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Amy peeon procuring five Subscriberi and bectmning responsible for the same, shall receive the sixth copy gratis. - Advertisements conspicuiously inserted al 621 cents per square, (12- lines, or less,] for the first insertion, and 431 ets. for earli continunUce Those published nonthlly or quarterly will be charged $1 persquare for each insertion. Advertisements not having the number of insertion' niarke on them, will he continued until orderet out, ad charged accordingly. All comtunieations addressed to the Editor, post puid, will lie promptly amI strictly attended to. SPEECH CF 3R. PICKENS. Of South Carolina, in the House of Rep resettatires. Dec. 10, k639-On thes96. ject of the Neto Jersey dispaed.'election. Mr. Pickens presented the followin! resolution. whitch was read, and which he sael, he offered as an ani-nlment to the resolution of his colleague, [3r. Waddy Thotalwon. "Reaulved, That the committee to be raised on the New Jersey election. be con fined to the question whto is entitled to Wie mreturns" of election foer the Tin enty-sixth Cdongress." Air. Pickeassaid he desired to state very simply the lesition he occupaiel. If the House, in its wisdomt. choose tto ratise a se lect committee on this New-Jersey elec tion, lie desired that it should be cmiined t some definite mode f neton, andl to a distinct. quetion stubmitted by ihi4 House. tle desired it should hie continedtia the ques tion, wihoa are eatitled tio the returns tat e lectiotnas membniers frean the State of New Jersey to the Twenty -sixth Cougrress? He concurred in the remarks which had been nde by his colleaguae [Mr. Thomp son] in regard Ito the dhihcult poimtint which the liouse was now placed. le (Mr. Pickens) had understood that the House would be thus involved, nd there fiore he hal vated. agaiit the resolution uf the-gentlenan from* Virginia, [MN1r. Wise.] Ile had voted a.ainst the resolution of Isis colleague L.\lr. Rheit.] ivhich wats adiop ted aethie order of this House. ie (Mr. r.) foresaw, or thotuht lie foresaw. the very diticulty with which they were now about to cintaend; antd lie weutidl here take Occnsion o-ay. that he had voted agamut the resolution of the entleman from Vir ginia, because he [Mr. P.] desired a tliff'er ent;mode of action. lfhe had beent called upon to vote on that resoluviotn on the first, second, or thirl day of the ses-ieon, he would have voted in the affirmative. He did not think, when lie came here, that ite certificate-of the Governor ought to entitle dsle imembuhersa holding.it to, he called, so as a. be en rolled for orwnizaation.. lie ta.,'I so before this discussion had progreosed. He desired that course of proceedimig, sim pily that eiiciency miihi be given to the organizationi of this H-ouse. '1he House huowevcr,ehtose teo pursuea dilreret couerse This was his ope-n sentinment,.and lie lad never disguised it. He thought it wasdue to the country-that it was due to order, that the Hause- should hiave pursumed that course. He thruugha it- was, elie tea thae counatry that that triumpJhfnt party, de nouiinated thie Republaicani pairty, flushed as it was with victory. shotld'have takena that course, lie repenited this was hai sentiment,. anad he bail never chiangedl it. Bum the House thought proper toa take a <4ifleaent course; and it hadau bieen involved slay after day, in srenes which, to stay the ieast, were of very little cretit to the A merican Congress. it was to- aavoid these scenecs that he desireed the courise he had spiaken of shoiu~l e tken-. But the H ouse th.imght paroper to alloew testimony to het brought forward. True, it uns testimo ny, not exactly fortnah., but stuch as enti tle-him,.being ajuidge under mthe Conistitn tion, to decide the simple question whit were entitled to the returns. This was a guestiona made under thme Cons~titution trself, and he contended that this House had a right to decide that qtueation, and coauld- haive decided it the very inst day, ii they hatd thought prpe tie eli 50. Mr. V. here read the following -cease froum the Guan-titutirnr of the