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learn her own value, as tb e first educator, that
in proportion to tlie measure of her influence.
s'ie mav acquit herself of her immense respon
sibilities. .
Her debt to the community must be paid
through her children, or through others whom
she may rear up, to dignify and adorn it.
Aristotle said, “the fate of empires dope ided
on education.” But that in woman, dwelt an\
particle of that conservative power, escaped
the scrutinizing eye of tiie philosopher ot
Cirecce. The far-sighted statesmen of our
times have discovered it. A Prussian legis
la'or. at the beginning oftlie present century,
promulgated the principle, that -to tl.e safety
and regeneration of a peopie, a correct state
of religious opinion and practice was essentia],
wh i could only be eff* cted by proper atten
tion to the early nurture of the mind. He
foresaw the influence, winch the training of
infancy would have, upon t. e welfare ot a ‘
nation.
Let our country go still further, an I reeotj
n'ze in the nursery, and at the fireside, that
hallowed agenev, which, more than t!)e pomp
of armies, shall guard her welfare, and preserve
her libeitv. Trying as site is. in her own iso
lateJ sphere, the’mighty experiment, w net her
a republic can ever lie permanent —standing in
need as she does, of all tin* checks which s.w
can Command, to curb faction, cupidity and
reckless competition —nc.i in resources, and
therefore in danger from her own power—in
danger from the very excess of her own happi
ness, from that knowledge which is the birth*
right of her people, unless there go forth with
it a moral purity, guarding the unsheathed
weapon—let this our dear country, not slight
tte humble-t instrument that may advance her
safety, nor forget that the mother, kneeling by
the cradle-bed, hath her hand upon the ark of a
nation.
Hartford, Can. October Hth, 1333.
LETTER ntO'l EX-IT.ESIDF.NT ADU MS.
Tne following admirable letter from one of
toe most eminent men, living or dead, to a
highly useful and res|wctub!o Literary Society
iu Baltimore, will be read witii no ordinary
interests, not only by the student, but by all
classes ot People : Baltimore Patriot. '
Messrs. Lewis Audoun, If. I). McCulloch, and
C. L. L. Leary, a Committee of the Frank
lin Association of Baltimore.
Washington. 22 / June,
Gentlemen:—l hi\o r.o words to express
rriv gratitude for the kind feelings and more
than friendly estimate of my character, con
tained in your letter of the 9lh inst., and am
not less at a loss for language to utter the hu
miliation of a'deep conviction how little your
pancgvric has been deserved.
Were it even so far deserved that I could
feel myself qualified to give you Ihe advice
which vou desire, it would afford me the most
heartfelt pleasure to give it, but situated m life
as you represent yourselves to be, 1 could
scarcely name any list of books, or of authors
which 1 could recommend as equally worthy of
attention to you all. The first and almost
the only book deserving such universal
recoinmendatinn. is the bible — and in recom
mending that, 1 fear that some of you will think
I am |)erforming a suporuuous, and others a
very unnecessary office—vet such is my de
liberate opinion. Tne Bible is the book of all
others to be read at all ages and in id! condi
tions of human life ; —not to bo read once or
twice or thrice through, and then to lie laid
aside ; but to be read in small portions of one
or two chapters, every day, and never to be
intermitted, unless by some overruling ne
cessity.
This attentive and repeated reading of the
Bible, in small portions every day, leads the
niincJ to habitual meditation upon subjects of
tlie highest merest to the welfare of the indi
vidual in this world, as well as to prepare him
for the hereafter to which we are all destined.
It furnisher rules of conduct for our conduct
towards others in our social relation. In the
commandments delivered from Sinai, in the
inimitable sublimity of the Psalms and of the
prophets, in the profound and concentrated
observations upon human life and manners
embodied in the Proverbs of Solomon, in the
philosophical allegory so beautifully set forth
in the narrative of lacs, whether real or imagi
nary, of the Book of Job, an active mind can
not peruse a single chapter and lay the book
aside to think, and take it up again to-morrow,
without finding in it advice for our own con
duct, which we may turn to useful account in
the progress of our daily pilgrimage upon
Earth—and when we pass from the old Testa
ment to the new, we meet at once a system of
universal mortality founded upon one precept
of universal application, pointing us to oeace
and good will towards the whole race of man
for tins life, and to peace with God, and an
ever blessed existence hereafter.
