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THE LAW OF LOVE ILLUSTRA- I TED. Pat McKet'vr and His Friend. BY MRS. 1.. ar. CHILDS. This is so obviously the key-note to uni- | versal harmony, tliat it is marvellous men i neglect and despise it as they do. Wheth- j or applied to the intercourse of nations, or | to the smallest temptations and most trivial j difficulties of daily life, it always works I miracles. Wheresoever it enters, whether i into written or spoken word, into public or j private action, it is an embodiment of the j Holiest—it is God made manifest—and therefore it is omnipotent. It is omniscient, too ; for the more per- j factly we live in Love, the more clearly do we perceive Truth. In the calmness and quietude of perfect kindness to all, can we alono see the just relations of things to each other, and of all to God. Hence Justice, in its highest Ideal, is unmixed Love ; and Wisdom ever speaks through the voice of Kindness. He who said that all the Law and the Prophets hang on the two commandments, of Love to God, and Love to our neighbor, likewise tells us that he who keeps the com mandments shall know of them. And is it not familiar to all, who observe their in ward experience, that knowledge is obtained through purified affections, and ari obedient life ! Nay, are they not aware that glimp ses of the highest truths—that is, the most spiritual—can he thus obtained, and thus only l • No wonder the world is so bewildered in the mazes of error, while it remains such a stranger to the law of love Howeanirna ges bo-r effected clearly in the water, while men so continually stir up the mud of ’per sonal wrangling and sectarian controver sy ! That the perception of what is visrht do pends on purified atfections, is, like every other spiritual truth, written in tLe laws and operations of nature. For ono among ma ny illustrations, observe the following. A traveller in Turkey writes thus: “I was aware that oil would calrrj the surface of the sea ; but I did not know, until recently, that it rendered objects more distinct be neath the surface. A trinket of some val ue bad been dropped out of the upper win dows of our palace into the Bosphorous— which at this place was ten or twelve feet deep. It was so small, that dragging for it would have been perfectly fruitless ; it was accordingly given up for lost, when one of the servants proposed to drop a little oil on the surface. This was acceded to. | though with faint hopes of success. To our astonishment, the trinket immediately appeared in sight, and was eventually re covered.^ Priceless, altogether infinite in value, are the spiritual jewels that maybe restor ed to the world, by pouring oil on the troub led waves. And then this Law of Love, like every thing that belongs, to the highest in our na ture, is so open to all ! The most ignorant may learn it, and the poorest may practice it, as faithfully as the wealthiest. The beggar who, sorely tempted by want, vet refrains from anything like imposture, lest it should excite distrust in the public against other sufferers, has fulfilled the Law of Love ; perchance far more perfectly than the royal duke who distributes thousands of pounds among the starving poor. At a meeting in Massachusetts, in favor of Normal. Schools, (that is, schools to fit teachers for the business of education,) I. M., a hard working mechanic, with a very small portion of the world's wealth, sub scribed one thousand dollars. A friend re turned the paper to him. saying, “ I sup pose you meant one hundred dollars, and have accidentally written a cipher too much.” “ Why should you suppose that ?” repli ed I. M. “If you reflect a moment, you may discover some selfishness in this. I am a father; and in what way can Iso ef fectually advance the interests of mv chil dren, as by educating the community in which they arc to live ?” If this was policy, it was of the enlarged kind, that is learned only in the school of universal love. Said I not well, that the highest truths are taught by the atfections ? And that there is no better Wisdom than benevolence ? I will tell you an anecdote, which I learn ed in casual conversation, from mv excel lent and kind-hearted friend, Isaac T. Hop per. You need not weary of my frequent . mention ot the good man’s name ; for I re- i coid such things, not that they may redound to his credit, hut that they may fall like j good seed into the human heart, and bring j forth an hundred fold. Patrick McKover was a poor Irishman, j wno lived in Philadelphia, many years ago. j He was arrested on a charge of burglary, convicted, and sentenced to be hung. lam ignorant of the details of his crime, or the ! causes that led to it. But there were pro- 1 bably some palliating circumstances ; fori when brought, seated on his coffin, in the 1 death-cart, to the foot of the gallows, in j company with another criminal, In was re prieved, and the other was hung. His sen- j tenee was changed to ten years’ imprison- ! ment; and this was eventually shortened’ one