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4 -- jt AIM - - the ~Pilir of the Temsplc of our Liberi e fi etfnd B efhexusi the RI"**. VOLUME V. Vge.CorHosS .,.rII2 1840 AM:. EDGEFILD -ADVERTISER, 13Y W. F. DURISOE, PROPRIETOR. TERMS. Three Dollars per annum, if paid in admce-Three Dollars and Filly Cents if ant paid before thd expiration of Six Months. (rom the date of Sabscription und Foti Dollars if not paid within twelve - Months; - Subscribers out ofthe State are required to pay in adeance. No subscription received for less than oe Per, and mo paper discontinued until ai arirearages are paid, except at the op tion of the Publisher. All subseription.i will, be continued un less otherwise ordered before the expira tion ofihe year. Amy per'on procuring five Subscribers and becomuing responsible for the same, shall receive the sixib copy gratis. Advertisemeats conspitcuously inseried at 621 cents per square, (12- lines, or lesp,) for the first insertion, and 431 ettt. for each contituanra Those published ionibly, orvquarterly will be charged $1 per square for each in'ertion. Advertisenments not having the number of insertions marked on them, will he continued until ordered out, nod char:ed accorlingly. All commutnietions- addressed to the Editor, post paid, will be proiltly and strictly attenled to. SPEECH CF -11R. PICKENS, Of South Carolina, in the House of Rep resentatires. Dec. 10, 1639- On the sub ject of the Netw Jersey disputed. etection. Mr. Pickens' presented the following resolution. whch was read, and which he sail, he offered as an amnnmlinent to the resolution of his kolleague. [Mr. Waddy Thompson. "Resolved, That the conmnittee to be rai-ied on the New Jersey election, be con fined to the question who is entilet- to ihe "returns" of election for the T euty-sixi h Congrress.." Mr. Pickeassaid he desired to state very simply the ipnsition he occupiel. iM thr House, in its wisdon. choose to raise a se lect comimittee on this New-Jersey elec tion, he desired that it should be coinfited to some definite mode of action, and to a distinct.que.ion subtitted by this House. tie desired is should toe continedto the ques tion, whit are entitled to the returns of e lection'as members frotm the State of New Jersey to the Twenty -sixth Comress He concurred in the remarks which had been made by his collenage [Mr. Thoumip son] in regard to the dilficult posijiauto In which the House was now placed. Lie (Mr. Pickens) had understood that the House would be thus involved, a'nd there fore he had voted. agaitol the resolution or thegantenan from Virginia, [MNr. Wise.) lie had voted anainmst the resolution of his colleague [3Mr. Ithest,] vhich was adop oid as the order of this House. He (Mr. P.) foresaw, or thought he firesaw, the very didiculty with which they. were, now about to contend; adl he wouai here take occasion it say, that he had voted againtt the resolution of the centleman frott Vir ginia, because he [Mr. P.) desired a liffer erntmode of action. Ifhe had heen called upon to vote on that resolutiona on the first,. stecond, or. third, day oft the session, he would have voted in the affirimaive. ie did* not think, when ie camie here, that the certiicate-of the Governor ought ti entitle Mhe mnembers, holding.it to. tie called, so as w.- be enarolled for orJiiztaion.. lie tht so before this dis4cussion hail progreise. He desired that course of proceedmttg, sins ply that efficiency might be given to the organizations of thsis H-onse. Tlhe House lhowever,choose so p~ursu.aL difreret cou rse This was his open sentimntt,.ami lie hantd never disguisedl it. Re thought it was due to the cemtry-that it was dtue to order, that the Houser should have pitusuedl that course. lie throught it- was, dlue to- then count ry that that triutmphsaut party, de noiated thie Repulicanm party, flushed as it was with victory, shoutld -have takent that course. lie repeated this was his sentinment, and he had ntevercebangeid it. Bot- the House ihoughs proper toi taske a <diffeent course; andi it hadti beeni involveid day after day, in sceines which, toi say the 1east, were ofE very little credir to the A mericanl Congress. It wams to' avoid these scenes that he