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MISCELLANY,
CLAKISBE GORDON.
>1 MEKIULL C. TOCSO.
Partly concealed within the border* of a wood,
which skirls a scene where a prairie
“Stretched in boundless beauty lies
ui situated a charmiug little cottage, nestl'd in shade
and the seclusion beneati. the luliage of overshadowing
boughs. On the piazzi m front of this dwelling, a
venerable sucker (named Gordon) was sealed, one
summer afeernoon, building dr-nn* of thrift as he sur
veyed his plantation, enamelled into heavy crops ri
pening into plenty. Now a< our sweetest dreams are |
fleetest and quickest to close, it is not strange that
his, although pleasaul, were terminated by Soule one ,
shouting—
■ Hallo, old dad.’
■Halloyouraelf, and di>ki*er how It feel,’ he retort
ed, and turning simultaneously with his reply, Ins
eye fell upon a young man, a strangei to him, leau
mg on the yard fence.
•Xcuse me,’ aaid the stranger; may he you mouglil
he ao clever as to tell a ch ip who owns that’re wheat
held aside the limbci, won't you ?
■Wall, i will; lon it!’
•Dew say !’ said the strangei. -But aint It mighty
cute that you allow foui-legged annuals uud such cut
lers to be in it.’
■But 1 don't,’ said Gordon.
■1 see a boss in sit though as I kurn along,’ remark
ed the stranger, dryly.
• A boss in niv wheat ?’ eiclairned the Sucker.— I
Zarga and liglrtmng I Here Ulucber ! Manta Anna
h-i-r-e. h-e-r-e.’
ilia csll had the effect to bring forth two dogs, one
a hound, with his legs half as long as an eastern
schoolmaster's, the other a bull, the peculiar quirk ol j
whose under jaw might lead you to mistrust that be I
was ever fond of what the knowing ones call the i
grab game.’ Attended with these, lie trolled off in 1
-hot haste,’ the dugs wagging their tails as their old
auash r wagged his tongue uiging them to pursue. j
The young stranger alter wagging his chin a little
•wry and indulging in a light laugh that made him I
look suspiciously waggish, walked to the cottage door
—and then, without ceremony, into the parlor.—
Jiere, finding Inuiseit alone, he commenced a survey
of the apartment. Before he had much le.sure, how
ever, to observe or admire the lasle and elegance com
bined in every thing around hun, be was entranced
by a Jgush of rich, wild melody, succeeded _by the
sound of light footsteps, and instantly flitted a crea
ture of beauty and comeliness into his presence. Oh!
that fjir, rosy-cheeked damsel, the very personifica
tion ot blithem ss.
Bhe was startled thu’, when her soft blue eyes en
countered Ibe stranger; and was hastily withdiawing,
in doing which, she chanced to casl another glance—
her countenance changed Irom fright to gladness—she
uttered the name ot Henry Leslie, and then ran—nut
out of the doors, but smack into the young stranger’s
arms. What ail extraordinary act—in-fa-tu-a lion.
She let him—kiss her, too ; arid listened to his impas
sioned language—why what did the gill mean. —
Tbeir conversation will, perhaps suffice lo explain.
•Clarisse,’ said the stranger, -Clarisse, my beauli
’ ful idol, I have come lo claim you for my own.’
•O Henry, I fear that our hopes will never change
to realllies. 1 love you very, very much; but my la
ther dislikes you merely because you are a Yankee
lawyer. He is obstinate and will not consent, ’ and
the losy flush fled the lady’s cheek.
•Do not fear, Clarisse,’ said Henry Leslie. ‘I can
and will remove hit prejudice. I know how lo woik
sin a farm; and he docs not know me, I will hire lo
him under an assumed name, and by lire merit of holi
est worth and virlue win a place in his aff-clions.’
Their hopes excited, and consequently their anxie
ties lulled by the’reasonablencsa of (his plsn, (he two
seated themselves on the sofa uud enjoyed the bright
angel-plumed del ghls with which a reciprocal feeling
of love inspires young liearls. When Gordon return
ed. however, he found the stranger alone. Clarisse
having deemed it prudent to retire at the sound of her
father's footsteps,
Gordon was glad that the stranger had tarried ; he
wished lo give him a pealing for he hud searched lire
field all over and found no horse.
•Now don't blame me, old man.’ aaid the Yankee,
•for surer than my name is Dick Quirk I seen a boss,
a dead one, in that ere very wheat field as I kurn a
lODg.
>b! but old Gordon waxed wroth at thus learning
that he haJ been ernt to drive a mere skeleton lioui
hit field ; yit the Yankee contrived to calm hi* ruf
fled fee'inga, and lure himself tu the Sucker, to ‘dew
things,’ cloving the bargain wnh the impartial agree
ment that they might *hucus-pocus,’ one another at
much aa they pleased , whereupon (Jordon tickled
hia inner self with the conceit that he would make
our heio suffer for all the wrong* be had endureJ from
Yankee trickery, even from the time of hi* buying a
clock from a Yankee pedlar which he eaid kept time
backwards, down to the period when the New York
petli-fugger wished to marry Ciarisse.
Respecting Henry Leslie; he bad been in early man
hood an enterprizing young farmer endowed with a
broad and beautiful dumain. But being moreover
gifted with an excellent smack of inlellec(u*l powers,
ha bad been induced to firsake the natural avocation
for one, perhaps better befitting bis ambition, taste,
and ability—law.
Iu ihe village where ha studied and pacliced he be
came acquainted with Clarissa Cordon, who bad ac
companicel an aunt from the west, with the design of
completing her education at one ol those meritorious
institutions for female instruction with which the eas
tern states abound. They loved.
The aunt wrote to her brother, old Cos don, solicit
ing Ilia couaenl for Clarissa to marry, explaining af
fairs, &c. Cordon answered, sating t rat lie should
aver negative niv daughter a wish to marry any Yan
kee wbo it appeared was 100 lazy to work, and hence
bad resorted to pettifogging, lie also insiiucted Cla
rissa to come home immediately, under tbe protection
of an eldeily lady and gentleman, friends ol bis, then
about tu return from the east. Clarissa was obedteut
—wept —obeyed her father.