year. Dunnrr the last three years of his term, ‘ Isaac T. Hopper was one of the inspectors j of the prison, and frequently talked with ! him in a friendly, fatherly manner. The j convict was a man of few words, and hope* .seemed almost dead within him ; but tho’ I ha made no large promises, his heart was ; evidently touched by the voice of kindness. , After his release, he immediately went lo work at his trade, which was that of a tanner, and conducted himself in the most sober and exemplary manner, living re markable for his capability, and the amount of work ho could perform, he soon had plenty of employment. He passed Friend Hopper’s house every day, us he went to his work, and words of friendly cheer and cn- , couragement were not wanting. Things were going on thus satisfactorily, ! w.lien Isaac Jic&rd that constables were out aftr Patrick, on account of a robborvcom- 1 I milted the night before. He wentstraight i way to the Mayor, and inquired why or j ders had been given to arrest Patrick Mc- Kever. “Because there has been a rohbe ry committed in his neighborhood,” replied the mayor. “What proof is there that hy ! concerned in it ?” “Noneat all ; but j lie is an old convict ; and that is enough to j condemn him.” “It is not enough, by any means, ’ replied Isaac ; “thou has no right to arrest a citizen without a shadow of proof against him ; and in tin's case, I advise thee, by all means, to proceed with humane cau tion. ibis man has atoned severely’ for the crime ho did eor.irnit ; and since ho wishes to reform, the fact ought never to be mentioned against him. He has been per fectly upright, sober, and industrious, ever since he came outof prison. I think I know j his state of mind ; and I am veiling to take ! the responsibility of saying that he is guilt less in (his matter.” i The mayor commended Friend Hopper’s j benevolence, but was by no means con vine- [ i ‘-‘d. To all arguments, he replied, “ho is j an old convict; and thr.t is enough.” It was in vain to ask whether society ought to be a mother, or an executioner, to her erring children “he is an old convict; and that is enough,” was a satisfactory an swer to a 11 1 hat might he urged. Patrick’s kind friend watched for him, as he passed to his daily labors, and told him that the ‘constables were after him, for the robbery that had been committed. The poor fellow hung his head, the light van ished from his countenance, and he seemed e.tterly forsaken of hope. “Well,” said I he, with a deep sigh, “1 must make up my mind to spend the rest of my days in pri son.” “Thou wert not concerned in this robbe ry, wort thou?” said Isaac, looking earn ; estly r ,n his face. j “No, indeed, I was not. God be my witness, I want to lead an honest life, and live in peace with all men. But what good will that do ine ? Every body will say. He has been in the State prison, and that’s enough.” His friend did not ask him twice ; for he felt well-assured that the poor man had spoken truth. He advised him togo direct ly to the Mayor, deliver himself up, and declare his innocence. This wholesome advice was received with deep desponden cy. He had no faith in his fellow-men ; for they had been to him as enemies. “1 know what will come of it,” says he.— “They will put me into prison, whether there is any proof against me, or not; they will not let me out without somebody will be security for me; and nobody will be se- j curiry for an old convict.” “Be of good heart,” said Isaac, “go to the Mayor, and speak as 1 have advised. Ifj I they talk of putting thee in prison, send for | jmc.'’ Patrick did accordingly. He was treat- ! -edas he had expected. In the absence of j any thing like a shadow of proof, his being | an “old convict” was deemed sufficient rea- j j son for sending him to jail. Friend Hopper appeared in his behalf. | , “1 am ready to affirm,” said he, “that this j I man is innocent. It will be a very serious | | injury to him to betaken from his business, ! ! until such timeasthis can be proved ; and j i moreover the effects upon his mind may |be most discouraging. 1 will be security j for his appearance when called; and i know I very well that he will not think of giving ! i me the slip. The gratitude of the poor fellow was | | overwhelming. He sobbed, till his strong I I frame shook like a leaf in the wind. If I the blessing of'the perishing can save a soul, | that Prison Inspector is sure of heaven. | The real culprits were soon after discov | ered. Patrick, until the day of his death, continued to lead a virtuous and useful life; I for which he always thanked Friend Hop per, as the instrument of God. | Men write oi bloody battles, by sea and j larui, and call the butchers heroes, and | their actions History: but incidents like j these are 61aced in the archives of heaven; : for in them do rfngels read the History of j Man. Matrimonial Lottery .