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{&■ A »nter in die ‘•Siutbcrn Literary Jourr-af i‘. r Ja'y, in reviewing the poems of Bacon, (a young Aatricau P*:> *feu» beautifully conclude* fca itr tai.Ai ■— •• It is from such men as these in the rising cratio.i, our country must expect a stand as -.1 intei ectuoi people. From such men as t se is iter reopectabiiity in no small e’egree to oc insured abroad; not a respectability rv.nging alone from commercial power; nor •v.sdom iu tne art of governing ; nor in the .muiy .itirdihooJ and energy ot her citizens ; but also from her refinement and progress in the fine arts ; iu the glowing eloquence of her orator; in the pencii of her painter and the song of her poet. T.>e.se throw around her a beauty, which blended with her greatness as a commercial people, remind us ol the magnifi cent Corinthian column, that deriving its value from the strength ofits shatt, elicits admiration by the leaf and vino of the Acanthus which so gracefully festoon around it. To such then would we say “ GoJ speed !” America needs a poet —a National Poet; and although Mr. Bacon may not think proper to enter upon a task for which we believe him well qualified ; we would at least suggest the propriety of his so doing. The heroism ot our ancestors in the grand struggle forinde;>endence ; the peculiari ty of our institutions based upon that noblest of political maxims “ all men are created free and equal;” these far outweigh alltheargu ments against the possibility of our possessing' QQatioiial poetry. We trust therefore, that the time is no I', 1 ', far distant, when some American Poet w ; \j erise, and like “ Auld Scotia’s Bard” the mantle of romance over every hill and dalo, and mea riow and stream of his own bright fond. When the achievements ofour fathers ; their firmness in the houroftrial; their endurance of pain and suffering ia the co’\se of freedom, will be lisped by the same infant tongue, that in the freshness of morning and the pensive sweetness of even ing, lifts up its prayer to Him who is the rock Ol on.' refuge in the time of danger; who led bur armies on from victory to victory, and has elevated us to that station which we now hold among the nations of the earth. In conclusion wefenderour thanks to Mr. Bacon for this little volume which has afforded us so much pleasure, and with a hearty concurrence in his wish, that “ he may feel The beauty that there is in the ealm shade, Goes up’a *irem' mfljtrr' ,KU * Rapt be the Poet with the theme he sings. And gathering thence his strength, be better fitted To follow out Life's daily charitiee, And tread the way rejoicing." “ HAIL COLUMBIA.” Our popular American song “ Hail Co lumbia,” it is known was written many years ago by Judge Hopkinson of Phila delphia, but the circumstances under which it was written are not known. It appears by a recent statement in a Philadelphia paper, that a play actor and vocalist, named Fox, called upon Mr. H. one day in the year 1795, for an original song, to the tune of the President’s March to be sung at his benefit. Mr. H. re tired to his study, (says the history,) and in a ahort time, wrote the first verse and chorus, which were submitted to Mrs. Honkinson, « 0 i* I'iaiiu accompaniment, ana proved the measure and music to be compati. ble and in keeping. In this way the second and other verses were written; and when Fox returned in the evening, he received with delight the song as it r.o w stands. The follow, ing morning, small handbills and placards an ronneed that Mr. Fox would sing anew pa. tnoticsong, &c. The theatre was crowded ; the song was sung, and received with rapture, it was repeated eight times, and again encor ed—and when sung the ninth time, the whole audience stood up and joined in the chorus.