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1 TI,E gpnszsnrajB 9 l;/ bt published every SA TUB DA Y Afternoon, I /„ the Tico-Story lYooden Building , at the I Corner of Walnut and Fifth Street, I in the city or macok, oa. By Wifi. It. IIAKKISON. I ' nT '™ l ■ TERMS: I for the Paper, in advance, per annum, $2. j I if not paid in advance, $3 00, per annum. I will be inserted at the usual lilies—and when the number of insertions de- j |i«iis not specified, they will be continued un- I.;, forbid and charged accordingly. TT Advertisers by the Year will be contracted Ijith upon the most favorable terms. •p’Sales of Land by Adminisfrators.Executors cr Guardians, are required bv Law, to be held on Itbefirst Tuesday in the month,between thehours often o'clock in the Forenoon and three in the Afternoon, at the Court House of the county in which the Property is situate. Notice of these Sales must be gfcen in apublic gazette Sixty Days previous to the day of sale. [p»Sales of Negroes by Administators. Execu tors or Guardians, must be at Public Auction, on I the first Tuesday in the month,between the legal I hours of sale, before the Court House of thecounty I where the LettersTestamentary.or Administration I or Guardianship may have been granted, first giv- 1 :1 j notice thereof for Sixty Days, in one of the public gazettes of this State,and at the door of the Court House where such sales are to be held. tj*Notice for the sale of Personal Property must be given in like manner Forty Days pre vious to the day of sale. I to the Debtors and Creditors of an es lit* must be published for Forty Days. vj-Not ice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Ne groes must be published in a public gazettein the State for Four Months, before any order absolute can be given by the Court. Qj’Citations for Letters of Administration on in Estate, granted by the Court of Ordinary, must be published Thirty Days —for Lettersof Dismis sion from the administration ofan Estate,monthly so» Six Months —for Dismission from Guardian ship Forty Days. Pj*Rales for the foreclosure of a Mortgage, must lie published monthly for Four Months— for establishing lost Papers, for the full space of 7 liree Months —for compelling Titles from Ex ecutors, Administrators or others, where a Bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of Three Months. N. B. All Business of this kind shall receive prompt attentionat the SOUTHERN TRIBUNE Odhe, and strict care will be taken that all legal Advertisements aro published according to Law Tj*All Letters directed to this Office or the Editor on business, must be post-paid, to in sure attention. $3 o c t r 3 . [fok the southern tribune.] THE IJELL.E OP THE SPRING. When Winter had vanished from mountain and fen, With its icicled fingers and garment of snow, And withdrew its cold breath from woodland and glen, And its miserly grasp on the waters below— The trees became capped with a beautiful crest. And the flowers sprang up as the redolent wing Os soft, gentle breezes, escaped from the West, And forewarned us to reverence the Child of the Spring. Tivas a heart-cheering smile that played o'er her cheek, And a generous curve that encircled her brow. And her eloquent glance would plainly bespeak W hat the gift ofkind nature alone may endow. In rapture we gazed as her light tread was heard, And fancied the joys that her loved presence would bring Asher voice out rivaled the sweet-singing bird That was fed by the hand of the Maid of the Spring. Put fast fl itting moments and years passed away, And left in their movements all our pleasures behind, Yet Time, in great mercy revealed in its stay All her beauty and grace, and the gems of her mind, We wreathed a fair crown from her care-woven bowers That were fanned into life by the gale’s gentle wing, And named her, in triumph, the First of the Flowers, The Nymph of the Forest, and the Belle of the Spring. But hopes of the future, iiius founded on air, May never meet success nor perfection on earth, ior fancy's bright scenes become clouded and drear, And hope's fondest visions oft expire at the birth. ot we dreamed not that wo or sorrow was nigh, Nor that pleasure’s possession was sheathed by a sting, Nor noticed the blight that soon danced in the eye, And withered the form of the fair Queen of the Spring. The season of flowers returned to the glen, As we followed the hearse to the cold distant grave ; " p bade her farewell, to meet never again l ill we see her in Iloaven with the fair and the naive. ' Ve P ar,e ‘l "> silence o’ershadowed with gloom, But the soft Western breeze with its care soothing wing, • ‘ ‘id gently to all, “ the germ lies in the tomb, But the flower is blooming in Heaven’s bright Spring.” „ ~ w. I’. H. "atfunsrilh, 1830. THE SOUTHERN TRIBUNE. NEW SERIES —VOLUME 11. political. From the Alabama Planter. Tlie Report ot the Compromise Committer. The Senate compromise report of Thir teen proposes, Ist, That Congress shall cx ecute the compact with Texas, which gives her a right to divide her territory into fourStatesas soon as she may have the pop ulation to do so ; 2d, That California shall he admitted as she has presented herself for admission; 3d That territorial govern ments, without the Wilmot Proviso, shall be given to all the rest of the territories acquired in the recent war; 4th,That Tex as shall give up her claim for disputed ter ritory for a certain sum of money ; sth, That a law more effectually to carry out the provisions of the constitution in regard to the extradition of fugitive slaves shall be passed by Congress; and, 6th, That slavery shall not be abolished in the Dis trict of Columbia, but that the slave trade shall. 