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BEAUT. AND FASHION.
Said Beauty to Fashion, as they sat at the toilette,
■** If I give you a charm you are certain to spoil it,
And really, dear madam, you often resort
To such very odd fancies inv work to distort,
I hope you won’t thiuk me ill.natur’d or vain,
But I scarce know my own, whvjn l sec it again.”—
Thus Beauty ran on—and thus Fashion r**pli*'f2r—
*• Who does most for the sex. Miss; shall fairly be
tried ;
For my claim to their gratitude can’t be denied.
Your nymphs, with their forms, their complexions,
their features,
What arc they, without me, but poor awkward crea
tures ?
But for my. assistance, I pray you to tell
If you ever could make your most favored a Belle ?
Besides, Miss, in spito of tho favors you boast,
How scarce are your blessings, how scarce is a Toast!
A complexion, a shape, yo:> confer now am! then,
But to One that you give, you refuse it to Ten ;
Now I am impartial, anil hut for my aid,
Botli Venus am! Cupid might throw up their trade,
And oven your Ladyship die an old inaid.”
With n toss of disdain, and a look in the glass—
“Ah! Fashion,” said Beauty, “that vaunt may not
pass,
The most that yoUr vot’ries can ever obtain,
Is the heartless regard of the Light and the Vain;
They may sparkle, ’tis true, for a while in tho Ring,
But soon pass away—quite an unnotic’d thing,
lake tho fast-failing hue of the Butterlly*s wing.
The nymph th'it’s indebted to you for her power,
Will find it can only endure in the hour
When Iiove, and when Reason desert their domain,
That Folly and you lor a mo.nen: may reign.”
W. R.
powers, he soon rose to public notoriety trad
usefulness.
In 1812, at the age of 27 years, he was se
lected as a candidate lor Congress, in the
district in which he resided, and which inclu.
ded Cincinnati. He was elected by more
than double the number of votes given to two
other citizens, who were supported agaiust
him.
He took his seat in Congress in the sum
mer session succeeding the declaration of war.
It was sn era of deep interest, demanding
great wisdom and energy in the conduct of
public aiiairs. A system of revenue was
adopted, and various other subjects of great
moment were acted upon. Mr. M’Lean was
young and inexperienced, and showed his
good sense by avoiding to lake part in the de
bates, preferring to enlarge his knowledge by
listening to the arguments of mature states-
He uniformly gave his support to
regard to those causes which favor the pro-1 modations. AH transient ones less than one
longation of life. , fortnight, one dollar per day—for two weeks
1. Descent from long-lived Ancestors.— 6,00 per week—for three weeks, 5,00 per
Dr. Rush never met with a single instance of week—^all experimentalists less than- three
a person who had lived to be 80 years old, I weeks, considered as transient boarders,
whose ancestors had not been remarkable for I Note.—Day boarders can be accommoda-
their longevity. ' In some instances the Ion. I ted for two dollars and a half per week—sin.
gevity was on the side of the father, in others gle dinners 25 cents^—Dinners $ 1 12 1-2 for
on that of the mother, but most generally .it I one week. •
wap common to both parents. The knowl-1 No deduction for absence less than a week,
edge of this fact may starve not only to assist
in calculating what are termed the chances of • From the Portland Courier.
life, but it may be useful to the physician To editor of , the Portland Courier away down
** • • I a. n M 4 al.A k! ini n — ^ A V —
He may learn from it to cherish the hopes of
his patients in chronic and some acute diseas
es, in proportion to the capacity of life they
h<ive derived from their ancestors.
2. Temperance, in Eating and Drinking.—
To this Dr. Rush found a few exceptions.—
THE VIOLET.
I love nil things Ilia seasons bring.
All buds that start, all birds that sing,-
All loaves front white to jot
All the sweet words that summer sends,
When she ree-nlls her tlowcry friends,
But chief—the violet!
I love, how much I love the rose,
On whoso soft lips the south wind blows,
I n pretty timorous throat;
Tho lily paler than the moon,
The odorous, wondrous world of June,
Yet more—the violet!
She comes, the first, tho fairest thing
That Heaven upon the earth doth fling,
Ere winter’s star has set;
Site dwells behind Iter leafy screen,
And gives, as angels give, unseen,
Mo, love—tho violet 1
What modest thoughts the violet teaches.