— Nig.it after night, ‘ Hail Columbia’ cheered the visitors of the theatre, and in a very few days it was the universal song of the bovs in the streets. Nor was the distinguished author forgotten. Tne street in which he resided was on one occasion crowded, and “Hail Co lombia” broke on the stillness of midnight from five hundred patriotic voices. INDUSTRT. The following anecdote may give seme en. eouragement to the industrious husbandman : —Not long ago, a country gentleman find an estate of 2901. a year, w’hich he kept in his own hands, until he found himself so much in debt, that to satisfy his creditors, he was obliged to sell the half, and to let the remainder to a firmer for twenty-one years. Toward the expiration of the lease, the farmer coming one day to pay his rent, asked the gentleman whether he would sell the farm. “ Why, will you buy it ?” said the gentleman. “If you will part with it, and we can agree,” replied the farmer. “ This is exceedingly strange,” said the gentleman. “ Pray tell me how it happens, that while I could not live upon twice as much land, for which I paid no rent, you are regularly paying me a hundred a year for your farm, and able, in a few years to purchase it 7” “ The reason is plain,” answered the farmer; “ you sat still, and said, ‘ Go.’ I got up, and said, ‘Come,’— vou lay in bed, and enjoyed your ease; I ro3c la the morning and minded my business.” REVOLmoNART ANECDOTE, “It was once in my power to have shot General Washington !” said a British soldier to an American, as they were discussing the events of the great struggle at the concluding of peace. “ Why did you not shoot him then?” asked the American—you ought to have done so for the benefit of your country, men.” “ The death of Washington would not have been for their benefit,” replied the Englishman, “ for we depended upon him to treat our prisoners kindly ; and by heaven ! we’d eooner have shot an officer of our own !” Lowell Advocate. An over-nice genius in Baltimore recently put his horse into breeches ! This is cortain iy the Age of Modesty. The New-York Herald says, that on one of the recent hot days, an alderman of that ci ty, of tho fattest kidney, oozed away from among his breeches, leaving no memento be bind save an old bro<*n v>'g. Shocking !* * From Cooper** “American LTomoward Bound" NAUTICAL THEOLOGY, WITH TOUCHES OF HA < TUBE “ Mr. Leach!” “ Captain Truck!” “Do you ever pray 7” “ I have done such a thing in my time, sir; but, since I have sailed witli you, I have been taught to work first and pray afterwards ; and, when the difficulty has been gotton over by the work, the prayers have commonly seemed surplusage.” “ You should then take to your thanksgivings. I think your grandfather was a parson, Leach.” ** Yes, he was sir; and I have been told your father fol lowed the same traded’ “ You have been told the truth, Mr. Leach. My Lthen was as meek and pious, and humble a" Christian" "as ever thumped a pulpit. A poor man, and, if must be spoken, a poor preacher, too • ] nl t a zealous one. and thoroughly dev^,. t# j ran away from him at twelve, nr/j, I:evor passed a week at a time under b ,« roof afterwards. He could do little for ,re. for he had little education and no mo.,cy, and, I Iwlirve. carrcd on the busir;.*s pretty much by faith. He was a irood man, Leach, notwithstanding there might be a little of a take-in for -,hich a person to set up as ,a teacher; and, as f or my mother, if tne re ever was a >• me spirit on earth, it was in herbody 1” t* Av, that is the way commonly with moth' ; -p. sir.” “ She taught me to pray,” added *' ]f! captain.speaking a little thick, “but siD , 'c- I’ve been in this London line, to own the truth, T find but little time for any thing but hard work, until, for want of practice, praying has got to be one of the hardest things I can turn my mind to.” “ This is the wav with all of us; its mv opin’on. Captain Truck, these London and Liverpool liners will have a good many lost souls to answer for.” “ Ay, ay. if we could put it on them, it would do well enough; hut my honest old father always maintained, that every man must stand in his gap left by his own sins : though he did assert, also, that we were all foreordained to shape our courses starboard or port, even before we were launched.” “That doctrine makes an easy tideVway of life : for T see no great u e e in a man’s carrying sail and jamming himself up in the wind, to claw off immoralities, when ; he knows he is to fetch upon them after all his pains.” “I have worked all sorts of traverses l to got hold of this matter, and never could make any thing of it. It is harder than lo garithms. If mv father had been the only man one to teach it. I should have thought less ! :♦ 0-..