Love, we all know, i* like wine, a mocker, and
sometimes proalralesjta victims, by mysrerioue intoxi
cations: Something of this kind brfel Leslie. Hi*
noble upheavingt of desire—bis earnest ambition were
eiaid. ‘i he excitement of busmeea —of practice! life
became bartnlese. And within the lapse of twelve
months, we find him as presented to the reader, dis
guis'd under an aseumrd name, langutge and de
meanor, entering upon e plan to win his lady love by
Ihe sweat ol his brow. Herein was centered the ol
dest testing the puiity ol his affection and proving it
aa pure and clear and untainted as Ihe wate’ a of a
mountain spiing. He waa willing to labor for her
like the patriarch on record; to toil, to endure the
wrong end rack of bone and smew. Craduslly did he
win hia way into the old meri'a esteem. On good
deeds he laid the base end building up of a good char
acter. Uy hie steady application and his practical
skill and ability to labor, he eubstantialed a reputation
for industry; and from experience combineJ with
book knowledge, superiority in tbe pursuits es agri
culture. In the letter. Cordon wat particularly in
debted to him—he acknowledged bta worth, —the
plantation, too, expressed it legibly. Nevertheless, I
do not know what would have been tbe result, had
not a circumstance occulted propitious to the lover.
It was this:
Cordon wee eery unjustly prosecuted by ■ neigh
bor. Arriving at Ihe court at the time summoned, (it
waa a Justice’s trial) he found every body there whom
he wished to ere but hie own lawyer. The Justice al- 1
lowsd him to delay tbe suit to the farthest limits that
■ hslaw admits of—still no lawyer, lie would not tie
beat for a hundred dollars; vet he knew he could not
conduct the suit successfully himself.
Toe men like him, independent to obstinacy, such
t eituaiion, without alterntlive, was mortifying in the
extreme. As the Justice was declaring that the case
must proceed forthwith, Hick (junlr, aliai Leslie, !
whispered to Cordon :
•May be, scein ts how jnui lawyer aint come, you’fl
Ist me try your side—l’ve did such things afore.’
Cordon opened his eyes wide, and atarad at him.
•I don’t think you need hang ofl, fur I'll pay coats
•dJ damages, and give you a year's work if don't
beau’
Cordon complied, pertly finm despair, partly be
cause he never knew Dick to fail in toy thing be un.
dsrtook.
Five minute* elapsed, and Leslie was in hit tie- ,
mtou Ik tuJ rich *p"rt that afternoon. The cor- ‘
nering up of some half a dozen auspicious wliueisea |
the pulling lo flight as many half-fledged lawyers,
the astontvhineut which the audieuce evinced, as
throwing oil his assumed style of speaking, he merg
ed into a chaste, clear and rapid sperm ol eloquence.
The plain exp-snron of taels and of the law woven
into one glorious niesislibie argument, finally result
ing in a verdi t favorable lo Ins client, were both u
inuseineiit and profit to Leslie,
Gordon, who during Ihc whole affsir had sit with
his mouth zu wide open that you could have luased a
potatoe aufflcieully large for a breakfast down bis
throat, without his knowing it —said when they were
ridiog home.
•Dick, if you are a Yankee, I don’t care; you are
an all jo-flred good feller.’
j *So 1 am,’ said Leslie laughing; -indeed whether
I you take lire in the field of lahoi, the courtroom or in
, airy other place of business you please, du you know
1 any man superior to me hereabouts !’
•No, 1 don't.’
•Now whal do you think of my poverty!’ asked
Leslie.
•1 think you will exchange it for something heifer
as you did your blamed Taunton lone to-day,’ an
swered Gordon.
•Do you not consider poverty a disgrace !’ continu
ed Leslie.
•Well now, 1 shouldn’t think I did.’
•Well sir.’ said Leslie summering a little, -inas
much as you seein to harbor no sentiment concerning
me but what favoia me, I will he so hold us to inform
you there is a mutual attachment existing between
your daughter and myself, and we solicit your con
sent to our mariiage.’
Gordon opened iris eyes slid mouth again wider
than ever.
•She is yours bv jingo,’ said the father after a short
pause. ‘All I care about it ra that she will have to
lake such a consumed ugly name, Quirk Quirk
I Quirk ; it sounds so like a gobler’s soliloquy, but 1
’ s’pose we can petition the Legislature and have it al
| lered.’
I •L’larisse,’ said Gordon in the evening; ‘Clarisse,
Quirk has told me you loved one ’nolher, so f have
{ given yau to him entirely. lam glud, girl, that you
j have this lime made choice of a man who knows how
j to pettifog, jam up, without being too lazy to work on
a farm.’
Clarisse laughed in her sleeve.
Henry Leslie and Claiisse Gordon were marrird.
Alter the departure of the wedding guests on that
sweet occasion, eviu after the ceremony which laun
ched them into the inextiicahle, ycelpcd matrimony,
even after the cake, music, tea. kissing, wine, dan
cing and codec, afier all weie finished, and after all
their friends were gone, Claiisse found herself sitting
between her husband and her lather, Mire turned her
eyes to the latter and said beseechingly :
•Father, will you foigive us !’
•Forgive you ! for wlrst child !’
•Why you know I—l—loved and wished to wed
Henry Leslie, my first flame, but you would not cun
sent tu our alliance,’
•And recollect too perhaps,’ said the youtl'g hus
bauJ, ‘that when I fust came here, the muti'.al agree
ment was that we were to hocus-pocus es'.h other as
much as we pleased,
•Well, what 1 was about to say,’ continued the
bride, is that Dick Quirk and ’lenry Leslie are the
same person,’
•Zingsand lightning!’ exclaimed Gordon, spring
ing lo his feel; but he pa’a-ed and surveyed both the
culprits attentively, and then commut'd without pas
sion—-What an old fool I have been to lancy that rny
girl didn’t know enough to choose a fit and proper
husband. Forgive you ! yes I will, and bless you in
to the bargain. Come lo flunk of it. lam glad it has
happened so, for we shant have to petition the Gene
ral Assembly in order lo get rid of that blamed sick
gobbler soliloquising Quirk—Quirk—Quirk. Go to
bed children,’
From the Newark Sentinel.
LESSEN YOUR WANTS.