1 hese are substantially the recommen dations of the committee. The question is, what do they concede to the South which the laws as they exist do not amply secure to it, under the most solemn sanc tions? In answering the question, we get at the merits of the plan. In the case of the division of Texas into four States,Congress made an explicit stip ulation four years ago f»r that right. The committee thinks that there can be no dif ference of opinion as to that fact. This, therefore, is nothing granted which was not before very clearly provided for. The South long ago took the ground that the admission ot California was not according to precedent or law—that no census had been taken of her people, to ascertain whether she was entitled to a full membership in the confedeiacv— that her population was floating and unstable and that the vote in the formation of her constitution was given without order or regulation—that it was made up of many foreigners and others who had no right to suffrage, &c., &. i herefore, it is argued that this constitution ought not to be ap proved—that the self-assumed Stateought not to be remanded back to its territorial condition, so as to make its application lor admission into the Union it: the usual way —iu a way which cannot admit of a doubt as lo her right to the favor claimed. The committee proposes that all these ir regularities be overlooked, and that her demand for sovereignty shall be granted. In this there is no evidence of compromise. What the North claims is fully granted, and what the South earnestly protests a gainst is disregarded. In the third place, the oilier territories, the committee proposes, shall have gov ernments, but with no express exclusion of slavery from them Tills is not more than the law requires, therefore, it gives nothing to the South. Iti the fourth place, it is recommended that Texas shall give up a clearly defined claim to a portion of her territory, contain ing an area of 124.938 square ‘miles and 79 957,120 acres of land. For this se cession, it was proposed in the committee to allow her from the United States treas ury the sum of ten millions of dollars. \\ fiat is the object of purchasing this ter ritory ! \V hy simply this. To lessen the area of slave soil. Texas is a slave State, and is she retain this disputed Territory, it will be so much added totlie area of the slave States. Against this abolitionism and freesoilistn, the people of Texas protest, and to shut their mouths, the pur chase is proposed, so that it may be add ed to the new territories and thus present ly be anti-slavery boil. 7he whole pro position is simply to diminish the slave and increase the t.ee territory ; and in its results it as much curtails the power and extent ol the South as tl it were a plan to disjoin so much land from Alabama, and make it a free Stale. The reader will see at once that this, in stead of being a concession to the South, is absolutely a plan to despoil it. In the fifth place it is proposed to en foice fui the restoration of fugitive slaves the laws which were made when the con stitution was adopted—a proposition mere ly to give eflect to a fundamental stipula tion without which the Union would not have been formed at all. ’1 his certainly is granting nothing to the South. In the sixth place, slavery is guarantied in the District of Columbia—that is, the North shall not commit violence on the south by abolishing slavery there. In de ference, however, to the repulsions of the North, it is proposed to abolish the slave trade in the District—in other words, as much as can be conceded to the North, without revolution, is granted to it in that District. Now we ask the reader to examine this compromise, and say wherein it grants any thing to the South ? Let every man think for himself in examining it. Discard totally party feeling; and particularly the falsehoods of some of our own presses. — Look at the thing in the face, like men, with your own eyes, and not through the eyes of any pitiful demagogue, and an swer this question. There is nothing in tliis “compromise,” so called, claimed for the South, which the laws themselves have not fully provi ded in the clearest and most explicit terms. What it provides, was provided for us be fore. On the other hand, every conces sion made in it is a concession from the South to tka North I —a concession in C'ali MACON, (GA.,) SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 1, ISSO. fornia—a concession in taking Texas ter ritory to make it free territory, and a con cession in abolishing the slave trade in the District of Columbia. If the South be willing to adopt this plan, as the best that can be obtained—if it must take this or give away more—if it be accepted in despair, and, under a con sciousness that we have no power to de mand more and enforce the demand, why let it lie taken ; but we ask that it be not called a compromise, meaning a mutual yielding of claims to get rid ofan evil.