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From’thy ILJckerhockec for October.
BASTE rT LANDS,
k. TALE OF TE9TERDAT•
There are certain people in this world, who, lelthe wind
blow wheresoever it may, are forever grumbling. Great
ful for nothing, the more that is done for them the more is
expected. Half suppressed muttering*, if the bounty falls
in tho least short of their expectations, constitute their sta
ple of repayment. Of this class was Bob Mon is, a na
tive of Blusvillo, Rhode Island. Bob was a farmer by
trade, and could, if he had chosen, liavo amassed a good
property, by a steady application to business. But bis
ambition was of quite another sort. lie wanted money it
is true, but his aspiration was that, it might come sudden
ly and in r.ne bulk. This he was well assured would one
day happen; his mother before her death, having dreamed
three nights running, that her son Bob would before many
years, ride in his carriage, the possessor of an immense
fortune. To sum up all, Bob was idle anil envious to his
neighbors' prosperity, little thinking that it he had spent
the many years at his trade which he had lost in growling
and grumbling, under the portico of the tavern, he might
have been as well off as any around him, and have stood a
good chance of belonging to the honorable body of the
select tnen of Blneville.
Ono bitter cold night, in December 133-, Bob was seat
ed over a scanty fire in his miserable shanty, which a hu
mane landlord hjsd permitted him to occupy, rent free.—
The winds whistled through the wide cracks in the sides
of the diuirg mom, wherein the rich man was seated.
Tho lawyer and justice of the peace, came nea; flipping
One another up as they entered the bar-room in their haste
to pay their respect?. That evening Bob passed at Justice
Wormwood’s.
“ Have you any land for sale?” inquired the Justice, as
Bob summed up the profits that had accrued to him horn
one speculation.
“ 1 believe I have a few lots,*’ replied Mr. Fitzmorris,
slowly, at the same time drawing a map from his pocket:
“ Here is a plan of the city of Gullem, Maine. Lot hlty-
three is unchecked. Come, I’ll sell you that. right in t e
centre of the citv and just w'ueie the depot of the Grand
United North American Eastern Railroad and Forwarding
Company will he located.”
« J3ul is the road finished?” interrupted the justice.
“ Nc t quite,” answered Boh, with a slight cough ; w hen
I left, three months ago, there was a bill iu the lower house
of the Maine Legislature for the incorporation of the com
pany. Bv this time it has passed; and the track lias un
doubtedly been commenced and
But consider, my dear sir,” again interrupted the Justice,
“ the hill may have been defeated.”
“ No such thing!” replied Bob, fiercely. Is my word
good for nothing?”
“ Oh, no. no—pray go on sir.”
“ I will read you, continued Mr. Fitzmorris. producing
a newspapei, a short paragraph from the Gullom Repub
lican Banner and Independent l ower of Freedom.”
The city of (lullem is pleasantly situated upon the banks
of Lhe hovel, and its inmate set shivering with cold, his of Nowhere river, within a half a mile of the exten-
thoughts as usual reverting to his own hard fate.
“ Ugh! how cold it is!” muttered Bob, his teeth chat
tering; “ I shan't sleep a single wink to-night. T 1 is con
founded strange, that some folks are born with silver
spoons in their mouths, and others with chains and pad
locks on their ancles. There is farmer Hodgson, while
ploughing last week, to torn the frost out of the ground,
stumbled upon a coal mine. His fortune’s cut and dried
for him, without his saying boo! And here am I, as good
a man as my neighbors, no better off in the world at thirty
years of age, than I was when I started. Ugh! how very-
cold ! The cracks in this hut are so wide that the wind
plays “hide and seek” through 'em, and no danger of be
ing caught. Landlords are dreadful close with their
purses tiow-a-dnvs. To be sure, I don’t pay him any rent,
but then I think the least he could do would be to make
the house comfortable, and keep it in repair. It’s inter
If AL cold * If the old woman’s propliecy don’t turn up
soon, I sriRil stand but a little chance of being able to en
joy it. Money I must have; how can I get it? I’il go
out upon the highway and rob some one! No, I won't do
that neither; I might possibly swing for it, which would
make it bad. No, I’ll—”
Hero the cogitations of our hero wore interrupted by a
loud double rap against the boards which served the pur
pose of a door.
“ Knock away!” continued Bob, in the same muttering
tone, but without stiring an inch, “some traveller, I sup
pose, who wants a direction to the tavern. Let him find
it himself; I won’t be his drudge!”
Again and again was the knocking repeated, until the
“ outside barbarian,” despairing of obtaining admission by
peaceable means, gave the door, or rather the board, a fu
rious kick, which burst it in.
“ Hallo!” exclaimed the intruder, a tall stout man.
wrapped to the .hront in a shaggy Tnm-and-Jcrry, as his
eye rested upon Bob, sitting quilo composedly before tho
fire-place.
“Hallo, yourself!" replied Bob, scanning him with no
welcome glance.
“ Why the devil didn't you open the door?” said the
new cotnmer.
“ B«e»n»# I didn't choose to. What's your business
here?’’
“ Precious little to do with you,” was tho reply. “ Look
you here, I wan’t to sleep here to-night, and w illing tn pay
yon for it. If you like tt, well and good; if not, you can
do tho other thing; for over that step I don’t budge this
night. That’s all.”
So saying the stranger pushed Bob out of his sent, and
slipping into it himself, began very deliberately to poke
the dying embers of the fire. Bob instantly determined
to eject him by force from his premises, but a second look
at his size and muscle, convinced him that he might come
off second best in such an attempt. Swallowing his wrath,
therefore, he growled a reluctant welcome.
“ What’s your name 7” asked Bob.
“You may cell me Joe Jenkins, if you choose, if not,
you may let it alone,” was the reply.
“I say,” continued the stranger, after a pause of a few
minutes, during which time he had been vainly endeavor
ing to make a blaze from the scanty coals, “what have
you got to drink ?”
“ Plenty of water in the spring,” answered Morris.
“ Oh there is, is there!” said Jenkins, with ti e air of •
man to whom an important fact had just been disclosed.
’•There’s half a dollar; let’s have some b andy, ’mazing
sudden.”
Quick as thought Bob clutched the piece of silver, ns if
he feared his guest might change his mind ; and in an in-
cr> dibly short space of time, he marched into the bar
room of the Red Lion.
“ I want a quart of brandy,” said he, raising his head
as high r.s any in the room.
“ I dare say," replied Bon-face, with a wink to a croup
of such ioafevs as are always to be found in the bar room
of a tavern ; “ I never knew the day you didn’t. But who
is to pay for it, Bob ?”
“ I am, to be sure,” replied lie, planking the half dollar.
“ Hullo!” exclaimed Boniface, with the utmost surprise,
“ where do you raise that? I’m afraid you didn’t come
honestly by that money. Bob.”
“Oh ne, no!’’ said the landlord; your money is good,
Mr Morris. Who says I have turned a customer away !”
Bob pocketed his change without a word of comment,
and taking his jug, turned his face toward home. Great
was hi3 consternation, upon entering hi* hovel, at finding
his visitor upon the point of splitting up the only table he
owned in the world.
“ liallo here!” cried he, setting down the vessel, and
catching hold of one legof the table, w hat the deuce are you
about ?”
“ Don’t you see ?” answered Jenkins, wrenching off the
top; “ I’m breaking up this old table for fuel. You shall
have one fire at all events. Deuce take it man doyou sup
pose I am going to freeze ?”
