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ascended or descended with no very gentle tread. Sleep was murdered—out bounded the landlord again—doors (lew open—vows of vengeance and denunciations were bel. loWed forth, like shouts from a dozen mask ed batteries. A glorious breakfast was, bv special or- ‘ der, arranged in the sitting room of Cap- i tain S--~and timber, aliout nine o’clock, assembled the Captain’s guests of the day | before, to laugh heartily at their night’s spree. As sOon as they had partaken of! the morning meal, and. had departed to j their duty, the proprietor entered, and with j a countenance in which cunning and vex ation were blended, he assumed a high tdhe, diluting that “ho would not have his house—noted for its quiet and proprie tv —made the scene of such unseemly con duct.” “My dear sir,” answered the Captain, mildly, “you quite mistake the thing—it is a universal practieo that I have adopted, whenever 1 engage a suit of apartments— I regret that it interferes with or incom modes the genllcmen who honor you with their confidence—but you must be sensible, my dear sir, that discipline is necessary in all well regulated commands—your own establishments for instance;” and look ed superlatively innocent, as lie shrugged his shoulders and spread out his hands. “Really Captain S ,” responded the landlord somewhat fiercely, though mista king the gallant tar’s quiet never can nor will suffer such things; my. character—the reputation of my house— the comfort of thy friends—” and ho paced the room in fury. “Very—very sorry,” returned the Cap tain, with perfect self-command—“it would be a sad pity for your character, as propri etor, and the reputation of your hotel, to sustain injury ; and I grieve still more for the annoyance of your friends; but it is impossible for me to break old established regulations; my men are so used to the thing, that my authority would be at stake if 1 were to discontinue it. I have hired vour apartments for a month—” “Merciful Heaven! and do you intend to continue this hideous, odious noise for a month, Captain S?” demanded the terrified landlord. “Hideous, odious noise, Mr. re peated the Captain, affecting surprise and wrath, “do you call those harmonious pi pings hideous and odious?” He threw • himself into a theatrical attitude, as he spouted with ranting vehemence, and ad vanced fiercely : “ The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit” (he bawled out) “for treason, stratafems and spoils! The motions of his spirit are dull as night, And his a flection dark as Erebus : Let no such man be trusted.” “He is mad, moon struck mad,” mutter ed the landlord to himself, as ho retreated before the menacing captain, who followed him round the room. “Captain S ,be pacified, I beg.” “Hideous noise, do you call it ?” contiu ed the captain, his sword half drawn, and fierceness distending every feature of his ugitated face, as he brought the landlord to a trot, “hideous noise, eh ?” “ This music hath crept by me on the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air.” “I wish the whistles were there now, with all my heart, Captain S said the subdued man, almost out of breath, as he danced about the room. “Oh, do he calm, sir. Lord, what shall I dor.” (The captain grinned.) “The music was charm ing; now do hear reason. I prav you be calm.” “Calm, Mr. calm!” repeated the captain, rattling his sword against the table, and throwing his arms about—“it is impossible to listen to such libels on sweet melody and be calm. The roomsare mine, sir, for oiie month—you will love the deli cious Italian harmony of those pipes long before that time expires. You shall have a full concert of them, Mr. . 1 will speak to the Admiral, to favor me with ev ery boatswain's mato in the fleet; we must make shake downs in the rooms—oh, we will have glorious music, tickets issued, the ball room full—l will act as leader;” and pulling a boatswain’s call from bis waist coat pocket, he began to blow close to the landlord’s ears. “ Come, come, Captain ,” said the master of the hotel, 1 plainly see how it is, and must own myself out-wilted. Pay me one week’s rent for the rooms, and give them up : I will ask no more, and you shall have a receipt in full.” “Impossible!” returned the Captain, with well affected astonisment; “ 1 care nothing for the money, Mr. , my frigate will not be ready for sea these two months, and I must keep my apartments for the time agreed upon. But 1 hope you will get the great room ready for the concert — thirty-six boatswains’ calls, with a running accornpainment of street door knockers and scrapers—every officer in the fleet will at tend and having ordered dinner for 12, lie sallied forth to superintend the refitting of his sliip. Away went Mr. , to consult his lawyer, and he returned back with a long face, to hear the