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LINES WRITTEN BY A LADY.
As an excuse for her zeal in tlie cause of Temper
ance, and addressed to a friend who told her she
“was almost a monomaniac on the subject of
alcoholic drink.”
Go, feel what I have felt.
Go, bear what I have borne —
Sink ’neath the blow a father dealt.
And the cold, proud world's scorn—
Thus struggle on from year to year,
Thy sole relief the scalding tear.
Co, weep as I have wept.
O’er a loved father’s fall,
&ee every cherished promise swept.
Youth’s sweetness turned to gall,
Hope’s faded flower strevv’d all the way
That led me up to woman's day.
Go, kneel as I have knelt,
Implore, beseech and pray—
Strive the besotted heart to melt.
The downward course to stay —
Be cast, with bitter curse, aside.
Thy prayers bdrlesqu’d, toy tears defied.
Go, stand where I have stood.
And see the strong man now
With gnashing teeth, lips bathed in blood.
And cold and livid brow;
Go, catch his wandering glance and see
There mirror’d his soul’s misery.
Go, hear what I have heard;
The sobs of sad despair,
As memory feeling’s fount had stirred,
And its revealing* there
Hath told him what he might have been.
Had he the drunkard’s fate foreseen.
Go to thy mother’s side.
And her crushed spirit cheer,
Thine own deep anguish hide,
Wipe from her cheek the tear —
Mark her dtmm’d eye, her furrow’d brow.
The gray that streaks her dark hair now.
Her toil-worn frame, her trembling limb.
And trace the ruin back to him
Whose plighted faith in early youth,
Promised eternal love and truth —
lint who, foresworn, hath yielded up
This promise in the deadly cup,
And led her down from love and light.
From ail that made her pathway bright.
And chained her there, ’mid want and strife.
The lowly thing—a Drunkard's Wife!
And stamped on childhood’s brow so mild,
That withering blight—a Drunkard's Child!
Go, hear, see and feel and know
All that my soul hath felt or known —
Then look upon the wine-cup’s glow.
See if its brightness can atone;
Think if its flavor you will try,
Jfall proclaim’d —"’Tis drink and dig!”
Tell me I Ante the bowl!
Hate is a feeble word—
I loathe, abhor —my very soul
With strong disgu>t is slirr’d
Whene’er I see, or hear or tell
Os the dark Beverage of Hell!
LETTER FROM MRS. VIRGINIA MYERS.
The following letter, written by Mrs.
Mvers to a friend, has been transmitted to
the Richmond Whig for publication.
My Dear Friend —l ask your sympa
thy—jojr condolence —in my crushing
affliction—my fiery trial. I cannot de
pict to you l2:e anguish I endure at being
thus arraigned for a crime, the very
thought of which crimsons my cheek
with indignation; nor can I convey tlie
slighest idea of the torture with which I
find mvself tiie object of so much publi
city. 1 shrink within lire shade of retire
ment and seclusion, but unhappy cir
cumstances impel me forward: for 1 have
been so overwhelmed by the appearance
of my letters in the public prints—an ac
cumulation of mortification added to other
causes of agony which i did not antici
pate —that I have thought it but justice to
myself to give you, my friend, a state
ment of my acquaintance with the indivi
dual so unfortunately associated with
me, in order that it may furnish some pal
liation of rny indiscretion.
The commencement of my acquain
tance with Mr. Hoyt was under the fol
lowing circumstances:
A letter was addressed to me under
an envelope to him, and this letter was
transmitted to me by Mr. 11. Up to this
time 1 had never exchanged a word with
Mr. Hoyt in my life. The contents of
this letter rendered it necessary lhat I
should seek a few words of explanation
with him. I was reluctant to make this
the subject of a letter to Mr. Hoyt, and
therefore I addressed him a note request
ing to see him at my own house concern
ing the matter. In my first interview with
Mr. Hoyt at my house lie requested my
permission to visit me again. To this
1 readily consented; and as he suggested
the propriety of our being formally intro
duced in society, in order that our recog.
