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PUNCH’S LEITER-WRITER.
From a IVUhver h a Tl'idmr, with an offer of
.Mnrruiice.
FROM THK I.ONIMIN CHARIVARI.
Mi/ Dour Madam: Your kind looks and
cordial words have accompanied me all
the way home, and—the truth is, I write
this (adore going to bed—l shall sleep the
more soundly for having the matter ell my
mind. It is true we have met but once,
but we are both of us at that rational
point of life when people know most the
value of time; and as all ceremony is
hut an idle waste of existence, I beg here
with to oiler vou my hand, and with it,
li.-agli I have been married be line, an
eui:;o heart. There are hearts, madam,
i;a* to say, till the better for keep
ieg; diey become mellower, and more
worth a woman’s acceptance than the
crude, unripe things too frequently gath
ered, ns eliildrc n gather green fruit, to the
discomfort of those who obtain them. I
have been married to one wife, and know
enough of the happiness of wedloc k to
wish it to be continued in another. The
best compliment I can pay to the clear
creature now in heave n is to seek another
dear creature here on earth. Hie was a
woman of admirable judgment; and lira
portrait—it bangs ovet my chimney-piece
—smih s down upon me as 1 write. She
spems to know mv thoughts, and to ap
prove of them. I said, madam, she was
a woman of excellent judgment.
Mv means are tolerably good---more
than sufficient lor 103' w idowed state. ()!.
the truth of this vour solicitor shall have"
the most satisfactory proof. I have also
heard—casually heard—that fortune lias
not, my dear madam, been blind to your
deserts, and lias awarded y»>u more than
enough to keep the wolf from the door.
] rejoice at this, for whatever might be my
disappointment, 1 would not eh tail upon
you the inconvenience of marriage unac
companied by an agreeable competence.
What is enough for one, it has been said,
is enough for two. But this is the ignore*
anee of Cupid, who never could learn
figures. Now Hymen—as you must know ,
ilear madam—is a better arithmetician,
taught as he is by butcher and baker.—
Love in a cottage is pretty enough for,
girls and boys; but men and women like
a larger mansion, with coach-house and
stabling.
You may urge against me that 1 have
encumbrances. By no means. Mv daugh
ter, having married a begger, lias ceased
Jo have any natural claim upon me. If I
am civil to her, it is solely from a certain
weakness of heart that I cannot w holly
conquer; and something too, moreover,'
to keep up appearances with a meddling
world. 1 have told her that she is never
to expect a farthing from me, and l should
despise myself not to be u man of my
word.
1 have, too, a son; but when I tell you
that 1 have once paid his debts, incurred
in his wild minority, you will allow that,
except my blessing, and at times my pa
ternal advice, lie can expect nothing more.
1 know the duties of a father, and will
never satisfy the cravings of a profligate.
Nevertheless, he is my own son; and
whatever may be bis need, my blessing
and my counsel he shall never want.
My health, madam, lias oyer been ex
cellent. I have, worn like rock. 1 have
beard of such tilings as nerves, but l>e
lieve it my fate to have been born with
out any such weaknesses. 1 speak thus
plainly of essentials, as you and 1, madam, I
are nmv too wist to think consumption
pretty —to tie ourselves to ill-health, be
hoving it vastly interesting. I can ridt
lbrly miles a day, and lake the hedge w ith
any lellow of live-aud-twenty. 1 say 1
speak of these things that you may know
me as 1 am. Moreover, l assure you I
eat with my own teeth and grow my own
hair. Besides this, 1 am only two-atul
silty.
Wlmt do you sav, madam ? As for vi
ta ;is lam air lamest man Ido not think
ie m ! ' any to my charge. 1 may have
i v human weaknesses —such, indeed, as
1 have touched upon above: but, madam,
;• ms ever been my study through life to
he respectable. 1 have the handsomest
pew in the church, and don’t owe any man
a shilling.
Well, my dear madam, it is getting late,
and 1 must conclude. I hale to he out ol
bed alter eleven—it is now past twelve.—
Hence you must perceive how very much
lam interested in this business. In ano
ther ten minutes I shall be asleep, arid
«!learning of you. May I wake to find
my dream—lorl know what it will be—a
reality!