Bob resolutely defended his property, but all in vain.
Piece after piece was broken off, and thrown on to the fire
in spite of all he could do; and with a tear in his eye he be
held the conflagration of his red pine table.
“ And now, my hoy:” said Jenkins, I’ll make your for
tune in Eastern Lands.”
Bob’s ears were wide open to receive any thing relating
to fortune; so, forgetting his grievances at once, he help
ed to empty the jug of brandy, and then sat hint down an
attentive listener to what fell from the lips of his guest.
Daylight found them in the same position ; lint a neighbor
happening to call in the hut a little after sun-tisc, found it
empty. Bob and his visitor were among the missing.
Numberless were the conjectures us to what had I eenmeof
the former; no one, of course knowing that he had nbscon
ded in company with any body. The landlord of the Red-
Lion reported, with additions and variations, the story
that Bob had entered his house the evening previous,
bought a quart of brandy and paid for it on the spot, a thing
which had never before happened within the memory
the oldest inhabitant; ar.d for which he could in no wise
account; and that he also declared, after getting it safely
i-.i his pos»ession, that as ho expected to leave the world
that night, he had determined his last hours should be mer
ry ones. As this was the most exaggerated story that was
manufactured at Bob’s expense, it was deemed barely pos
sible, and finally firmlv believed, by one and all. Satan
had unquestionably claimed his own, and transported the
victim to the infernal regions.
The best story, however, soon wears out: and it so
chanced with the tale of Bob’s abduction. At first it en
grossed the tea-table conversation of every gossip in the vil
lage. Then it was declared insipid by the more fashiona
ble circles. The middle classes followed the example, till
at last the lowest laborers forgot the subject, or only men
tioned it as a remembrance, of bv-gone days.
Precisely seven months after Bob’s disappearance, on a
hot July afternoon, a superb carriage rattled through the
turnpike gate of Bluevilie, and drove up to the sign of the
Red Lion. Presently there descended from it a man dres
sed in the extreme of fashion, who, after eyeing his es
tablishment with evident satisfaction, turned to the house
“ Here John, Tom, Dick! where are you all ?” shouted
the obsequious landlord.
“ Landlord !” said the stranger w ith a p*>mpous air.
“ Your humble servant, sir.”
“Have my horses rubbed down.”
“ Yes, Sir.”
“ Hay and oats, the best.”
“Yes, Sir.”
“ Order supper immediately."
“ Yes—Sir.”
“ And if it aiut done in the best manner, I’ll horse whip
you.
“Yes sir—yes sir;” and the landlord bustled away to
execute hi* orders. Supper was announced, and the stran
ger, entering an adjoining room, commenced devouring
the various dishes with hearty gusto.
“ What are you looking at, landlord 7” said the stranger,
pausing a moment to take breath.
“ At you. Sir.”
“ At'me ! Why. what do you see in me to attract your
attention ?"
“ Aint you—-you must he—Bob Morris?”
“ Robert Fitzmorris, Esquire, if you please. I am uo
longer the plain Bob Morris; call me so again and I’ll
throw you out of the window. I’ve made a fortune within
six months; three hundred thousand dollars, all in eastern
land. Hold on to your eyes landlord, or you’ll lose ’em,
they are half out of your head already. Keep still about
it, or hy the powers! if it goes beyond you, I’ll not answer
for yotir life!
Away went bonifitce, just as Bob de-ired, and told it to a
Neighbor, under a strict injunction of secrecy ; this neigh
bor told it to another, who, in hi* turn told it to a dozen
others ; and before sunset it was known in every house in
Bluevilie that Bob Morris bud returned an Esquire and as
rich as a Jew.
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Instantly, invitations upon pink, green and blue paper,
-ere left at the “ Red Lion,” addressed to Robert Fitz
morris, Esquire, requesting the honor of his company.
Crowds Hocked around the tavern; the Lion was n- ver
o patronized. Head above head appeared at the window
sive water works of the United States Calico Stamping,
and North American Cloth dung Company, which are
now under consideration, and which will he built in the
course of a few years. The proposed canal of the enter
prising Water Company, uniting the waters of the St.
Lawrence and the Atlantic Ocean, will pass directly across
the northern boundary line, near where the great turnpike
empties in. The city itself is beautifully laid out in
squares, and even now contains upwards of ten dwelling
houses, together with a meeting house in progress of erec
tion. A splendid hotel is also contemplated, to stand on
the vacant ground next the cottier lot, offered for sale by
the editor of this paper in another column of to-day’s im
pression. In short we venture to predict, that at no dis
tant day, Gullem will become the greatest commercial
mart of the east. The causes are obvious. The contem
plated canal, the proposed railroad, combined with the ex
tensive water works, cannot fail to render Gullem a city
of the greatest importance and first rank.”
“Now my dear sir,” said Bob, holding up the paper
“what think you of fifty-three? directly in the centre of
Washington Square, opposite the Eastern Moonshire
Bank, which will undoubtedly he built, as soon as the com
pany is formed. Now is your chance. I ask hut ii
hundred dollars; fifty-four sold for a thousand.”
“ Do you think I can sell it at profit?” inquired the jus
tice.
“Treble your monov in six weeks! W nit hut till tht
railroad, the ranal, and the water-works gi t going, am
the lot will sell for eight or ten hundred per cent, profit.
I’ll guarantee it.”
“ Will you give that in writing, if I buy the land V
“ I will,” replied Bob, unhesitatingly.
“ Then, sir, I’ll give you an answer to-morrow.”
Mr. Fitzmorris took up his hat, and wishing the justice
good night, repaired to the “ Rrd Lion,” where, b< fore he
a-rut to bed, he struck a bargain with the landlord for a
small strip of Gullem, at the rate of n hundred dollars an
acre, half to he paid cash on the nail, and the remainder in
blind and mortgage, at one and two years.
The next day Bluevilie was all alive w ith speculation in
eastern lands. A special town meeting was held, and it
was voted unanimously, to invest the surplus revenue of
the parish in Gullem house lots, through the agency of
Robert Fitzmorris, Esq. Justice Wormwood bought lot
fifty-three, and long before noon, every inch of ground,
house-lots, and meadow, and pasture land in 'he posses
sion of our boro, was all sold, the purchasers paying cash
upon the spot. So many deeds could not lie made out at
oree; the town crier therefore circulated notice, far and
near, that early on Monday morning, the deeds would be
ready for delivery. It was then Saturday. Things passed
off quietly until Sunday afternoon, when Bob suddenly or
dered his horses to be put before his carriage, and telling
Bonifice he was going only to drive a little distance in the
country, jumped into his carriage and then drove off, ap
parently for a ride. He kept on, until Bluevilie had long
been lost in the distance, when lie stopped bv thesido of a
thick dump of trees, and giving a low whistle, a man ap
peared, whom he immediately recognized as Mr. Joe Jen
kins.
“ Alia !” exclaimed Jenkins, “ how did you make out.”
“ First rate!” exclaimed Boh, producing several bags of
dollars.
The spoils were then divided, each receiving seven hun
dred dollars in specie.
“ And now,” said Jenkins, “ we must make ourselve;
scarce. Take up the re ins. Boh, and crank away. Bob
did sft, and a few hours sufficed to carry them far enough
from Bluevilie.
Great was the dismay depicted upon the countenances
of all concerned in Gullem lands’ when they gathered
about the “ Red Lion” on Monday morning, upon bcin
informed hy the landlord that Boh had a second time ab
sconded.