More of the true enjoyment of life lies in this max
im, than is generally thought, We may indeed go to
extremes, and cut to the quick, like that Cynic philos
opher who threw away his wuoden cup on seeing a
vagrant boy drink from the hollow ot his hand. But
the truth is, we create many of our necessities; and
with the growth of luxury, new wants come in, not by
one-, nor by tens, but by hundreds. The savage com
pletes bis personal di coration in a few moments, he
side a spiing; the toil of the modern exquisite has al
most as many implements as the case of a dentist.—
Mome of the greatest works have been wiitten in a gar
ret, from an old mk-hoin, and wr h two or thiee guuse
quills ; while a l’eatl street clerk must ha-e his em
bossed port-feuille, escritoire, hot-pressed paper, gold
pen with ruby tips and hydtoslalic inkstand, Wollas
ton made ins great optica! discoveries by means of a
few shillings’ worth of bioken glass anil cheap tools;
hut yuur coxcomh-experuneutalist, who never made a
discovery and never will, lines Ins walls with apparat
us, till hts room resembles the patent-office. The saute
is true of hooks. Great libraries do not make great
scholars. Rows of volumes, in russia and turkey,
murocco, often bedeck the chambers ol a briefless law
yer, or an expensive dunce. Generally speaking, great
workmen use old-fashioned utensils. Yuu need not
expect any thing more than tlie ••curiosities ol litera
ture” from a student who has his apartment filled with
costly conveniences—an elaborate chair—a reaang
easel—an incomprehensible inkstand —a labarynthmc
array of drawers uud (ills—and a compound lamp, em
ulating in complexity a Jacquard-looin, Sir Walter
| Scott, though a great collector of cuiiosities, always
I expressed hts contempt lor the disposition to uccumu-
I late “guncracks” on one’s desk or table. There is uu
end to the appelile for such things.
There cannot he a greater mistake, than to think
those persons the happiest, who have evry ilnng|they
lung lor. Eveiy parent knows that ihuue children are
by no means lire must husk and buoyant, who have
most toys, most bon-hous, und most pocket money.
Increase of gratifications, especially without labor,
brings increase of avidity lor mure; in darning one
bole you make nine.
The ancients tell us odd stories about the city of 1
Sybaiis, on the Taremine sea. The inhabitants allow- j
ed no noisy trade*, because these might disturb then
nights; they had no omnibusses, nati factories, or tilt
haminers. There was, for like reasons, a prohibition |
of cocks. The Sybarites invented vapour baths, The
roads to their country-seats were covered with awnings.
The sea-side was the place for their wine-vaults. Fur- J
pie dyers, and weavers ot fine fabrics were exempt from !
tsx. Herodotus tells us of a noted Sybarite, named ,
Smmdiydes; who ‘-was plunged in voluptuousness’
beyond most examples ;” the same who went a-couit
ing, followed by a train of a thousand fowlers and 1
cooks. A child may understand, that such a man was
less happy than a Spartan with hts homespun mantle j
and black broth.
Teach yourself to live so; that you may be at little (
at possible dependent on circumstances, If you dine 1
habitually on one dish of meat, you have something to
rite upon ; you are better prepared to enjoy the oates
of the dinner-giving Amphilryo- There it Maj. Blos
som. He sleeps in a chamber attempered by a ther
mometer, drinks filtered water, has three sizes of stiver
forks, grows pale if a fiiend eats with his knife or but
ters hts bread at dinner. When he goea into the coun
try, he risks hts life, because of the change of bed, and
the dust of the roads. He has created as many wants
as Minindrydes bed cooks. In regard of happiness, I
would fairly set against him my neighbor Joe Smellie,
Ibe journeymen carpenter. Joe rents a house for SBO,
eats in the kitchen; smokes Ins pipe amidst nearly a
dozen children; lies on s straw-bed; uses before day;
i and ventures on the most indigestible pork-steaks and
cheap coffee for his supper, O ilia dura meosurum !
Perhaps I misquote Horace; hut the meauiug is—>o
marvellous digestion of pour folks'”
Old Incledon used lo say—“ls il independence you
talk of! The truly independent man is the man who
i can ehsve with cold water” This adage, properly
generalized, would be of great use to some of our youth,
who lay out scores of dollars at Saunders's. Do not
pamper your boy, by spreading a couch of roae-letves
under him. A little -scuffling” will do him good.
The Romans trained their youlh. not only to active
exercises, but to endurance. The wealthiest young
men were trained to eat brown bread, lie in the cold,
and swim serose the Tiber in winter lime. It would
| hive been better for vorneof our office's in Mexico, if
| they had been thus bred. The general contentment
of working men would be much increased, if they
| could rid themselves nf the notion, that they need this
and that and the other, before they can be hippy,—
’ True, a man must be a peg above penury, and out of I
debt. But I say confidently, lo the young man who
longs out with envy, on Mr. Brag's carriage, and Mr.
Bubble’s livery, that he—Samui l Snug—in hia three
Moms, with pine-iuble, rag-cat pel, and three dullar
clock, may this moment be happier tbun all ihe Bub
bles and Brags with their hundred conveniences and
thousand cupidilies.
Which philosopher was it. that said—"He who
wants least , tv most like the immortal gods, who want
nothing ?” —lessen your wauls. At any rate, bring
them down to the circle which providence Ires marked
for you. Tliiuk sometimes how your fsiher lived—if
he weie a father vi bum you love to remember—and
how many things he knew how lo do without, which
are to you, necessaries of life. Think of your children,
and observe in them the rank growth of wants. Con
! sider what a houseful of elegant trifles every one of
1 them will some day requite. Say of each of ten thou
sand things m gay shop-windows, lean do without it.
Catsaaixasis,
ORIGIN AND PROGRESS OF RAIL ROADS.
‘t he first Railroad Company in England was incor
porated in the year 1828. The experiment was made
between Liverpool and Manchester. The charter was
vigorously opposed in Parliament by the inland navi
gation interest. Those who owned stock in Canals,
trembled at any new mode of conveyance. Before this
period, a cargo of cotlon, -which was transported 3000
miles across the Atlantic fiom New York to Liverpool
ill twenty days , took six weeks lo be carried to the
mills of me spinners in Manchester, a distance of only
thirty miles,” The description of the road across this
Vai l ot country as travelled by Arthur Young 75 years
ago, • when there were ruts measuring lour feet deep
*nd tloainig with tnu I only,” is appalling lo those who
never travelled through the swamps of the lar-West.
in England, not a century ago, goods were conveyed
on pack-horses from London tu Edinburgh; usd troin
Edinburgh to Glasgow, only thirty-eight miles, it took
a fortnight going and returning. These are facts wor
thy of remembrance, when a steamer can now cr„ ss
the Atlantic lit eleven days, and the mail she b,rings
for the Cspital, in thirty-six hours more, can h e depos
ited in the Post-office in Washington, a Instance of
440 miles from her landing.