- Vv> nr\ -ehnlar. and might i have been paving it out uist in the wav nfonsi -1 ness ; but then, my mother believed it, body ! and soul, and she was too good a woman to \ stick long to a course that had not truth to j back it.” “ Wliv not believe it heartily, sir. and let the wheel fly 7 One eets to the end of the voyage on this tack as well as on another.” From the Long-Wand Star. SOXG-THE BRIGHT BLUE SEA. Happy the lot Os him whose rot Stands by the bright blue »«a! • If there be one Beneath the sun Supremely Wes', ’tii h* That sita before His cottage door, Wiih childhood on his knee, ieip'/roin the caves Os the ever bright blue sea; Whose sails are furled Beside the world Os waters he hath roved— Whose anchr r cast Secure and fast, Upon the spot beloved. In youthful days, Amid the maze Os ocean’s revelry, When, long exiled From home, he toiled . Over the bnght blue eea- Oh! many are The ielee that bear The citron and the clove— Whoee day and night Glow with delight. And melody, and love— That he hae oft Seen from aloft Lie like tranquility, Sweetly at rest Upon the breast Os the pearly bright blue eea. But there was one Sweet spot alone Tba% like attraction true, ll, a heart and soul Unto that pule His fond afli’ctione drew; It was the green Enchanted scene Upon Long Island’* lea, Where his own cot Uprose, I wot, Down by the bright blue see. There has he moored //is ship, and stored The trophies he has won ; Bright gems are thoee He proudly shows A daughter and a son. ’Tie there he livee, And nil receives— A sailor frank and free; He asks no more But the friendlv roar Os hie beautiful blue see l 0. T. Woman’s Smile. Oh! what a drearv was'o would be This joyous world of ours, Ifhappy hearts, the gay, the free, Had lost their witching powers ; Or where's the charm, however bright, That could our souls beguile. With half so sweet, eo soft a light, As that of woman's smile 7 Ob ! life wou'd be a joyless dream Os hopelessness and wc, Jf’'were not for the sunny beam Os beautys’ eyes below; And all earth’s flowers, so fair, so sweet. Would flourish but awhile, If in return they could not meet The light of woman’s smile 7 Then if our hopes of bliss depend On such bright forms of love, Which softly with our spirits blend Dear thoughts of bliss above; Who on this earth would love to rest, (E’en in this flowery IsleO If that existence be unblest* With aught but woman’s smile I F.-ctu tho Malta Government GaxetK ANTIQUITIES. Cos: nfttodore Elliott* lias on board the Con- j stitution. a number of very curious remains of antiquity, which he collected during his cruise in the Levant, dug up from the plains of Ma rathon and of Tioy, from the r.eghborhood of Athens, Corinth, Sunium, various parts of Sy ria, and particularly from Balbec, all parts of the Holy Land and Egypt. But the, most remarkable objects with which tin: new coun try of the Utvtcd States will be enriched on. his return to liis natve'land. are two marble found at about tlnee quarters of a nr -<». in a direction north east from Beyrout, in tlx: centre of the spot where once stood ti c ancient city of Berytus. It happened that they were discovered sixteen feet under ground, while his ship was laying off that coast in An. givu last, by a countryman who was plant, ing a mulberry tree : and the Commo ’ore lost no time in purchasing t! cm. and had them immediately com eyed on board his ship, from a height of perhaps six hundred feet above the level of the soa. In their removal across the country, a distance of about a mile and a half to tho place of embarkation, on account of their massive weight, obstacles embarrassing to any but the ingenuity and praotical skill of sailors were to bo overcome. By the means of pow erful tackles, however, they were slung down precipices, and in many’ places were passed over a yielding soil upon strong spars, and in this task nearly the whole of the ship’s compa ny, consisting of 500 men, were