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Advertisements no haying itietumber of insertions markei on them, 4ill be continued until orderet out, and charged accordingly. 'All communications addressed to th4 Editor, post paid, will be promptly anc strictly attended to. From te Magnolia. ANGER. By MISS MARY Z. LEE. Deep, deep in the cell Of the heart, where, it hoodeth, Keep the dark passion pent en intideth; So the spirit that calmly Bearis on through all wrong, Owns wealth, which will serve it The wide world along. Oh! wear it, oh! wear it, Amid this earth's fever, The treasure, good temper, 'Twill fail thee, oh! never; The best of all weapons 'Twill prove in lire's field, For 'neath its sweet influence The sternest oft yield. If thou need'st to be angry, Ah ! let thy heart cherish Resentment 'gainst sdf, Till thy vices, all perish; But break not for others, Thy temper's strong chain, Or the blow, ijn rebounding, May harm thee again. Charleston, S. C. - WHY DO WE LOVE ? I often think each tottering form, That limps along in lire's decline. Once bore a heart as young, as warm, As full of idle thoughts a mine. And each has had his dream of joy, His own unequalled pure romance; Commencing, when the blushing boy First thrills at woman's lovely glance. And each could tell his tale or youth Would think its scenes of love evince More passion, more unearthly truth, Than any tale before or since' Yes, they could tell of tender lays, At midnight penned, in classic shades. Of days more bright than modern days Of maids more fair than modern maids. Of whispers in a willing ear, Of kissing on a blushing cheek Each kiss, each whisper, far too dear For modern lips to give or speak; Of prospects too, untimely crossed, Of passions slighted or betrayed Of kindred spirits early lost, Anid buds that blossomed but to fade. *Of beaming eyes and tresses gay, Elastic form and noble brow, And charms-that all have passed away And left them-wekat e see them nowo! And is it thus-is human love . So very light and frail a thing? And must youth'sb'rightest-visions move Torever on time's restless wing? - Mut all thse eyes that still are bright, And all the lips that talk of bliss, And all the forms so fair to sight, *Hereanter only come to this? Then what are Love's best visions worth, . -If we atlength must lose them thus? -f all we value most on earth, e lo... mus rudc nway from uts? Ofthat one being whom we take From all the world, and still recur To all she said, and for her sake Feel far from joy when far from her, Ifthat one form which we adore, From youth to age, in bliss or pain, Soon withers and is seen no more Why do we love if love be vain? From the Dublin University Magazine. MEMORY. When 'backward, through departed years On memory's wing we stray, How oft we find but founts of tears Along the wasted way! The heart will vainly seek the light That rested there before, And sadly turn to mourn the blight Of all it loved of yore! We watch for footsteps that have come To breathe the twillight vow, We listen-for the silver tone Ofvoices-silent ntow! We gaze on old familiar things, And marvel that they bear No gladness to our spirit's wings Like what of old was there! Even thus, when through departed years, On memory's wing we stray, We find alas! but founts of tears Along the wasted way. .Political. From the Wheeling Argus. THE AXE STILL STREAMS 'WITH THE BLOOD OF ITS VICTIMS. The able'and efficient Postmaster of Wheeling, Geo. W. Thompsoi, has been iemoved, and' David Agnew appointed in his place. Was there any fault of Col. Thomison as a postmaster? None Did any- man charge him with neglecting the. duties of his office? Not one. Did any one ques tion'his capacity? That theycould not do. Diiniy one-fiad fault of himo'r his assist antso'r the-want of courtesy, rc.? If so, ' have never heard it. He was courte ous'in his manners,. and iccommodating to. all; and all must -dmit that the office Was well conducte, "tha its duties were A - : A %tll'dis.h d Sir: I have been instructed Ly the Presi dent ofthe United States to inform you that in his opinion, the public interest will be promoted by a change of Postmaster at Wheeling, Virginia. Your obedient servant, F. GRANGER. GEooE W. Tno'Psov, Esq. Postmaster at Wheeling Va. WHEELI1ro POST OFFICE. To JOHN TYLER, President of the United States: SIR: I have received through the Post master General a note in which he says he has been instructed by the President of the United States "to inform you, [me,] that in his opinion the public interest will he promoted by a change of Postmaster at Wheeling, Virginia," I assure you, sir, that it shall be my strict endeavor herenf ter, as it always has been, "to promote the public interest." I never could have ob tained my own consent to hold office under the tame and servile conditions imposed by your Inatngural and that