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TO M . VAN BUR EN,
EX-P RESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Tnou art going, star of honor!
Yet we watch thy setting ray,
That with calm, departing glory
Bids us hail a brighter day.
For the mists that now enshroud thee
Shall pass as clouds away,
And leave thee in thv brightness
To injide our onward way.
Thou art going—free from rare—
In thine own green fields lo roam,
To breathe the balmy air,
Mid the pure delights of home.
Thou art going—from thelofy hall,
The high exalted place,
Where lliy country proudly set thee,
And which none shall better grace ;
But true hearti shall go with thee,
And h igh! eyes weep (lie. hour,
Th it Democracy's fair spirit bent’s
Before the tempjpt’s power!
Yet the chaplet shall not wither,
She deemed thy honored due.
When she proudly brought thee hither
Her champion, tried and true.
Thoti who in court and cabinet
Her lights would still defend;
Her voice shall yet recall thee
And exalt the People’s ft iend!
Washington, 1) C , March b, 1811.
From the New York Express.
THOMAS RITCHIE OF THE ENQUIRER.
I met this mail, whom 1 have long consid
ered one of the most extraordinary men in
Virginia, for the second or third tune in my
life” but now for the first time in the social
circle, with a determination, however, to avoid
a personal introduction, though often solicited
by my friends, because 1 wanted to be now
untrammelled in what 1 consider as a just
sketch of him as a public character. When
one knows men, one cannot often speak what
une thinks. 1 consider then, Mr. Ritchie one
ofthe ablest Editors in this, or any other coun
try. lie has vivacity, tact, the power of com
mantling attention, and something of sell-re
spect, much dignity, and above all, persever
ing, unremitting industry. He is but a boy
with his pen, though over GO, perhaps Go,
years of age. “ There is old Tom,” is the
remark, whenever he appears in public. “ Old
Tom, who?” says I. “Old Tom Ritchie—
Don’t you know* old Tom Ritchie?” “Old
Tom,” then as they call him, is a relic of old
Virginia. “ Old Tom” lias mingled for fifty
years in the best circles of Virginia, among
her ablest men, and old Tom is an “Old Mor
tality the spare, lean, lank, embodyrnent of
some tifty-years-ago, Virginian. “Old Tom”
is a gaunt, hungry-looking gentleman, his teeth
gone, his nose prominent, his eye bright, of a
quick, frisky, tremulous gait, nervous some,
but nerves of cat-gut though, that will never
wear out, —a man that won’t die, hut that will
blow off in some windy —who J.m't l>-
]on<r now and has not belonged for half a cen
tury, to this earth of ours, hut whom Heaven,
for some unknown purpose has, as it were,
kept as a spectre, flitting over other people’s
graves —the bone and muscle mark of what
tilings and men were in 1790. “Old Tom”
lias no blood in his veins. I dare say, though
1 never asked, he is never ill. His soul—and
a bright soul it is—does what motion is in him
His bones and muscles carry that about. 1
doubt whether a pin would prick him more
than a .Salem )\ itch. In short, “Old xom
died fifty years ago, all except his spirit, in
which he ditters Trom all men I ever saw—for
other people’s spirits go oft first, and tliotr body
dies afterwards.
To be understood though, in tins drawing of
the bones and muscles of “o and Tom,” I must
follow it out with some sketches of his char
acter. He works like a dog, yet I believe he
never sweats —(perspires 1 might say)—even
under a hot Virginia sun. He frisks about in
society with his white stlk gloves on, hiding
his long lingers,—l dn.re say, as spirited,
lively as a girl of sixteen, lie takes a seat a,
the Clerk’s desk in the Capitol, writes a little,
and chatters much, clearly the observed of all
observers. There he gives orders to h:s par
tizans, consults and is consulted, but animates
and dire ts the spirits of all. Indeed, no Rep
resentative is needed from his political com
panions but him. He is their Executive, their
Senate, their House, th ir every thing. II is
old Virginia too —“the old Virginny never
tire.” if there be trouble in the camp: if the
Philistii es gather their armies together: if
there he a longing to know the future from
the pas’, some w itch of Endor rouses this
“Oil Mot-laity ’ up. Ilis family is large; all
highly educated; h's daughters married in
richest, and am mg th ’ moot respectable fami
lies in Virginia, ile li es n style, it is said, a
THE COLUMBUS TIMES.
man of the ton. He is Ed.tor, President and
Secretary of Conventions, Corresponding
Committee, Orator, Writer, a man of all work
and on politics all tongue. The last summer
he would work all day, and at “the Sweat
House,” as is called the Tammany Hall of his
party, harangue, and read to his friends half
the night. The probability is, he never sleeps.
Did any body ever see him eat I * I should like
to know. Once he discovered there was a
North,—that People breathed and walked on
the Eastern side of the Potomac river, and he
went on a voyage of discovery there. He
visited Quincy, the residence of J. Q. Adams,
and held his horse out of doors, while his fami
ly satisfied their curiosty within. Van Buren
found him out at Albany, and wooed and won
the spirit, with all the coquetry that he would
court a maiden in her teens. But did he ever
hear from the West? The Ohio, I dare say,
he knows,—loves the shores of Western Vir
ginia, but does he know that People live and
breathe on the Wabash, the Miami, and the
Illinois? The real fact though is, lie knows
no world but what sketches from the base of
the Blue Ridge to the Lower James River.—
The Ocean is all Poetry to him. His eye, his
mind, his spirit are left on this earth, only on
condition that it forgets all other creation but
the I owlands of Virginia. His geography is
not four hundred miles inclusive. Tlie world,
if he were tu write a. book, wuulll be bounded
on the East by the Potomac, on the South by
the J'ismal Swamp, on the West by the Roan
oke, and on the North by the Blue Ridge.—
He was an Usher once; ho began life thus
in Richmond. In his day, it is probable, ge
ography was only learnt by travelling over it,
and the early impression, that Richmond was
the Capitol of Europe, Asia, and a Inca, as
well as America, he never has probably got.
over.