“ By Christopher,” exclaimed Justice Wormwood, " my
five hundred dollars and lot fifty three are gone with him.”
“ 1 he parish fund has gone to the devil !"’ growled the
parish clerk.
“ He didn’t pay his hoard, and has carried off my fifty
dollars!” echoed Boniface, of the “ Red Lvon.”
“ Well, we always predicted how he’d turn out!” said
a number, who hud been secretly envious, that they wore
not able to buy lots in Gullem.
This then, is the reason why Bluevilie never got ahead
This little circumstance put a damper upon. tlu> o«,t<-tprtsc
of her merchants. A speculator is an outlawed personage
there; and to this day, its inhabitant* cannot hear th
name of “ Eastern Lands,” without involuntarily gimshin
their toeth.
Tliev speak of the nhovo transaction but seldom, and in
variably as “ the dead shave!”
EXAMINATION IN GRAMMAR, AT A FASHIONABLE
SEMINARY FOR YOUNG LADIES.
Prnv Miss, what part of speech is the parson of the
parish ?
I suppose he is a conjunction. Madam. A conjunction.
Miss? What kind of a conjunction?
A copulative conjunction. Madam.
Why a copulative conjunction ?
Because he “ connect* like cases, and like moods and
tenses.”
How does he “connect like cases?”
He unites parties, both of whom are in love; which I
take to he, that both are in the some cose.
Very well. IIow does he connect “ like moods ?”
The parties to he united aie, I suppose, both in a mood
lie married, and are thus in “ like moods.”
But how does he connect “ like tenses ?’’
If both are desirous, at the time of the ceremony, of be
ing immediately united, as I presume, is always the case,
then both are. at. that time, in the present tense; and
thus he “ connects like tenses.”
Does such a copulative conjunction connect like genders ?
No, Madam, that is not according to the rules of Cupid’s
gra nintr. His rale is. that “ copulative conjunctions con
nect unlike genders, or rather contrary genders; that is,
masculine and feminine—never the neuter.”
Very well indeed, Miss, your examination does you
much er dit; you may pass. You are entitled to the de
gree of BacUeloriss of Arts. You shall have a husband
when you ate married.
Thank you, Madam.— Boston Post.
THB UNITED STATES OF MEXICO.
1 he following interesting details in iclution to a coun
try exciting at present more than usual interest, and in re
gard to which our knowledge is e.omparatively very imper
fect, we take from an art cle written for the Montgomery
Advertiser:
‘ The United States of Mexico, it will be perceived by
casting the eye upon a map. are principally embodied be
tween latitudes 15° and 40°. Nearly one-half ot their
margin is washed by the Pacific, and a great and valuable
portion hy the Gulf of Mexico.
This Republic embodies a population of about 9,000,000
of people, composed of the following divisions and amal
gamations:—-4,000,009 of pore Indians; those born of
Spanish and Indian ancestry, 2,50tf,000; Creole Spaniards,
1,500,000; those descended from Indians and Negroes,
with the mulattoes of black and white blood, and those ol
mixed origin, 1,000.009; Negroes, 100.000; Spaniards ol
European birth, 10,000 only ; the strangers from various
nations, 30,000. w
The Mexican Empire embodies upwards of two thou
sand million acres of public domain, independent ot the
Republic of Texas; one-half of this is good agricultural
land. This vast domain disposed of at the low rate of 50
cents per acre, woo'd produce a revenue almost incalcula
hie. The value of bullion produced in this Government,
for the year 1335, was estimated to amount to $24,000,-
000. It is said that the Spaniards, who were exiled after
the revolution, carried with them front this country the
enorvious sum of $140,000,000 ; the pious legacies created
for benevolent purposes are calculated at the amount of
twenty-five millions of dollars.
These crude statistics may present a general view of the
powers and resources of the Mexican Confederacy. The
early history of this country is two well known to require
any particular notice here:—Early in the sixteenth century,
when under the imp rial sway of Montezuma, this mighty
Empire was entered hv Fernando Cortes, u.ider whose
command it was eventually suhjttgared, and long remained
under the jurisdiction of the crown of Spain. Eventually,
however, it dissolved its allegiance to the mother country ;
and, on the 4th day of October, 1824, this people published
to the world, that their Congress had *‘ decreed and sanc
tioned” a “ Federal Constitution of the United Mexican
States.”
This Constitution is avowedly predicated upon the Fede
ral superstructure of our own country, and generally re
sembles it in form and substance, but in other respects dif
fering from it in some of the most important particulars.
The Republic of Mexico was organized with 13 States and
4 Territories. The supreme executive power is vested in
a President, elected for the term of four years, thro’ the
medium of the State Legislatures, each choosing two elec
tors for that purpose. In case of a tic, the House of Depu
ties elect the President as in the North American Confede
racy previous to the amendment of its Constitution. The
Vice-President is chosen as the President. The President
is eligiblu but four years out of eight.
The Legislative power of the nation resides in a Con
gress composed of a Senate and House of Deputies. The
Senate is constituted of two Senators from each State,
chosen fey the respective Legislatures for the term of font-
years, one-half vacating their seats hi-annually. The
House of Deputies is composed of Representatives elected
by the citizens of the respective States for the term of two
year*, the apportionment being one representative to 30,000
penplo Those not horn in the Republic, to be Senators
or Representatives, besides an eight year’s residence, must
own an estate of reality worth $8,000, or an occupation
producing $1,000 per annum.
Congress meets annually on the 1st day of January, at
the point fixed bv law, and must close its session every
year “ on the 15th day of April,’’ and its powers ami func
tions me net materially variant from those belonging to
our Federal Legislature.
The Judicial power of the Mexican Federation resides
in one Supreme Court and in Circuit and District Courts.
The Supreme Court is composed of eleven Judges, elected
by the Slate Legislatures, all voting on the same day.
These Judges hold their offices during good behavior.
The Circuit Court is composed of one principal judge pro
posed hy the Supreme Courr, and two associate judges
appointed hy the President. The District Court is com
posed of one judge appointed hy the Supreme Executive.
The jurisdiction of these Courts is similar to that exer
cised by the Supreme and other Federal Courts of this
country.
Among the numerous remarks which have been elicited
hy the quadrupedal importations of Commodore Elliott,
and the brief letter from the Secretary of the Nnvv, ma
king inquiries on that subject, we have seen none equal to
the following article, which we copy from the Washington
Statesman. The “ order of hsttle,” proposed hy the new
system, is irresistibly 1 ughable ; and the mind of Camp
bell alone, worked to a pitch like the afflatus which pro
duced the “ Conflict of the Baltic,” could describe a war
like encounter under such terrific circumstances.
“The Constitution.—This noble frigate, it is said,
will require serious repairs in her gun-deck, in consequence
of the injuries the present one sustained from the cargo
of mules, which sho brought with her from the Mediter
ranean. It is much to he regretted that her commander
did not protect the deck, hy a layer of thick plank, or,
what would have been better still, “a pavement of as-
plialtum.” The latter article being h non-recipient of
noxious fluids, the atmosphere, especially at night, would
have been less offensive to the seamen, obliged as they
were to swing their hammocks among the mules.
“ If the recent order of the Hon. Secretary of the Na
vy, disallowing the commander of a national ship the pri
vilege of converting her into a transport for jackasses
«hould ever he annulled, rescinded, or “ expunged,” we
trust that her decks will at once he paved with the most
approved oojrl.nHnm—her guns will of course he stowed
below, while each gaping port will display the uncompro
mising visage of one who makes no terms with opposition.