of your prede cessor, and while I avowed this opinion to your political friends here, I deemed it a duty I owed my country to hold ona to my office until I like many others, should be come a victim to the new "British orders in council." I declined committing offi cial suicide that you should complete the political murder, which your numerous acts of proscription showed your ready willingness to perpetrate. I have not been called upon to respond to any charge, and may presume that none was made; for a contrary presumption would throw upon you the greater odium of condeming a man unheard and without trial. I am required also to make this pre sumption from the fact that the petitions circulated for the appointment of the dif ferent applicants, preferred no charges and none asked for my removal. Am I re moved, then, because of my open personal opposition to a party whose delegated power has now by an act of Providence devolved upon you and not upon any charge that 1 used my official character in that opposition! If so, the act is a punishment of an alleged offence, before the law making it criminal had been promulgated, and the edict by which it is done is an arbitrary violation of my constitutional righ t to discuss the mea sures and the character of any party; and it is an open and flagrant infringement of the right which I andI my fellow-citizens possess above all constitutions-dhe natu ral right to the freedom of speech, I opposed the accession of the party which you now represent, because. Your candidate for the Presidency refu sed to avow any principles, for the basis of his future official policy, thereby destroy ing the representatine character of our Government ; for how can a delegate rep resent the people when there juno expres sion of principle to show that the views and wishes of the people aind the candidate are the same?. And because, Although there was no expression by this candidate to the tiumotous.eils miad upon him from many respoctabli and'au thorized sources, yet he' was understood from former acts and declarations of li' life, to be in favor of. aNiional Bank, Clay's distribution system, a protectiji' tariff, and thus linked -to wbat-haveei_.j been qonsidered Federaldoctrines,,I because,. You, John Tyler of Virginia, had eI been directly at war, andstrenuously op posed to all these nieasi'res, yet consented to an unnatural coalition copounded. of such a CONTRAaLIETT. ~ dindlecatie I saw the late President, yorself, Daa iel Webster, and Francis Grangr,. eah entertaining opinions on many quiestionst of deep importance, some'of them mos4 vital to the welfare of the Republic, -yet, uniting in a strange neutrality And bde cause, There was an open effort by your party, the effect of which'was, to prostrate the po. litical moralitv. of the country, and which is further sigisized by-the-large clastrof appointmints already -to.-offices of trust. And because, Chartered monoplies, incorporated ivealth, incorporated inesty (see the broken banks and Bidleex ures,) were leagued with the direct i he of two hun4red millionsrf British debt, for the elevation of your; hete'gnous alliance to the power of the country. ! With these -principles, and by these,, means, and others more exceaptoable, you-are now p.asedin po.wer,and isee no cause et tochange 'my opposition. The concealment 'ind political, fraud which characterized the Whig policy before the. election,'has been thua far -the history of its action. The past audihpresent warn: us against the future, and -s long as you - are consociated with these men, carrying out these principles, I shill deem it asolemn duty which I owe to the Constitution of my: country, to the eternal prificiples of right' and justice, to the Democracy againsttFed- I eralism, to America against.Englandto! to freedom against edcroachment-o stand upon my opposition. The seal of execudve power is now taken from my lips; th6 fetters f the officialslave are changed from my limbs, and.now -ith my old assiociates througheut-the'46ountry, whoin the. field of debategsustained the' d se of.the true, Demoed"y, - eet to waland partakf in theiia ader * d ;..' .*" May 12, 1841. 