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PROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
In the speculations which, in our voca
tion, we occasionally offer to our readers,
tve aifn not to seduce their judgment by
the devious arts of sophistry, nor to mis
lead them, by wrong guidance, from the
paths of truth. Still less is it our prac
tice, by calumnious persecution of our op
ponents, and artful working upon suspi
cious tempers, to wake bad passions into
Rction, and encourage unrelenting and vin
dictive hostilities, for mere opinion’s sake
amongst the People. The same intoler
ant Spirit, indeed, which in the present
day, subjects individuals to the effects of
hate and uncharitaldenesss, in the shape
nf reproach and contumely, because of a
difference of opinion as to the fitness of two
individuals for civil rule, would, in time
past, have remorselessly consigned:its vic
tims to the faggot or tin scaffold. Nay,
if the present excitement is urged to
greater height, by those who add to it dai
ly fuel, we know not what time to come
may not bring forth, even in this our
day. But, to whatever excess party vi
olence may be carried, no part of the
blame therefore shall lie at our door. We
Write not for the gratification of the blind
pa.rizan on the one side, or the furious
tealot on the other. It will bo our tri
umph, if we succeed in enlisting the at
tention of those who belong to neither
class; who love llte'r country for their
country’s sake ; who love liberty not
merely as a state of independence of for
eign rule, but as the barrier against en
croachment upon personal rights at home;
. who honor and respect the Constitution,
because it is the guarantee of that liberty,
as well as of national independence ; and
who honestly seek in tlmir selection of
persons to fill the high public "ffires with
in their gift, for character and talents a-
dapted to the nature of the duties to be
discharged. A talented European nov
elist descsibes the race of man as appa
rently created but “ to Iovp, to bate, to
slander, and to slay.” We am not of
that morose or misanthrope school in
which such philosophy is taught. We be
lieve that, with exceptions so rare its to
be notorious when they occur, the nature
of man is kind and charitable. We (rust
that we have, >n the circle of our readers,
a large proportion who love their species ;
who hate nothing but vice, and even that
impersonally ; who abhoV slander as much
ns they do slaving ; and who believe that
a man may be honest, though he does not
subscribe to tite infallibility of their creed
whatever that creed may be.
Under such impressions, and with such
leelmgs, we proceed to offer a lew curso
ry observations on the political incident
which tmve occurred since we last held
converse, at any length, with our readers.
r I he Session of Congress which has
occupied the last half year, and has just
closed, will be marked on the page of
history as being the most libeiai in its re
sults that has yet occurred in our Go
vernment. Without at present entering
into particulars, it is enough for our pur
pose herp to say, that the necessary sup
plies were grained with unwonted liberal
ity ; that a gracious provision has been
made for the comfort of the venerable
Survivors of the Revolution—for the pay
ment of a debt, if so considered, which has
been hitherto withheld by every succes
sive Congress; that the most gener us
appropria ' ns have been made of public
money atui property for the purposes of
Internal Improvement, the magnitude and
probable c ^sequences of w hich the mind
is scarcely capable of grasping, but which,
in our estimate of them, will add more to
the prosperity and wealth ol our country,
than any ten years ol its previous legisla
tion.
IIow these great results have been
brought about, is a matter of curious in
quiry.
The choice of Speaker of the House, of
Representatives determined the strength
ofparties as to men, in that body, but af
forded no indication whatever of their
strength as to prin iples, any more than
the anomalous organization of party in the
Senate at the last session, (and continued
at the present) indicated a political divis
ion, in the proper sense of that term—that
is, a division founded upon principle.-*-
Tite majority for Mr. Stevenson, the
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
as testified by occasional questions of a
party complexion, at subsequent periods
of the session, was the true test of the
strength of the supporters of General
-Jackson in the House of Representatives.