desidredl the course lie hail spokent ofshimuld betamken. But the House thoaught proper to alloaw testimony to bte brought forward. True, it was testimo ny, not exactly formal., but such as enti ale him, beinug a judge undermhie Contstitn tion, to decide the atmphle question who were' entitled to the returns. This was a question made under the Constitution itkelf, and he contended that this House had a right so decide that question, and could-hamve decidedl it the very lirst day, if they had thought propemir to ido so. Mr. P. here read the foltowing' clase fromt the Gon-tittmion of the U. States: "Each House shaull Iee the judg~e of the elections, retutrns, and qualificaions of its o*wn -memblers." it will thus be seen (contintued Mr. P,) thiethe Cwmatimution- itself makes three distinct subjects upion which this House eajudge-and decide, nam iely. thme electionts returns, andI qutalificationts of iisomeiamers. I~cOaktnd thur these are, ini their nature, diitineqetionm: You may decide'that a member, returnedl by the majority of~ votes isseutitledi to 'the returte.; andi yet vounmav. diecide, that he is totally ung~q'alified uder ihe-Consatitu tuomr. Suppose, for inasiance, that a majority of votes should return here "a man unders twenty-five years- of 'age, or -,n -,ic. 'This es toh,.n u..ictn.-.. ur the member anit t coritend that if he held n majority of votes ai the polls. lie wulad be entitled :to be relturned, hut that he would not lie qualifieil to take his seat. And this illustrate the whole matter. that the questions are in their n hstle niature distiict bud separate., So it was,-he said, a mas may have a majority: at the polls., and yet -may -not he elected; and so the House might. decide thait a mat was a mesber. -and vet ihii lie' was -sot entitled to he 'returas. They ar.e all separate questions. - Here, in The development and progress of -this case, we have seen one notorious fet admitted hg the paper', admittel by the g,-utemane fsrom New-Jersev, when quesiiotied t hiot tis poit; that is t0 say, that the majority of the voters or N. Jer sey gave their votes to other members iharo those to hon the certificato of the Gov ertnor has beeni given. The getlem-ian [Mr. Rasndaolph) laze.' admitted ihn there yere a majority of voites on the other side, but says they were not legal! Now who has decided that thev were not legal ? Was it the local authorities eof New Jer sey? The Governor, the Clerk, or the judges of election? I lay down this broad proposition, andi I challkinge gentiletie to the arauttienst; that there is no .authority in any State ofieer to judge atndl decile upon1 ithe legality of voites after they have been dfepos.itesd in the hallos box, or receiv ed at the polls. You laty challenge it voter at the polls, and it ch alnletei foir gold entnse, his voe cannot lie receive I. 11u1t if you go beyond this power, it-oulal inevitally lead to ceinfusio and fran d.uand iransfer the judicial inwer of this House to tile lal-s officers of States. . Mr. * . proceeded. The' propostion I maintained is. that -tinder the clause of the Cons-titution of the United Sttes, which .1 have read. we are created sole amsi ex elusive judges of the restirits. I nie the ia nige of the Constiention. and I say ha1it no State anthority enn interpose to purge the polls atier -the halliet ha< bept derposited, or efter the votes have been re ceived. (viva ;oce, if you chooe.) toless it lie to sarry out the loeal policy o tihe States "as to qtalifications. There i<i arnother clause of the Cortsitsution. which shows that tie voters ror this Hsose are intended tt lie of the sane clas- of voters as those w ho are entitledi it vote for mietibers of the Le-gislture. Rut uponi the lpower too judge of reltirns all elections, there can be no cotncurrent jurisdi-tion ceonnected with these- questions, on the part ofa nty State authorlity. withot a pailpabile vio. Iation oif the constiri tion. Admitait that. aud what is the reuit 1 And I re I will osbiserve that, in reflecting upon this issite. I have been forcilbly siruek with the wi domi and philosophy of this niobile instris itent, (holdinu up the Coinsiinution of the Usnited States.) But suppose the contra ry dortrine