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A GUiCI’LTL it A L.
From the American Farmer.
GUANO.
PRONOUNCED EV THE PERUVIANS HUAXO.
The slowness of ihe sale of he few
cargoes of Guano which have yet been
imported into the United States, is to be
attributed to —what ? It cannot be to the
want of all evidence short of personal ex
perience, of its wonderful efficacy; be
cause if any credit is to be put in the
united testimony, of a great number of
witnesses, in England ; no doubt can be
entertained of the efficiency of this ma
nure, and the great increase of every
species of crop to which it has been ap
plied in that country ; and it has been ap
plied to all sorts of crops and under every
variety of circumstance —Some perhaps
will say, it may answer in the inoister
climate of England, but will not probably,
in the more arid one of the United States
—Well,T>but liow is it in Peru, where the
climate is still dryer than ours, Guano is
their universal dependance ?—No; it can
not be for want of evidence of its adapta
tion either to our crops, our soil, or our
climate; tor here, in our country, as tar
as expet iments have been made, and re
i'!;s made known, the action of Guano
... oi.eu as striking as in other countries
~c , nay many of these experiments
aye . \; üblished —The hesitation to
nn.ke ; ; * universal use of this extraor
n... substance must arise then from,
either want of means to buy—or from the
great difficulty that is always (bund, in
diffusing generally, a knowledge of the
existence and virtues of anew article,
like this; or it may arise from that natur
al hesitation, which is salutary when no;
carried 100 far, which farmers are prone
to entertain, about being the first to lay
out the little money they have, on new!
things; hut is the reluctance either ration
al or praiseworthy, where the evidence
of the usefulness of the thing recommen
ded, seems in all human calculation, to be
so undeniable, and where a small trial at
least, say of two or three hundred pounds,
may be made, on one acre ol land, at a
hazard, if there he any hazard, of losing
only two or three dollars?— Some of the
most thoughtful, discreet, well judging
men that we know of, after the best op
portunities of judging, both on volumes of
printed evidence in England, and on re
peated experiments lure, believe and
maintain, that Guano, Ixmgnt at $3 a hun
dred, and applied to land at the tale of
300 pounds to the acre, is cheaper than
barn yard manure, were that given to the
farmer, if he had to haul it a few miles.
In his discourse, delivered by Mr.
Skinner at Wilmington, he gives the fol
lowing comparative estimate as furnished
by Mr. Pleasants, an extensive horticul
turist, of the soundest character and judg
ment, residing within 2 or 3 miles of i’e
tersbutg, Virginia:
Manure —Cost of 30 wagon loads
at 25c. £7,30
Hauling the same
10 days, at $1 50
per day, tor team
and driver, 15,00
out
spreading on L
acre, with horse
and cart, 3,00 —£25,50
Bones —3o bushels bone dust
at 55c. 10,50
Expense of hauling
and application, 1,50 —Sl£,oo
Guano —3oo lbs. at $3 per
hundred, Expense
of spreading, 1,00 —$10,00
In all localities where manure is higher
than the price stated in the preceding es
timate (and in how lew is it nuti*) and the
distance to be hauled greater; the contrast
will be so much the greater.
More recently, to wit, laic in January,
(last month) Mr. S. received from the
same respectable authority, a letter from
which the following is an extract:
“ I have been to-day to observe the
progress of a guano “experiment on
wheat—The guano was applied soon al
ter the wheat began to cot ye through the
ground, at various rates from 100 to 300
pounds to the acre. The effect is most
striking. Though the whole field is good,
-yet the guanoed part is Jully three times
better, and the dirference is greater every
week.”
It would betray a degree of obstinacy,
little less to be censured and inr less
iriiab! than overweening credulity, not
knit that Guano lias generally, on
y.., . crops which immediately succeed
; . <u, a most salutary and fertil
_c ... y —but it is quite reasonable to
qu;re, with apprehensive caution, wheth
er and how long, its action will endure?