U. States: "Etich - House sluhllae thi jutdie of the elections, returns, and goaalificaiutns of itt own -membtlers." It will thtus lie seen (contitnued Mr. P,) that'the Cionstitution-t itself nmakes three distit subjectst upon which this House esaajudgte-und decide, unmtaely. thte-electioma returns, aund qalificationus efits .miembears, I-cotencd thur these are, in their nature, ditnetqueston: You may decide'thata member, returneed by the umajority eof votet isentitled ito -theretturis. and yet yoni mas decids, that he is totally ugnalified tuide'r theCostitutonr. Suppose, foir instanace, .that a majority of votes should return here 'a-mett under mwenty-five yeuw of -age, ot the member: anl I ctiritend that if he held a majority of ,voic at the Polls. he wold be entitled :o be retirted, tout that he would not he qualifiel to take his set. And this illustratec the whole matter, that the questions are itt their w ldle nature distinct mnd separate. - So it was, he saild, a mau may have a majority: at the polls, and yet nay not he ekcted; and so the House mights.decide that a rpin was a member. -and ve't ildi he was -not entitled to the returns. They .are all separate prtesetionts. - Here,.in the development and progress of - this race, we have- seen one notorious fact admitted hig the papers, almtitted lay the -g-nienan frm - New-.Jersey, .when quaestionedl upon this pmti that is to say. that the majority tof the voters of N. Jer sey gave their votes to tither members than those to Aton the certificate of the Gov ernior has been given. The getletn [Mr. Ranlolph) hat, admnitted tihm there were a mnajoritv of votes on the other side, but says they were not legal! Now who has derided that theV were ntt1t legal ? Wnuas it the hewal aihorities f New Jer sey? The Governor, the Clerk. or the jugl.es of electios? I lay down this broad propo.isition, and I challenge gentlemen ta the artitentmn that there ta no.atthority ino ay-Sate offcier to judge antd decide 111upon the legality of vates after they have been depaoa.siied in the hallo box, or receiv ed at the pulls. You may challetge t voter at the polls, and if* challt ittend for gOW cause, histe 'ecannoat the receive I. BIt if yolu go beyond this power, itikould inevitatbly lead to ceiolsiou and -rntd.umnd iransfer the judicial taower of this House to lite icai officers of States. . M.r. 1. P.proceteded. The- proposition I maintaiiied is. that -tinder the clause of the Contitutioin of the United Stttes, which .I have read, we are created sole and ex elusive jndoes of the reitris. I nee the mimgnage of the Constittion. atnd I say that no State atithority can interpose to purge the polls atier -the liallot has beetn deposited, or erer the votes have bPen re ceived. (viva voce, ir yott choo'ue.) ,,,less it he to earry out the local pt.licy ofthae Staites as to qtalifications. There is another clause of the Constitniion. which shows totat the voters 1or this Herioe are intended tea tie eat the sane clas- of voters as those n ho are entitled to. vote for metilbers of the Legisiture. Rut uponi the power tn judge of returns al elections, there can be to cotiirretu jurisdwtiin contneced with these questions, ott the part of any State authouity. withott a palpiable vio lation if the ronstitsntiott. Almit thtt. nod what is the renlt ? And It re I will ohotaerve that, in reflecting uptan this issue. I iave been forcibly struek with tite wis. deo and' philo.%ophy of this tolle istrnt ttent. (holding- up the Constitiutin of the tiiedl States.) But suppose the contra ry dfoctritie te ie true; this lot-ce would he'It the maercv of conflictitg judgments itn the States, as one larty or another might from time to time. hie in the atsendatncv. It is inaeccordaic with the very genit's of the Guovertnmett that this brantch af it ,bauld he indeeaent; antil, in order to mairntain its itilernetilence. it nutist lie the exclusive judge ofthe rerrn. You can not- get over that. plaie atdl palpable pro. viion t the Con-titutini. It is not pre renled lere that anv local atahority is given to* the tnfi'ers of New Jersey ta puorge