to lie true; bis lHoise wsould itenat ise mtercv sif confuicting jusiments ill the States, as one party or anoither triglt fromi time to time, be in the-tsendanev, It is int necordaice with the very genis's of the Govertimetis that- is hracthi o it -hould ie indeplelsetit; atiti, in order te Ilaininin its inideienillence, it nsest he the exclusive juge ofshe returns. You can not- get lever that. plaine asil pilpable pro visisorl (t the Constitution. It is not pre tensded here that any local othsrity is given e to the flieersr of New Jersey ti purge tihe poli afier the vsites have beet deposit eol. I did not untlerstand that question to have been raiseid; but, I repeat, it is ad Milted that a -majority of votes were -on the ot her side. That breing so, I contend that it is for us ti say n ho are entitled tn the returss, wi tlat that single questio doles not- involve other questions in regard toi the elec-tisin. I ami nost edispsesd to trent w'ith sdis respectu the ce-rsiirate of the Gslvernsr. uponis him lHe acitd as a State eojiirer, ands. if lie slid not pirobaabilv net with wis 'iio, still I doi nit donhlit thamt lhe ac-tesd un dier a csoscientaions belief that he wras a maere mniista-rial silicesr sir the law Thalt atay be. He tmray ha~ve5slupposed that he wattsuising I'. isuty. lie gtae the certifi cmte upon01 the retturns ttadse by the clerks. andts annttOnneed5iI t thts erouldl naot sook be hindi themt. He leoskedl aipon hitielf as the metsre mnisterimal register, aind 'suppiosi'ad liat his certifisente was ter lie v'iew~ed in, I hat iight.annds ini that light osily. list sithter gentletseti mayi lieenititlesi ii-rotuirtm-, nos) n'iahsstanising is certifiente. Ands mty prupoisitions is this: that there is sno au thority in the State of New Jersey t jidaee o~f the legality of votes; and that, after the votes have heen sdepositedi. those who res reived 1/as majority are entitled to the re turn's.- And that we are mtade the-ssle and excluhtsive judlges of she legality. I con tendl that there was vast wisdom int this p~rov'ii nf the Csonsstitution, asnd thes the frameerQ intendeu'se tor be a co orudinate branoch oft thta Goversnmentt. etntirely inide pi~senet,. ansi thatuhis House ilsineshutld diecide upion she elecsisons. reterns and1( quial ifications.of its itiemtbers. Withsiut that rtovisione, what conies sof all our indsepien dentce? 1 cointenad that the qtesin is tnow before us itn a tangible shapre. Somie gentlemewn say that thte Hountse is niot constitutioncally sirganizesd. I think there ins .uumes conafusison-osf~idesa here. The Crosuitintions sany": "Cssngresssian assembile at-least once itn every year:teund sneh m teetgtn: shall lbe otn the first Monday-in Decetmber, unaless they shall, biy law, appoint- a. differett day." That (continued Mr. P).is the day ap poisnsed by thee Constuzion fsir Cong'ssa to assemnble& What is C"onem? Annivrze the- idea. It is composed of members elected by hte people of tie States, whuoare cbosen every other year unider this cntmittiionsil provi sion, anid who are entitled toassemble here as the Coiistituion directs. The Consti tution than goes on to define what shall coinsitute the House of Representatives. "It declar tihe House of Bepresentatives shall be composed of members choser every second )ear by the people of the sev eral States." - It does not say of members and :t Speaker. lu t -of nembrea chosen by Ihe people. This constitutes. a HiOUbe of Reporesetnatives. in tlle definition of the Constitution. The iane insirtnetnt de clares "thai the House of Representatives shall chlloo.e ih'eir Speaker mnd other oil cers." This presupposes the existence of a House competent at least. to teride pot its own organization. Can the constitu tional existence or the Ilonse be more elear -ly detlnne'd att demnoustratedt? It is chop. ping 1gie opon % ords-lo deny our legal ex isietic. Nonm, ientleen teu ippose we must take an oath before we can act, judge, or decide. Let us read provision. And it is to be observed that it is a mere general provisioti. -The Senators ant Representatives be fore mentioned, ani the members ofsever al State Legislatires, and alh exetnsive ,Sid jileaCid ullicer,. ho It of the