What gracious boon the violet preaches,
Bright maiden, ne’er forget,
But leant, and love, and so depart,
And sing thou, with thy wiser heart,
“ Long live the violet.”
JHlgcellaus*
IION. JOHN M’LEAN,
Associate Justice of the U S. Supreme Court.
John M’Lean was bom in Somerset county
! in the State of New Jersey, on the 11th of
March 1785. During his childhood, his fa- organize it.
thcr. removed to the viciuity of Lexington, in
Kentucky, where he remained till he pur-
chased a tract of land in Miama county,
which he first occupied in 1797. Ho contin
ued to reside on the same farm, now brought
by the progress of improvement within the
limits of the State of Ohio. The restricted
pecuniary means of Mr. M’Lean, prevented
^ him from conferring on his sous the advunta-
tcs of a classical education, even if there had
[ been seminaries for imparting such instruc.
tion in tlwse distant settlements. His sons
could partake only of the inferior education
to ho derived from the common schools in tho
country. In these schools, John M l Lean, the
subject oi this notice, distinguished himself
from the earliest period of his career. Ho
always occupied the first place in his class,
und us a pupil, was noticed for the firmness of
purpose which has so strongly marked les
subsequent life.
He continued on his father’s farm, engaged
in the honorable and invigorating labors of an
husbandman, until 1802. Becoming desi.
rous of enlarging the stores of his knowledge,
he left his farm and his father’s house, and
^commenced the study of the Latin language,
and other branches of liberal learning, under
care of two gentlemen in the ncighbor-
1, well qualified to superintend his.educa-
tho administration, as was the case with nearly
all the other members from |£e West. The
first important measure to which he was a pub.
lie advocate, was a bill to compensate those in.
dividuals who lost their property, which was
employed in the public service at Detroit.
He was also author of the measure which pla
ced the widows of the officers and soldiers
who fell in battlo, on the half pay pension
list for five years. The benefits of this hu
mane act were extensively felt by a class of
persons whose bereaved condition deeply ex
cited the public sympathies. Mr. M’Lean
thenceforward took a prominent position in
the discussions on the policy of the war, sup-'
porting the administration with great steadi
ness and vigor.
He was' a member ofa committee ctn “ For
eign Relations,” and also of that oh « Public
Lands.” While at Washington he had much
local business of his constituents to transact,
which was incident to the conflict with Great
Britaih. His first period of duty in the House
of Representatives having closed, he was re
elected by the unanimous rote of the district.
No one was named as his opponent. It is a
most honorable fact, and one which cannot
be very often adduced in regard to the object
of public favor, that not the slightest censure
was ever attached to the public or private
character of Mr. M’Lean. During- the ses
sion of the Legislature of Ohio in 1814 and
15, he was strongly urged to become a can
didate for the Senate of the United States,
but declined. At the next session of the
Legislature of Ohio, he yielded to the wishes
of Itis friends, and was unanimously elected a
Judge of the Supreme Court of the State.
During six years, he discharged the ardu
ous duties of his office in such a manner us
to give general satisfaction to the people.
In the autumn of 1822, Judge M’Lean, with
out his solicitation or knowledge, was nomi-
nated by President Monroe, Commissioner
of the Land Office, which appointment he
was induced to accept after considerable hes-
i itation. In the summer of 1823, he was
! named Post Master General—a department
! wliich was at that time overwhelmed with
i debt. It was truly a Herculean task to re.
Judge M’Lean entered, howev-
east in the State of Maine.
Washington City, Sept- 14.