'THE VALUE OF A SENATORs OATH. As a natural concomitant to the corruptio and immortally which has been let in upon the nation, through the flood-gates of bank speculation and political bribery, we see a general lassitude of conscience and dis regard of things most sacred. An oath of office is taken, and not the slightest regard paid to its conscientious fulfilment after wards. A bank report is unhesitatingly quallified to, when the quallifier knows that the sanction of an oath is all a solemn mockery. Property is conveyed to a friend without consideration, and forth with the conveyor is willing to swear that he is not worth a dollar; and thus you may trace the sad decline of the morals of the country from the halls of Congress to the most obscure lanes and alleys of life. Just before the present administration came into power, Mr. Senator Preston, of South Carolina, made his place in the Senate, the following solemn declaration and oath: -"The administration coming into powver reject and repudiate the infamous maxim, that to the victors belong the spoils. The system of proscription itself is to be pro scribed: I stand upon that ground ; and so help me Gcd, I will act upon it." And what is almost the next official act of Mr. Preston? It is that aiding and abetting to violate the contracts of tho Senate with Blair & Rives, and giving his vote for their dismissal! If such is the poor regard which a Senator of the United States has for the plighted faith of the nation and the obliga tion of his oath before that honorable body and in the face of High Heaven, where is the stream of corruption to be stayed? Can the illiterate and untaught imbibe and cherish moral principle with such exam ples before them? We believe an immor-. al statesman to be as great acurse to a na tion, as a debauched and unholy mrinister is to the church; and if the people desire to keep the morals of the nation sound, it is as necessary to seek good pritnciples .in' the men they elevate te the office, as for the church to seek piety in her officiating mi nisters.-Georgia Jeffersonian. . "4GIVE us TatE."-The men who avye effected a revolution in the Goverument. and have got good officees for themselves by the means, now turn round to the la borer, to wvhom they promised higher wa gee, and to the farmers to whom they promised better prices for produce, -and say 6hey must take time to redeem these promises. It cannot be at once, and may even take years.Waig," say they,, and "give us time." 7W% have the oflicesee wanted. This is biy far the most pressing business to be accomplished. -.The farmer and the laborer mnust wait, and swait pa tiently too, because they may be obliged to walt a great while. ~ n~telbses Whether the farrnersgadtelbes will live these* entlemin~ office holders,. the time they ask for,'remaii to be seen Augusta Age. ". , ' President's message as relatesto Foreign, j Affairs. TiiAmogon was niride some days since, but postponed at the request-of Mr.t Buchanan, who wished to examine some I of the positions of the Secretary of State, in his letter to the British Minister on the . subject of McLeod. Mr. Clay of Kentucky, opposed the - motion, and-movedtiipostonement tilli . to-morrow, evidencing by ,bis manner that he had notforgotted thetilrib Mr. Rives a on Monday. The motion was postponed ,_ by a strict party vote,'with th6; exceytioa: I of Mr. Rives.- The bill to repeal tie Sub- i Treasury was then"taken up, 'and Mr. Woodbury made a:'iery able and. argumen tative speech against it. When he had i conclndid, there was a patise of some min- v utes, when'Mr. Calhoun rose and asked if t the gentlemen on the other side intended v to offer no arguments in support of the I bill. . Mr. Clay replied: none, none. Mr. b Calhoun. then in a brief speech depicted d the results of this party movement,. before v a substitute for the measure was proposed, a and when there was a division of senti- c ment arpbng the majority respecting the p character of the substitute to be proposed. i He was followed by Mr.. Wright and Mr. b Benton; and after several ineffectual ef- a fortsito adjourn to give an'o?>portunity fur ti other-Senators to speak, the bill was put d upon its passage, and carried-ayes 39, t noes 18, c In the House, the day was consumed in 9 the electing subordinate officers, and debat- b ing the reconsideration. of the vote by n which Mr. Adams's resolution on the sub- a, ject of Abolition petitions -was carried. r Mr. Ingersoll delivered a strong speech in M defence of the'rights of the South, and wai W repeatedly called to order by Mr. Botts; li &ci who voted with Mr. Adams.- MrIn- u gersell had not concluded his remiarks, ci when he.gave way to a motion for adjourn- t meot. - p Wi:uiGToN, June 10, a in Senate to-day, Mr. Clay i6todired 'm his'distribution bill, which-was::ordered to, t; be printed on motion of Mr. Wiodbridge, a i whig Senator from"MicNigan, who is op- C posed to thefinipeif'disdibition,: and .p conteuds: for tie absolute right of every ti Stste toe the sioil, yitbin its limits. Mr. m HeidersQn irteddi a bill to'establish :a W geral,-inliiuptic it ifthdght. '1 Leod, and- the 4octriuts . - - admitted. Mr. Buchanan with much em- w phasis referred to the following facts ; that o the letter of the British Minister, dated d March 12, formally demanded the imme- e diate. release of MeLeod; and her majes- li ty's government entreatcd "the President a] of ihe United States to take into his most w deliberate consideration the serious nature G of the consequences 'which must ensue r from a