I speak of Mr. Ritchie thus in no disrespect
of Richmond, or the lowlands of Virginia—but
because I believe him to be a bigot and a fan
atic of the most mischievous class, —palsying,
by his pen and tongue, the energies and re
sources of that great Commonwealth, whose
history, (for fifty years standing) whose great
men, whose fame (all past though) I love, 1
cherish as the brightest of this, or any other
country. I believe this man, Ritchie, to have
been the Dr. Francia, who lias made a sort of
Paraguay of old Virginia. Controling a pow
erful press, with great talent too, among an
agricultural People, in a sparse population, he
has been able for thirty years, as it seems to
me, to exercise as much power over Virginia
as ever Washington, or Jefferson, or Madison
had, the master spirits of Virginia,—and, alas,
it lias been a power all for ill! He is a bigot,
for he learns nothing, and is no wiser now
than lie was half a century ago. He is a fan
atic, for lie has no liberality, no charity, no en
larged and national comprehension of the
movements and doings of the world. Never
was there an instance of the more triumphant
domination of the Press than in this case.—
For thirty years he has kept Virginia standing
still. Os late, the most powerful minds of
Virginia, from Leigh to Rives, and so on, have
traversed hill and dale, mountain and valley,
to break him down, illuminating by their elo
quence to the tenants of the Log Cabins of tlie
Alleghanies, as well as the stately Mansions
of East Virginia,—but Ritchie’s Enquirer was
after them, week after week, smoothing over
what they said, parrying their blows, extin
guishing their logic, and making at least tlie
minds of all his hearers darker than ever.
In the cavern ol the mountains, on the
island of the swamp, on the peak ofthe hills,,
in the recesses of the valleys, where Orator
never trod, or Eloquence never entered,—yet
there—even there—was the spirit of Richie, —
a spirit that seems never to die. In spite of
truth, in spite of justice, in spite of local pride,
and even self-respect, Virginia threw away
her own son, born of her and her’s, too, and
took up, and adopted the cast-off offspring of
New York, —and Ritchie did it all, in spue, 1
was going to say, of almost every body!—
Ritchie has got \ irginia in chains, the People
there will not. own it, but it is a fact. They
fret and worry in them, it is true, but they
can’t break out, as long as there is any thing
left of him on earth. Now ho tightens up,
and now hr loosens out—anon the the road is
rough and terrible, as it has been for the few
years past, —hut lie keeps his seat, —Virginia
in his hits—probably to the end. It is, there
fore, my sincere and deliberate conviction that
his death will be of more benefit to Virginia
than was the invention of tlie cotton gin by
Whitney, or tlie application of steam power,
by Fulton, to Navigation—to the world.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
THE PORTRAIT.
Tne Richmond Whig has !>.cu pleased to
republish an elaborate Portrait of ourselves
from the pencil of the editor of the New York
Express. It is a Portrait, physical, intellec
tual and editorial. Parts of it are written
with great force and beauty; but much of it
is in had taste —and portions of it are a ridic
ulous caricature. Our vanity would be more
than satisfied bv the energy he is pleased to
ascribe to us, and the extravagant consequence
he assigns to us in the politics of our native
State. Bnt it is too much the hasty conclu
sion of a wild imagination. We may at our
leisure address a rep'y to Mr. Brooks, and call
upon his sense of justice to publish it. But
there is one portion of the Portrait we dis
claim at once as particularly unjust to us.—
We never desired to arrest the improvement
of Virginia. We are opposed on principe to
the os irpationsof the Federal Government
to the Tariff Internal Improvements, National
Bank, &,c. Sue. But whilst we are for keep
ing that government in its constitutional orbit,
we are (or developing ail the energies of our
own State, for its own improvement. We
yield to no Virginian in this species of enthu
siasm. In this respect the editor of the New
York Express has been guilty of the grossest
injustice. Nothing would prompt us to de
clare what we now boldly avow, except the
necessi vof repelling the attack. Ihe whole
State does not own a truer friend of its Im
provements than ourselves. Where lias ihere
been a more constant and •. nfiinchiug friend
of the great Central Improvement (the James
and Kanawha Canal?) Have we not con
tributed to it, not only bv pen. but a fur as
we could, by our purse’ What a.l visa hie
railroad lias not found a warm advocate in us?
Who is more anxious to promote the educa
tion of our countrymen? But this very ses
sion, when a resolution was brouglr forward
to extinguish the Fund for Internal Improve
ment, and the Literary Fund, we strongly
protested against the proposition, and declar
ed it was like putting out the two eyes of the
State. When the hi!: was rejected, for com
pleting the last link in the great central rail
road, we conjured our triends to reconsider it
—should it be lost, there is not a man in the
State who will more deeply regret it than
ourselves. We have stood up for the South
western Turnpike, which the Senate hut yes-
I terdav pitched overboard, to our deep regret.
Our anxiety for Elementary Schools is best
attested bv the remarks we have made during
! the winter, and by tlie Cabinet of Harper’s
Family Library, which stands along side of
the Clerk’s table of H. of D. Opposed to the
improvement of Virginia ! Ask gentlemen of
bo'h parties t ask Edmunds and \\ itcher from
| contiguous counties, whether they do not
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 8, 1841.
think we have pushed the system too tar.—
Opposed to the Improvement of Virginia!
