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A Good Artevdote.~- In or.** of <>ur West
ern Sihtes there lived Hti old gentleman
named Brown, who had a most beautiful
daughter; anil, ns is the case generally.,. {*■
regarding pretty girls. she lihl many suit*
tits. Among tin* number, was one nntried
Weller. who was so fortunate ns lit have
gained the girl’s heat!: lait so uulueky as j
to meet with no favor from the old gentle- j
man. Mary, for that was hei name, was 1
taken sick, and her lover hearing of it post
ed off to see his lady love. At the door lie
met Mr. Blown, ami rtiquir* and about Miss
Mary’s health. Sin ‘s very sick, said lie.
Cmi’t I see her ? said Weller. No. no,
what ran you do for her ? said the old man.
What ran 1 tin for her? reiterated the lov
er. Why, I*ll M\KK her —Wkll-f.R in less
than an hour 1 Tim gained him .uhnittance;
and sure enough in less than the stipulated
lime, Mary was—Wei.-i.er!
An old minister in Scotland, was appoint
ed by his Preshytry to communicate their
decision to a young man wlm had applied
to he liscens**cl to preach. His employ
ment had been the matnifaetme of besom*.
(blooms) nnd having been converted in the
ardor of his fits! love, he thought he must
he a preacher. The Preshyliy examined
him, aid I ting thtit'ttl in nth iims.
they declined his appl ration : and the can
didate being called in to hear the result, the
old clergyman said to him with gieat delibe
ration, ** My young friend, the Lotd re
quires every man to glotify him in some
particular calling, some in one. and some
in another, accniding In the talents lie hath
committed unto them: and the Preshytry
are of opinion that the Lord desires that
ynu should glorify luni in making besoms.”
The ‘* Fruitful. For T Vest." —Not a little
did wp laitgli oil reading the following hu
morous letter which appeared originally in
the Memphis Eagle. The editor of the
Eagle winds up an article in relation to the
extreme fruitfulness of the “Far West”
with this epistle :
“ Peru’ Cousin —I have another daughter,
named . making six children al
ready. I declare. J . lam almost cra
zy sometimes when I think and look upon
the host of brats around me. I have no
time to do anything in the wot Id hut stay
at home and drudge and scold. I dorit ex
pect to stop under fifieen children, ami trie
thought is not at all gratifying But we
Should have expected nothing else before
we came out. Everything grows in pro
pottion, am? so 1 suppose 1 have no reason
to complain. Affectionately,” &c.
The Weaker Vessel." —Some years
since a man was tried in the Court of
Worcester county, Maryland, on a present
ment for assault ami battery on his ** i(V, she
was iutioducei? as a witness against him and
he was fined. Judge M. after he had caused
this fine to he entered, administered a lec
ture to the man to this effect : *’ The Court
hope vnu will not he brought before them
for a similar offence. You should always
hear in mind that the wife is the weaker ves
sel.” To which admonition, the man tcplicd,
apparently forgetting his position, “Blast
her if she he the weaker vessel, why does
she carry so much sail f ’ 1 lie bench, bar,
and bystanders were convulsed with laugh
ter.”
Mr. Curran, who was a vety small man.
having a dispute with a brother counsel,
who was a very stout man, at which words
ran high on both sides called hint out.—
The other, however, objected, for said lie
••you are so little that 1 tuny fiie at you a
dozen times without hitting, whereas the
chance is von would shoot me at the first
fire.” “Upon my conscience, that’s true!”
replied Curran, “ lint to convince you that
1 don’t wish to take any ad\au age, you
may chalk inv size upon your body, ami all
“-Ifirs out- of the ring shall go for nothing.”
Editorial. Wealth. —The editor of the
Memphis Enquirer talk'! about several lliou
saiid doll us that he Inis accumulated “in
the hands of his iion-paying patrons I” He
has, tin doubt, also built himself t magnifi
cent mansion —in the air /
Mo®© H L L
A Frozen Waterfall. —The beautiful
waterfalls on the C iitenangn, fuming in
summer a cascade neai Iv one Imiulied and
foitv feet in height, have been entirely fto
zen during the excessive cold in tile early
pait of the month. The Cazenuvis Eagle
thus describes what must, indeed, have
been a beautiful sight :— N. Y. Post.
