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POETRY.
“A poet’s hand and prophet's fire,
Struck the wild warblings of his lyre.”
From the .Iffictinu's Gift for 1652.
MARY LEE.
I wandered forth at close of day.
To breathe the evening air;
Not yet was drawn the curtain gray,
Which hides the liowrets fair.
They blush’d in beauty ’neath tny tread,
And all their rich perfume
Around in generous fragrance shed,
Unwitting of thetr doom.
I could not choose, but bid rny eye,
In simple gladness, rest
Upon tbe gorgeons drapery
That lin’d die lovely west.
And fain wa9 T to hear the note,
The blackbird gaily sung,
As on the air it seem’d to float,-.-
And o’er rny heart-strings rung.
f reach’d the brook, and inassy stono,
Where lingering still for me,
Was wont to sit—till twillight lone—
My little Mary Lee. °
tier knitting in her merry way,
Would Mary hold on high,
And all the progress of the day,
Upon my finger try.
&he was not there—not richly now
To me the sunset beamd’d ;
iue blackbird carroll’don the bough,
But not for me it seem’d.
More bright than these was Mary’s look,
W hen yesterday it shone ;
More sweet her voice, when o’er the brook
She sent its joyous tone-
I hasten’d onward to the c o t-
Where Mary’s mother dwelt, —
V. hy .seem’d it such a lonely spot*
1 never tjiue had telt.
The woodbine now'as gracefully
Around the porch was hung,
Tile little gate with motion free
As hospitably swung.
f paus’d a raoment-s-and a groan
Fell deeply on my ear; °
l enter’d—it was Mary’s moan—
She knew not I was near.
She knelt beside her mother’s bed,
Her head was resting there:
P® mother’s struggling breath hat! fled—
Her daughter knelt in prayer.
And tears came gushing on her cheek.
And sobs convulsed her frriue :
f heart! the little sufferer speak-
It was her mother’s name.
Come to my arms! poor child, I cried,
Come hither Mary Zee,
God has been lavished to my pride,
I’ll share His gifts with thee.
She leant her pale cheek on my brca6t,
I press’d her to my heart, —
And from that sacred place of rest,
No more shall she depart. C. G.
Deferred Articles.
From the Southern Recorder.
Tdr. llkzkkiaii Nii.cs.—This gentleman,
%vc need not tell those conversant with the
! agister, is and has been the principal organ
of the tariff, or more jirojterly the manufac
turing party. He has laboured, late and
early, to show (fiat the South should he happy
tn the destiny to which he thinks it doomed
—happy in the consciousness l that although
its pc ople are to ho robbed of the fruits of
their labor, the manufacturers will he enrich
,Vl by >t. He has exhausted the modicum of
talent of which he is possessed, in vitup ra
tion and abuse of all those in favor of free
trade and equal rights. South-Carolina N'ul
tfication has been to the worthy gentleman,
a rich, a fruitful theme, upon which he could
nt pleasure muster a storm of words, a cata
ract of eloquence, as unintelligible, if not
ns sublime as that of the mighty Niagara it
e. It. it is impossible to describe thcvchcm
f nee of bis indignation, at the dmunionists,
or the withering blasts of scorn, which, like
♦he scathing Sirocco, have from time to time,
swept over the trullitiers, from the pages of
•he Register. We request the attention of
o :r readeis to the following tirade in a late
i amber of his paper—it is in reference to Mr.
McLane’s proposed tariff hill.
’* Tor our own part, we would rather sit
down, and coldly ‘ calculate the value of the
Union,’ than accept this unjust, and abomina
ble—this ill digested and conflicting—this
British pauper feeding, and American pauper
making, scheme. But, and if it shall pass,
through the force of party discipline or from
.othercauses, among them possibly British
Gold—it will soon he repealed by the united
operation of at least a million of musket bear
ing freemen—whose 4 nullification’ is exter
mination ; who have full power to do all that
they will, in the work of 4 reform.’ Let there
be peace ; let the people instantly meet in
every State, county, city, town, village or
hamlet. and sav to their representatives, THIS
DILL SHALL NOT BECOME A LAW.”