Mv friends, if all or any of you have spiritual
pastors to guide you in the paths of salvation,
do not imagine that I am encroaching upon the
field of their appropriate services ; —1 speak
as a man of the world to men of the world, and
1 say to you Search the Scriptures ! If ever
you tire nf them in seeking for a rule of faith
and a standard of morals, search them as rec
ords of History. General and compendious
history is one of the fountains of human
knowledge to which you should all resort with
steady and persevering pursuit. The Bible
contains the only authentic introduction to tlie
history ofthc world ; and inserting your minds
with the facts of this history, you will imme
diately perceive tlie need of assistance from
Geography and Chronology. These assis
tances you may find in many of the Bibles
published with commentaries, and you can
have no difficulty in procuring them. Ac-
quaint yourselves with tlie Chronology and
Geography of the Bible—that will lead you to
a gruera! knowledge of Chronology and of
Geography, ancient and modern, and these
will open to you an inexhaustible fountain of
knowledge, respecting the globe which you
inhabit, and re pccting tlie race of man, its
inhabitant, to which you you'selves belong.
You may pursue tlie.se inquiries just so far as
vour time and inclination will |icrimt. Give
one hour of mental application (for you must
not read without thinking, or you will read to
little purpose, give an hourofjoint reading and
thought to tlie chronology, and one to the
geography of tlie Bible, and if it introduces
>ou to too hard a study, stop there. Even for
those two hours, you will ever after read the
Bible, and any other history w ith more fruit
more intelligence—more satisfaction. But, if
those two iiouis excite your curiosity, and
tempt you to devote part of an hour every day
for a year or years, to study thorougly the
chronology and g< ography ot the Bible, it will
not only lead you far deeper than you will
otherwise ever penetrate into the knowledge of
the book, but it will spread floods of light upon
everv step vou shall afterwards take in acquir
in" the knowledge of profane history, and upon
tlie local habitation of every tribe of man, and
upon the name of every nation into which the
children of Adam have been divided.
There are many other subsidiary studies, to j
which vou may devote more or less of time,
tbrthe express purpose of making your Bible
reading more intelligible to yourselves. It is
a book which neitiier the most ignnr lit and
weakest, nor the most learned and intelligent,
mind can read w ithout improvement.
There are other books of great worth and
of easy acquisition, w hich I suppose will be
accessible to vou all. Tlie libraries of useful
and entertaining knowledge, the Family Li
brary. the Monthly and Quarterly Reviews
and Magazines, which arc in a continual suc
cession of publication in this countiy, as well
as in England, will furnish you a constant
supply of profitable reading ; tbrthe selection
of which, time, inclination and opportunity will
lie your wisest counsellors. As citizens of a
free country, taking an interest in its public
concerns, I am sure I need not remind you,
! how strong your impulse should bo to seek an
intimate knowledge of the history of America,
from the voy age of Columbus. ; n I even of his
supposed predecessors, Prince Madloc of
Whales and the Northmen down to tke-Olvm
piads of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van
Boren. Tlie American Hempisphere—the
Continent of North America —tiie United
States of America before and since the acquisi
tion of Louisiana, and every separate State of
this Union, is a series of historical problems of
w hicii you should systematically seek the .solu
tion. Read the Constitution of the United
States—the Commentary of the Federalist—
the Constitution and llistoiy of your own
State—biographies, beginning with Laugliorns
Plutarch, and thence proceeding to the history
of John Smith; to the American biographies ;
of Belknap and Sparks; to Washington Ir
ving’s Lite of Columbus ; and to the Articles
of Penn, and Calvert and Locke, and Ogle-i
thorpe, which w II lead you on to others in the
Encyclopedia Americana or Conversations
i Lexicon. Then the fashionable Novels and
Poetry of the present times: Scott, Byron,
Moore, Rogers, Coleridge, Southey, Words
worth, two Montgomerys, Cooper. Paulding,
Willis, Mrs. Hemans and Lady Blessington,
Mrs. Sigourney and Miss Gould, and worth
them all, Miss Edgeworth—and lastly, the Re
ports of your Countrymen, travellers in foreign
lands —l)r. Dw ight,Ur. Sprague,Mr. Bigelow,
Lieutenant Dlitlell, and Dr. Fisk ; with many
; others whose names do not at this moment
occur to me ***** But I have given you
more tha ) enough, and after all hardly know
w li tlier the catalogue will meet your enquiries,
lor satisfy your expectations. After all 1 must
i conclude with tlie advice oftlie serving man to
the young Student of in Shakespeare
“ Study, what y ou most affect.”