What improvement in Agriculture, the Arts,
the Geological survey of liie Stale, have we
not warmly supported ? True : we have op
posed the Protective Tariff as contrary to the
genius of ihe Constitution; hut there is no
profitable manufacturing or mining establish
merit within the sphere ol individual enterprise,
which we have not hailed with pleasure. —
Less tine we have devoted to ihese subjects
than we have wished, in consequence ol our
other engagements; but our zeal has never
been quenched. Indeed, i( there be a man in
ibis city, whose interest is concerned in tlie
-uccess of manufactures, it ts we—(or we own
a tract of find between the river and the ca
nal, which we expect to turn to a very profit
able account. We looked to it as the anchor
of our hope. Bui we repeat, that whilst we
will always repel the impertinent anti uncon
stitutional interference of ihe General Govern
ment within the limits prescribed hv the Con
stitution, we are in favor of the States devel
oping all their energies. Our motto has long
been, “ Hands off (to the U. S.) but hands
on” (to ihe Stale.) Mr. Brooks does us in
deed the grossest injustice. Instead ol “dis
couraging nearly all enterprise” many of our
friends have c arged us with nearly encour
aging all—except those that are fostered hv
the usurpations of CJncle Sam. But thanks
to the New York Express! it has indeed un
willingly paid us the highest compliment,
when it.savs:
“If things get off, over or beyond ’9B, and
vvliat ’93 is, nobody knows, why all things are
gone to destruction, as if civilization, the liu
• maniiies, the world were perfect when he
(Ritchie) died in ’9B—for t'e id in many senses,
lie has been since; —as if too, in 43 years,
mankind had learnt nothing at all.”
The Express forgets in litis assertion, that
il is not a question of improvement , but of
principle. The Constitution is the same now,
that it was forty-three years ago. Men may
die, but principles are immortal. We wish
no finer epitaph to be written upon our tomb
stone than litis - “ Here lies a man, who was
ihe unwavering friend ofthe great principles
of ’99.” But. we must for the present, dismiss
this subject. The Express overrates our con
sequence, hut no effort to excite jealousy of
others against us on tLis subject can be suc
cessful. No sneers upon our life or upon our
death, no hasty criticism or illiberal misrepre
sentations, can extinguish ihe enthusiasm
that impels us onwards. He pays us the
compliment of saying, that we are “a boy
with our pen, though over sixty”—and is kind
enough to add that we possess “vivacilv, the
power of commanding attention,” &c. Il this
be so, it is the effect of that enthusiasm which
we trust will accompany us to the door ol
death.
The Express insinuates also, that we are a
Virginian only, and not an American. I his
insinuation is the most illiberal of all. It th re
he a man mote devoted to this glorious Union
than ourselves —who exerted himself more to
preserve it in Ihe days of Nullification, or at
any other period, we know him not. The
New York Inspection hill, to which lie refers,
is calculated, we verily believe, not only to
protect the guaranteed rights of the Slates,
but to preserve the Union itself against the
fanatical attacks of the Abolitionists and
Wltigs of New York. We tiny have time
hereafter to notice his criticism upon our con
duct to Mr. Webster, and other remarks he
lias thought proper to introduce into his Por
trait of “Thomas Richie of ihe Enquirer.”
The following eloquent passage is extrac
ted from the Lecture of tlie Rev. 11. 11. Har
rington, delivered before the Georgia Histori
cal Society :
“ The star of Empire once stood above the
heart of Africa, and the Ethiopian gloried in
its ray. It wandered next into Egypt’s sky
and shone down on the mighty pyramid.-
Thence it moved above the sands of Arabia’s
desert and gilded the towering wall of Baby
lon. Il lingered there awhile, above the A
cropolis and die Parthenon, and long gleamed
upon the pillars of Rome’s haughty capital, and
the palace of her Ctesars. And now west
ward, that star of Empire hath taken its way,
and is shining with mellow and nascent lustre
on the waving tops ol the forests trees! —
We are rapidly harrying to that momantus
crisis of wealth and luxury, when our temples
shall emulate in their proud adornments and
lofty majesty, the immortal relics of the ol
den time ! —a crisis that stamped its withering
seal on the prosperity of the Grecian and the
Roman, and breathed its pestilential breath on
the life current of their greatness. It is said
(hat their is a flowing and an ebbing tide in the
heart of nations, that leaves at length their
swift-flowing channels, bare, stagnant and de
serted. It may he ! That wandering star of
Empire, that hath stolen its light—slow mo
ving on, at long succeeding intervals, from the
pyramid—the Acropolis—the Capitol—hath a
story that it may be ! —And the sun that must
gild sometime in our glorious progress, the as
piring monuments, of our greatness, may give
life to the germ of the forest tree tha t shall
spring up undisturbed in our decaying streets!
Oli then, may the days of our proudest pros
perity, he tlie days of our proudest virtue!
May “every relic to he transmitted to the far
off future, bear tlie impress of unconquerable
virtue! Tiiat when a second Columbus shall
cross the waste of ocean, and scate the solita
tude bird of prey from his nest in the bran
ches of the giant tree, that hath grown up
trom tlie roofs ot our temples, and disturb the
dust of circling ages in solemn loneliness
of their halls, he shad see “Virtue” writ in in
dubitable characters, on wall and pillar, and
statue, and tower, and exclaim, in the glow of
admiration, “Here dwelt and worshipped a
people once, “whose God was the Lord !”
The United States and Great Brit
ain.—We learn by a gentleman just arrived
from Washington, that it was not believed
that Mr. Fox was instructed to demand his
passports in the event of the non-release oi
McLeod. All accounts from Washington con
cur in stating, that there is not just cause of a
war on the subject ofthe Northeastern Boun
dary. The dispute is in a fair way for ainiea
ble adjustment, by friendly negotiation. It ts
presumed that a commissioner will be appoint
ed on the part of each Government, (if it ‘'-e
----comes necessary,) in order to bring things to
an issue.
