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lei me do it. That was too bad, Major,
when them two Generals were attracting
all the glory that belonged to me, that the
Senate wouldn’t let me do anything to off
set them. But I’ll let ’em know that \ oung
Hickory isn't to be beat any more that: Old
Hickory was. I’ve sent Mr. Trust on to
look after matters, and to see that the ar
mies don’t go too fast ; for I’m determined
that Scott and Taylor shan’t whip the Mex
icans any faster than is prudent. All the
glory that’s to come out of this war fairly
belongs to me, and I’ll have it.”
“ But,” says I, *‘ Colonel, you are a go
ing to send on more men, ain't you 1 Or
what are you going to do 1 How are you
going to wind the business up V
Says he, “ I’m too tired to talk over mv
plans to-night. But there s no need o
votir going right hack to Mexico yet. Mr.
Trist is there, and I can trust him to look
after matters, and you’d betterjumpinto the
boat with us in the morning and take a
■ trip down East, and we can talk the sub
ject over at our liesure.”
About five o’clock in the morning, the
President rattled away at my door and
waked me out of a sound sleep ; and when
he found 1 wasn’t up, says he, “ Major,
you must be spry, or you’ll be too late, for
we’re off" at six.”
I was up and dressed about the quickest,
and went out; and fact, there was a quar
ter of a mile of soldiers, all ready to escort
»s to the boat. And down we went, through
whole streets full of men and women, and
boys and gals, of all soits and sizes, some
running and crowding, and some hollering
and hurrahing, and in a few moments we
we were aboard the steamboat, and the bell
run?, and the steamer puffed, and off vve
went on the Sound towards Connecticut.
The President had a little room all to
himself, and he made me go right into it
with him, and lie sot down in an easy chair,
and pul his feel upon another, and says he,
“ Major, I’m glad to gel out of the crowd
again ; we’ll take a few hours of rest and
comfort on tins voyage. This being Pre
sident, Major, is mighty bard work ; but,
after all, I like it. I’ve bad a glorious time
of it in New York. Every body was rim
ing after me, and it seems as though I had
seen every tiling. I feel as though 1 had
lived through a whole year in these three
days, and 1 don’t believe any body ever re
ceived more honors in so short a space of
time in this country.”
“Well,” says 1 “Colonel, it seems to me
a P''ty you told the folks at Baltimore the
other day that you should retire when this
term was up. You might go two terms, as
old Hickory did, just as well as not, you are
so popular.”
At this he gave me a tuck in the ribs and
a sly wink, and, says he, “Major, don’t you
understand that I Telling of’em I should’nt
stand another term is jest the right way to
make ’em the more fierce to have me.—
Don’t you know Anthony said Caesar refus
ed the crown three times, jest so as to be
more sure of having it placed on his'head 1
And jest see how Santa Anna is working it
now in Mexico. When he gets pretty near
run down, and shivering in the wind and
nothing to stand upon, he sends in his re
signation, with a long patriotic speech about
shedding the last drop of his blood for his
country, and all that, and the people refuse
to receive Ins resignation, and cty out J long
live Santa Anna ! and away lie goes again
at.d drums up another army of soldiets.”
“ But, to tell the truth. Major,” says ho,
“ when I made that remark at Baltimore, 1
had some little notion of retiring. Our party
was so cut up, things looked lather daik
ahead, and i find this Mexican war some
thing of a bother after all. Taylor and
Scott commit so many blunders, i tied real
ly then some notion of retiring when this
term .vas up. But since I got along to New
Y’ork, things seem to look brighter. I’m
popular, Major; 1 know I am. I shouldn’t
be surprised if the Whigs made a demon
stration in my favor yet. They seemed
very fond of me in New York ; and so did
everybody—everybody you could mention ;
even the market-women took me by the
hand and called me young Hickory, and
gave me lots of fruit. There, do you see
that pine-apple on the table there?” says he.
“ That was given me at the Fulton market,
as vve vveie going over to Brooklyn on Sat
urday. Cut away, Major, and help your
self ; it’s a nice one. And here’s a paper
of most excellent tobacco,” says he, “that
was presented to me at the same time.—
You go into the pine-apple, and I’ll go into
the tobacco, and then we’ll have a little
more talk about the war.”
Jest as we got cleverly under way, they
sung out aboaid the boat for the passengers
to get ready for landing. So I must cut
my yam off here for the present—but likely
as not you’ll hear from me again.
Your old friend,
MAJOR JACK DOWNING.
The New York Courier, speaking of Gen-
Taylor, says :
The affairs of tint country have reached a cri
sis which demands the services of such a man.
Questions have been introduced into the politi
cal discussions of the day, and pressed to a point
where prompt decision is unavoidable, which
derange, and threaten to destroy all party organ
izations. Sectional differences are becoming
wide spread and embittered. Factions have
sprung up in every part of the country, con
temptible in themselves, but influential through
their effect upon the political parlies of the day.
Our foreign relations are becoming more and
mote impoitant, and demand increased attention.
And our relations with Mexico, whatever may
be the immediate issue, will require the firmest,
most vigilant, and enlightened supervision for
some years to come. If the war continues,
wiser counsels must direct its course : a wider
vision and a more patriotic purpose must be en-
listrd in its control. If peace ensues, questions
will grow out ofit scarcely less embarrassing or
important than those connected with active, war.
Mere j.arttzansbip is not enough for this state of
things. However wise its purposes, however
vigorous its spirit, and however sound the prin
ciples which shape its character, no mere party
can ever command that universal and hparty
confidence from the people, which these high
duties require. Without such a confidence
nothing effectual can lie accomplished. 1 lie
people, embracing the great mass ol our inhabi
tants, of all parties, must feel that a strong,
steady, patriotic and reliable hand is at the helm,
or the ship of state will not escape the dangers
which lie in her path.
Had a man been created expressly for such an
emergency, he could not have more perfectly
satisfied all its conditions than does Gen. Tay-
! lor. He has a clear head, a true heart and a
! strong will; he knows ootliing of danger, iseni-
| bartassed hv no difficulty, is prompt to discern,
fand certain to follow, the veiy best course in
| every case. The course of reasoning which led
1 him to stake everythin". Ins army, his reputa
tion. all be possessed, or could ever expect,
against the most overwhelming odds at the bat
tle of Buena Vista—the calm, clear, far-seeing
manner in which his mind worked under the
pressure of that most fearful issue—aud the
firmness and perfect sell-possession by which, in
that contest, he canied his little force triutti-
phantfy through one. of the severest conflicts
lever fought upon this continent—prove him to
I be a man adequate to any emergency, equal to
\ any responsibility, and abundantly qualified for
any station to which his fortune or his country
may call him.
