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NTILE. _
FANCY DRY-GOODS.
BROKAW&GLEI3IB,
ARE now receiving a desirable assortment of
LADLES DRESS GOODS,
consisting of French, Jaconet, Organdie, ami
Scotch .M j'liu-, Grenadine and Tissue Silks,
Plain C;ia--a Foulards. Fancy color’d. Silk
Barege, Embroidered Manlius, Sup. French
and Scotch Ginghams, Linen and Silk do;
cotton Grenadines, A;c.
Together with a lot of MOURNING Silk and
worst*-! Bareges, Tissue Silks, plain and figured
Pr.-ach Lawns and Muslins, Dress Hdkfs., Grena
sl.ae, and Crape Shawls, &c.
BROKAW A CLEMONS.
MayS. ISIS 2!>—St
PAN AM V AND LEGHORN II ATS.
A Large lot, just received, hv
BKOKAW & CLEMONS.
Mav. 1818. 20—8 t
.11 sr RECEIVED.
INTRENCH Ci ilhs and Cashmeres. Silk and
1 Satin; Vestings; plain and Ri’-’d Linen Diil-
Bngs; Silk Worp Italian Cloths; Cashmaretts,
Ac. Ac. BROKAW & CLEMONS.
May 9. 1848 20—8 t
CHEAP DRY GOODS.
rpE SnhsfHkrs arc offerin? Ihrir stork of
at VERY LOW PRICES FOR CASH — Consisting
im part, of ihe usual assortment —Printed Muslins.
Silk Tissues and Grenadines ; Jackonet’s ; Gloves
aad Hosiery—Bteacied anti unbleached Shirtings
•ad Sheeting's from 3-4 to 12-4 wide.
A Iso,
A large stock of Fine .and Extra Fine BRO 11)
CI.OTII-, £A<*!MERES, DllAl* i>e ETE,
LINEN DRILL*. .Ac. Ate.
3.000 Yards of Light and Dark Prints, at Ncw-
York C'ovt and Lev— from 6 to 11 cts. per yard
for CASH. MY GATT &. HODGES.
May 9, 1848 20—ts
Dimity, Furni
ture Calico, Mosqnitoe Net
ting. 12-4,11-4, and 5-4 Sheetings, Furniture Fringe,
Table Damask, Cotton Diaper, Doilin. Table Covers,
Hnnrkaiiuck Iti-i per, Bleached and Brown Homes
puns. “Tort St/te,” Ticking, Checks, Cottonaues,
Striped Homespuns, Curtain Muslins; a lull assort
mrnt of Housekeeping Goods at
TERRY &; GOLLL'ING'S.
May , IS4. ID—ts
LADU.S MHHS-tLI. K£ A ITS,
At TERRY & GOULDINGS.
May , 1543. 19—ts
GEORGE A. NORRIS,
HAS Just rrerived his rniir? purchase of
Spring ami summer goods, making a very
hirre Stock, embracing every variety of Fancy
nod Stup e Drv Goods, please call aid see, our
prices aud then decide where the cheap goods are.
April S3, IS4K.
m;v* iio \m : ; •>.
JUJST Toreiveii.a large assortment. for sale by
April “5 (JEORfiK A NORRIS.
>l'MMl'lf HAT- .
JEST frcciveri • laree St-', k of l’ananca Leg
horn Pfdaland I’. LrfHiit for sale by
April 25 OEOROK A NORRIS.
VUR l'airegoa, I.awus&c.
* are worths of all vi'iisiJeration.
A|-l 25 (.HOUCK \. NORRIS.
aOTBIIPIPOItIII
J. H. MERRY,
So. 3, Warren't Arcade,
I fee Jaors a ace th* Post Office.
IS \off HECEUISU 1 FILL Sl fPLV l!F
HEABY-fIASE CL3IHLYG,
of firry var.e’.y ol style :t;d t.isiiiou—and made in
tha beat manner.
A *o—•-'rarals, Scarfs, SocV s, Gloves. Suspenders
M •% rv. Sin-la ofevery,: scriptiun ; liATS,CAPS,
Silk an.! Cotton I'mbn f;i>. Sic.
JO” Theat Goods will positively be sold at a very
S>l \S.I. KOKI s’, tor Cash.
Columbus, Mar 2, 18-H 19—3 m.
W. J. HilXiilfilip
(Formerly nj’ Rnfaula. Ala.)
HAS tflkrn the More Iwo doors below Hall k
Mo *es, where he will keep at all times, a
well selected stock of
SI Arm DRY GOODS,
AND
GROCKRIfcS.
BOOTS. snOES. HATS, SADDLERY, &c. it.
Alto, a Urge and well selected stock ot
Negro Goods, Blankets, tkc.
All of hich. be offc sat the ‘owes! pnssitle prices.
He will also jive liberal piiccsl'or COTTON and
COUXTRY PRODUCE.
He hopes that his old friends and the public gen
era !y, will call and exan.inc h.s stool; before pur
chasing eisow here.
Coliitnbns, November 23. D47. 4S—tf
WOODRUFF & WHKYELSEY,
I 1 AYE just rcrrivrd an ndditfoual supply of
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS,
among vb,cli can be found Miaw.s. Bonnets and
Bonnet R>taK,ns, (..oghams. Muslins, Calicoes, &c.
A so 1 good assortment of PANAMA and 1 IX;-
HttKN HATS, all of which they will sell very
low for cash or approved credit.
W. & 4\ . have a tew patterns of very fine Bareg
es. which they w.l! sell t or cbout Half Price, rath
er than keep them over. LADItX call and see.
April 25. IS4S. jc* t p
NIW SPRINS AHB SMKBS
DRY-50CDS AND CLOTHING.
r rBE sntwribm bavir.s jntt r tnmrd from
J. New*York, would politely rail the atieiition of
the ladses to their new stock ot’Freach, English and
American Prints, French Lawns, Ginghams, Jaco
nett Moutline. Cambrics. Swiss. Mull and Book
M>*us. ns. Bishop Lawns, Shawls, Scarfs. Neck Tics
likes Cambric Handkerchiefs, all kinds of Hosiery,
a splendid assortment of fashionable Bonnets ami
Ribbons, and numerous other articles, which for
cheapness of price, and richness of style, cannot be
Surpassed in the city. Please call, we will be glad
to show our Goods, and then judge for yourself.