If this Boundary Question is settle 1 amica
bly, there is not much difficulty in predicting
what the principle features of the stipulations
will be. Great Britain will yield the territory
to which she has no earthly claim, and the
United States will allow her to have a milita
ry road passing through it, by the way of the
Zemisconta Lake. This is probably all that
Great Britain wants, and viewing her as a
friendly power it would seem perfectly just
that she should have this medium of inter
communication between the provinces of New
Brunswick and tlie Canadas, even if the road
does pass through our own territory. We
imagine that this is the only basis upon which
a peaceful arrangement can be effected, and
the sooner a crisis of some kind is attained,
the better.—Savannah Republican.
A hit at the Ladies. —Knocking off a la
dy’s bonnet with a snow hall.
THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES
From the Savannah Georgt n.
THE IRISH IN AMERICA.
We pet used a week or two since with great
pleasure an article in the North American
Review on the 1/tsii in America. That plea
sure wasetthanc-jJ witCuNve reflected that the
Review was published near that sacted spot,
once desecrated bv the fires of religious intol
erance —and issued liom that city too, vvheie
insults were heaped upon the Citizen soldiers
who boasteii an origin from the Emerald Isle.
We should be pleased to know the writer,
who swayed bv the noble feelings of an Amer
ican freeman, can scorn to kindle a prejudice
againt a people, calumniated as the poor Hi
bernian has too often been, because not com
ing a mot g us, tricked out in the dress of the
Mtllionare, or with a pompous title to attract
the maze of the vulgar, or to throve wide open
the doors of the fashionable “pleased,” as they
too often are, “with a rattle,-and tckled with
a straw.”
But where is the honest Irishman to be
found ? At the north he labors in tlie factories,
contributing bv his industry to elevate Ameri
cari enterprise, by causing a product of our
soil to assume a beautiful texture, and offering
a cheap commodity to his needy countrymen
of die old world landing on our shores, or of
the new, whose western sun has led him to
his genial walks. North, south, east and west,
he is to he found on works of internal improve
ment, urging forward State and individual
enterprise, and exhausting his’ energies in
uniting every section of those roads, which
are to conduce to the study of American char
acler, and by attracting the citizens of Flori
da to the shores o; Illinois and Michigan—
him of Maine to the domicile ol his brother of
Louisiana, !o eliahle them frequently to inter
change views, and while reclining in fellow
ship on the hanks of the Northern Lakes, or
tlie mighty Mississippi to feel that tvvosover
.eignitiesvie.il) shielding them from aggres
sion, and dial one flag waves over their com
mon country, their glory in war, their admi
ration in peace.
Like that ol the Sabines women with that
of the early Romans, the blood of the Irisli
man, as does that of other foreign people,
mingles with the Anglo-Saxons in this land of
freedom; and shall il be seriously asked, in
this, the asylum of the oppressed—ls ibis or
that man a native of America? Forbid it,
shades of Washington, of Franklin, of Mont
gomery, of Lafayette, ol IXKalb!
Other nations would brand ns truly as un
grateful Repulicans could we forget, that the
blow for liberty in this Western hemisphere
was seconded by the stalworth arms and mi
ff.itching hearts of deputies, as it were, from
every clime, whether glowing under the sun
shine of constitutional freedom or blighted by
the mildew of despotism.
But a! present we have especially to regard
the claims of Irishmen on the good will and
affections of Americans.
Natives of an isle on which nature has lav
ished her bounties, the son of Eiin springs
from a land oppressed by man alone.
Having at home no viper to sting the hand
which cherishes, he arrives among us “an
ardent, tin enterprising, and above all, a social
animal,” fearing not reproaches from the sous
of those who struggled shoulder to shoulder to
bequeath to the opp eased o! all the earth,
legacies to the fair netnage of Libct tv’s soil.
They erected a temple open to all. Her
massive doors are only shut against those who
would invade the quiet of l-he-snnciuary where
repose the dun! of those brave spit its who
carved their names on its bright and eternal
pillars.
Can the countrymen of Emmet be strangers
in the land of Washington ?
“ Let it he remembered,” says the Review
er, “that when the war ol revolution broke
out, the inhabitants of Belfast, m the north ol
Ireland, were the very first European com
munity — tlre Court of France does not come
under that classification—that gave open ex
pression to their good wishes for the Ameri
can cause. Public meetings, quickly lbllow
ing the first, were held throughout (he country
to encourage the trans atlantic res stance;
and, as tiie contest went, on. Iteatrul, catching
inspiration from the new world, took that no
ble attitude of resistance which gained for iter
in 1732, under the guidance of Grattan and
his patriot associate, tlie legislative and com
mercial independence which was destined to
so short a life. But from that period of a
common sympathy—which ought not lo be
affected by success or failure—lrishmen have
never ceased to look towards America with
ardent affection; loving the people who won
the freedom for which they vainly sighed and
valiantly fought; and regarding litis country
as tlie natural haven for hopes, 100 often ship
7, recked in the tempest of hard fa(e that as
sails their native land.”