But it was a test of nothing else. The
election of their Speaker threw the whole
power of the House into the hands of the
party, through the medium of their com
mittees in the first instance, and after
wards by means of their dead majority in
the House. Fortunately it happened, that
the Speaker, complimenting one political
iriend by an honorary appointment to the
head of the Finance Conmittee, placed
next to him, on that Committee, another
political friend, who became its Chair
man by the resignation of the first mention
ed member, and whose industrious habits
and expanded way of thinking well fitted
nim for the station he was called to occu
py," A thorough and decided opponent
ol the present Administration, at times
unsparing id his denunciations of it, this
gCL.lenian yet disdained to wreak on the
institutions or the policy of the
the petty vengeance of
number of the party followed his lead to
prevent the wheels of the Government
from being stopped by withholding the
appropriations. It was not his fault that
all th'e annual appropriations were uot
promptly, as well as willingly, made.—
Fhe interposition of party questions, con
suming, unprofitably, the time of the
House, and the way-wardness of the
heads of some other committoes, opposing
the interests it was their supposed duty to
protect,'delayed to a late day the passage
of the annual appropriation bills: but still
they woe passed, (thanks to Mr. M’Duf-
fie| the efficient Chairman referred to)
and, to guard against Uie evils arising from
the recurrence ofsipiilar delays now aud
country
heretofore experienced, bills were intru-
ced by the same gentleman, 'and passed
into laws, making appropriation to defray
the most urgent ordinary expenses of the
I Government lor the first quarter of the
'next year—for which again that gentle-
I man is entitled to. credit; which we- do
■ not the less cheerfully award to him
| that he and we are, in our view, as to the
question concerning public men, wide as
the poles asunder.
With a decided majority in opposition
to thf President and his Cabinet in both
Houses of Conffress, and presiding officers
and committees in both Houses, devoted,
hand and heart, to the cause of General
Jackson, it is yet true, of all the other
acts of the late Session, that there is not
a single one which can be called a Jackson
measure; not one which did not either
necessarily flow from preceding measures
of this Administration, or chime in with
full harmony among them.
In the results of this session, therefore,
we find a full and corapleto exoneration
of this much reviled and much injurod
Administration from all the imputations
which have been liberally heaped upon
it bv its enemies, and particularly by
those who belong to the school of which
the Richmond Enquirer is the well known
oigan. The opponents of this Adminis
tration, when in power, fall in with all its
measures, and particularly with the poli
cy of Internal Improvements, which has
been laid at its door as its unpardonable
transgression. They not only keep even
pace with the Administration in this poli-
cv, but urge it on at a rate which a due
regard to the reduction of the public debt
would hardly justify. At this tite public
creditor will smile, for he is the only cre
ditor whose countenance irradiates with
joy at the prospect of payment being de
ferred; and, if lie were to be told that
tho Government debt will not be paid off
until the day of final judgment, lie would
hug his informant to his heart as the mes
senger of joy. Aud far be it from us to
take exception to these measures. We
rejoice in them. We have always*advo
cated this policy : we became the support
ers of this Administration as soon as we
discovered that Mr Adams was disposed
to follow tn the steps ol his predecessors,
recommending and practising the cultiva
tion of tho rich resources of .he country,
the improvement of its great high-ways
and channels, the diffusion of knowledge
and the promotion of the means of acqui
ring it. And of those of our readers who
concur with us in favoring this policy, we
ask what they have to hope for better
ft om a change of this Administration?—
Have they not rather to look for worse ?
Do we not all know that, by a sudden
revolution of opinion, some of the leading
supporters of Gen. JacksoxN (formerly
hi.h-banded latitudinarian expounders
of the Constitution,) have become the ad
vocates of rigid construction—just as if to
immortalize themselves for inconsistency',
with strict construction in their mouths,
supporting for the Presidency one, w ho,
according to Mr Jefferson and the
Richmond Enquirer, knows no law but
his own will! We are not afraid, howe
ver, of the party for strict construction
ever getting the upper hand. Revolu
tions never go backwards. The policy
of this Government is established, and it
is approved by the people ; end no States
man—no, nor any Soldier either, can ev
er stop it. But what is to be gained by a
change? This is what we ask of those
who coincide with us in our views of the
powers conferred by the Constitution of
the General Government. And of those
who do not coincide with us in opinion in
this particular, and who are opposed to
this Administration, because of its known
disposition to employ the public revenue
in useful and beneficial public works
from them we ask, what benefit do they
expect to derive from a change in the
dministrruion? Has not tho experi
ment been made ? Has not the Opposi
tion had a majority in both Houses of
Congress ? And what has been the re
sult?! Have they turned their backs on
the. worfc’of Internal Improvement? On
the contrary, have they not assisted to
make most magnificent appropriations for
objects of this description? By a very
conspicuous Member of the Senate, be
longing to that party, a single measure
has been suggested of this nature, (the
Breakwater at the mouth of tite Mississip
pi) which, we verily believe, it would cost
as much as the whole amount of the na
tional debt to execute, if it could be exe
cuted at any cost. What then is to be
gained to the advocates of strict construc
tion, by a change of men in office ?—
What is to Jie hoped by either party
on this great question by a change of men,
when such rotation in office will either
produce no change at all, or such a change
as no man living can venture to predict
the nature or foreseethe end of? And,
in regard to the economy of public money,
a disregard of w hich has been most un
justly charged upon the present Adminis
tration, what has any party to gain by a
change ? The party has had the abso
lute controlling power in both Houses du
ring the last session ; and what has been
the result? Never, in a state of peace,
since the beginning of this Government,
the amount of appropriations so far
Jects of these appropriations,- we fancy
Mr. Secretary Rush must have stood a-
ghast at the amount of them, as they came
on in successive drafts upon his surplus
fund, which fund, we should be apt to
think, will, before the end of the year,
under the operation of these measures, be
very hard to find. And as for reduction
of the expenditures, what retrenchment
has been effected by this opposition ma
jority, with ample pow’er in their hands ?