nilion might be public, 1 acceded to his
proposal of meeting him at Mr. Morien’s
rooms, (wherehc told me lie was sitting
for his miniature,) with Miss A C., from
whom, lie said, he would solicit an in
troduction to me. From this lime his
visits to me were very frequent. In an
interview, in the early stage of our ac
quaintance, I palliated some expression
inadvertently used in one of my first
notes to him, in which 1 had alluded to
a feeling of desolation. To this he re
plied, “that my unhappiness was the
theme of public discussion, and was not
a truth he had guessed from my note,
but one he had learned from his observa
tion of my countenance, before be had
formed my acquaintance.” Encouraged
by my casual allusion to this subject (in
discreetly made on my part, as I arn
ready to confess,) in our association to
gelher, he would frequently advert to my
situation as one of exquisite misery, pic
turing to me my husband’s indifference,
repeating unkind and cruel words which
he said my husband had used of me in the
most public places, and assuring me that
his alienation and coldness to me, his
wife, were the subject of remark in socie
ty. This naturally incensed me against
ruy husband, and made me regard him
most unkindly. From the sympathy he
expressed' for me, entering into all my
sorrows with the utmost depth of feeling,
our confidence became very trustful, and
we conversed together with great tin*
reserve. Such intercourse continued for
sometime; and thus was I unconsciously
and imperceptibly prepared to lend my
ear to an avowal of attachment from
which I would have revolted had it been
prefaced by less insidious designs. Short,
ly subsequent to this crisis my husband
received an anonymous note, which be
promptly showed me. This circumstance
precluded Mr. Hoyt’s visits to my own
house, notwithstanding the testimony to
the contrary; for after this he never
the threshold of my door.
And here I carvnot forbear touching
upon one part of the testimony, which
affirms that I was “locked up” in a cer
tain parlor for a number of hours. It is
true that I had several interviews with
Mr. H. in No. 13, the room referred
to; hut those who are familiar with the
location of the rooms at tiie Exchange
Hotel, will readily recognize this apart
ment us one of the most public in the
establishment. It is well known, also,
that persons wishing for privacy in so pub
lic a place always secure themselves
against intrusion. In accordance with
this practice, the door was fastened, as 1
knew rny association with Mr. Hoyt was
liable to remark, and I was not desirous
of my interviews with him becoming the
subject ofpublic reprehension. I was there
merely for private conversation; and the
contents of those unfortunate letters will
at once testify that such conversation,
without the pollution of crime, was secret
in its nature. Why, then, should one
who has acted thoughtlessly, but virtuous
ly, be branded with odium, and circum
stances be tortured and garbled, to fasten
the foul sin upon me? There is other
testimony, which has so utterly shocked,
so entirely amazed me, that 1 amatuloss
for words to refute it. If I could snatch
a sunbeam from Heaven, that would
scarce be burning and bright enough to
register mv innocence of such foul, loath
c*
some accusations. My God! my God!
wilt thou suffer the wretch to live who
could pronounce such words—such base,
dark, designing lies? They are black
enough to have emanated from the bot
tomless pit—wicked enough to have is
sued from hell itself. I wonder the tongue
lhat pronounced them was not palsied—
scorched—scathed—by the instant light
ningof God’s wrath! In all my indiscre
tions—in the most glaring of city errors—
I have alvvavs remembered I was a lady.
My virtue has not been wrecked, nor
have 1 forgotton, for an instant, that deli
cacy which is innate within the heart of
woman. So monstrous a tale is too shock
ing—loo abhorrent for human belief. My
absence from Richmond, during May and
June, 1846, when I was in the city of
New York, and tiie fact of Mr. Hoyt
being an entire stranger to rne in the sum
mer of 1845, (as our acquaintance only
commenced in the winter of that year.) at
once puts the seal of falsehood —gross
falsehood—upon ttie abhorrent testimony
to which I have just alluded. Is it not
strange, that, when my letters refer to
every interview I ever had with him,
there should be no allusion, not even the
most remote, to the meetings which are
so vilely attributed to me? 1 use strong
and emphatic terms; but I feel uncontrol
lable indignation that such foul aspersions
should be thrown, so undeserved, upon
me.
As toy personal interviews with Mr.
Hoyt were suspended after tho anony
mous communication to my husband, our
correspondence then commenced. After
wards, and at his suggestion, we were in
the habit of meeting at the Exchange,
mostly in the public parlor, but two or
three limes in No, 18, (a public sitting
room) and once, at Mr. Hoyt’s request,
in 41, (a private parlor;) he saying, we
should not there be so liable to remark as
in the common drawing room of the hotel.