If our solicitors are mutually satisfied,
will you name the day ? I am supersti
tious aUiutdays—say, then, say Thursday
week, and believe me your devoted lover
till death.
NICHOLAS BLACKTHORN *
P. S. May 1 see you to-morrow r
The !I idow's Answer.
Stu: Your favor of last night, ha* I own,
surprised me. What, after one meeting,
and that at a card party, to make such an
oiler! Well, lobe sure, you men are
stiange creatures ! Wlmt, indeed, could
you have seen in my conduct to think 1
could look over such boldness?
As lor the rational point of life you
speak of, l must confess I know not when
taut exactly' occurs: do you think it—at
least with women—at t wo-and-thirtv ; or,
il not, may I beg to know what age you
‘•ousitler me ? Perhaps, though, my early
id irreparable loss may have brought a
look of premature age upon me. It is ve
ry possible—for what a man be was!
As for what you say about hearts, sir, l
know but little—l only know the one 1
have lost. Isl did pluck it green, like the
winter apples in my store-room, it grew
riper aud riper in my care.
You say your wife’s portrait smiled
while von wrote. Ills dear miniature is
uow before me: I think l see the tears
starting through the ivory as I look upon
th°prn iou* f atures. I? he ever could
have frowned, surely he would frown now
to think but 1 will not pursue the
, theme.
As to your means sir l am happy to hear
they are sufficient. Although lean, by
no possibility have an interest in them,
nevertheless 1 myself too well know the
blessings of competence not to congratu
late you. True it is, 1 know hut lillleof the
wavs of money, hut am blessed in my so
licitors, Messrs. Crip and Nip, No. —, Fur
nival’s Inn.
You speak of your encumbrances ; my
husband, dying, left me without a single
one. That vour daughter should have
forgotten her duty is an affliction. lam
glad however to find that you know the
true source of consolation, and refuse to
i lend yourself to her improvidence. True
!v indeed do vou say it is a medling world
I have found it so as some ol mv lamen
ted husband’s poor relations will answer
(hr t nr. However as I could not endure
the sight of any thing that remained me of
my dear lost treasure, I have left them
liirever in Cornwell. It is now some
months since they have ceased to distress
me.
Your son may mend. If you will al
low me, as a stranger, to speak, I think
vou should still act with tenderness to
wards him. How very little would pay
the passage to Australia.
Health is indeed a treasure, I know it.
Had I not had the robustness, pardon my
word, of a mountain nymph, I had never
survived the dreadful shock that cruel
death has inflicted on me. As it was it
struck me down. Betas the poet says,
“The bulrush rises when the oak goes
1 nsli.”
You are partial to hunting? It is a no
ble recreation, My departed lamb lol
lowed to iLe hounds, and as sportsmen
say, won! I ride at any thing, lie once
broke his collar hone, hut with good nur
sing we put him in the saddle again in a
month. 11a ! you should have seen him
in his scarlet coat.
In this fleeting life how small and vain
are personal gifts compared with the trea
sures of the mind ! Hill il there is any
thing 1 admire it is fine teeth. A wig
at 1 ast on a man, is detestable.
1 therefore, remain your obe’l servant,
RUTH DOUBLEKNOT.
BRITISH OCCUPATION OF ORE
GON.
While the good people of the United
Slates have been up to the eyelids in man
aging the Presidential election for the past
year, honest John Bull has been taking;
measures quietly, hut securely, to occupy
Oregon —principally those portions which
we claim, and to which we have an un
doubted right; and when the smoke of the
Presidential battle clears away, we may
see our position in Oregon in a less amica
ble light than we have been fondly sup
posing. Mr. Dunn, agent for the British
Hudson Bay Company, has furnished the
Montreal Courier with a statement of the
complete occupation of Oregon, animo re
mauendi, by tiie directions of that compa
ny, as the representatives of the British
nation. The act ual occupation of a coun
try by flirts and other establishments, even
within disputed limits, is considered as
yrima facia evidence of right or proprietor
ship, and even admitting in this case, that
Great Britain, by negotiation, surrenders
part of her actual occupations, the posses
sion is of itself embarrassing to get rid of.