Has there been any thing like serious re
trenchment, or serious attempt at it ?—
Yes, there has: they have retrenched
the title-pages from the public documents,
and they threatened very hard to retrench
the printing for Congress—no, we beg
pardon—for the House of Representatives.
And here ended the retrenchment: and
here we have an illustration of the differ
ence between profession and practice.
There is one other general observation,
which we will make, before we proceed
to a reference, in detail, to the measures
of the late Session, and it will consist in
directing the attention of our readers to
a single fact, as connected with other
facts already well known to the Public.
It is well known, for example, that the
opposition to this Administration has been
rallied and sustained, in Virginia, in
North and South Carolina, and Georgia
especially, oO* the ground of hostility to
the exercise by the General Government
of implied powers, such as the power of
making toads'and canals, the power of
promoting and encouraging education,
manufactures, &c. This is the ground
upon which the Richmond Enquirer jus
tifies tho somerset which it has thrown
from one side of the fence to the other,
n which the majority of its admirers have
followed its example. Well: this party,
by adroit drilling and maneuvering by—
whom, every body knows without our
naming them—has swelled to a majority
in the Senate, of three or four votes, and
in the House of Representatives, of ten
or twelve votes—a result which, when as
certained, produced a vast jubilation in
the circle at Richmond. The worthy
editors of the Enquirer huzza’d for the
triumph of principle, and the putting
down of all pernicious schemes for ad
vancing the great interests of the country.
Now let us see what this triumph of the
Enquirer has turned out to be. Why,
with a majority of three or four in the
Senate favourable to Gen. Jackson,
there lias been disclosed a majority often
or twelve in that body against the princi
ples on which be is supported : and, in
the other branch, with a Jackson majori
ty of ten or twelve, there has been ex
hibited a majority for the principles of
the present Administra ion of more than
forty votes ! Huzza, say we, for the tri
umph of principle i Whv does not the
Enquirer join us? Huzza! Huzza!—
Huzza ! Principle forever!
Executive limited. In this discretion t—
Would it not have the right to go to the
ranks of the citizen, and choose a man
who has never drawn a sword, as Com
mander in Chief of the Army? The
ground of his resistance of Macomb’s su
periority we understand to be, that both
hold the commission of Majoi General—
and that as these commissions are pre
cisely the same in form, the superiority
must be determined by their relative seni
ority. But is it not clear, that Gen. Ma
comb was appointed by the President
and Senate, in the exercise of their con
stitutional power, as Commander in
Chief of the United States? Can it be
pretended that they have not this power,
or that its exercise in this case ought to
be nullified by the fact, that another
person has a commission of Major Gene
ral in the same words, and of superior
antiquity? This is mere sophistry.
“ We lament Gen. Scott’s determina
tion from an admiration of the man, and
of his military and general talents, which
in truth, we believe superior to those of
any other in the Army—considerations
which will render his resignation a mat
ter of regret to all who wish well to the
j country. We lament it too, because we
believe it lias been taken in haste, and too
much influenced by the officious meddling
of persons, who have masked enmity to
the Administration with the specious garb
of friendship and concern for his interest
and honour. But in matters of feeling
like this, every man is the best judge in
bis own case.”