I met him afterwards in the same room,
myself suggesting it. I was insensibly
lured from the path of rectitude by se
ductive vows of eternal devotion; and
hearkening to such protestations, a re
sponsive feeling awoke in my bosom. 1
felt a faith, a trust in him, 100 firm to be
shaken, and without pausing to reflect, 1
rushed on, wrecking and ruining my hap
piness by my own act. His manner and
words always wrought on me the desired
effect of more trustful confidence, and
protestations and evidences such as these
harried me along with fatal precipitation.
A nature like my own, capable of the
deepest feeling, and trembling lest such
feeling be unappreciated by the object on
which it has been lavished, is often ex
hibited in my correspondence with him.
Every doubt—every sea answered
by assurances of undying devotion, and
unswerving faith. Such vows fed and
nourished my fatal attachment, until 1
became reckless of public censure, and
prepared to encounter it, for his sake.
After the interception of my letters by
Col. Mvers, 1 considered my association
with Mr. Hoyt forever ended. I was close
ly watched and had no means of communi
cation with him. A day or two after this
event, Mr. H sent me a package by his
servant, with a message, to the effect, lhat
he would have written to me, but know
ing my situation he feared an interception
of his note. He besought me to write him
by the messenger. On Monday I re
ceived a letter from him, saying ho had
been under my window for two nights,
hoping to see me. He enclosed me a
cord, and wrote me he would beat Dr.
’s (where I was slaying,) at a par
ticular hour trn*t night, when 1 must have
a letter in readiness for him, which was
to be attached to the cord and lowered
from tiie window, and lie, in like manner,
would transmit to me a communication
from himself. Finding that he had mis
taken the situation of my room, I, in ac
ceding to his suggested plan, appointed
him a window in front, where I could re
ceive the proposed communication, and
return to him the package I should pre
pare for him. In one of these letters he
promised lo continue his correspondence
with me, after my departure from Rich
mond, provided it could be arranged with
safety. He then requested me, most im
portunately, to destroy every line he had
ever written me, knowing I had number
less letters of his in my possession. This
I promised unhesitatingly and performed
without one distrustful thought; and thus
I robbed myself of evidence which might
have palliated my error since my own
letters, sacred as I deemed then), have
been committed to tiie press, for the gaze
and taunts of the unfeeling multitude.
Does it harmonize with justice, thus to
deliver up to public print one portion of a
correspondence, while the other part,
which induced it, is shrouded forever iron)
publicity? To my judgment, his an act
of injustice, from which 1 should imagine
every humane heart would revolt with
abhorrence. Having unfortunately de
prived myself of every line which prompt
ed sue!) passionate expressions of affec
tion, I am unable lo contrast with mine
those professions of equal warmth and
equal fervor which I was accustomed to
receive, and which might have excused
tiie tone of my replies. The letter inter
cepted, and most fortunately preserved by
my father, is the only one from Mr. Hoyt
which appears in comparison with my
own; though from it one can easily gath
er that I was not the only actor in this
correspondence, nor the only source from
which emanated professions of devotion
and epithets of endearment.
1 wrote in the very sanctuary of coufi
deuce, never dreaming that another eye
would behold those evidences ol my feel
ings, but the one for whom such vows
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were registered; and yet, in tiie very se
cret and shadow of such confidential in
tercou r se, mark how often I appeal to
him, for my purity, my guilelessness—
“ Your pure and spotless,” &c. “\ou
know’ the purity of this heart: you know
not one impure thought has ever dwelt
there”—“ln the presence of Heaven itself,
I could swear that this bosom is as free
from guile, free from impurity, as an an
gel’s; and rather than lose that purity,
that delicacy which 1 know is the jewel
of my character, I would far rather lose
life itself;”- “Every thought of this heart
is as pure, as spiritual, as Heaven itself.”
“Although the world may accuse us, yet
in our own hearts we have the conscious
ness of innocence, and that will sustain
us.” Is it reasonable that such expres
sions as these would have found their way
into such confidential communications, if
one stain of guilt, one spot of pollution
had marred my intercourse with him? —
Is it reasonable that I should thus have
pointed to my virtuous purity unless I had
been spotless and unblemished? Oh! no!
n)!
A letter I addressed to my husband has
also been exhibited, calculated to repre
sent me as acting with the utmost dupli
city. There are circumstances inft.xten
nation of litis. On the day after Mr.