And 1 remain your friend and fellow student
for life, J. Q. ADAMS.
IMPROVEMENT OF THE MICROSCOPE.
A German, named Van Esten, tins recently
produced improved miscroscopes, of astonish
ing and unheared of powers. They arc made
of diamonds crysulized alter being disolved,
and they have enabled him to make most as
tonishing discoveries in the properties of bodies,
some of them having an intimate connexion
with health and the treatment ofdiseases. The
'animalcule: which form the poisonous matter
of certain diseases are made distinctly visible
by means of this microscope, and some of
these are in the same manner to make part of
some articles of our ordinufood. It has often
been conjectured by medical men that the virus
of many disorders to which the human body
is liable, has an animalcular origin, and this
supposition lias been fully verified by the ob
servations through Van Esten’s microscope.
Those substances are found to be composed
almost entirely nnimulculse; and these seem
to be as various in their powers, habits and
modes of life as the large animals which inhabit
the earth. The animulculie of the varioloid
virus dill'er from those of the small pox virus
in size rather than form and habits. Anew
theory and mode of treatment for diseases is
like to be the result of those discoveries.
Spcllanzuni long since observed that the pedi
culous was in tlie habit of scratching itself and
thence inferred that it was hit by some other
visable. If the means of destroying the uni
malculm that constitute the virus of diseases
shall be found out, a vast addition is made to
the means of prevention and cure of disease.
No doubt the means of destroying them in ovo
will be discovered, not only in tlie human
frame but in the food that wo cat, from which
they orgin ttc.
A GOOU WIFE.
She loves her home, hel eving with Milton,
that
‘■The wife, where danger and honor lurks,
.Safest and seendiest by tier husband stays,
SVlio guards her, oil with her tlie worst endures.”
The place of women is eminently at the
fire side. It is at home you must see her to
know what she is. It is less material what
she is abroad ; but what she is in the family
circle is ail important. It is bad merchandise
in any department of trade to pay a premium
for othei men’s opinions. In matrimony, he
who selects a wile tor the applause or wonder
of his neighbors is in a fair way toward do
mestic bankruptcy. Having got a wife, there
is but otic rule— honor and tore her. Seek to
improve her understanding and her heart.
Strive to make her more and mote such a one
as you can cordially respect. Shame on the
brute in man’s shape, who can affront or vex,
lot to say nejlect tlie woman who has em
barked with him for life, “ for better, for
worse,” and whose happiness, if severed from
bis smiles, must lie unnatural and monstrous.
In fine, I am proud of nothing in America so
much as our American wives.
THE SOUTHERN POST.
From Bentley’s Miscellany.
SAILING UNDER FALSE COLORS.
But I warnt safe yet; and so I claps a suit
ofSuke’s duds over my own gear, and, being
but a little chap, w ith some clutching, and K t
ting out a reef or two here and there, I got
my sails all snugly bent, and clapped a cap
with a thousand little frills round my face, and
a straw- hurricane-house of a bonnet as big as
a Guineaman’s caboose over all, with a black
wail hanging in the brails down afore, and my
shoes scandaled up my legs, that I made a
good-looking wench. Well, I bid all hands
bye. Suke piped her eye a bit; but, Lord
love you ! we’d made our calculations o’ ma
trimony, and got the right hearing and distan
ces, (else mayhap, I should never have got
stowed away under her hatches,) and she w as
to join me at Portsmouth, and we were to make
a long splice of it off-hand ; but, then poor
tiling! she though, mayhap, I might get grab
bed and punished. Up comes the coach ;
but the fellow wouldn’t heave to directly, and
‘Yo-hoy !’says I giving him a hail.—-Going
to Portsmouth, ma’am V says he, throwing all
aback, and coming ashore from his craft.—
‘To be sure I am,’says I. ‘What made you
carry on in that fashion, and be d— to
you ’ —is that all the regard you have for the
sex?’says I.—‘Would you like to go inside,
ma’am ?’says he, opening the gangway port.
