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BY JAMES VAN NESS. PUBLISHED Everv Thursday morning, in the “Granite Building,” oh the corner of Oglethorpe and Randolph Streets. TERMS: SUBSCRIPTION— three dollars per annum, payable in advance three dollais and a half at the end of six months,’or four dollars, (in all cases) where pay ment is not made before trie expiration of the year. No subscription received for 1 :ss Ilian twelve months without payment in advance, and no paper discon tinued, except at the option of the Editor, until all arrearages are paid. Advertisements conspicuously inserted at one dol lar per one hundred words, or less, for the first in sertion. and fifty cents for every subsequent contin uance’ Those sent without a specification of the number of insertions, will be published until ordered out, and charged accordingly. 2. 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Sales of personal property (except Negroes) forty days. Citations by Clerks of the Courts ol Ordinary, upon application for letters of administration, must be pub lished sot thirty days. Citations upon application for dismission, by Kxec utors, Administrators or Guardians, monthly for six months. Oroers of Courts of Ordinary, (accompanied with a copy of the bond or agreement) to make titles to laud, must be published three months. Notices by Executors, Administrators or Guardians, of application to the Court of Ordinary for leave lo sell the land or negroes of art estate, fair months. Notices by Executors or Administrators, lo the debtors and creditors of an estate, for six weeks. Sheriffs’, Clerks of Court. &e. will be allowed the usual deduction. BjT Letters on business, must be post paid, to entitle them to attention. From I lie 1 > lobe. 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.