Exterminating million of musket hearing
-freemen! How ineffably ridiculous! The
poor old man must have been dreaming of
the comet. Extermination and Freedom are
rojM'ilants; there is no aliirmity between
* hem ; they will not remain in the same
company. Cm Air. Niles, in all the writings
of the nulifiers, point to a single passage, so
utterly at variance with the peace and harmo
ny of the Union, as this precious morcean?
The utmost extent of their doctrines is, that
they continue to pay unjust tribute, they
dust he compelled to do so by force. But
Mr. Niles'nullification is of a very different
character—if you do notallow us to rob our
neighbors to our hearts content, we draw the
exterminating sword against government and
people.” Think twice, thou Quixotic of
fnamifacturers, thou Prince of weavers, think
twice we pray thee, before thou commences!
Ui* crusade of extermination. Think of
’the banner you would oppose, and of that un
der which you would marshal! your million.'
The banner under which he is ranged, is
much to a soldier ; his eye kindles as he
'oaks upon iis bright folds; with its insignia,
is identified his honor and his fame; for it
ho htaveiy fights—in its defence he noblv
Jtes. If it is fated that the sword must be
'♦nwn, ( btvli Hod forbid contra** pr.iv j
thee, thou champion of exaction, the banners
of the opposing legians. On our’s you would
recognize the spirit of ’76, and those words
of light —Freedom , Justice , and Equality.
On your’s, what should we see? that which
would make paltroons of braver men than
your exterminating million ; we should be
hold the withering countenance of Avarice,
with a shutter to one hand, and a spinning
jenny in the other; and under such a ban
ner, we defy Goliak of Gath to fight. We
would pray you too, when you wish a theme
for the exercise of your rhetoric, to pass by
the peaceful champions of nullification, and
descant more at large, upon your own text,
the “ Exterminating million of musket bear
ing freemen .”
Extract of a Letter from Greece. —“ I of
ten write and receive letters from Mr. Good
ell, who is now in Constantinople, and with
his family are inmates of Commodore Porter’s
house, and have charge over his domestic
establishment. It is a fine trait in the Com
modore’s character that after they had literal
ly lost every thing they had in the world, by
the tire at Peru, he invited them to his house
soon after ho arrived, and makes one of their
daily family alter and his parlor is Mr. Good
ell’s chapel every Sunday.”
JII.M EELAAEOI *•
TUI; IRISH EMIORAN'T.
Born in the country of affliction—his days
were days of sorrow. He tilled the soil of
his fathers, and was an alien in their land.—
He tasted not of the fruits which grew by the
sweat of his brow, lie fed a foreign land
lord whose face lie never saw, and a minister
of the gospel whose name he hardily knew
—an unfeeling bailiff was his tyrant, and the
i tax-getherer his oppressor—hunted hy un
righteous magistrates end punished by un
just judges. The soldiers devoured his sub
stance; and laughed his complaints to scorn
—he toiled the hopeless day, and at night lay
down in weariness.
Yet noble was he of heart, though his es
tate was lowly—his cottage was open to the
poor—he brake bis children’s bread, and ate
of it sparingly, that the hungry might have a
share—he welcomed the benighted traveller,
and rose with the stars of the morning to put
him on his way. But his soul repined within
him, and lie sought relief in change. lie
bad beard of a land where the poor were in
peace, and the laborer thought worthy of his
hire : where the blood of his fathers had pur
chased an asylum. He leads the aged parent
whom love grapples to his heart; he hears
his infant in his arms —his wife follows his
weary steps—they escape the barbarous laws
that would make theii country their prison,
they cross the trackless ocean—they descry
the promised land; and hope biightcns the
prospect to their view ; —but happiness is not
tor him. The ruthless spirit of persecution
pursues him through the waste of the ocean.
Shall his foot never find rest, nor his heart
repose? No! the prowling bird of prey 1
hovers on Columbia’s coast—wafted on ea
gle'* wings the British cruiser comes-ravishes
the poor fugitive from the partner of his sor
rows and the tender pledges of their love.—
See the haggard eyes of a father, to which
nature denies a tear! a stupid monument of
living death. lie would interpose his feeble
arm but it is motionless—lie would bid adieu
but his voice refuses its office. The prop of
his declining years torn remorselessly from
before him, he stands like the blasted oak,
dead to hope and every earthly joy !