—At Samarang, the j second town in the island of Java, there ex- I isted a species of matrimonial lottery, which gives,rise to many singular speculations. | Orphan children, rich as well as poor, are ! all brought up in a public establishment, j The most profound silence as to the fortunes jof these children is enjoined to every per- I son employed in or about the institution.— j These fortunes are placed under the man agement of persons at Batavia, on whom a similar injunction of secrecy is imposed. | The female orphans are kept in the estab lishment until marriage. Every man pos j sensing an annual income of 730 florins or | two florins a day, is at liberty to choose a wife from amongst them, but the amount of I her fortune is not made known to him till I several days after the marriage. A ser vant of tho military hospital at Samarang j lately selected one of these damsels, with a ! fortune 0f65,000 florins. Since his good j luck, the application for wives from the j asylum have become very urgent; for a re j port has got abroad that there is a rriar ■ riageablegir! still left, who will bring with : tier a prize of 290,000 florins. Curiosities. —We have the following an i eedote from a respectable stone mason : ! “A young chap (said bo) in the uniform of i a midshipman, came into my workshop one day apparently in a great hurry, and de . sired me to let him have some broken pie ces ol marble, or lumps of rock. Finding 1 paid but little attention to his odd request, lie urged me to accommodate him bv say ing that he must have the articles immedi ately as lie was going off in the steamboat, and was apprehensive that lie would be left. “I came in the other day,” said he, “in the I return to my friends in . they will ex ! ppet me to show them some curiosities from i foreign parts, which I neglected to pick up ! while abroad ; but some of your chips of j marble and stone will do just as well when , , I exhibit them with a few iaugh yarns.” I 1 was much, amticpd with tffo lad’s ingenuity and supplied him with what he desired.— Pvohably the curious antiquities of the old world, which the young gentleman carried home with him for the gratification of his friends, were quarried not a year before, and within a hundred miles of their resi deuce.— Norfo ll; Herald. GIANTS, <Vc. The Boston Transcript has given a chap ter on old age and giants. Passing from longevity to longitude, he says there are some families who seem to grow to an im moderate height. “Their altitude overtops that of all their neighbors. They “over look” their eotemporaries. The Rible tells 1 us of the sons of Anak, and that there were 1 “ffiants in those days.” Occasionally we j find one of these “tall customors,” such as j j Mons. Bihim, who was here a year or two ; i ago, and the Kentucky Giant, and Mr. Free -1 man. the American giant, who, we believe, jis now in Boston. But they are mere pig j mies to what existed in former days, if we may believe what tradition and history tells us. Og, King of Bashan, who is spoken of in Scripture, is said to have been more than twelve feet high. Goliah was about 9 feet 8 inches high, or 11 feet, according to some commentators. The Emperor Maximus is said to have been 9 feet high. Turner, the naturalist, mentions having seen, on the Brazil coast, a race of gigantic savages, one of whom measured twelve feet! Thevet, in his description of America, published at Paris in 1575, declares that he saw and measured the skeleton of a South Amer ican which was 11 feet five inches in length. Dimerbroeck saw at Utrecht, a well pro portioned living man, measuring 8 feet six inches ; and Becamus was introduced to a youth who was nearly 9 feet high, a man almost 10 feet, and a woman quite 10 feet. The Pantagonians have been represented as a nation of giants. The “Philosophical Transactions” of the Poyal Society con tain accounts of skeletons dug up in Eng land, measuring 8 or 9 feet in length, which probably were Roman. In the 41st and 42d volumes ofthe same work are two en gravings, taken from an “osfrontis” and an “os femoris,” the former of which is reck oned to have belonged to a person between 11 or twelve feet high, the latter to a giant jl3 feet 4 inches. Walter Parsons, porter ! to King James 1, was 7 feet some inches in | bright. The Chinese pretend that they have gi ants fifteen feet in height, but before they have done with John Bull—or John Bui! is done with them—we suspect they will not j loom up quite so tall as they would make l the barbarians think them to be. DUELLING. j An affair has just occurred in a certain I Nothern city, which has occasioned some | amusement to the lieges. A young gentle man belonging to the beaumonde, was am ! bilious to become possessed of a pair of { whiskers, and applied to a friend to whom j nature had been particularly bountiful in 1 regard to that article, to be instructed as to j the method of furnishing himself with the desired ornament. The friend promised to I comply, and presented him with a pot of ! ointment with which he was to anoint the | parts on which he wished to raise a crop. The ointment was used accordingly, and produced, not whiskers, but blisters. A I challenge was given and accepted, the par- I i ties met, and somewhat abated of their first ; ardor, faced each other with mortal intent, i and weapons loaded with cork; though it is due to their valor to mention that they believed them to bn charged with a heavier material. The word was given, shots were duly exchanged, and one of the party, the challenged, fell, overpowered by deadly terror. The seconds, to continue what they intended for a joke, but which was certainly carried a little too far, applied a handkerchief stained with red ink to his side. At this sanguinary’ spectacle, the challenger, believing he had done murder, took to flight, and was with difficulty so much reassured as to appear again in pub- r lie. A Highway liobber Shot.