There lias not been sufficient time yet in
England to settle this question definitive
ly, much less lias there been in this coun
«y*
The following article copied from an
English paper may be deemed worthy of
.the space it will occupy.
W e cannot close these hasty remarks
without exhorting all cultivators of Tobacco,
to purchase a small quantity, if it be only
enough to apply to iheir plant beds, by
which it is confidently believed from ex
periments last year in Maryland, that it
will prove a complete protection against the j
fly, and a good supply ol plants may be
thus invariably insured, and a few hun
dredweight to try on tobacco in field, on
corn and other crops, putting it, in all
cases of planted crops, around the root of
the plants.
We should not have ventured to devote
so much space to a subject which some
may think somewhat hacknied, if the
season were not so near at hand lor the
trials which, if it be nmiv to save time,
ought every where, ter be made, with
guano on spring crops.
To.all those who are not familiar with
the subject, it may be well briefly to advise
them, that alter very numerous experi
ments in England, the Peruvian Guano
continues to maintain its superioiity in the
public estimation, over-the African, as in
dicated by tne difference in price—the
African l<eing quoted at last accounts at
£5 to £5 ss. and the Peruvian at .£lO to
£lO 10s. per ton. With this item in the
way of information lor what it may be
worth, and leaving the farmer to choose
between them, we submit the following.
The Permanency of Guano as a Manure.
—This is a subject of great importance
at present, when the importation of this
manure is going on to a large extent, and
when the propriety of using it, and ex
tending its use, must be occupying the at
tention of farmers in all parts of die coun
try. Many of the best practical agricul
turists in ibis neighbourhood, have long
been satisfied of the permanent advan
tage of guano to the land. At the High
land Society’s competition at Glasgow,
!in October, for seed wheat, Mr. Lome
Campbell, of Roseueath, who gained the
£lO prive lor while wheat, exhibited five
1 varieties from his farm, the average weight
'of which was 65£ lbs, per bushel. The i
Chevalier wheat, weighing 05 lbs. was
after turnips raised upon guano and al
though sown as lute as 23d December,
was the heaviest crop on the farm. At a
recent meeting of the lthin Farmer’s Club,
and other agriculturists, held at Drumore,
when Mr. M’Culloch, of Auchness, factor
to Colonel McDowall, ot Logan, occupi
ed the chair, the same subject was dis
cussed by those present. The chairman
Mr. M’Culloch, said, —In 1842 I applied
to turnips on three different plotsofground, j
which were all contiguous, to tire first j
guano, at the rate of lour cwt. per acre— j
to the second, bone manure, at die rate of
30 bushels —and, to the third, good farm-I
yard manure, at about 20 tons per acre.,
The crop grown upon guano brairded first,
and was singled lour days sooner than the ■
other, and continued throughout the whole
season, to have a more luxuriant appear
ance ; and when weighed, weie about one
sixth heavier than those grown upon
bones, and about one filth heavier than
those upon dung. And the oat crop upon
the guano was superior id quality, and the
quantity of grain and straw was greater
than upon either ot the other two plots,
and now 1 can distinguish no difference
betwixt the grasses in quantity and qual-
iiy-
So fur as I could judge from the forego-!
ing, added Mr. M’C., guano, as a perma
nent manure, lias-exceeded my most san
liuiue expectations. Following upon the
matter as a sow-oat, having manured the
green crop with guano, Mr. M’C. said he
found his outs alter a guano green-crop,
decidedly superior to the sow-out of other
manuring. The oats alter bone manure
were lightest. His pasture, after guano
green cropping, was an equally good and ,
thick sole ot grass to any other.