Myers’s departure to the North, Mr. H.
asked me when I should writs to my hus
band? On my replying, “the following
day,” he said “remember, it is important
that your fetter should be couched in the
most affectionate terms.” I rernaiktd, 4 I
thought such advice from him singular
and inexplicable.” He replied, “You
have always been in the habit of writing
to him affectionately; and were your let
ters now to be characterized by coldness,
his suspicions might be excited as to the
cause.” When I penned those words to
my husband, 1 really fell just as I wrote,
for when I was with him, or in correspon
dence with him. my conscience reproach
ed me for the wrong 1 was doing him, and
at such moments I felt kindly and ten
derly towards him.
There is one point in this fatal corrcs
pondence which I wish to rectify in your
eyes, and that is, the entanglement of my
sisters’ names in some of the letters.—
They were both unsuspicious of the na
ture of my association with Mr. Hoyt.—
L was entirely unaware of the na
ture of my correspondence with him. and
my elder sister ignorant even of the fact
of my acquaintance with him, beyond the
mere casual, speaking acquaintanceship
of formal, fashionable intercourse.
Thus, my dear friend have I given you
all the particulars of an association
which has ended so fatally for one of its
actors —so unhappily, so unfortunately
for the other; for I am now mourning
over the ruins of my peace,
which my own hand assisted lo demolish.
Yet, even in this hour of gloom and of
darkness, while the storm rages around
me, and even the voice of pity is hushed
by the tumultuous tempest of public re
probation, 1 find conscience serene amidst
the billows; for that conscience whispers
unceasingly to my agonized heart, that of
crime, of guilt, I am as sinless as a seraph
before God’s throne; and in that great
day of retribution, when all secret
thoughts and secret feelings shall he un
covered, my purity shall be read in bright
characters, by those who now condemn
me. Crushed, overwhelmed as I now
am, the world feels authorized to hurl
the most cruel accusation against me;
but God is my refuge from man’s vio
lence, and I live in the abiding hope that
the hour will come when I shall be re
garded as a deeply injured and greatly
wronged woman. I have been keenly
ttflected by the recent reception of two
anonymous letters, couched in the kindest
terms, breathing all the fragrance of
sympathy, and assuring me that the be
lief of my innocence is indelibly stanped
on many hearts. Oh! with what thank
fulness. with what tearful gratitude,did
I dwell on those kind and lender exp'es
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stans. The world cannot know the bleed
ing heart it lacerates by unworthy suspi
cion—undeserved condennation—or its
hand would be stayed.
You, rhy friend, who have known me
from my earliest watch- I
ed my girlhood melting into the maturity
of woman—smiled at the bright happiness
of my early married life——you will not
refuse to shed the tear of sympathy over
the wreck of my earthly prospects. Y r ou
remember me as I was, in the fresh, rur
al shades of my youthful home; but
transplanted to the atmosphere of fashion
able life, the freshness of my feelings
withered, and though Virtue has stood
steadfast, immoveable, amid all allure
ments, I have seen the death of that buoy
ancy of spirit which once encircled me;
for the harshness of the world has now
trampled, bruised, and forever crushed it.
May God enable me to bear my lot meek
ly, assured that high Heaven will not al
ways shroud the pure innocence of.
Your afflicted friend,
Alta Vista. Virginia Myers.
[ From the Cassville Pioneer. J
“NEARLY ONE HALF FORMER PRICES.”
Messrs Editors: —The body of the
(whig party is at the North; its moving
spirit is the manufacturing capitalists:
the whigs of Georgia are only the lip of
the coon’s tail which wags as the body
wills: therefore without knowing what the
people of the North are up to, there is no
knowing what nuilifiers will turn 10.
They supported Harrison because the
whig members of Congress from this Slate
certified that be was opposed to protective
larilfe; they afterwards supported Clay
because they saw in his letters to Meri
wether and Bronson, that he would stand
by the compromise act: after that, they
saw ids letter to Cope, in which he showed
them that he had got to be a protective
tariff man; lhey went on to support him
as warmly as ever, but having to change
their reasons for it, they fell to cyphering,
and in less than no lime discovered that
high duties make low prices: —they then
suppott Clay because lie was a protective
tariff man.
A her the passage of Polk’s low duty
tariff at the late session of Congress, tiie
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leading men of the whig party went to
cyphering again: they settled the prin
ciple that now, low duties make low pri
ces: and nuilifiers continue to be wings,
because according to their present way
of thinking if farmers buy things at low
prices, tiie country will be ruined. Mr.