In the language ol a youthful graduate of
Harvanl at the last commencement —
“ Whatever faults may be charged to the
Irishman, his worst enemy dare not call him
selfish. The virtues of hospitality and gener
osity cast light upon the gloom of his desola
tion, like flowers springing from a heap of
mouldering ruins. Misery seems only a nur
sery for the growth of his fine sympathies.—
And laugh as you may at the humble shantee ,
you shall learn within its wails lessons of mag
nanimity and self-denial not to be found in
the mansions of the wealthy atur refined. la
one word, the sin of the Irishman is Igno
rance—toe cure is Liberty. Let her but come |
to wipe from the Emera'd gem the dust which
for ages has obscured it, and to place it spark
ling in the sunlight; let her wake again the
Ivre that trembled to the touch of Emmet,
Curran and Grattan, and. in the light of her
pathway, shall he seen Education, to hreak
the fetters of the slumbering soul, and call out
its hidden glories! And will not the heart of
America beat with that of Ire'and, as >Le hails
the new dawning light? Yes. Ireland, Amer
ica’s eye is on thee. Show us, then, in thy
new career, thine own native character
purged from the dress with winch the long
night of oppression has darkened it. In the
noble generosity of thy sons, put to shame
our narrow, selfish, worldly maxims. Show
us a race of whole hearted men.”
And yet the countrymen of Emmet, of Cur
ran, and of Gntfan, find no favor in the eves
of a few who pride themselves on being “Na
tive Americans.” Organs of an organised
partv seek to turn back upon the old world
the hundreds of thousands who wait expec
tant, on the shores o 1 ’ the Old, a favorab e
moment to embark for their El Dorado the
New. These few would repeal the Natural
tzation Laws, lest our country “fall an easy
prey to the stranger.”
We agree w : ?h the reviewer that “when
we know that the stranger here denounced is
the embodied mass of foreign industry that
clears away our forests,” works on our
wharves, our railroads, and our cans s, “and
forms one of the main features of our national
strength and prosperity, we lament, while we
marvel at, the fata! mistake, which makes a
body of ardent patriots labor so hard to pro
duce tiiat ‘division’ they deprecate so much,
and raise a bitter enemy in the very heart of
the land. We trust that the good sense of
the community at large will discountenance
this tendency to mischief, now that the nation
requires moral force, which union alone sup
plies, to carry out the great purposes of do
mestic weal and general civilization.”
••I’LL TRY s!R.”
An incident of the eattle of bri ge
water.—On the 25 th of July, 1614. the
btoody battle of Bridgewater and Lundy’s
La e tool pi .ce n ar the L; n's of the Nia aa.
It was 6 o’clock, and a sultry evening, when
the British forces under General Drummond
advanced to meet the American columns ; and
a more deadly contest nevt r raged oil tlie soil
of our beloved country than that which then
commenced ; the roar of the neighboring cat
aract lost itself in the booming ot the cannon :
the voices of many waters, and the voices of
battle sang bass together—and the dead slept
in sweet forgetfulness upon the moonlit hill.
The first brigade under Gen. Scott, with Tow
son’s artillery and a body of cavalry, sustained
the attack of tlie British army for an hour un
aided. Gen. Ripley with fresh troops now ar
rived, and relieved General Scott, wl ile the
latter with his exhausted brigade,formed a re
serve in tlie rear. The British artillery had
taken post on an eminence at the head of
Lundy’s Lane, and were pouring forth a most
deadly fire on the Americans. General Brown,
the commander of the American forces, f e -
ing the terrible havoc made by the enemy’s
cannon, concluded that it was necessary to
to dislodge them or retreat. It was a dread
ful duty. The troops that were to march up
Lundy’s Lane might well say their prayers
and make their will before moving. It was
certain death to every second man of the fo
lorn hope. As the commanding General rode
along the foot of the hill, in thoughtful mood,
he saw ihe brave Col. Miller advancing at the
head of his newly-raised regiment for further
orders. He rode up to him. “Will you ad
vanee and capture that battery?” said the Gen
eral. “I will try sir,” said the modest Colonel.
The General rode on, and the regiment gai
lanty wheeled and moved up Lundy’s Lane.
At every rod the artillery on the height sent
its messengers of death through the dense col
umn ; hut still there was no flinching. The
voice of the noble Miller, as he waved his
sword he A; re the bloody gap, was heard utter
ing the short and expressive orders, “ steady
men—close ranks—inarch !” Around him
the flower of his regiment fell like withered
leaves of autumn; but he heeded not his loss;
he was ordered to take the battery on the hill,
and he intended to do it. He advanced, there
fore, coolly and steadily to his object. Amidst
a tremendous blaze of artillery, and at the
point of the bayonet lie carried the height.
It was a gallant deed. I have never heard of
its equal except at the seige of San Sebastian,
ft was superior in temerity to Bonaparte’s at
tack upon Little Gibraltar, at Toulon, because
A filer had no covering for his troops in case
of a retreat. It was a dead march to glory !
—yea, at every step the rear rank trod upon
the dead and the dying; and the groans ot suf
fering humanity mingled in with the hoarse
rattle ofthe drum. When the conquror, with
his remnant of a regiment, trod upon the
heights at the head of Lundy’s Lane, and
turned the cannon upon the astonished enemy,
a death struggle ensued between the Ameri
can and British armies. “These guns will
decide the battle : they must be regained, or
the army will be cut to pieces, and, if regained
the Americans will be conquered.” Such
were the thoughts of each General. Now came
the iron grip of war. A terrible conflict raged
upon tlie height: and, when the morning sun
arose upon Bridgewater, 1,600 soldiers,
friends and foes, lay sleeping in gory death up
on ihe hill sde in Lunday’s Lane. Surely,
the battle of Bridgewater will never be forgot
ten by the patriot, the historian, or the poet;
and, while ihe laurels of a Scott and a Rip
ley are green and unfading, let us not forget
that the gallant M l er is alive, and that his
country owes him a debt of gratitude which
she can never repay. She, however, can say
with her children when asked to aid him, as
the hero said at Bridgewater to his comman
der when called upon to render him service,
“ I will try, sir.” Let her try, for the sake of
her honor: and may tlie day never dawn when
the itero of Lundy’s Lane shall be forgotten by
an American citizen. We glory in the ser
vices of the brave. May the laurel circle the
victor’s brow in life, and at last hang upon a
broken column over a deathless tomb ! * Rea
der, the hero of Lundy’s Lane is beside you!