I We hare a'so a good assortment of Heady Made
C'othing, such as Coats, Vests, Pants, and anew
I style of He mstic'ufd Linen Bosom r-hirts. Drawers,
*e . Pantma and Leghorn Hats, Boots and Shoes,
InU of which we offer at very low prices, but to sat
|i*fy yourself, please to call at
. _ v E. &B. MEND HEIM'S
I. rw -York Dry Goods and Clothing Store, four
Ipoors a. Messrs. \\ ade L Sadtiie
jy Store. ,
April 25, IMS. IS—2m
GROCERY AND STAPLE
DJ. B. BROOKS
* notr oprnin: at fci* new Store on Wrst side
Broad street, tiuec doors below Hill, Dawson
‘V.II Selcrlct! Slock of Goods,
, _*bieh he invitrsthe attention of his friends, and
r -It *“* t'to give liberal prices for COTTOX and
tOLSTRr PRODUCE.
k —Those indebted to the late firm of J.
■ v ‘ Bro<>^B . are requested to call and liquidate
, ,j CCOur ‘ u ! wi, ‘ ch are in the hands of the under
p. ’. „ J. D. BROOKS.
VOLUME VIII. J
MAY DAY CELEBRATION.
Pastoral, written for the May Dav cele
ticn of the Muscogee Female Academy, bv
Mrs. Caroline Lee Hentz.
(concluded.)
September —Miss Jane Siiotwell.
The gales of September are mellow and land,
They cool with their pinions the sun-withered land;
The fruit of September's delicious and sweet,
And llie eye loves her softening sun'-earns to meet.
Oh! 1 know when ye’re weary of flowery display,
Ye love me lar better than roseate May;
Ye turn to the path in the wild-wood to hear
My deep solemn music falls soft on the ear.
And. the heart, overflowing with heavenly emotion,
Ascends up on high, in voiceless devotion;
Oh ! who would exchange the sweet thoughts I
bring
For the sunbeams of Summer, the rotes of Spring !
October —Miss Imogen Kivlin.
My dear, sober Sister ! with feelings like thine,
I pause o’er the I ikens of Nature’s decline—
With treasures of wisdom and jewels of thought,
The cool russet groves of Octolier are fraught.
And oh ! the soft veil of pale, sober grey,
That I throw o’er the earth, e’er I vanish away;
So graceful it falls so lovely it seems,
Ye would not exchange it for Summer’s bright
beams.
November — Miss Anna Pond.
The leaves of November are sore, and the blast
Oil the bosom of earth, has the tremblers cast,
And there they are weaving a mantle of gold,
The mourning of Nature, her form to enfold.
Oh! walk with me,’neath the mild harvest moon,
And in silence mysterious, with nature commune ;
’Twill seein as if angels w-.-re peopling the gloom
And spreading the wings o’er earth’s vanished
bloom.
Autumn.
Haste, my hanJ-maids! Winter weaves
Its snowy web o’er Autumn’s sheaves.
I Vinter —Miss Martha Harvey.
Nay, sweet sister, do not fly,
We are bound by mystic tie;
Though no cheering sunbeams warm me,
M v chill gales will never harm thee.
They may talk of Winter’s cold,
And of snows around me rolled,
But those spotless robes beneath,
Flowers, bright heart-flowers gaily wreath.
All the home-born virtues come
To my peaceful, sheltered home,
All do oestic pleasures meet,
And play in frolics at my feet.
1 too have three hand-maids fair,
Who. my snowy livery wear;
Merry maids who seldom roam,
Finding their chief joy at home;
Not iik? fashion’s glittering belle,
Who delights in crowds to dwell.
— ’ December — Miss Mary McGhee.
Oh ! the skies of December are dark, and its grove
Deserted, resounds not with joy and with love,
But ’tis dear to the warm heart that loves to renew
Life’s best socialities, graceful and true.
Oh ! there’s many a one who would never exchange
My bright glowing fire, thro’ the green woods to
range,
And would give up the blossoms of Spring for the
mirth,
And wit that enlivens the wintry hearth.
Then the holidays too of old Christmas ! the cakes
S>entdown through the chimney that Nicholas bakes;
Tli? candiesand sweetmeats,hid nice in the stocking,
While round it ali eager, dear children are flocking.
Oh ! I’m sure, happy childhood will ever remember
The holiday spor.is of merry December.
January — Miss Eliza Howard.
And where is the bosom that bounds not to bear
The heart-prompted sounds of a happy New Year !
I come with kind wishes to old and to young,
With evergreen wreaths my while garments are
hung ;
I’m greeted with lapture, by starry bright eyes,
And young, dancing hopes all around me arise.
Then Schcrexade never more stories could toil
Than I, when I’m touched by the magical spell
Os fancy, whose vi.-ions are brighter and higher,
When sparkles and blazes the wintry fire.
February —Miss Mary Lkmmes.
Fair Sisters! Ye’ve claimed ail the gems of the
year,
Though latest, not least in the band I appear;
All llie joys that ye promise, I too can impart,
I gladden the spirit, I warm the young heart.
And then, o’er iny bosam, fond Nature will fling
Ere long the first leaves and the roses of Spring;
1 am of the links of a beautiful chain.
In Ihe chorus of Nature, a gladdening strain.
Rejoice in the seasons, ye lair living flowers,
As they pass in their gioiy, life’s varying hours;
Rejoice in the seasons, oh ! iair Queen of Mav! •
They all have rich blessings, to gladden thy day.
THE NYMPHS.
First Nymph — Miss Jane Thomas,
From tne bonds of wintry blast,
Prom the dread of Boreas’ voice,
Nature glad is freed at last,
And her smiles our hearts rejoice.
Now the dews refresh your leaves,
Tender buds expanding teem,
Earth's fair breaxt with gladness heaves,
And all eyes with new life beam.
Come sisters, blend
Y'our notes with mine,
Your homage lend
And choir combine.
Sing vernal lays,
And Flora's praise,
Bid music’s spell,
Fill vale and dell.
Choir.
We come, we come with gladness—
We chase, we chase all sadness.
Is/ Nymph.
. What can ye say
The scene to enhance !
That bright array
On which we glance !
Choir.
Teach us blithe songs to raise,
We’li charm thee with our lays.
First Nymph.
Come then now forth, ye sisters three,
Ye graces add your wiicbing glee ;
Come Thalia, first cf merry mien,
Lend us your art to adorn the scene.
Thalia —Miss Mart Redd.
With the birds, in the groves is iny dwelling.
And my voice with the honey bee’s swelling,
1 will crown our young Queen with vine tresses,
And yon robin will sing iny addresses.
First Nymph.
Aglaia now advance,
And on thy lyre,
Touch strains the ear to entrance
W ith poet’s fire.
clglaia —Miss Augusta Redd.
’1 he sky lark is my fellow,
And my food is the dew—
On the wing of the swallow.
My light course i’ll pursue.