My dear old friend: It’s got to be a pret-
ty-considerable long while now since I’ve writ
to you, for I neVer like to write, you know,
without I have something to say. But I’ve
He met with one man 81 years old, who had I S ot something on my mind now that keeps
been intemperate in eating ; and four or five I tuae linking so much that I cant
persons who had been intemperate in the use of [ hold In aa y longer. So jest between you
ardent spirits. They had all beeh day-labor- an “. rae ’. ^ * te ^ y° u wb at ’ t ‘ s * ® ut ^ raust
ers, and had not commenced drinking until I begin a little wa y s before hand, so you can
thev began to feel the languor of old age.— j see h°fo sides of it, and 111 tell you what tis
The Doctor was inclined to the opinion that I as soon ® S et aloug to it. You see I and
tea and coffee, notwithstanding they evideut. I fo e President hasbcea down to the Rip Raps,
ly impair the strength of the system, do not I a ^ ow wee ^ 3 t0 to recruit up a little; for
materially affect the duration of human life. *' iat P es ky tower away down east like to did
The duration of life is not always shortened I l ^ e j°h * or ^e old Giaerol. feo after we
by an infirm constitution, provided the stimu- ? ot things pretty much to rights here, we
li which operate upon several organs be pro-1 J es * stepped aboard the steamboat and went
portionate to their excitability. I down to the Rip Raps. That ate Rip Raps
3. The moderate use of the. understanding | is a capital place: it is worth all the money
may talk large and bluster more, says I, but
whenever you are in trouble, and want the
real support in time of need, go to New Eng
land for it and you never need be afraid hut
what it will come.
I believe you are right, says the Gmeral,
for notwithstanding all I could do with my proc
lamation against nullification, I believe I
should-have rubbed hard if there had been
no such men in the country os Major Dow.
nrng and Daniel Webster.
But this nullification business is’nt killed
yet. The tops are beat down but the roots
are alive as ever, and spreading under ground
wider and wider; and in one of these day's
when they begin to sprout up again, there’ll
be a tougher scrabble to keep ’em-down than
there.has been yet; and I’ve been thinking,
says he, and he laid his hand on my shoulder
tutu looked very anxious, -I’ve; been thinking,
says he, if you and Daniel And here the
It has been an established truth, that literary
men, other circumstances being equal, are
longer lived, than other people. But it is not
necessary, remarks Dr. Rush, that the un
derstanding should be employed upon philo-
sophical subjects to produce this iufluence
we ever paid for- it, if it was for nothing else
only jest to recruit up the government. It is
one of the most coolest places in the summer
times that you ever see. Let a feller all
wont out and wilted down as limsy as a rag,
so that doctors would think he was just .ready
upon the duration of life. Business, politics to % fo e handle, and let him go down to
and religion, which are the objects of atten- t * ,e R*P Raps-and stay there a forthight, and
tion common to inen of all classes, impart an J ,e ’^ come U P again as smart as a steel trap,
activity to the mind, which tends very much I ^hc President got recruited up so nicely
to produce health and long life. w, nle we were down to the Rip Raps, that
Bquanunity of Temper.—The violent and ever since we got back, till two or three days
irregular action of the passions tends to wear | ag®* he has been as good natured and socia-
away the springs of life. Persons who live
upon annuities in Europe, have been observ.
ed to be longer lived under equal circumstan.
ccs than any other people. This is probably
owing to their being exempted, by the cer.
tainty of their subsistence, from those fears o
want, which so frequently distract the minds
and thereby weaken the bodies of all persons
who are subjected to them. Life rents have
been supposed to have the same iufluence in
prolonging life. Perhaps the desire of life,
hie os ever I should wish to see a body.
And now I’m coming pretty soon to what I
was going to tell you about, that hears so
heavy on my mind.
/You see, the President likes every morning,
after the breakfast is out of the way, to sit
down and read over the newspapers, and see
what is going on in the country, and who’i
elected and so on. So when we’ve done
breakfast we take the papers and letters that
come from the Post Office, aud go away by
In 1804, ho entered the office of Gen.
’one the clerk of the courts in Cincinnati,
luring three years be availed bipiself of ev-
opportunity of improvement. 7 -In this of-
he began the study of the law, under the
[care of Arthur St. Clair, son of the unfbrtu-
| nate general of the same name, and a gen-
S tlctnan of eminent legal attainments. Aware
I that the means of knowledge had been res
ided ill the first part of his life, young
'.’Lean now resolved toxachieve all Unit un-
diligence could accomplish, to place
If on an equality, in point of information,
those who had possessed advantages
| superior to his own.. - His 'mental application
is severe and unintermitted. . That no
ne might be lost, he limited his hours of
and relaxations to the smallest demands
r nature. His assiduity was well rewarded.
1807, ho commenced tho practice of law.
1 that time there were eeveral gentlemen at
o bar of considerable distinction. Mr.
I’Leon eooo gained an established repute-
and with it extensive .business, which
maintained amidst powerful compctir
. By the effort ot bis own unassisted
cr, with confidence upon his difficult work.