— -The Sunbury American says a gentleman direct from Tioga county, informs us that a traveller who had a codsidorable sum of money with him left Wellsboro’ on horseback, about ten days since, on his road west. About 12 miles west of Smithport, he stopped at a house kept by a man named Brush, of sus picious character, but the only house on the road, and but a few miles before he en tered the wilderness. There was nothing that occurred in the house that excited his suspicion, but lie had scarcely entered into the woods, when a rabbit came running in to the road. He drew his postol to shoot it, but it missed fire. He then tried another with the same effect. This excited in his mind some suspicion, and on examining his pistols, found that the charges had been drawn from both, and filled with bran. He immediately re-loaded both pistols, and be fore lie had proceeded a mile on his road, a man with his face painted black, rushed out from the woods, and seized the bridle of his horse. The traveller drew a pistol, and told him lie would shoot him if he did not ; let go. The robber replied that he was not afraid of his pistol. The traveller then fired upon him, and shot him through the heart. He immediately rode back to the house for assistance, to which the robber was speedily removed, and washing his face, discovered to be the landlord.— Phila. Sentinel. A Yankee Arab. —The celebrated Arab Chief, who has for several years baffled the French generals that have been sent to Af rica, is accompanied on all his expeditions by a regular dovvn-easter—one Zachariah Coffin, a veritable descendant of the old Admiral. He sports the Moorish dress, rides a magnificent barb, heads a squadron, lays by the dollars, but refuses to change ; his religion. : When fishermen sing, which part do they prefer? They take the Pas From the Milledgeville Recorder. There has been, perhaps, an error on the part ofthe advocates of domestic retrench ment and reform, in the mode of presenting their arguments, which we think has much injured the cause they so zealously and so | honorably maintain. There is a wide dis ! ference between absolute self-denial, and a true application of the principles of do mestic and political economy in supplying ourselves with all that is necessary for our comfort and happiness. Thus when we insist that our peopleshall not incur further indebtedness, at present, for manufactures from abroad, we do not by any means in tend that they shall be less comfortably and respectably supplied than before ; but that the procurement of those supplies shall it ! self he a source of profit to themselves, in- I stead of a grievous and ruinous burden.— The farmer who makes his own clothing of i all kinds to the amount of fifty dollars, has done good service to the republic. Let us look into the matter a little. Fifty dollars of substituted labor is equal to about two bags of cotton —he has profitably diverted this amount of labor from the culture ofan article already greatly over supplied.— Again, lie keeps within our own State fiftv dollars which would have been carried out of it; again, he has saved to the Statp me exchange in the payment to the creditor, which is a clear gain : end lastly, he has proved himself a ‘.Vue economist, by gain ing all this clear, and supplying himselfto all talents and purposes as respectably and as comfortably as he would have done by the foreign purchase with all its injurious incidents. The same reasoning applies to every oth er article included in the subject. When we recommend our friends not to purchase cotton bagging from abroad, we do not mean that their cotton shall remain unpacked, hut that they shall make it themselves, which they can very easily do. And just look at the result. We now send out of the State for this article alone, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, which would be kept at home. It would take from eight to ten thousand bales of cotton to make the article. Here would be a capi tal sale for this much of an over produced article. We should divert most profitably from the culture of the over produced arti cle, the labor of three thousand hands; these hands would require their supplies from the others, and besides adding to the value of the cotton crop, would also add to the value of our