lamentations and com plaints of those who, having been deprived of their natural rest, W’ere only just quil ting their beds. He next went to the mag istrates, but they could afford him no assis tance ; he had let his rooms, and they were no longer under his control, unless any breach of the peace was committed. The poor man was half crazed, for inquiry had elicited the information that a more daring, dashing mad cap than Captain S did not exist; but still avarice and covetous ness were the leading principles of the land lord’s soul. At six o'clock a round dozen sat down to an excellent dinner at the Captain’s table. Champagne abounded, and the trembling Mr. saw the whole parly in a fair way to become uproarious, without the slightest prospect of being able to prevent what he dreaded must follow as a natural consequence. The boatswain’s mates had never'eft their rooms—they had as much grog as they could drink—the parly reeled o/f to their beds, and the watch was regu- j larly called, and relieved as on the preco- j ding night. ‘The-fbllowing morning tho landlord a- I j gain remonstrated ; he offered to forego the i i w hole of the charge f>r rent, provided Cap j ■ tain S would withdraw his forces.— I j But this he most resolutely refused—reite- I j rated his promise of getting up the concert, I j and declared that the thirty-six boatswains’ I mates were coming that very night to lii-s j room* to practice. “ I will not admit them, Captain S !” vociferated the enraged man —“ I will not open my doors to them.” “ I do not expect that you will sodemean yourself, Mr. ■—,*’ remarked the Cap tain ; “ they can open'the doors for them selves—thirty-six boatswain’s mates, the fi nest fellows in the fleet.” (He pulled out his call.) “ Oh, it will be delightful.” Away started the landlord out of the room, more than ever convinced that the Captain was cracked, and well knowing, that to attempt to resist three dozen boat- swains’ mates, let loose upon asprec, would be the height of madness. Back again he came, fear gaining the ascendency oyer av arice. Captain S ,” said he, “my bus iness will be ruined. lam already threat ened with several notions—my house w ill bo deserted—the London travellers will no longer make it their homes during their stay —several have already quitted for oth er hotels—what is that you require ?”^ “ I require, my dear sir, I?” reiterated the captain, in assumed amazement ; “ Ido not comprehend your meaning ; I require notiiing but the free use of my roooms, the exercise of an undoubted, undisputed priv ilege. The thirty six boatswains’ mates will practice in this apartment.” “Not if I can help it,” muttered Mr. tain S , I will forego the whole amount you are indebted to me, for the time you have been here, and give you and your friends a first rate dinner, if you will pledge your word of honor not to carry on your freak.” “But the thirty six boatswain’s mates,” siad the captain doubtingiy, “I have pro mised them ten guineas, and ” “They shall have it—they shall have it,” replied the landlord, in agony ; “only ! give me your word there shall be no distur bance. Dinner shall be ready at 6 o’clock, and the money shall be paid to your men up stairs. Oh dear, I shall be ruined : keep away your confounded thirty-six; or if you prefer it, a substantial repast shall be provided for them at the adjacent public house, where they may afterwards blow their insides out if they like.” After some apparent reluctance on the part of Captain S , the proposal of the landlord was accepted, the dinner given, the barges manned, and the thirty-six boatswain’s mates had a merry meeting, and at midnight they assembled under the windows of the hotel, to give the landlord a last pipe arid three cheers before they re turned on board. Whether the proprietor was cured of his avarice I do not know, but certain it is he never ceased to remem ber, even to his last moments, the calling THE WATCH. [From the N. O. Crescent City.\ FLOGGING AN EDITOR. Some years ago, a populous town, loca ted towards the interior of Mississippi, was infested by a gang of blacklegs, who amused themselves at times, when they could find nobody else to pluck, by preying upon each other. Anew importation of these sport ing gentry, exciting some alarm among the inhabitants, lest they should be completely overrun—they determined therefore, upon their expulsion. A poor devil of a country Editor, who was expected, by virtue of his location, to take upon himself all the re sponsibilities from which others might shrink, was peremptorily called upon by his “patrons”—that is, those who paid him two dollars a year for his paper, and there fore presumed they owned him, soul and body ; to make an efibrt towards the exter mination of the enemy. The unfortunate editor, like most editors, being gifted with just about as much brains as