He brought an energy; a moral courage, and
an industry to his duties, which have rarely
ever been equalled. Hurdly any public offi-
cer, acquired so high a reputation by the
faithful and rigidly impartial manner in which
he performed his duties. During three years
preceding his appointment, the receipts of the
post office fell short of their expenditure two
hundred and sixty two thousand eight hundred
and twenty one dollars ; and for the year im
mediately preceding, fifty thousand one hun
dred and forty dollars. He remained in of
fice until 1829, during which period he in
creased the annual rcveuue more than half a
million of dollars, aud nearly doubled the
amount of the transportation of the mail, by
stage coaches, throughout the United States.
No officer of our Government ever devoted
himself more faithfully to his duties, and ve.
ry few individuals are capable of undergoing
the amount of labor to which he subjected
himself. He infused life through the vast
extent and multifarious departments of the
post office. Every grievance was sure to
meet with an impartial hearing, and if well
founded, with speedy redress. His inter-
course with the various subordinate officers
of his department was marked with a truly
Spartan frankness and honesty. He left no
one to mistake his meaning. His maxim was
that nothing should be considered as finished
while any thing remained undone. A deep
impression of the sterling qualities of his
character was made on the whole country by
his renovation of the post office deportment
He continued to exercise the functions of
Post Master General during the administra
tion of Mr. Adams. General Jackson, soon
after his election, nominated Mr. M’Lean to
the office of on Associate Justice of the 8u
preme Court of the United States. It is un
derstood that he fills this office with much
propriety. He has lately declined being
considered as a candidate for the Fresiden
cy of the United States.
It is a gratifying circumstance, that Judge
M’Lean has uniformly shown that he is ac-
tuated by high moral considerations, and that
he is not ashamed to .avow his attachment to
that religion which so-many, statesmen abjure
or neglect.—Biography of Self Taught Men.
in order to enjoy as long as possible that I ourselves into the great east room where we
property which cannot be enjoyed u second I can . sa y j es * what we v6 amiad to and nobody
time by a child or relation, may be another I hear us, and the President sets down in his
cause of the longevity of persons who live up- I gtoat arm rocking chair and smokes his se
on certain incomes. It is a fact, that the de- S ar » I set down by the table and read to
sire of life is a verv powerful stimulus in pro-1 him. Last Monday morning as I was reading
longing it, especially when that desire is sup. I ® vcr foe papers one arter another, I come to
ported by hope. This is obvious to physi- a Pennsylvauy paper and opened it, and says
ciaas every day. Despair of recovery is the 11> hullow, Gineral, here s a speech of Mr.
beginning of death in all diseases. I Webster at Pittsburg as large as life. Ah,
5. Matrinpmy.—In the course of his enqui. I he, well let us hear what Daniel has
ries, Dr. Rush only met with one person he- been talking to them are Pennsylvany and
ond the age of 80 years who had never been-1 Dhio chaps about. . So I hitched back in my
married. chair aud read on. And by and by I began
6 % Sedentary Occupations.—Dr.. Rush did Ig et into the marrow of the story, where
"hot find sedentary occupations to prevent long I ha told all about nullification, and what a dark
ife, where they were not accompanied by iu-1 duae we had of it last winter, and how the
temperance in eating and drinking. This I black clouds begun to rise and spread over
observation is not confined to literary men, | foe country, and the thunders of civil war
Pat)8es of Longevity.—In a very inter
esting papec published by Dr. Rush in his
Medical Observations and Enquiries, - we
hayp a detail of the Doctor’s experience
door opened and in come Mr. Amos Kindai
with a long letter from Mr. Van Buren about
the Bank and the safety fund, and I dont
know what all; and the President’s brow was
clouded in a minute ; for he always feels kind
of pettish when they plague him about the
safety fund. I hav’rt had any chance to
talk with him since, there’s so many of ’em
round him; and I’m as uneasy as a fish out
of water, I feel so anxious to know what the
President was agoing to say about me arid
Daniel. I shall watch the first chunce when
I think it will do to talk to him,'and find out
what he was going to say. I cant hardly
sleep a nights, I think somuch aboutit.—
When I find out I’ll write again.
Send my love to the folks up in Downing
ville when you have a chance.