engaged. Each sarcophagus is cut out of a solid piece of white marble, and each has its cover in the form of a sloping roof, also in one piece. With the exception of a fracture in an end of the larger one. which seems to have been bro ken through in search of the valuable articles which the Romans sometimes buried with their dead, they may be said to be in a perfect state of preservation ; for the sculpture on all sides is almost as good as when left by the hand of the artist, consisting of wreaths sup ported by infantine figures, rosettes, the ram’s head, and the head of the bull. On the front or principal side of the smaller sarcophagus, wc find the inscription ; JVLIA. C. FIL MAMAEA VIXIT. ANN. XXX. Its dimensions are 7 feet 4 1-2 long, by 2 feet 73 3 wide, within the cornice; and it 1 Ccu\t tn t.llft fIpCX Ol tft© cover, which is 19 inches deep. Tne larger sarcophagus has no inscription on its tablet ; and although not so long as the above by six inches, is 3 feet 4 inches wide, and stands 5 feet 2 inches high to the apex of the cover, which is 25 inches deep. From its capacity and emblems, it appears to have con tained the remains of two persons of distinc tion, the corners being ornamented by figures of victory instead of the ram’s heads which are seen on the smaller one; and on the cover is cut the apparently unfinished design of two human figures reclining on a bed or couch. This cover is quite solid, and of immense weight, and was fumy fixed to the body of the sarcophagus by iron clamps, which may account for its end having been broken through in search of plunder. A brass coin was found in digging those rvia rhlne* r\ its r\C ♦ «r ‘ l * *’*” the possession of Commodore Elliott. On the obverse, it has the head of the Empress Julia Marnaea, with the inscription julia mamaea augusta s on tho reverse is a figure of Venus holding in the palm of her right hand an infant erect, and in her left a spear, with the inscrip, tioa vends felix —s. c. Now, as Julia Ma rnaea was tlie mother of Alexander Severus, vvno became Emperor in the year 222 of the Cnristian era, there seems to be no difficulty in establishing the third century ns the date of the coin ; and the general character of the ornaments of both of these sarcophagi, as well as the style of their workmanship, would load to a belief that they were also of the same epoch. But there is ground to presume that cither of them was the tomb of the mother of the Emperor, and as they were found empty, any attempt to determine whose remains they once contained w-ould be merely hazarding an opinion. Mr. Giuseppe Hvz’er, a well known Mai tese artist, has (with the permission ol' Com modore Elliott) taken correct drawings of these interesting antiquities; the more inter esting, because they were brought away as soon as discovered, and no time elapsed for t leir mu’ilation by the country people, nor have they suffered from the hammers of curious travellers. From the drawings, exaci copies or models might he cut at a trifling expense in Malta stone, and an idea be thus preserved of the beauty of design of two monuments of Roman grandeur, which are about to leave the old world forever. * Commander-in-Chief of the United States eqn&dron in the Mediterranean. MILK SICKNESS. The following account of the * Milk Sick nessness’ which has been so fatal in some parts of the West, is from a correspondent of an Indiana paper : “ At Logansport, on the banks of the Wa bash, I was cautioned by an elderly lady against taking either m Ik, butter, or beef, on my way to Vincennes. Asa reason for her caution, she informed me that the milk sick ness was common in this State. I had heard of it before, but knew little of it. She inform ed me that many deaths occurred annually by this dreadful malady. There is a difference of opinion as to the cause that produces it ; but the general opinion is that it is occasioned by the yellow oxyd of arsenic in the low ground and woodland, and particularly near the Wa bash river, and that some weed, (yet unknown) imbibes the poison, and # when eaten by cattle, causes them to quiver, stagger, and die within a few hours. If cows eat