Special Correspondence of the Picayune. j ANALYSIS OF IHE COTTON FLAM,
Monterey, Mexico, June 8, 1847. i We are very mucb striH . k w j t h t be practical
Popular Amusements in Mexico,.-The most ^ of , he fo „ owi proceedings, or rather
populur amusement id Mexico is generally at- » b .
lowed to be cock fighting, in which all partici- of what may result from them, on tne culture
pate—yes all, for at Saltillo there is actually a of Cottoo. We have always known and admir-
cock-fighting priest At the pit he might night- I e( j Air. Lewis as a statesman and economist,
ly be seen holding stakes, superintending the bul be appears in this instance in a new charac-
preparation of the cock9. and taking an active ,,1.1,11
interest in all the points of that highly in.ellec- ter « and ’ to «nr judgment, one l.kely to be htghly
tual pastime. The next on the list is card-play- j useful.
ing, and there is hardly a man or woman that j The analysts of the Cotton plant and its pro
docs not win or lose a stake at Monte. Next to . ductg cannot but be important. We have un-
that comes the fandango, and the dance has as ...... . . . , , .
, ® ’ , . derstood that the same subject ha9 engaged the
many votaries here as in any other country on •> *> 8
the face of the earth. But I don’t, propose to attention of two Chemists of distinction in inis
enter into a description of either of these sports. State, Dr. Shepherd and Professor Ellet, and
but merely to describe briefly the manner in lbal cons j(]erab!e progress has been made in an-
which 1 found a full grown Mexican ® n £ a 6* d a alysing the stalk and fibres of Cotton. The na-
I few mornings since. I had discovered that lie - . . . , . ■
was a very ingenious fellow and made beautiful j lure of the so,I in the pratrte lands of Alabama
j artificial flowers, and having seen him employed and those of South Carolina is in many important
J upon some work with a small quantity of gilt tinsel, j respects different. We should be glad to see
; imagined he was about to produce some start- ; ^ regu j, s 0 p a j| D f ,j ie examinations of these
' liner and surprising effort ol Mexican ingenuity, j
Judge my surprise then, when, upon entering | emment men, as well as of those to whom Mr.
! the room where lie was, I found him stretched : Lewis’ samples are entrusted,
at full length upon the floor about three feet ' \Charleslon Mercury.
! from a little monita, (a paper figure of a man .. At a meet j ng 0 f the Farmers’ Club, in the
about six inches long) attached to the ground ci| o( - New Y „rk, on the evening of the 29th
by means of a piece ol wax. To the head was ; () , u ll|e Hon . p ixon h. Lewis, who was j.re-
attached a piece of horse hair which passed sent< was called upon for some observations in
through some other ponton ol the body, and as I re|atioo t0 Southern Agriculture. In answer-
the operator pulled the string the head and bod) | * m g ,| ie ca j| ? h e spoke at some length upon the
Correspondence of the N. Y. Courier & Enquirer.
Stamp Speaking and Electioneering in Tennessee.
Knoxville, Tenn., June 10.
“ Of all things above the earth or under earth,
the most wonderful is the gift of the gab /”—
Thus exclaimed a triumphant friend of Sir Wil
liam Follett, when that famous advocate had
floored Dr. Buckland, the great geologist, in a
discussion about some geological question, in
which the lawyer, with no knowledge ol the
subject but what was “crammed" into him for
the occasion by his friends, gave the Doctor an
utter defeat, by mere dexterity and flow of talk.
•* The most wonderful of all things is the gift of
! the gab,”—a man is olten iem|)led to cry out in
in great part, of public speaking. Newspapers,
schools aud colleges—the travelling orator is
all these ,0 the mass. Largely such as this is
the education of the South,—the education of
Athens tn the days of her sophists, and of her
Socrates, loo, it must be added. J. II.
VWtt* in «tutral.
Gen. Tatlor asd his Soldiers.—The at
tachment which Gen. Taylor’s soldiers feel
for him. is illustrated by the following anecdote
told by the New Orleans Picayune;
A few days ago a volunteer just returned from
the war stopped at the office of a friend of outs
to ask some question in tegard to the locality
of the city. Whilst standing at the door it com
menced raining. Ourftiend invited the soldier in.
Tire “Notfolk Beacon,” of | ate datp ^ ^
understand that ike Trustees of >h«. T 'Lr
u.. „ * ,own of p„„.
month have purchased the Portemonth and P ^
Railroad from- the Board of PnUig Work - *°* 11 *^*
under the act passed a$ the !n,t Session "J'J.e
this country, overflowing with speeches, and i and was highly delighted with the intelligent
I echoing on every side with the tiiutnphs of an j ready rej.ltes he made to inquiries concern-
i speech makers. | ing the country through which he had passed.
I All offices and places of honor are obtained 1 As he was about to leave, our friend asked him
: from the people by dint of lustily harauguing lor j if he could do him any service—that he was a
| them. It is a manly practice for comj.etitors to j native of the city, and'would be glad to serve
j tnnet one another face to face before those whom j him in any way. The soldier answered that he
j they solict lor votes; it is a manly and animating wanted nothing, but was as much obliged to him
sport, but it has its evils. Well, or ill-advised f or his kind offer as though he had had occn-
, : 'S 'l> e course may be, it is the road travelled sion to profit by it. He then bowed and left ;
i bv all politicans. The newspapers publish that , hut he had scarcely gone fifty yards belore he
j they will announce candidates for office, for returned, as though lie had forgot something.—
I dollars ; and four or five months before the time , Ajtproaching our friend he said—“ Stranger,
| of election announcements begin. “ We are j you have promised to do me a favor, if 1 should
authorized and requested to announce Major or I ask one.” “Certainly,” was the reply, “and I
latu.e, for the sum of $50,000, upon a Tre* ^
year*, and that they have sold the Road **
Herubaw & Go. of EVostrm-. The new Com , ^
are informed, will irirmerlintely (ay d uwn y p *•
Portsmouth to Weldon, and will also extend T o'**
thirteen ra-ileg further, in order to connect ''m* 4
Raleigh and' Gaston Railroad. ’ W,U| tk »
Ah Argument tecll put.-
r • , , . A etibsctihertothejj T
Commercial, w ho has taken- that pa pPr for f '
years, makes the following sensible remarks inT^
enclosing a remittance for another year’s *■ '‘" !r
. Sy OSr rlf)llco .
of the monita rose as il in obedience to the tune
of the Mexican's whistle. And there will this lull
grown man lie. hour alter hour, whistling over
and over again the same tune and working away
with his inanimate piece of paper. Whether
the majority of the male population ate in the
habit ol spending their leisure, hours jn the danc-
cultivation of Corn, and the advantage of deep
ploughing.
“ Codon Mr. L. did not consider so profitable
a culture as Corn, unless the former command
ed a uniform high price. The seed of Cotton
weighs rather more than three-fourths of the plant,
and every 1200 lbs give 350 of the picked (Jot-
Colonel”—seldom is any candidate lower than
j Colonel—“for Congress,” or “lor the Legisla-
j tore.” The advertisements thicken, for anxious
I admirers of great men are continually stirring
j them tip, calling on them in the pajiers to come
: out and serve the country. Few have such
j hard hearts as to be stubborn against this nrgen
atn ready to do so now.” “ Not now,” said
the soldier. “ but you will oblige tne if, when
you will vote for the old man.”