That the English have stolen a march up
on us, will be readily admitted in reading
the following forts established under the
superintendence oftlie Hudson Bay Com
pany : Fort Vancouver, on the north hank
ot the Columbia, ‘(0 miles from the ocean,
and in latitude 45 1-2 deg., longitude 122
deg. 39 min. Fort George (formerly As
toria,) near the month of this river; Fort
Nasqually, on Puget’s sound, latitude 47
deg.; Fort Langley, - at the outlet of Fra
zer’s river, latitude 39 deg. 25 min. Fort
McLauchlin, im Millbank sound, latitude
-3d deg.; Fort Simpson, on Dundas island,
hit. do 1-52 deg.; Frazer’s Fort, Fort James,
McLeod’s Fort, Fort Cbilcotin, anil Fort
Alexandria, on Frazer’s river and its bran
ches, between the 51 deg. parallels of lat
itude; Tljompson’s Fort, on Thompson’s
river, a tributary of Frazer’s latitude <SO
drg.; Kootina Fort,on Flateow river; Flat
head Fort, on Flathead river. Fort Hall
and Fort Boisas, on the Saptiu or Snake
river, Fort Colville, and Fort O’Kanagan,
on the Columbia, above its junction; Fort
McKay, at the mouth of Umqua river, la
titude 43 deg. 30 min., and longitude 124
deg. west. It may be asked where are
the limits to British power and dominions?
We find her occupying territory on the
northwest of America, also in India anti
China—in the Pacific, aud the most re
mote portions of the earth—an inordinate
grasping appetite for territory', and ambi
tious to carry her power to the ends of the
earth. That Government is at the same
time peculiarly sensitive at any attempt
on the pa rt of the United States to possess
what in reality is our own. Where is the
necessity of all the above forts? To pro
tect the interests of the Hudson Bay Com
pany? Not so—it is to take military pos
session a little lower down of Oregon, and
he found in possession; while we have on
ly a military station or two—a few travel
ling emigrants anil a few missionaries to
occupy a territory to which we have an
undoubted right. But the above list of
flirts is not all the power brought by Great
Britain to bearon that territory. They
have an immense number of armed boats
to trade on all the lakes, rivers, and streams
in the interior, and along a distance of sev
eral thousand miles, besides heavily arm
ed steamers on the coast; also several
heavily armed merchant ships and barges
for goods and for fishing. The Hudson
Bay Company, having been stationed for
many years in that neighborhood have now
great wealth, a numerous body of men and
traders in their employment, and aft tlie
warlike Indians in that country, whom
they have attached to their interests by a
course of honest dealings and liberal inter
course. This company, therefore, is the
authorized agent of Great Britain to carry
into effect her occupation of that entire ter-.
ritory. The Russians are powerless, ami!
confine themselves to their possessions,
a strip ol'seacoast beyond the 64th degree
of north latitude —they have a post or two
one at Sitka, in the Kamskalka country.
The United Hates have neither power nor
influence, not an inch of land conceded
to us as bur own, hum California to the
Pac ifie. The period can no longer he
postponed lor this country to ascertain
what are her rights in Oregon, and he pre
pared to maintain them. There has been
no doubt, an active correspondence on
this subject between the two countries,
which will he laid before Congress at the
ensuing session, and we are glad -to hear
that Mr. Calhoun is daily looked for at the
Department of Stale, and feel satisfied
that the questions, both of Texas and Ore
gon, are entirely safe in his hands, and
we shall shortly be made acquainted with
the satisfactory issue of his labors during
the recess. — Young Hickory.
A NEWSPAPER.