“ Cut ions to see how they had been af
fected bv the frost, (the mercuiy having
sunk on eiglii or ten succes-ive nights to
from two to fifieen degrees below zero.)
we visited them the other day, ami on des
cending the long steep path which leads to
the stream below the fall, we were reiyatd
ded by a spectacle far beyond our cxpccla
tinns, ad more beautiful than our fancy
had ever painted. The whole fall, from
summit to base, ami more ilihii :ui hundred
feet in width, was completely enshrouded
in ice. so thickly as to pieveut the usual
ly noisy cascade from being heard save in a
low gurgle, and to hide it entirely fnun
view, except where, at one point, the veil
was so thin as to allow the dashing water to
show through.
On the ledges, it spread into broad drift
like masses, frozen into a thousand liny
shells ond undulations, which caused a pro
saic lady of our patty to compare it to a
great cauliflower; but the pcipetidicular
pitches were hanging with myiids of icicles,
varying in length tinm.twenty feet to an
inch, with whielrlnH-t.lie Inrgei ones hus
tled through their length. Where these
Imng near a tecess in It -ice, a f i it, lion,
lucent gieenisli tinge was peiceplilile;
otherwise the color was pure white, like
alabaster, and the general appearance of
flie whole, was that of a gigantic mass if
jtiilucnre—like these which we had seen
taken from the, great cavern Scholia l it—
nml contrasted finely with the grey’ locks
nmj dark evergreens ini* either ■ sidt:< _.Tlit;.i
fuse spread out on life -frozen basin below
in a gradual slope, up which some of
our patty, both ladies and gentlemen, 1
scrambled, till they could stand under a
smt of inverted Gothic canopy of icicles,
■ mid formed, in tlieir many nmlflings, a group
quite in character with the arctic air of the
whole. The trees at the lop. laden down
with iiicmsted icp, 'bent like feathers over
all, anil formed as graceful a finish as could
have been designed.
The beautiful ol jert was formed by the
fieczing of the -play on the locks at the
bottom, and the broad shelves almvc. in
constantly increasing piles, until rising
higher ami higher, it concealed the whole
cascade. Checked ill some degree by the
ice. tills front the stieant spread nut far
wider than in summer, and dripping over
the frozen mass, decorated it with ihiiii
amis of pemb-nts, until the thickness of the
covering funning some pioterlion against
the intense cold, the passage below became
cleared, arnl the water flowed freely be
neath its singular stream.
The March rs Fanaticism. —They talk
of tb*’ progress of the age. the melliorHtion
of humanity, the enlightenment of the peo
ple, and such like holiday phrases, as if
they were the signs of ceitain liuihs which
really li'ul an existence. For our own part,
when we hear of the growth of Nnuxoo
ami the flourish of the ten times exploded
humbug of Milleii.-m, we are inclined to
label the present as the match of fanaticism;
and w lieu cousidei ilig the squabbles of
cliuiehiiifii mid the bitterness of parlizans,
we feel a still gienlel disposition to trim
this the age of bigotry anil pi ascription.—
To such a pitch has the prnsetipin cues* of
bigots, Imtli in politics Hint religion, miseti,
that no man, ambitions for popular or pub
lic distinction. dares manifest any individu
ul independence of action or opinion. The
principle of association — though not, we
hope in exactly the same shape advocated
by Phalanx—p>evades all classes, all tanks
and all circles of society : while those whose
luaius or whose position prohibit them
fmm contending in the great niena of the
Common world Hy off into Millerism, Mor
monism, or some kindred humbug, and en
ileavoi to make up in zeal anil madness for
their miiiiial deficiency of common sense
and common honesty.
After the repeated blowing up of his ab
smd nonsense in this city, ami the complete
and utter ridicule with which its disciples
have time and again beet coveted, one
would have thought ilia: Father Miller
would quietly suffer Ins humbug to he for
gotten, and hime'f Hlmig with it. But tin
this is not his game. In defiance of the
I.IK. which the reiteiated failute of bis pre
dictions has h.amled on the fiont of his
theory, yet he goes boldly to work again,
here in the gieat rnetiopoiis of the most
enlightened nation on earth—and the result
has proved that lie is a slitewd and cun
ning calculator! Although such tilings ap
pear inciedible, yet it is a lamentable fad
that, dining his late preachments in this
city—in lint face and eyes fa total failure
of his prophecies not thiee mouths old
thousands and thousands of the weak, silly
hearted, and foolisbsh beaited—combusti
ble plain women and lickety youths ar.d
old maidens, have joined anew the cry and
have gravely ly gone about making po-puia
tiotis for the speedy end of the wot Id !