Mr. A/’Bridge, Bakeer, having had oc- j
eas ion to make similar trials and experi
ments with Mr. M’Culloch, corroborated
his views. Mr. Anderson, Drumore,
stated that ho had grown potatoes with
guano, at the rale of 4 cwt. per acre,
which yielded him as good a crop as pota
toes put in with filly tart loads of sea
weed, and twenty cart loads of good tiirm
yard manure. His wheat crop was as
. good after guano manuring as al'tei ordin
ary manuring ; his sow-out was also as
good, the pasture affording an equally
good sole of grass with guano, as the or
dinary manure did. lie had also tried
nitrate of soda, soot, gypsum, and guano,
,as a top dressing tor grass, and, on the
whole, he thought guano the best, and
equally cheap. Mr. M’Culloch had tried
guano also as a top dressing for pasture
| land ; the effect was rapid and great.
Both these gentlemen recommended the
practice of iorcing on a portion of the hay
land with guano early in the spring, as a
great benefit to horses and cattle, fbrfeed
( ing in the house, after the turnip has be
come scarce and tibry. A small patch
< and a small quantity ofguauo, will suffice
to raise very early a quantity ot good grass;
and the second crop, or alter cut, will he
as heavy and productive as ever, while
the permanent pasture will be greatly
benefit ted. — Caledonian Mercury.
• Copied from llie Sheffield & Rotherham (Eng.)
Independent of December Jlst, 1844.
Since the above was in type, our eye
has rested upon the following item, in the
Liverpool Mail of 7th Dec. last:
“ The Right lion. Lord Mbyston, who
has tested the efficacy of Guano, on his
extensive farm atPengvvern, both as a fer
tilizer, and for purposes o {'permanent im
provement, has ordered a ship load of this
valuable manure to be consigned to him
at the Forvd.”
The Great Britain Steamer. —The Lon
don Sun, alluding to this new steamer,
“says that with the working of her “Ar
chimidean screw” she can run, it seems,
from eleven to twelve knots an hour, not
stretching a single yard of her canvass
“Her mighty fabric is said to be uninflu
enced by the vibration of the steam cn
gines which work that colossal propelling
power, and the passengers in her spacious
cabins can scarcely detect the momentum
of her speed. In less than seventeen tra
versings of her deck from stem to stern,
the astonished voyager will have placed
one mile; and between two and three of
our old 36 gun frigates would present no
more than her own single stowage of 3590
tons.”
Rail Road Cars for Germany. — Messrs.
Eaton, Gilbert & Cos. of Troy, are now fin
ishing a splendid railway car, capable oU
i carrying 50 passengers, for the kingdom
I of Wurtemburg. The order was receiv
ed early in the winter from F. L. Brauns,
Esq., Consul General of Wurtemburg,
(resident at Baltimore) who, after exam
ining the work of several manufacturers,
gave the preference to Messrs. Eaton,
Gilbert & Cos.
The Richmond papers of a late date,
says that James River was frozen over,
i being the thud occurrence of the kind,
: since 1757.
POLITICAL.
VIRGINIA.
LEGISLATIVE CONVENTION.
The Legislative Convention re-assem
bled last evening in the Capitol. Mr.
Thompson, of Kanawha, from the Com
mittee of Kevisal, presented the following
teport and resolutions, which, on being
slightly amended, and on questions seve
rally put, were agreed to:
The Select Committee, to which was
j referred the report of the Committee on
Resolutions, with instructions to revise
and condense the same, have the honor to
' present the following:
Ist. Resolved, That this convention do
declare, as their solemn opinion, that the
Federal Government, as created by the
Constitution of the United States, is not
the final judge of the extent ol the powers
delegated to itself; but that the Consti
tution being “a league or compact made
by the individual States as one parly, and
all the States of another party,” the seve
ral States of the Union, each for itself, are
the sole judges of its infractions, and they
have the right “to interpose for arresting the
progress of the evil, and for maintaining with
in their respective limits the authorities, rights,
and liberties appertaining to them."