” My means are small—but 1 abjured w , rp ,
and all other strong drinks, in J ar .e, >8}n -1
kept honorably to my ptedge ; the *avi : , k * v *
bead more lima jiayj for my newspap ers an( j > * ^
ification which the perasafof them gives’,^
calculation in dollars and cents. When I | (
among my neighbors and see many ^
men, who seem to take an interest in the’ Zf
their beloved country. and yet from false ^
are of
ny themselves and their families the at ' 0 "**' **
the ti
me comes.
Fog or Mist.—The phenomenon of Fog or
Mist occurs at all seasons, and it appears al
ways under the peculiar circumstances explain-
pleasure of a newspaper, I feci mortified
3 ? ? aid
their account. I have been a constant7c a dJ r °7 *
New Ymk Spectator since 1833, and the ler-erl
it the more 1 like it r ... ~
|ey They will do great violence to their private' eJ b H hrey Davv . H is theory is.
I " r _T_°_ S , t :_T. en that radiation of vapor from land and water
( o.so C o.o.v . ,ov Cll , to part with it Would be like p ;
| sing the company and conversation of i
old friend.”
ing of the monitas or not, generally speaking, is ■ , orK Plowing affects Cotton in so much as this
I a fact ol which 1 have not lully satisfied myself, j —that it drains the land, makes it warmer, ami
surely are pat.iotic and grateful. Accordingly, j sen( , 3 jt UIllil it meets with a cold stratum of
cfm-Pc 'l rP rP'3f1 V In I'jLp n ninct n n v rtf tin o o ro 1 _ . ... .
! st .?, res are read - v ,0 , ,ake almost an J of4ice ’ L are ; air, which condenses it in the form of mist,
■such valued
Kind-herrrfeJnes* of Gen. Taylor.— e
but I sujipose, according to the rule adopted by i jhrows it into a good condition for the Spring.—
all travellers, it should be set down as
j sal custom” in Mexico.
! Mexican cure for Rheumatism.—The medical
profession, comprising so many professors, has
I given to the world innumerable theories upon ail
subjects connected therewith, and learned doc
tors have prescribed certain treatment for certain
disorders. No two men entertain the same
opinion, and it is veiy difficult to find two medi
cal authors who agree exactly, and equally di'fi
cull to find two living practitioners who treat
cases alike. It is not to be wondered at in the
THE GRAIN CROPS.
The following synopsis condensed from the
pa|iers ot various se lions of the Union, gives
as near as we can determine, the prospect of the
present grain crops.
In South Carolina, the wheat crop is good,
oats and rye better than the usual average.
He did not believe that soft land would do at all
for Cotton—the tap-root of the plant running a
grc-it way into the ground, [he had himself trac
ed it two feet, and had been informed of greater
depths.] it requires and makes an effort to find a
tenacious soil {as clay,) to hold firmly—and if
not succeeding, it rots oft’; therefore, he sets
down very rich land as had for Cotton.
“ In regard to the manuring of lands. Mr.
Lewis had, he remarked, in a great measure u-
dopted the theory of Petzholdt, whose Lectures,
he had read with great satisfaction. Petzholdt
wtllmg to wrong themselves, to gtve their bu- | whjch Datura|lv gravilates , 0W ard the surtace.
j fitness to the winds, rather than not please the* Whpn , he rad j at f on is weak) „ ie mis , seeins
! f ' ,e , nd9 ’ and ,e, >’ , .° hold U P . lhe,r co , unlr -'’ Ron' . he upon the ground ; but when more power-
sink,tig. Altogether surprtstng ts the amount fu|( |lie Mral , lln * )f mist IIl;ty h „ SPCn elevated a
,ot disinterested benevolence manifest on all J (pw shove the ground. Mist. too. may he
, hands just at such junctures-before elect,o,is, j seen , 0 contimle longer over the water than the
i l mean. I tic courtesy of gentlemen, always
of thfe speech made by Col. JeSe
Mississippi Riffles, on rhe occasion of th
least, then, that the practice of the medical pro- j | 10 | ds ihat certain insoluble salts are held by
fession ol Mexico should differ from that of the ^ solne plants and substances which go toward the
whilst the corn rro|) promises an abundance.
A lot of 2000 bushels aew Wheat from South
Carolina, brought $1,80 per bushel, in New
York, on Wednesday. This should he a spur
! to our farmers to make them grow wheat for
! ex|)ortatiou.
In New York the general impression is, that
the coming ‘Harvest will be an abundant one.
In Pennsylvania the jH-ospecl is said to he
especially cheering, and the |)apers of that State
geuer-dly speak in the language of hope and
confidence.
In New Jersey the crop is expected to be as
good as it was last year.
In Maryland the prospect is by no means dis
couraging. The general impression is, that the
wheat crop will be heavier than that ol last year.
In Virginia there is, from all sources, undoubt
ed assurance of a full crop.
In Ohio the accounts are less encouraging.
A good yield, it is said, is now entirely out of
the question, and the crop, in consequence of
the injuries of cold weather and the fly, will be
unusually light. Still, however, there will be,
it is supposed, no actual want.
In Wisconsin they are, perhaps, more cheer-
| ing than anywhere else ; and the fact, that while
the export of wheat from that Slate, dn-
j ring the past year, was about 550,000 bushels,
i the estimated export for the present year is not
less than 1,000,000 bushels, is sufficient to sub
stantiate the exjnession ol one of iVie Wisconsin
papers, that “ the present croji will show the
Eas'ern millers what the prolific soil of Wiscon
sin can do in the way of wheat growing."
From Indiana the accounts show that the
cro|is ate everywhere more or less damaged by
the pas, winter.
In Georgia the wheat and other grain crops
are very promising.
In Michigan the prospect is that the crop will
be a quarter more than last year.
[South Carolinian.
physicians of the United States in some slight
degree. Having accidently become acquainted
with an intelligent little jiuppy of the no-haired
species, 1 discoveted the manner in which rheu
I Miatisin is treated here; and as there is a vast
ideal of that unpleasant disorder in your city, 1
deem it my dutv to furnish this remedy.. Hav-
' ing missed my little no-haired friend one morn
ing. search was made for him, and he was found
in the hands of the monita dancer, who, knife in
j hand, was about to sacrifice him to Escula|)iiis,
all destitute of hair as lie was. He was jiroceed-
ing to split him down the middle to cure the rheu
matism in an old woman's leg. And this is a
most common remedy. They biutl the dog up
on the affected part, and the animal heal extracts
the pain. It is needless to say that I rescued
my little no-haired friend, expressing my decid
ed |ireference to have him converted into highly-
seasoned sausages, especially when some other
remedy might answer as well.
Note—As you have very few no haired dogs in
New Orleans, it may be jirojier to stale that the
production of those plants, and that those ex
celling in quality or quantity also excel in the
salts. Mr. L. believed, also, that by means of
a machine, the shell can be separated from the
pulp of the cotton seed, and that from the latter
a good vegetable oil can be obtained with little
trouble and of great usefulness—but then he
wants to be assured before be made the experi
ment, that he would not thus be robbing the
soil of what it needed. Hence the necessity of
an analysis, not only of the stalk, but of the boll,
fibre and seed of tire Cotton Plant—an analysis
which shall bring out such results as shall les
sen the cost of manures, by lessening the bulk
of the material required lor the production of the
plant. Petzholdt holds that the bulk of any ar
ticle used as a fertilizer does not contain the
principle of the growth of the plant ; and that
the process of incineration is the very best mode
in which to get at the sum and substance of the
matter.
