reaching Malta, Uvas joined by the British, Envoy and the two ere this are in China. ' His" bill to rcmoye ihe Seminole Indians" has passedjihe Floridalegislature, notwith standing the Governor's veto, and the troops will be organized lorthwitn. ; - - " '1 ' Bishop Suul?, of the5 Methodist Episco- - . attended.- " vl ' You will not anger a man.sa much, by showing. hini that you hate him, as by ex- pressing a contempt' of liim. ; . ". r "He-re; lies the body of John Watson, . Read; not this with your hats on, For why ? He was the Provost'of Dund, Hallelujah ! ballelxue : tract between himself and the congrega- '' tion, aud htnee thai it Was just that it should end. But the members .-of that congregation unamimously declined accep ting his resignation, and; have .promptly adopted resolutions by which a co-pastor . is to be appointed to relieve Dr. Barnes he 'still continuing to be regarded as their " pastor, with no change sin their relations except" such as are forbidden by the calami v. ity above referred to, and for which he -shouldpbttiin the rest he needed. The congregation, It i was stated, had leased to regard jtheir" respected and beloved" pastor, in he light cf a. business con- r tract ; he had served- them 'with all his : strength and ability for (more than twen- ty years ; during the best days of. his useful life-j-and they; could not consent to sepcrate from him now that by those very efforts he had nearly lostj the inestimable J blessings of; sight. 'Such! conduct : on the, . . part' of the congregation is highly praisei worthy, and is an example worthy pf imi ¬ bee tlfc
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