And in the air bend my way
To behold this array.
First Nymph.
Eupbrosyne new heed
And tiring thy aid—
Come forth with jealous speed,
Uulo this shade.
Euphrosync —Miss Mart Hudson.
Like dryad nymph, I’m wont to dwell
In shady groves or woody dell;
To celebrate our chosen Queen,
We’ll altars build with living green.
Well strip von sapling of its sprays,
Our rural edifice to raise.
Choir.
We'll toil with thee,
Tiiv sisters we.
Evphrosyne.
Those boughs we’ll tear. But hark. Those wails
My heart astound,
Melodious sound,
That from the trunk my heart assails !
Forbear
To tear.
The tree,
I see.
It heaves
Its leaves.
.? Dryad —MissCarorinb Kaoul.
Fear not fair maidens, from my hands
Ye’ve freed these limbs from ligneous banss,
And thanks to you, I can unite
My notes to yours in this new rile.
Our voices we will blenJ,
Your Queen will hear oor lava,
And our hymns shall ascend
To celebrate her4>raisc.
fUljie
Thalia.
What new wonders this hour is revealing.
What new strains on the ear now are stealing I
The light birds, and the flowers, and the mountains,
And the vales, join their charm to the fountains;
While young echo, our poem repeating,
Is proclaiming afar this blithe meeting.
Aglaia.
Anew spell on the ear
Falls with charm from above,
And responding more near.
Seems like breathings of love.
Dryad.
’Tis the voice of Iris fair,
On the rainbow she doth fly,
Seven rays her garments bear,
Dyed in otheis floods on high.
Sec the wreath her hand extends,
For your Queen it is designed ;
Hear her voice melodious sends,
Joy to every youthful mind.
Iris — Miss Martha Beall.
I’ve left the rainbow of the skies,
To cull the flowers of May,
And in this wreath the rainbow dyes,
Their seven-fold beams display.
The same fair hues are blending here.
But these are bom of earth,
While those that span the heavenly sphere,
Partake my glorious birth.
Let the sweet garland gently fall,
And o’er her head incline,
Who reigns the maiden Queen of all
That bow around her shrine.
And tell her, when its blossoms fade,
To raise her eyes on high,
And see unchanged, by earth’s dim shade,
The rainbow of the sky.
THE FLOWER BTREWERS,
First — Miss Mary Hudson.
Yes! strew the flower and breathe the song,
Pleasures to this fair day belong ;
But there’s a moral in the hour,
lie pluck the rose— God made the flower.
Second — Miss Mary Clayton.
I too may claim with thee a share
In honoring a throne so tair,
For I am young, and guileless too
As the sweet flowers I round me strew.
First.
Ycttl strew the flower, and breathe the song,
Let joy inspire this youthful throng.
How great and glorious is the Power,
Who gilds so bright the passing hour.
Second.
I know the Power, who hung with blue
Yon radiant arch, who gemmed with dew,
Each beauteous flower that decks the grove—
-Iloth.
We love that Power—that Power is Love.
Address to the Queen, by
Miss Maria Broadnax.
Queen of this festival of flowers,
With hounding hearts we greet this day,
That ushers in the iragrant hours,
The melody and bloom of May.
The birds, those choristers of Heaven,
With music fill the vernal grove—
To us a sweeter lyre is given,
Swept by the living breath of love.
Queen of our own unfettered choice,
For thee we make the choral song,
And own thee with united voice,
The chosen flower of this tair throng.
(Several dialogues and addresses, by
the younger children, followed.)
THE GARLAND OF FLOWERS.
Flora — Miss Mary Wright.
Children of the forest come
Leave awhile your shaded home,
Gather round my bower, and bring
Tributes from the breathing Spring.
Gentle Spring ! thy aid 1 crave—
Bid thy gales the biossoms wave ;
Call them from their lowliest bed,
Here, their sweetest bloom to shed.
Spring —Miss Virginia Shorter.
Rose of May ! attend the call,
Enter Flora’s verdanthall,
Thou, whom my soft dews have nourished,
Say, where have thy blossoms flourished 1
Thou, whose hues and balm were given,
For the ministry of Heaven.
Rose —Miss Louisa Hooper.
At thy bidding, voice of Spring, .
I, my fairest treasure bring ;
From the garden walls I come,
Where the honey insects hum,
And the minstrels of the grove,
Swell the warbling notes of love.
But not alone for vain parade,
My leaves expand to bloom and fade )
I strew the thorny path of care,
The brows of grief my chaplets wear j
O’er pallied sickness’ couch I bend,
And there my sweetest fragrance lend—
And many a heart that knows my balm,
Has blest me for the healing charm.
Flora.
Cherished Rose ! thy task fulfilled, •
Here thy fragrance be distil led-
Mercy’s call thou hast obeyed,
Now be grateful incense paid.
Spring.
Come too, Lilly of the field,
Here thy spotless treasures yield |
Hasten from the mountain’s side,
Where the crystal waters glide.
Haste, at Flora’s bidding haste.
There no more thy sweetness waste.
Lilly —Miss Georgia Warren.
Waste, fair Spriig, oh ! say not so,
Though by shady fount 1 grow;
I my mission there fulfil,
Subject to my Maker’s will.
And though voiceless, still proclaim,
To the ear His glorious name.
When proud beauty’s scornful glance,
Gazes on my fair expanse,
Then I bow my fragile head,
And my waxen petals shed,
That she may behold the doom,
Waiting beauty’s fleeting bloom.
flora.
Faireet flower in Nature’s wreatli,
Here thy touening moral breathe.
Spring.
Come, sweet Honeysuckle, thou
Too thy graceful buds must bow
Let the woodland mourn awhile.
For thy bright and joyous smile.
Flora calls thee to her bower,
Blooming trophy of her power.
Honeysuckle —Miss Mary Whiteside.
From my woodland home I come,
Where my clusters wildly bloom—
I, the torest tree have twined,
And the hedge with blossoms lined.
I have heard the sweet bird sing,
O’er my head with wanton wing,
Pausing to inhale my dew,
While my music soltergrew.
Here, my glovvig leaves 1 bring,
Summoned by the voice of Spring-
Flora’s vassal, every sweet
I’ve culled, I lavish at her feet.
Flora.
No ! at other feet display
AM the redolence of May-
Take, meek sister flowers thy place,
Nature’s banquet ball to grace.
Spring.
Come, sweet Pink, our fair boquet,
Wants thy mild and modest ray.
Pink —Miss Mary Clayton.
At thy mandate, vernal Power,
I ascend thy leaty bower—
When the morning clouds are aweeping,
When the evening dews are weeping,
Then, my balmy odors shed,
Soothing sweets, round Flora’s head.