money— skull and purse both empty ; said at once that he would indite a “flasher,” one that would undoubtedly drive the obnoxious vermin into some more hospitable region. And when his paper appeared it was a “ flasher,” sure enough. In the course of his observation, he gave the initials of sev oral of the fraternity, whom he advised to leave town as speedily as possible if they had the slightest desire to save their ba con. The next morning, while the poor scribe was comfortably seated in his office, list lessly fumbling over a meagre parcel of exchanges, lie heard footsteps on the stairs, and presently an individual, having ac complished the ascent, made his appear ance. His first salutation was slightly ab rupt. “Where’s the editor ofthis and and dirty, lying paper?” ‘ Now, aside from the rudeness of this o pening interrogatory, there were other con siderations that induced the editor to be lieve there was trouble ort foot. The per sonage who addressed him, bore a cowhide in his hands, and, moreover, seemed to be exceedingly enraged. This was not all— he recognized in him a distinguished lead er ofthe sporting fraternity, with whose cognomen he had taken very irreverent liberties. It was without the slightest hes itation, therefore, that he replied to the in troductory query : “ I don’t know.” “ Do you belong to the concern ?” “ No indeed, but I presume the editor will soon be in.” “Well,” said the visitor, “I will wait for him,” and suiting the action to the word, he composedly took a chair, picked up a paper, and commenced reading. “If I meet him,” said the frightened knight of the scissors'and quill, “I will tell him there is a gentleman here wishes to | see bint.” As he reached the foot of thri stßirs, in j fils hasty retreat, he. was accosted by anoth er person, who thus made himself known: j j “Can you tell me where I can find the i j sneaking rascal who has charge ol this vil- j I lainous sheet ?” producing the last number | j of “ Freedom's Echo and the Battle Axe of ! Liberty.” : j “ Y r es,” replied the editor, “ lie is up j ! them in the office now, reading, wi\h his j back to (tie door. ” J “ Thank you,” exclaimed the stranger j as be bounced up stairs. “ I’ve got yoii, have I,” ejaculated he, as he made a grasp at his brother in iniquity, and they came crashing to the floor togeth er. i As the combatants, notwithstanding the similarity of their vocation, happened to be unacquainted with each other, “a very pretty quarrel” ensued. First one wns at the top, then the oilier; blow followed blow, kick followed kick, nnd oath followed oath, until bruised, exhausted and bloody, w ith faces and features resembling Deaf Burke, after a two hours pugilistic encounter, there was, by mutual consent, a cessation of hos tilities. As the warriors sat on the floor contemplating each other, the first comer found breath enough to ask, “ Wlionre you, what did vou attack me •for ?” “ Y'ou abused me in your paper, you scoundrel.” “ Me ! I’m not the editor, I came here to flog him myself.” Mutual explanations and apologies en sued, and the two mistaken gentlemen re tired to “ bind up their wounds.” As the story comes to us, the distinguished indi vidua] whose vocation it was to enlighten the world, by the aid of that great engine the public press, escaped Scot-free. WHAT SAY Y r OU, BOYS? The evenings are now nearly as long as they will be during the cold season : sup pose you spend two hours of each in some useful study. This would make fourteen hours per week, that would make sixty hours per month, and three hundred hours by the first of April. Think of it. Lay out a system ofstudies, and pursue it faith fully, and if you-do not know more, and are not wiser, and consequently better fitted for the practical duties of life, we shall he ex ceedingly disappointed. These two hours per diem, will not at all encroach upon the time necessary to read the newspaper.— The study of any of the sciences will, in fact, give increased zeal for the lighter and more practical contents which fill the col umns of a well-conducted news sheet. The head of a family, who would cultivate a taste for study and for knowledge among his children, should not fail to keep contin ually within reach of every member of the domestic circle, the newspaper. National Intelligencer. From the New Haven Herald. OLD STYLE HYMNS. The following verses are correct speci mens of the hymns sung in Congregational Churches before the days of Dr. Walts, and which were gradually made to give place to the hymns now in use, as the taste for harmony and beauty increased in our Churches. The following verse should be deaconed off and sung one line at a time : “ ’Tis like the precious ointment Down Aaron’s beard did go ; Down Aaron’s beard it downward went, Ilis garments skirts unto.” Another—a sort of address to whales, a nr} other big