REFLECTIONS OV DEATH.
There is no subject that is calculated to
inspire the mind with moreglooiny sensations
than dissolution. Let the imagination wan
der free and unrestrained upon this melan
choly theme and it will gather in its wander
ings many a warning admonition —it brings
conviction to the mind riot only of its certain
ty, but the necessity for preparation, it awa
kens the reminiscences of our youth, and
recollection ponders over its devastating work.
Where are our juvenile associates, the com
panions of our more innocent, virtuous days ;
those to whom wc became early attached to
in those bright, those halcyon days of bliss?
Go ask yon cold and cheerless marble, in si
lent eloquence it marks the pensive spot
where the venerated form reposes.
Look what a chasin its unrelenting scythe
lias made in friendship’s circle—its iron links
have been rent asstinder—the loved object
endeared to memory and our hearts aro torn
forever from our affections—all have to bow
to the mighty mandate, the herald of our God
th.:t ushors all mankind into eternity !
hero arc our kind and tender parents
who watched over our infancy, and with ten
der anxious solicitude nourished us until the
hud of childhood ripened to maturity ? Be
neath yon cold and solitary mound they sleep
the dreary sleep of death—they slumber
peacefclly beneath that little hill that marks
the final resting place of man.
W ander through the cheerless yard where
thousands quietly repose—what pensive
thoughts flow calmly through the imagination
—it is indeed a pleasing melancholy—a tran
sient passport for the mind from wondly to
celestial regions. Each grave registers a
being who once like ourselves teemed with
health, activity, and every prospect of a life
ripe w ith age. How promiscuously they lay,
the old and young, the ricii anti poor lay side
by side; unconscious of their pains, theij
pleasures, wealth and poverty; the same pale
stone reared to the memory of the aged and
venerable points where the young and beauti
ful repose. It is a fate that awaits:)* all
Death rides on every passing breeze; we sec
our friends and relatives gathered daily to the
tomb of their fathers. Generation after
generation pass into nonentity. Our bosoms
may next he pierced by his icy dart. Ho
may be present at our next repast. He maybe
waiting at the throshold of our door for iis ;
and when wc retire to our nightly, natural
repo.se!. bis hand may seal our eyes in eternal
slumber. But how often do these reflections
which for a transient w hile occupy the mind,
pass oil like the clouds of night before the
using sun; still they are relictions which
sliould be deeply inculcated in every breast, i
never to he be erased but hy the powerful in
fluence of that deputed messenger if God.
WILFtED.
TEMPER ACNE.
“ The habit of intemperance, to a greater
or less degree deprives human clnracter of
some of its most valuable properties, not for
the time merely, during which tie excite
ment continues, but for all time tml under
trie most favorable subsequent cirei instances.
To say uothingof that moral obliqtity, which
is to be expected from the degraded being
who voluntarily deprives himself of reason,
there is a consequent feebleness of judgment,
a sickly and vicious imagination, an imbecili
ty of accurate recollection, which are pain
fully perceptible to every one, who is placed
in a situation where the testimony of such
men is ordinarily adduced ; and it is among
the most destructive conscquenscs of the
vice of which they are guilty, and one, we
think, which has not yet been sufficiently re
garded, that the poison which has destroyed
their own characters is thus throvin off to
enter into and contaminate the very aliment
of society. It should incourage those, who
are concerned in the great work of promo
ting reformation in this respect, that they are
thereby purifying our courts of justice, and
thus advancing all those most important in
terests, which it is the business of society to
secure.”
Sadness —There is a mysterious feeling
that frequently presses like a cloud over the
spirits. It comes upon the souhl in the bus
tleof life, in the social circle, in the calm
and silent retreat of solitude. Its powers
are alike supreme over the weak and iron
hearted. At one time it is caused by the
flitting of a single thought across the mind.