2d. Resolved, That it is not only the
right, but the imperative duty, of the
Stale Legislatures, to instruct their Sena
tors in Congress on all subjects, whether
they involve important questions of expo- 1
diency, or of constitutional power. And
that it is more especially their duty to
make known their wishes upon all ques
tions involving the admission of new par
ties to the confederation. This right car
ries with it, the correlative duty of obe-j
dience on the part of the Senators so in
structed —or the obligation forthwith to
surrender the trust confided to them. It
is alike the duty of the Senators in Con
gress, to carry out the ascertained will of
the Legislatures of the States represented
by them, whether the same be expressed
in the firm of instructions or otherwise.
3d. Resolved, that the admission of Tex
as as one of the States of this Union, is
demanded by the agricultural, commer
cial, and manufacturing interests of the
whole country, that it is necessary to ef
fect a more perfect union, insure domes
tic tranquility, and afford protection
against foreign invasion; that a majority of
the people in a majority of the States
[and most emphatically in the State of
Virginia.] have expressed t heir decision
in its favor; and that the joint resolution
passed, on motion of Mr. Milton Brown,
in the House of Representatives, on the
25tti day o 1 ’ January, 1545, presents a
constitutional and proper mode of carrying
into effect this important and necessary
i measure.
j 4th. Resolved, That this convention, rc
jgarding with the highest approbation the
j resolution of Mr. Brown, approved and
j sustained, after full consultation and de
bate, by the great mass of the Demo
cratic part}’ in Congress, and adopted by
(a majority in the House of Representa
tives— as the most speedy and practica
ble manner of accomplishing this end—
'have witnessed with regret, disapproba
tion and apprehension, the introduction
' by Thomas 11. Benton, a Senator from
Missouri, into the Senate of the United
I States, of a bill, the inevitable effect ol
which must lie to delay, embarrass, and
(greatly peril the admission ol Texas in
to the Union; a movement on the part of
j the Senator referred to which should re
ceive no countenance from any true friend
of this great measure.
sth. Resolved, That the question ought
to he adjusted as soon as practicable; that
delay only breeds clanger; that it give
time to Great Britain to carry on her in
trigues against annexation, and obtain a
sinister influence in Texas: that defeat
will fan the flame ol' agitation in our
country, and kindle anew war in the
! spirit of the controversy, that, whilst no
; party can gain by procrastination, it is
the duty which all parlies owe to the
j country to decide t ins question at once.
Otli. Resolved, That, should the meas
ure of annexation fail at the present ses
sion of Congress; should it tail,either from
gross mismanagement, from any sinister
motives, or from any other cause whatso
| ever, should it be nailed to the table of
the Senate, or rejected by a vote of that
body, we will not despair of the Re
public; hut that we hereby pledge our
selves to each other, and to every man
in the South, and in the Union, who is
I a friend to the cause, and to our friends
in Texas, never to abandon the fortunes
of the “lone star;” and that the moment
of its defeat, should it occur during the
session of the present Congress, shall be
the signal of anew rally—that we will
forthwith raise the consecrated banner,
and battle under it, until we succeed.-
We call on the people of Virginia to stand
by us, and to show how superior is the en
ergy of the freemen of the South to the
fanaticism of the Abolitionists of the North.
7th. Resolved. That this convention has
seen with much gratification the votes of
eight Southern Whigs in the House of Re
presentatives for the admission of Texas
—thus proving their patriotism, their de
votion to the Union, and manifesting a
superiority to the dictation of party, and
the behests of faction.
Sth. Resolved, That John Tyler, and
the administration of which he is the head,
deserve and receive from us, our sincere
acknowledgements for their unremitted
pflbrts to procure the annexation ofTexas.
9th. Resolved, That the conduct of the
Whig party in the House of Delegates of
Virginia, refusing the official expression
of opinion by the Legislature of Virginia
in relation to the acquisition ofTexas, has
; been dictated by a covert design to defeat
the measure, and by a desire to screen
the Virginia Senators in Congress from a
just responsibility to the known will of.
their constituents.