rejection of the demand." That two days subsequent to the receipt of the i, letter containing this threat, Mr. Critten- te den, the Attorney General of the United States was despatched post haste to Is Lockport to lie present at the trial of Me- m Lend then under indictment before the ju dicial tribunals of a sovereign State for in- 1 vading her soil, and murdering one of her a citizens in cold blood-and what was the , object of the Attorney General's mission ? b To see that McLeod in the language of ti his written instructions from Mr. Webster 1 -"have skilful and eminentcounsel, if h such he not already retained ; and,although u you are not desired to act as counsel your- t. self, you will cause it to be siguifiedto-him, e and to the gentlemen wvho may conduct . his defence,,that it is the wish of this Go- i; vernment that, in case his defence be over- ti ruled by the court in which he shall be tri- a ed, proper steps be taken immediately for i, removing the cause, by writ of error, to c the Supreme Court of the United States." r; And these instructions also say "If this indictment were pending in one of the courts of the United States, I [Mr. Web-c sterlam directed to say that the President, upon the receipt of Mr. Fox's last commu- t nication, would have immediately directeda a nolle prosequi to, he entered. *Mr. Buchanan'contenided that these in structions, copies of':which were transmit ted to the British Government, upon the receipt of a let ter using threats such as had no parallel in the annals of diplomacy among civilized nations had a tendency to t depreciate our national character in the eyes of' foreign nations, and to encourage the insolence of the British Govornmeut. Mr. Rives replied to Mr. Buchanan, but r directed his remarks to only a portion of his argument-contending that the indi-e vidual of'ence of McLeod was merged by0 the avowal of the British Government, that the act was an authorized and justifiable I one. *Mr. Choate, the successor of Mr.c Webster, tlieri obtained the floor, but plea- "C ding fatigue, on motion by Mr. Clay. of 1 Ky., the Senate adjourned as a quarter ' past 3-6o'clock. The day previous Mr. Claj i-Alabama asked for an adjourn menrt~to'clock on account of exbausta iiibiit Mr. Clay of Ky. said "1 hope rmat;"andit wan refused. - Ins the House, Abolition, the right of pe tition &c., occupied the sinting. Mr. In-f gersoliconcluded a very able speech diisb subject irn opposition to the -fanaties.- i Sti-ange to say, he~was. repeatedly .called * to order'by Unewod and other I Whigsafrom sfiholdisj States, and..when an nadjournment ~ass od Tor thV' day' irevious, the mass-of the South nited with their Abolitisi ing against it. Mr. Marshallie*1 r ro entucky, made aniadqsoa peech In reply to Mr. Adams,at ihe cl (which the ques coni ,ot by which r.Adm auw~em ras adopted, was taken and lost-6-yes 110 ays 116-so the vote was not reconsider., d. A motion was then made toreconsid r another part of the subject by MWr.W rhich again opens the whole uesto aod Mr. Ad i '&ve in weirinutehtion ~ipeakin onit. WASHINGTON,un1, In the Senate to-day, eame up abq Res6. ition ofered some days since by Mr.. S. ier,calig onthe Secretary of Warfir Je reasons why Gen. Arbuckleowas remo ed from his command at Fiftibson -, laton Roue.: The disdussion though. rief, was infi ing, and afforded another evelopementof whig consistency, rr. ions to theirattaiting power, nothingwas - iore frequently the thme of theirdemda. lations than Executive power;ihiqre..s onsibility of the Executive to-g06 to union of the purse and thieswdrdfi- then-A mnds of th:e Executive, &c. These abu. is were to be promptly corrected upou ie arrival of the Whig millennium, at t my it was boldly proclaimed by Mr. Pres--. in, Mr. Clay, Mr. Bayard and Mr. Ar: ier, that the Executive was entirelyirr iousible to Congress in the two-great -anches of public service-the army kad, ivy-comprising the sword of the natiob; ad the repeal of the Independent Treasu.- - ,places the puise in the same redlc- - - ent. Mr. Sevier, in reply. to.Mr. Pue - n;,reminded him that two or three da. _ dce:ie had offered. a Resolution ici ai. jt on the table, en'quiring. int useis' ihe return ofthe Amenca Whe Meditaean; adie w igs This~the Cxyli Lying, thisItWited' -to e icy had beef 6idfd mteMw an This saeecrittistof the - - olonel atlr Stevenson,','will, - ove "line'ulahor lost,1'as itasi ra at Mr. Se atSwill get th iap ent. Mr; * 4yir's motion -,okf l'i bre by ie 1 . as the strength ofiuae -a guma on 61 o )posite side) and iostanced the case of stected spy. D Does not the invader,,au iemy' conniry beeom res sibli'. le and-limbfor his act? 