Mr. John Q. Adams. —Honorable John Q.
Adams in his elebrated argument in the Su
preme Court in behalf of tlie Africans ofthe
Am s a.l, took occasion to close his remarks in
the following eloquentand feeling manner, as
reported by tlie correspondent of the New York
Journal oi Commerce :
May it please you Honors * —On the 7th of
February, 1804, now more than thirty-seven
years ago, my name was recorded on the rolls of
this Court, as one of the ttorneys and Coun
sellors—that five years afterwards, l appeared
before this Court in an important cause. Since
that time l have never appeared before this
Court until the present occasion, and now 1
stand before tiiis Court again. It is this same
Court, but not these same Judges. At that
time, these seats were filled by honored men,
indeed, hut not the same. They are all changed.
Tiien there was Chief Justice Marshall, and
Judges Cushing and Chase and Washington
and Johnson, and Livingston and Wild.—
Where are they ? Where is that able states
man and learned lawyer, who was my asso
ciate counsel in the cause, Robert Goodioe
Harper ? Where is that eloquent coun
sellor, so long the pride of Maryland and of
‘■.lie American Bar, who was the opposing coun
sel, Luther Martin? Where is the excellent
Clerk of that day whose name has been in
scribed on the shores of Africa, as a monu
ment of iiis abhoreuce ofthe Slave Trade, Elias
B. Calwell ? Where is tlie Marshall l Where
are the criers of the Court ! Where is one of
the very Judgesbefore whom I commenced my
a guruent inthepre. eat cause! Gone—gone,
all gone. Gone from services which they ren
dered to their country, to appear before a trib
unal where they must answer for all the deeds
done in the body. From the excellent charac
ters which they sustained, so far as I have the
means of knowing, I fondly hope that they have
gone to receive the rewards of eternal blessed
ness. In taking, as I suppose my final leave
of this Honorable Court, J can only ejaculate
a fervent pe ition to Heaven that every mem
ber of it may go to his final account with as lit
tle to answer for as these illustrious dead, and
that vou may every one receive the sen
tence, —“Weil done, good ands uthl'ul servant,
enter into the joy ol our Lord.”
Bangor (Me.) Feb. 22.
The Boundary. —We understand ihat the!
Land A<rent, Mr. Hamiin, has made an ar
! rangeinent with ihe Land Agent of Massa
c.fiuKetts to pay half the expenses of such force
as may he necessary to look after trespassers
upon the disp ted territory. Mr. Hamlin
started this morning for Fort Fail field, lo
m ike such arrangements as the exigencies o(
affaiis may require; and to introduce a better
system of ee; n >my in ihe expenditures. Th s
| new arrangement, it is thought, will be equai
! iy as efficient as the present, and will save this
State an annual expense of about thirty thou
sand dollars.
W oman. —A being who was first mad° an
angel; hut having bpen turned out of pnre
dise, her wings were clipped off so il at she
should not not fiv back over the gates.
The President's Family. —The New
York Journal of Commerce having stated that
all the persons announced to compose Inc
President’s family in the White House at
Washington, were Episcopalians, —the Cinci
nati Republican makes the following state
ment with the view of placing the matter in ;t
----true light:
The truth is, Mrs. General Harr.son is her
self expected to preside at the \\ lute House,
bat w.ll nos assume her station earlier than
May. She will l e assisted by her daughter,
Mrs. Taylor, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Y\ in.
Harrison. The “cabin” at North Bend will
be occupied by Dr. Thornton, a son-in-law oi
the-President, the farm having been rented to
an experienced agriculturalist.
The husband 01 Mrs. Win. Harrison did not
die “a few months age,” but about three years
since. It is probably true that Mrs. Taylor of
Virginia, a niece of the President, and mother ol
his son in-law, will be associated with the la
dies of the White House. Mrs Findlay, re
j lict of the late'Gen. James Findlay, oftluscity,
an aunt of Mrs. Wm. 1 larrison, and an old and
intimate friend of the President’s family, is ex
pected likewise to be a member of the same
domestic circle, for at least the ensuing year.
Now, of these ladies, we believe that the Mrs.
Taylors only are members of the Episcopal
church. The Mrs. Harrisons and Mrs. Find
lay, have long been connected with the First
Presbyterian church of our city, under the pas
toral care of the venerable Joshua L. Wilson,
D. D. We sincerely rejoice that our country
is so highly favored, in having such an assem
blage of polished and pious females occupying
a station so elevated and important. Their
well established piety affords the highest as
surance that their example will correspond
with the principles they possess.