Again, a sound will come booming across
the ocean of memory gloomy and solemn as
the death knell, overshadowing all the bright
hopes and sunny feelings of the heart. Who
can describe it and yet who has not felt its
bewildering influence ? Si ill it is a delicious
sort of sorrow ; and like a dimming the sun
shine of the river, although causing a mo
mentary abode of gloom, it enhances the
beauty of returning brightness.
A MISTAKE OF COURTSHIP.
Personal resemblances are no doubt very
frequently so strong as to be confounded ea
sily. 1 knew an instance of a person paying
ins addresses to one sister, and offering to the
other hy mistake, was accepted and married;
and he did not discover the blunder until iie
found his spouse cared not for the charms of
music, an accomplishment which the original
object of his affections possessed. I also
knew of an instance in which a person ran
away with a young lady, where iie thought
he had made a sudden conquest; hut it turn
ed out that she mistook him for his brothel-
Since, however, tiic ancients personated love
as blind, such little mistakes are not to he
wondered at, although to the cool observant
eve of the naturalist, perhaps, the trifling dis
crepancies overlooked occasionally will al
ways be manifest.— Metropolitan.
Tlie price of Liberty ifideriml vl^lluncc*
A Political Adventurer. —A young man,
at the commencement of his political career,
is given plainly to understand that, if lie
hopes to succeed, he must turn his talents to
the advantage of liis party—that lie must
have no opinion opposed to those which they
entertain; and, that his success will ever be
in proportion to his useful subservience.—
This at once breaks down the w hole fabric of
his former morality. llis first step as a po
litical adventurer, robs him of his consci
ence. Time, however, might possibly ena
ble him to acquire new habits of thinking;
to acquire what Mr. Bcnthan lias so aptly
termed 44 interest begotten prejudices.”—
His duties, indeed, will quickly be found to
throw great obstacles in the way of such a
consummation. The conduct of his employ
ers utterly precludes the possibility of its
accomplishment. He will find, that he is
constantly employed to defend every species
of abuse by plausible pretenses. He w ill he
expected to discover good reasons ; to keep
out of sight the real circumstances of the
case, to substantiate favorable ones when pos
siblc ; and to gloss over such as cannot ho
hidden* His conduct and his language will
thus be constantly at variance ; and whib
he is making professions of pure virtue, lie
w ill know himself by the very process to be
utterly base and dishonest. Delusion even
w ill be almost certainly precluded ; but least
there should be a chance in favor of bis vir
tucs, his superiors are ever careful by their
demeanor to remark to him that he is not
laboring for the interests of his own class
They are to be found among the people, and
with that class he must rank himself, however
accidentally he may become the advocate of
that of bis superiors. Thus the better feel
ings, even of party morality, arc excluded
from his mind, lie is never engaging on
the side of his afTections—he does not unite
himself heart and hand with his party, and
merge the great precepts of universal, into
ono narrow, but still general precepts of par
ty virtue. There is always some advantage
in having a preceptor or rule of conduct ex
pressed in general terms, which have refer
ence to classes of our fellow’ creatures—
while the consequences to our followers, from
(he actions we commit, are kept before us.
some sympathy is kept alive in our bosoms, !
and some generous tendencies will remain
with us. To make a man utterly and com
pletely vicious, nothing is so efficient to make
I. shape his conduct hy precepts which re
gard himself alone; but such must be his
case who is the partizan of a party, without
being of that party. If he is their partizan,
is solely because, by being so, he benefits
Himself. They reward him, therefore he is
their advocate. He loves them not—he is a
renegade, to whom his employers allow not
the privilege of oblivion. The compound of
such a man’s mind is of a fearful descrip
lion—dangerous to his dangerous
to bis country. He is of necessity utterly!
unworthy of confidence. Jit* is a scoffer at 1
all enlarged morality, all generous emotions ;
lie is a disbeliever in human v irtue, a hater of {
human nature. Such a man, when able,!
turns round upon his employers ; he' becomes
liberal out oi haste, or self-love* His good
deeds arc not prompted by a love of ids spe
cies, but either by loveof hiinsclf, or hatred
oi others.— Westminster Review,
From a Politieut Trad.
RICH & POOR.