Friendship loves my soft perfumes,
In her coronal I bloom.
When my roseate tints are pale,
Still upon the Autumn gale,
Shall my breath of fragrance fling,
All the memories of Spring.
Flora.
Fair Carnation ! memory’s friend,
Here with Hope's thy odours blend.
Spring.
Beauteous Jasmine ! clustering vine,
Here thy graceful tendrils twine.
Jasm i ne —M iss Victoria Hoxey.
Y’es! I love the bower to shade.
Where reclines May’s royal maid—-
Other flowers more bright may shine,
Than the modest Jessamine;
But the sweets that I exhale,
O’er the Queen of Flowers prevail.
Innocence might love to write
On my leaves of virgin white,
And the Queen of May might trace
Her emblem, in my spotless face.
Flora.
Modest Jasamine ! pure and sweet,
Flora loves thy cbaruia to greet.
Spring.
Bright Verbena! glowing gem,
Star of Flora's diadem,
Come and let the garden mourn,
Till it welcomes thy return.
•TH R UNION OF THE STATES AND THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE STATES.”
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 30, 1848.
Verbena —Miss Susan Park.
Oh! with joy I hail thy voice,
Thou who did’st the flowers rejoice,
Well I know my glowing red,
O’er this vernal arbor spread,
Would adorn this beauteous scene—
And I come to grace the bower
That contains May’s regal flower.
Mine is the imperial dye,
Sacred still to majesty.
Surety then my scarlet bloom
Might a Queenly crown become.
Spring.
Thou ray flower of brilliant dye,
That with golden gems might vie,
Queenly Tulip ! let tby hues
Here their shifting light diffuse.
Thou for regal pomp made,
In such matchless robe arrayed.
Tulip — Miss Louisa Dibble.
Think not gentle Spring ! my heart
Loves the glittering pomp of art,
Though the hand that formed me, dy’d
My leaves so bright, no haughty pride
Elates my heart, most blest to wear
The tint my Maker gave, and share
The bounteous gifts his hand has given
The sunbeams and the dews of Heaven.
Content to bloum, in light or shade,
In guarded bed, or lowly glade,
If Flora’s smiles her flower approves,
Or Spring her votive Tulip loves.
Mora.
Surely the beauteous Tulip knows
The smile which o’er her warmly glows ;
Fair object of my love and pride,
Henceforth in Flora’s halls abide.
Spring.
Darling Myrtle ! bright and green,
Hasten to this joyous scene,
Friendship’s type, perennial vine,
Here thy fadeless garlands twine.
Myrtle — Miss Augusta Redd.
Though I boast no sparkling ray,
Blooming tints or colors gay,
I my leaves perennial prize,
More than gorgeous fleeting dyes ;
When the Rose is pale and wan,
When the Tulip’s tints are gone,
And the Honey-suckle’s laid
In oblivion’s dusky shade;
Stiil unfading shall be seen
My bright wreath of living green —
Virtue’s emblem, time defying,
When the flowers of May are dying.
Flora.
Precious Myrtle ! liuger here,
To virtue and to friendship dear.
Spring.
Where’s my violet? modest blossom I
With the dew drop on its bosom ?
Come from mossy hank and stream,
Hither Jet thy blue eyes beam ;
Think not to elude my view,
Bashful flower of love’s own hue.
Violet —Miss Virginia Howard
I lieve left my mossy bed,
Here my fragrant sweets to shed;
Kindest Myrtle! let thy vine,
Green and sheltering round me twine.
Flora.
Tender Violet! on my breast
Let tby shrinking blossoms rst.
Spring.
Blushing Rosebud ! herald star
Os May ! I greet thee from afar ;
Flora calls thee, do not fear,
Spring invites thee, welcome here.
Ilosebud — Miss Caroline Clayton.
I have heard thee lovely maiden !
Thus, with dawning blossoms laden ;
See, I leave my parent stem,
Guard, kind Spring, thy trembling gem.
Flora.
Little Rosebud ! fondly cling
To the sheltering robes of Spring ;
Now my flowers, together cluster,
Let your leaves, with blending lustre
Font a garland fair and green,
Twining round your May Day Queen.
Spring,
Fare-ye-weil! ye Flowets of May !
Oh ! that your bloom would ne’er decay;
But remember that the do< m
Breathed on man, hangs o’er your bloom.
Then to Heaven your offering’s pay,
There is one eternal May.
MAY SONG.
Swiftly the bright hours, steal, steal away,
Gently the sweet flowers droop and decay ;
Soft through the green bower sighs the spring gale,
Shadows goon gliding will bend o’er the vale.
Still as the May song swells through the grove,
Hearts are responding the music of love.
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Mourn not the bright hours stealing away,
Once more they’ll come with the blossoms of May;
Mourn not the sweet flowers, nature again
Blooming in beauty, will smile o’er the plain.
Oh ! may each young heart, joyous and gay,
Welcome with rapture another fair May.
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Farewell Address, by
Miss Clara Hamill.
Farewell! farewell! loved Queen of May,
This fairy scene must pass away—
We to our tasks must turn once more,
And this bright pageantry be o’er.
But mourn not o’er the vanished bloom,
Os these glad hours, a long perfume
Treasured by memory shall remain,
’Till May’s sweet buds unfold again.
In after years when through life’s way,
With saddened steps our feet may stray,
When dark and lone the once glad hours,
And thorns instead of glowing flowers;
The tide of time will then roll hack,
Revealing one bright, angel track,
One scene, by serrow undefaced,
A green Oasis in life’s waste.
Friends of this youthful hand! adieu !
Our grateful spirits turn to you,
Whose smiles have beamed, whose eyes approved,
While we have crowned the Queen we loved.
May wreaths more fair and sweet than ours,
Be twined around your future hours,
Not frail and fading, but whose bloom,
Shall glow triumphant o’er the tomb.
Peach Tur.r.s.—A writer in the Horticulturist
thinks that the shortening in mode pruning and the
use of ashes, will drive that most fatal malady to
peach trees—the yellows—out of the country, if
cultivators can be brought to estimate their joint
value. He uses wood ashes, either leached or un
leached—half a peck of the former, or half a bushel
ot the unlecchcd, for a young tree just beginning to
bear. The best time of applying it is in October,
but it has been found to answer admirably as late
is June. It is beet to p. j.e the peach early, bat
the writer has seen no bad effect from shortening
in as late as the middle of May, and he advises
those who have not performed thatoperation already
to take knile in hand, and sally forth immediately.