other products, our corn and pork, and all necessaries for their support. What a balance of good in our favor from this sin gle article alone ! The same facts apply with even more force in regard to the raising of our own supply of horses, mules, hogs and cattle. We shall not enter into detail on this point: the benefits frotr. such a course are too ob vious to every body to require illustration. The same may be said in regard to lea ther manufactures. On this point, howev er, we are either strangely ignorant, or perversely stupid to our interests. The importance of this manufacture is almost incalculable. We were astonished to be informed, that one State of the Union. Mas sachusetts, ofthe articles of shoes and boots alone, manufactures about fifteen millions ofdollars, about twice as much as.the whole cotton crop of Georgia. When will Geor gia thus add millions to her prosperity, by learning and pursuing her true interests. Although we have extended this article about as far as we designed for this week, (knowing full well that brief articles most surely command attention,) we cannot con clude without glancing at a few matters in connection with this subject, in regard to which we feel peculiar soreness. For in stance, who looks into a store in Georgia, out of the cities, without being confounded with the sight of whole range of wooden pails, countless piles of hat boxes, and whole forests of Northern brooms, and corn broom brushes. Is it possible we can’t make our own water pails, or do we not grow broom corn enough to brush our clothes with? — These illustrations ofour spendthrift policy may seem to the unreflecting and unobser vant, trifling in every point of view. The | reverse is the fact. We have enquired at the proper sources for correct information, among other things, what they imagined it costs Georgia to brush its clothes, and that only with corn brooms. We will give one case as a criterion to judge of this single and apparently inconsiderably expense.— A merchant of our town, of enlarged views. I and ofthe first respectability, informed us j that he enquired of the agent in New York of one corn broom establishment, how much of this article he sold to the south. He was informed that the season had but begun, was not half advanced, and that he had al ready sold for the single house upwards of thirty thousand dollars of tjje article. Now it may be supposed that for the whole sea son, this single establishment must have sold from sixty to seventy-five thousand dol lars worth of corn brooms to the South ; and we leave the reader to judge for him self, if one house sold this amount, what must have been the amount of the whole trade to the South on this article alone, from New York to Boston. Hundreds of thousands of dollars at least! Truly Geor gia and the South pay severely lor brush ing their clothes. Let us stop this criminal waste of our means, and at once. Already has our pros perity been enough blighted by this sense less course of conduct. Let us once again make our Declaration of Independence, and enjoy its blessings. Let us eat our own Flour and Pork —let us wear our own clo thing—let usmake our cotton bagswithour own bagging—let us wear our own hats and shoes—let us use our own saddles, bri dles, and harness—let us churn out of our own churns—drink out of our own pails, and brush our clothes and sweep our hou ses_vvith our own brooms, and the cry of hard times, pressure, distress and suffering will quickly subside, to be heard no more in all the broad extent of our own rejoicing, prolific and renovated country. Why is a toper like a bull? Because lie tak"= hi® bonis wherever he goee. From the Georgia Journal. THE TAX LAW. We have refrained touching upon this subject for some time past, notwithstanding in the interim ofour silence, it has been al most officially announced, that the tax act of 1841, passed by the Legislature, has not been approved of n>v Gov. McDonald—he has vetoed it. We are not at all surprised ai this act ofthe Governor. We kn ”W, and we told the people last summer, that all the fuss that was made by the Democratic press in Georgia about the tax law, was a trap set to catch their votes. Time has pro ven that we were right.—But let us, with the reader, recur for a moment, to the his tory ofthe present tax law of Georgia. In 1840 the Harrison party had control of the Legislature. For the very reasons, we presume, that induced Governor Mc- Donald to veto the tax law of last session, they, the Harrison Legislature, passed the act of 1840. In brief, those reasons may be found in one simple statement. The absolute necessities of the Government re quired the passage of the law, and the Le- gislature of that year was not composed of men, who would shrink from the discharge of thoir duty. Scarcely, however, had the Body adjourned, when the Standard and Federal Union ofthis place, opened, in full cry, upon their action. The tax law was held up as a most hideous monster of iniqui ty. The people were told that extrava gance, corruption, and oppression had all been exercised by the Harrison Party.