10th. Resolved, That, in the adoption by
a Whig majority, of a resolution sent from
the Senate to the House of Delegates, in
these words, “ Resolved by the General As
sembly of Virginia,, That the annexation
ofTexas to the United States should be
effected with no further delay than may be
necessary for the accomplishment of that
object by the constituted authorities of the
two countries;” and by the expression of
their opinion that a decided majority of
the people of Virginia are in favor of the
immediate annexation of Texas; and that
the terms and guaranties contained in the
resolution of Milton Brown are just and
1 proper; and thereafter refusing to giveto
that resoluiion or opinion tiie official sanc
tion of the Legislature, they have shown
their desire to avoid a direct issue befoie
the people, and proven their disregard of
tiie sacred right of instruction. While
we look with sorrow on the spectacle pre
sented by the Whigs of the Virginia Le
gislature, we can but hope that our Sena
tors in Congress will regard the instruc
tions virtually adopted, although officially re
fused.
J 1 th. Resolved, That the principles of
the Democratic party, and the decision of
the people in the election of the present
Congress and in the Presidential election
of 1844, have declared that the tariff" of
1542 ought to be reduced to a revenue
standard.
12th. Resolved, That it is the duty of
tiie Democratic members in Congress, and
of all Southern members, to use every ex
ertion to procure the said reduction, and!
obtain the admission of Texas into this
Union; both of which measures the South j
has a right to require, as due to its own
protection and to the preservation of tiie
Union.
10th. Resolved, That the removal of
John Rutherford from the Executive Coun
cil, the duties of which office he hail so
faithfully discharged—and the shallow
pretext under which it was attempted to
be glossed over, are discreditable to tim 1
great party, by whose delegates it was ac
complished.
14th. Resolved, That it is tiie dutv ol
every Republican to enter on the Spring 1
campaign with zeal and alacrity—that it
behooves the Republican party to bring
out tiieir ablest men as candidates for the!
Stale and National Legislatures; and that,
having made such selections, thev should
support them, regardless ol all personal af
fections or considerations; and that in the
opinion of this convention, no Republican,
who loves Lis principles and his country,
will allow himself to be used as an instru
ment of destruction to the party, or injury
to its candidates.
Mr. Leaked Goochland, from the Com
mittee on Organization, reported resolu
tions providing a plan of organization, and
!a Stale Contra I Committee, which were
agreed to, and then the Convention ad,
journed till Saturday next, at 4 o’clock.
P. M.
From Utc Ilicliiuoiut Enquinir.
HENRY CLAY’S HOLD STAND LOR
TEXAS.
“They constitute, in my opinion, a sacred inker
itance of prosperity, which we ought to preserve;
unimpaired.”— H. Clay’s Speech in 18-JO.
Yes, Louisiana unimpaired—unshorn
of Texas, was once the motto of “Harry
of the West.” It is now the motto of every
impartial American patriot.
But it is not most curious ? No Orator
was ever more decided, even enthusias
tic, lor the possession of Texas—and
now when she wants to come back to our
arms, and resume her place in the Ame
rican Union, the friends of Mr. Clay, tiie
Whigs (we mean his Whigs,) are tiie first
to resist every attempt to recover and ro
, annex her. Yes, they are first to defeat
tlie measure, when it is provided by trea
ty —declaring that “ leather is the only:
thing lor fortification”—that the annexa
tion can only be accomplished by Con
gress, and that they can only admit her
as a Stale into tin; Union. And now, af
ter they (the W liigs principally) had de
feated the treaty, and tiie annexation is
to be accomplished by Congress, in a joint
resolution of tiie most proper and liberal
character, most of them oppose tlie reso
lution, and throw us back upon tiie treaty
power again and lose Texas, altogether.