Unied Statrs. and of the seoveral Stais,. shall te lImited hy oath or atlirmation. io sipport the Constitution." - Now, (conititned Mr P.) 1 will ask, does the Constituntmi pre scribe the itle when this .mth shall the ta ken? Dues it say that it sAall be on the first second. or last day tif the session? The law of seventeen hundred ani eighty nine prescribes aid authorizes the oldest member on this floor to administer an outh it the Speaker, and then prescribes the mode it which the Speaker shall ad ..im-ter it to the inembers. But Mr. P. cuntented thia the Constintaion itself hav ing fixed the day of meeting, the iense of Representatives are a bitly tin ile first Aionday of December. conmpeent to decide on questitins of returns; and, if we thiik proper, it go into the whole qmestiotn if election. Tht however, would he vastly inexpedient. Hut on a questiot cof mere qualificationis ani returs-if an issue lee raised, and it is ohjerted that one class of members lie falsely returned, we are then competent to de eidle thdol question, and we mus118. frm, necessity, doso. It is itiheren: in the pow er nr.d the ri.-ht to organize. Niw, let-us dis.entinngte otirselvcs from this coifision tof ideas. The legal appor tioniment of ie.-esentatives given this House two huntir ' and iriv-t o inem hers, atnd the Constitution has, in express ed teriis, m4adt theim exclusive julges on questions --election<;, returns, and tiali ficati.ag.' Suppose, instead of that con stitiitial iovision, that it hail been de elared that A tor 11 were to he exclusive jiutdges um tho-e questions. would there he any dittciiy in deciding upon the point ? The whole couftision arises from lte idea f having two hundred atid forty-two judges itnsteat of only otte. If only one judge hail been created by the Con-titti tioi, ti-re would lie diliculty in deciding ihe whole question on the first (lay. Yet, as fair a% right ant le.tal principle are in. .volv-d. it i- the sine thing. Viewing the subject in this. light, aid rtoreseeiiig the difficulties that nust inevi tably arise. I was diAposed to coifirie the whole quesiion io a question of retirnis, and I contend that we are the competet j'idgtes (if that question whetiever we think treper to take it. It is not only soiund sense. bit sound 'poilicv, to keep lte ques tion separaie. Ifye-n deede that the mere returns af officer muist, iTall caset, c1i e.td ihe judgmnt of this H nse as to hi areientiilet ii iheir seats atnd to t he returns, thien you hotld ont ihe the greaie->t temip tattions to hitter ande coiteningit pariiies to perpetrate fratid anti inijtusice by false re mimrna. The conseiecijltes will lbe, that when-m this House may lee conisideredt as equattly hadanced-uand power andt etmpire are at stake, the telective franchise n ill lie at the miercy ofob-cure and iiresumsible eeiicrs, and i s Htouse wilt he tiadec any thmti andte evermy thing that tieijr pro'fligacyv antI partly hitterttess nuay choiose-. 1i is of the ve-ry es.senice ofuner sy sleu ehat we shuld be the exclusir e giunnlianis & judlges fuar ownvm creat ion and mit oriisoniit. h hitihi er riht tir wrong, our judagm:eint over re tunrus, quaclilitmiens, antd eleetionis, mnusi te exclusive andi unirammiteled.t. Any toth er doectrine timisi introxduce imbecily and ipxtency into this, the very centre of siitality in our systemi. Itn presentig these views to-the House; I have actedt emtirely on miy ownijudgmaenat, antd I have imntroduced a resolutiona to meem the perecise issue, acc-ording inutmy consii entius cunvictlion ofthte trnulh of' the case. I beheveihatwe are thme judges-l helieve. accorintw i the tie velopemeurts whichi have iliet ntitie on tis floor, time aicntlemen who have time eertitieate ot' the Gu erntor are nit emaill to the returns; and, so tee iievintg, I aim prepared to mieet the ques tion. I wa' lpre-paired todou so several dayvh ago. I desire to decute it now, franikly, tiitrly, anmd holly, before tte n~orld, with ntu ite tranmmtels and the collateral issues thait haive beent throiwn around it by .ihe tchnticailitiie oimmtry court special pica. dinag. 