THE SEAT OF WAR.
As it is certain that war has been un
dertaken by Russia against the Turks, it
may not be uninteresting to give some lit-
tie detail concerning the countries in
which it will be canied on, and of the
forces likely to be engaged in it. The
Russian army commanded by Count Wit-
genstern, is said to amount to about 150,-
000 men of all arms—well disciplined,
well provided, and burning for the onset,
We find no account in our Loudon papers
of the precise situation occupied by this
army : nor does the proclamation of the
commander-in-chief, which we publish
this evening, relieve our difficulty—for it
is merely dated from head-quarters, with
out stating where those ate. We pre
sume, however, that they are quartered
in Poland, in the vicinity of the Prutb,
which constitutes the north western boun
dary of Moldavia. The distance from
this position to Constantinople, is about
500 miles. The Pruth after separating
for a considerable space Moldavia from
Poland, makes a turn to the south, and
continues a southerly course till it falls in
to the Danube between Galatz and Jsma-
el—and divides the principality of Mol
davia, in its length into two almost equal
parts. Both Wallachia and Moldavia ara
without Turkish garrisons, being govern
ed by their own Hospodars, w ho are tri
butaries of the Porte. Wallachia is sep
arated by the Danube from Bulgaria,
and wealth may be
as its ultimate source q ° a ^ r,cu har e
manufactures are only raboiSEj* ^
of this main spring. We •. res °lt
culture as every way subsidiaTv*^ 3?r ‘
to abundance, industry, comfort anTk °$
but to good morals, and ultimate ^
tp religion. We shall always ‘ y
sing, 14 Speed lhe plough.” iy S ? v
ways regard the farmer, sfiinn.J ^ a '-
employment, and tilling fai s 'to
belonging to the order of nobili’t,. rd ’ :j
us. We shall always wish him hm" 106 *
harvests, good beer, the modern, P fa :
cider, and if he will rear it himself
generous juice of the grape, butn e
the pernicious gladness of whiske . ° f
we shall invoke upon his labors t|,p
sing of God, and say to him » p " es *
within thy walls.” ’ e3fe k
from the constitutionalist
There are few persons who thin'. •
Death with indifference;—ti, e „ ‘ :
contemplate it with fee,-the
with an anxiety which would bid; •
come, but for an apprehension ,| mt
ture mav he quite as bad or worse th „ i
present state—and the brave with a £
osity not unmingled with dread ' I?"'
only to the devout Christian tha'dea
shipped entirely of gloom, and rise, “
on the vision as “ the gate ofeudless i ^
censure he might be willing to’ level at
t-iose who administer them, A sufficient
party, or the exceeded the estimates from the Treasu
ry, as at this session. If it had not been
for his lau&Me zeal in favor of the efi.
Tite Nashvile papers contain the Ad
dress of the Convention of friends the of
the Administration held in that city lately,
to nominate a Presidential Elector. We
transcribe the following as showing the
opinions of respectable neighbors and
personal acquaintance of General Jack-,
son, of his qualifications for the bigfi
trust claimed for him by his partizans.
“ Is be by nature, formed for tite dis
charge of duties requiting calm and delib
erate judgement, mature reflection, and
application ? Have his pursuits, his hab
its, and the whole tenor of Ins life, been
such as point the public eye to him as one
calculated and designed, by nature and
education, to administer the civil govern
ment of our country ? We answer, no !
” As well might we look to the cell of
the monastery or the halls o r a college, &
select from thence, one whose life has been
passed in scenes peculiar to those places,
to command our armies in times of peril,
as to select a mere military man with an
expectation of his presiding usefully or ju
diciously over the civil concerns of our
country. The science of government,
like every other science, is not tho study
of a week or a mouth, or a year. To ar
rive in it to any degree of eminence, re
quires industry, time, and talents.