—‘Not a bit of it,’ says 1, ‘stow your damaged
slops below, but give me a berth ’pon deck.’
—‘Worry good, ma’am,’ says he, shutting the
gangway port again ; ‘will you allow me to
assist you up ?’—‘Not by no manner o’ means’
says 1. ‘Why, what the devil do you take
me for! to think the captain of a frigate’s
maintop cant find his way aloft I’—‘You mean
the captain oftlie maintop’s wife, says Susan,
paying me back the pinch 1 gave her.—‘Ah,
ay, my precious,’says I; ‘so l do, to be sure.
God bless you ! good b’ye! Here Igo like
seven bells half struck ! —carry on my boy,
and Pm blessed if it shant be a shiner in your
way !’ And so we takes our berth, and away
we made sail, happy-go-lucky, heaving to now
and then, just to take in a sea-stock ; and the
governor had two eyes in his head,and so he;
finds out latitude of the thing, but he says
nothing; and we got safe through the barrier
and into Portsmouth, and I lands in the street
afore they reached the inn,—for thinks I to
myself, I’d lietter get berthed for the night and
go abroad in the morning. Well, shipmates, j
1 parts company with the craft, and shapes
my course for Pint, —‘cause 1 knew a snug
cornei in Capstansquarc, and I was determin
ed to cut with all skylarks, in regird o’ Suke.
Well, just as I was getting to steer with a small
helm, up ranges a tall man who had seen me ;
come ashore from the coach, and ‘My dear,’
says he, ‘what! just fresh from the couni ry ?’,
But 1 lioulds my tongue, shipmates, and he
pulls up alongside and grabs my arm. ‘Come,
don’t Ire cross,’ says he, ‘let me take you in
tow; I want to talk with you my love.’ 1
knew tlie voice well ; and though he had a
pea jacket over his uniform coat, and, take!
him ‘half way up a hatlnvay,’ he was ad
I good looking fellow, yet nobody as evei had
seen him could forget them ‘trap-strick legs:’
and so, thinks l to myself, Jack, you’d better
shove your boat off' without delay : for, d’ye
| sec, shipmates, I’d siflled with him when I was
a mizen-top-man in the ould Stag, and I will
remembered Sir Joseph Y—ke. But I’m
blessed if be didn’t stretch out arter me, and
sailed two foot to my one ; and ‘Come, come,
jdarling,’ says lie, take an honest tar for jour
sweetheart. Let’s look at that beautiful face;’
and he catches liould o’the wall and hauls it
up chock abloek; hut I pulls down my bonnet
so as he couldn’t see my figure-head, and 1
carries on a taut pres: to part company. But,
Lord love her hearts ! it warn’l no manner o’
use whutsomever—h : more than held his own;
and ‘A pretty innocent country wench in
deed!’ says he. ‘What, have you lost your
tongue?’—No I’m d— if 1 have!’ says I. for
1 forgot myself, shipmates, through vexation
at not being able to get away. ‘Hallo,” says
he,gripping me tight by the shoulder; ‘who
have we here ?’ I’m blessed, shipmates, if, what
I with his pulling at my shawl, and my strug
gling to sheer olf. my spanker boom didn’t at
that very moment get adrift, and he caught
sight of it in a jiffy. ‘Hallo,’says he, catch
ing tight hold of the pig-tail, and slueing me
right round by it. ‘Hallo,’ said lie, *1 never
see an innocent country wench dress her hair
in this way afore; —rather a masc’line sort o’
female,’ he says. * Who the devil are you ?’
“It’s Jack Sheavehole, your honor,’ says I
bringing up all standing; and, knowing his
generous heart, thinks I, now’s your time,
Jack ; overhaul the whole consarn to him,and
ten to one but he pulls you through the scrape
somehow or other. So I ups and tells him
the long and the short on it, and he laughs one
minute, and d—ns me for a desalting willun
the next; and ‘Come ak ng,’ says he ; ‘I must
see what Captain B—n will think of all this.’