the polls sifier the vuoie have been deposit el. I didl not understand that question to l'ive been raied; bur, I repeat, it is td Mited- that a rnsnjority of vote were -on the olhr sitde. That being so, I contend that it is fur tis to say %n ho are enatitled to the returts, and thaIt that single question doels not-involve- other questions in regard toa the electiont. I amt taot dispoased to troat witha elit re..pect the ce'rtitirate ofi the G;ov'erttor This Houpese has o right ter piass eenstnre tufeon haim H-e actedl sas a State uaticuer, anud. if lhe dlidlsa n t probatbly act wuit h wacs 'team, still I doc noet deanba that he actedl iun dler a coniscienltionts lcief that he was a tmere mainistrnria~l efficer sif the faiw 'That mtay lie. He maty htave-suppoasedl that lie wns elcing h'is deay. lie gatve the certifi cate uponat the returns mtiade lay the clerks. anad annzonntceed thfat lie coauld no t loaok lhe hindi them. He loiokedl 'ipon hintieif as thte muere mnitsterial register. ande stttpoedi etat his certilien.te was tea tie viewedl itt fhat lighit.ttnd itn thai light easly. linit lother gentlement mtaty b~e eniadea tortrm. nuat nihstandaeing his certificate. Ande my preopasitiont is tis: that there is nao au thority in the State of New Jersey tojjudie oaf the legality of voates; and that, after the votes have been deposited. thoste who re ceived thec majority, are entitled to the re terns.- And that we are made thesale-and exclusive judghes of the legality. I con tentd that there was vaset wisdamr itn this proavisions tf the Contstitttions, atnd thmt the framters intended us top he a co'ordinate braunch eaf thit. Goverett entire'ly irnde pendcent,. aned that titis Heause alene slhonie decide upotn the eleetius. retearns antd eftal ificasionas.of its ntembghers. Without thast parovision, what coomes oaf all outr indep en deuce? 1 cointende that the qitestioni is nouw biefore ns itt a tangibtle shapae. Somte gentlemten say that thte IHouse is tnot constitutiontally oirganiized. I thintk there iascitte coanfuisioan-ocf ideas, here. The *Coanstitantiotn saeys: "Crntgress shualt assernlae at-least once ina every year:tiand sttehl mneetina shall lbe eas the first Meinday in Decetmber, unltess they shaill, hay law, appoint- a. diff'erett day." That (continued Mtr. N).is the (lay ap poisted by the Constitution foir Congeess to assemble. t is composel of members elected by the people aif the States, wh are chosen everj other year under this tintiutional provi sill, anal who are entitled o assemble here as Ihe Consitution directs. The Consti tution then uoes onl to define what shall constitute the Hotse of Representatives. "It leclarea the liHouse or Represeotaivoi hall be composed of members chiser every second )ear by the people of the sev eral States." - It does not say of mtember anid i Speaker. hi t of' memiera chosen b) the people. This con-aiutes a Hoube ol Representatives, in the definition of the Constituion. The esine insarumient de clares .-that the House or Representatives shall eluas.,e their Speaker mid other otli cers." This presupioses the existence ul a House competent at least, to deciale i put its own organizatioan. Can the constitu tional exisienceof the lousme be more clear ly definte-d and dentonvirated? It is chop ping logie upon n ords-lo deny our legal ex tstence. Noz, gentlensen suppose we muI take auouth beftore we can act, judge, or decide. Let its read proviuion. And ii is to he oboservedt that it is a mere general provision. - The Senators andl Representatives he fore mentioned, and the tmembers ofsever al State Legislatures, aud all exe-tative 1andl jidtesil ofticer., he h of the United Stat-s. and of theseveral Staie, shall he bound by oath or atirmaait,. il suppiort the Coit us tia." - Naw, (contitned Mr P.) 1 will ask. does the Constituaun pre. scritic the imie when this oath shall be ta ken? Does it say that it shall be onl the first second, air last day of the session? The law of seventeena hundred anal eighty nine prescribes and authorizes the obliest member tin this floor if dminduister an oath it the