Should an enemy attack her, the ba'tle bray of a hundred
of these unyielding fellows, all striking in at once, at the
top of their whistle, would be enough, of itself, to unnerve
the stoutest heart. No enemy, witii whom “discretion
was the better part of valor,” would think of renewing
his attack on a ship thus obstinately defended. The vic
tory would he alike easy and bloodless; no hones would
he broken, no lives lost; every man and mule would safely
reach his destined port; and then, to crown the whole,
“ the agricultural interest of tho country would be pro
moted.”— How would
The cattle low, the lamkins skip,
Tho old folk* talk, the young on»s prattle,
As homeward hound this jackass ship,
Returned triumphant from rhe battle!”
“Girls should then he educated at home, with a eon-
stant. recollection that their brothers, and the future com
panions of their lives, are at the same time at school,
making certain acquisitions, indeed, dipping into the
Greek drama, and the like, hut receiving a very partial
training of the mind in the best sense; or. perhaps, only
such a training as chance may direct; and that they will
return to their homes, wanting in genuine sentiment, and
in the refinement of the heart. Girls well taught at. home,
may tacitly compel their brothers to feel, if not to confess,
when they return from school, that, although they mnv
have gone some way beyond their sisters in mere scholar
ship, or in mathematical proficiency, they are actually in
ferior to them in variety of information, in correctness of
taste, and in’general maturity of understanding, as well as
in propriety of conduct, in self-government, in steadiness
and elevation of principle, and in force and depth of feel
ing. With young men of ingenuous tempers, this con
sciousness of their sisters’ superiority in points which every
duv they will he more willing to deem important, may be
"aimed t<> the best account under n discreet parental gui-
*hu-e, and may become the means of the most beneficial
reaction their moral sentiments.”—Home Education,
by Isaac 'Tgyior,
Yankee Gin.,—j ],, ve t G meet a Yankee girl, let it
he where it wit. | )||t ,n ore especially when west of
the Hudson, for tin , },cr pn re simplicity of words and
action, contrast so ai,; a ;,|y w ;i), t| ie constrained man
ner of two many amongst . Sj whose heads and hearts have
been spoiled hy an nrtificial u. l|c 0 f society. She gener
ally speaks what she thinks; no. s)je f,. a Vful of thinking
independently either; her actions tli.,,-}, p rcc ni Vt , r ,, 0 [, e .
yond the strictest rule of piopriety ; a.q t h c ’most fastidi
ous, who may at first imagine her imprude., aooll become
assured that she is less et ratic in thought than: n t {, e n] j„ c .
ing pru.le who chides her niece of fifteen for sntr.-.,_ with
unconstrained open-lieartedness in the face of her c.,, g j„
who has just returned from abroad. I feel as if I had ju„
emerged from the confined air of a city, into a breezy atmos
phere, whenever 1 find myself in the society of a genuine
Yankee girl, who has moved in good society and possesses
a cultivated mind.
The Top.—The philosophy of the top, the little toy
which is so amusing in boyhood, has perplexed many an
inquirer into causes and effects. Sir Joi n Leslie said
that “ it is one of the most difficult problems in natural
philosophy.” Another writer describes it as a puzzle, e*-
liibiting as it does, “a cone balanced steadily on its point,
a miniature pyramid, standing on its apex, in short, a
greater marvel than the :.>wer of Pisa, leaning, and not
falling, with its centre of gravity above, and the line of di
rection thrown outside of the point of support.”
The New Year’s Night of an unhappy Man.—An
Id man stood upon the night of the new yea- at his win
dow, and gazed with the look of fearful despair, up to the
immovable, ever-glowing heavens, and down to this cairn,
clear, white earth, upon which there was now no one so
friendless and sleepless ns he. For his grave lay nearby
him. It was covered only with the snow of old age, not
with the green ofyouth, and lie brought with him out of
the rich abundance of his whole life, nothing hut errors,
sins, and infirmities; a wasted body, a desolate soul, a
breast full of poison, and an old age full of sorrow.
To-day his beautiful youth days wandered about him like
ghosts, and drew him hack to that plensatit morning when
his father first placed him on the crossway of life, which
leads on the right hy the sunny path of virtue in a broad
peaceful land, full of light and harvests, and on the left,
drags down in the mole track of vice into a black cavern
full of dropping poison, full of hissing serpents, ai.d dark
sultry vapors.
Ah! the serpents hung about his breast, and drops
of poison upon his tongue: and he knew not where lie was!
In despair and unutterahla grief, he cried out to the
heavens afiove, “ Give me youth again, oh ! Father—place
me on tiiat cross way again, that I rimy chose another
pith. But his father and his youth are gone long ago.
He saw w andering lights dancing among the marshej, and
disappearing in the grave yard, and be said—“ These are
my foolish days.” He saw a star fall from heaven and
glimmer in its fall, and vanish on the earth. “ I am that
said his bleeding heart, and the serpent fangs of remorse
struck deeper in their wounds. Jiis burning imagination
pictured before him fly ing night phantoms on the roofs—
and the windmill lifted up its arm* in a threatening man
ner to crush him—and a skull still lying in the tomb hy de
grees assumed his looks. In the midst of this struggle
within him, the music for the new year flowed suddenly
down from the church tower like a far oft' chant. His
heart softened. He cast his eye around the horizon and
over the broad earth, and lie thought of the friends of his
youth w ho now happier and bettor thun he, were teach
ers of the earth, fathers of happy children, ahd blessed men
and he said—“ Oh ! I also like you might have slept
through the first night, with unwet eyes, if I had been
w illing. Ah, l might be happy, my dear parents if I had
followed your precepts.”
In this feverish remembrance of his youth time, it seem
ed to him as if the skull, with the features of the tonjb, rais
ed itself up. At least through that superstition w hich on
the new year’s night sees the spirit of the future, it became
a living vouth. He could behold it no longer. II e cover
ed It's eves. A thousand scalding tears strew ed down and
disappeared in the snow. Hopeless and in despair, he
yet only sighed in a low voice—“ Come hack again, oh,
youth come buck.”
And it came hack ; for he had only drenmed so fearful
ly. He was still a young man. Ilis grief alone had been
no dream. But he thanked God that lie. still young, could
turn in the midst of the dark currents of vice, and restore
himself to the sunny path that leads into the land of 4 har
vests.
Turn back with him young man, if thou stnndest in his
■ andering war. This frightful dream will become in fu-
tur* thy judge. But if ever, full of sorrow, thou should’st
cry out—Come again beautiful youth ! then will it not
come again.—German of Richter.
Anecdote.—During Mr. Duncan’s late speech in the
House of Representatives, a listener was struck with the
homely remark of a countryman, who was standing near
also and listened with great attention to the speech.
“ What’s the name of that ’ere gentleman in the white
vest, who’s making so much noise ?” said be.
“ That, sir, is Mr, Duncan of Ohio ?”
“ Duncan is it! Well I’ve hearn tell of him. Why
he’s got brass enough iu his forehead to make a bell-mettle
skilltt!”