So he takes me in tow, and we went into one
of the grand houses in High-street; and ‘Fol
low me,’ says he, as he walked up stairs into
a large room all lighted up fora sheave-o;
and there wur ladies al 1 togged out in white,
and silver and gold, and feathers, and navy
officers and sodger officers, —a grand dinner
party. ‘B—n,’ hails Sir Joseph, ‘ here’s a
lady wants you;’and he takes me by the
hand, all complimentary like, and the captain
of the frigate comes towards us, and I’m
blessed if every soul fore and aft didn’t fix
their eyes on me like a marine looking out for
a squall. ‘l’ve not the pleasure of knowing
the lady,’ says the skipper : ‘1 fear Sir Joseph,
vou’recoming York over me, Pray, ma’am,
j may I be allowed the happiness of seeing your
countenance and hearing your name?’— ‘ I’m
! Jack Sheavehole, yer honour,’ says I, ‘captain
o’ti e Tapsickorees maintop, as yer honor
| well knows.’—‘l do, my man,’says lie with a
gravedigger’s grin on his countenance : ‘and
so you want to desart V —‘Never, yer honor,’
says 1, ‘in the regard o’ my liking my ship
and my captain too well.’ —“No, no, B—
says Sir Joseph, ‘I must do him justice. It ap
pears that he had long leave, and unknowing,
ly overstayed his time; so lie rigged himself
out in angel’s gear to cheat them devils of
jsodgers. ‘l’ll vouch for the fact, B—n,’says
| he, ‘for I saw him myself get down from the
i coach—.’—‘All fresh from the country, yer
. honor,’ says I.’—* \y, all fresh from the coun-
Itrv,’ chimes in Sir Joseph, ‘lie’s an ould ship
mate o’ mine, B—n, and l want you, as a per-
sonal favor to myself, to back his liberty ticket
for to-morrow. Such a lad as this would
never desart tlie sarvice.’—‘lf I would, then
Pm d —, savingyer honor’s presence,’ says I.
Well, shipmates, there I stood in the broad
light, and all the gentlemen and ladies staring
at me like fun ; and ‘Come, B—n,’ says Sir
Joseph, ‘extend his liberty till to-morrow.’ —
‘Where’s your ticket ?’ axes the skipper : and
so, in regard of its being in my trousers
pocket. I hauls up my petticoats to get at it ;
and, my eyes! but the women set up a screech
ing, and the officers burst out in a broadside
o’ laughing, and you never heard such a bob
bery as they kicked up,—it was a downright
reg’lar squall.’
NUMOROUS ADVENTURE.
A few weeks since while the Port of Cor
pus Christi was in possession of the Mexi
cans, three Dutchman in a small schooner loa
ded with flour, sailed boldly into the harbor
and anchored close along side of the Lodi
Tiie Mexicans who were stationed at this
port, witnessed this singular movement at first
with considerable a lartn, as they were fearful
a party of armed men might be concealed in
her hold : but when they found that her little
crew had come in the most pacific manner to
trade with the citizens of that vicinity, their
fears gave place to genuine Mexican courage,
and they immediately took possession of the
vessel, sent the Captain to Matamoras under
charge of a small escort of soldiers, and left
the remaining two on board guarded by four
men. The two Dutchmen who were left in
the vessel soon became dissatisfied with their
situation, and concluded to clear out even
without a regular clearance. They accord
ingly at a favorable juncture, rushed upon
their guard and threw them all overboard :
fortunately however for the poor fellows, the
vessel lay near shoal water, and they all swam
safely to the shore. In the mean time the
two flour merchants weighed anchor, and the
wind blowing fresh from shore they were soon
out to sea. The next morning they arrived in
safety to Aransas. Texas Telegraph
If she will, she will;
If she won’t, she won’t,
And there’s the end on’t.
a woman’s firmness.
A case of a novel character occured yes
terday in the United States Circuit Court at
Providence. The Providence Courier says:
—A young lady of'a very interesting appear
ance, and respectable character, was brought
up by the marshal for refusing to be sworn,
and to give hei testimony before the grand
jury. Justice Story addressed her in a very
eloquent and respectful manner, and with all
the kindness of a father, urged upon her the
duty and the necessity of persons giving testi
mony, to promote the cause ot justice, and
the public safety. He informed her, that,
however painful to him, tlie law ieft no discre
tion for him to exercise ; and that, if she per
sisted in her refusal, tlie only course he could
pursue, was, to commit her to jail, and to
keep her there till she should consent to take
the oath.