— Let it be called by its right name—the submission to one great wrong lest we be obliged to submit to another much greater, with some cuffs, perhaps, in the bargain. It is distressing enough to have alien ene mies among us charging all our best men with traitorous designs on the Union, let us not kiss the hand which these enemies are making powerful and insolent, lest next year, under the slavish submission we betray now, they demand that we give up even our own households to their rapa city. Let the compromise be understood as it is—the tax we have to pay for not being robbed of all our property. Give it its right name—not the title of “com promise.” From the Augusta Republic “Don’t give up the Ship.” We looked over the last number of the Athens Whig, with deep regret. If that paper goes for the compromise of the Committee of Thirteen, we shall be left solitary and alone, among the Whig press in Georgia, in oppositoti lo it. Entertain ing the opinion we do, we absolutely feel melancholy at the reflection. At one time two or three other Whig papers thought as we did, particularly about the Nash ville Convention, but n n w we are alone Well, we stop and ask where are we, what have we done, or are doing, that we can look throughout the Slate and find no bro ther Whig editor whose heart beats in uni son with ours, and whose hand we can take with sympathetic pressure on the great question of the day. We are upon the soil of our birth,and if we know aught of our own feelings, we love the green foilage, the bright flowers, the azure skv, the warm sunandthegenerous hearted people of the South, but more prticulrly of our own Georgia. If we thought we were doing harm to their cause we would dash our pen away, and leave it to write or plead for their interests and rights. In the pro posed compromise, we see no protection to those interests and rights,and hence we fee! bound: by every consideration, to op pose it. Under these circumstances we should oppose it if we stood solitary and alone among the entire press of the coun try. 77ie Whig says: “While frankly admitting that it is not all we could wish it—that interests of the South are not guarded as we could wish them—yet, we are not prepated hastily to reject this plan without the prospect of a more satisfactory adjustment of the diffi culties.” It then goes on to say that it sees no bet ter prospect of settlement, and adds : " While, therefore, we deep'y deplore the necessity which imposes this humiliation on the people of the South, wet rust that forever hereafter they xc.ll rrmcmbtr who it was tha t forced it upon them.” Is that the position ofthe Athens Whig ? Does it admit that the compromise scheme humiliates the South-that it hum bles 7/<m-brings them low, and yet can sus tain it 1 We see plainly that the Whig deplores this state of things, for it expressly regrets that our people have not exhibited the u non necessary to prevent it. It even shows that its heart is not in this compromise by declaring, in connection with its apparent support of it, “ The people xeill yet see the error of opposing the Nashvxllc Conx'cntion, if not. uoiv, in iutlre years.” It then, plainly does not look for much good from the compromise, even if it passes. Alluding to the want of union among the people, it says : "Consequently, it is not now within our power to dictate terms, but we must submit with the best grace possible to such as are offered, or probably do worse.” Does not the Whig know that thousands of the people have been deceived! Has it not seen that sixty-four Southern men, including Messrs. Toombs and Stephens, have declared that the Washington City papers have lulled the people of the South into a false security, that even a part of the Southern press have done the same thing ? Has it not secti that they propose to pub lish anew paper at Washington to reme dy so great an evil ? Then let us strike on, strike ever, for our rights, believing that the people will arouse when they see the truth of their danger. W e cannot give in to the doctrine go ing the rounds of Southern papers, that “the compromise is the best that we can get. We had better take that for fear we may fare worse.” We have not been used to such talk as this till within a ve ry recent period. It comes too occasion ally,from sources which fill us with astonish ment. We are wronged, (all here admit that,) and in settling the dispute we, the injured party , are made to concede some thing to the wrong doer , and told, if we do not, we may have to stoop still lower. — That was not the language of the Craw ford’s and Forsyth’s of other days, nor is it of the veorable Troup The noble and cliivalric stock of other days looked with steadfast eyes upon the constitution, and they never