“Subsequently, the Club agreed on ordering
comjilete analysis, by the best chemists, of the
.... , . . - land, owing to the slower radiation of va|ior from
courteous, ts visibly enhanced. 1 hetr vo.ces are ; wate , and it is „ Pneral | v spen in „ ie hollowest
sober more dulcet-toned, their knees more sup- por(ions of groun 3, on ac ' count of , he cold air,
pie, the.r saluiatton and dtscourse percejKtbly as jt descends from llie s „ rround i u g
more gractous-grcai attentions are now shown en>und and mlxes wilh ltie air
wtlh a very affable air, to people of whose exts- diminis ,, iu „ ils C apacitv for moisture,
tence apparently, they were qutte ignorant op Mist also varies in ils characIt;r arc „ r ling to
lo this time. 1 he equestrian department of the * Itg e | eclr j c
business soon commences. The country is tra
rising
he hollo’.v,
* COUfup
ersoa Dav» ^ ^
; the returned volunteers at New Orleans, a few'T ^
| since, be alluded iti touching phrase, to the kind 1 :- 5 '
of heart which forms a marked feature in the rk
ter of Gen- Taylor.
I An incident, stighr in itself, yet Hfostrative „f ,.
; characteristic- of the old , lero>
hehl officer of the 4th regiment of Louisiana v„C
teers, in service on the Rio Grande last
summer, fj.
versed—its highways and byways, with |iraise-
worthy assiduity. It is expected that gentlemen ,
will abjure gloves and umbrellas for the cam
paign—they must lie left at hotnr—better be i
lieadaching, better he sun-burnt, even to baking, j
! than do woise. House-raisines, military mns- j
j lers are diligently frequented ; no |iart of a coun- j
j ty or distrir.t is neglected ; a slight of that kind ;
1 must not he put upon any neighborhood. In
■ the centre of any knot of men thrown together ed j n
ugliest looking hairy curs will answer the same Cotton Plant, in accordance wiihthe suggestion,
purpose. ; if Mr. Lewis would do them the favor to send
Church Penances.—At Saltillo I observed that Rom his plantation a perfect sjiectmen, including
the very strictest forms of the Catholic church | stalk, fibre, boll and seed. For this purpose,
are enforced and rigidly obeyed. Penances I Mr. L. signified his cheerful readiness to coin-
; which to us appear acts of almost cruel severity ply with the request ; and there will be attained,
1 are imposed and publicly paid. The poor peu- some time, a thorough knowledge of this plam
pie are the most abject slaves to the priests, and so truly useful and almost indispensable; and
obey all their commands with the most blind the planters of the South can ascertain, to a cer-
confidence, and to them in a ureal measure are tainty. whether or not it can be applied to a still
they indebted for their present ignorant and de- 'greater number of purposes—and whether the
graded condition. When the priests, contrary extraction of an oil from it will be beneficial or
to the ex|iress provisions of the church, indulge prejudicial to the interests of the cultivator. Let
in the grossest immoralities, as it can be proved us have a speedy and thorough analysis and
beyond the jiossibili'y of a doubt they do, wbat report.”
can be ex|iected of the jieople ? But to return j
to the penances. It is no uncommon sight to see ; <3cn. Taylor aad hi. State Cnri-ingc.
one or two young girls creeping along to church The extremo simplicity of Gen. Taylor’s hab-
earlv in the morning on their knees for the space its has become proverbial ; but, like all human
of one lo two hundred yards, over the hard stones beings, if the old General was not proud of his
at hap-hazard, one—and where one, “the bal
ance”—o( these canvassers are apt to be found.
At court-days, at street-crossinus—(many citi
zens live in the streets under canvass during the
fine weather)—these friends ol the people are
busy with the |ieople, and such jileasant coun
tenances it does one good to look upon.
But graver matters are transacted, and I
stale ; if negatively affected, it de
posits ils vapor more quickly, fotilling a heavy
sort of dew, and welting everything like rain ;
but if positively, it continues to exist as fog, and
retains the vapor in the state in which it lias not
the property of wetting like the other.
The fogs in hollows constitute the true strat
us cloud. We see vapor at a distance in the at
mosphere, and call it cloud ; but when it sinks
to the earth, or will not rise, anJ »e are immers
ed in it, we call it mist nr fog. When immers-
cloud on a mountain, we say we are tn
a mist ; but tiie same mist will be seen by a
spectator, at a distance tu the valley, as a beau
tiful cirro stratus resting on the mountain.
The magnifying |>ower of mist is a well known
optical illnsion. Its concealing and mystifying
effects may have been observed by every one ;
and i's causing distant sounds to be heard as
if near at hand may also have been noticed by
would speak of them with fitting respect. 1 many.—Stephens'Book of the Farm.
have recently had the great pleasure of listen- *
ing tosj.eecl.es by the two distinguished gen Trophies and Wounds—We had the plea
sure on Saturday of a brief visit from our old
i 7 f marke,,: “ 1 haA OCCasi " D *» F* from Lnmite
Matarnora* on h .rsebnefc, somewhere .bom the m ;j.
of July. Twelve or fourteen m y e * from M alam ,^
1 stopped at a rancho lo refiesh my little
°" r 1,or = ! ‘’ 3 - l there met with a gentleman n„ J
sick-in fact, confined to a bed. He was bears.-o,
despatches from the general Government tn Grae a
Taylor. He handed me the package contain
despatch , with a request that I would ffc-liver it imjl
diately on my arrival at Matamoras I did so.
was of curse necessary for me to explain to the Gr.
oral how I happened to be entrusted with the pucka;?
i Ins,:,, " l y> before he opened the communication, b,
said, ' I’|| despatch forthwith a detachment with ,
; surgeon to take care of him.’ ” How few, M hip, ,
command, charged with the conduct of a great m.
would he so sensitively alive to the care of an fin*
hie and, to him, unknown individual ! N 0 » 0 r
ihat his soldiers love him, and that his name is of ibei
a host.