True to her woman’s nature, she replied
instanter, and without hesitation, that she
would go to jail rather than be sworn, and
was condemned accordingly. It seems that
u young gentleman whose addresses she was
not inclined to favor, had written her two let
ters, which she suffered to remain in the post
office. Another young gentleman took one
of the letters from the post office and delivered
it to the lady, who receivid it with the seal
broken ; and the young lady was summoned
by the letter writer, and a witness against the
letter Nearer, and from some cause best known
to herself, she refused to make oath.
Since the above was in type, we learn that
tlie young lady has been liberated, and has re
turned to her friends. .Boston Transcript
a horse’s tongue torn out by the root.
A most horrid occurrence took place on
Friday night, at tlie livery stubk ol L. Cham
berlin & Sou, 143 Liberty street, near the
North river. It appears that the partition
between two stalls was imported, and the
boards having shrunk, now stand about the
eighth of an inch apart. This crevice comes
directly in the centre of the trough, and the
horses, in eating from the latter, have gnawed
a hole through of about two inches diameter.
On Friday night, oats were given to one ani
mal, and as he fed, the horse in the next stall
began to lick the grains which were pushed
through the hole in the partition. Not satis
fied with taking the oats that came through,
the poor beast thrust his tongue in to gather
as much as possible. The intruding member
was seized by the feeding horse, and held
tightly. Both raised their heads, the one
probably in fury, and the other in pain, until
the extended tongue was actually drawn two
feet up the narrow crevice first mentioned. In
an angony of torture, the suffering horse be
came almost mad, and continued to kick, paw,
and rear, until his tongue was actually torn
out by the root. This story appeared incredi
ble to us, and we took the pains jesterday to
call at Mr. Chamberlain’s, and ascert lined that
it was most positively correct. We saw tlie
tongue hanging in the crevice, and the marks
of teeth upon the smaller end of it. It hangs
about five inches on each side, so that its
length must be near a foot. We understand
the animal still lives, though he cannot last
long. He ought to have been killed immedi
ately. It is the greatest cruelty to think of let
ting him starve to death. X. Y. Whig.
THE STEAM FRIGATE FULTON.
The New York American says that not
withstanding the many mistakes made in the
first arrangement and fitting out of the Fulton,
j she is, at last, not altogether a failure. We
have it on good authority, that on a trial of
speed with the Great Western, on the occasion
of the departure of the latter vessel, the Fultcn
! proved her superiority. Even without any
fuel on board, she is depressed beyond her in
tended bearings as much as if loaded with coal
for twenty day’s consumption. She carries
] the same pressure of steam as when at sea in
j a 1 eavy blow, and has often worked with high
er steam, and made more revolutions, even
w ith her coal-holds full.
IMPORTANT discovery.
We see in a scientific journal, a notice of a
new discovery, which is declared to be capa
ble of giving us light on the subject of burners.
It is there set forth that, by the use of tar and
the coarsest oils for producing light a single
burner may be supplied a whole year for forty
cents.
It is averred that “this process of obtaining
light for domestic and economical purposes
from the oils of the cheapest kind is effected
by the aid of an artificial current of air which
excites the combustion. The lamp used is of
extreme simplicity, and the best of the flame is
employed to effect a decomposition of the oil
in such a manner that the gas is contn ually
formed in the tubes of the lamp.”
We give this discovery as we find it, with
out having opportunity to know any more
about it than we have condensed as the pith of j
the foreign journals. We shall patiently await!
more light upon the matter, before we incline
to think our gas works must cease opera
tions. Phil. Herald.
DEATH.
The first conviction that there is death in
the hoi se, is perhaps, the most awful moment
of yout l. When we are young, we think that
not only ourselves, but that all about us are
immortal. Until the arrow has struck a vic
tim round our hearth, death is merely an un
meaning word ; until then, its casual mention
has stamped no idea upon our brain. There
are few, even among those least suspected of
thought and emotion, in whose hearts and
minds the first death in the family does not act
as a very powerful revelation of the mysteries
of life and of their own being; there are few
who, after such a catastrophe, do not look
upon the world a id the world’s ways, at least ■
for a time, with change and tempered feelings.
It recals the past, it makes us ponder over the j
future; and youth, gay, and light hearted |
youth, is taught, for the first time to regret,
and fear.