'But admi I that the opposite side claimed, as still-a prisoner of war, and the:British overniment bad no right to demiand.his fease. Mr. Huntington followed Mr. Calhodin, reply to Mr. Buchanan's remarks ofyes rday * When he had concluded. Mr. Preston rose, and (there being no' dies in the gallery) moved an adjourn ent, which was carrid. - In the House the subject of abolition wag' t the tapis, and Mr, Wise in the midst of most powerful and animated speech was iddeuly observed to falter, and -fall into a chair. He was led from the Hall into e Speaker's room, and. after some time as sufficiently recovered to be taken .to is lodgings. The subject was postponed til to-morrow and the House proceeded. elect a priater, Mr. Watterson a Dent ~ratic member offered a resolution (which as strenuously supported by the Whigsai e last election of printer,) to separate ' e public printing from the political pes his was voted down, nearly ever Wiig. the House voting nagainst it, ess ~ ~ ~ - - ales and Seatoes were then elected, and a House adjourned. WEsmN~uor, Jue il. In the Senat-e this morning, Mr. Prestonu aled up the resolution submitted by him me days since in- relation to the return ofr e Mediterranean Squadron. It wasrsad follows: Resolved, That the President be'iss ~ d to communicate to the Senate the cay es which led to the sailing of the United tales squadron from the Mediterranean ^ ad the return ofithe frigate Brandywine, 'gether with such: official correspondence icrewith as in'his opiniont may no: beim roper to be communicated. - - . Mr, P. pereiving that this approaced uther near the forbidden line of legislative ~ ropriety in their intercourse with the Ex- .~ :utive as laid down by him the da previ-' * us, offered the following as a substte. : Resolved, That ahe President cause t a comrmunicated to the Senate, if noda F-'' ompatible with the public interesr~h nrrespodence between the Minitr~. nlanmd the dificeps of the Meditersa san squadron, in conseguence of which hie squadron left that station,' and thetdss etches of Captai. Bohow', to the Seisi -~ f of the Navy, connetWicir that naiv* ment.- -- The resolution was reed ta g Mr. Clay'of Kentucky, called up allowing resolution. . Resolved, That when the Sen~td atrn darinig the presentsasion, asi abject dinder discussion and n d. he considerntiongf liseta * umed at this next -itgmt ul;e1,1illtro'duted last -n' f }faryid. til 44?hfl4 exU]W o nust not under 5CyAMr. Adams nWi, ha bee ia eeto acquiesce .y mistakep from it was a concert A erm Whigs,-that this lJ -;.and.they have feelfing-or principles ,i~'gi. ~ te:ti;was in s-mit ~-. .:nv se, that the ieo warned that this ings, and that in ;'Si.yto power, they werc i tlof Abolition. this16. They,*aid - kas entirely-to be - th, of Maine, Da 'r, of New York, -'ngi. ofNew York, of Indiana, IM's n the contest, and orthis Rule-they ulatiorir. Whigs, mtionists have come -ien ,aod now, as *.'tory, the Rule, bv L of the South are "Idinsult kept from pped under foot. Tetaided#1r seats labama aiegation the quistib'would e:rn Whig, ercept .itern Whigs, voted '.'hat will the South 'rrihe people of the' e *n indignant enoujhry ht' -.4y when this ques .:as' it Is. re, they . Eforts6 "hem;in .inoats & at this orthem say, wliy * of sacrificingsour wheti the people-of 1' *. at t estidifatothe wNi -the -Whi and -let them worSt - .d salvation 'with the .. ngs we must admit to . .. rat Democrats in vot ig again qhb Rules acted from their dic tates. S:dshey are not right; for their friends i' ~South as well as their polit i cal enem and their can be no justice in that course: f conduct, which does not discrimiiazelhetween them. and besides this, the: Constitution is above all, and there is thir -faith, in spite of the faithless ness of others. 'They should do right, al thou gh ftsdo wrong, and a greater and more dijaorested the sacrifice, the nobler the act. Todq rngersolI and Mr. Fornance (both D *ots,. who voted to put aside the rul moved a reconsideration of the ote liern Whigs are responsib le for ihis and to do any thing, they must tu6 W6rthern Democrats. They are in a 'f position on this, as on all other- t esults in politics-and the sooner hlj&adge their position the better for themu sand the South. Look at the formatio the committees. On -nearly all of thotudmittees ultra Northern Fed eralistsa 4e-Cfrairmau. On the com mittee dflims-Geddiugs the ABOLI TIONISt Chairmanu' Suppose a ne gro kill ~ e service of the U. States what ch juld.such a claim have be fore such mittee. Yet as this is just what a nal with his senses about him, might' 'htpected by putting much a paty in r.e Jn . WASHINGTon, .Tne% In the eul to-day, Mr. Clay of Ala bauna prestited a memorial of the legisla tern of th*Stite, asking the establishment of a new '~'d office,:whioh he asked might e refer-I 2Othe Committee on Public Lands. ih some discussion the me moria,h r~eof the' Senate, was laid on the t~lhis is-a pretty strong indi cation ibi Nsien of the body will be resrictee%&ichsubjects as the majority may jee prtant. Mr. