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Mender line of light, broken nt'ihe foot of
the beacon by the wild shrubbery of the
rock on which it stand* ; and as he rounds
the {joint, and passes it, the light brigfitens
and looks clearet against the darker sky of
ifrg Btafc-while iU-ame cheering line of re
flection follows him on his way, and is lost
to sight as he disappears among the moun
tains. S3g
The waters of the river at this point w’crc
the scene of the brief and tragic drama en
acted so fatally to poor Andre. Four or
five miles helmv stands Smith's house, where
he had his principal interview with Arnold,
and where the latter communicated to him
bis plans for the delivery of West Point in
to the hands of the English, and gave him
the fatal papers which proved his ruin.
At Smith’s house Mrs. A mold passed a
night on her way to join her husband at
West Point, soon after he had taken com
mand. The sufferings of this lady have ex- i
cited the sympathy of the world, as the first
paroxysms of her distress moved the kind
but firm heart of Washington. There seems
to have arisen a doubt, however, whether
her long and well-known correspondence
with Andre’had not so fat undermined her
patriotism, that she was rather inclined to
further than impede the treason of Arnold;
and consequently could have suffered hut
little after Washington generously made ev
ery arrangement for her to follow hirn. 111
the “ Life of Aaron Burr,” lately publish
ed, are some statements which seem authen
tic on the subject. It is well known that
Washington found Mrs. Arnold apparently
frantic with distress at the communication
her husband had made to her the moment
before his flight. Lafayette, and the other
officers in the suite of the commander-in
chief, were alive with the most poignant
sympathy; and a passport was given her
bv Washington, with which she immediate
ly left West Point to join Arnold in Nevv-
Vork. On Iter way she stopped at the house
of Mrs. Provost, the wife of a British officer,
who subsequently married Colonel Burr.—
Here “ the frantic scenes of West Point
were renewed,” says the narrative of Burr’s
biographer, “ and continued so long as j
strangers were present. As soon as she i
ami Mrs. Prevost were left alone, however,
Mrs. Arnold became tranquilizer!, ami as
sured Mrs. Prevost that she was heartily
sick of the theatiics she was exhibiting.—
She stated that she had corresponded with
the British commander; that she was dis
gusted with the American cause, and those
who had the management of public affairs ;
and that, through great persuasion and un
ceasing perseverance, she had ultimately
brought the general into an arrangement to
surrender West Point to the British. Mrs.
Arnold was a gay, accomplished, artful, and
extravagant woman. There is no doubt,
therefore, that, for the purpose of acquiring
the means of gratifying her vanity, she con
tributed greatly to the utter ruin of het hus
band, and thus doomed to everlasting infa
my and disgrace all the fume he had acquir
ed as a gallant soldier, at tire sacrifice of his
blood.”
It is not easy to pass and ropnss the nAw
peaceful and beautiful waters of this pari of
tilt! iluilami; r* Uin'tlC V mimi ilia
scenes and actors in the great drama of the
revolution, which they not long ago Imre on
their bosom. The buriy mind fancies tlie
armed guard-boats, slowly pulling along the
shore; the light pinnace of the Vulture ply
ing to and fro on its errands of conspiracy;
and not the least vivid picture to the imagi
nation, is the boat containing the accomplish
ed, the gallant Andre and his guard, on his
wav to his death. It i6 probable that he first
admitted to his own mind the possibility of
a fatal result, while passing this very spot.
A late biographer of Arnold gives the par
ticulars of a conversation between Andre
nnd Major Tallmadge, the officer who had
him in custody, and who brought him from
West Point down the river to Tappan, the
place of his subsequent execution.
“ Before we reached tlie Clove,” (a land
ing just below the beacon) “ Major Andrp
became very inquisitive to know my opin
ion as to the result of bis capture. When
I could no longer evade his importunity, I
remarked to him as follows : * I had a much
loved classmate in Yale College, by the
name of Hale, who entered the army in 1775.
Immediately after the battle of Long Island,
Washington wanted information respecting
the strength of the enemy. Hale tendered
bis services, went over to Brooklyn, and was
taken, just as be was passing the outpost of
the enemy on bis return.’ Said I, with em
phasis, * Do you remember the sequel of
this story ?’ * Yes,’ said Andre, ‘he was
hanged as a spy. Bat you surely do not
consider his case nnd mine alike 1’ 1 re
plied, • Yes,, precisely similar, and similar
will be your fate.’ He endeavored to an
swer my remarks, but it was manifest be
was more troubled in spit it than I bad ever
seen him before.” —New Mirror.