Elsewhere, we see, the game is carried
on in a still mme disgusting manner—and
of eotnse, with a corresponding increase
of success. ‘I he beautiful and romantic
village of Poitland Maine, is just now the
seem- of a tiemendoiis excitement on the
subject of Milletism, which is almost too
monstrous for belief. ’1 he Bulletin thus
speaks of the proceedings there:
“ Some of tin* master spiti s in Boston,
Elder Hawley among others, seems in
clined to put off the giand explosion fiu
seventy years (!) hut such dilatory nieasmes
w.ll not do for the devotees who ohseive
their orgies at the Beethoven Hull, in this
city.
“ We ur.dersfnnd that they have lately
impoiled from the City of Notions, as their
Brian tic liras Gilbert, an ebony specimen
of the genus homo—a real southern sambo,
who like the knights and sqniies of old, can
neither lead, write oi cypher; but for all
this be has a powerful influence nil the tank
and tile, cun wmk them up into h perfect
fury or allay their passions, at his will—a
fit lender (hr the emprise of the Milletites.
“ The gieat finite of this deluded enthusi
ast lies in reciting the wonders which lie
has seen in two visions, while in a trance—
and which are considered by tlie credulous
as tb* 1 revelations of the Ituler of the Uni
verse. There is a strrtrh in the present
fanaticism which out Hcrods all tlieit for
mer efforts.
“ The gi.-t of tin* first vision which the
black <h tails, and which the wondering
hiethrcn receive with open mouths, is this;
” While in Boston, (we believe it was in
Boston,) lie fell into a Malice, whetein his
soul was absent fmm his body twelve limns!
During this trance, hii angelic conductor
took him up through two seas of glass.—
1 lie suifare of the second sea was “level
as a floor” us far us the eye multi reach,
anil was coveted with innumerable hosts of
beings with gold ami silver wing* Gml was
then* in tile shape of a vast mountain, and
C’luist was an exceedingly tall angel. Ever
anti anmi a voice came from the mountain,
when the whole host bowed down; and
when they bowed down, lie could see the
wot hi mi file tlilougli the seas of gliiss !
His shilling attendant inhumed him tliMt the
time was almost come for the consumma
tion of all tilings!
“ In Ills second vision he was conducted
ton bar of fire, (perhaps this was an alle
gorical allusion to a rum shop.) He was ta
ken nvei this bur, while many others, an
innumerable host, among whom were church
member*, even, fell short. Sic. Sc c.—and
fat down below, lie could see them suffer
ing in torment !”
Is not this too humiliating a phase of
pom human nature to l>e contemplated with
any tiling like complacency 1 Does not a
man, in view of tlie.se demonstrations of
what man is capable of, become ashamed
of his race and almost of himself? For
our own part, if it were not fora few great
and noble nature ß , (wlmse faults and errors
still given us assurance that .they are hu
man.) and whose memory we enaliriuc with
in our heart, rs a talisman to preserve ua
© CD nr ® m ie m p ibihlapit*
from a aarreligimis denmincislion of the
works of God. we should feel so utterly
degraded, in our race, *a to bee all hope
that mao is not horn to die.— N. Y. Aurora.
Execution by the Guillotine. —The Paris
rories|H>mleit of the National Intelligen
cer, thus describe* the execution in that cap
ital, outlie Ist instant, of a ciiminal by the
Guillotine.
Yesterday morning we saw what is now
rare in Paris—a public execution. The
guillotine is lie only mode. A man named
Salmon, Set ween 30 and 40 veais of age,
was cnnvictei on the 30ih September, of
having butchered, in the wood of Vincen
nes, a poor fe*low, to get possession of a
passport and certificate of chaiader. He
*•* ns prepaled for death by a priest, and
showed courage until he reached the foot of
the scaffold, w hen lie seemed to decline into
stupor, and was with difficulty pushed up
the few steps of the scaffold. This was
elected on the Place or square St. Jacques,
near the rity gate of that name. The exe
cution took place at eight o'clock. At this
early hour the small square was densely
crowded—about lluee thousand spectatuis,
of whom women and children of the com
mon class composed a large pinpotlinti.—
Silence prevailed, without any apparent
emotion. The chaplain temained below.