1 amct here n mny owna responsi bility. ' I don not propose anty thing which is the result of' conceert. of' causes, or of undter standiing emiered ito tont of tis diouse. I ac-i ntone upomi tmy conviction or whatj believo to he true, and rig/it oni just. Sir, we hav'e-seen tot) tateh. pearty or. gantizatiiotn ad party dritl. If ther, isonc .i ..f the nrmecnt dav, e-rcater that another,'it is that miserable party sprit. Ot lWiI sides, which seems disposed 'to draw.every member into hiutimble suibservi enj-to the diciaies of a ferw leaders. There is another semanstent % hicn I en tertain,- and which I will -here avow. It is tisi; that during the last Al nioistration the uhas been two strung executive ac tionwin this Governmient; and it is me thai the Represemiatives of the people should -arsseri their ind'ependence, and trample on the ties of party-looking only to the goxx of-the country, to the sanctity of the Constitution, anti to the preservation of their own honor and indepeuence. If' tihere he one olject more dear to me 'than another, it is, 1that I may see this House redeened aind regenerated-that I imay see it break loose from its ituberviency to that ntonster god of party. % hieh is reared up on every side, and which claims fron its viethns a base devoted, and blind idolatry. Sir, I have propOsed a resolulion whilh I helieve will meet the truth of the case. I believe that we are the exclusive judges of the whole subject-natter, made so by the Cutsiltution itself, in latigage too plain tobe misundersmmtool. The time and manner ofdeciding is a mere matter of ex pediency. I miintain. also, that there enn fie no' concurrent jutrisdiction upon this question by any State authority; and in tmainininge this, I maintain the indepen lence of this House, which I believe to tie essential to the preservation of American libertv. Tile propositions, then, which 'I desire to be decided, are first; that this House is is the supreme andl sole judge of the elec; lions, returns, and qualifications of its members. And secondly, that no '8ste officer has a right to judge of the legality of votes, after 'they have been received; and that those iwho have received a Ima jority of the votes polled are, liv righmen' titled to the roturnis. Upon that in -i ple, I voted yesterday in the case the gentlemamn front Ptnnsylvania, (hr. Nay lor.] It is precisely the cas.e at isme. There you have ditferent returns, (tie mnember is admitted it have a majority, btt another gentleman asaitmes that thev are illegal vames. anal the juidges assuneto theimselves tihe riih to throw out the whoA..Northern Libernes. I miniinii that had. no such right under the Cousitution. Their acts were void. and. -the miWoamst tielt t 'his truimil on lV. It is this I hiCi hall goverimy vote. When i cbome as a judge to decide on the amerit of the electiomi. then it niy he dif ferent as to final jmimlgment. It will de petd upn the fact, whether enough frimi those u ho received the majority of votes, shall be proved to be illegal, ti violate the elecrion. All votes lepoaited and received by the pr'per oificers into the ballot IIx, must le presumed tli lie leptra, until Other wise shown. This is soutnd sense as well as law. Upon these quetirts, I assert the power Of the House to judge fully. hin- deny the authority of the ofliters of tihe State Of Pennsylvania, uider the laws, to reject votes, after those votes have been depositl-d in time ballot box. Sinnling.tupon this principle, I am rea dy it give imy ote in the New Jersy case. anl I am disposed at once io meet the queston, (which imay be n well decided nOw, as a motth hiete,) who are entitled tam the reitrns. As far as ulterior objects are cocerneied, I ktow the supposed deli eacy of my. posiion at present ; but I ,corn to btk pirema ty Aetti umeitts. I woild not wear the proudest dindenm I hat ever gliiered upon a itimonar-h's brow, it' I could IMt wear it unisihnckled and free. I wmll rinot turn tam the right or left, for pam litiei favor. I hold rio sentiments in my clo-el which I will not avow tam the iorld I tmy apintion, it is dute tam the adignity of' the llamnmme tam mnmet- thmi-s qtuesin calmly anal adecided~ly. I am raday to vore. If' youia let the ihaile subtjaect natter go to a commtiattee, ymo nill involve us in queas tionhs whtich