There was not only an opposition t 0 the first proj
ect of the Liverpool Rvilroad, hut discouragement at
every step before it went into ope ration. When that
great and enterprising enginee-., Mr, Stephenson, talk
ed to Ins companions on the commiitec, of the applica
tion of steam power and , | a rate 0 f lwe | ve mite , an
hour, they were astour.Jcd. They stared at him as ,
man of lunar reverieg. And yet. to the astonishment
ol every one, that Railway in two years was traversed
by “The h.ock.et” at xipuurds of twenty-nine miles
an hour ! The question was thus settled forever.—
Ihe problem, on which hung a icvolutinn in commerce,
a rapid inle-course and the diffusion of knowledge, and
indeed th j future destiny of the world, was solved. It
has set anew world tu motion und may change the
face of the earth.
l'btv railway was opened in 1830. At that time
there were private railways, for carriage* drawn by
horses in England, at some of the mines in Fiance,
and at Qumcy, in this country ; hut there were no lo
comotives in use before this time ,- and therefore it was
the first public passenger railway in the world.
In 1840 there weie 1300 miles of travelled railroad
in England, and during that year twelve millions of
passengers weie conveyed on these roads, in 1844
nineteen hundred miles were travelled ; and thirty mil
lions of passengers were then conveyed. Near sixty
millions sterling had been invested in this stock, anil
expended in 1844. In 1845, 300 miles mme were
added, and it was calculated that the work of 50.000
stage coaches was done by the railroads in Great Brit
ain.
The first European State which followed Gieat Brit
ain in the introduction of Railroads, was Belgium, in
June. 1834, one was commenced there ; and in 1843,
Belgium had 348 miles of railroad in operation.
It was not until 1836, that Fiance directed her at
tention in C;is subject. The first railway was laid
from Paris to (St. Germain, twelve miles in length.—
Now it is said there are nearly 1000 miles in opera
tion in France, Inverting the kingdom in various di
rections
Austria has 664 miles of Railroad in operalion, and
1271 more in contemplation, Piussia has 701 in use
and 362 more in prospect. Bavaria has 159 miles of
Railroad now in travel, and numerous principalities in
Germany have made, or are now extending their Rail
roads. When completed there will he 7600 miles of
Railroad in Germany, of which 4760 are already in
opeiation. Russia, tun, is awake. From St. Peters
burg to W arsaw, and to Cracow, and to Moscow, and
to Odessa to the Volga, and to the Duna, railroads are
being made; in the whole distance 1600 miles; that
to Moscow is nearly finished.
Spain, unhappy, distiactcd Spain, has numerous
savage Bull-fights, and still perpetuates the aiena of
! batbarism and bloodshed, but she has not a railroad on
the continent—though the beautiful island of Cuba al
ready presents ony of forty-five miles, winding among
her loltp mountains. And even the present enlighten
ed Pope, touched by ihe enterprising steam of the age,
has warmed into a project for a raritoad through the
dominions of the Church in Italy,
The example of England was rapidly followed in
this country, The first public Railway was laid be
tween Delaware and Elk River, and opened in 1833,
Nearly at the sume time one was under way between
Amboy and Bordenlown in New Jersev. The Bos
ton and Providence was chartered in 1831, and went
into operation June 4, 1834. That of Boston and
Lowell went into operation in 1835, and the Boston
and Worcester the same year. There are upwards of
4,500 miles of railway now in operation in the United
(States, and more than 10.000 projected and in con
templation. Indi ed there is some talk of a Railroad
over the Rocky Mountains.
Tbe uvcrsge costs of the European Railways per
mile, including purchase of land*, construction, mate
| rials, stations, salaries, and every appendage and ap
purtrnance, are a* follows: In England £35,000 or
I 8175,000 ; Belgium SBO,OOO ; France 8107 500 ; tier
j many $40,000, owing to the low price of lands and
I labor; Frua*ia $47,000“ and in ihe U. Stales $45,000,
* It is and tbe moat expensive aie those ol short distan
| ceaand forming branches of the mam route. It seerns
I that no mode of locomotion by any kind of vehicle can
ihe mo o secure. Those who tske ordinary care of
themselves, and are prudent, it is proved by the calcu
lations of experience in England, stand only one chance
out if half a million of meeting with any injury. E-
I ven with a horse and chaise, the chance of accident
[would be nearer one to one thousand, judging from j
: daily occuirencea in a ride of three miles.
Heretofore, our Railroad iron has been imported {
chiefly from England, But it appears, that wc shall
soon be able to supply our own wants In 1841, the
first bar es Railroad iron was made in this country.— |
Now there are establishments in tbe United States suf
ficient to make 119,000 tons per annum,equal to 88S 1
ton* daily, A nule of Railway, it is said, with a heavy
track, requires ninety tuna of iron, and each lon u*r* !
up at ihe foundry five tone of anthracite coal—ol course
the strove will icquire 595.000 tons of coal annually.
DOMESTIC. ~
NATIONAL DEBT OF THE U. STATES.
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer pre
sents the following statement of the National Hebt:
Capital. Ini.per. yr,
Am'nt on 4th March, 1845, $19,000,000 $1,300,000
Amount of Mr. Folk’s war
loan. August, 1846, 5,000,000 350,000
mount of appropriations
As demanded by Secretary
Walker, to carry on Mr.
Folk a war to the 30th of
June, 1818, 74.000.000 4.000,000
$98,000,000 $5,860,000
Tof pay theta disbursements
the Unit'd Stales collects
the import duliea, which
cannot exceed to the 30th
June, 1848, 30,000,000 1,800,000
$68,000,000 $4,050,000
The Treasury note bill pasted by tbe House of Re
presentatives of $38,000,000 ie included in the item
ol $74,000,000. ie will he used tocreale the Sublreaau
ry into a paper money mill, to teaue irredeemable bills,
except in the liquidation of taxea to the Federal Trea
sury, which cannot exceed, on an average, one mil
lion of dollars per month, end the tanur of Subtreaau
ry notea will he not Iras than five million* of dollar*
1 pei month.
Congressional intelligence.
WASHINGTON, Fu. I, 1847.
In the Senate, a communication was received Iroin
the Secretary of the Treasury, in answer to the resolu
tion nf Mr. Cameron, asking lor information as to
whether the revenue can he increased by the increase
or diminution of duties on impelled articles.