The Death Bed. —How sail and lonley the
couch where the emaciated form is stretched,
uncheered hy the dawnings of the eternal
day ! Over the poor, unhappy wasted clay
no starlight bright new, no cherub wings are
hovering. In vain are the charms of friend
ship extended, and the bosom rtf lore open
ed. The rays of hope may gleam a bright
moment on the mind, but they are cold and
cheerless. No vivifying influence passes
over the feverish brain j no holy gush of
extalic jnv Alls, supports and entrances the
soul. Oh, it is hard dying when iho conso
lations of religion are wanting, when the
present, past and future bring in the dread
ful sentence that ull is hint! when no uplift
ed arm makes strong the inner man, when
the outer man falls into ruin ! But O how
soft the bed of death ! what easy, pleasant
dying, when the comfortable assurances of
God’s word are brought home to the strick
en one in ‘language that ennnni he misun
derstood ! when the soul, feeling Bficr the
promises, clinging to the Rock of Ages, and
rising up in the strength of the Lord of hosts,
grapples with the monster, dti grounds con
secrated by the Sou of God and prevails
and triumphs! It is then that man looks
upon the fallen pillars in which he had glo
ried, with a smile, and beholds unmoved
the crumbling tabernacle—now fledged, he
breaks his bonds, and flies away to dipjhis
pinions in the font of uncreated light.
The Gmvc. —The grave, when visited
thoughtfully and alone, cannot but exert a
favorable moral influence. Its instructions
reach not the ear, indeed, hut they do reach
the hef.rt. By it, the departed friend is re
called in nil but a visible presence, and by
it, “he Icing dead, yet speakelb.” At such
a time, how faithfully will the grave of your
friend remind you of the pleasant moments
when yob were conversing with him in the
living tones of affection and truth ! when
you were opening your hearts to each oth
er, and becoming partakers, each of the oth
er’s hopes, anil purposes cud cares; when
with a generous confidence those secret
things were shown to one. another, which
were locked up in the Ijeait from all the
wot Id beside ! Will the grave of you? friend
allow you to forget his single-heartedness
in serving you ; his unsullied honor; his
plighted faith ; his readiness to expose him
self to danger that he might save you from
it; and the calmness with which, when he
perceived that his hold on life was breaking
away, he gave up life’s hopes, and, turning
liis eyes for ihc last lime to the light, and
looking up, for the last time, to the laces of
those who loved him, lie bade farewell to
nil, and gave up bis spirit to llio disposal of
his God I Is all this forgotten when you
stand by his gravel Docs not his Very
giave speak to you ? Does it not bear its
testimony to the value of youthful purity
and truth, and of the power of an humble
confidence in the Most High, to give digni
ty to the character of the young, and to dis
arm Death of the most dreadful of his wea
pons, ertin when lie comes for his most
dreadful work—to cut off life in the beauty
of its morning 1 Docsthetc not come up
from his grave a voice,like that which comes
down firini the skies—a voice not recant for
the ear, but addieased to the heart, and felt
by the lioait as the kindest and most serious
tones of the living ftiend were never felt 1
The Wonders <f Ancient. Egypt. —The
eminent German hierologist, Dr. Lensius,
at this time employed in Egypt by the Gov
ernment of Prussia, arid \yijui dates his let
ter at Gizeth, “ nt the foot of the pytamid
of Cheops,” says :
“ W arrived here on the Sili of Novem
ber, and here \vc have passed tiic first day’
of the new year. But who can foretell the
extent of the rich harve st we may reap on
this earliest scene of the history of mankind?