We select for the entertainment and profit of oar rea
ders, the subjoined extract* from au address delivered be
fore the Mercantile Library Association of Boston, by
Governor Everett, and for which we acknowledge our-
seves indebted to the New-Yorker, one of the most inte
resting papers, hy the by, published in that city. It would
be more than useless for us to commend the literary ef
forts of Mr. Everett. He is probably one of the ripest
scholars, and one of the most graceful writers of which
the country can boast. We merely premise, although this
may be termed a mercantile address, the subject being of
that character, as \wll as addressed to merchants, yet it
will not be the less appreciated hy the intellectual reader
of any other profession or pursuit:
[After dwelling briefly upon the advantages to all, w hirh
spring from accumulation, he thus exhibits its effects in
producing barter and exchange :]
“ There arc probably few individuals iu this assembly
who taok their morning’s meal tilts day without the use of
articles brought from almost every part of the world- 1 he
table on which it was seivid was made from a tree which
grew on the Spanish main or one of the West India islands,
and it was covered with a table-cloth from St. Petersburg
or Archangel. The tea was from China ; the coffee from
Java; the sugar from Cuba or Louisiana; the silver-
spoons from Mexico or Peru; the cups and saucer* from
England or France. Each of these articles was purchased
hv an exchange of other products—the growth of our own
or foreign countries—collected and distributed by a suc
cession of viwages, often to the farthest corners of the
globe. Without cultivating a rood of ground, we taste
the richest fruits of every soil. Without stirring from our
fireside, we collect on our tables the growth of every re
gion. In the midst of winter, we are served with fruits
thiit ripened in a tropical sun; and slrugglin g monsters
are dragged from the depths of tho Pacific Ocean to lighten
our da e!lings.
A* all commerce rests upon accumulation, so the accu
mulation of every individual is malic by the exchanges of
commerce to benefit every other. Until he exchanges it,
if is of no actual value to him. The tiller ot :i hundred
fields can c»t no more, the proprietor el a cloth factory
can wear no more, anil the owner of a coal mine can sit
by no hotter fire, than his neighbor*. He must exchange
hi* grain, his cloth and his coal for some articles of their
production, or for money, which is the representative of
all other articles, before bis -e-cumulation is of service to
him. The system is one of mutual accommodation. No
man can promote bis own infrest without promoting that
of others. As in the system of the universe every particle
of matter is attracted by every other particle, and it is net
possible that a r..ote in a sunbeam should he displaced
without producing an effect on tlie orbit of Saturn, so the
minutest excess or defect in the supply of any one article
of human want, produces an effect—though of course an
insensible one—on the exchanges of all other articles. In
this way, that Providence which educes the harmonious
system of the heavens out of'the adjusted motions and
balanced masses of its shining oihs, with equal benevo
lence and care, furnishes to the countless millions of the
human family, through an interminable succession of ex
changes, tho supply of their diversified and innumerable
wants.”
[ He explains the doctrine of capital, attempts to account
for the prejudices against it. shows its immense use*, and,
after enumerating some of the vastly important works
which it carries on, and could never be undertaken without,
it continues :]
“ To effect these objects, capital must go forth like a
mighty genius, bidding the mountains to how their heads
and the valiies to rise, the crooked places to he straight
and the rough places plain. If agriculture is to he per
fected, costly experiments in husbandry must be instituted
by those who nro able to advance and ran afford to lose
the funds which arc required for the purpose. Commerce,
on a large scale, cannot flourish without resources ade
quate to the construction of large vessels, and their outfit
for long voyages, and the exchange of valuable cargoes.
Th# eyes of the civilized world are intently fixed upon the
experiments now rriaki: g to navigate the Atlantic by steam.
It is said that the Great Western was built and fitted out
nc un expense of near half a million of dollars. The suc
cess of the experiment will he not more a triumph of
genius and of art than of capital. 1 lie first attempts at
tho Whale Fishery in Massachusetts were made from the
South shore and the Island of Nantucket, hy persons who
went out in small boats, killed their whale, and returned
the same day. Tlii^ limited plan of operations was suita
ble for the sn ail demands of the infant population of New-
Englaiid. Buttlie whales were soon driven from thccoast;
the popttln'ion increased, and the demand for the product
of the Fisheries pmportimmbly augmented. It became
necessary to apply larger capitals to the business. Whale-
ships were now fitted out at considerable expense, which
pursued this adventurous occupation from Greenland to
Brazil. The rnterprizo thus manifested awoke the admi
ration of Europe, and is immortalized in the well-known
descriplion Hy Burke. But the business has grown, until
the ancient fishing-grounds have breome the first stations
on a modern whaling voyage; and capitals are now re
quired sufficient to fit rut a vessel for an absence of fortv
months, and a voyage of circumnavigation. Fifty thousand
dollars are invested in a single vessel; the doubles Cape
Horn, ranges from New South Shetland to the coasts of
Japan, cruises in unexplored latitudes, stop* for refresh
ment at islands before undiscovered, and on the basis per
haps of the capital of an individual house in Netv-l’edfurd
or Nantucket, performs an exploit which sixty or seventy
years ago was thought a great object to be effected by the
resources of the British Government. In this branch of
business a capital of twelve or fifteen millions of dollar* is
invested. Its object is to furnish us a cheap and commo
dious light for our winter evenings. The capitalist, it is
true, desires an adequate interest on his investment; but
he can only got this by veiling his oil at a price nt which
the public are able and willing to buy it. Tho “overgrown
capitalist” employed in this busier** i* an overgrown
lamplighter. Before he can pocket his 6 percent., ho has
trimmed the lamp of the cottager who borrows an hour
from evening to complete her din’s labor, and has lighted
the taper of the pale and thought worn student who i*
‘ oulwatching the hear,’ over some ancient volume.”
[After alluding to the vast prosperity which has been the
result of the credit system in our country, lie briefly
touches the subject of navigating the Atlantic hy steam,
and thus suggests the advantage* that may he exported
from commerce by referring to those which it has always
conferred:]
“ As iu all former ages, it lias hern one of the p ost pow
erful agents in shaping the destii ies of the human race, it
is unquestionably reserved for still higher functions. I
confess that I look myself for some great results to he pro
duced hy the new forces in motion around us. When we
contemplate the past, we see some of the most important
phenomena in human history intimately—1 hat almost
said mysteriously—connected with commerce. In the very
dawn of civilization, the art of alphabetical writing sprang
up among a commercnl people. One can almost imagine
that these wunderl’iiliy convenient elements were a kind of
short-hand which the I’hrniiiciau merchants, under the
spur of necessity, contrived, for keeping their accounts ;
for what could they have done with the hieroglyphic* of
the Egyptian priesthood, applied to the practical purposes
of a commerce which extended over the known world, and
of which we have preserved to us such a curious and in
structive description hy the prophet Ezekiel ? A thousand
years later, ami the same commercial race among whom
this sublime invention had its origin, performed a not less
glorious part as the champions of freedom. When the
Macedonian madmau commenced his crusade against Asia,
the Phoenicia us opposed the only vigorous resistance to
his march. The Tyrian merchants delayed him longer
beneath the walls of their sea-girt city, thun Darius at the
head of all the armies ol the East. In the succeeding cen
turies, when the dynasties established by Alexander were
crumbling, and the Romans in turn look up the march of
universal conquest and dominion, the commercial city of
Carthage—the daughter of 'lyre—ufibrded the most elli-
cient c! ■ ck to their progress. But there was nowhere
sufficient security for property in the old world, to bum
the basis of a permanent commercial prosperity. In the
middle ages, the iron yoke of the fi tidal system was broken
hy commerce. The emancipation of Europe, from the de
testable sway of the Barons, began with the privileges
granted to the cities, lhe wealth acquired iu commerce
afforded the first counterpoise to that ot the feudal chiefs
who monopolized the land, and in ike space ot a century
ami a half gave birth to a new civilization. In the west
of Europe, the Hunse towns: in the east, the cities ot
Venice, Genoa, the ports of Sicily and Naples, Horencc,
Pisa, and Leghorn, begin to swarm with active crowds.