;
tlernen who are ihe nominees of the Democrats
and Whigs for the office of Governor. For friend and eliea , conIri b„tor, Capt. G. W.
thirty years and more the State has known the P attex, ol 3d infantry, who, at the battle of
practice of being solicited from one end to tbe C erro Gordo, had the whole of hts left hand, ex-
other by candidates in the.r position, ft is a long ce , (lje fore f| and lhumb> sllot awav bv a
journey aud an arduous work that they travel canuon ball. I, was a plunging fire ; and alter
through, more than GOO miles from the Alie-
thus wounding Gapt. PatteD, the ball struck a
ghanies in the East to Memphis in the extreme rocki which |t broke int0 (r:)gme n,s, one of which
bouth west. None have reajied more fame, I
| of the plaza. This may be all right, but it would dress or of the pride and pomp of “ glorious
; be rather hard for American people. What e- war.” he had his weakness, and it disjilaycd itself
; normity these young girls commit to require in his state carriage. This magnificent vehicle
j such an extraordinary severe punishment, is far was one of the last purchases the old soldier
i beyond my ken. J. E. o. made ere he started for the wars. It was not
i one of those high-backed, four-horse, soft-cusli-
n ianed coat-of-arins jiannelled affairs, such as Mat-
S1LK-MAKING. ,j n y an Buren imported from England to ride
A few days since, we visited the newly erected in when he was President, but it was, in vulgar
The Value of Jokes.—As gold becomes
refined by passing through the ordeal of
fire, so truth is the purer for being tested
by the furnace of fun ; for jokes are to fact
what melting pots are to metal. The utter-
er gH^gond joke is a useful member of so-
cie^^mut the maker of a had one is a more
despicable charactet than the veiicst comer
by profession. A good joker tiansports his
hearers, but a had joker should be trans
ported himself. No appraiser can estimate
the value of a joke, for good jokes are val
uable beyond estimation. Fun may be
fetched from afar, but a good joke should
never be far-fetched. Like certain would-
be practitioners, a joke should not only he
at home from ten till five, but a thorough
good joke will never he out. No joke but
a bad one can be miserable, for a joke to be
good must be happy.
A joke from a gentleman is an act of
charity, an uncharitable joke is an ungen-
tlemanly act. The retort courteous is the
touchstone of good feeling, the reply churl
ish the proof of cold-headed stupidity.
Not Bad.—“ Hallo ] Jim ! You great
six footer you. What are you heating that
poor old nigger for V
“ Why, Lord bless your soul, massa, I
is tryin to conquer a peace ! You see dis
old nigger keep a fuss all de time ’bout
me taking part oh his tator-patch. I ax
de ole tool ifhe didn’t know’twas my desti
ny, an’ ifhe eberhear ’bout de Angler-Sax-
ums, as how dey was bound lo take ebery
tingdey could. But he jes go on savin ’twas
ltis’n. Den I jes takes half his patch from
him, and told him help umselfif he could.
But he jes go on sayin ’twas his’n.—
Den I gibs rim jess a few kicks, an’ he
kicks back, and now I is tarmined to con
quer a peace, as Massa Polk says, an’ take
de hull patch from him for his sass.”
lYrn lr diMOTCi cil uses of llie Sunflower.
Those most experienced in the cultivation of
of this plant are sanguine that, with a jiroper
soil and proper cultivation, il is more profitable
than wheat or corn. The seeds are more olea
ginous than those of the flax plant, and combine
the qualities for table use of the best olive oil ;
for burning, of the bestsperin, without iissmokc;
and for painting it is said by painters who have
used it, to be superior to linseed, and it is more
rapid in drying, equally easy in spreading, and
withall forming a much denser coat. Prepar
ed and eaten as artichokes, the young cups of
this plant are very esculent and (.leasing to the
palate ; the stalks are an excellent substitute for
hemp or flax, and for bee pasturage it is equal to
any plant, yielding from its luscious and numer
ous nectaries, an abundance of the best and most
palatable honey. A writer in one ol our agri
cultural exchanges, says that on suitable s til.
with proper cultivation, it w ill yield on an aver
age from eighty to one hundred bushels of seed
to the acre. From five to seven quarts of oil are
calculat ell on per bushel. If this is not over-esti
mating its jiroductiveness, and it can be raised as
cheaply as wheat or indiau corn, ordinarily con
sidered the most ex|>ensive cro|>s cultivated, the
Sunflower must be a very profitable production.
We have heretofore cultivated it on a small
scale, usually in vacant spots, by llie fences and
in |>laces where the culture of other vegeta
bles was ineligible, and so far as our experience
goes, il corroborates the above assertions. We
find that the green leaves are very excellent fod
der for cows, especially when the feed in our
pastures gets low in seasons of scarcity and
drought. We generally commence plucking
them in July, taking the lower leaves first, and
feeding them out at night, or, if scarcity of feed
is great, in the morning before turning them
from their vards. We have sometimes given
them corn loppings aud the leaves of the sun
flower at the same time, and have found that the
latter are invariably preferred. The seed of the
sunflower is a most desirable food for poultry, its
highly oleagineous nature wholly superseding the
necessity of animal food.
silk establishment of our townsman, Dr. H. II. parlance, a Jersey wagon, and one of the ugliest
Toland, which is pleasantly situated about three and most inconvenient ones ever sent out from
miles from Columbia on the Winnsboro’road.— that sand soil State. YVe have no doubt that
i We found the whole affair quite a novelty. A this same wagon was kept on hand in some little
; cocoonery has been erected, which is two stories country town until it was discovered that no one
. high, one hundred feel long, by twenty feet wide, would buy it, and it was sent out to New Or
; well ventilated by filty-six laige windows. This leans to sell. Now, Old Zac looked at it, and it
is a substantial wooden structure, neatly white- struck his fancy as otie of the most luxuriant,
washed, and contains two extensive galleries of strong axletreed, hard seated, low backed, first -
j hurdles, running the whole length of the build- rate carriages that ever was made; so he bought
j ing, arid extending from the floor to the ceiling. ; it. shipped ir, and in due time landed it at Cor-
: Between these, and on each side, there is a rail- ' pus Christi. It was evidently Gen. Taylor’s
I way for the purpose of transjiorting food from pet; he kejit it standing right upbesideRing-
i the ends of the galleries, anti a step platform up- gold’s and Duncan's batteries, as if be would
j on wheels, which enables a small boy to feed have those sons of thunder blaze away at any
worms on huWles at any height from the floor, body that did not say it was the greatest cartiage
The hurdles are simple and economical con- that ever was made.
trivances. ujion which many thousands of worms The old General was neverseen in it. By many
can be reared with but little care or trouble, it was supposed that the top was so low that
other than a bountilul sujiply of food. We can- such a thing was impossible. When he started
not attempt to describe the various fixtures in to Matamoras from Corjius Christi, it was made
the budding ; but to our eye, they were cumjdetc the carriei of the old General’s blue chest, and
-and |ierlect. We saw worms of all ages, hun- j the celebrated over coat that got wounded at
dredsof thousands of cocoons, and enough in a Buena Yista. Alter the battles of the 8th and
- short hour to ponder over for a week. The nov- 9th, a change for two hours and fifty-seven inin-
clty of the silk culture should attract visitors to j utes came over his feelings—he had read, no
I this extensive establishment, which has been put doubt, of “General Scott’s splendid military
1 in operation uoder the sttjierintendance of Mr. carriage”—and old Zack came to the conclusion
! Kennedy. The attendants are mostly small that he must put on a little grandeur, so he got
I boys and women ; and it is a business which, with into his military carriage, anti started from Point
' care and attention, must succeed. This enter- Isabel to Matamoras, to complete his victories
‘ prise was started late last winter, when Dr. To- , by driving Arista from that town. No record
l land had not time left to provide a lull supply was ever made when he resumed his old grev,
of foliage, and from this cause, and the extreme but long before half the distance was completed.
believe, on such a pilgrimage, or have been bet
ter matched for encounters by the wav, than Mr.