Speaker, anal then lirescribes the inule in which the Speaker shall ail .t.iniater it to the iembers. But \1r. P. contented that the Constitution itself hav ing fixed the day of meeting, the loulse of Represeatives are a tbaly an the first .monaday or December. competeni to decide oi quetins fir returts; and, if we shitnk proper, tat go into the whole qatestion 4f election. That however, would lie vastly inexpedient. But on a question f mere qualification<i and returns-if an issue lie raised, atid it is ohjeeted that one class of members lie fals-ly returned, we arehen competent ita de aide thar que-stion, anal we mntist. rom. iecessity, do so. Itis ithreu iu the pow er ar.d the right ita organize. Now, let'us disenitangle oturcelves from tihis confusion f idaas. The legal alipor tiotment of It-presentatives given this House two hundr-i andt foriv-two mean hers, ant the Conttintiaon has, int express eil lerm, litael thetm exclusive judges an quoestions or "election<, returns, and luali ficatians." Suppo.se, instead (if that cinn stitutintal provision, that it hail been le elared that A or 11 were to be exclusive ji es tin thoae qiestions. would there he any aliictiilty itt deriding upon the point ? The whole confutition arises from the idea Air having two hundred anl forty-swo judges insimio o nly one. ir only one jiatle had been created by the Conatitn titn, there woild lie dilliculty in deciding the whole questitin ail the first day. Yet, as fr as riahl and legal principle are in volva-l. it iA the same thing. Viewing the sil.ject itt this, light, antd foreseeing the ddfienliies that mst iievi tably arise. I was di-posed to conftine the whole question it a qiestion of retirn, aid I contend thait we re the atcompetet jilges fir that question wheiever we thinak miperto take it. Ir is not only siund sense. butl sotund 'policv, tat keep the ques tin selarate. Ifyaou decjl'e that the tmere returns af offiaers muni, iilall casel, cols culde te judhgmtic if thais [Hotste ;as tat n ho are etnil laed tat aheir saeats andta to the retutrits, thent yalt hldla out thte the greatest tmp tations. to hitter atid coiitemiling patra ies to .perpietrate frauda asnd inijulsaice by failse re ssina. T he caonseagneaaaes will lie. that wheanm this Haisea maty lie consideareda as eqaltly batlituced,. antd pow~er atnd ettpire nae atstike, the aelec.tive- fr'anchise n ilhlibe at the amercy afobscure antd irreiiaile atiiaers, anda this H1onsie will lbe maude anty thinig and eversy t hing that thetair proifligaacy nalipartly hittertness mtasy chtaoose. It is oft the very e-ssetnce aifaiir systeam that wve shtauld lbe the excluasi' e guaradianrs &a judages er right or wraing, aiur jtudgmentaa over re iets, qua ilic;iaisns, antd e-leetons, inust Its exclustive anda tarammaeled.l. Any atht er doctrine mtusa itntxluce imabecihtay and ittmeacy itto tihevery- centre of sitality ina atur systeml. In paresentinag these views to'the House, I bave actedl ettirely on mty ownsjjudgmenat, asnd I have inatroduceed a resolution 50 maeet the pirecise issne, acaording tao aty cotnsei en-ittuis consviaction afthte trnuth of the case. I baeevethat we are the judges--l believe. atcroanlinto iihle ale velaipteents wihel htave tbeen tadae tin this floatr, the uetlemetn whto hsave thIe certificate of' the Goi ernor are tnat etmithead tao the retursns; aud, so lie lieving,~ it m reptareda to meaet thte qutes tioan. I tda-a preparred ti o i) several days ago. I desire to daeale it now, f'rankly, tarly. tandl holadly, betfaire the noarldl, with am thte trammisels and the collateral issues atat harve beeni thratwtn arounda it by .the techniictalities afeattry court special plea. dintg. I act here ona msy owna responsi iity.' I tio not propose anty thing which is the result of' concrert. af causes. or of undaer stanadinag eteared into it ao' this dionse. I act alonte upatat my c'onvictionl or what believe to lie true, and rig/it and just. Sir, we hav'e-seena tot) tmuch. piarty or. ganuizatioan and party tdrill. If there is one cmii of the nrcsent dav, ereater than another, it is that miserable party