I may estimate I lie scaffold or platfoim
at nine feet squaip, on which were two men
besides the opeiator, and tins gcntl* trait —
styled executeur ties hautes rruvres —wore a
decent lilnck su't, without any disguise, head
bare. Salmon was fitst placed, with his
feet tied and bands fastened behind his
back, on an elect board, his face being lo
w-aid* it ; the board was then turned down,
so that the neck should ‘correspond exactly
totlie slider of the apparatus. On a mete
touen it fell instantaneously ; the tiunk of
the culprit was shoved at once into a latge
box at the side on a level with the platform
hy nne of the two attendants ; the olliet
seized the head and depositid it also in the
box, the lid rinsing at tlx) same second.—
H he whole atfiiii did nut consume more than
two minutes.
It is r tradition that the Doctor (Guillo
tine) who invented the machine, was a man
of humanity, who meant trt temper capital
punishment with the mercy of the gieatest
possible despatch, simplicity, and ceititude.
’1 his account of him may be believed at the
spertne'e. The baiter is barbarous, the old
axe and block were often atrocious. In 1807
and 1808, I witnessed two executions on
the Place de Greve, by the guillotine. The
method has been improved in some partic
ulars. The Government avoids an exhibi
tion in ordinury cases. For ibis putpose
early hours and distant sites ate preferred.
But it still pilhnies half a score at once, and
often on the Place de Uieve, opposite the
City Hall.
A Story with a Ritual. —A philosopher
fell in love with a widow as amiable as
beautiful. They wete both free, and it was
thniiglii the affair would shmily end in war
titige; hut tin* widow thought she would
assure herself better of the affeetion of hei
lover, for she was a coquette, so she pro
longed the rouitsliip. In the meanwhile
►he allowed the philosopher to pass nil bis
evenings at Iter house. Those weic happy
evenings for him, and the habit of so spend
ing them bad heeome a daily and ►uptime
necessity—any other relaxation appealed
impossible.
Yet out of one of these caprices so well
known to pretty women, the beautiful will
ow took it into her pietly head to qiiarte.
with her faithful admirer. He was denied
her bouse—it fell like a thunderbolt upon
the poor man. This event happened on a
Sunday, and the pliilosojdier passed bis first
evening in despaii ; Monday evening found
bint in anew t xeess of grief; Tuesday bis
misery was profound; Wednesday much
reflection dis|>osd him to Ix-ar his part
manfully ; Thmsilay In- passed his evening
at the theatie, where two light pieces af
forded him some amusement; Friday lie
went to a parly, at which there were some
very pietty women; Satnidav threw in bis
way a piquant adventurer—“ Never in my
life.” said lie, “ have 1 been so much amus
ed.” It was at this time that be teceived a
billet from the beautiful widow. Her ra
price w as over, the philosopher was recalled
to favor. “ It is too late,” he replied; “you
hive allowed me to see that 1 can pass my
evenings and amuse myself w ithout you ; I
►hall not marry again ”
Moral —The philosopher is the smoker
or gambler, the cigar or the favotite game
is the capricious and coquettish widow. In
a moment of spile or of thought the smok
er or the gambler has found that he can live
without the cigar or the favotite game.—
.■'making affects the breath, the teeth, the
lungs, and the pocket ; gambling, the purse,
the morals, manner* and mind. C’est le
premier pus qui route; it is only necessary
to set about conquering a vice or hud habit,
and it i* conquered.
Biting at the Ealed Hnoh. —As a minis
te was walking upon one of our eastern
whalves, he heard a man in a fishing Imnt
just pulled tip, sweating very profanely,
and renslveil on reproving him. For this
put pose he stepped up to the boat and be
gan to inquire concerning the manner of
taking fish. The fisherman answered this
iiupiity hv saying that for such a kind of
fish, lie baited Ids hook with such a material,
and for such a kind of fish, lie baited his
honk with such an article. Said the clergy
man, “do you not take any without bait ?”
” No,” said the fisherman, “i never did
but once; one fool bit tlie naked hook."—
” Well.” snicl the clergyman, “ the devil is
a gieat fisherman, and to take the ambitious,
be baits with the honor us the world, and
to take the avaricious, he bates with silver
and gold, and for the pleasure-seeker, be
baits with sensual gratifications; but the
orofane swearer is like your foolish fish, he
bites at the naked honk.”— Sword of Truth
When Prometheus stole fire from heaven
be burnt bis fingers.
When Job was afflicted in the highest de
gree be was jialieut as a lamb.
