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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-