I remain your sincere friend,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
nor to women only, in whom longevity with
out much exercise of body, has been frequent
ly observed! The doctor met wilh an in-
stance of a weaver, a second of a silversmith,
begun to roll and rumble away off the South,
and by and by and how the tempest was jest
ready to burst over our heads and split the
country all into shivers, aiid how in the very
and a third of a shoemaker* among the num. nick of time the President’s Proclamation
ber of old persons, whose histories suggested catB° out nnd spread over the whole country
the foregoing observations. Ukfe a rainbow, and how every body then
7. Loss of Teeth, dpc The early loss of fo°k courage ami said the danger was all over.
the teeth did not appear to the Doctor to af. While I had been reading this, the President
feet the duration of human life so much as had started upon bis feet and walked back
might be expected. Edward Drinker, who forth across the room pretty quick puf-
lived to be 103, lost his teeth thirty years be. awa y and making the smoke roll out of
lore he died, from drawing the hot smoke of I his mouth like a house on fire ; and by the
tobacco into his mouth through a short pipe, hme I had got through he had thrown his se.
Neither did he observe baldness or grey huirs I g ur out fo® window, and come and sot
occuring in early or middle life to prevent old I down hanging his elbow on the table and
age. In an account furnished by Le Sayre, looking right in my face. I laid the paper
mention is made ofa man of 80, whose hairs down, and there he sot looking right at me
began to assume a silver color when he was 1 119 much as five minutes and never said a word;
only eleven years old.—Jour, of Health- I hut he seemed to keep a thinking as fast as a
horse could run. At last, said he, Major
m
a new.yobk TEitFBRANCE boarding HOUSE. Downing, were you ever told you resembled
Rules of the Graham Boarding House, cor- Daniel Webster ?
ner of Broad-way and Cedar Street, New. Why, Gineral, says I, how do you mean,
York. ' ^ in looks or what 1
1. The bell for rising rung at 5 A. M. L Why perhqps a little of both, said he, but
lilreakfast, 7 A. M—Dinner, 1 P. M—Sup-1 mostly in looks.
per, 6 P. M. Doors closed at 10 1-2 P. M. Bless my stars, says I, Gineral, you don’t
2. No tea, coffee, or chocolate—meat at I mean to say that 1 am quite so dark as he is.
dinner. Those who eat meat, are requested I Perhaps not, says he ; but you have that
to make their dinner of meat, vegetables and I sharp knowing look as though you could see
bread, without pudding, molasses or milk.— I right through a mill-stone. I know says he,
Those who Bike pudding, to' use molasses, thpt Mr. Webster is rather a dark looking
sugar, or milk, with- bread and no meited I than, but there is’nt another man in this coun-
butter. ' . . ' I try that can thrbw so much tight on a dark
3. Good spring water for driak, and not 1 subject as he can.
railk; milk used only for food, and when ta-1 Why yes, shys I, he has a remarkable fac-
ken, no molasses or butter. j ulty for that; he caif see through most any
4. l'ruit never to be eaten with meat, and [thing, and he can make other folks see
never at night. _ j through it too. I /guess, says I, if he »iad
5., N« Physicians who an Alcoholic li-j been born in old Virgiunv, ho’-d stood next to
quore asa medicine, can be employed, and most any body. . -
it any boarder wishes to call such, he will be A leetle afore ’em, says the Gineral, in my
i equested to remove to some other place. way of thinking. I’ll tell you what *tis, Ma.
C. Tobacco in any form will bo counte. jor, I begin to think your New Englanders
J 0 Profanity, late h&urs, or abuse aint the worst sort of fellows in the world af-
ot the oabbath, and no unnecessary prepara, ter all. ,
tious of food on that day. , j Ah well, says I, seeing is believing, and
fi *• Morning prayers at 1.2 before 7 A. ML you’ve been Sown that way and can judge for
Evening prayers at 9 P. M. yourself. But if you had gone as far as
Thratt^rsmAnent boarders‘ from three j Downingvillc I guess you would thought still
to four dollars per weeks according toaccom- j better of’em than you do now. Qther folks
From the Portland Courier.
Washington City, Sept. 30, 1833.
To tho editor of the Portland Courier away down east
in the State of Maine.