Polk and Gov. Jones. From all accounts
the President was precisely in his element while
perambulating the State on that errand. He
| was nobly opposed, however, and fairly beaten,
j But 1 must tell you of the men of this contest.
'Fite Democrat is his excellency, the present
Executive of the State ; his competitor and
1 namesake is Gen. Brown, a lawyer of some dis-
' tinction. Governor Brown is a man of great
reputed wealth, and certainly, of high and cour
teous bearing. As a speaker, he is smooth,
polished, and earnest. His manner reminded
me of the accomplished actor Vandenhoff. whose
Shakespeare readings at the Stuyvesant insti
tute some six winters ago, you may remember.
A good person and an harmonious voice set off
his well turned periods. I have said that he was f ICP 'f 3
an earnest speaker, yet in this respect he was
inferior, and inferior in a |ieculiar way, to bis
opjmnent. It was remarkable in how rr.anv re
spects those two men were exact opposites !—
There was a touch of sophistry about the Gov
ernor ; it sometimes merited a harsher name.—
For instance, he persisted in ascribing the en
tire pros|>erity of the community, even to the
cut down and wounded the second sergeant of
Capt. Patten's company.
While Capt. Patten was ye, in the field, hold
ing with Itis right hand the arm of the shattered
left, Gen. Scott rode slowly by, “ under a cauo-
jiv,” to use Capt. Patten’s expression, “ of cap
tion balls.” Seeing a wounded man, «nd sup
posing him to be a soldier, he exclaimed, slack
ing his jiace, “ Thete is a brave soidier badly
wounded, I fear;” and then being told by an of
ficer that it was Cajir. Patten, the General halted
and called to Capt. P., to enquire the nature of
tbe wound, but in the roar of the battle he was
not heard.
C3pt. P. sjioke with enthusiasm as well of the
calm and soldierly bearing of hts gallant com
mander, amid the thickest and hottest of this
murderous cannonade, as of his readv sympathy
with, and attention to, the wounded men and of-
A Long Dip.—An accident lately happened »,)
commercial gentleman who, in the course of hubs*,
ness, had occasion to enter a soap and candle fac-.rn
in Change alley, London, which, as it has been om: •
tended with serious ronseq-iences, may be repeated »
amusement. The grn leman alluded to was dew
ing some steps adjoining the melting vat, when, i
foot slipped, and he was precipitated into the »jr?*-
ble liquid. A workman who was by seized him «. J
arose, hut irem the unctuous nature of his roverin; {
was again consigned to the vat. A second pull extr-i
cated the sufferer in tbe shape of a tremendous ct>|
die, the whole outward man being encased in tsli.-.i!
Chapel of the Medici.—This celebrated chap? .!
in Florence. It was commenced in the year lHtj
but is not yet complete. Although very extensile.:!
is said that so large is the sum already expended
it. that its weight in gold would hardly puremse .3
Twenty millions of francs have been laid out, and cr
lions must yet be added before its completion. It f
the mausoleum of the 1 uskan Princes, and is embe.
fished by the choicest works of genius, both in sc ’
treand painting.
Capt. P. left with us some articles picked up
on the bloody field of Cerro Gordo, among them
the head of a Mexican lance, an exceedingly
disagreeable looking thing—a grajie shotofcoji-
jier—a horse-hair cavalry bridle, with a ltead-
|iiece vrought in needlework, by the hands pos
sibly of some cherished fair one—and the for
midable lasso. These are at our office. An
Professor Schoenbein, of Basie, who invented tie I
gun-cotton, his lately, to a certain point, di-covec:
malleable glass. He renders paper paste (pvfi''
marhe) transparent by causing it to undergo a cert-* *
metamorphose which lie calls Caialvlic, for wart ji
intelligible term. He makes of this new jiaperpars"
of glass, vases, bottles, &c. perfectly impermearc
w-aier, which may be dropped on the ground with
, . r — ..w— ...... ... - ... ..... r, u breaking, and are perfectly transparent He ac
productiveness of the soft, to the wtse policy of officer . s swordi llkewlS e the prize of our renders paper impermeable, and perfectly suitable:
(lie administration ; and again and again insist- f rien d, we would not run the hazard of retaining, banknote,
ed on quoting Gen. Taylor, m support of hts j. j, a , h t00 prec i 0 us to be trusted out of I ' _
v.cws ol the war, citing the General s proclama- , he gai|ant £, nds that won it .
Capt. Patten, though enfeebled bv the effects
of his wound, by hard service and climate, is
doing well; and a short resjiiie at home will
completely restore him.—N. Y. Cour.
lion as a witness, a document well known to have
been jirepared at Washington. And this geu-
| ,leman lias designs on the Presidential cb-fir !—
One could not help admiring his adroitness now
and then, as you would the jiasses of a swords-
! man. Here, at a jiarticular point in the discus-
s-on, is a call for very strong argumentation,
or again for a very explicit statement of his
| opinions. Well the Governor is a man of nerve,
he does not flinch ; like the brave Tennessee-
OIL OF STONES.
Under this title a recent Paris journal con
tains an account of a singular substance nianu-
_ factureil in France, of peculiar properties.
ans of the 2d regiment at Cerro Gotdo. he march- U' 6 Bostou Atlas, among its foreign items,
es boldly up to the strongest entrenchment translates the description of this interesting cu-
of the enemy. There is a flourish, the clear, firm riosiiy as follows : " It was discovered several
! trumpet call to charge is heard, and you expect }' c ' ,r9 since, and an interesting jiaper ti|ion it
a powerful demonstration in that quarter. Just was re3< ^ before the Inslitu'e. Since then its
now a rocket is sent upward, and another; the manufacture, far from being abandoned, as many
spectators look, watch their brilliancy, aud for- supposed, has been silently undergoing improve-
In a Marseilles pajier we find an account of s
wonderful effects produced by Dr. Chai h’3 Lafor.ta-'j
with magnetism, who has succeeded in seven t|
stances, in restoring to deaf mutes their hearin;. - *
- These experiments had been made with wondarfil n I
cess in Lyons, and he had, at the last accounts,j*c I
ly arrived in Marseilles, where he announced hs J
tention of repeating his expeiiments, and atten?
-the restoration of hearing to all the deaf mutes"
| may apply for aid.
I Won’t.—“ I won’t,” said a child to his
kind parent, when he had been requested to do
a little favor. That child is now despised by his
associates, and shunned by the virtuous and
good.
“ I won’t,” was the exclamation of a scholar,
whose teacher had labored faithfully with him,
when he was asked to be punctual at school and
commit his lessons more perfectly. That schol
ar is now employed as one of the lowest servants
in an extensive establishment.
“ 1 won’t,” said a youth to a father when re
quested to learn some honest trade. That youth
lias how scarcely a coat to his back.
THE RIFLE.