Improve m*xt of Farmers. —Professor Mea
cham, in ht 6 address before the Addison County
(Vermont) Agricultural Society, observes: “In
making provision for your family, you should pro
vide something to read, as well as something to
eat. You have little reason for congratulation in
improving land and stock, if the mind about you
is going to waste. Every farmer has more time in
the year for gaining knowledge than any profess
ional man in the active pursuit of his profession.—
But it does not depend on time so much as on in
clination. Webster says that ‘ even in matters of
taste and literature, the advantages of a man of
leisure are apt to be overrated. If there exists ad
equate means of education, and the love of learn
ing be excited, that love will find the way to the
object of desire through the crowd and pressure ot
the most busy society.’ ”
Agriculture, says Socrates, is an employment the
most worthy the application of man, the most an
cient and the most suitable to his nature; it is the
common r.urse of ail persons, in every age and con
dition of life; it ia a source of health, strength,
plenty (and riches ; and of a thousand sober de
lights and honest pleasures. It is the mistress and
school of sobriety, temperance, justice, religion, and
in short, of all virtue, civil and military.
Workihg Horses. —These should be well fed
warmly sheltered, cleanly bedded and curried and
rubbed down twice j a day. Their food (should
be given them thrice a day, they should be watered
as often ; receive salt or a mixture of salt, lime and
well-silted ashes twice a week. With such atten
tion they will be able to go through their work
well; without it, they will lack the physical strength
to answer the calls made upon them.
Wash pop Tatis.—A weak solution of potash
or lye of wood ashes, applied to the tranks and
branches of trees, destroys insects and givea a
smooth bark. A mixture of time and cow manure
makes a good wash.
Ustrui Tails.—An acre of ground will con*
tain 160 fruit treea, 16$ feet apart each way, 4,
843 hills of corn 3 feet apart each way; ] 64,210
stalks of wheat six inches apart, each way.
MISCELLANY.
GREAT MEN.
LAMARTINE.
The master spirit of the French Revolu
tion.
Amongst the remarkable men to w'hom
the destinies of the French nation, and the
cause of universal freedom, have been en
trusted, the subject of the present sketch
unquestionably occupies the foremost place.
Endowed with the highest qualities of
mind and heart—enthusiastic and learned
—wise, eloquent, and—above all—honest,
Lamartine will rank with the great of eve
ry epoch, whether we regard him as a po
et, historian, orator,or statesn an.
Alphonse Lamartine is a child of the
revolution. He was born on the 21st of
October 1790. His early days were passed
peaceably at Milly, under the watchful
care of an excellent mother. His parents,
though possessed of some fortune, experi
enced the difficuliies inevitably connected
with the time in which they lived, and La
martine received the elements ofeducation
at the the college of Belly conducted by
the Brothers of Faith. In 1809 he removed
from the college to Lyons, and in 1812, hav
ing passed some time in Italy, and attained
the age of 22, he made his first appearance
in the capital of France. Lamartine w r as
poor, and little able to satisfy the impulse
of his youthful and generous mind. He
cultivated his taste for poetry, which even
at that early period was the marked char
acteristic of his genius; but, like all poets,
he reaped a barren reward of glory alone.
Disappointment fell heavily on the warm
heart of the young enthusiast. His health,
originally delicate, gave way, and he was
compelled to seek again the genial climate
of Italy. Lamartine had never been daz
zled by the glory of the Empire. In Na.
poleon he saw the great, but not the good
man. His heart filled w r ith the love of
human kind—the noble desire of amelior
ating the condition of man in every corner
of the world—rebelled against a power
which had no other object than military
conquest. The fall of the Empire effected
a change in his destiny. He returned
from Italy and entered as a soldier in the
Royal Guard in 1813. The Hundred Days
now came. The captive of Elba appeared
and the followers of the Bourbon disap
peared like chaff before the breath of the
warrior. It was the last flash of a mighty,
but expiring genius. The Emperor fell
—to rise no more. After the restoration
he refused to resume his military service.
The heart of the young poet was suddenly
assailed by one of those violent passions
which absorb existence; he loved a beau
tiful and wealthy English-woman, whom
he has immortalised under the name of
Elvira. But his happiness was of short
duration. The object of his affection was
removed by premature death, and despair
led the survivor to the very verge of the
tomb.
It was at this distressing moment, w’hen
the body was broken down by disease and
the mind almost annihilated by the dread
ful shock which it had received, that La
martine was compelled to seek a purchaser
for the first of his poetic productions. They
had been w ritten when he was happy, and
breathed the purest spirit of love and poetry.
After many a refusal, the “Meditations of
a Poet” were printed in 1820, without pa
tronage, without the name of the author, —
The success of the work w r as soon unex
ampled, and at once raised the author to
the highest rank amongst the poets of the
day. Froty-five thousand copies were
sold in four years. The brilliant success
of the “Meditations” and the respected
solicitations of his family now induced La
martine to enter the career of diplomacy.
He became attached to the Tuscan embas
sy, and set out for Florence.
Here, if report be true, in the midst of
the splendor of an Italian fete, the soft voice
of a wc-nian murmured in his ear his own
beautiful and touching lines—
Peut-etre, 1* avenir mo gardeit il encore
Un retour be bouheur ilont I’espoir cst perdu;
Peut-etrc dans la fould une ame vue j’ ignore
Aurat comprise mon am et m’ aurait repouder.
The prediction of the poet was realized.
His soul had met with a sympathising spir
it and they were indissolubly united. At
the same period a wealthy uncle bequeath
ed his fortune to Lamartine. All that
man can desire fell to his share at one and
the same time—glory, beauty, wealth. Up
to 1829 M. Lamartine, remained in Tus
cany—at first, as Secretary to the Ambas
sador, and subsequently as Chargd d’Af
faires. On his return to Paris he publish
ed the “Harmonies”—one of the most sub
lime and magnificant productions that ever
| emanated from the brain of poet. The
French Academy immediately opened its
doors to the laureat—fresh honors awaited
him—he was appointed Ambassador to the
Court of Greece when the revolution of
l&JO broke out; and the newly elected
King, desirous of availing himself of his
services,offeredto confirm the appointment.
Lamartine refused. His eyes had long been
turned towards the east—the cradle of civ
ilization—and thither he proceeded in 1832.
The progress of the great poet; whose
fame had preceded him, was a series of
triumphs. He devoted sixteen months to
the study of eastern manners, to the mon
uments and history of the patriarchs; but
the pleasure was purchased at the sacrifice
of his only child, his light hearted Julia
cut ofl by fever at Beyroot, on his way to
Europe.