‘The Secretary still prefers a duty of 25 per cent on
tea and coffee, which he says will yield a revenue of
two millions and a halt ; but if Congress shall decline
that, he thinks that an increase of duty of 10 per cent on
“coal and iron; onftloilisand ciaeimers costing over
i t per square yard, 10 per tent; of 20 per cent on
brown, wlnte, and refined sugars ; and of 5 percent
on cotton prints over 30 cenls per squire yard, and
cottons uot printed, costing over 20 cents per square
yard, will yield an aggregate of $1,418,000. Hu rec
ommends a decrease of 5 per cent on all articles of cut
lery, and on cotton goods not costing over 8 cents per
square yard, and not weighing over one-third of a
pound to the yard. This decrease of duty, he thinks
will yield $55,000. If Congress shall adopt this plan,
he thinks a duty of only 16 per cent on tes and cullee
would aoswer, He recommends that this increase of
revenue he pledged fur the payment of the principal
and interest of the loan, as if the Government shall not
dunng the recess of Congress be able to sell ‘Treasury
Notes at par, the consequences would be disastrous in
the extreme. The whuie was oideied to be printed. —
Live. Newt.
THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH,
It is evident to every observing mind, that in both
of the above r ctiuns of the Union, there exist, upon
one great su’ .jecl, the most inflammable materials. It
is natural th a i the South should he unceasingly vigil
ant, am’, m come degree jealous upon that question.
I Ills necessarily follows the wide-spiead opposition al
■l> f North to its “peculiar institution,” and the violent
uatuie of that opposition, with a party whose numbers
have become so formidable as to he able in some cases
to turn elections in favor of that side to which its sup
poil may be given. The South is inflammable, and
justly so, upon the subject in queslion. The entire
North may he made so by an effort on the part of this
Government to conquer foreign lands in order to be
converted Into slave Stales. Who can tell the conse
quences of such efforts on the part of the Government
to acquire territory, purposely to add to the political
power of the Norlh or South !
It is useless lo portray the excited feelings, the ilia,
cordand estrangement winch would cmvulse the Re
public under such a policy. Del us suppo-e that the
Northern Democracy, adding their influence to the
Southern, should succeed in forcing the acquisition ol
Mexican territory. The Northern Democrats go for it.
for the purpose of increasing the power of the free
states, the Souihern to add to the political strengih of
the South. ‘The terrilury will then have been acquir
ed and annexed, and the next step would be ils divis
ion into stales and their admission into the family us
Stales. Do we not see that the Whigs and Democrats
are as one man against their admission with slavery t
Has the Soulh the power to force iHem in, in accord
ance with ita wishes 1 Can it do thin when there is a
majority of between foriy and fifty Representatives
from the free States in Congress. The Soutli would
contend to the last, and it should du so, for an equal
participation in the new territory. Perhaps it could
not justly contend lor it under the Missouri comprom- ,
ise. Hut it would and should do so upon the ground
of an equality or the States us this Union, politically,
morally and socially.
In every aspect in which we can view this queslion,
it seems lo us, that the South runs the risk of being
weakened instead of strengthened by this plan of con
quering other nations and bringing them into the Un
ion. The chances are against the South, even should
the Republic sisnd the shock of the conflicting and
perturlied elements which will be lashed into fearful
fury. In the event of a dissolution of the Union, there
can be no doubt that Ibis section will feel most disas
trously the want us the protecting e_:is which our fa
thers placed uver that fraternal Union ol the people of
the North and South. We do not blink this queslion
—for it is before the count y. ‘The sullen bells of dis
coid are already pealing, and the people of every sec
tion must meet the danger at once, and meet it wisely,
or suffer the disastrous consequences.
“Fell sorrow’s tooth doth never rankle more
‘Thun when it bites, hut lauceth nut the sore.”
We would shun ihe existence of a cause for the ap
plication of this sentiment ol the poet, (used in refer,
ence to deep sflliction) to the distracted state of our
country, when the sturin is up, or perchance it has fal
len beneath its violence. —Chronicle and Sentinel.
The European Correspondent of the Union after
expending much learning on the history of the disco
very and use of Gunpowder, concludes with some ve
ry interesting statements and speculations on the ap
plication of Gun-cotton and the extent of scieutilic
contributions to the utility of life.
‘•Chemists concur in the belief, that gun cotton, al
ready, is more effective, for all explosive purposes,
1 than gunpowder was for the first live hundred years
after it became generally known. The genius of eci
| ence which distinguishes our times, aud by which it
, was discovered, will assuredly remedy any iniperfec-
I tion in its properties, which may be essential to its
, extended adoption for war like and other purposes. —
It is a subject that interests the United States vastly
—much more than all the remainder of the world.—
And they should not. from a narrow policy, withhold
from the inventors that remuneration which they just
!ly deserve. Whether aliens or citizens, we should
| liberally reward those who make inventions by which
we are benefilied. We would thus encourage science
to persevere in loieign countries, and it matters not
what it works out, we invariably will be the chief
beneficiaries. The consumption of gun-cotton is con
stantly augmenting. It is now sold under licence
with the same penalties of gunpowder in most Euro
pean states, It is used in theatres for fire-works, for:
blowing up rocks, dkc. dec. 1 feel confident, us I did
at first, that it is ullunaiely, and bob re the end of this
centuiy, to supetaede the use of gunpowder altogeth
er, and it may also be introduced for oilier purposes
not even thought of at pressnt. I observe that a me
chanic at Berlin has already applied it to the prope l
ing of machinery on a small scale. Such is the pro
gie-s which science and mechanism are making, that
from day to day some new cause of amazement ia de
veloped to the world. Nothing that does not come in
direct opposition to the immutable laws of nature
I seems impossible. Theie is no stopping place. In
, credulity it disarmed of its weapon* a* the fiend of
I old was by the spell of the sorcerers, Sir Humphrey
i Davy, the great philosopher of his day, when it was
i proposed 10 illuminate the alreets of London with gasa.