'* One of the many evils to be appre
hended in placing at the helm of our na
tional affairs one unskilled in the concerns
of Government and nations, is, that he
must necessarily resort to the opinions and
judgment ot others, in whom he may con
fide ; and it is the lamentable and unques
tionable truth, that, in such resort the ob
truding sycophant, the pliant, suppliant
knave, who hover around the great man’s
skirts, and watches every word and ges
ture, by administering to those frailties of
human nature from which none are en
tirely exempt, will acquire an influence.,
and produce consequent results, which
even his own wiser, worthier friends would
deprecate. At the head of the Govern
ment, as well as the head of an ermv, en
ergy is no doubt a desirable quality', and
when properly directed, almost invariably
produces fortunate results. But if, jn a
militaiy capacity, it is essential that this
energy should be guided by wisdom, and
tempered by prudence, how much more
material is it in affairs of a purely civil na
ture ! That which in a military comman
der, would be deemed merely the energe
tic execution of measures resulting from
excessive zeal, though well designed,
would in the administration of our nation
al concerns, be considered depotism in its
most appalling shape.”
From the Olive Branch.
Extract of a Letter, to the Ediror, dated Waynes'
borough, (Ga.) June 2d. 1828.
Dear Sir? Anxious for lhe success of
the cause in which you are about to em
bark, and feeling it a duty to give every
encouragement in my power to so lauda
ble and patriotic an undertaking, I find
much pleasure in requesting that my name
may be placed on the list of your subscri
hers. There are thousands who but for
tiie fear of offending the leaders of a par
*y»( whose only hope of success is by an
appeal to prejudice, and the worst feel
ings of the human heart,) would gladlv
embrace the cause of the constitution, and
who at a signal from the masters, would
desert a cause which is supported more
by the tongues than by the hearts ofits
advocates. To effect this object as far as
circumstances will permit it to be done,
is a task in which every lover of his coun
try, who is not blinded and led astray by
prejudice, interest, or passion, will feel ..
pttde and duty to engage. And altlio
the time is short in which the dissemina
tion of correct principles, and conversa
tion to them is to be made, yet we are not
altogether without hope oven in our own
State ;—and even if we fail, defeat will
be honorable, as success would be bril
liant and glorious. Let us but do our
duty, a!t,d our example will shine brighter
for the very darkness by which it may be
surrounded. In that event our motto
will be—, PatritB infclici fidelis." Faith*
fofio my unhappy country.
In the the following article, Mr. Noah, ofthe
New-York Enquirer, appears to be throwing oij
upon the agitated waters of opposition :
The 'Tariff.—Submission to the will
of the majority is a leading feature in all
good governments; it is, besides, a just
aud honest maxim to pursue in all govern
ments which boast of being free—with
out it, we should fall into anarchy and
confusion. We regret, therefore, to read
in the Georgia Southron, many warm, if
not intemperate remarks, on the tariff,
with scriptural quotations, indicating a
wish to separate. This is wrong. The
operation of the tariff will not produce
the frightful effects which our Southern
brethren anticipate. They submitted in
the very best spirit of patriotism, to the
privations and suffering of the late war;
and if they are not disposed to encourage
tho manufactures of the east, it will lead
to the resolution of manufacturing for
themselves, which they can do, having ma
terials and men. The tariff, as ft has
passed, does not appear to give satisfac
tion to any side, but it must be ascribed
to the state of the times, and tt> the de
plorable condition to which political in
trigues have brought the country; but
sooner or later, a full protection to our
manufactures must have taken place, not to
the aristocracy, who employ several hun
dred laborers, and who are most clamo
rous for protecting duties—but, to the
yeomanry of the country, the domestic
manufacturer, the farmer and his family.
Let us, therefore, cheerfully submit to its
operations, and see what the effect mav
be, and by no means indulge in any
warmth of expression, threatening a dis
solution of the Union. Such unhallowed
views, should be confined to Hartford
conventions and Essex juntas.
where properly the Turkish Empire be- To most people however, a
gins, and where the first Turkish forces
will probably be met. The Russian ar
my will traverse the two principalities
without opposition in some 15 days, which
will bring them to the Danube.