On the 4th of January, 1824. Lamartine
made his first appearance at the Chamber
of Deputies. He was then forty-four years
of age, and unaccustomed, untrained to the
practice of parliamentary debate ; yet he
Appeared at once as an orator of the first
class, and from that period experience, in
ripening his judgement, has but added soli
dity to the native brightness of his genius.
Each year brought him prominently for
ward ; and at the present moment there is
not perhaps, in France, a man who can corn
pete with him in popular eloquence. For
some time he continued to support the gov
ernment of the late King, but his support
was not a servile one. The great and uni
versal principles of the pkilanthrophist and
the philosopher—the warm affection of the
poet for all that is noble, good or beautiful
—ever shone forth, and gave expression to
the most elevated sentiments in words
“ that were sweeter than honey.”
His literary studies for his last work,
“The History of the Girondins,” naturally
lead to a deep and more correct appriciation
of the character and efforts of the revolu
tion of 1792. With the light of history he
dissipated the calumnies which had so long
cast a cloud on the memories of the great
men, who figured in that eventful time.—
The leaven of truth having once entered
his mind, gradually purified the whole man,
and on the 24th of February—face to face
with expiring royalty and the people just
born to its rights, he cast off every remnant
of prejudice,declared the Republic inCham
ber and saved France. At “this eventful
moment the poet, theoratqg, and the states
man, become confounded; and the three in
one effected what perhaps, no other human
power could have done.
Asa politician he seized the proper mo
ment for action, and proposed, while oth
ers hesitated, the only solution acceptable
to the people. The spirit of poetry sup
plied superhuman energy fed by enthusi
asm ; while the orator poured forth those
soul stiring words to which alone the peo
ple obey in the moment of tumult and ex
citement. At his voice the monarchy fell;
at his voice the Provisional Government
rose into existence ; and his voice it was
that subdued to obedience the passions of
an armed and blood stained population.
As an orator Lamartine held, perhaps,
the first rank in the late Chamber of Depu
ties. We allude to oratory as distinguish
ed from mere parliamentary debating. He
is the only example we have of a great
poet being at the same time a great orator,
and this explains the charm and irresistible
influence of his eloquence. In some
measure his oratory resembles that of Mr.
Sheilds-the same brilliancy, the same point,
the same harmony of period and language
but how infinitely superior in imagination,
and, above all, in the noble principle of hu
manity and social improvement, w'hich ev
er form the basis of his discourse. In face
and person Lamartine recalls to mind some
thing of the features of Byron. There is
th.e same manly beauty, the same clear
melancholy expression of mind, the same
regularity of the features. He is tall, thin,
and elegantly made. His complexion is
commonly extremely pale; but when the
soul of the orator poet lights up, the pale
visage glows, the dark eyes sparkle, and
the whole frame becomes electrified. You
gaze on the poet, while you listen to the
orator, and are carried irresistibly away.
POLITICAL.
From the Baltimore Sun, May la.
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE—
THE VIEWS OF GENERAL WORTH ON
POLITICAL (iUESTIONS.
We find in the Washington Union, of
yesterday, a note from the Hon. F. W.
Bowdon, transmitting the following letters,
which he had received from Gen. Worth,
in reply to a letter he had addressed him,
asking his opinions in regard to the various
questions which divide the two great par
ties of the conntry:
Tacubaya; (Mexico,) April 12th.
My Dear Sir: —Your favor of the 18th
ult., reached me last evening. The return
courier leaves in a few hours, and as anoth
er opportunity will not probably occur in
the next two weeks, I hope you will excuse
me for substituting the enclosed copies of
replies to two other friends, as answers, in
part, to the inquiries you have addressed
to me. To many connnmunications on the
same subject from -citizens of different
States, these are the only answers, other
than simple acknowledgments of civility,
that I have felt at liberty to make. In each
case, the writer was already named—or
looked to be named—a member of the Dem
ocratic Convention, to meet in May. To
that extent these replies embody, distinct
ly and truly, my sentiments and opinions.
In respect to the additional points presen
ted by yourself, I shall now as distinctly
and truly answer.
Ist. “Graduation and reduction of the
price of public lands.”
I would vote any reduction necessary to
place farms within the reach of industrious
bona fide settlers or emigrants, regarding
the early occupation and cultivation of the
public domain as the richest public treas
ure ; hoping still to see an annual surplus
over and above expenses of administration
—as surveys, sales, &c.—carried to the
public treasury, to be appropriated, among
other national objects, to the improvement
of our great lakes and rivers, to the extent
of constitutional permission. It is my set
tled conviction, that within twenty years,
the commerce of the great lakes and wes
tern rivers wiJJ reach a magnitude far ex
ceeding, and ever thereafter taking the lead
of, that flowing to and from the Atlantic ;
and when our lines of communication with
the points now attained on the Pacific, are
once established and opened to the enter
prise of our people, there will hardly be
found a termof comparison. We shall ex
hibit the extraordinary spectacle, under
our free and glorious clutch
ing and controlling the commerce of Eu
rope with one hand, and the riches of
China with the other. I speak of riches ;
but the fulfilment of our high potiticid & so
cial destiny is the prominent and grand
consideration.
2d. “The veto power?”
This I regard as the tribunitial power, es
sentially democratic, popular and conserv
ative; placed by the constitution in the hands
of the Chief Magistrate, to represent, in his
person, the absolute sovereignty ofihe peo
ple; and it must be an extraordinary abuse
of which we have had no example, that
would induce me to vote any change or
alteration. I have supposed that the con
stitution only looked to its exercise in the
case of hasty or unconstitutional legislation
or (an insupposable case) fraudulent or
treasonable legislation.
3d. “The right of the people of the dif
ferent sections of the Union to carry their
property” [[of whatever kind or complex
ion] “to, and participate in, the territory
about to be acquired from Mexico,” [or ac
quired from any other power on this con
tinent,'] I cannot suppose to be seriously
questioned. When the acquired territory
shall be admitted into the sisterhood of
of States, it will be for the admitted States
to determine all thing relating to their own
social condition. Congress, in its recogni
tion of these views, will doubtless ever re
cur to the principles of that great land-mark
—the Missouri compromise—to guide its
decision.
I remain, my dear sir, your friend and
obedient servant,
W. J. WORTH.
Hon. F. W. Bowdon, M. C.,
W’ashmgton, D. C.
The following are the letters referred to
above:
Taccbaya, Mexico, March 12.
My Dear Sir:—Your friendly and obli
ging letter of the 3d ultimo reached me yes
terday.