— They were told that their taxes had been increased over a half million of dollars. — That from paying a tax of something less than $200,000, they had to pay one amoun ting to over $700,000. All this too. was displayed to their senses, by the exhibition of a table, purpoting to be the amount to be paid in, by each county —and so cunning ly was the whole affair managed, by those who were working to deceive, that, notwith standing the truth of the whole matter was placed by our papers, time and again, be fore our readers, the statement made by our opponents found favor with the great mass of the people. In the contest we were de feated. The tax law and the Relief ques tion, were, no doubt the cause of this defeat. The tables now are to be turned. Truth is mighty and will prevail. Well, the Legislature of 1841, a Van Buren Legislature, a Relief Legislature, assembled, and what is about the first an nouncement made to the Body, by his Ex cellency, the Goveruor? Is it that the peo ple have been oppressed by taxation ? No! Is it thatthe Treasury needs not the amount collected, or about to be collected and paid over to it ? What is it then? W.hat does His Excellency tell the Representatives of the people? Hear it, and heed it, people of Georgia. In his annual message to the Legislature Gov. McDonald says: “From information derived from the Comptroller General, the anticipated net receipts into the Treasury,will be about the sum of two hundred and thirty thousand dollars.” Now, the above piece of infor mation communicated to His Excellency, is given by the same individual that told the people they were taxed the enormous a mount oi $720,000. Think of that reader, as we pass along. But again, the Governor says to the Le gislature, “it is to be hoped now thatthe re venue is paid into the public treasury, that there will be no necessity for resorting to loans lo any considerable extent, to sustain the Goverment, or Us policy.’’ This is a strange language indeed to men, who, but a short month before, were made to believe that enormous taxation, the Treasury was to be fil led to overflowing ! But the Governor in his inaugural address comes out much plainer. He there tells the Legislature in emphatic language “The State Treasury is exhuusted.” More, “ the revenue now about to be received is not suffi cient lo reimburse the expenditures of the po litical year just ended, cannot be made a callable for future exigencies. There was the plain truth. All the e lectioneering fibs that were promulgated with so much industry, were exposed naked to the country, ere the Legislature had as sembled throe days. And in what a quan dary did it place the party—yes, in what an unenviable attitude does it place those who at the head of the press, so degraded it, as to use the weapon that they did! But the party in the Legislature had to j do something, and they knew not what.— They had promised to loan the people mon ey through the Central Bank ; this they were told by those in authority could not be done. They had to resort then to the poor alternative of reducing salaries of pub lic officers, and by passing a tax act, redu cing the taxes 20 per cent ; and this latter act of theirs Governor McDonald lias ve toed? The old tax law—the tax law so much reprobated—the tax law passed by a Harrison Legislature—is adopted by our present Democratic Governor as the law for 1842 ! How mortified must the feelings of those, who so vigorously battled for His Excellency, and, in battling, used a wea pon which their chief discards as an un worthy, a dishonorable one ! We leave the subject. Let the reader reflect upon it, and with his conclusions we know, we shall be satisfied. Spirit of the Times. —The ex-Editor of the “Sf. Joseph Times,” has, to use our ve nacular, “sloped” —GTT. Last week a Colonel Milton, a gentleman of notoriety in New Orleans, Mobile and Columbus, by some achievements in matters of honor, gal lantry, &c., arrived here in the Steamer Jas. Y. Smith and chartered a Schooner for Texas. The Rov'd Mr. Peter W. Gau tier, Senior, and his son, the ex-Editor, ar rived about the same time in St. Joseph.— The schooner immediately proceeded there and took fifty-three negroes on board, a part, as is said, of the moveable assets of the Union Bank, together with the Editor, the old Gentleman and Col Milton. Another schooner appeared in St. Jo seph’s Bay, last Wednsday, with about fif ty or sixty negroes on board, and several white persons, recognised as having come from Port Leon. They were bound! t Texas ! A Mr. A. Formy Duval, of Tallahasl < we are informed, had nearly come the sal go upon the Tallahasscuns, but the bloc hounds of the law, were too nimble for hit _ Apalachicola Journal. $ a From the National Intelligencer. TRUE PROPHECY. Having met in the Cincinnati Gazett received yesterday, with an article origir ally published in this paper a year or tw ago, entitled “ The predictions by wise Statesmen of consequences