Trayeri* rmtsn rmch' t ‘ she gate of hciv* ’
•n” a* the. knocker of the gale,
Melancholy Casualty. —We regret to
lcaiutlie occurrence >f hii accident on Sat
unlay, 1 ?ilt instant. which resulteil in the
death of William Henderson. Esq. of Scriv
pii county. It <ifcuried near the 45 Mile
Station of the Centrul Rail Road, on the
Louisville Road. We are not in possession
of all the paitirnlars, Imt it appears that
Mr. Henderson was traveling on the Louis
ville Road, in the carnage of the lute R.
W. Flo., rnoy, with a negro hoy .hiving.—
It is presumed that the horses became
frightened and tan off—Mr. Henderson be
ing th.own from it it. one direction and the
boy in another.
Mr. Oliver, constructor for repairs, first
saw the hoy, who was laying on me ground
much injuted. Looking around lie anon dis
covered Mr. Henderson, who on being ques
tioned, pointed to his chest as being the
part most affected. Mr. H.t'ope, who was
near hv,soon arrived, and remarked to Mr.
Oliver that he did not think there was much
hope fir.the sutteter, when Mr. Henderson
observed that there was great hope, and im
mediately expired. The deceased was a
man most respected, and has left a wife and
family of young children.— Sar. Republican.
Peru. —The latest advices from Peril,
present that conntiy as harrassed hy revo
lutions, as usual, in consequence of the
number of ptetenders to political powet.
“ General Vivanco has lukcii possession
of the capital, and calls himself “ P’esident
of the Republic;” whilst a Get.end Castil
lo holds the country it. the neighhoihood of
Atica. and calls himself •* Supreme Chief
of the nation; and Genet', I Nieto holds the
Tacna, calling himself “ Supteme Chief.”
Each of these sets up for himself, and so,
apparently, does every man who ran gel
together n few liundterl ragamuffins under
the name of soldiers ; whilst all rcgnlat in
dustry is greatly impeded, and commercial
intercourse between different towns almost
entirely destroyed. It appeal* that on the
19th of August there was a very smart hat-,
tie ill the neighborhood of Tacua, between
the government troops (those of Gen Vi
vhiii-o) and the forces of Gen. Nieto, in
which the former was enliiely defeated,
and all their infantry taken prisoners ; so
that the “ President of the Republic” does
not seem likely very soon to have full pos
session of the country. At the dale of the
last advices, the ll.itd patty, under Gen.
Castillo, wore understood to he advanc
ing upon Tacua ; so that there would ptoh
ably be another struggle for the poases
son of that place.”
SHAVINGS AND SAW DUST.
The letter w enters into the composition
of woman, in all the relations of wife, wid
ow, wirgiu, and wixen.
A modest child, when covered with beef
gtavy, is too saucy to be pleasant.
Our hen laid a golden egg yesterday.—
YVe hull bed it at a broket’s, mid the pro
duct was an “ eagle ;” we let it go and
haven’t seen it since.
Very Good. —“A small sucker , my dear,”
as Mis. Fish said when she presented her
husband witli a pledge of connubial bliss.
The ants are so large in the State of
Ma iuethat they climb trees and bark.
Looking into a beautiful woman’s pyes
by moonlight, is taking a lunar observation,
and by sun-light, a soul- ar obsei vaiimi.
Rosseau tells us that to write a good
love-letter, you ought to begin without
knowing what you mean to say. ami to fin
ish without knowing what you have said.
“ Slippery times, these,” as the fellow
said w hen his heels flew up this morning.
“Yes, and hard ones loo,” responded a
chi p whose head had ju-t hit the pavement,
A Hint. — A woman should never take
a lover without the consent; of her heart;
nor a husband without the consent of hei
r<a*nu.
A traveler wtiting fmm Italy says that
the Roman Forum is now a cow maiket.
anil the palace of the CresHrs a rope-walk.
A History - *f remarkable events might
have for its frontispiece father Petieus or
Dtidanus pouring a river uut of a pitcher.
A correspondent has fnrnishpd the follow
ing receipts, for the efficacy of which he
gives his own name, w hich is excellent au
thority :
Cure fur Diarrhsea. —Parch a half pint of
rice until it is pet feet ly brown, boil it then
down as usually done, for twelve minutes,
(the proper time for boiling all rice.) eat it
slowly, and it will stop the most alarming
case in few hours.