This river will be crossed, it is suppos
ed between Horskovia and Ruschuck,
(both fortified places, which will, if the
object be to proceed with all haste to
Constantinople, be masked-—for the Rus
sians have learned by experience not to
lose time in laying siege to Turkish for
tresses)—and the march be pushed forward
to Shiafuia, the position that commands
the passes of Mount Haemus, and where
the Turkish force, amounting by compu
tation to eighty thousand men, independ
ently of thirty thousand scattered along
the fortresses, on the banks of the Dan
ube, are concentrated. Here then must be
the battle. The invaders with their left
resting on the Gulf of Varna, accessible
to their fleetfrom Sevestopol, in the Cri
mea, distant about three hundred miles-—
and therefore assured of supplies and suc
cour of all sort, will fight with every ad
vantage. The Turks, with the convic
tion that their position is tho key to the
passes in the mountains, which once carri
ed, opens the way to the Capital, and
with the advantage of intimate knowledge
of these passes, will, if animated by any
thiug like the pristine zeal of the Mahom
etans, and directed by even a moderate
degree of skill in the art of war, be ena
bled to make a desperate defence, We
do not believe however, that it can avail
agaiust the superior number and discipline
of the Russians. This one battle, will
probably decide the campaign. Either
the Grand Seignor, on learning his defeat
will agree to terms of unconditional sub
mission, or animated by despair, defend
his capital to the last, and either fall with
his throne, or paas over into Asia, and
thence renew the war. Our own belief is
that at the moment we are writing these
remarks, the Russian standard is floating
from the Seven Towers, and that the
Northern Autocrat, like another Colossus,
bestrides Europe from the Gulf of Fin-
and to the Sea of Marmora.
N. Y. American.
who feel that “ the waters of j„
j cold to the foot of the
The Editors ofthe Richmond Whig, in some re
marks upf-n the recent step taken by Major Gen
eral Scott, say—
“Wc are persuaded that the real
friends of Gen. Scott, will much regret
his course—both as it will almost neces
sarily eventuate in his quitting the service
and because it seems to have originated in
passvn. His demand for the arrest and
trial of Gen. Macomb, is neither more
nor less, than a denial of the constitu
tional power of the President and Senate
to appoint a Major General to command
the Army of the United States. Is the
Nashvile, 3d May, 1828.
Hon. H. Clay.
Dear Sir : In the Address ofthe Cen
tral Committee at Washington, I see that
the Hon. Thomas P. Moore has assailed
you in a certificate, with all the virulance
of a violent partisan. Mr. Moore seems
to have forgotten his declarations when
last in this place, the fall or summer of
the year before the last election for Pres
ident. He then publicly declared in my
presencethat he considered the State of
Tennessee disgr*ced, by bringing out
Andrew Jackson, whom he looked upon
as totally unfit for the station ; inquired
of me if 1 thought his ears would be safe
in Nashvile, for making those declara
tions. He was then your strong friend,
and regarded Gen. Jackson’s nomina
tion as intended to injure your prospects
in the West. This declaration was made
by Mr. Moore in the presence of many
gentlemen of this place, who have a per
fect recollection of it.
You can make what use you please of
this information. With high respect,
your friend, BOYD McNAIRY,
If one half the zeal, energy, and ex
pense, that blots so many gazettes with
low and course abuse, setting the commu
nity by the ears, for the purpose of gain,
and the paltry purposes of a few dema
gogues aud office-seekers, were bestowed
upon the advancement of agriculture; if
the people were half as ambitious to im
prove and beautify their fields, as they
are to settle the nation, and half as angry
with thistles, thorns, and poor fences as
they are with their political opponents,
who probably wish just as well to the
country as themselves ;—we should have
more productive fields, less complaints of
poverty, more ability to be charitable
and magnificient, and abundantly more
good feeling. The son ploughs as the
father did before him ; and the great mass
of farmers are stationary in theory, as they
are in practice. Nine in ten of them be
lieve, at this moment, that book-farming
is mere useless, visionary dreaming of
men that know nothing about practical ag
riculture.
, We would tell them that England is
the garden of Europe, simply because al
most every acre of the ground is cultiva
ted scientifically, and on principles, which
have been brought to the test of the most
rigid and exact experiment. We would
tell them that New England, whose soil
and climate they are accustomed to think,
is consigned by Providence to sterili
ty and inclemency, is the garden of the
United States, only because the industri
ous and calculating people do not throw
away their efforts in the exertion of mere
brute strength—but bring ttind and plan
and system, and experience* to bear upon
their naturally hard and thankless soil.—
On every side the passing traveller sees
verdure and grass and orchards, in the
small and frequent enclosures of imperish
able rock, aud remarks fertility won from
the opposition of the elements and nature.
After an abseDse of ten years, on our re
turn to that country, we were struck with
this proud and noble triumph, conspicu
ous over the whole region.