quailed in defence of their rights and honor. No man would have dar ed to propose to them to submit to some hu miliation in order to aioid a greater. They would sooner have opposed in battle,host to host, & surveyed exulting a tin usand fields of death and carnage. We must submit to insult and robbery for fear of being insult ed and rubbed still worse ! Revolutiona ry sires! If from the battlements of hea ven you can see such degenerate sons, turn away till some change may entitle them to other than your indignant frowns ! We have before stated, that we are alone now in the Whig editorial ranks upon the all-absorbing question of the times. Ac cording to all the usual modes of reason ing,the conclusion would be drawn,that we must be wrong, and the other members of the fraternitity consolidated in opinion, must be right. But we solemly believe that our position is sustained by an over whelming majority of the people of Geor gia, Whigs and Democrats. We judge so frotr. our numerous letters, our inter views with hundreds of the people, and the expression of opinion which we find in otherpapers of the State. These views of the Whig papers, and similar ones of a minoiity of the Democratic papers, do not expiess those of the people of Geor gia. Thtse divisions, so distracting, so perplexing, are working for us more evil now than the abolitioninsts themselves, and nothing can help the latter more than for our papers and people to say, “ive had better take a humiliating settlement nou\ than a worse one if it is defeated.” — This language invites aggression by the plainest intimation, that we are ready, or will be forced by circumstances, to submit to whatever terms out oppressors may be pleased to dictate. Spuing. —The trees are budding forth in all their beauty. May, sweet May, queen of the year, is here in her robe of green, and her genial breath, scatteiing the perfume ofthe eafly flowers around. The warm sun has nelted the icy bands that fettered the brooks, and they now sing merrily onwards, rejoicing again to he free, while the early song of the bird breaks upon the ear. You who are sad, forget all grief, all sorrow, and chase away the tear with smiles. You may have suf fered. The cold hand of death may have been busy with those near and dear, and gathered them to the silent grave.— Fate may have snapped some golden chord of the heart and left it lonely and desolate or memory may sadly dwell over some fa ded happiness—but forget it all—let your heart grow light in the balmy air of spring and let past misfortune be buried in obli vion, remember though your sorrow may be deep there are others who have felt j pangs as severe, and on whose sweet ex pectations as crushing blows have fallen. Then hope again, build some other hap py vision, some other dream of bliss, and even though they be rarely realized, for earthly dreams of joy are often dissipated, yet there is a happiness in hoping, which those who give way to sorrow, and bend before it like the quivering reed to the storm,can never feel. Spring, too, is the time to hope the time to dream, when na ture is revived, when the buds expand in beauty, and everything is fresh and green, that i3 the time the heart will best give forth the sweet flowers of affection. Be neath the smiling skies of hope they will bloom with vigor, and shed their kindly influence around. O! then, thanks for spring, glorious spring, that acts on na ture and on man, that cheers the one and and gladdens the other,even as it can make the« forget the void chilirig winter which had reigned till lately, so it can make the ether forget the dark clouds of grief which may have encompassed the heart, and ev er in the of sorrow look to a joyful future, to a happy spring.— Fitzgerald's City Item. Is he Rich. —Many a sigh is heard, ma ny a heart is broken, many a life is ren dered miserable by the terrible infatua tion which parents often manifest in cho sing a life companion for their daughters. How is it posible for happiness to result from the union of two principles so diam etrically opposed to each other in every point, as much as virtue is to vice 1 How often is the first question which is asked respecting the suitor of the daughter, this —“ls he rich 1” “Is he rich ?” Yes, he abounds in wealth; but he does not afford any evi dence that he will make a kind and effec tionate husband. “Is he rich ?” Yes, his clothing is pur ple and fine linen, and he fares sumptu ously every day ; but can you infer from that he is virtuous ? “Is he rich 1” Yes, ho has thousands floating on every ocean ; but do not riches take to themselves wings and fly away ? Will you consent that your daughter shall marry a man that has nothing to recom mend him but his wealth ? Ah ! beware ; the gilded bait sometimes covers the barbed hook. Ask not, then, “Is he rich.” but “Is he virtuous?” Ask not, if he has wealth, but ifho has honor; and do not sacrifice your daughter’s happiness for money. in® Ho who gives for the sake of thanks kotows not the pleasure of giving. Woman's Proper Spl-rre. The following article is extracted from 1 n late discourse of Rev. E. P. Rogers, on “The