Receipt for boiling Rice. —First, wash it
of its soitt particles, then put a handful of
salt into the pot. when the water boils sprin
kle in the ti< e. when boiled twelve minutes
hy the watch, pour the water off. and put the
pot, covered, close by the file to steam for
ten mill'll*?.— Norfolk Beacon.
To make good Rolls and Biscuits. —Put
two toB-spoon-ful cream of tartar into one
quart of dry flour, and dissolve three fourths
of a tea-spoonful of super rath soda in
warm new milk, sufficient, when mixed
with the flour, to make paste of the ordi
nary consistence for soft biscuit ; then
mix and bake in the form of biscuits or mils
for about twenty minute*.
Tliese direction* if strictly followed will
rentier the bread extremely light and rrf
superior whiteness and flavor, and is much
more healthy than the bread baked in the
ordinary way.
The receipc above has been for some
time in use by many families in this city,
and I am sure that any one who trie* it once
will not resort to the old fashioned way of
preparing the stall’ of life.— National Intel
ligencer.
To prevent Moulding in Books, Ink, Paste
and heather. —Collectors of Istoks will not
lie sorry to learn that a few drops of oil of
lavender will ensure their libraries from this
pest. A single drop of the same oil will
prevent o pint of ink from mouldiness fin
ally length of time. Paste may be kept
from mould entirely by this addition; and
leal tier is also secured from injury by: the
same *g?ncy Southern Planter.
Time. —Time is the only gift or commo
dity of which every man who lives lias just
the same share. The passing day is exact
ly of thesnme dimensions to each of us, and
by no rontiivance can any one of us extend
its duration hy so much as a minute or a se
cond. It is not like a sum of money which
we can employ in trade, and put out to in
terest. and theiehy adil to, or multiply its
amount. Its amount is unalterable. We
cannot “ m;:ke it breed.” We cannot keep
it hy us. Whether we will or no. we must
spend it, and all our power, therefoie con
sists in tlie manner in which it is spent. —
Part with it we must, hut we may give it
either for something or nothing. Its mode
of escaping from us, however, being very
subtle and silent, we are exceedingly apt,
because we do not feel it passing out of our
bauds, like so much told coir., to forget that
we are parting with it at all. and thus from
mere heedlessness, the precious possession
is allowed to pass away, as if it were a thing
of no value. The first and principal rule,
therefore, in regaid to the economy and
light improvement of time, is to habituate
ourselves to watch it.
Harper's Pictorial Bible —Wi> under
stand that the second number of this mag
nificent woik has been cnnsidei ably delaved
by the gieat and unexpected demand foi the
first. An edition ot ten thousand copies,
which was issued at fiist and thougi t to be
abundantly huge, was immediately exhaust
ed ; and another of twenty thousand was pub
lished as soon ns possible. Yet even now
the demand i> considerably larger than can
he supplied, ’i’o prevent vs much as pos
sible, disappointment in the time of publi
cation. however, the aggregate addition will
for the present he limited to 30,000; and
the second number will he brought out as
soon as it can hepiepaied. pioliahiy within
a few days. This is one of the laigest edi
tions evei issued of any work in this coun
try. — New York Courier If Enquinr.
The Read if 1843.—Among the distin
guished persons who have died the past
year, we perceive the names of Robert
Southey. La Motto Fouque author of *• Un
dine,” Mahuemann. the founder of the
Hoir cepiilhie School; Casiirie Delavigne,
the French Poet ; N'*ah Webster. Wash
ington Allston. Hugh S Legnre, Cleven
ger, the Sculptor, Tomson, the founder of
the Tnmsoiiiun system of medicine, and Dr.
Channiug.
Girls do you hear this ? —Here is an in
teresting little paragraph flora the Caddo
Gazette :
Wanted in the town of Shrevrpoif, about
35 or 40 young ladies, to form partnerships
in matrimony. There are at least 40“ nice
young men” here who are anxious to “ splice
the main brace.” Will some friend of hu
manity be good enough to supply the want ?
P©LOT D © A L □
EULOGIUM UPON HENRY CLAY.
YVe know not when we have before met
with anything more truthfully, beautifully,
nay eloquently expressed than the follow
ing Eologiiim upon the grfat American
Statesman. It was pronounced by the Rev.