The editor of tiie Picayune thus defends
the Creole girls against the boasts of an eas
tern editor respecting the ‘ Green Mountain
lasses.” Hear him:
“ We throw down the glove to this fellow,
and challenge him to mortal combat it he
does not instantly confess all that he uttered is
bombast, and at the same time admit that the
Creole girls of Louisiana are the lovliest and
m st fascinating creatures in the universe! —
Their eyes are bright as the stars of night, and
their hearts as warm as their own sunny sky
Without ‘clinching’ a lellovv, they < an set his
heart bumping, his head swimming, his veins
burning, his fingers itching, his heels dancii g,
Ins nerves trembling, his hair standing and his
mouth watering! They can do all this with
a single glance, and never ‘shed a tear.’ Just,
like winking’they make captives, and ‘with
out winking’ they conquer all before them.—
They are angels—that is, they would be if we
would let them; but we, wishing them to be
women, with heavenly sweetness they conde
scend to be mortal just to oblige us. The
Creoles can’t help being beautiful. It is not
their fault, poor things. Ii a foreign enemy
was fired by their charms to come here for
‘beauty and booty,’ why, did not the flashing
of their dark eyes at once enkindle'indignant
flies in their fathers and brothers to drive the
insolent invaders back ? The girls of Louisi
ana are the mellowest fruit of Eden, and not
‘forbidden fruit’ either, and just the Iruit to
our taste, 100. Let ill's man who talks about
Green Mountain girl , come and stand before
us, and ask pardon for the strange hallucina
tion of his ideas. Let hint postrate himsell
before Creole beauiy, and it will be happiness
for him to melt in the sunbeam of Creole for
giveness.”
Gen. Hamilton and the Texian Loan.—
We learn with much pleasure, bv the follow
ing letter from Gemr.il Hamilton to the edi
tors of the New York Journal of Ci mineree,
that he has been successful in negotiating a
Loan for the Texan Government. The
Journal says that the delay in the publication
oftiie letter, arose from the fact that it went on
to Washington, probalv in the parcel from the
American Minister at London. It was post
marked “Washington, March 23d.”
Per Halifax Steamer of 4 h of March.
Paris, Feb. 14th, 1841.
To the Editors of the Journal of Commerce:
Gentlemen :—As the Commissioners of
Loans of the Republic of Texas were instruct
ed, by his excellency President Lamar, in the
event of their efterfng a negotiation of the
loan for that republic, to make a public an
nouncement of the fact, that meritorious hold
ers ol the securities of the Government, who
may have aided the country in the hour of its
necessity, may not he the victims of the spec
ulation of those acting under secret informa
tion. I will thank you Instate in your paper,
or, if this communication should arrive after it
has gone to press, in a slip to he immediately
issued from your office, that I have this day
concluded, in this city, a contract with the
Bank of Messrs. J. Lafitte fc, Cos., for the
Texian Loan.
I forward a duplicate of this letter per the
Havre packet t f the ]6ih, and shall enclose
this to the Texian Consul at New York, per
the American Minister’s letter bag from
London.
I remain, very respectfully, vnur ob’t. serv'd,
’ J. HAMILTON.
P. R. I have taken means, as far as pracli ;
cable, of extending this information south of
New York.
Last month there were consumed in Paris I
5,927 oxen, 2.082 cows, 5 303 calves, and;
38,254 sheep. In the corresponding month ofj
1839, the consumption was less by 310 oxen,
44 cows, and 4,032 sheep, ihe total con
sumption :>f Paris during the vear 1840, uas
71.569 oxen, 29,921 cows, 63,799 calves, and
432 540 sheep. The increase over 1839 was
2,056 oxen, 1,960 cows, and iS 42t) sheep;
but the consumption ol calves tell ofi 4.326. |
Never say that Frenchmen live on frog soup,;
after that.
Col. Harney, the Florida officer, hangs j
his prisoners as fast as he tak s them, while!
Armistead is trying to negociate with the t n- ;
emy. and has actually giver, 4 passes” to hos I
tile savages. The following, copied from the
Sr. Augustine Herald, indiea es a preference j
lor Cos!. Harney’s conduct :
“Write passes for a!':.” ihe old General cried;
‘•Stop vonr scouting —try soft soap ; rid blarney/’
‘■But eon fusion anJ shame,” the xvi.ole country rc- !
plied ;
“On the patent railroad give ea.h dog a fiee
rile—
There’s no pass ‘ike a zJ.trrl line from Harney.”
Gen. Harrison —during his late visit to
Richmond, lound nut the place where he once
was a medical student. Upon entering what
is now a dram-shop, much to the surprise o! j
his friends and the keeper of the establish-!
rnent, he exclaimed, ‘Mere fifty vests ago,!
(suiting the action to the word) I worked 11n
pestle and mortar in compounding medicine.”
The General is a remaikable man, ard th>-
most remarkable fact in his history is. that he
should have been chosen President of the Uni
ted States of America.— Boston Post.
The whig gentleman who ltfta bottle
whig hard cider at our house, is invited to cr.'jl
and drink a tumbler full of it; we will provide
crackers and cheese.—lb.
Alderman.— A moving sepulchre irvwhich
are deposited, dead turkies, chickens, pigs,
and turtle fat. ~
VOL. I. JSO. 9.
Fr in ihe X. Y. tie raid.
INDUCTION OF THE NEW COLLECTOR
SECRET HISTORY OF TIIE APPOINT
MENTS.
The new officers of the Customs, the Col
lector, Naval Officer and Surveyor, were
sworn into office, and entered upon their du
ties, yesteiday. There was a great ciowd at
Lite C ctom House during a considerable part
of the day, and a good deal of anxiety was
mamtes td by tiie expectants. Ms. Cunis
reached town on Sunday evening, but belbrc
his arrival, after the appointment was known,
extraordinary ctlorls were tit.tie to secure in
fluence in various quartets ibi the places at
the disposal of the Collector. Mr. Grinnell
was haunted at all times, and in all places,
with tire utmost pertinacity. The hungry
leilows, who are looking for the spoils, called
at Ins house, and called at his counting room
they dogged lorn to chinch on Sunday, and
waylaid turn in the streets. Others, too, who
were supposed to have influence with the
new Collector were beset in season and out
of season. Jiieie is nothing to he gained by
their attempt to Ibrestal every body. The de
termination of the Collector is understood to
he, to make no change at present, except such
as ii cumstances shali imperiously demand—
to make no appoiutmi tit until the several
wards shall be lairlv canvassed, and the claims
and qualifications of every applicant deliber
ately weighed and examined*
This is a very excellent and equitable ar
rangement, and’ we hope Mr. Curtis may be
able to carry it into effect.