Almost every man thinks he knows
something of the requirements necessary
to make up a good newspaper; really lew
are in possession of the whole of the se
cret. If we were called upon to give di
rections for the composition of a newspa
per, with the utmost industry we should
never he able to lay down the rules, with
half the precision evinced in the following
from the Madisonian :
A newspaper should he made up, it
strikes us, either punch fashion, of sour
and sweet, strong and weak; or like sa
lad, in which sugar and salt, oil and vin
egar compound themselves in such an en
gaging opposition that while all are tasted
none predominates.*
The art, after all, is a more difficult one
than either that rather regardless svviller
and devourer whom we are bound res
pectfully to entitle “the reading public,”
or that equally nondescript body that one
styles in the press “our cotemporaries,”
seem to think. A masterly glass of punch
is, as all confess, something which few
know hmv to mingle; a salad perfectly
successful is felt to be a chef-d’-eeuvre of
artistic skill; and a newspaper, made up
in like manner of every thing contrarious,
where the insipid should be met by the
savory, the trifling by the solid, the fiery
by the oleaginous, tiie sharp by the mild,
and where even every spoonful of sense
should he qualified with it due relish ol
absurdity, is, of course, a thing much har
der to compound than the salad.
The I’tiAYEK • f the Jews foe the
Queen. —‘Aleim, U Lord God, King 01
Kings, and Lord of Lords, whose domin
ion is everlasting; in Thy great goodness
dost Thou bestow Thy kindness on all
the inhabitants of the universe. Through
thee Kings reign and Princes administer
of Justice; on them hast Thou placed the
kingly diadem. With a song of thanks
giving do we approach Thee, and with
praise and blessings for Thy favor shown
us, that Thou hast vouchsafed to visit our
Sovereign Lady Queen Victoria with mer
cy and salvation. Thou art He who giv
elh the weary strength, and to the leehle
power. In Thy great power and mercy
Thou didst shield her; Thou didst rescue
her in safety from her suffering, and hast
granted to her a son. O Lord ! bestow
on him length of days, in health and pros
perity, and may his name he [liaised and
extolled. Thou, O Lord, lie with him for
ever! Amen. Most High King, whose
eyes are opened on all created beings, as
Thou hast in Thy goodness given the
Kingly crown to our gracious Queen Vic
toria, to bestow on her thy favor, strength
en her, and may her throne be established
in mercy anil kindness. May her days
lie prolonged, and her reign continued in
happiness. May the sceptre not depart
from her posterity, hut shield her and her
offspring, and grant to them the spirit of
wisdom and. understanding, the spirit of
counsel and might. May peace reign in
their habitations, and tranquility in their
dwellings, and may the beauty of the Lord
be upon them! Let thy blessings attend
his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the il
lustrious consort of our most gracious
Queen ; may he live to behold his descen
dants to the third and tourth generations
flourishing and prosjierous in the fullness
of Thy bounty. 111 his days and hours
may Judah be saved and Israel live in
comfort. May he who dispensetb salva
tion unto kings, and dominion unto prin
ces, whose kingdom is the kingdom ol the
whole universe, who delivered His ser
vant David from the sword ol destruction,
who muketli a way in tire sea and a path
into tire mighty waters, may He bless,
preserve and elevate to the highest degree
our sovereign lady Queen Yictoria, the
Prince Albert, Albert Edward Prince of
Wales, Adelaide the Queen Dowager, and
all tire Royal Family. May the supreme
King of kings, through his mercy, grant
Queen Victoria life, preserve her from all
sorrow and grief, save her from all danger,
sjbdue nations under her feet; cast her
enemies down belore her, and cause her
to lie successful whithersoever she may
turn. May the supreme King of kings,
in His mercy, inspire her heart, and those
of her councillors and nobles, with benev
olence towards us and all Israel ! In her
days ana ours may Judah be saved, Isra
el dwell in comfort, and the Redeemer
come into Zion. Oh! mav such be the
Divine will! And let us say Amen.’
A pastoral letter, ordering a particular
ceremonial, in consequence of the same
event, was also issued to all tlie Roman
Catholic chapels.
IVeeprngWillows. —This beautiful tree,
so often seen by the graves of the depart
ed was first imported into England in
the time of Pope, lire poet. He trad re
ceived a present from a friend in Turkey,
and observed, wliile unpacking the arti
cle, a small twig,apparently about to bud.
This lie had live curiosity to plant in his
garden, and fr >rn this stock are descend
ed the weeping willows of England and
of our own land-
COLEMAN’S PIANO.