1 asserted that such a measure was as impracticable as
| to cut a slice from the moon and use itaa an illumina
ting power, Now, you behold lourib-ratecities in the
Uiiilrd States, remote from coal fields, brilliantly
lighted up with this cmigrutulaticg spirit; while it is
in use in every respjeclsble town m Europe, It is es
’ mated that, on an average, egbt hundred lons of
coals are used by the London gas companies ciai y.—
11 it scarcely ten years since thu learned Uoct. Lard
tier asserted, in the most positive manner, that vessels
propelled by steam would never succeed in navigating
the Atlantic ; an opinion in which most ot the Eng
lish merchants coincided. Now, you behold steam
shipa running weekly between England and Ameri
ca, making (heir passages with the regularity of a
stage, and triumphantly encountering the must fright
ful hurricanes and stonns. Francis Fortune, who
predicted that • ion from London to Uristol would he
made upon a rail in four hours, was shunned as a
maniac. Now, you behold the distance travelled ov
er in t little more than two hours, snd from London
to Exeter, vis Uris'.ol, 220 miles, in four hours and
I a half, including stoppages. It ia but as yesterday
that we first heard ot the magnetic telegraph. Now,
you behold in the United Stales lines in various di
rections, according to the statement us Mr. Kendall,
to the length of 1,300 miles. It is nut improbable but
that lightning news-eonveyorc will yet make the cil
cuit ol (be globe. An experiment, with tbe sub-ma
rine telegraph, at Portsmouth, England, a few days
since, encourages a belief of the kind. The amount
given of it states : “The fact of the water acting as a
ready return conductor was established beyond ques
tion ; for to test this most thoroughly, repeated expe-i
rimenl-, were made in the presence of some of the
principal dock-yard authorities, including the heads
of the eageneeriog departments. There can be doubt
without reference to distance, the water will act as a
return conductor in completing the circuit. Indepen-’
dent of the simplicity of this sub-marine telegraph, it
had to advantage which even the telegraph*- on land
do not poaNtt. In the event of accident It :iB be ri
placed in ten minutes. The success of the trial here, I
has, we understand, determined the inventors to lav
down their contemplated line across the channel from
England to Fiance under the sanction of the respect
ive governments.”
-Should the enterprise succeed in connecting Ihe
capitals of Great Hritain and Trance with a Continued
magnetic line of communication, the obstacles will be
removed, as regards practicability, to a similar con
nexion between Washington and l’ekiri II the Bril
ish channel can be crossed, Uehring’s slruits can be
crossed. In all that relates u> ihe annihilaion of
space we a r e, as u nation, peculiarly iiueicsted with
ihe facilities altaided by the telegraph I ,r intelligence
and inlercouiss. Where will the ban Francisco and
the mouth of Columbia, and Santa Te. and Monte
rey, and Tampico, twenty years hence? Nearer lo
Washington, by eighteiii or twenty days, than 181.
Louis was 1812 !
M.m’LK. .1 in. 29, 12 o’clock, M,
TERKIULE GATASTUOt'HE.
The steamer Tuscaloosa lett our wharl about 8 o’-
clock on ‘Thursday evening on her way to Tuscaloo
sa, and after proceeding about 10 or 11 miles up the
liver, an explosion of two of her boilers took place,
which Instantly killed several of the passenge sand
many of the boats crew and officers. From a pas en
gcr on hoard we learn that the explosion completely
tote up the bu'lcr dick and shattered the alter part ol
the boat (below deck) considerably. Immediately after
the explosion, such of the passengers as were unhurt,
i set ihemselvesto alleviating the sufferings of those wtio
were injured but not killed ; while al Ihe same lime a
portion of the saved were making tverv possible ai
langernent to laud all on slioie who could be found.
The boat aber the explosion, swung lo the shore
and grounded, her stern remaining nearly in the cen
tre us the river. A line was made fast asuore from the
stern, and an isl irt made to bring tier sieru aslioie so
as to land her passengers, but owing to her grounding
these effoits were unavailable. The ladies were then
all lowered from ihe cabin by a rope In the lower di ck,
and from thence sent ashore in the yawl—all were sa
ved unhurt.
‘Those of (he male passengers w o were uninjured,
saved themselves and many of the wounded, by con
structing a temporary raft of loose plank, and sued ar- I
tides as were dose at hand. On tills, ih.y rescind
the shore in safely. On landing it wis found impos
sible to obtain a dry footing, as the banks of the riv
er were overflowed. In this condition, these who *
were able dimed trees, &c„ where Ihey remained in
view of tbe burning ruins, lor about three hours,
when fortunately Ihe steamboat James Howitt, hove
in sight, and was shortly alongside the wreck, when
assistance was imui’ Jialoly given to all within reach.
The Howilt returned Id Ihe city with all her survi
vor*.
The number of killed an I wounded has nut as vet
been ascertained, but it is feared that of the former
there are not lisstlu.n twenty ; and of the lattei a like
number. The body of Lieut. Inge was on board and
was lost.
Since the above was in type, we have learned the
names of the following persons, killed and wounded.
Killed.— William Tanneyh.ll, C. Chiles and P. F.
Beasley, of Eulaw , VV. R. Hassel, of Grtenshoro;
Blue Pastier, second clerk, ’Clark, Ist mate,
and Arthur McCoy, 2d engineer; Abraham Fiynn,
volunteer from Green county—and seveial negro deck
hands’
Nudly Wounded Capt. E. P. Oliver (not ex
pected to survive.) George Kok, Ist Clerk, and act
ing Captain of the Tuscaloosa; and Coj. William
A imstead, — iteg'sler 4 Journal.
The amount of specie in the Banks of the cily of
New York on the Ist instant was #8 UOl OOlt—snow
ing an increase of the precious nmtals in ih .se institu
tions since the Ist of Nuv. 184S. of $890,000. The
Tribune savs—
Tbe amount received during'the last quarter has
been much larger lhar, this eitiees but Ihe operations
of Government have abstracted a large am unt. proba
bly a million, for the Soulh. and the Suf-Trcasury , n
this city has also taken from tie Bank pr bibly half
a million more. Ihe Banks are thus strongly foitifi
ed in the way of coin.