uwill taO lie decidead this ses siaon. if youn choose to caitfitne t hetmt ta the quemsiitn am' rettarns, yuit canmt dai so, anid we cani hiave promp ac ntiotn; lbut aiy om her other caourse- will lead to confusion aind delay. From the Baldginrore Post. Sur areAna -ruE FaEE BLACKs. -Fewr persontshaave any caincaeption aif the wrretcednessanda sulle'irin2 ;aeimo thme- free lack piopulation of the city at thme pr-saent titte. We wish .omi elf the fanmatia, leuad ers of the northern abalitionists caould wit. ness momeetfheseenieaf mnisery that daily comme under the notice aif the distributitng commtiitees-Iair the poor. If it dial nota furever seanl their lips on the subject of' slavery, it-wouald-at least soften the asperi lies of their warfare against it. A-gentle man enigedo as one of- the distributing committee-in seeking amut objects requiring relief, mientiomned mu nus time finllowing,aa fair repmresemnt~ato of almtost inct'utmerable cases in the lanes andI ulleys of the city. Onm the fir~tfloor of a small tenememnt abaout ten feet maqumare he fonda a fanmily of eght bilac'kstooomprising at man, two wo mmeni and live chlalren. Thu adults were' partially coveresd with a few miserable' rags, bu t the children were entirely-taked. The'y wrere without fire,' withouimt f- oaf, wtthot a bead,. or' ainy thinumi to keep them fram. freedu'rg hut a qumantity aof straw! tamd a few rags inmamne corner of-the room. On the second-'floor of the same hmovel was- aniother family- of three' persons; a tman.- his wif'e aid. child. The wvife was layinmg sick upomn a few. shav'inps: on the flour, covered only-with- a- piece aif an old carpet. Ia othmer resapectti the ciandition- of the inmates -was time same as those- 'in the room belOw., with the centi'tn thati they I hadl the luxury ofa few-dvinit embers,ilie -reiain of a handful of tan begged from a tan yarl. But-'liese wert siut sulliiewn to protect their feet froan being.fiist hiten. In the cellar 'was another familv of sev en persions, in a condiiion egnallydesitte and with theadditional inconvenience that more than half the cellar biom wais cov ered with water. In a partially dry corner these seven persons live anti sleep enier ging from their hole to bej or iteal such scanty provisions a will sustnin life. Such is one picture among hundreds that might be drawn, of the starvation, wretehednes, and maisery amongst the ihefree blacks, whilat there is not a slave in the city that is not well fed, weil clothed, -well lodged. and every way coimfortably. provided for. The aholitionits- are no friend to the slaves when they urge their immtediie. emancipation. The people in Nw Orleans' propones a repe-al for the anti gamblina law. While, they allow ilh bankcrs and lotteries to swindle them in open day light. if is con temltti)ible and ridietnlous to keep any anti gambling law on ti- statiie looik. .We think that where lottery venders,' loitery wheels, barnks and every species of ma chinery to deltde and rob hoth the v'oung and the old, and phiige thtinsandsdaily intoi irretrievable ruian. are not only tolera ild lout encouraged by legislators, hie-farro dealers ought also ta be alliwed to lay lown their implements of hell, right at the corter of eveiy street. But. let thei he fined and put in the peniten'tiary if they gamble' in secret. Exposing the farro machinery to the otliuti of the publie woa;d praluee a falulary efect on society anala guns 10 what would result frim the expo. stare daily of all paper money bank tran sactions.-Vicksburg Sentinel. Hard Times.-We have heard of a cir eCt nustance, 'which. at once -evinces the trotibles of he times, and the prudence of the people of North Carolina. The iter chautsor the most flourihiug town in the Western part of North Carolina, have en tered intot bonid with each other, not it) go or send to the North this Siring for fh purinee of goos.- 'I iis is a priule step, whether as regnrls the people for merchanis.'ntd %ne hopie the good sense a.f .he... .i..u.....e.i............ in it. 'ie present eason may tie %%ell devied to dios1iauuing of sitoks on hanit. settling accounis, &c., and the fashiona. bles tmay well dteny theuselves in these 'ime.