Webster and his whig friends say that
Polk’s revenue tariff must be repealed,
because in advance of its operations, it is
reducting the prices of stare goods so
much that American Manufacturers are
making but moderate profits on their cap
ital, and that without the repeal, the
country will be ruined. Our whig mer
chant of Cassville confirms this assertion
so far as to say that store goods are unu
sually plentiful at unusually low prices;
and that cloths, cassimeres and satinelts
are now to be had under Polk’s adminis
tration “ut nearly one half former pri
ces.” !
Mr. Clay speaking on this subject and
fearing that the policy of allowing far
mers to buy low and sell high, may be
come established, says the black tariff of
’42 “must be res'ored;” we may therefore
lookout for another hard cider row for
this purpose.
FRICKS.
P. 8. What will the old free trade
men of Georgia next turn to? F.
A CURIOUS APPLE.
A correspondent of the Rochester Dai- |
ly Advertiser, in discoursing of agricul
tural matters, gives the following descrip
tion of an apple :
“I have lately found one apple which
is a great curiosity. It is sweet and
sour in different portions. Oiteti there
are four streaks of yellow skin between
them, which are distinctly sour—quite
sour; the sweet portions are quite yellow
to the core, and the sonr quite w hite.—
The tree has been grafted, and bears three
or four different kinds of apples, which
come lo maturity from early July to late
October, and this year lias produced many
bushels, A bushel or more, perhaps,
have the curiosity already mentioned. -
“Some of these apples are nearly all
sweet, and some nearly all sour, but
many have the curious formation stated
above. I have one to forward to your
hand, Mr. Editor, that you may examine
for yourself and understand this sport of
nature. How can it have been affected?
Could inoculation of parts of a sweet into
a sour bud have produced such results?
I should be sorry to believe that this is a
case never to be produced again, or that
the law may not be discovered by which
it may succeed. We have often heard ol
an apple which had one side sweet and i
the other side sour, and this is produced ;
by the union of half a sour blown bud
with half a sweet bud, and that the union
was so perfect that the double bud flower,
ed so that the vessels of both buds ex
tended separately into the flower and the
embryo fruit. All this is conceivable,
but only a solitary apple is thus produced.
“In the case before us, however, the
limb itself is thus affected. Suppose four
thin parts were removed from a leaf bud
of a tree yielding sour apples, and some
thin portions were inserted from the bud
of a sweet tree—then, if the w hole should
grow, the particular formation of both j
trees would be extended from the branch
lo the bud, and then the flower and the
apple must partake of the nature of the
two trees, and fruit ultimately sour and
sweet in portions be the result. At any
view of the matter, the fact of such fruit j
is certain. To your horticultural so- I
ciely, I hope lo send a specimen, as well :
as to your editorship.”
interesting fact was, as we f
learn form the Philadelphia Inquirer, eli
cited in that city a few’ days since in the
decision ol a bet between two gentlemen
in reference to the day set apart bv the
Constitution for the inauguration of the
President of the United Stales, viz: the
4th of March. It was supposed by some
that the day might come on a Sunday
and therefore the ceremony should be
postponed till the following day. By re
ferring to the debates of Convention that
formed the Constitution, it w as found that
the Fourth of March in every fourth i
year would not fall on a Sunday for a j
period of three hundred years, and it was
on this account selected as the inaugura-
D
lion day by that body.
Yankee Goods for Canton —Three
vessels cleared on Saturday for the East
Indies at Boston, viz: the Paul Jones for
Canton, with a cargo of 3 4,IKK) yards of
domestics, books, boots, shoos, &0., val
ued at about $50,000: the Hamilton, for I
Manilla, and the Flavio, for Madras and ;
Calcutta, with thirteen missionary pas
sengers, and a cargo consisting of 908
tons of ice, and other domestic products:
The prevalence of easterly winds during
the past week has accumulated about 300
outward bound vessels in Boston harbor.
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AUGUSTA, GEO..
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 25, 1816.
[LTCapis. McMahon and Nelson, of their
respective companies, the Jasper Greens,
and the Kenesaw Rangers, have addressed
ajointcard from Monterey, dated October
23, 1846, to their friends in Georgia, explain
ing the cause of the unfortunate difficulty
which occurred between their companies
near Burita on the 31st last August. It ap
peared in the Savannah Georgian of the
23rd inst., and we will publish it in our paper
of to-morrow.