it, the milk is poi soned, or butter that is made from the milk ; and it is also as sure death to those who use the milk or butter as it is to the animal that cats the weed. Great care is taken to bury such cattle as die with it ; for if dogs, &c. cat their flesh, they share' the same fate, and it operates upon them ns violently ns upon the creature that was first affected with it. The butcher uniformly, in this State, runs the vie tim of his knife a mile, to heat the blood, and if it has eaten the wcod, it will at once, on stop. ping, quiver and shake; ittt <Joc3 ;.of, It Is con sidered as safe to butcher, and this is the uni form teat, even when beef cattle show r.o signs of having eaten the weed. Indiana is not alone in this misfortune, there have been many cases in some parts of Ohio, and south western States. I have seen many farms with comfortable buildings on, and improvements entirely abandoned, and their owners fled in to other quarters to avoid the dreadful curse. And yet, I confess I have never seen anv sec tion of the country superior in soil to the land adjo ning the Wabash, and this is ti e only ob jection to it. CROSS FltttVG. A score is given in the Bn1t ; mo-r Trnrs and ipt from the Vaudeville of “ The P oncers of Piochclic.” which, when well acted, must be exceedingly amusing. The p ; ece was written for Mis3 Bunv’e bv J. 11. TT< wit’, Esq. In this scene, which we co 'V below, Corpora! C irto ich amuses himrelf with ftoing through the manual exercise, while Loza, seated at her work-table, abstractedly ques tions him concerning matrimony.’ Lezx. If a girl were to f ill in love with you, Corporal, what would you do 7 Carl ouch. Present arms ! L. She would doubtless look to you for— C. Support! L. And then what a heavy burden you’d have to— C. Carry ? L. Your butcher and baker would have to— C. Charge? L. Your prosrccts, of course, would not— C. Advance ! L. And you’d have to— C. ’Bout face? L. And never have any— C Rest! L. Now, Co-poral, pray give me your— C. Attention ! L. A man of your years is not able to bear such a— C. Load ! L. You are not in your— C. Prime! L. Your wife may— C. Bout! L. Leave you, but she will soon—- C. Return ! L. And then you’d have to bear all on your— V. Shoulder! L. Would you be— C. Ready! L. I think you would have some other— C. Aim ! L. And you’d throw your epistles into the— C. Fire! (Fires the musket.) Abolition is on the wane. The Methodist conferences, the Preshyterian svnods, the Epis eopalian Conventions, tho “ Friends’ Yearly Meetings,” &c. &c. are in full blast against the humbug. When the Church and the best part of the State are united against the fana tics, whence are they to get their recruits, ex cept from Tophet or some other dark hole ! N. 0. Picaj unne. EENNVROYAL. VT»»————— —*©''*■ out u ilic llcali ufliuiova and cows, and confer great kindness on their animals, in preven’ing the usual annoyance of flies, by simply washing the parts with the ex tract of pennyroyal. Files will not alight a moment on the snot to which thi.<i has 1)000 applied. Every mui who is compassionate to his beast, ought to know this simple remedy, and every livery stable and country inn ought to have a supply on hand for travellers. C Yankee Farmer. “ Timothy,” said a certain Grocer to his clerk, “ Iv’e joined the Temperance society, and it won’t look well to sell liquor before folks ; so if any |>crson calls for any, you must take them into the back room.” NOMENCLATURE of the month. A late wit, at the time when the revolution ary names of the months, (Thermidor. Floreal, Nivose, &c.) were adopted in France, propos ed to extend the innovation to our own lan. guage, somewhat on the following model : Freezy, S eezy, Wheezy, Showery, Lowery, Bowery, Flowery, Snowev, Flowev, Glowey. The negro. George, the property of Pleasant Stovall, E q was tried before the judges of the inferior Court, on Tuesday last, for com mitting a rape on a white female, was found Guilty, and sentenced to he hung on the 10th inst. between of 10 A. M. and 3 P. M. Chronicle and Sentinel. The Bank Convention at Pniladelphia de termined to remme specie payments on the 13th day of this