It will he recollected that some time last
spring we gave a description ol the ap-j
pearance, construction, and tone ot the
piano forte with an YEolian attachment,
invented by Coleman, a talented young
American Musician. The following, in
i reference to it, we copy from the New
York Republic :
“We can give no stronger proof of the
high estimate put upon this extraordinary
i invention than staling the remarkable
price for which the patent was sold in this
ci'y. Reynolds and Clarke, of this city,
bought it for the enormous sum ol SIOO,-
001), granting besides a certain amount on
all pianos manufactured ol this descrip
tion. It may justly be inferred that the
improvement is indeed a remarkable one
to command such a purchase, nor is it to
he doubted or denied. There are certain
jealous parlies who would seek from in
terested motives, to depreciate the merits
of this striking demonstration of the inven
tor’s musical genius, hut the rapidly sprea
ding favor of this great novelty will soon
triumph over all cavil or unfair comment.
The past summer Mr. Coleman display
ed the [lower of this marvellous instru
ment at his beautiful residence in Sarato
ga, and his house was literally run down
with curious and enthusiastic visitors.—
The effect upon all was marked and irre
sistible. Many were moved to tears by
the touching sweetness of its liquid tone,
that seemed to come down from some hea
venly sphere, rather than to he evoked by
mortal head. The constant excitement
of this life had such pernicious effect up
on the overstrained nerves of young Cole
man, who was reduced to a mere shadow
by his previous devotion to his musical
studies, that lie was compelled to fly pre
cipitately from his home to seek that calm
| and tranquility which was necessary to
preserve his life. On his arrival at Lon
don, a few weeks since, he for a while es
i caped the dreadful stimulus he had under
gone here, but no sooner was his piano
opened than its fame spread like wildfire.
We cannot forbear to notice the kind, al
■ most paternal attention that Colemaft re
ceived at the hands of that distinguished
and amiable gentleman who to the honor
of himselfand the credit of his native coun
try, presides with such ability and ease
over tiie vast operations of the greatest
commercial house in London. Mr. Bates
no sooner heard this wonderful instru
ment, and finding young Coleman atone
und friendless in London, than he deter
mined at once to lend his valuable aid and
influence to procuring a jast fame for so
. remarkable an invention. He had the pi
ano that Coleman brought with him, made
by Reynolds & Clarke, and a superb one
if is, transported to his beautiful house
, and invited some distinguished members
( ,f the diplomatic corps and nobility to lis
ten to it, and t*te effect was, as always, to
1 enchant and interest them.
The rianistsof the Queen, Mad. Durk
laken and Beudick heard it afterwards,
and they went into ecstack'S, into down
right musical paroxysms. And before
this, their majesties oi'Englaud ands ranee
have “ lent it their ears,” and the n>?xt
steamer will bring us their royal approba
tion, exorc ssed doubtless in such leans as
will immortalize the inventor, and make
his patent ,£190,000 at least. Jf’e antici
pate great pleasure in receiving further
details of the triumph of this extraordina
ry improvement on this noblest of all in
struments, the Piano, and if our friendly
sympathies will admit of any gratification
beyond the fame of the inventor, it is to
he found in the proud reflection that it
was reserved for America, in the person
of this young and beardless youth, to
snatch the crown, Europe’s crown, from
the head of astonished Europe, where it
Inis so long and securely rested. How
strange is it that America should stalk like
a lusty giant as she is, into the domain of
the Fine Arts, and at one stride should
step far in advance of all the results that
ages of study and discovery have given to
Europe. Yes, men of the deepest musi
cal lore, artistes and masters have all lor
1 centuries hack exhausted art and science
in search oftlie goal that the hoy Coleman
found. What led him there 1 What was
his gift? Whether of mind or heart?—
Was it science or sensibility that guided
the one or awoke the "other? We shall
speak more of this.”
Toting Snuff in Scotland. —The Rev.
Dr. Chambers, in a Speech at a late mee
ting of the Free Church Mssembly, said :
They had heard of the liability of the peo
ple in the Highlands to support their ec
clesiastical system among themselves.