obligations and duties of the Female 1 sex to Christianity.” Let me urge here upon my female hear ers, especially those who are iu youth, the impottance of taking loftier and better views of life than those taught by the vain world. It is a sad thing to see so many of the young and fair whose life is almost a blank—l would not say a blot; whose keen susceptibilities, whose noble powers, whose deep affections, whose pre cious time is lavished only upon dress and gaiety, and fashionable visiting; who wear the bright apparel of the butterfly, and are as light and graceful, and as use less, too; whose conversation finds no higher or more improving subject than the i idle gossip ofthe day, the last party, or the I never-failing topic—dress; whose reading is the miserable trash which is inundating every community, and enervating and dis sipating the minds of our youth ; whose whole life seems to bo an aimless, frivo lous life; and who, as they flit by us on their airy wings provoke the inquiry— “ For what were these pretty creatures made ?” 1 pray you take loftier views of life than these. While I would not draw you from the rational pleasures of society, nor bring one gloomy cloud upon your youthful sky, I still would plead for some serious hours, some industrious moments; some time apportioned to culture of the mind, the enriching of the memory with stores of useful knowledge. I would plead that the capacities and aspirations of the immortal part receive some ministration, that the moral faculties be cultivated and stimulated, and the generous impulses of the soul be expanded in labors for the best good of those around you. Be assured there is no beauty like that ofgoodness— there is no power like that of viitue; per sonal beauty may attract the admiration of the passing hour, but it is the richer beau ty of the moral worth, the loveliness of the soul, that commands the deepest rev erence, and secures the most enduring af fection. Even men who have no religion themselves, but who are men of judge ment, and whose opinion is worth the most, respect and admire a lady most, who desplays in her character the “beauty of holiness.” If there is one sight more than any o tlier in this world of sin and sorrow, which combines all the elements of beauty, of nobleness, and of worth, it is that of a young and lovely female, whose youth and beauty, whose depth and richness of affec tion, and whose powerful influence on hu man hearts, are all consecrated to the cause of truth and holiness, laid as an humble offering at the Saviour’s feet!— Such a being is indeed worthy the rever ence and admiration of every true and no ble heart; and she will command it, even when the light of her beauty is quenched, and the flowei of her beauty is faded.— But if there is a sad* heart-breaking sight on eaitli, it is that of one gifted with all the charms which nature lavishes upon daughters, prostituting them upon the al tar of vanity and fashion, and starving the soul on the unmeaning flattery of a vain and hollow-hearted world ; running a gid dy round of gaiety, frivolity, and dissipa tion ; laying up in the future a cheerless and forsaken old age, and a miserable, re morseless eternity. “Oh, what is woman ? Wlmt her smiles, Her lips of love, her eyes of light? What is she, if those lips revile The lowly Jesus ? Love may write His name upon her marhle hrovr, And linger in her curls of jet; The light spring flowers may meekly bow Before her tread—and yet—and yet Wilnout that meeker grace, she’ll bo A lighter thing than vanity !’’ Loveliness. —What constitutes true loveliness?—Not the polished brow, the gaudy dress, nor the show and parade of fashionable life. A woman may have all the outward marks of beauty, and yet not possess a lovely character. It is the benevolent disposition—the kind acts— and the Christian deportment. It is in the heart, where meekness, truth, affection, humility are found—where we look for loveliness, nor do we look in vain. The woman who can soothe the aching heart, smooth the wrinkled brow, alleviate an guish of the mind, and pour the balm of consolation in the wounded breast,possess es, in an eminent degree, true loveliness of character. She is the real companion of man, and does the work of an angel. It is such a character that blesses life with warmth and sunshine, and rnuketh earth to resemble the paradise of God. SO 1 ” Sir Joshua Reynolds once asked Dr. Johnson, by what means he had attain ed his extraordinary accuracy and flow of language. Johnson told him, that he had early laid down as a fixed rule to do his best ou every occasion, and in every com pany; to impart whatever he knew in Lhe most forcible language be could put it in, and that constant practice, and never suf fering any careless expression to oscapc him, or attempting to deliver his thoughts without arranging them in the clearest manner. I of the heart consists in a habitual benevolence, and an absence of selfishness in our intercourse with soci ety of-ail classes. BOOK AND JOB PRINTING, TJ ill be exeeu'ed xn the most approved six, le and on the best terms,at the Office of the SCTTEESUJ TKIBTJITE —B7- WM. 15. HARRISON. Future Triumph* ofttir Go*pcl. My sou! is enlarged and stands erect, as I look down-the declivity of years and see the changes which these young Davids, under God, will make iu all the earth.