It is incredible iiow’ little this spot lias been
explored, though more visited than any oth
er part of Egypt.” * * * * The best
maps of this site hitherto produced repre
sented two tombs besides the pyramids, hav
ing particuhi icisciiptions and figures.—
Now r , we have drawn a minute topogroplu
cal plan of the whole monumental plain, nr.d
on this plan they arc marked, independent
ly of the pyi;irnids,yb/Vi/y? re tombs, whose
occupants 1 have ascertained by the inscrip
tions. I here ore altogether eighty-two
tombs, which, on account of theit inset ip
tious or other peculiarities, demand pnrtic
, ular attention. \\ itii the exception of about
; iuJ".,
these tombs were erected contemporaneous
ly with or soon alter the building of the
great pyt amid, and consequently their dates
throw an invaluable light on the studv of
human civilization in the most remote peri
od of antiquity. * * * The sculptures
in relief are surprisingly numerous, and re-
whole figures, some the size of life,
and other* pf varinusdi-mensions. * * *
The paintings are on back grounds of the
finest chalk. They are numerous and beau
tiful beyond conception — as fesh and per
fect ass finished ycs/irAc.y. The pictures
and sculptures on the wails i>f the tombs,
represent, for tbe most part, scones in *hc
lives of tho deceased persons, whose wealth
in cattle, fish, boats, servants. &c. is osten
tatiously displayed before the eye of the
spectator. All this gives an insight into the
details of private life among the ancient
Egyptians. * * * * By the help of
these inscriptions I think 1 could, without
difficulty, make a- Court Calendar of the
reign of King Cheops. * * * * In
some instances 1 have traced the ginves of
father,son, grandson, and even great-grand
son—all that now remains of the distinguish
ed families which five thousand years ago
formed the nobility of the land. * * * *
I now employ daily fifty or sixty men in
digging and oilier kinds of labor, and a lntgc
excavation lias been made in front of the
great Sp’nynx.”
From this account of the actual state of
j Egyptian researches, we perceive there is
ample opportunity for more extensive dis
coveries than have yet been made; and the
extraordinary character of those already be
fore the public cannot fail to stimulate* and
! encourage us in our researches.
Fear of Death. —Among the Chinese, the
fear of death is distressing. Their imagi
nation has invented no fewer than Jen hells.
Ouo is stuck full of knives ; another an iron
boiler full of scalding water; another of
cold ire ; another is full of poisonous ser
pents ; in another the victim is drawn to
pieces ; another is a hell of blackness and
darkness. You may hear them praying.
*’ May I not fall into the hell of swords—of
serpents —of boiling water,” &c. 1 bring
this forward to show that, to some extent,
they are crying out. •• What shall 1 do to
be saved 1”
Is there one here who will refuse to soy,
“Exert yourselves to the utmost to carry
the gojple to evpty creature 1”
Good Advice— Quit your pillow, and go
about your business, if you have any—it is
the lirsr injunction, if not, seek some. Let
the sun's first rays shine upon your head in
the morning, and you shall not want a hat
to defend you from its scotching lays at
noon. Earn your breakfast before you eat
it, and the shei lfl shall not deprive you of
youi supper. Pursue your railing withdil
geuce, and your ft editor shall not interrupt
you. Be temperate and your physician
shall look iri vain for your name on his day
book. If you have a small farm, or a trade
that will support your family, and add a
hundred dollars a year loyniircapital he con
tented, and never rori yourself bald in pursuit
of state scrip and water 1031 in the west.
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M33©SL-i.AMY.
Divorces. Courtship, Maniage, fye.—Ap
plications for divorces seem to ho very fre
quent of late, in certain parts of this count tv.
Matrimony is a most sacred contract. It
should hot he entered into without <!<> de
liberation, and the knot once tied end sancti
fied aswellbv the laws of God nsof man, lire
husband should not be permitted to put
away liis wife, or the wife her husband! for
any but the most important considerations.
Nothing, as it seems to us is more calculated
to unhinge society, to corrupt the heart, and
to weaken the obligations between parent
ar.d child, than discontent and discord in
wedded life, and as a consequence, efforts
at disunion and divorce. Perhaps a great
error may be attributed in the first place to
hasty mat ringe, and in the second, to an in
disposition after mart iage in the patties to
amend their faults >f temper, and to over
look impel lections of character in each oth
er. How many ill-assorted matches are
there in the world ! Ilovv many couples
enter into contract for life, who know little
or nothing of ench other’s character, mind or
infii/nities. How many, moreover, ate there,
who, imperfect thenrseives, cannot overlook
or forgive the imperfections of others!—
What rashness, what impropriety, what
wrong, characterize the system of coin!ship,
as too generally canied on in this count ty !