month. Mr. Lovejoy of Georgia, one of the passen gers saved in the late catastrophe of the Pulas ki. was also on board of the Home, and the Wm. Gibbons—three of the most appalling situations of danger ever recorded. DEATH 0? COMMODORE ROGERS. The Philadelphia papers announce the death of Commodore John Rogers, a distinguished commander in the United States Nnw. The Inquirer states, that he expired on Wednesday evening, about 9 o’clock ,at the Naval Asylum, near the Schuylkill, in the seventy-fourth year of Ins age, after a long and painful illness, which he bore with Christian patience and re signation. ARRTVAT, OF THE OH EAT W EATER V i o • B ! C *l n f’ rent Western, from Bristol, 21st u!\B o clock In the evening, renched the Quarantine Ground at 9 o’clock, A. m. with ISO passengers, mak ing the passage in fourteen and a half days, or a fortnight and twelve hours, //er passage out was made in one hour short of thirteen days. She bring* as much freight ns she could carrv. Among the pas sengers are the F.riPor of the Courier and Fnquirer, and Mr. and Mrs A- Mathews, (l.Ve il/adnme Vestris.) The Sinus arr ved out in little more than 15 days. The weather in England had been excellent for the crops up to the 17th ult., when the weather was cold and stormv for a dav ortwo, wuhout afTec'irg he crops. On the 20:h the weather was favorable. The prospect 18 " vera S p cro P »n Great Britain. The Great TFestern Steam Ship Company hare mJ ncr c aße j rs ra P i,? ' l from to A. I,ooo,oo°—The'r first objects will he to establish two jdditiona] Steani Ship® of the firm class, for their line# between Great Britain and the United States, one of thoee ships being npnmprioted to that of Liverpool and Hew-York—F-V fy y t!i , t>th t»*. ORIGINS 1,. —. . T— -k— , - I ' Sauihera Pu«. „ - Athens, o/A, 1838. Ms. Editor You s.touiej have heard ; from me ere this, had I been tittle to withdraw myself from the busy, bustling agitations of Commencement. But when rcmcir.lier thru t ic present is tho fust v i „it that I have mate to my Alma Mater graduating, you will readily forgive a littUe- “lurchcsse” ia oncsponder.ee. In to Athens of j ter an absence of three yea*—*. I supposed l : coii-i behold my once loved nh*. udewith the in difference of a stranger. how different was the impression il made u Tp o n me. The sweet, but at the same time *be melancholy j associations inspired by agnit* beholding the | hallowed see::es of tny first,, nn( ] b est) and I loti est aspirations, worealmo „ t overpowering, i Tney swept in wild and ti* .-nultuous tides across a he irt. that deemed, aft «r a rough in. ; tercoursc with the world, it cr «uld look back ; upon the pure and noble plensv* res of a college oursc, and not tremble with at the recollection. But it was not s«o. No Jewish maiden ever returned from ex i Teto her happy Jerusalem, excite 1 by feelings -so deep, so na tural, so thrilling. This is no l>u w'lesque, I assure you, upon the hacknied subject of sensibility. For though the world, time, ar»<- J ambition, may at last wear off the keen, xasitive edge of feeling, yet the early impressio- of animated youth defies obliteration. Lilc the sinner in Lalla Rookli, the memory of «nrly days will come flooding over the heart ’•'til tears, cither of repentance for follies com K -fitted, pledges unredeemed, or time never, no, -%,-erto be recall ed, bids the warm gash to f!o\v~ in streams un. bidden from the deep and sources of feeling. I was particularly anxious to have arrived before the first division of the class ex hibited, on Tuesday morning, s it was the last j class with whom I was families r.