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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