How frequently do we discover that match
es made in a moment tis haste, and influ
enced altogether by mercenary motives, ter
minate in the most frightful family chaos.-
Young people are too apt to look at the
vvorid through a false medium. Young fe
males especially are taught in many ca. es to
believe that on early marriage is the great
aim of woman’s ambition. A lover is dar
ling object of their dreams, long brfore they
have passed their teens. Mere lads are
sometimes permitted to address them for
years, without the ability in tbe first place
to decide ns to the nature of their own feel
ings. as to tbe trials and vicissitudes of the
vvfilld, or as to their prospect fir discharg
ing the duties which devolve on the head of
a family. Parents are often to blame in
these cases. They permit tlieii daughters
to associate with those whom they would
not choose as husbands for their children,
and yet are surprised when, under such cir
cumstances, attachments are formed, nr.d
runaway matches take-place. They subject
the young and inexperienced to influences,
which ate calculated to touch the hearts and
bewilder the minds of such and yet are hor
rified when the result is a love scrape and
an ill-advised marriage.
But older heads are frequently involved
in matrimony, without due consideration.—
Too few seek for reciprocity of taste, dispo
sition, morals and manners in the partners
of their matrimonial engagements. Im
pulse, momentary feeling, hnsiy fancy, or
mercenary motives govern and control too
many courtships in this country. Someone
lias said that “ill assorted matches ate gen
erally early ones, and that courtships earned
on under the sanction of friends, are seldom
broken off, except it be wise they should.”
There is truth and force in this. V. e sec it
icaliz.t:i} ohooist o t'ij llay. 6tmctfniCs, XTfi
admit, pat ents are too obstinate, and consult
ambition, rank in life, and pecuniary con
siderations, rather than the real welfare and
true happiness of their children. But these
instances are rare, very rare. The happiest
marriages ir. the vast majority of cases, are
those which secure the brightness of a pa
rent’s approving smile. Having lived long
er and seen more of the world than their
children, and feeling too, that in the joys
and sorrows of those children they will deep
ly participate, and live over, as it were a
second life, the father and mother are sel
dom apt to form an erroneous judgment.
\V e would not have mammon toenterloo
largely into considerations connected with
rsatirmonv. Far better for a female to be
blessed wf'h a husband who, kind and un
tiring in his attentions to her, is temperate,
intelligent, prudent Otid active—who never
feels happier than when at home, or in the
pursuit of liis proper vocation —fat better,
vve say, for a woman to choose such a com
panion, than one mote r.ffiuet t, but less de
voted. upright and industrious. In the one
case she will possess sources of constant de
pendence, while in the other, the first cold
storm of misfortune may reduce the pecuni
ary moans, ami at tho snino time dissipate
the and ream of affection. Frederika Bremer
draws an admirable portrait of a husband in
her story of the Neighbors. “Thank God!”
snvs her heroine, when alluding to her hus
band, who with a rough exterior, is describ
ed as possessing a superior intellect and a
noble nature—“ Thank God, that Lars An
ders is no gloomy secret. His soul is clear
and undisguised as God’s daylight and this
constitutes the blessedness of united life and
peace of home.” Again, on the other hand,
contrasting a lawful and unlawful object of
ftfleclion, she says :
He treats her harshly, hut she hears all
with shiv ir, It servility. How deep must a
woman have sunk before she can suffer her
self to he so treated, and like a hound, creep
fawning to the fool which kicks it away !
How unlike to this spirit of a slave is the
free, unassuming mind, with which an hon
ored and beloved wife devotes herself to the
object of her pure devotion !”
VV e will only odd. in the language of a j
true philosopher, that a “ lover’s quarrel has
oftentimes spated manya matrimonial squab
ble, nod were both patties to weigh duly
their mutual unfitness before uniting them- ;
selves, w hat loads of misery might be avert- i
ed.”— Phila. Inquirer.
Our Rail-Road. —A novel and interest
ing sight was witnessed on Saturday after
noon, on our Rail Road. The arrival of
one locomotive with a train of 72 ears, all
loaded, and forming a line of very near a
quarter of a mile. The weight of the whole
amounted to perhaps near 340 tons. The
locomotive is anew one called the Camel,
three of which have been built by Messrs.