sprii. onl lsith sides, which seets disposed -to draw.every member into humble sihservi encyto the idictatesofa few leaders. There is another senisntem n hicn I en tertain, ani which I will here avow. It is ti; that during the last Ad ministration thei bas been two strnig executive ac tionin this Government; and-it is #ine thai the 5Represeuuatives of the people should -*ssert their ind'eiendence, and trample on the ties of party-looking only to the-good of the country, to the sauctity of the CoUnstitution, and to the preservation of their own honor and indepeudence. If there he one object more dear to me than anaiker, it is, 1hat I may see this House redeenied and regenerated-that I may see it break loose fron its suberviency to that monster god of party. a hich is reared up o Ievery side, and which claims from its victims a base deioted, and blind idolatry. Sir. I have proposed a resolutios whioil I fbelieve will meet the truth of the case. I helieve tht we are the exclusivejadges of the whole sibject-natter, tmade so by the Constitution itself, in laigage too plain tobe misundertomid. The time and manner ofdeciding is a mere mnatter of ex pediency. I mainwin. also, that there can lie no* coticurrent jurisdiction upon: this juestion by any State authority ; and in ma1i1initainiig this, I mtaintainii the iridepen-. dence of this House, which I believe to lie essetial to the preservatiou of American libertv. The propositions, then, which ' d-sire to be decided, are first; thai this House is is the suprene and sile jidge of the elec tions, returns, and qualifications of its menwrs. And secondly, that' no 'Siate otlicer has a right to judge of the legality of votes, after -they have been received; and that those who have received a na jority of the votes polledt are, by righ en titled if the returus. Upton that -i ple, I voted yesterday in the case v he genieman rronm Pennsylvania, (1r. Nay ter.] It is precisely the cas.e at iseue. There you have ditirent rettrns, one mtember is admitted in have a majority, but another gentlemtan assunies that ihev are illegal votes, and the jilges assume to themselves the richi to throw out the whidaNorthern Lilberie-4. I tinitain that had, no sch right under tie Constitution. Their acts were void. and. -the mntnr Must 1tefL ts , lifNItrinAiil on ly. It is this ahii shall goverunmy vote. When I bone as a judge to decide (in the nerit< of the election. thenr it inity lie dif ferent as to final judgmeti. It will do pend ipon the fact, whether enough fron those %ho received the majority of votes. shall be proved to be- illegal, to violate the elecrion. All votes leposi ted anI received by the priper llicers iilo the ballot box, naust lie presumed to lie legal. until other wise shown. This is souind sense as well as law. Upon these nuestinus, I assert the power of the House to judge fully. but- I deny the authority of the officers of the State of Pennsylvania. uide-r the laws, to reject. votes, after those votes have been deposited in the ballot hox. Standing. upon this- principle. I am rea ly to give tmy dote in the New Jersy case. andl I in di-sposed at once to meet the question, (Whic-h may be n well decided now, as a montth hense,) who are entitled to the returns. As far as ulterior objets are concerned, I kiow the supposed deli eacy of iy. posititn at present ; but I ,corn to uppres my Retitnits. I would not wear the proudest diaden ihnt ever glilered upin a mtionmir-h's lirow, it' I could not wear it unshnckled and free. I would not turn to the right or left, for po liticid favor. I hold ro sentimentts in my clo-ei which I will not avow to the world I tiy ipintion. it is due to the dlignty of the hlouse to mneet- this qtuestiotn calmly atnd decidedly. I am ready to vo-e. If. youi let the nhole stmlhj-ct mnuer go to a commtittee, yon w ill ittvolve tns int qutes tions 'wthich w ill t.i lie decided this ses 5ion:. If you choose to cotifite thtem to the questiotn oh retutrns, you c-atn do so. anid we cani have protmpt actiotn; lint atny othecr other course- will lead to confusion and delay. From the Baltinmore