We find in “ The Yankee,” the following in
reference to the |>iiuci|>le of construction in the
rifle, which is so peculiarly the American wea-
poii that all should comprehend its principles of
action :
“ Many persons who are very exjiert in the
use of the rifle, know nothing of the |irinciples
on which it operates, and would be at a loss if
asked why a grooved barrel throws a ball truer
than a smooth bore. The reasons are these :
" In the first place, no bullet is or can be cast
perfectly spherical. One side is alwars heavier
than the other, and the ball, therefore, swerves
from the right line of projection. However
hard it may tie to prove this, theoreiically, jirac-
lice demonstrates it. The saint smooth bore,
immoveablv fixed, twice loaded with the same
charge, of the same powder, and with balls cast
in the same mould, will not plant them both in
the same s|iot, at the same distance.
“ The rifle barrel is a female screw, which
gives the tightly driven ball a rotary motion, so
that if the bullet, or rather tbe slug, swerves
with one twist of the screw, another revolution
corrects the error. There are three motions in
the rifle ball: the straight forward, the spiral, aud
the downward, caused by the power of gravity.
A rifle of thirty to the pound drops its ball a-
bout a foot in a hundred yards. Rifles are
sighted, therelore, to meet this deviation. On
leaving the barrel, the ball moves above the line
of sight, continually falling in a parabolic curve,
till it intesects it. The point of intersection is
called the poiot blank.
“ Who invented the rifle, is unknown. Its
principle was known to the North American In
dians before the discovery of the continent.—
Their arrows are feathered spirally, and move
precisely in tbe maoner of a rifle ball.”
j wet weather, he lias suffered much; but under all
j the disadvantages, his experiment is regarded as
I eminently successful. It is praiseworthy in the
J extieme ; and wedelight to add our humble praise
! to the exertions of every man who adds a new
; product to the resources of the country. To
i supply the deficiency of food, Dr. Tolaud plant
ed out ten acres of mulberry trees, which will
; afford him next season a large quantity of foli-
| age, and to this lie will make considerable addi-
: tious during the next winter. He will, immedi-
■ atcly after the worms cease to sjiin, put liis reel
ing machines in o|ieration, and will buy all co-
! coons whir It may be brought to him. The ladies,
; who consume so much silk, should visit this es-
tabiishment by all means, in order to see the do-
' mestic manufacture uf their finety.
[South Carolinian.
CHARGE, CHESTER! CHARGE!
As the procession in honor of Uncle Sam’s
| G'hiel Rejitesenialive was passing up Broadway
j yesterday, a subordinate representative of tbe
| same great imjiersoralion, in the shape of a mail
wagon driver, was jiassing ii|> Liberty street to
ward the Post Office, with his vehicle empty, to
| get the Southern mail. Having but a few mia-
! utes in which to fulfil his mission, and having the
j fear of a delayed mail more vividly before his
j eves than the fear of disturbing the order »f the
lirocessiou, he directed his horse and vehicle
straight against the line of march. Hereupon
the dragoons there stationed set themselves to
oppose the “charging charioteer,” and tbe con
test became a hot one, as any contest must be
with the thermometer well up toward the boil
ing point. The horsemen drew their battle
blades and sought to overcome their opponent
with as much valor as Col. May displayed on
the Rio Grande. Indeed, so fierce were their
efforts that the horse of the mail man actually
received a wound in the neck, and may boast,
what few mail horses can boast, that he had per
sonally experienced a *• passage at arms.”
The scene wa9 worthy of a painter. On one
side the flashing steel and closed martial lips of
resolute soldiers ; on the other the whirring
whip and determined eye of the driver urging
on his hindered courser. At last the man of
mails carried the day against the mailed cavaliers,
broke through the procession, and got to the of
fice in time, followed by two policemen who
took his name but made no attempt to arrest
him, as while engaged on duty his office pro
tects him from all such interferences.
[JV. Y. Tiibune.
a sick soldier was in ihe old General’s place, and
he was himself again on horseback. Nothing
of an exciting nature occurred to the old “ Jar-
sey carryall” for a long time. It was duly drag
ged about and stationed where its owner eottld
see it taken care of and honored. It went uji to
Monterey, and finally down to Victoria. When
llie General was ordered back from his march to
Vera Cruz, the old wagon top looked exceed
ingly surly, and its wheels screeched awfully.—
On this trip it met with a sad disaster. A drunk
en teamster run his baggage wagon info it, tore
the hind wheels off, and otherwise laid it in ru
ins. Now, the old General had philosophy
enough to |iocket. without tnjiining, the orders
that were so humiliating to his jitide, but he had
not philosophy enough to pocket the destruc
tion of his state carriage; so he rode up to the
unfortunate 'eamster, and catching him by both
ears, he shook the fellow's head violently, ex
claiming, “ what did you do that lor ? I broueht
it (the wagon) way from Cotpus Christi.” The
excitement passed away, the old General cast a
lingering glance at the ruins of his pet, and left
il to decay beside the road.—N. (J. National.
get the conflict at hand ; meantime the strate
• gist has withdrawn his column; is on no dan
gerous ground ; and when next heard, like
General Pillow, is praising the valor of his forc
es in that engagement. But it would be doing
the orator wrong to intimate that he does no
I more th in raise a laugh or amuse, and, under
: cover of it, slide on over rough places. lie
showed at times belter metal than that.
His competitor, a tall, s|>are. thoughtful,
Yankee looking jierson, is the jierfect antipodes
of the Governor in mannets, intellect aud ora-
| ’tory. He has risett front humble life by hard
labor, favored hy the institutions of his native
State, to whose chief magistracy he is aspiring.
A graceful allusion to this, inttoduced him very
bajipily to the large assembly. He has not win
some looks and words and smiles, but his speech
carried great weight on account of one jiecnli-
arity
oral the Halls, where many thousands devoured
their words, as during the Harrison contest in
'40. That season l heard Gen. Wilson, of N.
H-, called by Webster the best stump-speaker
in tbe Union. But none of them surpassed Gen.
Brown in one great excellence, the strength of
earnest deep conviction. His antagonist was
earnest, and animated, and evidently not sham
ming it at all ; but the other has an unconscious
force within him, in the evident purpose uot to
make his o|iinions go down with you, but to
ments, and recently a company has been formed
for its manufacture. It is now termed miner
al oil. By means ol new and verv ingenious
instruments and machinery, they obtain an oil as
transparent as the purest water. This remark
able liquid is said to have this great adv image
—of not staining by contact, and of giving an
admirable light by the fixedness and clearness
of the flame. The company jwssesses in Atitu-
mois (France) inexhaustible beds of the mine
ral from whicit litis oil is extracted, as well as
several other jiroductions. as |iaraftine, mineral
tar, a new kind of inanute invaluable for ex
hausted land, and many otlieis. However much
we may be surprised, adds the journal frofh
which we derive this information, at seeing a
vile and despised rock thus yielding a variety
of piecious matters, there is no room for
Let Children Sing.—We extract the f a* I
beautiful and judicious remarks from “ l’hrenolea ■<
Children.” It abounds in passages remark*!);? C.
their simplicity and eloquence.