The Mediterranean, deserted for nearly ten centuries, is
covered w ith vessels. Merchant* from the Adriatic ex
plore the furthest cast; siiks, spices, gums, gold, are dis
tributed from the Italian cities.through Europe, and the
dawn of a general revival breaks on th# world. Nature,
at tin’s juncture, discloses another of those mighty myste
ries, which man is permitted from age to age to read in
her nwlul volume. As the fullness ol time approaches lor
the new world to he found, it is discovered that a piece ol
steel may lie so prepared that it will point a steady iud. x
to the pole. After it hail led the adventurers ol Italy,
Spain, and Portugal, to the utmost limits ol the old world
—from Iceland to the South of Africa—the immortal dis
coverer, with the snmvs and the sorrows of near sixty-
years upon his head, hut with the fire of immortal youth
in his heart, placed himself under the guidance c 1 the mys
terious pilot, bravely followed its mute direction through
the terrors and the dangers of tiie unknown s.-a, and culled
a new' hemisphere into being.”
[We seldom meet with a more eh qum t burst than the
following, in the speeches of Fox or Sheridan. He i*
speaking of the restraints on our commerce before our ac
quisition of freedom, and then refers to the consequences
of their removal:]
• “The moment the War of Independence was over, the
commercial enterprize of the country went forth like an
uncaged eagle, who, having beaten himself almost to mad
ness against the bars of his prison, rushes out at length tn
hi* native clement, and exults as he bathes his undazzled
eye in-the sunbeam, or pillows his breast upon the storm.
Our merchants were far from contenting themselves with
treading obsequiously iu the footsteps even of the great
commercial nation from which we are descended. Ten
years had not elapsed from the close of the Revolutionary
War, before the infant commerce uf America hud struck
out for liereelf n circuit in some respects brooder ond bold
er thun that of England. Besides penetrating the remo
test haunts «r the commerce heretofore carried on hy the
trading nations of Europe—the recesses of the Mediter
ranean, the Baltic, and the White Seas—she displayed
the stars and the stripes in distant oceans, where the Lion
and the Lilies never floated. She not only engaged with
spirit in the trade with Hindustan and China, which had
been thought to he beyond the grasp of individual capital
and enterprise, but she explored new' markets on islands
and coasts before unapproached hy modern commerce.
[Every word of the concludingadyicc to young men should
be treasured like sacred amulets:]
“ Never let the mere acquisition of wealth be an exclu
sive pursuit. Consider it of tenfold importance to mani
fest in all the transactions of life, that quick sense of ho
nor which feels a stain like a wound, and that integrity
which the mint's ot Peru could not bend from the path ol
principle. Let wealth he regarded as the iustiumeiit ot
doing as well as of enjoying good. In a Repuhliean Gov
ernment, the mercantile class, in the natural course of tilings
is the only one whose members, generally speaking can
amass fortune; let it he writtcn.on your hearts in the morning
of life that wealth is ennobled only in its uses, t orm from the
first, a large conception of the character ol the liberal and
upright merchant. Regard him as one to whom the coun
try looks to sustain her honor in the hour ol trial ; to up
hold her public establishments, to endow her charities, to
he the father of her orphans ; as one whom no success » ill
make ashamed of his vocation ; who will adorn his days ol
prosperity with moderation and temper, and hold fast his
integrity, though fortunes turn to ashes in his grasp, lhe
keys of knowledge are in your hands; the portals of her
temple are open to you. On the shelves ol her libraries
there are stores of information, whieli. besides contribu
ting to yonr success in your calling, wiil give grace to good
fortune, and comfort and resource iu di-aster. Above all,
while you pursue the paths of enterprise to the ends ot the
our ill, let a well instructed conscience he the companion
of your way. Her guidance will safely lead you, when
calculation is bewildered and prudence is at fault. 1 hough
your hope in all else he blasted, fail not my young readers
to acquire the pearl of great price, that wisdom whose
merchandize is better than the merchandize ol silver and
the gain thereof than fine gold. Let this be the object ol
yout life, anil while the guilty glories ot war are depreca
ted hy mankind and the weary honor* of successful ambi
tion weigh like lead on the wearer, you will enjoy, in the
esteem and gratiuiJe of the community and the peace of
your own minds, the happy portion of the liberal and up
right merchant.
The Committee on Defalcations have arrived in New
^ ork. '1 lie theatre of their operations in that eity will be
the Custom House. If the following description (from
the New-Yin-k Herald) of that al ode of immaculate* be
correcr, their hi hors will he neither light nor pleasant :
“The Now-York Custom House is one of the. richest
mines of roguery that ever was explored in the history of
any nation. The morals of that place are and have been
of the most, extraordinary kind. For nine years it has
been the den ol thieves—the cave of the robbers. The de
falcations of Swnrtwout and I’rice a* yet are only known—
but who can enumerate the petty depredations, the constant
tax of the subordinates upon the merchants? How irnnv
Custom House officer* of Nww-York, withn salary of$1000
or thereabouts, hnve furnished splendid houses, given
splended parties, operated in stocks, and beenme great
men of the present century ? I do not object to their cheat
ing tho Government, because such n government »< we
have had for the last few years deserves to be cheated—
tint if, under the “nods and winks” of offirinl power, they
have fleeced the merchants in extras of every kind, I think
it is but fair that we Whigs ought to know for the benefit of
the precedent.
But. this secret system is not all the rich mine* of know
ledge, which I hope the searching committee may discov
er. The New-York Custom House, for the last tws or
three years, has been the paradise of the faithful—the
hospital of the incurables—the very land that flowed with
milk and honey. Every Loro foco looked to that hnppv
Elysium as the object of his heart, the finale of his labors,
and the reward of his rogueries at the polls. The New-
York Custom House with all its retainers, including
SInm, Bang &. Co. has been the backbone of “ the partv,”
and the very choice troop at every election. From that
central point of purity and honesty,all the energy and elec
tioneering ot the city have radiated. Let the committer ex
amine this subject in every point of view, and they will find
a thousand choice mutters to engage their attention. In
stockjobbing—in lot speculations—in Texas lands—in
Canadian patriotism, they will find the choicest specimens
in the New-York Custom-liouse.”
The Merchants.—During the drhnte on the Swart-
wont Defalcations. Mr. Hoffman said, it had of late be
come the practice in every way, and on all occasions, to
assail the character of our Merchants, who sremed to he
regarded hy some as a caravan on the dt sert, that overv
wandering tribe might think it fair to attack and plunder.
But who are the merchants *>f this country ? They were
men whose honor and enterprize have done ns much t«
elevate our national character ns the gallant achievement
of our army and navy; ar.d whose integritv and faith, dur
ing our late financial difficulties, had called forth on the
floor of the British Parliament, a tribute of praise from ilie
Chancellor of tht? Exchequer— men who had left less than
$500 unpaid out, of more than £2,000,000, v hich had been
returned upon them protested from England. Where did
their enemies find motives for this perpetual attack ? Was
it to he found in present exrniot.s or their fast history?