Now in reference to that, he must say that
they might do a great deal more for them
selves than they were aware of. Why he
wasconvinced that if they deprived them
selves of their pinches ofsnuff, they would
would lie able to support their whole ec
clesiastical system, lie would prove this
by referring to the excise returns; and to
show what might he done in this way, lie
would only mention that in the island of
Islay no less a sum than .£6.000 a year,
(about $50,000) were spent in the way he
alluded to.
Fashionable Shopping in Broadway. —
Beauty and fashion in New York have
three grand theatres of display—the dress
circle at the opera, the genteel church up
town, and the elegant dry-goods store in
Broadway; at the opera, very warm and
smiling —in the pew, rather chilling and
sedate —iuthe store, gay, lively, smiling,
serious, chilling, warm, restless—every
thing. Shopping is indeed the one great
business of the New York fashionable la
dy. It is her morning visit, her drive, her
promenade, her dream at night when she
is laid in soft repose, and the engoissing
subject of her thoughts on the dawn of ev
ery to-morrow that is not Sunday, and on
which it does not rain.
And, indeed, when we get a glimpse of
the elegance, endless variety, and infinite
facilities of gratifying female curiosity, |
which many of our magnificent dry goods
stores present, v. i can hardly wonder that I
the dear creature find such enjoyment in j
“shopping.” Just for instance, let us look j
in at Beck’s famous store in Broadway,
and see what a wilderness of silks, and
satins, and laces, and shawls, and bridal
robes, and expensive fabrics of all descrip
tions. And then the crowd of elegant wo
men, dressed in the first style of fashion,
chattering away, and tumbling over the
goods, an l criticising each other’s bonnets
and retailing the freshes! go>sip! What
with the bright eyes, and the rustling of
silks—and the graceful movements of a
hundred lovely limits, multiplied into ten
times that number in the costly mirrors—
not to speak ot the delicious harmony of
the silver streams and the gentle murmur
of tailing hills heard at the elevated and
mysterious enclosure in the center oftlie
place, within which, us on a throne, sits
the presiding genius—the whole seems
like some enchanted scene. Such is the
interesting and exciting scene which an ar
tist has very successfully depicted hy his
pencil in this day’s Weekly Herald. Just
get it, and see how it answers our descrip
tion.
HUMAN PltlDE.
My hearers—pride must have its fall.
It stands upon such a flimsy Inundation
that the tempest of lime will undermine it,
and down the fair fabric must tumble to
he demolished in dust. When it breaks,
it snaps like a pipe stem, into more pieces
than one; and no cement lias yet been dis
covered possessing sufficient cohesion t<>
hold the broken fragments together. In
the plentitude of your purses, and through
the influence ol vain conceits vou carry
your heads high, and walk as though von
were composed of cast iron and with a
steel spring at each joint; hut when your
money is minus, you begin to yield.’ You
grow flexible. Yon find yourself gradual
ly lowering, till finally you are looked down
upon the very ones whom you were woof
to pass in the public ways without exhibi
ting the weakest sign of recognition. At
any rate, whether your pockefs are loaded
with lucre or not, age and experience will
teach you wisdom; and wisdom will eradi
cate every partfeleof ibolisli pride from your
systems, as throughly as a box of Bran
dretlfs [tills ever did a sick stomach ofall
impurities. Time will make you limber,
and cause you to lop iff spite of every ex
ertion that will may make* and (h ath
comes eventually to rob yon rrithaf all for
which you have sweat, foiled and strug
gled through life.
Mv over-blown brethren- rs n- e of ton
could set yourselves on a thunder-idoml,
ride round the world, and take a pai'oram
tc view ot what passes upon earth, yen
would sec that man, with all his might
. and majesty, is hut a weak ami sickly
thing—an insignificant insect ofan hour—
a mere bedbug upon the broad blanket of
i creation.—To day fie looms largely, and
| to-morrow he is laid low in the dust to he
remembered 110 more. Be meek, toy
ili it rid s, be humble and lowly, in order
1 that you may rise in the estimation ofvotrr
fellow beings, and eventually ascend to
heaven; lor hear in mind that every bird
i lias to squat beiore it can fly. mote it
he !♦— Dow.