My dear friend ; hav’nt you been in a tpr-
rible kind of a pucker ever since my last let
ter to you, to know what the President was
going to say about me and Daniel ? If you
hav’nt, I have; I never felt so uneasy for
fortnight hardly in nay life. If I went to bed
I could’nt sleep and I’ve got up and walked
the floor as much os half the night almost ev.
ery night since. I’ve wished the Bank to
Guinea more than fifty times, for there’s been
such a hub bub here about the Bank this
fortnight past, that I could’nt get a moment’s
chance to talk with the President about any
thing else. We’d have cabinet meetings once
in a while to see about moving the deposites,
and Mr. Duane and Mr. Cass and Mr. McLoae
would talk up to the President so about it, that
he’d conclude to let ’em alone and do nothing
about it, and let Congress manage it just as
they’d amind to. And then we’d go home and
Mr. Kcndlc would como in and talk the mat
ter over and read some great long letters from
Mr. Van Buren and get the President so con
fused that he would lose all patience a most.
But Mr. Ker.dle is the master feller to
hang on that ever -I seo ; he’s equal to the
tooth ache. And he talked and palavered
with tho President till he finally: bro’t him over,
and then the President put his foot down and
said the deposites should be moved whether
or no. And thentfie botheration was to sec
who should move ’em. The President told
Mr. Duane to do it; but he said his con-?
science would’nt let him. Then the Presi
dent told Mr. Taney to take his place, and
see if his conscience would let him. Mr.
Taney tried it and found his conscience went
easy enough, so Mr. Duane packed up and
went heme to Philadelphia. We were all
dreadful sorry to lose Mr. Duane, for he
was a nice man as you will.see oue in a thou
sand. It’s a pity he hod such a stiff con
science.; he might have stdid here in the
Treasury just os well as not if it had’nt been
for that.
But 'this storm about the Bank begins to
blow over, and the President’s got in a man-
ner cooled down again. This morning after
breakfast we took lhe papers and letters just
as wo used to, and went away into the east
room to read the news and chat awhile; and
it really did me good to see the President set
down once more looking so good natured in
his great arm chair smoking his segar. Af
ter 1 had read over the new9 to him awhile,
and got him in pretty good humour, I (made
bold to out with it, and says I Gineral, there’s
one question I want to ask you. And says
lie, you know Major, I always ttllow you to
ask me any thing 'you’re amind to, what is
it ? Well says I* when wo had that talk here
about a fortnight ago, you begun to say some
thing about me and Daniel; and jest as you
got into tiie middle of it, Mr. Kendle came
in and broke it right off shr-rt as a pipe stem.
It’s been running in my head ever since, and
I’ve been half crazy to know what it was you
was going to say. Well, let us see, says
the Gineral, where was it I left off; for this ev-
erhsting fuss about live Bank has kept niy
head so full I cant seem to remember much
about it. % i . .
Why says.I, you was talking about nulli-
fication; how the tops were beat down a little,
but the roots were all running about under
ground as live as ever, and it would’nt be
long before they’d be sprouting up again all
over tiie country, and thcre’d )to a tougher
scrable to keep em down than ever there Jmd,
been yet! and then you said if 1 und Daniel
and there that plaguy Kendle came
remember, savs the Gineral, how* twns.-—
Well, says he, Major Downing, it i9a solemn
fact, this, country is to see a blacker storm of
nullification before many years Comes about;
than ever it has seen yet; the clouds are be
ginning to gather now; I’ve seen cm rolling
over South Carolina, and hanging about
Georgia, and edging along into old Virginny,
and I see the storm’s a gathering; it must
come, and if there is’nt somebody at tho holm
that knows how to steer pretty well, the old
ship must go down. . I aint afraid, savs he,
but what I can keep her up while I have tho
command, hut I’m gettingito' be old and mftst
give up soon, and then what’ll becoino of he*
l dont know. But what I was going-to say
was this, I’ve been thinking if you and Don.
iel, after 1 give up, would put your heuds to
gether and take charge of her till the storm
has blown over, you might save her. And I
dont know who else can.
But how do you mean, Gineral, says I ?