fish, as well as to tom cods, floun decs, sculpins, eels and other small fry : “ Ye monsters of the liub’ling deep, Your Sinker’s praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.” There its much truth if not poetry in the following: “ The race is not forever got By him who fastest runs ; Nor the battle by those people Who shoot with the longest guns.” The following address to the Sun, chimes very well with the preceding, although of more modern origin : “All hail thou glorious Sun ! Bright as anew tin pan ! Thou roundest, fairest, purest source— Os bread and cheese to man !” THE METHODISTS. From the minutes of the Annual Con ferences ofthe Methodist Episcopal Church for the year 1843—’44, just published, it appears that the nett increase of members during this year, was 102,831. This add- ed to the increase of the previous year, namely, 154,624, makes the unprecedent ed increase of 257,455 in the short period of two years, and the whole number of members of the Methodist Episcopal Church 1,171,356. The number of the travelling preachers, or regular clergy is 4,282, of the superannuated, or worn out travelling preachers, 339, and that of the local or lay preachers, 8087. Total number of preach ers, 12,708. In other words, the number of the Methodist preachers in the United States and Texas, exceeds that of the stand ing army of the United States. It is a fact worthy of notice, that out of the whole number of travelling preachers, it was found necessary during the last year, to expel only two from the connextion. One was a man in the western part of this State, who was found guilty of forgery; the other was a member of the Holston Conference, whoseoffet.ee is not mentioned. The num ber of withdrawals, was, however, very considerable, being no less than thirty-one. The ministers who withdrew were all mem bersjjftho Northern Conferences, and the principal, if not exclusive cause of their withdrawal, was probably the church con nection with slavery in the South. If the Methodists should continue to in crease at the rate they have done through the last two years, they would overshadow all the other religious denominations in the land. But tontraction and expansion be long to churches as well as banks; and we porcoive from the minutes of the conferen ces last held, before making up the ac | counts for the year, that n reaction has al ; ready oommeifUod. Within the bounds of . these lour conferences, namely, the Balti • more, the Philadelphia, the New Jersey, I and the New York, the aggregate decrease j j was 7,514. In the city of Baltimore the j : white membership was reduced front 9,239 j to 8,782, and the colored membership from I 3,530 to 3,453; showing nil aggregate de- I crease of 1,535. The twenty-four churches jof the city and liberties of Philadelphia ! have had their w hite membership reduced from 11,090 to 10,34,1, and the colored from 221 to 177; aggregate decrease 799. The white membership of the twenty.two chur ches of New York city and county has de creased from 9,740 to 9,424 —but the col ored has increased from 34 to 54; nett de crease, 402. In the five churches of Brook lyri, the white membership has been redu ced from 2.020 to 1,820, and the colored from 11 to 8; total decrease 203. In some of the villages and other small towns in this neighborhood, tne decrease is still more remarkable. Thus, atFlushing, the number of members of the Methodist Episcopal Church has been reduced from 145 to 100; at Bushwick, from 129 to 59; all more than one half. It is to be observed that there are other Methodist organizations besides that of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and to some of them the seceders may have attached themselves. Removals beyond the bound aries of the conference, may account for other portions of the decrease in the socie ties throughout the bounds of the four con ferences last held, is so general that we can not but attribute a great part of it to that ebb which is sure to follow a great flood, as well in religious as in commercial and finan cial affairs.— Missouri Review. Safe made of Blasting. —lt is known to many individuals, though not to the public generally, that rocks may be blasted with out ramming down pounded brick on the charge. Put a rye straw into the hole ;if one be not long enough, use two, running the top of one into the other, tying paper a round the joint. Then put in the charge of powder and prime the straw, and then fill up the hole with fine, dry sand, without ramming. Nothing more is necessary pre paratory to touching the match.