— Countless millions are shortly to awake from the sleep and darkness of a hundred ages, to hail the day that will never go down. 1 see the darkness rolling upon! itself, and passing away from a thousand Ijnds. I see a cloudless day following, and laying itself over the earth. T see the nations coming up fiom the hood of the brutes lo dignity of the sons |of (rod; from the sty in which they had wallowed totlie purity of the divine image. 1 see the meekness of the Gospel assuag ing their ferocious passions, melting dowu a million contending units to one, silenc ing the clangor of arms, and swelling into life a thousand budding charities which had died tinder the long winter. I bear the voice of their joy. It swells from the valleys and echoes fin in thhe hills. I al j ready hear, on the eostern breeze, the songs of the new-born nations. I already catch from the western gale the praise of a thousand islands. 1 ascend the Alps, arul see the darkness retiring from the papal world. I ascend the Andes, and see South America and all the Islands ofthe Pacific bowing to Jesus. I ascend to the mountains of 7 hibet, and hear from the plains of Chinn, andfiom every jungle and pagoda of Hindostan. the praises of the living God. I see all Asia bowing before Him who, eighteen centuries ago, hung in the midst ot them on Calvary. I traverse o ceans, and hear from every floating bethel the songs of the redeemed. “The dweller.* in the vales, and on the rocks, Shout to each other ; and the mountain top* From distant mountains eatcll the flying joy j Till, nation after nation taught the strain. Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round.” Come that blessed day. Let my eyes once behold the sight, ar.d then give this worthless body to "the worms.— Dr. Grif fin’s Missionary Sermon. NUMBER 21. Tiie Head and the Heart. —“ Please, my lady, buy a nose-gay, or bestow a tri fle,” was the address of a pale, emaciated looking woman, holding a few withered flowers in her hand, to a lady who sat on the beach at Brighton, wacthing the blue waves of the receding tide. “I have no half-pence, my good woman,” said the la dy, looking up from a novel she was peru sing, with a listless gaze ; “if I had, I would give them to-you.” ‘'lama poor widow, with three helpless children de pending on me ; would you bestow a trifle to help us on our way 1” “I have told you that I have no half-pence,” reiterated the lady, somewhat pettishly. “Really,” she added,as the poor petitioner turned meek ly away, “this is worse than the streets of London ; they should have a police on the shore to prevent such annoyance's.” These were the thoughtless dictates of the head. “Mamma,” said a blue-eyed boy, who was playing on a bench at the lady's feet, fling ing pebbles into the sea, “I wish you had a penny, for the peror woman does look so hungry, and you know we are going to have a nice dinner, and you have promised me a glass of wine.” The heart of the lady answered the appeal of her child; and with a blush of shame crimsoning her cheek at the recital of his artless words as conveyed, she opened her reticule, placed half a crown in his tiny bands, and in an other moment the boy was bounding along the sands on bis etrand of mercy. In a few seconds he returned, bis eyes spark ling with delight, and his features glowing with health and beauty. “Oh, mamma ! the poor woman was so thankful she want ed to turn back, but I would not let her ; and she said, God bless the noble lady, and you, too, my pretty lamb. My chil dren will now have bread for these two days, and we shall go on our way rejoic ing” The eyes of the lady glistened as she heard the recital of her child, and her heart told her that its dictates bestowed a pleasure the cold rpasonings, ofthe head could never be&lov:.—Ladies’Dollar News- Paper. TrMfhful Sayings. Man was never intended to be idle.— Inactivity frustrates the very design of his creation; whereas an active life is the boat guardian of virtue, and the greatest pre servative of health. Deception, hypocrisy and dissimulation, are direct compliments to the power of Truth; and tho common custom of passing off Truth’s counterfeit for herself is strong testimony in behalf of her intrinsic beauty and excellence. Commentators are folks that too often write on books as men with diamonds write on glass, obscuring the light with scratches. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps ; for ho is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. All severity which does not tend to in crease good or prevent evil, is idle. Laws are like grapes, that, Being too. much pressed, yield a hard and unwhole some wine. The sarno vanity which leads us to as sign our misfortunes or misconduct to others prompts us to attribute all our lucky chances to our own talent, prudence and forethought; not a word of the fates or stars when we are getting rich,-and every thing gois on prosperously.