There have been a great many strange
movements and curious manoeuvres in refer
ence to the severeral offices in this city.—
These have principally been secret aid steal
thy, but we wi I lift tiie curtain with a gentle
hand, and disclose a few of the actors, and
some of the intrigues that have been carried
on.
Immediately after the State elections in the
spring of 1840 had indicated the probability
of Gen. Harrison’s success, Mr. Wetmore, in
conjunction with the Courier &, Enquirer, and
the Young Men’s Whig Committee, came to
an understanding, by tiie terms of which,
they were to play into each other’s hands. —
Mr. Wetmore was to he Collector, and the
Young Men’s Committee were to divide a
mong themselves and their immediate depen
dants, the subordinate offices in the Customs.
Mr. Reynolds, the Sergeant’s, and their asso
ciates, were all embiaced in this argument.
These people procured an immense number
of names to recommendations of Mr. Wet
mote, and up to a late period were sanguine
of success.
The latter part of winter Mr. Reynolds
went on to Washington to promote the views
of this clique, and took strong ground against
the appointment of members of Congress.—
His notions wa re echoed by others of ttie same
set here. He even went so far as to prepare
an address to the people of this city, remon
strating against the selection ol’ members,
which was intended for publication in the
“Courier & Enquirer.” Rut by this time
Mr Webb had become apprehensive that the
influence of Messrs. Curtis and Grinnell might
he exerted against certain schemes of his own,
and he declined to publish the address. John
O. Sargeant also went to Washington to co
operate will) Reynolds in behalf of Mr. Wet
more. B>t Mr. Grinnell, and other friends
of Mr. Curtis at Washington, were too strong
for tiie Wetmore influence here, even when
the exertions of Reynolds and Sargeant were
supetadded to it, and Mr. Curtis obtained the
office.
The effect of this appointment was very
curious. Mr. Cuitis crowded out Mr. Wet
more, and the wffiole circle of friends who had
expected office under the latter were disap
pointed. Mr. Wetmore was then taken up,
and almost helore lie was aware of tiie de
s gn, made Navy Agent. For this very eli
gible place, Messrs. Gav, Auchincloss, Mitch
ell, Taggart. and others had been making in
fluence, but they were all thurst aside lor
Mr. Wetmore. For tie office of Surveyor
there were several applicants. Every body
here supposed that Dr. Rovvron was to be the
fortunate man, but the appointments have all
been made in Washington, and not in this city,
and Mr. Taggart, greatly to his own surprise,
lound himself made Surveyor.
For the Naval Office there were several
applicants. It was settled at the office ol the
Courier & Enquirer that Mathew L. Davis
should have the birth; but Webb’s edicts are
not particularly potential at Washington, and
Mr. Thomas Lord was selected.
Thus it will he seen that a single change in
the Coliectorship from what has been antici
pated, created the utmost derangement and
confusion among all the different grades of ex
pectants. Every body, with the rare excep
tion of those who have already been success
ful, is disappointed. Many are disposed to
attribute ail those arrangements to the influ
ence of Mr. Webster. It is not to he doubted
that Mr. Webster felt an interest in the suc
cess of Mr. Curtis, and exerted himse 1 as far
as was necessary lo secure it. But office
seeking is ve'_v much like buying tickets in a
lottery, after ail. There are some four or five
prizes, and fifty or sixty blanks. All those
wiio have secured a chance stand,about in
I anxious expectation. The numbers are all
■ put into a big box and shaken thoroughly.—
The person selected lor the purpose plunges
i his hand in and pulls out a Collector. Then
there is a famous shake of the numbers, and a
Navy Ag nis drawn forth. The process is
repeated until a Naval officer and Surveyor
ate pulled out, when the lid of the box is hoist
ed, and the blanks thrown away. Dr. Bowron
expected to come up for the Surveyor, hut he
j stuck hai d at the bottom of the box.
Charles Delavan went on for any good of
i five, and alter arriving there, determined to
| take up with lhe Navy Agency, hut he drew
| a blank in the Lottery, and is now looking out
| for something else. He may come home,
j without giving himself any further trouble or
uneasiness. We have selected an office for
! Mr. Delavan, just suited to his t&ste, habits
S and capacity. He most have the Consulship
i at Tangiers, now filled bv a loculi co, named
i Carr. W e want to send him out to the Em
peror of Morocco, standing as he does, six
} feel three in his stnrkings, as a strapping spe
cimen of die revolutionsrv stt ek ; a sample of
American manufacture, and a proof that hu
man nature, physically consider'd, has not
degenerated on this side ol the A !an:ic.
If the challenge of the Boston Post for a
legitimate rhyme to ‘ silver ” has not yet been
met, how v.ill this do?
While all the family onie tllvxre,
A thief got iri and stole the Si/v r.
Note.— in wri'insr the o'd English knew
No HifT.-rencc twixt v end v,
Thi r -fore as ‘bi:/Ale’ rhymes to ‘trouble,’
The douhle to the single 13,
An I W is hui V doub'e.
And London f .Iks -av ‘ Ve’ for ‘Wo.’
1 l.e rhyme's legitimate —P’ve see ?
Cliailes-on Mercury.
Did you ever know a lady with very white
teeth put her hand over them w'Len she laugh
el?
A single log of Honduras mahogany was
sold at auction in New \ ork, on Tuesday, for
s x hundred find six do.lars. That is a log
worth rolling.