Baldwin and Whitney, in Philadelphia for
our Rail-Road. It is expected lhat 1000
hales of Cotton can he brought iu one trip
by this powerful engine. The other two
are shortly expected, and will no doubt
herenftergreatly expedite the transportation
both up and down on the Road.— Chaileston
Mercuri/.
The Soldier's Dog. —The following char
acteristic and touching anecdote is related
in one of Mr. Chandler’s recent letters front
Montreal to the U. S. Gazette :
The great attraction for the voting folks
in this city ate the parades of the two regi
ments of British soldiers. The “ Champ de
Mars” is beautifully adapted, net only-foe
the evolutions of a regiment of about a t lion
sand, but also for tbe lurgo number of both
sexes who gather to see the military display
tnd to hoar the music of the two fine bands.
On Tuesday morning the Highland regi
ment was out for a special display, and the
movements wero marked by a delightful
precision ; but 1 noticed that the ladies were
greatly attracted by tbe musicians, who, on
that occasion, were in iich taitim, having in
front five full-dressed pipers. These men
wore iri tbeir caps a single stiaight feather,
that looked ns. sharp and fierce as in llio best
‘days of I\ob Roy ; while their legs, naked
upward front the knees, had quite a sum
mery appeal once.
As the battalions marched 1 noticed that
tbe only being that ventured upon tbe mili
tary ground, besides the military themselves,
was a large black dog. He seemed to un
derstand the orders of the Colonel, and
(hough he could neither aid in “ taking open
orders” with the “tear rank,” nor in wheel
ing into columns with tho whole, yet he
evinced much tact in avoiding tlya tread of
the soldiery in their rapid movements, and
that, without evincing utiy of that haste
which is unbecoming a gentlemanly dog.—
Wheu the music joined the regiment, the
dog took up his march with the band, and
seemed pleased with the rich Scotcli aits to
w hich ‘die battalions marched. He evident
ly understood them, and evinced both taste
and politeness by making no sign of appro
val until the musicians had completed a tune,
‘flip dog had completely go{ into the spirit
of the time and place, and was enjoying the
parade and music with special gusto. There
was a place in the rank of the musicians un
filled, and the dog took his position there
and completed the square as they marched
in column.
At length there was a halt, and almost im
mediately the band struck up that plaintive
Scotch air to which Dempster sings liis
words of the “ Irish Emigrant,” it was ex
quisitely performed. The poor dog, how
ever, left the ranks, walked slowly the dis
tance of a rod or two and sat quietly down,
throwing liis head a little? one side, os if to
catch every note of the tune, and evincing a
sort of melancholy pleasure in the perform
nrice. Ait length the music ceased, and the
dog rose slowly, and with a sort of measured
slop left the parade.
Prior dog I —lie had been the property of
one of the musicians; his master, whose
place was vacant in tbe band, had brought
him across the Atlantic, and during the sick
ness which ultimately laid him in the grave,
he w'cs wont to play the tune which the
band bad just petforfiU'd. The dog had
learned to love music—fur the sake of his
master first, and then for music alone—but
that tune awoke tbe memory of other days
as clearly and distinctly as you and I recall
to the memory of each other some kind and
Wart-broken friend whom fate has brought
to an caily grave.
I would have given money for such a dog,
but it would have been a shame, if not a sin,
to tear him away from sucli associations.
The Deaf shall speak. —Tito cotnmunica
| tion below confirms a most extraordinary
| statement made not long since, that there is
| a language for the dumb. Roar! it citizens
j —republish it printers. —Baptist Banner.
i- Messrs. Editors : —I believe that p oldish
-1 ers of newspapers generally publish every
j information they can that has a tendency to
j improve the condition of their fellow man,
j especially such portion as may be laboring
under any affliction. • You, no doubt, Messrs.
Editors, are avv&ie that at Danville, Ky.,
there is an institution for instructing those
who have the the misfortune to be (leaf unci
dumb. In that institution they are taught to
read and write, and interchange ideas by
signs; but to teach them to speak, had not
as yet been thought practicable.