-Fuy. Obs. A rumor has reached New Orleans from Mexico. that a neamtimtin is penaling he tween England and Mexico for a- eession io England oif the Califorutins. The ces siol of th- two provincs would give ti Great Britain nn extensive and valuable territory, in a part of the world where the has long been anxious to gain a filathold. besides securing no object still more desi rable-a spacious range of sea coast 'oil the Pacific..,trethin! more than a thous anU miles froni the 42d degree of latittide, aauth-sweeping the cirenit or the penin suila of Califeirni and embracing the har horsof that Gulfihe finest in N. America. Important Discovery -Capt. Clinincey Tret, of Eaist Hlartlora, has disroverel a complete remedy against the ravages ilt the Catiker Worin, simply bv enc-ircling the appletree at the surlice of the gronwt with Scatch SntTuf. The writer of thie artiele has examined the trees on Capt. Trent's premises, and huniid the circle oif snuff cinpha-tely fringed with thousands of deand worms. These trees were all tar redl, andu where the snulT was u-ed no woarmns apipearedh on the tar, and where the suod was aimittead the in~eets nearly covered the tar-lart forad Courant. Gen. Washington and Lord Erskine. A voalumet was presented to Getieral WVash ingtamn, in 17~97, by Thomne, Lord Ers kin~e, on a blank pnee air which he wrotie the foillaonig nte, conitainiug perhnaps, the happiest enlaiuma ofi the mnanybhestowr 'e u pon 'hat wonder ful muanu "Sir, I have taken the liberty to itntro dutce yaiur anugnl andl immrortal nmem in a short sentence which is tao he fiundl in the book I senad yan I have a large neqpain t-ance amaing ihe mtost valumhle and exaltead e-lasses of mntt, bumt you are the otnly human being faor whom I 'ever felt an awfua reverence. I sincerely pray odh to grant a long' and serene evening io.a life so' glo riously devoted' to the hiappiness of' the' world. No timefdor Rending.-G3o into the hou ses aif some of our farmners, and yout find no ne spatper, no periodlical of tiny kind, and hardly a bookt'. Ask utch men~t tao subscribe for a paper, and they will tell you that ihiey have tno time tao read otte. But whto is so conitstanltly employed as to .rnd nii leisure fir the' etmployment. of htis t'iinda I Not the famer; faie the long win ier eienitngs afford him a few hours every day, which he might devote to renading. Not the meichanic; fair- instances are fr quet.t w herethe inadust rious artizants have ati ainead un eminence in the-sciences, mere ly by giving their leisure -to study. One afghe most emhineatt orienutal scholars of t he age, is professor Lee, of one of the Entglish IUiversitie., aud vet all his edit 'eation was acquired. duriaig tho.-momenia of leisure which he fhund while emnployed as a- jpurneytman. carpenter. No prudent man-will oppugn~the.merits of a contemnporary-in-his. 'owvnsupis~sed apartment. SYaes Water-rroof Glue.br L.eme.--e Take oflie best Irish glue, fiatr o(inces, :a1id of isinglins, twarsmilces; these m111st be dlisulv4ed ii mild ale (n-ot stah-) over a slow fire, in a common glue kentle, to the coni2thticy 4fstronig glue; % hen neonce e of well boiled liis-ed oil mtibhe gradual ly added, and the w hole w'ell incorporated together .by. sti'riii.- To' acrease .hInq streigth of tlhe ghie, asdreiaingiass May be added. This cementis applicableto thie joints of wood, in every brduch of nanufacture: as alsfi to jinitig earthaenware, china, atid gliss-care heii itken to prets the parts well iogelier,-amnd to allow them aufficient timaeto'set. The cemttent, when cold, aid made intI cakes, assupses the appearane oaf Indian. rubber; and, like it, is ebactie. It .uav. a any tte, ni eI wanted for use, be dissol ved, ly a gentle heat, inl any prper iron or alazed vessel; first puiting into ir a litIli naild'ale, let preve t i rron hurning at the bot (gam of the vessel;-atddinmore ale. ini lring it ti; a portier cousienI7 for us Too ceent leathler tonether ar hartiess hands ir m ichinerv, &c i.having prepareJ .he joints- in the usual ay, as if for sew ing apply the cement while .4t, laying a weight Upin ech'joirit, i is mu lit let them remain !