(tliev having rose Sophomores iu August, 1 But the weather proved so sultry and oppressive, that we were unable to reach here Ixfore Tuesday to tea. On that night, the Ji* * ,j 0 r Class deliv ered their orations, which we usually about ten minutes long. They generally res pectable. but contained less of t hat spirit, viva city. elevation of sentiments, ar*«z! grace and ani mation of delivery, that formerl v characterized the speeches of tire Junior opbl tors of Frank lin College. Among those hat struck my attention with force, was Mr. . S. Atkinson’a on the “triumphs of the mind ;"* and Mr. J. B. Jones’, on the “ policy ofestaUl ishing an inter national copy-right law.” He-, maintained the j affirmative of the question wit F great stretigthr ofargument, logical arranger*-*ents, and earn* 1 cstness of gesticulation, and sxjsccecded in tri. umphantly maintaining his pxcusition. Lord j Thurlow, the great friend of literary merits, ■ and himself an author of celebrity, would have been gratified to have seen his favorite subjects, so appropri?3*-tcly discussed. The cause of the marked dee 1 jne in the excel lence of oratory by the Junior is attribut ed with good reason to the facet, that the privi lege of electing their own has been withdrawn, from the two socie-r ics. Hitherto, ! the Bcmasthonmn ond Pi,; x-3f O |i|)o Societies nave exercised the right of ele<L_-ting the differ ent competitors, orators to ap j -ear on the Ju : nior day. This honor, confe*- *-ed exclusively : by the choice of their brother i-xacmbers, was a 1 high excitement to the candid sates for distinc t on. Andthoie desirous of cobtuining it, at* 1 tended assiduously to the dut of their res pect') e societies, and, of courss«, improved in te chief requisites of oratory. Not oily in this did they improve, but in t Ijat high-toned sentiment, and elevated bcarir* which inde pendence of action on subjects that command a fee excrcire of the judgnie* it and choice, c» i alone afford. Tnechango lias been made so manifest, that the attention of the honorary members of'the two bodies has t>ccn called to it, and a committee from each has been appointed to report upon the expediency «of restoring the rg.it oi election to tie societies and to memo rialize, if necessary, the trustees upon the sub ject. As the prosperity of institution is identified with the existence of* the Phi Kappa and Deiriosthcnian societies, r* ■ id as they re quire proper incentives to proses rve an interest in their proceedings, 1 think it I—»iglilyl —»iglily probable that the Faculty will coincide w~ iththe opinion ns it regards the policy of the * restitution, ai.d that the trustees themselves, upon a consider ation of the subject, will see tho importance of restoring this almost immemorial privilege to its legitimate place oi'exeicise. 7 ne duties of Commenceme*-* t day were ful fil ed, by all concerned, with at» i I ity and credit. Tae young men that most attracted tho public eye, on that occasion, were Messrs. Palmer, Irvin, and Sandlord, w shared alike the first honor. Mr. Palmer t*ttracted every ear at all sensitive to the beauties of fine com position, and distinct and impressive delivery, by a most exquisite production «jpon tire sub ject of a “ Call for moral eflort in the present age. Irvin delivered astro;* g and sensible oration, upon a theme well calcz: ulated to elicit deep reflection,and evinced totl * ose who heard him, that “ time oveithrows the i Husious ol opi nion ; but establishes the decisions of nature.” It devolved upon Mr. Sandfo*- <f, of Grecns borough, to deliver the Valedictory Address to his class. Never have I felt, upon any ° c * cas'on so deeply, the melanch<z»!y impression, made upon me by those feelin lines, which, answered as such an uppropric*_ te caption to the Senior bills: ' “ To-day, young Joy entwines ui a spell, And bluu.cyed Hope and pleasure us dwell! To-morrow, comes tiie word we gri*3r ve to tell, The sound that bids us linger yet—farewell!" I have lieen present at many occasions like that of Commencement day, but never do I re member one in which there was scz> much natural and heat tfolt excitement. It w j 3*3 no artificial parade, 110 pompous ostentation,, but a sponta neous expression of kindred sen I. intents, a day of abiding regrets, an occasion at last, called for a final separation of b carts that had spent the green pleasures of y -outh together for the long period of four yeans , Alas! bow often amid the turmoils and st trifesof a bad world, will they look back to tF»*it most inter esting era. How soon will they perceive, with all the bitterness of the convict; «zz»n, that amidst he cherished associations of the i r Alma Mater,