I have never had a party tie, or associ
tion, in any partisan sense ; nor ever fail
ed, in social and familiar intercourse, on
proper occasions, freely and frankly to utter
such opinions as I may have entertained
on questions of general political interest to
my country. Asa soldier, I have held it
unbecoming to mingle in party strife, or
take part in local politics. God forbid that
we should ever, even seemingly, witness
a ui#on of the ballot-box and the cartridge
box.
I am now thirty-five years in a profes
sion affording few opportunities to master
acquirements necessary to civil station* I
believe myself to be a 1 expectable soldier,
and further make no pretensions; in that
quality my government and my country
men have generously rewarded me. The
country has from whom to choose illustri
ous and experienced statesmen from cither
| NUMBER 23.
of the great parties: Cass, Dallas, Bucha
nan, on the one side ; the brave and honest
Taylor or Clay on the other; and Calhoun
perhaps, between the two—all men with
large experience in the civil affairs and
civil policy of our government. Infinitely
better our victories, however brilliant, had
never been achieved, than that the public
mind should become distempered and viti
ated by mere military distinctions.
Os several letters received, kindred to
your own, I have not permitted myself to
reply to but one, and that only in courtesy
to the manifest sincerity of an honest (al
though mistaken) friend. In the same
spirit and regard, seeking no concealment
of my opinions, I send you a copy : confi
dential, as was the original, and remain,
respectfully, your friend,
W- J. WORTH.
Hon. Elisha English, of In,,
Washington, D. C.
City of Mkxico, Jan. 10,-1818.
My Dear Sir—ln acknowledging your
favor of November 12th, it is duo to candor
to say that I am not aware of ever having
entertained a desire for preferment out of
my own profession, probably because of
conscious want of qualification, and distaste
for the means whereby preferment is usu
ally attained.
The subjects you pay me the compli
ment to present, are of high national con
cern and interest, in respect to which my
humble opinions are equally unimportant
and uninfluential; and it is only in courtesy
to a generous, although unknown friend,
that, with these remarks, I proceed to an
swer your interrogatories, viz:
Ist. “What are your views of the
Mexican war, and do you believe it an un
just one?”
War, ever to be deplored, should be a
voided so long as may be consistent with
national honor and national rights. In my
opinion, there has been no war in our his
tory, (always excepting that for indepen
dence, which stands out, and will through
all time, a case by itself,) nor in that of any
other people, commenced under greater
provocation, or waged with higher human
ity. Regarding, then, this war as eminent
ly just, I sincerely hope it may be the
pleasure of government, sustained by the
people, to prosecute it with vigor, until
ample satisfaction for indignities, and full
indemnity for sacrifices, be received.
2d. “Are you in favor of, or opposed to,
the chartering a United States Bank ?”
When the question was agitated ns a
measure of financial and political expedi
ency, I looked no further into the subject
than to keep myself informed generally on
matters of public interest. During its
struggles for a recharter, and when writh
ing and reeling under the blows of the pa
triotic President Jackson, my judgment
was instructed such an institution,
however wisely restricted or cautiously
guarded, must, of necessity, have within
itself elements dangerous to public and
private virtue, if not to the appropriate
and healthful action of government. So
the people seem to have regarded and de
cided the question, and it is difficult to
conceive a state of affairs to tempt any
sane, or to excuse any honest man, in the
effort “to give it vitality again.”
3d. “Are you in favor of the present in
dependent treasury ?”
Decidedly in favor of the principle;—
of its working in respect to economy and
convenience, in receipt and disbursement of
the public moneys, uninformed ;—although
under the impression that, in those res
pects, (its machinery,) modifications may
be desirable ; and if so, that the wisdom of
Congress will apply the remedy.
4th. “Do you favor, or oppose, the dis
tribution of the proceeds of the sales of the
public lands among the different States ?”
Were I in a position to vote, or exercise
personal influence, oppose it to the utter
most. However honestly designed, it is
difficult to imagine a scheme fraught with
greater evil, or more ingeniously devised
to corrupt individuals and masses—States
and Congress. Besides, will not such a
disposition of the proceeds operate a fraud
ulent stewardship of the great trust confided
to government for the general good ?
sth. “Are, you in favor, of or opposed
to, the tariff of 1846 ?”
Absence, since the passage of that act,
has deprived me of the opportunity of in
forming myself, by observation, or by com
munion with others, as to its practical oper
ation. Asa general principle of economy,
applicable to our institutions and circum
stances, I should hope to see a tariff for
revenue, critically adjusted to the various
interests and rights of every part of the
country, limited strictly to the means ne
cessary to an economical administration of
the affairs of the country, including every
proper and constitutional internal improve
ment—protection regarded as purely inci
dental—trusting, nevertheless, to see the
day, and that not remote when trade will
be free and unfettered ; when no interest
of our country will need, or desire, aught
of protection against foreign competition.
I have thus, my dear sir, in a plain way,
frankly answered your questions, truthful
ly, if not satisfactorily.
Cordially reciprocating your kind ex
pressions of personal regard, believe me,
very rerpectfully 4 your ob’t serv’t.
W. J. WORTH.
Joseph Nill, Esq.,Chambersburg, Penn
sylvania.
The Seed Time of Life. —No compar
ison is more beautiful, or indeed can be,
when viewed in a proper light, than that
between youth and a seed. A seed con
tains within it all the rudiments of the
parts of a future plant. After it has been
deposited a short time in the earth, it ab
sorbs a quantity of moisture, and by a
process carried on by nature, the seed be
gins to sw r ell, and at last bursts its scaly
covering, beneath which lie concealed
beauties that remain forever unknown ex
cept to those of refined and investigating
minds. It continues to grow and expand
and to unfold itself to the light of the world,
until it has arrived at the age of maturi
ty-
Thus it is with early ’infancy. The
body is imperfect and the mind filled up
as it where, and lies concealed beneath
the green of an uncultivated nature. How
careful, then, should this silken curtain,
this valuable treasure, be unfolded. It
should be watched with strict and careful
attention: and, like a tender vine, it needs
some kind and parental hand to direct its
shooting branches upon what next to leafrn
for support.
In early childhood our minds are plia
ble—easily impressed—and we are daily
imbibing new ideas and easily writing
them upon the table memory. How im
portant it is, then, that we store our minds
with such knowledge as wilbnot only give
us pleasure white the bright hopes of
youth last, but with such as will afford us
joy and increase our happiness as time
wears awray and life assumes a more gave
aspect.— [Amaranth.
[From the Washington Union.]
THE WHIGS AND THCIR IiETTI^H
vuvuu.
The W higs are constantly twitting us
with the division in our political family.
Will they excuse us for looking behind!
their curtain, and spying some of the diffi
culties which they, have to encounter at
home?