Bv the existing Tariff law, anew science
is introduced into custom bouse calculations,
called the science of minimums. For instance,
at this moment it a case of woollen goods
is imported into Charleston of which the
prime cost to the merchant in the country
where he purchased and from whence lie
brought them, is
Between 50 and 100 cents per square yard,
they will be valued at 100 cents.
Between 100 and 250 cents per square
yard, at 250 cents.
Between 250 and 400 cents per square
yard at 400 cents.
And the duty shall be calculated accor
dingly at the rate of 45 per cent on the va.
lue ; not the real value, mind, but the value
thus estimated .
A man unskilled in the science of legisla
tive robbery called minimums, And who should
fiitd'iti the report of the Secretary of the
Treasury no higher duty mentioned than 50
per cent ad valorem, would very naturally
say, that 50 per rent was the highest duty
laid. But suppose a piece of woollen cost
at Leeds or Huddersfield in Yorkshire, 101
cents ; when landed at Charleston it would
be estimated by the Collector at 255 cents,
and the duty charged upon it would he 112$
cents: for if lUO cents pay to the govern
ment 45 cents, what will 250 cents pay ?
The following table has been calculated on
this principle in the Banner of the Constitu
tion, June 15, 1831 p 230. To which 1 have
no objection, except that the actual duties
are in a few instar ces rated from over abund
ant caution, somewhat too low.
TIIE Dixy ON CLOTH WHICH COSTS.
Cost I Cost
Ceuta Duty Cents Doty
51 pr. sq.y’d is 88 p.c. 205 pr.sq.y’d is 50 pc.
00 “ “ 75 “ 250 “ “ 45 “
70 “ “ Gt 251 “ “ 71 “
80 “ “ 56 “ 275 “ “ 05 “
90 “ “ 50 “ 300 “ -‘ GO “
100 “ •* 45 “ 325 “ “ 55
101 “ “ 111 “ 350 “ “ 5! “
125 “ “ 90 “ 375 “ “ 48
150 “ 75 “ 400 “ “ 45 “
175 “ “ 64 “ 401 & all above 50 “
200 “ “ 56 “
From the above table (which contains no
exaggeration whatever) it is manifest that
the clothing of the poor is highly taxed, while
that of rich is taf.ed with comparative modera
tion. All this is in continuity to the great and
leading feature of the adopted system that
the articles consumed by the rich shall be
exonerated or slightly burthened, while the
great weight of taxation shall fall upon the
poor ! And suppose that they do suffer uii
dei the severe cold of our American winter,
and arc unable to guard against Consump
tions, Catarrhs, Pleurisies, Rheumatisms, and
inability to work in consequence ; what care
our legislators for that ? The Poor arc des
tined by Providence to suffer these evils: thev
are of no account in the American Fvstem :
let them suffer! “Come, pass the bottle :
the American System forever.”
ifc Hrfomcs, !<• (‘omc,
Th* busy Hern Id of a noisy world***
Extract of a letter , to the Editors of the
Petersburg Intelligencer, dated,
“Washington City, May 25, 1832.
“ I have just, lor the first time, listened to
the substantial reasoning and solid eloquence
of the distinguished Senator, Daniel Web
stkk. llissubject was the p.'iptiety of re
newing the charter of the United Slates Bank.
He was not prepared to make a speech on
this day, but no one else being disposed to
address the Senate, he made a display of no
diminished merit and an argument of con
vincing cogency. 1 will not undertake to
transfuse the effect of his eloquence ; 1 should
fail and do him injustice; rather let me do
him the justice to say, that his argument was
not less creditable to his heart than to his
head—it was the argument of the Orator, the
Statesman, the patriot, the American.