Some time since, l saw a communication
in the Baptist Banner and Pioneer, signed
by a gentleman of unquestionable veracity,
stating that mutes could he taught to speak
and read audibly. I must confess that 1
vests skeptical, and almost doubted it, still
the name of the author of the paragraph al
luded to, was a sufficient guaranty for its
correctness. Gentlemen, some time since
I was in Chrisficu county, and called on the
Rev. Mr. Anderson, on business; in the
course of conversation whilst there, he men
tioned having a deaf and .dumb boy, with
him. I suggested the necessity’ of sending
him to the Deaf-and Dumb Asylurit, Dan
ville. He, (Mr. A.) leplied, be could tracli
Him better than they could there. You
know that mutes make ejaculations indica
tive of Fear, Hope, Pleasure, Pain, and Sur
prise. From a knowledge of these facts,
Mr. Anderson conceived and discovered a
method by which he can teach them to rend
and speak. This is no fiction, but facts ;
for ojje boy under his tuition but four months
was examined in my presence, and he read
very’ correctly, and pronounced very dis
tinctly words of two syllables.
J should not trouble you with this com
munication, oidy from the fact that there are
a great many no doubt, did they but know
that mutes could bo taught to read, would
avail themselves of the Rev. gentleman’s in
struction; and L hope that, editors general
ly, friendly to instruction, will republish this
communication.
Any person doubting the correctness of
the above statement, can be satisfied by vis
iting Mr. Anderson at his residence, four
miles from Oak Grove, in Christian county,
in this State.
I do not write litis to puff the gentlemnri,
but simply to give publicity to the fact, that
a discovery of incalculable value lias been
made for that afflicted and interesting por
tion of the human family.— Whig.
I
What a curious being a Printer is. lie ,
stands when he sets, and sets when he stands, I
and when ho wishes to set with ease lie al
ways stands erect. It is, however, the na
ture of the cate which causes him to stand.
Personalities in Congress. —The manner
in which green members of Congress are
sometimes dishnnotnbly thiven from their
positions liy old and brazen faced politicians,
is a keen mortification to their friends.—
Members of the legal profession, wim have
served a severe apprenticeship in the dis
cussions of the bar, and are profoundly skill
ed in tiie mysteries of brow-beuting, arc-not
unfrequently found utteily incompetent to
meet their inferiors on another scene. The
following oeeuirer.ee, which took place
many years ago, and which we have never
seen in print, except in an old number of
the Law Reporter, is a gratifying arid rare
exception. The famous George McDuffie,
of.South Carolina, then niemhet of the Na
tional House of Representatives, in a speech
upon that floor, made some running and in
direct attacks upon Mr. Trim bio, i member
from Oiiio, who wan not at tli.it time greatly
distinguished in the House, end it was a sub
ject of some icicles!, to see what steps be
would pursue. Every body who heard Mr.
McDuffie, was well aware that his rennnks
were intended to have a personal applica
tion, But so carefully were they guarded by
skilful phraseology,that to resent them would
seem like fitting a coat to one’s own back,
not intended for bis weaving. Trimble,
however, replied the next day in a speech
of exactly the same character. He covert
ly and with great ingenuity attacked Mc-
Duffie in the same style, without making any
application to himself of the speech to which
he was replying, thus throwing upon his op
ponent all the tesponsihility of n quarrel.—
At the close of Trimble's reply, McDuffie
rose and in a maimer and aspect of vehe
ment defiance, demanded a direct answer to
the question, whether the member from
Ohio meant to be personal towards himself,
in the remarks juftl submitted to the House?
The member from Ohio lose and addressed
the speaker: “The member fiom South
Carolina donands of me an answer to his
question. 1 give it to him in n question to
himself. Did lie mean to lie personal to
wards me, in his remarks of yesterday ? If
liedid, then 1 did in mine of to day. If lie
did not, I did not. He has my answer. If
the member from South Carolina meant no
thing personal towards myself in the rc
maiks lie yesterday submitted to the House,
then 1 did not mean to reflect personally
. upon him, or may I never see the smile of
God ! If the member ftnm South Carolina
meant aught personal with regard to me,
then, 1 meant tube just as personal towatrls
him, or tuey the lightnings of heaven Ely: t
mo where I stand !” Mr. McDuffie never
replied. The reader may judge who took
most by liis motion.
Paitorial Writings. — A few days ago
the National Intelligencer had some sensi
ble remarks or. the subject of editing a pa
per. One idea expressed has frequently
struck us with great force. Many people
estimate the ability of a newspaper, and the
industry and talents of its editor, by the va
riety and quantity of editorial matter which
it contains. Nothing can he more fallacious.