Thanks toGreely’s “ Life and speeches
of Henry Clay,” which again lie so con
veniently at our elbow, we will bring the
Whig idol into Court, and lie shall ’estily
to the extent and value of ’llexas. He
shall hear witness for ns, when he was in his
best and palmiest days—belore a restless
ambition had fixed its too eager grasp
upon his feelings—before he was driven
by the advance of his years to desperate
means to snatch the glittering prize—be
fore he had employed all his devices to ac
complish the object—and before he was
willing to sacrifice Texas to his abouliug
ambition. Yes, let Mr. Clay bear wit
ness to what are the true boundaries of
Texas, what is her true value—and what
are the error and the misconduct of those
blind statesmen, who would now deprive
us of this “sacred inheritance of postcri-,
ty, which we ought to preserve unimpair
ed.”
The following are some eloquent and
stirring extracts from the celebrated
I speech, which Mr. Clay delivered in the
House of Representatives, on April 3d,
on the Spanish (or Florida) Treaty.
They were delivered in support of the two
: following resolutions, which he submitted
to the House :
“ Resolved, That the Constitution of the
: United States vests in Congress the power
to dispose of the territory belonging to
them, and that no treaty, purporting to
| alienate any portion thereof, is valid with
out the concurrence of Congress.
“ Resolved , That the equivalent propos-
I cd to be given by Spain to the United States
in the treaty concluded between them, on
the 22d of February, 1819, for that part of
Louisiana lying west of the Sabine, was
inadequate; and that it would be inex
pedient to make a transfer thereof to any
foreign power, or to renew the aforesaid
treaty.”
Extract ft om Mr. Clay's Speech.
“ The second resolution comprehends
three propositions ; the first of which is,
that the equivalent granted by Spain to the
United States for the province of Texas
is inadequate. To determinate this, it is
necessary to estimate the value of what
we gave and of what we received. This
involves an inquiry into our claim to Tex
as. It is not my purpose to enter at large
into this subject. I presume the specta
cle will not be presented of questioning,
in this branch of the Government, our title
to Texas, which lias been constantly
maintained, by the executive for more
| than fifteen years past, under three several
administrations. lam at the same time
ready and prepared to make out our title,
: if any one in the House i§ fearless enough
Ito controvert it. I will for the present,
briefly state, that the man who is most
familiar with the transactions of this Gov
ernment, who largely participated in the
formation of our constitution, and all that
has been done under it, who, besides the
eminent services that he has rendered his
country, principally contributed to the
acquisition of Louisiana, who must he
supposed, from his various opportunities,
best to know its limits, declared, fifteen
years ago, that our title to the Rio del
Norte was as well founded as it was to the
Island of New Orleans.
“Here Mr. C. read nn extract from a
memoir presented in ISOS, by Mr. Mon
roe and .Mr. l’inckney, to Air. Ccvallos,
proving that the boundary of Louisiana
extended eastward to the Perdido, and
westward to the Rio del Norte, in which
they say—‘The facts and principles which
justify this conclusion, are so satisfactory
to their government as to convince it, that
the United States have not a belter right
to tiie Island of New Orleans, under the
cession referred to, than they have to the
whole district of territory thus describ
ed.’
“ That title to the Perdido on the one
side, and the Rio del Norte on the other,
rest on the same principle—the piiority
of discovery and ofoecuption by France.
Spain had first discovered and made an
establishment at Pensacola; France at
Dauphine island, in the bay of Mobile.
The intermediate space was unoccupied ;
and the principle observed among Euro
pean nations having contiguous settle
ments, living that the unoccupied space
between them should lie equally divided,
was applied to it, and tlie lVrdido thus i
became the common boundary. So, W est
of the Mississippi, La Salic, acting under
France, in 16520 r ’3, first discovered that
river. In 1G35, he made an establish
ment on the bay of St. Bernard, West of
the Colorado, emptying into it. The
nearest Spanish settlement was Panueo,
and the Rio del Norte, about the mi 1-
way line, became the common boun-
dary.
“All the accounts concur in represent
ing Texas to be extremely valuable, [is ;
; superficial extent is three or four times
greater than that ofFlorid '. Tlicclimate
is delicious ; the soil tortile ; the margin
of the rivers abounding in live oak; and ,
the country admitting of easy settlement.