Galuiel Capers, la-lore the Alabama Whig
State Convention which assembled at Tus
kaloosa, on the Ist of Derembei last ; and
we are not at till surprised to leant that its
deliveiy “ filled every bosom with the lire
of putiiotism. anil ueived eveiy heait with
the resolution to do its best” to secure the
election of the man who above all others
living, stands “ first in the hearts of his
country men.” We have for several years
enjoyed the pleasure of a personal acquain
tance witii Mr. Capers, and we know
him to be one of the oldest and ablest of
the preachers belonging to the Methodist
Episcopal Church, and “ a steiling Whig of
tli olden time.”— [Ed. Sou//urn Miseilla
*!/.
EULOGIUM UPON MR. CLAY.
BY IIEV. GABRIEL CAPERS.
•’ I have insinuated, sir. that the temple
of liberty has been shaken to its very base,
by the genius of this thing called democra
cy. And who doubts it ? YVho has forgot
ten the scenes of 1831-2. when the sound
of the drum was heard in Caiolina, her
plains coveted with the armies of Amliew
the Great, and her coa-ts lined with frigates
of war? YY’hnt patriot lu-art heat not with
painful anxiety, when the issue was suspen
ded on an appeal to Congress ? The ap
peal was made—it was rejected—the ten
ins of democracy reigned in the temple of
liberty, and instead of an aimistiee, the
Bloody Force BiM passed. The tocsin of
war sounded throughout the capital.anil the
armies of Government were commanded to
how “ the traitors” or exterminate them
from the home of their fathers. Sir, it was
an eventful hour—the old lion of democra
cy howling for the blood of treemen’s sons
—and the goddess of Liberty weeping over
the scene! It was indeed an eventful
hour—one. fell blow, anil o confl cl ensues
whiclidi s -Ives the Union, and spreads death
and desolation through the land. In the
eventful moment, the visage of the care
worn majestic being appeared, on whose
brow seemed to he suspended the pon
derous weight of lilteity and the Union,
when lo! a voice as from the ghost of
Washington exclaimed—“SAVE THE
UNION! ’T WAS PURCHASED YVITH
THE TEARS AND BLOOD OF YOUR
FATHERS!” ‘Twas Clay, sir, that match
less statesman— Clay ! heating in one hand
the olive branch of peace, and in the other
the aworil of truth and of liberty, he ap
proached the altar cousei-rateJ to liheity—
there lie laid hi* uflferiug, and there, with
that burning, impassioned eloquence, con
genial with his exalted nature—in the name
of liheity, and in the nnme of the blood
stained spirits who purchased it, he hade
the daring soil* of democracy sheathe their
swords and not wreak them in the hlood of
their brothers. His mandate was obeyed-;
the old Lion of Democracy crouched in hia
lair--peace was restored, and the Unio.
saved. n
’• Mr. President, mv heart recurs to th.
scenes of that eventful hour with emmi,,,
uunlteranle, and when it shall cease to U,
with the w-armest pulsations of m „ la | *
probation for the matchless actor in t|,a
great drama of my country’s lil>erty. let m
receive the execrations of my country.
the curse of my country’s God. | B’Bj(j 8 ’ B j ( j .
then, sir, end I say it now, fearless „f Clll „
Iradiction, that such an instance ofthe is,*
et of mind over the ti tling passions f,L
pot ism was never la-fine exhibited to t | )e
woild. The edict was passed—the blond
warrant signed—the old lion of democrat *
erasped it in his paw—but one stroke ,4
that overpowering eloquence before which
kings tremble and despots bow, made th<
hero of New Oi leans quake on his throne
anil restore to the polluted altar of li|* rty ’
the blood stained edict which lie hail seized
with delight. I repent it, sir, such an in.
stance of the power of mind over flat-fin
passions of despotism bad never bes. re hfe!
exhibited to the world. There was a vt-re- tl
of civic renown—a halo of immortal E |„n
around the brow of Henry Clay in that in,,,
which presents him in bold relief as the
greatest 01 alor, the purest patriot, and ifo
most miigiiHtiimnua statesman in t| le Uh ;
vetse. Talk of Calhoun, sir, as the great
Hercules of ruiml and spit it—great imleril
are the powers of Hercules, but great a,
Hetenles is, the lion of Demoeiarv hail him
bound ‘ll cords of hem|<; and whetting hit
bloody fangs, lie was ready to tear the Her
cll lea 11 giant into a thousand atoms.