“ I will only inform you of one or two sug
gestions which were thrown out by him for
the consideration of the Senate and the coun
try; and which, I think, are incalculably
valuable, and worthy of ail commendation.—
He says that in the United States, silver is
estimated 100 high, and too low an estimate
is placed on gold —that a reconciliation of the
relative value ol gold and silver, would give
the currency ef the country a firm basis, by
procuring the introduction ol more gold than
is now in circulation. He urges the fact, that
the specie basis of the vast paper currency
ol the country, is not large enough. The
specie in the country is in amount about 25
millions, and the paper money amounts to
more than 75 millions. How isthedesidera
turn to be procured and retained? Not by
the enactment of laws to coerce the Bank to
hoard specie, nor by prohibiting the expor
tation ol specie ; but by withdrawing from
circulation, and forbidding the issue, by the
1 nifed States Bank as well as the banks of
the States, all notes under the denomination
of five, or even of ten dollars ; ami the con
sequence isccrtain that specie will come in,
and supply the place of these small notes,
which now constitute one sixth of the paper
maney in the United States.
“ The renewal of the charter of the United
states Bank, will encounter an active and
able and energetic opposition ; in spite of
which, however, I think the friends • of the
measure will be successful.”
Jhe New Orleans Courier, of the 28th ult.
contains a correspondence between Colonel
f asquez, the Military Commandant at Vein
Cruz, acting under the orders of General
Santa Anna, and J.- A. Casiphon, Ksq.
Consul of the United States at that plane —I
The Col. in a letter dated 4th ifist, demands |
payment, within 41/ hours, of the bonds due |
the American merchants to the Mexican
Government, and threatens the seizure of
their property, and imprisonment of their
persons, in case of failure. Our Consul, in
a spirited letter dated on the following day,
declares the utter inability of the merchants,
tram the stagnation of business growing out
ot the operations of General Santa Anna
himself, which has cut off ail communication
w ith the interior, from w hence the means of
payment are derived, ta meet these demands;
and questions, even were it in their power,
the propriety of their doing so, as the Mexi
can Government, to whom the bonds were
given, have expressly forbid their payment,
except into the public Treaury at the City of
Mexico, or to some authorized agent of the
existing Government. We do not know
whether an attempt to enforce payment has
been made.— Charleston Courier.
TUB OREGON COUNTRY.
The country distinguished by this name
extends from the JLooky Mountains to the Pa
cific Ocean. From the various notices which
we see of expeditions fitting out for the set
tlement of this region, we think it probable
that it will not be many years before some
parts of it will become quite populous. Al
though its most Southern extremity is in the
forty second degree of North latitude, yet
the climate is sa!to be remarkably mild and
temperate, the winters being less cold, and
the summers less, hot, than in similar lati
tudes on the Atlantic coast. The soil too of
money parts is resented as veiy fertile.
The English have an establishment in this
territory, at a place called Fort Vancouver.
The respective claims of the United States
and of Great Britain to a portion of the coun
try, are vet unsettled ; but from its local sit
uation it is not improbable that when the
country becomes populous, an independent
government will be formed, and that the
claims of both the great powers above men
tioned will be disregarded.
COLLEGES IN THE UNITED STATES.
Ilowdoin Maine, Wm Allen, D.D.
Waterville I)o. J. Chapman, D. D.
Dartmouth N. IL Nathan Lord, D. D.
Univ. of Vermont Vt. James Marsh, A. M.
Middlebury Do. Joshua Bates, D. D.
Harvard Univ. Mass. J. Quincy, LL. D.
Williams Do. E. I). Griffin. D. D.
Amherst I)o, H. Humphrey, D. D.
Brown University ILL F. Wayland, D. D.
\ale Conn. Jeremiah Day, D. D.
Washington Do. T. C. Brownwell, and and
Columbia N-Y. W r m A. Duer, LL. D.
Union Do. Eliphalet Nott, D. D.
Hamilton Do. Henry Davis, 1). D.
Geneva Do. Henry Mason.
College of N. J. N. J. Jas. Carnahan, D. D.
Rutgers Do. P. Milledoller, D. D.
Univ. of Penn. Penn. W. H. DeLaney, and. and
Dickinson Do. Sam. B. How, D. D.
Jefferson l)o. M. Brown, D. D.
Western Univ. Do. M. Bruce,
j Washington l)o.
: Alleghany Do. Timothy Alden.
j Madison Do. Henry B. Ba6com.
St. Mary’s Md. E. Dainphoux, D. D.
[Columbian Cel. Step. Chapin, D. D.