The real benefactors of mankind, as
St. Pierre so beautifully said, are those,
who cause two blades of wheat to mature
where only one did before. The fields—
the fields, ought to be the morning and
evening theme of all that love their coun
try. To fertilize, improve and beautify
his fielfi. oEght to be the prime temporal
ect of every owner of the substantial
All national agrandizement, power.
essjoy. 1 '
well those
fdnri are
passenger ” ...
those who are readv and willin'* “
tfce ” swelling tide” triumphant, £
belongs^ some regard for the poor t
ment of clay, and the spot in which it j su>
be deposited. Who would not rather
that his remains should be decently inierr-
ed in a quiet and rural place, than thn
they should be exposed to the birds of th#
air, or moulder in a shallow grave, where
the long grass and briars make a rude wil-
derness? We know that there have been
persons so philosophic as to care little a.
bout the the body after death, while oth.
ers devoted to the cause of science, have
voluntarily decreed their limbs and meat*
bers to the dissecting knife ;—but this is
not the general feeling-the decent shroud
the tears of friends, the funeral train-!
the solemn dirge—the grave surmounted
by a marble monument or enclosed bv the
“ feeble fence with whitened pale” are
images present to most minds, and to a
certain degree agreeable and conso.'otary.
II we are correct in our conjectures, is it
not proper in all communities some re
spect should be pai 1 to the location, order
and condition of places of burial? Sure
ly that in relation to which every one has
an interest and a feeling, should not be
neglected, and the less should it be so,
because let tho living bestow as much
care as they will upon the dead, it must
necessarily be little, in comparioson with
those engrossing attentions which word!;
objects are incessantly demanding.
A cemetry—planted with shrubs and
trees and protected by a substantial en-
closure; where the grass is kept down,
and thorns and thistles are not permitted
to grow—is not only a soothing object to
those who look forward to tl.e moment
when they shall become tenants of “the
silent city. ’ but to those also who some
times steal from the world to shod pious
fears over the tombs ofthe dear departed.
Who in visiting the last dwelling of a
friend would not feel a thrill of honor
at finding the bed of the serpent—who
would not experience an addition to his
sorrows, if the spot were'almost concealed
by the rank weeds growing over it?—
1 hese few and imperfect remarks are not
made tn the spirit of officiousn°ss—they
are simply intended to call the attention
ofthe city authorities to a subject deemed
worthy of their consideration. Wc pre
tend not to say what the condition of the
burial ground within the city actually is,
hut it appears to us that it is the duUj of
the Council for the reasons, at which wt
have hinted, to devise some genera! plat,
for their repair, ornament and improve
ment.
While on this subject we cannot for
bear to quote a few lines from “ The
Minstrel” which have some reference to
the matter in hand, and present to the im
agination a beautiful picture:—
‘‘Let vanity adorn the marble tomb
With trophies^hymns, and scutcheons of renown
la the deep dungeon of some gothic dame,
Where night and desolation ever frown.
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down
Where a green grassy turf is all i crave
With here and there a violet best row n,
Fast by a brook or fountain’s murmuring wave
And many an evening Sun shine sweetly on my grave
And thither let the village swain repair
And light of heart the village maiden gay
To deck with flowers her half dishevelled hair.
And celebrate the merry morn of May i
There let the sheperd’s pipe, the livelong day,
Fill all the grove with love’s betwitching wo,
And when mild evening comes in mantle gray*
Let not the blooming band make haste to go;
No ghost or spell my sad and last abode shall know*.
Nicety of the Mix.—At the Court of
Schoharie county last week a man avoided
the maintenance of a child with which he
was charged by a mistake of the prosecu
ting attorney, in describing it as a male,
when it proved on examination to be a
female. At the same court a lad, 14
years of age, was convicted of stealing 3
pocket book and $1,500 in notes and ob
ligations, when the jury brought in a ver
dict of petit larceny, (under $25 J on the
ground there was no proof before them
that the value of the papers were greater
than that sum. The court then sent them
out again and after an hour’s absence thei
returned with a declaration that they cooid
never agree upon any other verdict, 3Q d
were discharged, the prisoner reroatmnf
in custody.—Statesman.
A painter whose talents were but indit-
erent, turned physiciaD. He was asked
the reason of it. “ In painting,” said he,
” all the faults are exposed to the eye, but
in physic they are buried with the patten
and one gets more easily off.”