of the Experiment and having the curiosity to reperuse tha article, we were absolutely startled at tin life-like delineation which it shows to have, been made, ten years ago, of the consel quencesthat might be expected to result from a perseverance in the wanton anc foolish experiment upon the national pros! perity which has brought the country tc| the condition it is now in. Every day, foil four or five years past, we have realized more and more forcibly the truth of these! predictions, and now more forcibly than* ever. Our readers will bear with us whilst wo quote as follows, one or two passages, full of instruction and illustration, from the ar ticle to which we refer. When in July, 1832, a bill for rechar tering the bank of the United States, having passed both Houses of Congress, and been sent to the President for his signature, was returned by him to the Senate with his ob jections, a solemn debate took place un der the question, arising under the Constit ution, whether the bill should pass notwith standing the President’s objections ; in the course of which debate, as recorded in the’ Register of Debates, the following remark able passages occur : Mr. Ewing, of Ohio, said : “ If this insti tution is really to be prostrated—if it have now received its death-blow, and is but tc wait and prepare for its final fall—the dis tress and ruin which it will occasion rests not with the wealth}’ money-h r ' ld<> ''j “I'ost funds an investment in its stock, but it must come with fatal and unbroket force upon the industry, the enterprize, th public prosperity,‘and private comforts o the whole extended West. The Bank c the United States must withdraw its issue &e.” And then Mr. E. cuuilnued a.-> !L>f lows; “ But this is not all. You sap th morals at the same time you thus rudely sliak the prosperity of a people. Their first rc sort will he to legislative aid, and relit laws follow, or in other words, laws to prt vent the collection ofdebts, (for what Li gislature can withstand the appeals of whole people suffering under a general vi itation?) or, if not that, the creation of host of banks with fictitious capital, whic may seem for a time to suspend the bio'- but will make it fall the heavier at last- And then, instead of the safe and sound cu rency which we now enjoy, we shall aga have a depreciated and worthless mass trash, which will pass into the hands of t. People, and there sink into nothing, leavit I them to bear the loss. 1 Mr. Clayton spoke in the same spiri I “The prediction of Mr. Lowndes in 1811 must be fulfilled : “that the destruction I the United States Bank would be followi I by theestablishment ofpaper mony he fire I ly believed ; he might also say lie knev I It was an extremity’, he said, from whit I the House would recoil.” The farme I must again stdl his grain to the counti I merchant for State bank paper at a discoui I of from ten to twenty, or even thirty pc I cent, in the nearest commercial city,” &c I “The loss of confidence among men, the U I tal derangement of that, admirable system c I exchanges which is now acknowledged 11 be better than exists in any other comm on the globe, overtrading and speculate) I on false capital in every part of the com try. that rapid fluctuation in the standard( value of money, which , like the unseen pest lence , withers all the. efforts of industry, wlii. the sufferer is in utter ignorance of the cam of his destruction ; bankruptcies and ruii ■it the anticipation of which the heart sic! ens, must follow in the long train of evil which are assuredly before us.” A FAIR HIT. The following (says the Buffalo Con mercial Advertiser,) is too good to be los It was written on the wrapper of a newspa per that passed through our Post-Office few days since. The Post- Master-Gonerr must promulge some new regulation to pre vent the transmission of private intelligene by means of newspapers, or give up beat: “ The wrapper forms no part of the pack age,neither is postage paid thereon, ’-p.m.g “EZRA D. BARNES, ESQ. One Paper. Byron, Michigan. Now I wish to have it understood b all the P. M’s. along the route betwee here and away out there in Michigan—an there too —that we are all well down her in De Reytor, from grand-mother to littl bub; and also that there is no ‘wvitin within the wrapper, or on tho margin < this newspaper—no underscoring, dottim or pricking letters or words,’ or other m moranda—nevertheless, I enjoin it up< him of Byron to tear off the wrapper at examine it closely, and then, on demaf deliver it to my brother, a little south Uncle ‘ Jake Canouse’s,’ —we had pc sleighing, but very fat turkeys, Tbanksg j ing day—a long night and a short serrr from Priest Johnson before Christmas good deal of wind and some weather,. N Year’s day —bells jingling and belles and . cing through the evening—money scflj > and office circulars plenty ever since. > i . | Chance lo Indulge Taste. —A bill tepf, ing the law forbidding blaeksand white* intermarry, has passed the Senate of Ja saehnsetts bv a vot° of t? 1 t° 0