A SINGULAR DUEL.
The Richmond Whig, in announcing the
death ofCol. F. B. Povall of Powhatan coun
ty, Va., furnishes a very interesting account
of a duel that was fought some jears since
between that gentleman and Col. W. S. Ar
cher of the same State. The terms were pis
tols at 10 paces. The first fire was ineffec
tual and Col. Archer proposed, in order to
make quicker work of it, that both parties
should have the privilege of advancing at the
next fire within what distance and time they
pleased. Col. Povall agreed. The word was
given and tlie latter fired without leaving
his place, hitting Colonel Archer’s hat,
and through it the comb with which his
hair was fastened. Archer advanced until his
pistol touched his antagonist’s breast, exclaim
ing “Sir your life is in my hands—make ac
knowledgment or I’ll blow you through injin
instant.” “ I’ll make no acknowledgment,”
answered the undaunted Povall, and exposing
his bare bosom to the instrument of death,
taunted Col. Archer to fire, in terms that indi
cated his unyielding firmness of soul. “ I will
not kill so brave a man,” was the reply of the
latter, as he fired in the air. Col. Povall
apologised; now that ti e means of intimidation
were removed ; they both shed tears, shook
hands and proved the sincerity of the recon
cilliation by continuing ever after the best
friends.
HEAR HIM.
In speaking of the report that Governor
Arthur has represented to the cabinet of En
gland that nothing but a declaration of a gen
eral war against the United States will pre
serve the Canadas to the mother country,
Bennett says: —“If it comes to this, come on.
The United States are not France—as France
was in 1792, when Europe united to put her
down. We have four millions of fighting
men—five millions of lovely women—acoun
ty unrivalled under heaven—and all the ele
ments of independence within our own limits.
If all Europe want to repress our freedom of
thought and feeling, let them come here and
try it. We care nothing for Canada—it is a
cold, dirtj', vagabond county —is not worth
fighting for. We have 1,200,000 of acres of
choice unoccupied land in this republic—
enough to cut outsix Upper and Lower Cana
das—but if the aristocrats of Europe want
war, by the Great God of Battles, let them
come on. That’s all.”
BAPTIST VINCENT LAV ALL;
AN INQUIRY.
Mr. White, —In the year 1809, the schoo
ner Otter, Capt. Niles, on a voyage for furs
from England, to the western coast of Ameri
ca, was lost below the mouth of Columbia
river, and all on board perished. Baptist (
Vincent Lavall and three others, who were;
on shore hunting, ow ed the preservation of
their lives to this circumstance. Not being!
taken off, they were obliged to travel to the
United States on foot, crossing the Rocky
Mountains and descending the Red River.
Lavali’s MS. account of their journey and ad
ventures in still in existence, and it is thought j
would prove interesting at this period, when
attention is becoming directed to the posses-j
sions of the United States on the Pacific. It
has however been thought right first to ascer-i
tain whether Mr. Lavall is still living, and as
j’our Messenger circulates extensively through
the south western states, in one of which it is!
believed that Mr. Lavall afterwards settled, it J
has been judged the fittest medium for inquir
ing if he is still alive, and if not, the time and
place of his decease; which inquiry it is
hoped that editors who may see this note will
repeat. Yours respectful!} - , D.
Philadelphia, 1838.
AN ANSWER.
A pedagogue in Berkshire, not long since,
inquired ‘what part of speech is Oh! and Ah!'
or, ‘wlmt is an interjection?’ The lad not
knowing, the knight of the rod attempted to
illustrate by again asking, ‘what should you
saj - if a man seized you violently by the arm?’
‘Why I should tell him to let me alone,
demotion quick.’
ORIGINAL.
r or the Southern Poet
The Vision.of Jordan.
In sleep, methought I stood beside
Some dark and rolling stream—
A river rapid, deep and wide,
Was painted in my dream.
Methought that twilight’s pensive gloom
Had mantled Nature’s face,
Inviting shadowy forms to come
From their dark hiding place.
The hour when ghostly vigils take
Their walk with noiseless tread,
To keep their solitary wake
Around the sleeping dead.
No voice was there, save far remote
Along the dismal shore,
Was heard the vulture’s piercing note
Above the water’s roar.
Far ofl upon a moss-grown peak,
Was seen one haggard form ;
A ghastly paleness clothed his cheek,
Vet brawny was his arm.