Aj.e-Saints day at New -OituEANs.—
The hcai’tilul custom in Catholic coun
tries of vifc.itTng the graves of’departed rel
atives on AU-Hunts Day lor the purpose
of bestrewing th an with flowers, was ob
served at New Orleans on the Ist instant
w ith more than ordinal >’ solemnity. The
assemblage ol people gaju°red aroun 1 the
graves of those who had gone Id the world
of disembodied spirits w r iO unusually
large, and the tombs of the’deputed were
decorated in a style of beautv am. nuh-
ness remarkable even among that spi.
die population. Nothing could he trot*'
touching than these beautiful testimonials
of afli ction, and nothing, as il seems to us,
more appropriate or in a purer and better
taste than these animal visitations of
friends and relatives to the resting-places
of the dead. It is on such occasions that
the lieait is made better, and the sterner
feelings of human nature softened into
nearer approach to what they should be.
It is there that the spirit links itself to a
purer existence, and renews its communi
on with a flections that grow cold by world
ly associations, but warm into new life
and take anew hue in the contemplation,
of the flowers that grow' over the graves
of those we love. Let no cold and sordid ;
son of selfishness—no mere icy abstrac
tionists who can see nothing lovely that is
not matter of fact, decry this custom as su
perstitious, and those who participate in
it as mere lovers of theatrical display,
who go to the grave of the deceased as
they would go to the opera, because it is
the fashion ; and strew chaplets of flow
ers upon the tombs of departed friends as
they 7 would bedeck their own bosoms with
bouquets fora ball. We have no affinity
with a philosophy that discards feeling,
and no communion with the cold specula
tion that is always in readiness to ascribe
folly to every thing that does not freeze
itself down to its own standard.—A'. Y.
Courier.
AFh.nl. —The Richmond Star says:
Folks wlio don’t like the way papers are
edited, ought to ask leave to put in a spe
cimen of tire right sort. Any editor would
be glad to give such individuals it chance
at any time. We would—-just for the fun
of seeing them cut up and slashed by the
critics afterwards. Every man whothinks
it easy to edit a paper exactly right and
to universal acceptance ought to try it.
Maybe he would succeed; and if so, would
he better entitled to a reward, than was
the discoverer of perpetual motion.
Another Race begun.. —No sooner is
one political contest ended, than another
is commenced. Already have the Amer
ican republicans brought forward their
candidates for the next heat. General
Winfield Scott and Senator Archer of Vir
ginia are the Nicky pair.
COY*. POLK AT HOME.
I reached tins town yesterday i tl ,[..
stagecoach from Nashville, 40 miles on
good turnpike road. This is one of the fi*
nest countries ofland in the state, and i n '
habited by an intelligent and wealthy cl i '
ol people. As you are aware, Gov. Polfc
tlie Democratic candidate tor President’
resides in this place. I had lire honor of
taking tea at his house last evening, and of
enjoying the society of himself and hi* a
miable and splendid lady. His features
i are strongly marked by evidences of in',
tolled, blandness, firmness and benevo
lence. His head would he esteemed
splendid mod* I hy phrenologists, j h
the intellectual and moral faculties arc
largely predominant. Ilis forehead i 3
high broad and lull, ami perpendicular
il'i.ot projecting. The upper part of tb<!
head rises high above the ears. The or
gans of benevolence, veneration and firm
ness, are prominently developed. Cob
Polk’j character, through a long publij
life, is known to correspond with these
characteristics of his mind.
He represented the congressional dis
trict in which he lives fbrl4yeurs. While
lie lias at all times had strong political op
ponents itt Tennessee, he is without a pe r -
Mitral enemy in the Hate. All, with one
accord declare that they know of no spot
or blemish on Gob Polk’s w hole private
charactei; that a better neighbor, akindrr
master, a more indulgent and faithful hus
band, or a more upright, honest, bctievo-
Icnt and moral man they never knew.