— Boston Cultivator. “ A Genius for Drinking.” —The follow ing paragraph from the Picayune, might, to the unsophisticated reader, convey the idea that the good people of New Orleans have something of “ genius for drinking.” “There are 534 houses licensed for the retail of wines and malt and spirituous liquors, viz : in the First Municipality 220, in the Second Municipality 208, and in the Third Municipality 106. The proprietors pay a license of $260 each to the treasury of the Municipality in which they are loca ted—making an aggregate sum of $106,- 800, independent of State or Parish li censes.” What a tale of human misery, destitution and want does this single paragraph un fold ! TRIBUTE TO WORTH. From the N. Y. American we take the following brief but eloquent remarks in reference to the Great Statesman of the West. But who knowetli what time may bring forth ? Justice may yet be done to patriotism. “His race is run. Falsehood and mal ice have triumphed over justice and desert; and the high prize of a noble ambition which, through a life of strenuous endeav or, he has sought by brillant services to win, has, passed from his reach for ever.— ! But the past is secure ; and while the pu ny men of the day exult and traduce— and, ‘Like little wanton boys that swim on blad ders,’ get far beyond their depth ; the name and t lie fame of Henry Clay will endure, while Freedom has a shrine on Earth, and Histo ry a tablet.” The Foreign Votes. —The New York Express makes the following just remarks: Our readers will recollect that Michigan and Illinois came into the Union by for eign votes, and that in both Slates, foreign- ers, men never naturalized and recently settled in the country, voted to make the State Constitution. These men, and others not Americans by birth or feeling, have had full sway in the election for President and Vice President. They have thrown, with honorable exceptions, all their influ ence against the country of their adoption. Influenced by the misrepresentations of others as to the measures and men of the Whig party, they hove listened entirely to the whispering of the demagogue, and be come rather the dupes of a party, than inde pendent, intelligent high-minded men. A dopled citizens, if they seek their own good, will cease to be tools of a party that prais es them but to make use of them. An exchange paper states that a man who was frozen to death in lowa, last win ter, when the thermometer was two degrees below zero, was brought before a jury of inquest. They handed in a verdict of “death by freezing and the thermome ter was found guilty of “murder in the sec ond degree.” We should rather call this murder in cold blood. Death of William E. Hayne. —“We re gret, says the Charleston Courier of Mon day, to announce the death, yesterday mor ning, of William ET. Hayne, Esq., one of our worthiest and most respectable citizens, long known for the ability and fidelity with which he discharged the duties ofthe Cotnp trollership, State Treasury, and other offi ces, with which he was entrusted by the Legislature or his fellow-citizens. He was the only son of Col. Isaac Hayne, the cele brated martyr ofthe revolution.” CHEROKEE INSOLVENT LAWS. “ A New Way to Pay. Ohl Debts.” — Mr. Gregg, the author ofthe very interes ting book upon the “Uonunerce of the Prai ries,^’’.mentions the prevalence of a custom amongst the Cherokee Indians, which sub i serves nil the purposes of a bankrupt law. I When a trader of that nation fulls behind hand in his affairs, he is brought before a summary tribo rial, having many of the pro perties and functions of Judge Lynch’s Court, which decides whether the circum stances of the party are so desperate ns to require the intervention of the bankrupt code. If the cause is determined in the af firmative, the bankrupt is stripped and tied to a tree, when each creditor, with a good cowhide or hickory switch, sedres tiie a mount of his dues upon the victim’s hare back; laying on a stripe for each dollar of his debt.’ Whilst this process is going on, the most quaint and ludicrous remarks are made by the bystanders to enliven the scene ; which is deemed a most entertaining and instructive pastime to all save the vic tim of this barbarous law. When the fla gellation is gone through with, the debts of tiie party are considered as paid off, and such is the veneration in Which the rights acquired by pussing through this bloody ordeal are held by the tribo, that not a sin gle cent would be received in discharge of an account thus balanced, were the insol vent thereafter to become riel) and offer to pay in money. This is a novel wav indeed of endorsing an acquittance of debt. From the Louisville Journal. THE CHIVALRY AND THE MON STER. When Edmund Burke lamented the de parture of the age of chivalry, he did not think that it had only temporarily left the shores of time. He did not foresee its spee dy revival under circumstances more aus picious to its growth than it had previously witnessed. In fine, lie by no means fanci ed that the spirit of chivalry would in a few years make its appearance, among the pal mettoes of South Carolina in