It is comparatively an easy task fir a frothy
writer to pour out, daily coining of i cards—
words, upon any and all subjects. His ideas
may flow in “one weak, washy, everlasting
flood,” and his command of language mnv
enable him to string them together, like
hunches of onions ; and yet his paper may
nc a meager and poof conceit). But what
is the labor, the toil of such a man, who dis
plays his “leaded matter” ever so largely,
to that imposed upon the judicious, well in
formed editor, who exercises his vocation
with an hourly consciousness of its responsi
bilities and its duties, and devotes himself
to the conduct of his paper with the .same
care and assiduity that a sensible lawyer
bestows upon a suit, or a humane physician
upon a patient, without tegrml to show or
display! Indeed the mere writing part of
a paper, is hut a small portion of the
work. ‘1 he industry is not even shown
there. ‘1 lie care the time, employed in
selecting is far more important—arid tlie fact
of n good editor is better shown by his se
lections than by any thing else ; and that,
we all know, is halt the battle. But as we
have said, an editor ought to he estimated,
and his labors understood arid appreciated,
by the general conduct of his paper—its
tone—its temper —its manner—its uniform,
consistent course—its principles—its aims
—its manliness—its dignity—its propriety.
To preserve all these, as they should he
preserved, is enough to occupy fully the
time and attention of any man. If to this
be added the general supervision of the
newspaper establishment, which most edi
tors have to encounter, the wonder is, how
they can find time, or “room,” to write at
all.—Alexandria Gazette.
Practical Joke at the Springs. —A rather
seyere practical joke, we are told, was play
ed off at one of the large and ciowded ho
tels at Saratoga last week, which although
highly censurable, must have produced
many ludicrous and so.ne distressing scenes.
It seems that some young larks had been
engaged most of the night in amusements
quite common to “ southern bloods,” and
returned to the hotel some hour or two after
the clock had began to strike little ones.
By concert among themselves, they each re
paired to one of the lotighalls, on both sides
of which the sleeping rooms are lunged.
Starting at the same moment, they tori the
entire length of the building, screaming
“ Fire ! Fire!” at the top of their voices.
‘I hecry was terrific,and in a public house,
containing some five or six hundred people,
the uproar was alike unusual and astonish
ing. Men, women arid children—scream
ing, running and flying, rushing from their
rooms in all sorts of conditions—enveloped
in blankets, quilts and sheets, or extreme
dishabille. Such a scene as was here pre?
sented by an army of six hundred fashiona
ble people, besides a lesser army (the “camp
followers,”) of porters, boots, waiters and
servants, ive are assured, was indescriba
ble 1 Confusion, uproar, hubbub, terror !
How they all got quiet and back to bed
ngaiti—Hot to sleep, we’ll be bound—our
informant did not slop to inquire. There
was a row about the affair next day. and
liked to have been some fighting—“pistols
and coffee” were talked about, something
largely! This for Saratoga sport}
Home Manufacture and Southern Cotton,
Wo call attention to the following extract
of a letter .from the North. It will be seen l
from nil the evidence before us, that ouf
Northern manufactures here mused an im-r
mediate rise in the price of 100,000 hales of
cotton, beside the prospective advantage in
our markets. This improvement at the
North will react in England too. It iiumlvi
a si tort time since that 1000 hales more oV
cotton goods were ordered nt the Notth f,„.
the English market. This movement of
trade is worthy of careful notice :— Sav. He
publican.
New Yokk, Sept. 11, 1843.
You need be under no apprehension for
the stork of cotton here; nt the rate the
mnnufactuters are going oft, they will soon
use if up. Hie impulse to the consumption
is t riormous. They cannot, with all their
appliances at the mills supply the demand.
It seems our goods are doing extremely well
in China,those gentlemen buying by weight.