Was it to he found in that spirit of enterprise which had
i-airied our flag to every sea and every clime, ar d had paid
into our very Treasury th* sums which had formed this
aliment to speculation and defalcation ? Was it to be
found in the early history of our Republic ? Are not gen
tlemen admonished of irs injustice, by that picture which
adorns your Rotunda, when they see and know, that he
who is there sitting in his Chair of dignity and peril, re
ceiving the Declaration of our Independence from a Jef
ferson and a Franklin, was a Boston merchant—the pro-
scriln'd and patriotic Hancock I
Let me tell the gentlrmnu from Maryland, that com
merce is, and always has been, the handmaid of Liberty;
and it* protection or destruction, ha* always been tho un
erring indication of a wise and free, or n weak and aibilrn-
ry government. Let me remind him, that the wrak and
vacillating reign of the 6th Henry of England, was stiil
more darkened by legislative enactments against the free
dom of commerce—whilst the same page of history, which
shines with the achievements and wisdom of one of her
best of Kings, was illumined hy laws to unfetter trade, and
prated her merchants.—Alexandria Gazette.
The Harrisburg Mon.—The vr ry last number of the
Globe contained a column and a half of “ continuation”
of arguments to prove that there was, duri- g the late scenes
of anarchy ut Harrisburg-, no actual violence; no moh pro
vided with clubs, stones or other weapons : no personal as
saults, Sec.. It is a fearful sign of the times to find the or
gan of the Government thus employed in extenuating and
even justifying the ruffian attempts to intimidate and ovt r
awe the Legislators of one of the sovereign States of this
Union. For the information of those who desire tn know
how far the plea of the Globe iu behalf of the mob-men is
true, we copy the following from our latest Harrisburg
papers—[ A«£ Intel.
Harris burg, .Tan. 26.
A hill of indictment was yestc iday found by the Grand
Inquest of Dauphin county against Charles Pray, John
| McCahcn, John IB. Ryan, John (Jack) Borage, Jus.
Hall, Aaron F. Cox, George. IV. Barton, John Snyder
| Martin Dunlap, James Black, and General Adam Dil-
j ler, for riot and conspiracy against the Commonwealth at
the meeting of the Legislature. These, we understand,
are but a portion of the conspirators against whom true bills
will he found.
George Sanderson and E. J. Petiniman, whose names
were sent up in the same hill, were not sufficiently identi
fied hy the witnesses examined ; mid hut one-fourth of
those in aftendence were called before the Grand Jury
the evidence being conclusive without them.
The people abroad, who had been told by rhe Locefocos
that there was no moh and no riot lu re on the 4th of De
cember, when they see a dozen of the ringleaders indicted
lor treason, will lie able to judge of’ the credit that is to
he given to Locofoco intelligence. Amongst the persons
indicted are two members of the Legislature from Phila
delphia county, placi d in their scuts by the moh ; an office
holder under the General Government; and one recently
appointed to office hy the new State Administration.— Tel.
The Lightning Telegraph.—An association has
been started in New-York and Philadelphia, to establish a
line of the Electro Magnetic Telegraph, invented by Pro
fessor Morse, between these two cities. The distance the
wire is to he laid is 100 miles. The association are to pay
Professor Morse $200 per mile, or $20,000 for the exclu
sive right between the two cities, vlich is to be surrendered
to the United Slates, if during the present session Congress
shall assume the exclusive right of establishing the Tele-
erapb from Washington to New-York. The expense of
laying the wires is estimated at $520 per mile, amounting
to $52,000, which with the purchase of the right, will
make the whole cost $72,000; keeping the telegraph in
operation, which will require two managers nt each end
and continge> cies, is put down at $10,009 per annum.
Professor Morse estimates the power of the Telegraph
equal to communicating 45 letters per minute, 37.500 per
day, which, ut one cent a letter for postage, would vivid
$138,000 per annum, deducting one-half the year, or
$59,000, if but one-fourth of the capacity is employed.
The average number of letters in the ordinary words of
the English language, is seven. Thus a telegraphic com
munication of ten w nuid cost seventy cents. A capital ol
$72,000 is to he raised in shares of $100—tlie work to he
commenred next June, and completed by December, 1339.
The mute need not be straight or level, and the wire may
follow the course of a railroad, or diverge without effect
ing tho communication.
The plan is to communicate electric shock—in other
words, to set lightning to running au express along the
wires, which uru lobe so contrived as that the instant the
shock is given ;u one end, the wire will indicate on a cord
at the other eiidt the letters corresponding to the desired
intelligence.
One Moment? what an effect it produces upon years!
One moment! virtue, crime, glory, shame, wo, rapture,
rest upon it! Death itself is but a moment,,yet eternity is
its successor!
THE ORGIES OF TAMMAPfT HALL.
FSXALK B1CCHAR1L!*—A NKW FAN !fY WRIGHT
We have sharply watched the movements of the p 0 ]:.:
cal Leaders of Tammany Hall, toward the Infidels in New-
York, who make a powerful branch of the great Loco Fo
co Family—and we were quite sure that though for a whi^
previous to the last Election, they crowded their Gres*
Mother—Fanny Wright—out of their Wigwam, vet ,1/
would get in again, or that, at any rate, the Loco F *
leaders dare not shut cut the Loco Foco atheist*, jy*
were not at all surprised then, when we learnt that on tl*
last Sabbath, the atheist orgies were rrnowed again in Tsi^
many Hall, and that a new Bacchante appeared on
stand as a Lecturer, attempting to till up the chasm created
hv the latter unpopularity of madame Fanny Wright —
These Athe.sts, on Sunday Inst, had n Festival or a Be
fit, which was kept up till day, morning, afternoon ■ A
evening. Admittance to the evening perforrnam-s *■
which the two Fanny Wrights rame out, being 25 cent 1 * 1
The New High 1’ ricstess, Tammany ha* found in the — "
son of Mrs. Rose, who we understand is a Polish lady,
ported to he divorced from an elder!v gentleman of tW
unfortunate country, and now marriud to, or living aiq,
very good looking young American, who attend* her 0^
her duties at the Hall. But whether divorced ur not, j t j,
of very little consequence according to the doctrines *he
promulgates, as will be seen in the sequel. We have Uq
reported the proceedings of parts of the two last Sunday,
in order that the people of the United States may und'er-
«tand a little more of the character of that L«k-o Fnc.i
Party which sprung up here from small beginning*, .nd «
last, is dictating to the Federal Administration.
SERMON AT TAMMANY HALL.
A little notice stuck up a* usual on the outside of tho
Hall, announced a Lecture on Education, to he give,, j„
the evening—price of an entrance six and a quarter cent.