I Wrnft Mary Va. Adam Ernpio, 1). D.
j (lamp. Sidney Do. J. P. Cushing, A. M.
> Washington J>>. G. A. Baxter.
; Univ. of Va. Va. Jas. Madison, LL. D.
Univ. of N. C. N. Jos. Caldwell, 1). 1).
j Charleston S. C. Jasper Adams, D. I>.
! College ol S. C. Do. Thos- Cooper, M. I).
JUniv.ofGa. Geo. Alonzo Church, D.D,
I Greenville Tonn. Henry Hoss, Esq.
j Un. of Nashville, Do. P. Lindsley, D. D.
K. Tennessee Do. Charles Coffin, D. D.
Tramisylvaaia Ken. Alva Woods, I). D.
Centre Do. G. Blackburn, D. D.
Augusta Do. Martin Ruter, I). D.
Cumberland Do. F. R. Cossit.
Univ. of Ohio Ohio R. G. Wilson, D. I).
Miami Univ. Do. R. R. Bishop, D. D.
West Reserve Do.
j Kenyon Do. Phila. Chase, I). D.
Bloomington Ind. A. Wylie, D-D.
Univ. of Alabama Ala.
A LEAP.
The Newark (N. J.) Eagle gives the an
nexed account of w hat it well calls an almost
incredible leap :—
We understand that a few days since, just
as a boat, freighted with iron and other arti
cles, had turned the summit of the inclined
plane on her descent at Boonton Falls, the
chain broke, and the car being thus freed
from the restraints of machinery, descended
to the foot of the plane with great speed, giv
ing the boat such a hasty plunge into the wa
ter, that when she rose on the swell thuscrea
ated, it carried her over the tow path at the
bend of the canal near the plane, and prccip
tafed her down a rocky precipice about 200
feet, where she now lies a heap of ruins not
worth picking up—so high was she raisco by
the swell, and so rapid her flight, that she
scarcely touched the tow path or any thing
else, until she struck upon a rock 30 or 40
feet below the surface of the canal, and broke
in two near the centre—the two part.3 then
continued to descend among the racks, where
they now lay. The most incredible and re
markable part of the story is, that there were
four persons on hoard, a woman and three
children, who went down the precipice with
the boat, neather of whom received any mate
rial injury. The captain and hands probably
went on shore to walk down the plane, which ;
is frequently the case.
THE LOSS or the IIRANDYWrNP.
General Cameron, describing to \i, c oc ]; or
of the Harrisburg Intelligencer., Qic destruc
tion of the steam oat Brandy lV j nc , 3av;Ji
A gentleman, who save'*, himself by'swim
nmigon a box to shore, describes the scene
as terrible beyond imagination. The fire
commenced obw; mid-ships, and those in the
after part ot vessel were unable to commit
mcate with those forward. A rush was made
for the v ;W ] . some thirty or forty deck pas
sengers jumped into it; in this confusion her
moorings rtere cut witnont letting her down;
siie plunged stern foremost into the water,
arm every soul perished.' One gentleman,
endeavoring to rescue his wife, leapt over
; hoard, and desired her to follow. She made
the leap, but a falling spar separated them,
and tlie gurgling 0 f the turbid wah rs shower i
only for a moment the spot where she had fid
-1 len and elqacd upon her for ever*
A lady, with a lovely infant i„ her a T*'
was seen standing on the after guard sur
rounded by the female servants of ithe v ( J
(one of whom had a child,) waiting i;, '", '
hope of succour from the forward part of 'C
vessel, until they were encompassed bv !'
flames, when hugging her infant to
she gave a wild shriek, rushed forward, a . !
was overcome by the fire. When the fl a
were extinguished, a pilecf bones alone
noted the spot where the female groups ■ .
stood.
When I saw the wreck, nothing remain
but her keel, and a portion of her hold, -jv
timbers were very dry above, and, an )( "
the cargo below, was a large quantity 0 f '!
and liquors, which with the wind made h
dcstiuction almost instantaneous. The rf!
cers were the last to leave her, and\ VOi ‘u
have saved the females, if the yawl had n .
been lost at the first moment of the alar ,
Those who did get to shore had great difficl
ty to avoid perishing. By holding a cotto’
handkerchief in the air, they caught a sp ;; .
from the burning wreck, and thus madea fir.',
on the wild beach, by which they reman- :
until the next day, when they received f w i
and clothes trom a passing boat.