more than all the gorgeousness of the olden time. Chiv. alrv is now a “ fixed fact” in South Caro lina, just as a nose is a “fixed fact” on John Tyler’s face, or to rise in accordance with thegenmsofoursuhject, just as a star is a “ fixed fact” in the blue dome of hea ven. Among the many great men who feel the full influence of the spirit of chivalry in S. Carolina, Mr. McDuffie ranks high. He is inferior only to Rhett and Quattlebum, heroes who have ascended a little higher in the heavens of chivalry, than any others of ancient or modern times. McDuffie is bent upon flogging the United States into sub mission to South Carolina. It is his opin ion that the great empire of Palmetto isde frauded of its rights to universal rule eve ry moment in which the Union does not stoop down and acknowledge her royal pre rogatives. Os course the Union ought to submit, and of coursp, if the Union does not submit willingly it will be forced so to do contrary to its wishes, for South Carolina is resolved on giving laws-to the whole con tinent. Suppose the Union should stub bornly continue to rpsist the rights of South Carolina, what would be the consequence ? A fight—an awful fight—a war of external nation, in which South Carolina would draw her glittering sword and bathe it in the best blood of the Union. The invasion of the northern barbarians carried desola tion and slaughter into the very heart of the Roman empire, but the sufferings ofthe subjects of Rome Were slight indeed, com pared with the infinite and incalculable ag onies which the people of the United States will be forced to submit to, if South Caroli na does conclude to overrun the country. — Let us be wise in time, and avoid the wrath of the black cloud which is already flash ing and muttering dread threatening in our southern skies. A short time since a locofoco meeting in Palmetto passed a resolution containing a most inflamatoiy compliment on Mr. Mc- Duffie’s greatness. On all such provoca tions, the chivalry heroes either write let ters or make fiery speeches. Mr. McDuf fie’s thoracic machinery being somewhat out of order at present, he could not speak and was forced to use his pen. He did write most effectively, and, in the course of the immortal production he gave birth to, he said : “ But whilst I rejoice in the hope that the gigantic monster which brandishes in one hand the iron rod of oppression, and in the other the infernal torch of the incendiary, already sees in the recent indications of public opinion, “the handwriting on the wall” which announces his own doom, I rejoice not less in the belief that the people of South Carolina, with a near approach to unanimity, have silently and deliberately resolved that this system of oppression— come what may—must speedily terminate, and that the other States, similarly situa trd, will he prepared to co-operate in the vindication of our common rights and com mon liberties, should the course of events render it necessary.” The critical reader wil not fail to notice how beautifully and poetically the North is impersonated in the above extract. The North is a “monster” with a rod of oppres sion in one hand and a torch in the other!! Was any figure in clouds, or on bed-quilts, or on the canvass of a poet’s mind ever more sublimely distinguished by the attributes of splendor and propriety ? It is one of the most noticeable of the intellectual traits of one born to be a ruler among the chivalry, that all the thoughts that present themselves to his mind on any subject assume the poet ic form follow each other with all the order and life-likeness of a flock of geese trudging homewards in the twilight lapse , of a summer evening. Common people see things through a prosaic medium, but in passing through the*crucible of the mind of one of the chivalry, every thing becomes enchanted and wears the garb of divine po etry. A genius not born to shine with im mortal lustre in the annals of chivalry, would not, could not have represented the Northern States as a “ monslpr” with a rod in one hand nod a torch in the other. This “ monster,” by the way, is a very qiieurr “ monster” too, for lie sees the “ ting on the wall” which uimounces doom. In this respect; the “ monster” is more sagacious than (Jie King of Babylon, for he had to call in a gerTuine prophet to | interpret his “doom,” while the “monster” can read his without the aid of seers, sooth sayers, prophets, or leather spectacles.