\\ hen we entered the Hal! perhaps two hundred people
had gathered, on tho whole well dressed and well ap peBr .
ing—a stage was erected on which were two eldarlv infi
dels, with Mr*. Rose sitting between them. She had on
a large white silk hat, fashionably made. After a short
time she rose, ami taking off her hat and cloak, prepared
for the ceremony. She appeared to he about thirty year*
old, with n large high forehead, very large dnrk eyes,’with
regular features. Her hair hung oyer her neck in the
greatest profusion in ringlets, through which occasionally
glittered gold car rings of a large size, showing no doubt
her love for specie payments and Benton mint drop*.—
She is of good figure, rather enbonpoint and tastefully
neatly dressed. She said. “My friends it is usual f or
public assemblies before commencing their lecture*.
have an address to a being whom they call God, hut M
we do not know who lie is, nor vat is his nashure—and „
we do not vish tn he so irrational as to pray to a being of
whom we know nothing, we shall addresth you which
may he supposed to be in do following words. Nature
says, “my children /” Here she went on in n long har-
rangue in the name of Nature, tn the audience, llie *ub-
stance of which wn*, that men were governed hv twopriu-
etples, pleasure and pain, one of which was agreeable and
de “ oder oderwise,’ and that she, dnme nature, was an-
tircly sufficient if they would only follow her, and “ dat
she would punish di m if dev did not follow her laws.”—
After which Ben. Often read a hymn from Abner Kn*e
land s br-ok, which was sung to one of the common tune*
of our churches. The priestess then proceeded with bar
lecture. She said that man had two natures, one physical
and the other mental, ami that it wa* to the want of tha
know ledge of our nature to which we owed that there was
so much of vice and ignorance in the world. She then
proceeded to tell the audience how children should he
brought up ; the most important part of which w»*, that
“ dey never should snv to a rhild drt dc V should do di*h
or dat, dey should do dat; or dev should believe dish or
dat, dry should believe dnt.” Oc'casiornllv she interlard
ed her discourse on “do irrationality of believing in a be.
ing of whom we know nothing." ' But before she pro-
rrrdt-a to the appliestion of hr*r discourse, or to ro»t,
she paused, when Often said he would have another hymn
which w as accordingly sung. Another of the priesu tben
announced, that on next Sunday evening a benefit would
he £*'en to the aforesaid Often, whose services wen 1 pre
sented as of vast, importance to th# progress of liberal
principles, hut whose finances during the la*t year and a
half had been very much reduced by the state of the lime*,
making it appear that the experiment of Mr. Van Buren'*
illustrious predecessor had affected even lhe friends of In
fidelity!
’* 1 he expenses of this Hall have been (said the speak
er) for about eight years, eleven hundred dollars, including
the rent, w*hirb is now four bin.dred ami fifty dollar*.’’—
Here he proceeded to state, very pathetically, how much
tho cause of liberal principles wonld suffer, and how much
the world would j;o hack tow ards barbarism,if thev should
be under the necessity of closing the Hall for the want of
a few dollars to sustain the cause.
Mrs. Rose followed with the deductions and conclusion*
of her aforesaid harangue, showing how much the world
was “in rle wrong from the mishdirectinn of the natural
faroollies,” and that a child should in no wise he lluggrd
in his ednenlion, the wisdom of Solomon t# the contrary
notwithstanding.
“ It is to de mislnlircction of the natural facnnliie* (said
she) dat we owe dat we have dat we have amongst u* a
system of individual pro;env, than which nothing can feo
more pernicious to de good of de w hole ef de human roc*;
vorea* it would be beyond conception for de good of da
whole dat each should labor for de whole and de whole for
each.
“ It is to rli*b mishdirertinn ef dr rafural fareohir* dat
we owe it dnt we have amongst us de relation dat we hare
vat we call family relations, vrrens it would he beyond
conception for de interests of de whole tint each one should
pursue in de relations of de afi’cctiens such a course n* hi*
own free will would dictate, and dat de children, instead
of being brought up as dey are at present, should be *ds-
rnted hy de public, instead of (.ring put order de rntcef
parents w ho bring dem up to study each one his ow n inter
est instead of de interest of do whole, and who devote
them to a great mnr.y irrationnltir*.”—[Religion.]
“ It is to dish mishdirection of de natural fae#«iti#s dal
we owe it dnt we have amongst us a class of men whom
we call merchants—w hose maxim is both with de retail
and de wholesale, that dey will bny at the cheapest rale*
and sell nt de drnrest rate*—a maxim than w hich netbing
can Ire more demoralizing. Terras," S-c.
Here she went on to show various other ranghlv thing*
which the wicked world w ere doing, and all of which were
owing “to dish mi.-hdirertion of de natural facooltie*,”
occasionally interrupted by the applause of the audience.
I rnm this account it will at once he perceived where
the Government get their doctrines on the subject of di
vision of property—hard money, &c. To conciliate a few
of these disordered spirits, the sof-er people of this coun
try are railed upon to give up every thing. Thev are
asked to sanction principles w hich go to the subversion ef
all that they value in Religion, or hope for in Salvation.
We hnve caused to he prepared a sketch of another dis
course of this new hanny Wright, which if wc can find
room we will give our renders.— Alex. Gaz.
Corresprudence of the New York Expra**.
TIIE INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE.
Washington, Jan. 21^Mondav night.
The Select Committee appointed last week are organ
ized, a full corps, armed, equipped, ready for duty, ai.d
under marching milers.
They leave to-mi-rrew evening fer New-York. and will
be in your city by Wednesday evening, intending to stay
there long enough to fake n peep into the Custom House,
and to make some inquiries a* to the Swartwout and Price
defalcations.
1 he Committee is composed of nine members—three
Administration men, tw'o Conservatives, and four Whigs.
Mr. Harlan of Kentucky, is the Chairman of the Com
mittee. He is well fitted for his place—a fine determined!
man, that wiil not flinch from anv duty. lie has capacity
too as we>l a* firmness, and will make a most efficient:
Chairman.
W isc, you know. Like old Martin Luther, he would 1
eo w here duty called him, “ though there were ns m*nr
devils as there were tiles on the house to oppose him.”—
Wise will give no sleep to hi* eyes until he hns finished the
task before him. J he searching operation* made by him
the last few years, have made him well qualified to “ snuff
corruption in the tainted breeze.” No man has done morw
than W ise, tow ards exposing the system of rapine and
plunder carried on under the administration of “ the"great—
est and best,” and of the man who “ walks in the footstep*-
of hi* illustrious predecessor.
Curtis, the third man upon the Committee, vou know-
alltogelher. He is well qualified to he one of the Com
mittee, and is thoroughly acquainted with the details of
all the known facts connected with the defalcation.
Dawson of Georgia, is the very personification of a
peace-maker, and will make every man whose blood runs,
beyond a temp- rate heat, tlji k twice before speaking
once. He is the head nmu of the Georgia Delegation—
intelligent anil efficient—a good adviser, and an honorable-
judge. He is not obnoxious to the Administration, altho’'
as mucli a Whig ns any Whig in the country.
K. O. J. Smith is one of tiie two Conservative members-
He has lieen deoimnced ar.d renounced for net going the
whole with the Administration, and especially fur not sup
porting the Bill of Abomination. The nnathatnas of the
Official Paper have been hurled against him. ns against
ll,c olht r Conservative member upon the Committee, Mr,
Hopkins. Mr. Smith hns 1.0 occasion to show much mercy
toward* those who have proscribed him for opinion's sake-
lie wiil not, I think, be over im rciful. His talents and
know ledge of the party ns it was with his industry, make
bijn one of the most valuable members of the Committee-
The three Administration men are, Wagner—who is
pronounced qualified 10 do justice to the Administration—
and Foster and Owens. Both of th# latter gentlemen nro
lawyers, w ho deserve credit for daring to serve upon the
Committee, after the executive interdiction rent forth
through the official organ. Both of them have been ap
pointed since the Giohe published its Edict, and Ȥice tha*
pattern of Democracy, the gn at Eli, promised to ri$' **
bis pinct, and denounce any member of kit party « /r "*~
tor to hi* party and a eonspirator, mho should d** e
serve upon the Committee !
Mr. Foster and Air. Owens will belli d* free jveXice a.
the Administration. They have legal and f*" 1 * 9 U j 1
cations enough, and 1 believe the disposiru'l 1 1,1 n _*
who are in power from the least to the greatest,. u *
alas for them, they are to he d«'BOn»eed hy the 1 rrnee o
Loco Focus fut daring to serve apon a Com witter-
Yours,