When the Roorback slander reached Ten
nessee, even the Whigs cried out “shame,
oh ! tor shame.” Ofall the slanders ever
started against him, this was the most un
like the truth. All his opponents in Ten
nessee admit, that there is not n kinder
man to his servants to he found in the
Hale. Col. Polk is not rich, lie has a
moderate property, and owing nothing,
is independent.—He does not own forty
slaves iri the world. What he has, con
sist ot families many of them small, hav
ing inherited litem principally through his
lady. He has parted with some of his
best men servants, so gratify their wish tu
be with their v iv» s; in other instances he
has purchased at high rates,-the wives of
fits men from offa-r frtifik-s, and also the
husbands of his women, in order, as far as
possible, to keep families together, and by
that means to tnake them more comforta-
ble and Fiappv.
His lady is both beam did and accom
plished, and is a (/insistent member of
the Pres byte rial 1 chinch. There is not a
he rfta t> being living who is an e tie my of
hers.-
Ft is paiYifbl so find that a niifi like Col.
Polk, whose whole life has been pure and
without re proa* hy should be sn shamelul
ly assn fled as he has been.
Din ing Iris whole life he has been strict
ly a remperatiee fflart rn every thing—iir
liquor, tobacco", irreating, and in all res
-1 pects. Ife never g'/mMtrf. In all his life
lie never gave, or accepted a cfnrtlrnw lit
' liglif a duel. Ife h nr? invti-ihitltist rut
j Christian principles. He believes ducl
-1 ling to be morally wiong, artd has the trtn
ral' couiage to put in practice the moral
prim iples he professes. He is a nm.-lr
j greater man ami ;r much-better mm* 1 hair
the world, and especial ft) her .•/ppnat a is,
! f.-aVe ever given him credit fer. He is af
modest and re firing many brrt bold and
firm in the discharge of his official duties'
when called upon bv the pewits to exer
cise them. I should say the most 1 pYnuii
nent trait ol his mind was that of MonAfe
eoi'tiAttE, a ra re aud valuable trait of char
acter.
He made a good and faithful represen
tative, an aide and efficient Governor, 3
prompt, able and impartial .Speaker ol the
House ot Representatives, and now elected'
I will make an aide, Judicious, sound and
rafe President of the United- Hates; one
uiaf will aim to maintain the rights and
honor of the country, in our Foreign rela
tions, at. I secure as lar as practicable, the
peace and prosperity of our. people a?
|j, Hue. — Cun'C»f°nd<.Ttcc ts the JV. 1. Jour
nal of Commerce.
SECOND ADVENT.
Byaiilifullvand truthfully hasl)r.Chau
ning spoken of the doulrme ol the Second
Advent, in his memorable discourse in
Berkshire, a little before his death;
‘•There are some among ns at ihe pre
sent moment who are waiting for the spee
dy coming of Christ. They expect, be
fore another year closes, to hear his voice,
to stand before his judgment-scat. -I hc.-e
illusions spring from misinterpretation °f
Scripture language. Christ in the New'
Testament, is said' to come whenever hi»
religion breaks out in new glory, or gains
new triumphs. He came in the destruc
tion of Jerusalem, which, by subverting
the old ritual law and breaking the power
of the enemies of his religion, ensured to it
new victories. He came in tHo Reforma
tion of the Church. He came on this day
four years ago, when, through his religion
eight hundred thousand men were raised
from the lowest? degradation, to the rights
anil dignity and fellowship of men. Christa
onward appearance is of little moment
compared with the brighter manifestation
ofliis spirit. The Christian-wbose inward
eyes and ears are touched by God, dis
cerns lliecomingol Christ, hears the soum
of his chariot wheels and the voice of hi»
trumpet, when no other perceives them,
lie discerns the Saviour’s advent in the
dawning of higher truth on the world, u.
new aspirations of the church after pet lec
tion, in the prostration of prejudice and er
ror, in brighter impressions of Christian
love, in more enlightened and intense ton
secration of the Christian to the r -3 ' l * o .®
humanity, freedom and religion. Chris
comes in the conversion, the regeneration,
the emancipation of the world.
A false friend is like a shadow on the
dial, which appears in fine weather, u
vanishes at the approach of a cloud.
A coquette is a rose from which every
lover plucks a leaf —the thorns are re
served for her future husband-