— How loftily the great hero of chivalry an nounces the resolution of South Carolina? Hear him again : “ I rejoice not less in the belief that the people of South Carolina, with a near approach to unanimity, have ■ silently and deliberately resolved that this system of oppression— come tehaPmay, must speedily terminate.” Ifthis resolution docs not make the “mon ster” drop his “iron rod,’’ blow out his “ torch,” and take to his heels for salvation he must be a most fearless “monster” in deed. This awful system of oppression is the Whig tariff of 1842. We trust that Con gress will repeal it on the first day ofthe ensuing session, and thus spare all of us, who were in favor of it, from the wrath of South Carolina. There is nothing which so terrifies us as the thought of an invasion of the United States by the serried hosts of South Carolina, led on by those invincible soldiers, Gen. Quattlebum, Capt Rhett, and Lieut. McDuffie. Our-;>ifstant pray er is that our country, <fiay not be over whelmed by South Carolina. We can think of common catastrophes with complacency, but the thought of this one completely un mans us. The hint given in the following article from the New York Commercial Adverti ser is entitled to serious consideration : Something to think of- —The late ac counts from Europe are of a threatning and uneasy character. The relations between the two greatest warrior powers, France and England, have suddenly become al most bel igerent, and many in both coun tries as well as Americans returning from beyondsea, are seriously ofopinion that a wav is not improbable. A terrific war it will be, if it comes; and it may involve important consequences to the people of these United States, remote as weave from the scene of conflict. If it comes it will be mainly if not wholly a naval war—the struggle will bo on the ocean, where we have such a vast interest exposed. Consummate knowledge and prudence will he required from our government in this emergency. Can we look for these in Ja’s. K. Polk ? A man scarcely knowne ven in our political history—untried, inex perienced, offering no guarantees, ill his past life, of statesmanship equal to the oc casion ? Here is something for the people of these United Slates to think of. FOREIGN INSOLENCE. There is, or was last year, a papor cal led the Pilot , published in the city of Boston. It is edited by an Irishman, we betters-, and is especially devoted to foreign interests. Here is the language it applies to the A merican Republican party in Philadelphia, it is a beautiful specimen of foreign inso lence, and yet nine-tenths of the ragged paupers cast upon oursltores, hold and ut ter the same sentiments.— N. O. Tropic. “ If the parly of burglars now rampant in the city ol Penn and in the city of Rip Van Winkle, possessed as much brains col lectively as a Choctaw Senate, when by their council-fire, they would learn that their very existence as a nation depends on the Irish population of this country. It ill becomes any American to taunt Irishmen on the score of bravery. Native courage is a commodity that has needs yet to lie proven to exist. The flag of America t riot yet seventy years old, arid thrice the na tive sons of America have deserted it.— Therefore we advise these cowards, and sons of cowards to boast moderately. As shopkeepers, they are excellent ; as mer chants enterprising and persevering ; as u surers, they have no equals in the world ; but as soldiers, every native ought to belong to a Peace Society.” Fond of the Law. —A Virginia paper men tions a case of novelty recently tried in the Circuit Superior Court for Spottsylvania. A man, named Payne, employed Judge Barbour, some years ago, as counsel in a suit, which was given against him. He then commenced suit against Judgo Bar bour for neglect of professional duty in managing the case, and employed W. Smith this also went against him ; w'hereupon he instituted proceedings against Mr. Smith, in which case he employed Mr. Preston, of Frederic, as counsel, who it it is said, con ducted it with great zeal and had moreover the rale good luck to please his client so w ell that he does not intend to bring an ac tion against him. PLANTING TOO MUCH COTTON. The following remarks, says the Savan nah Republican, from the Hamburg Jour*: nal are not a whit the less sensible because briefly and plainly expressed. Our plan ters would indeed do well to reflect seri ously upon thi3 subject. Pursuing their present course of overproducing cotton,they ought not to anticipate anything but short prices and pecuniary The result of the recent election, creasing the probabilities of anneSTationjJ and the enlargement of our cotton produ® cing territory will only tend to aggravate! these evils. Depreciation pf the prices both lands and negroes, and ultimate ruin must be the result, unless the difficulty is met, as was suggested, by a diversioaof fa bor. The editor of the Journal, says : \ “Planters of the South, can you cotton at present prices ? If the great im provement in agriculture of late, and-alhe cheapness of labor, will warrant the pur suit of this employment, well and good ; but if, on the contrary, this is not the case, you should reflect on the matter, and cast about for a more suitable investment of la-