Gen. Taylor end the Volunteers, —The corre’spon
dent of the New Orleans Delt3, writing from Victo
ria, describes the following -cine as having occurred
shortly alter Gen. Taylor’s arrival at that place
“Gen. Taylor visiied the Illinois Vojun leers yester
day, and the way the boys crowded a-ouqd him,
threatened immediate suffocation. Hy way of saluta
tion, I verily uelieve ihe old General pulled at Ins cap
five thousand tunes, and I wa- looking every rnmuie
lo see him pull the front-piece oil. ‘i he General was
mounted on a large arid genlle mule, whilst Ins or
derly lode a splendid dragoon horse, and was himself,
dressed in a clean and handsome uniform, whil-t the |
General had on that same old hla. k frock coat, and
a big Mexican straw bat. Mr. Fannin, the orderly,
got aliout six salutes to ‘Taylor’s one, the “Suckers”
taking hint for the General, and wondering why ihev
called him old Taylor. When at la-l they found that
Ihe old ranchrro was the sure-enough General, they
inferred, from (its plain appearance, that it would be
nothing amiss lo otf, r him a hand to shake, and they
went at it with such good will, that, by ihe time ihe
two regiments finished squeezing it, there c uld have
been very little feeling left in it. As he rods off,
there were many who wondered |.v bother that vvustiie
animal on which he charged the J.Vlex cans.”
dfr. Potk and Santa Anna.— The follow ng reso
lutions olhr.d by Mr, Asiiacx, of Mus-achusetts,
wcie voted upon in tbe House ot Kcprusentutivcs on
Monday :
ltcsolved, That the President of the United States
be requested to inform this House if any officer or a
gent of tbe United Stales was sent by him, or by his
! direction, to Havana, to advise, procure, or in any
way to promote the return of Santa Anna to Mexico;
or whether any person visited Washington City aud
conferred with trie President or any officer of the go*-
eminent upon the subject of said r, turn of Santa An
na; arid, it so, who was the officer or *4OOI, what
were his insliuctions, and when was he sent on sueh
mission—or who was the person that visi ed Wash
ington C ly, and thus conferred with the President or
any other officer ot the government, and what was
decided upon at such conference. Also, that he in
form the Heuse by what means, aud through what
channel Santa Alina was informed that an order was
issued to lha commander of our nasal forces in the
frulfof Mexico, directing said commandei not to ob
struct Santa Anna's return to Mexico ; and that he
also transmit to this House cnpiea of any Iclreis, com
munications, or papers of sny kind in ihe executive
department of the government in any w y relating to
the subject of Santa Ann ,’* return to Mexico.
ItesutvtU, That the President of the U. Sat e be
requested to inform this House whether tbe U. States
base any diplomatic agent to the government of Mex
ico ; if not. wnen they cessed lo have such an agent;
and if the U. Stales have such an agent, who lie is,
what duties he has peiforined since Ihe war wiih Mex
ico, what compensation be ha* received, and what la
his present rate of Compensation.
The majority of the House refuaed to ask for Ihe
information referred lo in the resoluliona. and they
weie rejected.
‘i he whole process of smuggling Santa Anna into
Mexico, with the results contemplated f<mn that
movement, ia very rharacteiistic ul Mr. Polk's style
and standard of statesmanship. The failure of the
profound conception does not take away from ihe 1 har
acteriatic quality of Ihe ihing-for that also usually at
tend* the Presidential projects
Effects of AVgro Emancipation.- A shade almost
■a dark as that which has spread ov. r Haytl, is eaili
ering in Jamaica. ‘1 he negroes aie in a slate ot gen
eral insubordination ; riots and conflagrations and
robberies are numerous ; the crops are lost for want
us laborers, and the curse of God seem* to he oil the
island; theclimste itself is changing, th fields with
ering, and the stream* for several years past drying
up for want of ram. Slavery was some years since
forcibly abolished by an act of the Ur n,h parliament
and the “apprentice system” established in its sh ad,
snd here is the effect. Ihe negroes, too lazy to woik,
prefer lo steal for a living, or lo repose in sloth to the
very point of starvation, Property has depreciated
more than fifty per cent; life itself has become unsafe.
80 much for the false philanthropy which neglect mis
ery at its own door, and legislates to ameliorate, at
the distance of thousands of miles, the condition of
the beat fed, best clothed, lightest worki and and happi
eat new of Utarcrt in the w*iJ JV. O. Atlas.
RUMORS OF PEACE.
Rumors have been rife at Wsshington that Mexico
had accepted our proposals for pesce. an I had agreed
to receive an American Minister to couclude a treaty.
The Baltimore Sun publishes a teller from ils corre*.‘
pondent at Saltillo, under dale nf*2lt December, which
slates that a report had arrived there direct from San
Luis Pulosi, lo (he eflect that the Mexican Cong,css
had agreed lo accept a Minister from Ihe United States
lotreat for pence. He also at.,tea that Gen. Worth h. 1
received on ihe 20lh December a Lite, of very nu mf
character from Santa Anna. The correspond
also says that an tndmdual was in Saltillo, who
that he had seen the bill passed by the Mexican Cnn
gress authorizing Ihe nppoin, merit nf a Commissioner’
I™?’ *" <l lho ‘aw it distributed in Z
form of handbill and posted up in ihe City of Mexien
and at Sun Luis de Potosi. y M XICO
In reply lo all ,h„. the Union savs that i, ha, not
been advised of any such report having |, efn ‘
received , W ashingtnn, , n j (hillks Ib „ jf „ h ’
fiom San Luisde Polos, „ would mo„ pr „ b . h | h ™
reached Gen I a,lor a. Victoria. Hu. dispatches hZ
been received Iron, the I nter a9 |, te „„ J *
from Victoria, in which he is entirely a ,i„,, „„ ..
subject of any such report, hut on .he
hat the lasi accounts from Mexico were ... ,he 19 n
Dec- inher, at which time the Congress had u£ o ° o
action m legaid lo the war.
Still more to mistily the mailer, e notice that the
lull appropriating three millions of dollar, lo he used
by me President, m negotiating a peace, was taken on
m ll,e Senate I uesday. In opening ihe debate Mr
Sevier, who from bis po ttion asUhauroan of the Com’
mil.ee of foreign we suppose ,s enabled n,o
spi .sk by Ihe ca and, slated that the Pus,dent womans
hid by inforiflation he had receivrd from Mexico that
a peace could he negotiated, and that he was ieajy
I titer into such a negotiation, based ori ihe ces-ation
ol New Mexico and California lo the United States
In this uncertainty, we have nothing to do, hut to.
“watch this shadow ol coining events. ’ £Yc New*
I he city of New Orleans was visited on Ihe night riP
Ihe 23dult. with a lliur.d r sin,in of great violence The
ram descended in to, rents all that night and pa,.off , h e
next day, deluging the country all around the city
The -ecnnd Regiment of Mississippi volunteer, a „d ihe
second Regiment of P. mu, Ivinm, volunteers were en
camp, don Ihe Battle Ground a few miles b 7 luw the
city, and, according to ihe New Orleans Tropic “ uu
to Ibeir knees in murl and v-alei’ -aud this 100 re
. ma.ks that j.urnal, when tbe U. S. Barracks were un
occupied, f lie Cameron Guards, Stockton Aitillrusi*
and Philadelphia Rangers had nearly all incur blankets
I B(,e W “ v b y “ waters. The Tropic adds—
• About two hundred ofthe Pennsylvania* have left
ihe c*mp and have come up to the uy. .r
more left lasi evening in one f the -t am, , f„ .| lomi .
sweet home,’ and we are informej that many mure’
, will start hy the first opportunity.