(CTA feeling of sympathy, we trust not
misplaced, for an unfortunate and blighted
woman is one motive that induces us to
publish Mrs. Myers’ letter of vindication, or
rather of palliation for her conduct. It
originally appeared we believe in a Rich
mond paper. Though she is not guilt
less, yet w’e believe the public press, with
a few honorable exceptions, has yielded
to an intemperate excitement which heaped
unmeasured obloquy upon the two chief vic
tims of tiie late Richmond tragedy, has given
a deeper dye to their criminality than tiie facts
justified,and has yielded a false sympathy to
those who have thus been not only justified
in imbruing their hands in blood, but have
been almost canonized for committing w T hat
the law calls murder. We do not appear j
in this matter as the apologist for domestic
infidelity, even in thought. We would not I
pause to draw distinefion betweens the
several decrees of guilt, in a Platonic attach
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merit, in a romantic Quixotism which cheats ;
the infatuated victim info tiie delusion that a
luve, forbidden by social obligations may be
pure in heart if not wrong in deed, and the
last fatal step in an illicit love which sa
crifices honor at the shrine of unholy passion.
Either of these is a gross wrong to society,
and either is perhaps equally fraught with dis
astrous consequences. But while it is pulley
for society lo pass an equal condemnation
upon each, the candid judgment cannot be
insensible to an appeal made directly to its
sense of justice in appertaining conscience- 1
But we should have remained silent on ;
this subject, had we not seen throughout the
papers of the Union the acquittal ot Messrs.
VVm. R. and Sami. R. Myers and Win.
S. Burr, for tiie murder of Hoyt, announced
as a most righteous result. The decision
was hailed with acclamations by tiie bystand
ers, at the time it was rendered, and Hie fact
trumpeted forth lo the world as evidence that
the bloody deed was eniilied lo the appiause
of society.
We cati never be the advocate or apologist
of Lynch law under any circumstances.
We go farther: we shall ever conceive it our
duty to protest against it, no matter how
strongly public sympathy may in a time ot
excitement justify it. We believe that in
all such cases the sober second thought of
the public mind will be with us, and we ex
press our views on this occasion, because the
distinguished social position ot the parties
gave their case a notoriety coextensive with
the Union, and its influence and example
will be as widely felt. It ceases to be a mere
local question, which had disturbed the re
pose of a single community. We speak of
it therefore with reference lo its baneful j
effects, if the result of that case is to be I
considered as establishing the common law
of the land in all such cases. If the killing
a human being under the circumstances of
this case be justifiable, as was pronounced to
the world by the examining Court, then
ought the law books of this country and of
England on this subject to be burnt up—
our criminal codes should be remodelled,
and a law enacted, that each man who is
aggrieved or fancies himself aggrieved in
the tenderest relation of life, may be judge,
jury and executioner in inflicting punish
ment even unto death upon the offender. If
such were made the law ot the land, while
it was a novelty, some would be found to
approve, some to condemn it, but it would be
the duty of all to acquiesce. The evidence
of good citizenship is obedience to the laws
whatever they are. The duty ot the legis
lator is to correct them if faulty. The duty
of the public press is to uphold the establish
ed law, and not to yield to any popular cur
rent which, from a misguided sympathy would
sweep away its stable principles. If those
principles be not founded in good policy and
natural justice, let the law be repealed, and
another Jaw enacted in its place. But there
1
can be no case of individual hardship or oul*
rage so great as to justify a violation of lh»
law of the land. To assert the affirmative is*
to make legal, a violation of law. This would
be in its very terms a gross solecism.
OirTlie statement going the rounds of the
papers, that the Democratic Review was to
be indefinitely postponed after the next num
ber, turns out to be a joke. The whigs had
aU the fun of it to themselves. But as it
happens that this valuable periodical is in a
prosperous stale, and wil! continue to be is
sued as usual, it is in order lor the doinocrafs
to smile a little. The explanation is this.
The last number contained a memoir, and a
lithograph likeness of Gov. Wright, and it
announced that the next number would not
appear until after his re-election. As ho
whs not re-elected, some whig wag an
nounced that the Review would be indefinite
ly postponed. The joke was repeated as a
matter of fact. A good many jokes against
j democracy suggested by the recent elections,
nmy yet cause merriment to those they
w ere intended to annoy, and cause the wdugs
to laugh out of the other corner ol the mouth.
O’The Union of the 21at, received last
night contains the official reports from Mon
lerey ol General’s Taylor, Butler, Hamer, and
Quitman.