It possesses, moreover, it Lam not misin
ormed, one of the finest ports of the Gull
of Mexico. The productions of which ii
'is capable, me suited to our wants. The
unfortunate captive of St. Helena w ished
(for ships, commetcc and colonies. We
have them all; if we do not wantonly
: throw them away. The colonies of other
1 countries arc separated from them by vast
seas, requiring great expense to protect
them, and are held subject to a constant
risk of their being lorn liom their giasp.
Our colonies, on the cotilr ry, are unit
ed to and form a part of our continent ;
and the same Mississippi, from whose rich
deposite the best of them (Louisiana) has
been formed, will transport on her bosom
the brave, the patiiotic men lion In r tri
butary streams, to defend arid preserve i
the next most valuable, the province ofj
Texas.” * * *
“ The first proposition contained in the
second resolution is thus, I think, fully
sustained. The next is, that it is inexpe
dient to cede Texas to any foreign power.
They constitute, in mv opinion, a sacred
inheritance of posterity, which we ought
to preserve unimpaired. 1 wish it was, if
it is not, a fundamental and inviolable law
of the laud, that they should be inaliena
ble to any foreign power. It is quite evi
dent that it is in tho order of Providence;
that it is an inevitable result of the prin
ciple of population, tkit the whole of this
continent, including Texas, is to lie peo
j pled in process of time. The question
j is, by whose race shall it he peopled ? Jn
our hands, it will lie peopled by freemen
and the sons of freemen, carrying with
them our language, our laws, and our
liberties ; establishing cn the prairies of
Texas temples dedicated to the simple
and devout modes of worship of God in
cident to our religion, and temples dedi
cated to that freedom which we adore next
to Him. In the bauds of others it may
' become the habitation of despotism anil
of slaves, subject to the dominion of the
Inquisition and of superstition. I know
that there are honest and enlightened men
j who fear that our confederacy is already
! too large, and that there is danger of dis
ruption, arising out of want of reciprocal
adherence between its several parts. I
hope and believe that the principle of re
presentation, and the formation of States,
will preserve us a united people. But if
Texas, being peopled by us, and grappling
with us, should, at some distant day,
I break offj she will carry along with her a
noble crew, consisting of our children’s
children. The difference between those
who maybe disinclined to its annexation
j to our confederacy, and me, is, that their
system begins where mine may, possibly
in some distant future day, terminate;
and theirs begins with a foreign race,
j aliens to every thing we hold dear, and
mine ends with a race partaking of all
our qualities.”
And now, when Texas would conic
back to us with her valuable and s mile
soil, her delicious climate, her I,arbors and
her productions her sacred temples nn !J
her independent people-*., wlle ’ n Z
would come back of her own free acco I
with as full a right to contract alliance,
as we or as any independent nation can
possess—when she would brin<* back
ns her “ noble crew, consisting ol OU r
children, and our children’s children’’
wc arc to be churlishly told by this same
Mr. Clay, and by his now deluded fol
lowers, “No you shall not have it She
is not worth having. And a 3 for VO u
Southrons, you shall not have it, although
the abolitionists would triumph over you
and the Federalists, who tried to scare’
: you about Louisiana, are now trying to
intimidate you. by idle threats of dissolu
tion, from acquiring Texas.’’
People of Virginia —Read these past re
cords. Read the signs of the present!
tunes. Look to the future, and then act
like men, like freemen, and like patriots,
j Stand up like the sons of the “ unterrificii
Old Dominion,” and all, all will y e t he
well, in despite of the fanatic abolitionist
and the Whigs.