“ Talk of YVebster as the great muster
spirit of the age—great indeed is Webster
—but Webster was there, sir, and great et
be is. be hail not the heart to approach tin
open jaws and bloody fangs of the howlin’
lion, and hid him stay his wrath. ’Twasre
served for'the noble dating of CLAY to and,
the deed, and it was done /”
MR. STEPHENS’ SPEECH.
We extract the following Synopsis of tb,
speec h made by Hon. A. H. Stephens i,
the House of Representatives, on the rigl,
of the mendiet* elected contrary to law, t,
bold their seats, from the Philadelphia “ Fo
rum” of the 12th instant:
In the House yesleiday the debate w
coniitiueil hy Mr. Thompson, of Mississip
pi. A. V. Brown, of Indiana, and Payne, 1
Alabama, for violating the Constitution an,
laws, and Messrs. Stephens, of Georgia
Chilton, of Virginia, and Hunt, of Nr*
York, for maintaining the intrgiity oi
Union ami the recognition of the supretn
power of the land. The remarks of Mi
Stephens were listened to with great alter,
lion, as lie had been elected by general tick
et and yet contended that the election wa
no’ under the supteme law .of the land.—
He said that, al'hough he held his seat uri
der the general ticket system, yet he befitt
ed the law districting the Slates was cun
stitutional, and that die States were bo, 11,
to obey that law. This, however, was h
individual opinion; but the question u,i
now before the tiihutial to which llieC’onsli
tuti<'ti has submitted this subject, anil t
whose Judgment he was willing to yhiiii
A difference of opinion must exist, hecaus
the linn,an mind cannot think alike upon a
questions, anil there lias been a diversity
opinion upon constitutional law, which wil
continue to exist so long as the governmei
exists. He said the district system was ri
ferred to in the Convention by Mi. Madisnt
which adopted the Constitution, which, ii
his mind, settles the question that the law i
cot,stitutional. He was glad to find tln
this was not a patty question, because lli
bill districting the States was brought fi't
ward by a member ofthe Democratic pari)
andih.it other members of that parry werea
so in favor of this law-, though’ he hefieve
that the largest portion of that party denir
the constitutional power to Cotigtess ton
act such a law. It had been stated hy an
of his colleagues that the people ofGmnji
were united upon t'-is subject, and that
was not a party question. He did nt agre
with his colleague, because, although it wa
not a party question, the people of Ue<>rgi
were in favor of the distiict system. Tb
Legislature of Georgia, which, at the lime
was Democratic, did pass a law dislriclin
the Slate, but it w-as vetoed by a Demi-cru
ic Governor, and the State held her clrclb
according to the general tici-et system, at
he was returned as a Representative *fn<
that State; and that he was entitled ‘.o vil
upon this question in a judicial point 1
view; and, although he believed the la
was i-nnstitutional, yet. if this House, in it
judicial capacity, should decide thHt tilt-I*’
is a nullity, he w-as entitled to his seat as
Representative from the State of Geoign
noil that (he fault would not be bis. hut •
tliisjudicial tribunal. This was a great ci
stitutional question, which should lie mi
fairly ; because it efl’ecls the constitution 1
our country, which was flamed by the wn
dotn of out fathers. He tiio not agree wH
thegeutlemnn from Mississippi. (Mr. Thnm|
son.) who said that representation wa* a
inherent light, which he utterly denied, h
cause representation is a constitutional nr
derived alone from that instrument. H
read from viuious authorities to support hi
argument, and called upon gentlemen 1
search the aicliieves of the country, ami”
fiirtn themselves upon this subject, ben”
they inflict a wound upon the Constilat* ,,,
which will last forages. This speech *•
one of great beauty and power, and *4
trust be extensively circulated.
•• Clay and the Union."— This is the rnn
to that the Whigs of Richmond, Virgin l *
have placed upon their banner. Nothin
can be more appropriate. It is a setitimci
which every \V hig will unhesitatingly d’| l
for it identifies witn the interests of liiscoui
try, that Statesman, whose cry has
been—“ Save the Union !” No ~ne .^j 1
for a moment doubt that the brave ■ n “„ l
meuted General Harrison, the hero of **l
pecauoe, was actuated by patriotic m<,l,ve
and there are on record many evidence*
his appreciation of the talents, q u * l ’
tiotis and integrity of the Statesman
West. A few weeks previous to hi* *'**
gu rat ion, and consequently but a set) *'’
time before hit* death, the citizens of G*"?
town tendered Gen. Hsrrion a pub *