Post. -Fewpersmshve ay cncepionof the black' population or the city at the prsent time. We wvish some ofV the fanatie lend ers of the northern abolitionists could wit nesas iee f. the seenesof misery thut daily coime under the notice of the distributing commtittees-lor the poor. If ii did not' forever sadltheir lips otn the subject of slavery, it- would at least soften the asperi ties of their warfare against it. A gent le man enginged as one of the distributing commuit tee-in seeking out objects requiring reliefI, ntentioned to us the lollowing, air a fuir repiresenmation of alibnost-irtumeranle cases in the lanes and alleys of the city. Oni the fir.t floor of ai small tenemnet about ten lect sqtuare he fannda a family of etghtr lacks,:omprsg-ma man, two wo tmen and flve childrena. The adults- w-ere partially covered with- a few miserable' rags, but the children were- entirely-naaked. They were nithout fire,- without f- od, wnthout a bed,. or' any thiud to keep thetm from-a frezht linbt a qnantity of st-rawi and a few rags itn-one corner 'of the room. OIn the second-floor of the same hovel was' another family- of three' persons;i a tian.. his-wif'e and. child. The wife was laying sick uponi a few. shavtingea ott thd flor, cov-ered only-with-a--piece of an old carpet. I-n-other rewpectes*the cmidition: of the inmates -was the same as those- 'i the room belo',. with the excentiori that they hasl the luxurv of a few-dyioin embers, the retma;iitm, of a hadfal or tinat begged frim a, tan yard . Btiiese wert -iut snliffvein to protect hei'r feet froi bein.frnst hitten. InI the cellar was another family of sev en persitn, in a cdndtisionegaijstllydei islue aud with theawditional inconvenienee thar more than half the cellar bittom wtas cov ered with water. - It a partially dry corner these seven persons live and sleep etmier ging from their hole to beg or steal such scauy provisions as will sustain life. - Such t one picture among hundreds that might be drawn, of the starvation, wretche:fneoss, and misery amoingst the the free blacks, whilst there is not a slave in the city that is not well fed, we'l clothed, well lolged. and every way comfortably. provided for. The ' aboliiionists- are no riend to the -lnves when they urge their immediate eiancipaion. The people in Niw Orleans' propnes a repel of tie aniti gambling law. While they allow tlia hankcr and lotteries to swindle them in open day light, it is con temtpiible and rilicilous to keep any anti gambling haw on the statite book. We thinak that where lottery vender.s, loitery wheels, banks and every species of ma chintery to delude and rob hath the young and the old, and plunge thousisais..daily itnto irretrievable ruin, are not only tolera ted but eacotraged by legislators. the-farro dealers (tught also to lie allkwed to lay lown- their implements of hell, right at the corner of evety street. But. let them be fined and put in the penitentiary if they gamble in secret. Exposing the ftrro achinery to the odiutt of the piblic woiad prolduec a salutary effect sin society anala goti4 towhat would result frunt the exjo. stare daily of all paper noney bank trau sactions.-Vicksburg Sentinel. Hard Times.-We hnve heard of a cir cumtistaice, which at once.evinces the trotbles s f the times. anI the preidetce of the people of North Carolisn. The mer chants of the tist flouri~hinig town in the Western part of North Carolina, have en tered intio boil wiit each tither, not to go or send it .the North this Sptting ror the purelhasc of goods. This is a priadeut slep, whether as regnrls the people or tmercha nts.unid % e hope I lie good sense ..f the pe-mjeituhlatle"iAn"Ln *1 in -it. ' hie present 4eason may bie %%ell. dlevoted to dislinsing or stocks on lanstl. settlinsg acconts, &c., and the fashiiona. ble-i nay vell dleny themselves in these -imes.