In what we have said we have not designed reflect
ing upon any offi.er of Ihe Government in this cily.
It is the Government that we aim at. its -agents at this’
p -mi (Ihe base ol all the army 0 | eralions) sho Id have
been supplied wnh the reqvusit, means to lurni-hquar
ter*, clothing, provisions, . ml everything necessary for
the health ami comf ,rt ol /he noble spun, whopairi.it
ically embarked in their country * se. vu e.”
Mu, h sickness prevailed among ihe Misaissippiani;
scar, eiy a day passed Without a death j„ their ranks ,
a dll is rumored lha’ or seven had disd on Ihe
n ghl of ihe 23d üb. she authorities of New Orleans
and the he mane physicians ol that cily were unremit
ting lu their attentions tu the sick.— Uutt. American.
NEW YORK, Jan. 30.
From Brazil.
The Ship Courier, Capi. W o |h , arrived last evening
l orn Km de Janeiro, w hence she -ailed on the 26th
of December Capt. Wolf reports that ihe “California
expeuiu n left Jim lor us destination on the 29th of
November, somewhat shorn olits numerical force hy
■s, ri.'ti. I lie d’ seriei- were seeking employment on
siio e and on board the various stupa in port.
Ihe tlnr.l tHainan if the Columbia hail been releas
ed by ilie Hisz Iran Government; the oliiei two and
Lieutenant bam were set at liberty some time before,
as the home accounts advised us.
I he I . t>. t.ri*j Hainbridge, Cammamler Penuing
lO", arrived from Montevideo on the 12ih of December.
I lie ligate,Columbia, Capt. Rousseau, sailed tor Mon
tevideo on toe 3d.
Account* from Mon’evideo lo Ihe Ist of December
have been received. They were that Geo. Rivera was
preparing |o i* unie bosli bites, having 4000 men un
der h s command. xlen.,Oribe was inactive,
V\ e copy fiqm the Journal of Commerce what is al
le Iged to he a correct account ofthe and lliculty t etwern
. L. U ise and the Brazilian Government, having been
obtained irom tbel genth man and Captain Rousseau.
Rio Jankiro, Nov. 25ih 1846,
The frigate Columbia was lying in this port, repair
ig. !khe h.nl three men oil Bhore on leave; ihey over
stayed iheir liberty, and Lieut. Davis was sent ashore
af,.r them. He found them, and sent two of them in
to ihr- boat. The other was intoxicated, and on the
way to idle boat, got up a squabble with the natives,
and in a short lime drew a knife, Lieut. Davis seeing,
tins ran to him. took him hy the collar, and endeavor
ed to force him into ibe boat.
The man wa seized by, the police in the mean time,
taken from Lieut. Uavis, and unmercifully beaten.—
1 tie Lieut, endeavored to explain ; ihe police (armed)
charged upon him with their muskets with bayonet*
fixed. He left ihe man, went into an American store
near by, frequented by naval officers, and procured his
swo'd, which he had left there. He then started after
the guard who had the sailor, and again endeavored to
! explain, (up to this time using no violence toward
them.) They again charged upon him, he drew his
sword and drove the whole (Imperial) guard into the
Palace. They retreat'd and lie followed them into a
room, and again endeavored lo have an explanation.
They he e nvei powered and disarmed him, and put him.
wiih the three sailors, in prison. The two had lollnw--
ed, looking on. and using no violence in any manner.
Com. liousseuu heard ol fce affair and louk the de
position of twenty-eight witnesses who saw the whole
tr nisaciion—American, English, and French, dec., all
of them men of standing. He enclosed the testimony
to the Munster for Foreign Affairs, and asked that rep
aration might be made fur the insult to the lieutensnt,
Ihe Munster offered no redre-e. The American Min
ister made a private call with no betler success. He
then demanded the olheer and two unoffending sailors,
01 lie would Iske the respon-ihility of ordering Com,
Ivoaseau to seek redress without consulting the author
ities at Washington. At the expiration of twenty
hours Lieut, Davis aud the two aatlors were delivered
lo the Com nodnre. The oiher man is still retained in
durani p. and will be tried for carrying concealed weap
■ oris, winch is a heinous cri-no against the laws of Bra
zd. I lieie has been a multitude of correspondence he
twoen our Munster and the Government; ttie Cabinet
lias had numerous meetings, slid is currently reported
to have broken up on the question of ordering the
Commodore to leave the port in six hours, and request
ling the United 81,lies lortcrll Mr, Wine 7'ln ie s'O
,no salutes fired. This is considered very insulting,
1 especially the lefusal to salute at the babtism of tba In
fanta.
P-8-—The Bcazillisn Government dislike Mr. Wiae
because be has been instrumental m breaking up lha
slave trade,—refusing to allow American merchantmen
sold here notoriously fur slaving, to sail under a sealed
letter with the American flag. You kuow the Isw a
bout licensing vessel*, and understand what I mean.
Mr. Wiae has in doing this, inclined the displeasure of
the lirsz'll ana, nr and trein their di-posiliou to make
ihlficully and have him recalled. Mr. Wueaaysthn
United Mtate*-choonri EnteipriZ 1 ', that was condemn
ed s’ the navy yard (Uruklyn) two yesra ago, 111*
” ade three successful voyage* lo Africa after slave*,
and is now on the fourth. Sh# sold $ I (SOI), and in,
three months cleared her owners, to his knowledge
id 500.
Provisions for l eland —One house in this city h**
orders for fifteen hundred tons of provisions, aucli •
beef, bacon, pork. &c. for Ireland. The British Go
vernment hive also sent out di-cienmury orders to
agents ill all the American cities for Indian corn.
After York Sun.
The President afforded “nid and comfort lo the en
emy” try giving them a General ,• and now his friends
are increasing that “comfort ’ Ly denouncing the Gen
eral of the American farces.’ As the President g* ,e
Manta Ann* his freedom, we should not ba surpused
to find him tryiug lo balance tho account by impiw
omng Gen, lot.—Albany Jmmai.