For some time past, tha whig leaders
have been zealously engaged in doing the
1 work of their opponents, and preparing
their own disunion and defeat. Mr. Clay’s
chance to be President was but slim when
he started from Ashland} and his piUrim
age homeward, and his famous letter “To
the Public.” which was the result offi, cer
tainly did not improve his position before
the country, while it manifestly put his.
friends upon their honor net to abandon
his claims in favor of any other man, Just
before, Judge, McLean, whose pcsitionjup
on the bench shielded him from the neces
sity of offending any portion of his country
men, and who doubtless would have been
a strong candidate in some sections
chose seriously to damage his prospects,
by putting forth, in relation to the war, a
letter which has nothing to redeem or ex
cuse it in the eye of any patriotic Ameri
can. In the same way, General Scott,
whose brilliant battles had doubtless dona
much towards rendering him available,
saw fit, in an evil hour, to lay his lance in
rest, and run a tilt against the Secretary of
War} and the whigs know better and more .
bitterly than we can tell them, how fatal
he found the result of the encounter to be.
Meantime, Gen. Taylor had for some
months been writing—about once a week,
at least—in reply to a whole series of let
ters, both spurious, and genuine. First,
he needlessly wrote himself out of favor
with the democratic party. Then,because
he knew the whig leaders looked upon him
with an evil eye, he protested his “Indepen-,
dence” of all parties, until even the whigs
concluded that they could make nothing
of him, and must give him up. Thereup
on Mr. Clay became the ascendent of the
hour; and how the General’s pen—or
the pen of his friends for him—has lately
bestirred itself, in view of this feet, our rea
ders already know.
Now, such a series of letters as this is
enough to ruin the political prospects of
any party. One and all, they are on their
face mere bids for the presidency. Uncal
led for by any special emergency or pro
minent question in public affairs, they tend
directly—one and all of them—to confirm
the prepossessions and exasperate the hos
tility of the different whig cliques. In
particular, Mr. Clay’s last letter, and the
two last of Gen Taylor, have made a deci
sive rupture in the whig ranks almost ine
vitable. Mr. Chy will not withdraw his
claims from the convention. Gen. Taylor
will urge his claims upon the convention,
while distinctly refusing to abide by that
decision if it snail be against him. Mr.
Clay is not the man to submit to such treat
ment at the hands of one whom it is clear
enough that he and his friends regard as a
supicious interloper in the whig ranks, un
less we greatly deceive ourselves in all
our inferences from Mr. Clay’s past histo
ry. General Taylor, whether nominated
or not nominated by the whig convent: n,
when going before that body under the dic
tatorial terms laid down in his letters, will
not be President of the United States if
Mr. Clay and his friends can prevent his
election. But they can doa great deal more
than prevent it. Gen. Taylor has no chance
at all, even if he be nominated, to be elec
ted without the most cordial and unanim
ous and zealous aid of all Clay men. To
that aid he has forfeited every pretence of
claim by his open refusal to abide by the
decision of the convention. It would not
surprise us to hear at any day another
roar of the Lion at Ashland on this very
point.
But it is not against the Clay men atone
that General Taylor has to contend, not
only for nomination, but for his election if
he shall be nominated. There is a feud
between the friends of General Taylor and
General Scott, growing out of the events of
the Avar. We will not specify the parti
culars. Their results may be seen here
after.
And thereafter are other elements in the
case not less impoit int. Judge McLean
is the favorite candidate of a large section
of the whigs in his own region of the coun
try, and elsewhere. He is their candidate
upon view’s and principles which render
the nomination of General Taylor little less,
in their judgement, than a direct insult |o
him. In view of this, well informed and
zealous Taylor men do not hesitate to con
cede that Ohio is lost to the W'higs if Gen.
Taylor be the whig condidate. To make
up this loss, they claim that they shall car
ry for him Pennsylvania and Virginia.
Surely in this they forget that Virginia has
just given largely-increased democratic
majorities, and that she never has yet fail
ed to cast her vote for the democratic can
didate as President. Surely they forget, al
so, that Pennsylvania stands at this mo
ment against them, with a solid democrat
ic majority of twenty’ thousaed; and that
even with the pressure of all the hard times
upon her, she gave Gen. Harrison in 1940
a majority of only some two hundred and
fifty| votes. With Ohio, Pennsylvania,
and Virginia lest to General Taylor, hit
election, is, we need not say, an utter and
manifest impossibility.
But there is another fact, of perhaps
geater importance than any of these to
which we have alluded. We mean Gen.
Taylor’s confessed and admitted political
incapacity for the presidency. There
should be no mincing of this matter at this,
time, because every candidate must expect
his qualifications to be canvassed; and be
cause, morever, this very’ topic has been
prominent in Gen. Taylor’s own letters, ever
since, in an evil hour for his fame, he began
to aspire to civil office, and to write letters
to obtian it. The people of this country
are not yet ready to choose for their Chief
Magistrate a soldier who avows that h
knows nothing about political duties and
questions, and has therefore determined to
leave them all in the hands of Congress.
Least of all can such a man unite the full *
vote of a party which styles itself Conser
vative, which’ has always professed to look
with deep-rooted distrust upon military
chieftaius, and which has rallied almost as
one man in especial opposition to the war
in which Gen. Taylor has won all his lau*
els. Unless all the ordinary calculations
upon men’s actions are deceitful—unless
we may look in the next canvass for an ab
solute reversal of all the motives which
usually control the action of parties—the
whigs have difficulties to encounter in their
own party as great, nay greater, than any
which they are pleased to ascribe to us.
The Revenue. —The revenue from cus
toms, commencing on July 1, 1847, ending
the first week in May, amounts already
to more than $29,000,000, and will, during
the remaining seven weeks of the fiscal
year, certainly’ exceed thirty-two millions,
Mr. Walker estimated the revenue, on
the safe side, at $31,000,000; the actual
revenue, therefore, exceeds the estimates
by one million of dollars. What would
have been the revenue from customs had
the political and financial condition of Eu
rope remained undisturbed, it is and >w dif
ficult to say; but it is highly probable
that, in /Ao/ case, the revenue would have
reached the sura of $30,000,000. Mr,
Walker’s estimate and Jiis. theory of the
tariff are thus triumphantly tindicithd bj ‘
facts. —[ Baltimore Sun. ~~
Toe Rial Lams. —The real lamp of Aladdin is
that on the merchant’s deek. AH the genu, while,
olive, or black, who people the a'rnosphereci earth,
it put* in motion, to the eery ahtipoiW ft
palaces in the wilderness end cities ie the forest,
and collects every eplendortmd refinement of to. ■
ury from the finger of >qbwm?Bt