-Pay. Obs. A rumor has reached New Orleans from Mexico. that as negsciiusn is pending be tween Enland anl Nexico for a- cession so Etgland of the Californias. The ces sion of the two provinees would give to Great Britain tn extensivt and vahmuble territory, itn a pat f the worlm where she has lon been anxious so gaits n Itathols. besides securing asn object still tiore desi rable-n spacious range of sea coasi 'on he Pacific.strstchsine more than a thous ani'miles fraon the 42d degree of hitistile, -4sth-swee ping the cirensit of the penin sula of Cuilsruil and enbracing the har horsofthat Gulfthe fiiest in N. Amuerica. Important Discovery -Cpt. Chatncey Trreni, of East Hanrtorsl, has discovered a co-nplete remedy against the ravages lif she Caiker Worsn, simply by encircling the appletree at the surlace of the grounid with Scotch Snstl. The wsiter of ite article has examined the trees on Capt. Trent's premises, aid tund the circle aif sif1csicnpiltely fringed with thousands of dead woris. These irees were all Inr red, anl where the snufl was u-ted no wvorams appeared ont she tar, and where the snuff waq omiittedl the inieets nearly covered the tar-l asra ford Courant. Gen. WahingtLon and Lord Erakine. A vinnwsss was pr-estedl to Genteral Wash insgton, ini I797. by Thlomne.4 Lsmrd ErM kitne. on a blaink page oif which be wrote the follin~isg noate, conitaintisu perhaips, sthe hnptpist enslaiumsi af the many. he~sow edi upon1 'has woniderful mtan: --Sir, I have s akets the liberty to instro dttce yosur nngas ansd imtimortal name its a asiri sentence whic'h is io lbe fsannd in thea book I sensd yost I ha~ve a large acquaini tansce amonig she mtost vainble and exaltedh classes of mesn, bui yaou are the onily human hieing for whom I ever felt atn aw ful reverensce. I sitncerely piray yoal to granit a long and serenecevening to-a life so glo riously deoted to the liapiness of' the world. No ime jar Rerading.-GSo into the hnu ses of susme of our fartmers, anad yous find no newspaper, not periodical of ainy- kind, and hardly a hook. Ask such mieni ii subscribe 1ir a paper, and they will tell you that they have tno time to readl one. ut who i~s S) :onist antly emloyedV64 as to !lsnd n's leisure fir the' emplsoytment of his tiitnd ? Not the fdtmer: fair the long wits. ter evenings afford him a few hsours every dlay,. which he mnight devote to reuaing, Not the mechanic; fir- instances are fre qlUent w herethe itndust riaous an izans havye attaineda an eminience in ihe-sciences, mere ly b~y giving their leisre.to study. Onae ofthe most emninemis oriental icholars of the age, is professuor Lee, of one of the Enuglish Vsnivertsities, and yet all his' edu-. catlinure acqpired during. iho.-moments ofliuewhich he liundI while employed as a- p~urneyan. carpenter. No pr-udent man- will oppugn'the-mnerits of a conutemporary-in-his. oa-suppssed anrtmet. Yale's Waer-Proof Glue or Cement._ Take'of the best' Trish glue. frar (sit# r. i1id o isinglinss, two ltInces: these miust? be lis-solved it) mild tile, (not state) over a slow fire, in a commron glue keille, to thi Con1i We if stroig glue; % ben one olnce of well builel linseed nil must he gradual -ly added, and the w hole Well incorporitted togelher .by. stiring.. . Tincrese. . ttq streigli, of the glde, 0r-e.iinj iss way be added. This cement is applicaylfe to the joints of wood,, in every branich of manufacture: as alsO to joining earthenware, china, aid da.s-care being i4ken to pres lhe parts well 'geaier,- and to allow them aufficient time to'set. The cement, when cold; stid'made intd cakes, assumes the a pipearance f i Indian. rnhher; and, like it, is lartie. If tiav., iat iny timtie, n1 I e wanted fitor use, be disstild ved, by a gentle beat. its any proper iron or plazed vessel; first puiting into it a littli ntild'ale, ito prevent' it- from hurning at the hoitm saf the vessel;-adding-iore ale. to lring it to a portier consisteniry fr suse.. T, rVemnent leather together far hart -4, hauls lir mi chitery, &c4 having prepared the joints- in the usual n ay, as if for sew ing, apply the cement while lit,'laying 9 weiht bpian eich joint. a, it ,is inide: let ihetm reinain'ix hours beforenusiing, and thejosints will thenbee.ome nea-ly as firm as ir timdsle of ote enjtire piece of JIathr. Ali excellent ceinetit for stoppling leaks in casks..