Foreign.
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The ship Joseplwne, Capt. Britton, arriw,]
l.it evening from Belfast, bringing papers of
that city to April 24th, and London to the
21st.
Ihe debate on the motion fora second
reading of the Reform Bill was closed by
Earl Grey. At the close of his speech bo
made the following observations :
“ W ith respect to the probability of the
consequences of‘hat rejection, he would sav
that every Minister of the Crown was bound
to use all the constitutional means placed in
his power for the preservation of the puiLc
tranquility; but the danger of disturbance
itself was not so great as that of an alienation
of the feelings of the people from that house,
and a withdrawal of the confidence which they
bad been taught to repose in the Legislature.
It was for this reason that he now implored
their lordships to pass that hill, which, he
hoped and trusted, would pass, and which,
he believed, must pass, whoever might be
come Minister of the Crown. Hu'ing already
trespassed toe much on their lordships’ atten
hen, he would merely take leave to say one
word on a question winch had been frequent
ly discussed out of doors, nd in which he
was in some degree personally concerned.
He alluded to the probable creation of peer?.
All the best constitutional writers had admit
ted that although the creation of a large num
ber ol peers, for a particular object, was a
measure which should rarely be resorted to,
yet that, in some cases, such as to avoid a
collision between the two houses, it might bo
absolutely necessary. It was true that he
(Lord Grey) was for many reasons, exceed
ingly av erse to such a course, hut he believed
it would he found, that, incases of necessity,
such as he had stated, a creation of peers
would be perfectly justifiable, and in accord
ance with the best and most acknowledged
principles of the constitution. Having said
this much, he would remind those who charg
ed him with upholding revolutionary doc
trines, first he was merely laboring to carrv
into effect that system which Mr. Pitt hail
maintained to be just and honest one, during
the period that iie appeared as the champion
ot the people, and he should add no more
than a last and earnest entreaty, that they
would allow the bill to go to a second read
ing that day, so that the country might have
some prospect of the passing of such a bill as
would prove ultimately satisfactory to all
classes of the people.
At twenty-five minutes to seven o’clock
their lordships divided, when the numbers
were as follows:
Noncontcnts, present 126
Contents, present 128
Majority for the second reading 9
The hill was then read a second time, and
on the motion of Earl Grey, it was ordered to
be committed on the first day after the recess.
London, April 24. —We have at length
the gratification of announcing that the Aus
trian and Prussian Plenipotentiaries have ex
changed ratifications with the British and
French Plenipotentiaries. They met yester
day, when this important ac. took place.
The Cholera. —This disease, we rejoice to
perceive, continues to decline in London.—
There were only 10 new cases on Saturday
and 2 deaths. The total number of cases in
London up to Saturday last was 2542—deaths
1336. In Ireland, however, c*’ especially
in the capital, the disease appears to be mak
ing considerable, progress. On Fridav 1 14
new cases were annone e d i n Dublir
deaths from *.fre commencement „ftim disease
amount to The mi*- • ;° flllo , ri
hlv ‘ -nief 13 consider!-
Deonic * I!* . t lC 11 uSUrd prejudices of the
, n V w . h ® rcK,F A. the attempts made tort
- tne infold persons to the hospitals
oni an mp ress j on t j ]at (| le j r [, o( iies arc used
lor anat'jmjca] purposes.
, ■ ‘test accounts of Cholera in Paris. —Wo
( <avo received letters from Paris to the 23d
inst.; in one of which, from a distinguished
physician resident in that city, we are assur
ed that from the irruption of cholera up to the
above date, 20,000 persons are ascertained to
have died of the disease in the French capi
tal alone. Although the violence of the epi
demic, lias somewhat abated, the numbers
attacked still continue Very large; and noth
ing like unanimity of opinion as to the most
efficient method of treatment has yet been
established.
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