“ All children can learn to sing if ihev cotrm?;
season. 1 do not say that all will have ibe
voice of the nightingale ; for some have natnralfi i ’ , T
mild and soft voices when thev talk, while ' :i |
sj>euk in ioud, strong and masculine tones. The s'!
is true in regard to singing.
I" Germany every child is taught to use its"
doubt the fact. It only proves that the
I have heard your orators in the Park. Scip,,ce Chemistry is in its mlancy, and that
no one can assign auy limits to its ptogress.—
When the first attempts were made to burn
bituminous coal, who then would have believed
iu such results as gas light, its apjiliraiion to the
generation of steam, or the bright future in
reserve for so humble a mineral ? And yet,
are not the mines of Auzin more valuable to
their proprietor than the silver mines of both
the Indies ?”
I
while young. In their schools all join iu singi j
regular exercise, as much as they attend to tb? ?• |
of g.-ngranh} ; and in their churches the ringing - ]
confined to a choir, who sit apait from tire
perhaps in one corner of the house, but there is"
tide ot inrense, going forth to God from evert
which can give utterance to this language of the - v
“Children, sing ! yes, sing with jowrwWc^*
David sang before the lord, and it is meet that
should do tbe same ; and, always, when angry
rise in your breasts, curb and check them by *’-= r
sweet and cheerful songs.”
_
Relief for Ireland —The Central Relief Coe-
tee of Dublin, Ireland, acknowledge the recei.
j £ 15,000 in donations from the United
. provisions, including those on the way, eqn* 1
bids. If we say these provisions were
i an "
AN ELOQUENT PRAYER.
The Address which accompanied tbe celebra
ted Resolutions of the Virginia Legislature of
1799, concludes with the following beautiful
prayer ;
*• We humbly and fervently implore the Al
mighty Disposer of events, to avert from our
land War and Usurpation, the scourges of man
kind ; to permit our fields to be cultivated in
peace; to instil into the nations tbe love of
friendly intercourse ; to suffer our youth to be
educated in virtue; and lo preserve our morali
ty from the pollution invariably incident tn the
habits of war; to prevent the laborer and the
husbandman frotn being harrassed by Taxes
and IttrosTs; to remove from ambition the
means of disturbing the Commonwealth; to
annihilate all pretexts for power afforded by
war; to maintain the Constitution ; and to bless
our Nation with tranquility, under whose beuign
influence we may reach the summit of happiness
and glory, to which we are destined by Na
ture and Nature’s God.”
Barrets will be cheaper.—A machine has been in
vented, and is now in operation at New Haven, and
also in New York, for dressing barrel-staves. It will
make 7,000 such staves, or 4,000 hogshead staves, in
ten hours.
Mr. Atwood, the artist who repaired to the
lead you to see truths profoundly cherished by Head Quarters of Gen. Taylor a short lime since,
him, which because important, he would have '° procure a likeness of the old hero for citizens
nil men feel and embrace. This peculiarly gives Philadelphia, has arrived at New Orleans with
him power. Whatever else they l?ck, all emi- * portrait that has thrown the good people of
neut speakers possess this quality positive, i 'hat city into ecstacies. The New Orleans Na-
downright sincerity—an intense love of supposed '' onal s*? 8 :
truth, that is a great deal elevated above the ab- Upon careful examination of Gen. Taylor’s portrait,
sence of hypocrisy. j there will be found marked upon it all the peculiarities
Such as they are, these two gentlemen have pr ™’ the tube chamcteris-
olrv^rl ihfs no.„' ; nM „ J . , He of the mind. 1 ho very high and rather narrow
- ^ 8 « mong us, and crossed the forehead which, in Uen. Taylor, even more than in the
mountains going towards (he Mississippi. I l.ev portrait, sirongly resembles Walter Scott’s, suggests
have given cur people many good laughs, each the greatest facility of thought and expression. The
at the others expense, and they will go oa reflective faculties are large, and the heavy brow de
making lun ol one another face to fare till the notes a kind disposition, and a love for quiet humor.
1st of August. Gov. Polk introduced thHt The eye? is the prominent point ; smtxil and set d*-e-f>ly
squibbing of anecdotes and bon mots, or gave it in the head - - vou sce mirrored in it ail the virtues and
vogue in his tours; but the fun flew “so fast and lL fe -, Vou see there tho spirit that
furious” from the mouth ot his comj>eti'or, that J’ r r °7' s G ;'’ »>” ar 1 "‘ e humblest i.o'Id.er s
Vlr P » ,, , . .' , wrongs, and personally attend lo their redress, that
Mr. P.. as they travelled on together, assumed maUr , him io ', oved a / a neig hborand a friend ; that so
a great deal ol dignity, and manifested a decided ma.kedly speaks the honest man. But as you look,
repugnance to amusements of that kind. The you tan discover in the depths of the mind that ate
fall he caught from Gov. Jones, by some magic thus but imperfectly displayed, the latent fire that you
appeared to set him full on his feet for the Presi- can imagine must he exhibited in the excitement of the
deucy. Gen. Brown now suggests to his oppo- battlefield, and give to that calm and patriotic face a
nent "the desirableness, iu his case, of :• similar i ste,n “«» °f purpose as unyielding as the foundations
preparation tor the same high office, ar.d promi- ot l ^ e e<m b-
worth five dollars a barrel, then tbe whole * a, “ 1
natijns from the United State", acknowledge • ^
Dublin Committee, is about $275,000. . .
take into account wh it has been sent direct to^ 1 -
and to parts of Ireland remote from Duh!' n ' ^
consigned to the Dublin Committee, the
donlxiess exceed $300,000. The history o' ^
does not afford another such instance ot p rivaI ‘
ri
d g e i-: pw
extended from one people to another ot a
nation.—Journal of Com.
, U. S. Senator from • 4 ’* jt
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the Presidential r p
ses assistance in his aiming at the Presidency
by defeating hitn as badly as possible in this con
test. And so they lighten their heavy task of
four months constant speaking. A wearied,
wayworn man will the victor be ; and the con
quered ?—perhaps your next President.
It should be considered that the intellectual
The Belknap (N. H ) Gazette states that the water
of Lake Winnejiisiogee, at Alton, on Wednesday, the
19th ult. suddenly receded from the shore, and moved
up toward the centre of the lake, and then came tum
bling back, flowing to an unusual height. This was
Hon. Dixon H. Lew
was quite conspicuou
in New Yo.k on Friday week. Many in
were heard to declare that President Po-k " J
fattest man they ever did see.”
the '
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Great Taylor Meeting.— At a large
astic meeting held in Knoxville, Tennessee.
uT»jl° r
t^4th u't., says the Richmond Whig, G en - ^ ^
nominated with entire unanimity for the ne
vi sneccli i”
dency. Judge Reese delivered an able p »,
port of the nomination, and he was fol.o**" j.
Alexander Anderson, “ formerly a Dei* 1 ® 6 '*
Senator from Tennessee, who, say* the K®® ^
gister, came out boldly in favor of Gen- ■
desirous of seem?
gave his reasons for being oes?i«~- — i f cli> 1
hero elevated to tbe Presidency at the oes
Cholera.—A correspondent of the st0 ^
writing from Washington on the 28th of B
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