-ix hours beforeeasing, and thejaints will then hevOne nearly as firm as if tide of otie entire piece of leiather. Ali excellent cement for stopping leaks in casks. ,c., may be made by putting g little toiv to the other iliredients. Immensity of Creatin.- Some astron-. oners hasve conputed that there are niot less ihan 75 millions of suns. in the suni. vers.. The fixed stars are all suns, lav ing. like our suit nunaerous planets revolv -ving around then. -The solarsyten, ot thmi to which we belong, has about thirty plauet, primary and secondary belonging: tea it. The circular field oaf space which it ccutpie- is in diameter 3600 millinis of miles, and that which it .control motch gr-eater, The sun which its ner rest neigh haour taonrm is calle.1 Siras, disiati fro,, mar stin about 852 millions uif miles. Now, if all the fixed stars are as distan' froi each either is Sirius is front our sun, or it otr solar svsteni lay the overage agnitue of all the 75 millions of suns. nhat itagin. % baa can survey a plantation cinta ning 75 millions of cirentlar field-, each 10 mil lias of ailes in diaamaeter ? Such honev er. is oune of the plantatiois fif Him wh-it) has measured the waters intle inatlloiV of lis hand-meted oint.htnMen with a synn -con prlehreml the dust in a marasure-aad % eiglaed tie uunntains ii scales. and hill-i in a balance. lie ho, "sitting upon heilo oarbsit if the carth, strtcwhes ntit ie- hen. ve-nz a4 a curtain, and sprendelth thenm Ot as a -1it to dwell in. Nations to lim are as a drop of a ba# ket and are ctonnial a-4 the small dust or the halanc-e;" a'nd yet overwheleitg thiought! He says, "T'JTo1 I dwell inl the high and hioly place, with hiti alsa1 will.1 dwell who is of an huible aij contrite spii-i. and trethles at ny n d!"-hnstian Abnunack PoLITICs AND -3oaALS.-A great many excell. lt, htm inI our opinaiotn', shet t biglrej peIple, holdf paractical poalitics in a sort of halv dresadt, atd( flr fetar -of contatiminationa aveaid discu-sion and rarely ever voe. These are ttral and relieicans mlei. h'liere i-s another class who cc uceive politics to be delating.-eneavatiaIg to the mind and to exeitng for calis reflectian aid deep -1aindy. Thesse are the schlart.y 3Ii -s fl'rtineau said at in the United States 'imlitics is morals.' Trhis is true, and if ihe idea cauld bea fully appreciiated and beclieved hby the c-laases we. lave nama ed oir country wouldl le hetter governed, anid nmjre v-irtuious meat wouila berma our "overnours. O.a the baroadl faouunaioan of peoli ics our whoale social system rests, and~ ra-ligiotn, moturality, science anal literature wouild be craushied tand anihilated, ifgoaod maen, tand gooad scholars shaould avoid the. pliaiical arentai. lIn a free gaavr rnmitent like aiurs, poalities is indaeed nmorals, for where the right ofsaf'rage is.so unirestrainaed, great c-aatione by the hetter infornmad~ mnut lie used tea cheeuk iheexcesses of ahe tmnedota catedl atn I vicionli'.. Every mran should be at pohaticiatn, active aind pass-ive,. for ini ther laneguaage of the editor of 'he Boalont Quar terly Review. we caeatnot conasentiaa, tho. nfltiona thawt potlitica i-a a lowv anda dlebt-<ing subaj-ci, or that a achaher necessarily dero gates from his dignity, by enagaging in the, piahtical moavewets of his counatrymien. anad dloing what lie can to sustain what he believes to lie true prinacipales, and tosecure. toa his couttry the practical balesasings of them bay supporting measures which will em body them in laws uad inwti'urions. Silk Cultur.-Trhe Nationmal Silk So, ciety have olferedf namnIerous botanties, ya rying froam 5100) to 8l00.0 eac'h.. for the best specimens-of raw silk, to be produnced dunringstheo comainag sater. The whaole am unof- the boaunties is $16,000. The proapect isifair that the- silk culrures will becomae.s paroinentt and settled par of our domestic industry, tane)that silkreithee raw ornmanufactured, will choistitutewih in a few years; a vulnel le stspiirt':-bom4 productions lIf men of wit and hus iionklt readlve itever to complain a~t~eir work edirics anal detractors,-tbheat--age would tnot knaow that theyer had. aity. La-isqnned with thestnost, eas-and exagtnessaand in our own langie,. are oiten preverted to wronag mninagur why should we wonder that the Bible is sot