They till several columns, and are deeply
interesting, as they are the authentic ac
counts of some of the most brilliant exploits
ever achived by osr country’s arms. Gen.
Worth’s report is promised in the next, num
ber ul tho Union. The only item of new.-*
i later than wh it has been already received
; here, is condensed in the following portion of
' the editorial in the Union,
j “We understand that despatches have been
communicated from Gen. Wool. He was
within three orfourdays march of Monciova,
and was about 135 miles from Monterey.—
The report which Hie last evening’s southern
mall brings us Irotn Monterey—viz; that
Gen. Ampudia was attempting to intercept
Gen. Wool—seems to be entirely without
foundation. It appears from Gen. Taylor’s
letter that Ampudia had abandoned Saltillo
i without completing its fortifications, aud had
! gone southwardly, probably to San Luts do
I’otosi, instead of going to cope with Gen.
Wool. Gen. Taylor considers himself al
most as much master of Saltillo as if he were
actually in the city. All these letters are
fraught with profound interest.
"What Nex/I —A company of colored men
are about to start on a musical tour as **Ln
i ropean JSeretmdcrs,” disguising themselves
| as while people. So says a New York paptc.
I Silent Carriage Wheels have been intro
| duced in London. The lire of wheels con
| ststs ol an elastic tubular ring of caouthouc,
j enclosed in a leathern case, and inflated with
| air to any degree of tightness desired. Tho
motion oi (he carriage is exceedingly easy.
Specie for the Army la Santa Fa. —
I Capt. Murphy, who arrived m St. Louis,
from Santa Fe, as noticed in our paper ot
Monday, has been despatched there to get
j specie funds tor the troops, &c., under
Gen. Kearney’s command. Upon hU
arrival, says the St. Louis Republican,
application was made to the Bank of Mis
souri, and, we understand, arrangements
have been made by the bank to iet him
have $1*20,000 in gold, which he will im
i mediately transport to Santa Fe.
Count erf til Half Dollars. —The New
i York Journal of Commerce stales that
i there are a great many of these afloat, of
i the beautiful Federal devices, and letter
|ed on the edge. The metal stands aqua
i lortis well, but is duller in sound titan
| stiver, though nearly as hard to cut. It
i is particularly lo he delected by a feel
and look of greasiness. The counterfei s
in coin are much more injurious titan
those in paper.
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rOVVEL'fON hvCADEML
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j both Males and Females, will commence on Mute
i cay the fourth of January next, and continue five
j months. The Teacher, a recent Graduate of
j Yale, solicits a liberal patronage, and promises to
do the utmost to merit it.
R. SMITH, A. If.
| Powelton,Nov. 23, IBi6.
| nov 25 w 4 47
FRENCH AND SPANISH LANGUAGES.
I. LeUarbier, wiio has been engaged, for
j many years, as a Teacher, in several colleges of
the L nited States and the island of Cuba, gives
lessons in French (his native language) and Span
ish, either in schools or in private families.
His method of leaching is simple, and will in a
short time enable a scholar to make much progress
in either language.
fits terms are moderate.
Apply to him at the L'nited States Hotel, every
morning before ten o’clock, or in the afurnoon, be
tween two and four o’clock.
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Jas. Gardner, Jr. Esq. J Dr. Dugas,
J W. Jones, Esq., j N. Delai.de,
J. )I. Adams, ( T. J. Panaeiee,
Gardelle & llbiiid.
Oet. 24 Im 21
undersigned, proprietors
j of the United States, Globe , and Mansion House
j Hotels, have mutually agreed and established the
! following rates, commencing on the first day of
| November next:
Boarders by the year, with lodging, pay- )
able monthly, (per month) $ uu
Board, without lodging, tper month) 18 00
under one week, (per day) 1 30
“ over one week to 15 days, (per day).. 125
over 15 days, (per day) 1 DO
one month with lodging, 30 00
“ two and three mouths, (per m0nth)...25 00
Supper, Lodging and Breakfast,.V> 1 25
Three meals, without lodging, 1 2o
One or two meals, (each) 50
One meal, with lodging, 1 00
Lodging, 50
Fireai, 50
Dinner hoarders, (per month) 10 00
&C?“Exira meals aud lights, a separate charge.
No deduction lor absent time, under one week,
for the above.
No deduction for absent time for families who
occupy rooms. D. MIXER,
F M. JENNINGS,
G. G. MATHEWS.
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