With cautious steps I neared the spot.
By day’s last fading light.
Intent to know the name and lot
Os this mysterious wight:
“ Grave sir,” said I, “ what rolling tide
Is this that passes by 7”
“ The stream of Death,” the churl replied,
As flashed his lurid eye.
“ Then, may a stranger dare thy name
To ask, with awe supreme ;
Art thou not he whom vagrant fame
Calls Genius of this stream ?”
“ Your gentle mein invites me say,
I'm Demon of this flood ;
King of terrors, I hold my sway,
The royal slave of God.
- I'm he of whom your bards have sung,
And princes heard with dread
The curse of every imp’ous tongue
Has settled on my head.
“But slanders foul have blurred my namo,
For sure the crime of blood
Can be no crime, or cause of blame,
To him who kills for God.
“ Truth is, old Time’s resistless pow’r
Bends all men to his sway,
And hangs them from his moss-grown tow’r
High o’er this wat’ry way.
“ Then comes an edict from the sky,
Rise Death ! thy sword unsheathe—
Extend thy hand, and cut the tie
Which stays the fleeting breath.
“ I hear and must the voice obey,
Whate'er the victims crave ;
Must clip the brittle thread of clay,
And give them to the w ave.
“ I’ve heard them shriek and groan, and cry,
Their struggles I have seen ;
But soon 1 see them not—and why 7
Dark waters roll between.
“ True some there be of fortunes rare,
Who stained with hallowed blood,
Ride proudly, like the buoyant air,
Above the chilling flood.”
His story heard, in pensive mood,
I sought my homeward way;
Resolved to seek this needful blood
Before my dying day.
STAFFORD-
Mwint Zion, Georgia.
For the Southern Post.
The limited Whig, or Partisan Warfare.
“ No,” cried the prisoner indignantly, his
1 eye sparkling as he spoke, “ No, though \ou
may letter my hands, and hang me like a
felon, I will remain true to my country, and
my last breath shall be a prayer for her inde
pendence.”
“Bravely spoken, m v lark, considering your
situation,” said the other with a sarcastic smile*.
“ you wish to be a hero it seems, but there is
not much glory I assure you, in swinging from,
a limb with tlie air for your support.”
“ Do your worst,” said the prisoner bitterly,,
“death has no terrors for me, compared with
the alternative *ju propose. The hand of the
oppressor may weigh down the energies of our
county for a while, but the genius of liberty
will jet lie triumphant. Do your worst, I
would rather die a whig, then live a tory.”
“ Do you dare me to my face.” retorted the
other fiercely, and laying his hand upon his
sabre, “ Do you know you are a prisoner, and
merit death for your rebellion.”
“Do j - our worst, lam an American and a
freeman.”
“ We’ll see about that, you rebel. Hero
seize this fellow,” said he addressing some
twenty men who were gathered around a fire
at some distance from them. It was a place
that well suited the lawless character of its
present tenants.
In the heart of an immense forest, with which
the western districts of Carolina then abounded,
it was surrounded bj - scenery at once wild and
luxuriant. The first frosts of Autumn bad
slightly tinged the utmost leaves with yellow,
while those within j - et retained the rich coloring
of summer. Above, the lofty foiest trees
almost interwove their branches, and shielded
them from the dews of night, and around, the
thick chinquepin bushes protected them from
the Autumnal winds, which sighed mournfully
through the tops of the pines, or broke in fitlul
gusts along the rustling leaves. The tory bad
chosen it as a temporary camp, to which the
hand might resort to divide their boot} - , and
concert [dans for further depredations.
On the day previous, they had unfortunate
ly surprised and taken Minter, who had in
cautiously left the small band of whigs to which
he belonged, and who had taken refuge in the
swamp, to visit his family, and while there bad
been surrounded and taken prisoner.
In this neighborhood, the torics and whigs
had alternately the ascendancy, and each drove
or was driven by the other in turn. The tones
now had the ascendancy, and the few - wh gs
that remained, had concealed themselves in the
swamps, occasion-illy sallj'ing forth to annoy
the tories, or obtain provisions. Minter, our
hero, was the leader of the little band, and the
conversation that ensued between the tories,
will serve to illustrate his character. When
the last command was given, half a dozeti