From the J'hiluddphia T^,U fr
RUINS OF ANCIENT NINEV EH*
An interesting account of the research
es and excavations now in progress, un
der the superintendance of ffie French
consul, among the ruins of Mosul, or the
mounds ot ancient Nineveh, is given in a
letter from ltev. M. Laurie, dated August
9, IS4I, published in the Missionary Her
lor February. The mound ofKhorsabad,
at present in process of excavation, stands
m one corner of an enclosed area about
one mile square, the walls of which are
similar to those near Mosul. Thev are
mere elongated tumuli, with remains of
low era at various distances, and original
ly faced externally with large square
stones. The lop ot the mound is flat and
between six and seven hundred paces in
circumference. Eleven rooms have been
excavated, the largest of which is one
hundred led in length, by thirty in width:
The walls are very thick, and are formed
ol two surfaces ol stone interlaid with
masses of earth. Each block stone it
ten fid high, and one loot thick. They
vary in breadth. On their surface are
figures executed in has relief. Some oc
cupy the whole height of the wall; others
are in double rows, with a broad inscrip
tion between.
M. Lawrie writes—
“ The sculptures represent a variety of
objects, lit one place is a royal feast, with
chairs and tables in European style. In
another they prosecute a siege; and while
some use the battering ram, or advance
under the testudo, others lire the galea*
while the devoted defenders fall, trans
pierced, from the walls, in one instance
a row ot figures in front of the fortress, are
impaled by the breast. In another, dead
bodies and headless trunks are seen float
ing down the river that flows in front of the
beleagued fortress. The names of most
of these castles are inscribed upon them.
Elsewhere, captives loaded with chains
approach the conqueror on bended knee;
and the executioner, standing by a pile of
heads, wails, with uplifted sword, th* nod
that is to decide the tale of each one as he
passes by. One room is entirely occu
pied with a royal hunt. Tlit. king’s char
iot is driven through the fortress; birds
perch on the trees; deer run beneath them,
iiu I the tiuiid hares ily at their approach.-
.Slaughtered game bears testimony to the
success ot the hunters, some of Whom are
seen carrying it in their hands.
The most n markable sculptures, how
ever, are those at the gales. These are
guarded on each side by a five-footed
monster, of gigantic proportions. To the
body of a bull, fifteen feet high and eiglt
leen in length, is attached an immense hu
man head. The side of the hull is con
cealed by wings, which spring train his
shoulder; and i lie fifth foot was made by
the artist, that two might appear in front
as well as in the side view. But what is
still more strange, tiro huge monster is ’
sculptured on a single stone, four feet in
thickness. How they managed to trans
port it; or set it up on the mound, is a
question no one as yet has presumed to an
swer. Fifteen of these monsters, more or
less perfect, have been found already. In
connection with these generally stands the
figure of a man with a birds head, like the
image of Osiris in Egypt-
There is a great variety of dress ami
armor in the several groups. In some ca
ses a large umbrella is borne over the king.
Some dresses claim a remote antiquity,
while resemblances to a more modern
style may be traced in others. But these
are things better understood from ff' e
painting than description. As to feature-',
i among other diversities, there is one Ueai
| that is decidedly African. lb® sculp
tures are admirably executed. Ihe mus
cles are distinctly and correctly delinea
ted, and every countenance wears an ex
pression corresponding to the situation o
the individual. ....
The result of these researches will ne
published bv the French Government.
The resident consul, M. Bolta, has cop
ied the inscriptions, and M. Houdin,
artist engaged on the work, has tnai e
great number of very accurate and spir
ed drawings.
DUEL ON THE TAPIS!
A hostile meeting between two g
men of high standing from v ’
Ga. is expected to take place on Monday
next, on the Alabama side ot t >®
hoochee river, near this city* . vn
belligerents has already arrive , .
with bis (fiend, and the other is
in the neighborhood. V*o Ui “ l ' <- our
that an. effort is making by som
citizens, to reconcile the l ,url,< p'’
; apprehend, from the nature andl long
tinuance of the difficulty be " « ufflo t
it will be without MKceM* tl()rl ffis
says they are to light at the yO . %v jff
doubtless be a bloody one •