Why to speak plain says he, if nullification
shows its .head, Daniel must talk und you
must fight. There’s nothing else will do the
job for it that I know of. Daniel must go
into the Presidential chair, and you must take
command of tho army, and the things will
go straight. At this I was a little struck up;
and I looked him right in the eye, and savs I,
Gineral, do you mean that Daniel Webster
ought to be President after you give up?—^
Certainly, says he, if you want to keep the
country out of the jaVvs nullification. But,
says I, Gineral, Daniel is a federalist, a
Hartford Convention federalist, and I-should
like to know whicii is worst, lh«*. jaws of nttk-
lification, or the jaws of federalism. The
jaws of fiddlestick! said he; but how do
you knoiv, Major Downing, that Daniel is ,a
federalist? Because, says I,’ I’ve heard hint
called so down east more than a hundred
limes. And that’s all you know about if, says
he. Now I tell you hbw ’tis, Major Down-
ing, -Daniel is us thorough a republican 1 as
you be, or as I be, and has been ever since
my. Proclamation came out against nullifica- .
*tion. As soon as that Proclamation came
out Daniel came right over on to the* republi
can ground and look it upon liis shoulder
a **and carried it through thick and thin where
no other man in the country could have car
ried it. S*ays I, Gineral is that' a fact ? And
says he yes! you may depend u;.on it, tis
every- word'truth. - - Well says I, that alters
the case a little, and I’ll write to Unclo Josh
ua and the editor of the Portland Courier
and see What they think of it, .and if they
thiuk it’s best to have Daniel for President,
we’ll have him in, and I’ll take my turn after
wards : for seeing the people are bent Upon
having me far President I wont decline,
thought it is thought best that I should wait a
little while, l wont be particular about that.
I’m willing to do that .which will be best for
the country. So I remain vour loving
friend. MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
Downing Correspondence.-—It is high
time for all Yankees who love their nativo
tongue to protest against the horrible barbar
ities which are practised upon it-under the
names of the Downing family.. Hoglatin
writers, green Dutchmau, and the scrub Yan-
kees that grow over in. Jersey—every body
who has education enough to spell wrong, or
otherwise to murder the King’s English,
takes up the writing of Downing letters, and
puts off'-their miserable stufffor the forcible
and pungent language of the Yankees.—
These fellows may have odd ideas put oddly
together, but they cannot come within a thou
sand miles of the pure Yankee. 'As ti-iie
Yankees, “ dyed in the wool,” we 'cross the
manufacture, ns - counterfeit, and protest
agaiust its circulation. The original and on
ly real Jack Downing who sent his letters in ,
the Portland Courier, is a- good Yankee, aad
knows his mother tongue : but the rest know
nothing about it. Not one- in - ten of * theft*
can write a sentence of Real Y ankee; and
only expose their ignorance by the attempt.:—
Journal of Comuicrcc. •.
in, I’ve no patience with him now " hen I
think of it, and broke it right off. Ah. npw I
A Gbeat Cavern Discovered in Ire-
land.—A correspondent of the Tipperary
Free Press, gives an accoupt of a magnificent
Cave, lately discovered near the town of
Caher, by, some workjnen employed in quar
rying stones. The first indication of the sublet,
r-mean edifice, w;a& an opening in the rack",
about 20 feet-fram the surface, capable of ad
mitting the body of one person. Prompted
by curiosity, one of the men entered the open,
ing, and proceeded along a sloping declivity
which terminated, at the distance of 40 or 50
feet from the entrance; in an abrupt descent of
about 20 feet. Unable to advance farther ho.re-
turned, and having procured a.ladder,. he, ac- -
companied by two or threeof the vvorkmon;pro-
ceeded to explore .the cavern. Having, de
scended the ladder they proceeded along a
passage about three hundred yards in lenjgth^
40 feet in breadth, and generally between 30
and 40 feet in height, at the termination.of
which a superb cavern, neair|y one mile in
circumference, presented itself to their view.
This grand cavern seemed to be supported
by about 150 crystal columns, varying in
height*fironr30 to 40 feet,, and in diameter
from 1 to - 8 feet. In the middle of this spa.
cious cavern is placed a crystalizcd petrifac-
tion exactly resembling a table, about seven
feet in length aud two in breadth, surmounted
with crystal candclabras of the most curious
construction.” The subject would be endless
were I to enumerate the variety of surprising
creations wliich nature ins displayed in this
subterranean palace. -At tho distance ot
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