Before you can sicken the New Yolk mar
ket, you must semi ."0 or 50 thousand bales
j mi>rc cotton to it. The last steamer brought
I home people, not one of whom could obtain
I nil the goods they went for. Some of the
violent oppnscrs rtf cotton ore among the
speculators in cotton on both sides. An ad
vance of n farthing, which the coming steam
er will doubtless bring, ■will liberate a good
! chance of cotton.
f — r
The Cotton Crop. —The last number of
tbe Merchants’ and Planters’ Price Cut rent,
published at Mobile, gives its mutual review
of the Mobile maikct. It is elaborately and
carefully made, but is too long ft r us. The
editor’s speculations upon the crop now
coming in strike us as judicious, and there
fore we give them :
In icgard to tbe forthcoming cotton crop,
we are indisposed to any speculative opin
ions. The prosper t throughout the country
is decidedly unfavorable, and the most san
guine calculations lull short of two millions
of bales w bile othrts do tint go beyond eigh
teen hundred thousand. The prominent
obstacles in the way of n large crop this
year, are the result of an unusually late
spring, and unseasonable weather since;
from the efTeVts of which it is now consider
ed impossible for it to recover. In addition
to this, the expeiit nee of former years go
to establish the occurrence of early frosts
after a late spring, as something more than
n mere eoiiu idente—and hence, it is gener
ally anticipated that the present season will
he rut short through this agency. In the
absence of frost, and dry weather, cotton
will continue to mature until the latter pait
of November, and even (as was the case in
JS2O) into the month of December, it can
not, therefore, be otherwise than highly in*
i jurintrs to the crop, should we be visited by
eaily frosts—especially in a reason like the
present, where the picking of the crop was
retarded nearly three weeks l*eyom the
usual period. An excess of rain since, in
ducing a rank g rowth of tire weed, has done
much injutv; thy plant lint; not branched
oil’ properly, and, in consequence, is very
deficient in bolls. In addition to this, too
much humidity of atmosphere prevents the
maturity of the fruit otr the lower part of the
stalks, winch, iri the incipient, as we!] as ;he
more advanced stale, is either sited off or
rots on tire stalk, while the top mov exhibit
a health}’ fruit ftrl appeal mice. In poitions
of our own State, and generally in the ad
jo nine counties of Mississippi, the prospect
is con odeud good for more than an av< rage
crop—in the opinion of many, vi;h favora
ble wcall er and a late frost, the yield may
approximate neatly to last year’s. Tire con
dition of the crop, h< n ever, in other sections
; <4 both States, being much less favorable,
the average production will be consequently
reduced.
Value of Agricultural Beds and Period
icals.—A good practical farmer con acquire
much additions] knowledge, which will be
of immense benefit, from well written ngri
cultural works explaining the great princi
ples of agricult tire,-and of chemistry as ap
plied to agriculture.
The T>fy Wiiig states that a young man
of five and twenty, a native of the rity -of
New York am) a graduate of Columbia Col
lege, has given his neighbors in that part of
the State, a specimen of what improvements,
can he effected upon a wornout farm by
studying Liebig and other authors in ngii
eultural chemistry. Although he has been
a fainter for only two years, lie has raised
this year, from 140 acres, which before he
took possess if mi of them were nearly worth
less, 1000 bushels of corn, 500 bushels of
oats, 300 bushels’ of rye, 60 tons of hay,
1500 bushels of potatoes. His neighbors
laughed at him when he commenced his
operations, and prophesied iris failure ; but
nothing daunted, lie persisted, and his suPi
cess has been ttiumphant. So will it be
with others who imitate his example.
Reduction rs Postage. —Mr. Kendall, in
the Expositor, af-gues that the letter post
age cannot be reduced without seriously
diminishing the revenue, unless newspapers,
magazines, and other printed matter, con
veyed through the medium of the mails, be
subjected to a postage equivalent so the ex
pense incurred in their transportation, or
that “the Department should be relieved,
by a purchase of free passage for the mails
over the railroads, from the heavy sum it
now pays them fur mail transportation.”—
He says, “ Our remedy is to abolish the
franking privilege, and make every thing
carried by mail pay the cost of transporta
tion. As to the railroads, we have never
doubted the jioiccr of the’governmcnt to use
them for the transportation of the mail, with
nr without the consent of their owners, al
lowing them a fair compensation for that
use. VV a have no ideathat a corpoiation road
is more sacred than a State road, or that the
Stale can confer on their citizens on immunity
which they do not themselves enjoy. Nor
do we concede that corporated property is
a whit more exempt from being taken for
public use than individual property. But
the pi ess lias not, as it ought, defended the
rights of the government end people in this
respect; and a large portion of it. whilog’
detnatiding a reduction of postages, has sus
tained the railroads in those exhnrbitant de
mands for carrying the mails which teuder
a reduction impossible,”