&c., may he inade by liutting i little toiv to the other itugredients. limnensity of Crration.- Some tsiron uniers have computei that there are not less-thain 75 millions of suns. in the uni versse. Tlhe fixed stars are all suns. ht;av ing. like or sunt nunierous planets revolv. -ving arind thiem. - The solar syteni, ot rhan to which we helopig, has about thirty pilauet$.'prima ry and secondary belonging to-it. The circular field of space hieh it oenrpiea is in diameter 3600' millions of mailes, and that which it .eantrols miuch greater, The suit which its ner rest neigh hour ta ours is calledt Sirus, distailt frntn mir sun about 852 millions (if miles. Now, if all the fixed stars are as listant fromia each ather a Sirius is front our sun, or if sor solar y sten ay t lie.nverage mnuitud (f aill the 7.5 iillions-a of suns. U hat imagin. Sha can survey a j.lanttion cnta iing 75 millionsts uaf circular fields,eaclh 10 msil liis of iailes in diameter ? Such hnt ev. er. is ie of the plantation, (if Him wha has measured the waters in-the ioillonW if his liind- etteed out.hesaen nlith a pa -cn pr-hei the dust in a itseanre-ad ne ighed the moatainai ins scales.an isitl l-i inl a balance. lie who. "siiting upon tile osrit tf the carh, sist-tches ailu he eia. ven aq a curtain, asnd spreadelli tuemls 4t1t a. a -tent to iwell in. Nations to Him fure it a drop of a liw ket and are coln:,-d a,4 the stinali diaet of the halasnce;" f'nd vei over-wheliettitg thiought! He says. **T'hs' I dwell in the high and holy -plasce, with him alsowill I dwell who is of an humble rtij votstrise spiris, and tremtbles at my n i!"-CGhmt ian Alumnuack PoLIrTICs AND . oaALs.-A great many excell, lit, lut -its our opiniin', shsa1 t bightej peiple, hold practical politics in a sor or hsalv dreadl, faa or isear-of containation avOid disctnsion and rarely ever vote. 'h'liese are mral and reliainous men. 'haere is- another class who es uceive politics to bie dtebaltins.--etievatihg to 'he mind und too excsing lor calm reflection and dleep stIdy. Theiie are the schslar-,, Miks iartineau said hliat in the United diates 'politnies is morals.' This is true, ail if the ides could It fully appreciated ta believed hy the elase we have nan edt our country. wosuldl lhe better govterned, andtistmore virtuous msen wsotuld liectomie out overnors. O.s the bsroad fundttatioan of psli: it-s our whole sociual sy.stems rests, and ri-ligioan, imoraslisy, sceience andI literature wotild be crushled said annihilatedl, irgoiods mien, antd gosod schsolars shoulsl avoid the piolitical arensn. .In a free gsav~ritmient like tnrs, psolities is indseed morals, for where the right sof.atuffrages is.so otmestraisied, greaut raaliin by the haeiter intformsdt tmust lie usedl to cheek thteexcessess of the unedus ratedl ans I viciose. Every miant sehould be a piobriciani, active aind puassive,. lir in thae lsaaag'e othe sleditorts? she Boeseisan Qtair terly Retviwt. we c'annist cstients~o the, notions thtat poelitica is a lowt andI dehs,.ing~ subsje'e, tar that a schbar necessarily dersa 1;ates'froma hisi dignitv.. lay enigagingin the poliucal movemteuts of his countrymaen' Imd( tdoing what lhe casn to sustain whsat he believes to lie true parinciples, and tsasecure us his countatry Slae prac'tical blesingsof'them by supporting measures which* will eta body them in lawsanidinstisuions. SNilk Culture.-The National Silk So. rieiy have silFered numuerouis bounties, va ry ing fromt $100- to $I050~ eac'h, for the best stpecimentn of raw-silk, to he.produmced lnrinigthe cotniintg staistmer. TFhe -whotle amtount tof thoehlnties is $1.000; The prospect isifhir that the: silk' euliur' will haecomie.a prominenSft antd settled par- of ouar domestic indlusry,.amI thntsilkreishei' raw o-mantufacted, will constitttwith in a few':year~s a valuae eteplt' btjms prbjuotinn If~men of wit and phs vWouhl! resolve aievertoa comnplainati . 'eir wrorsis- Fai-tics and detractors.--she-heate age wtould ntot know tat they ever had any. Law-pennetwith the~utnost cari- and exanega.anIW our'own languge, are osten preverted to wrong meanngs why should we wonder that tho Bible is so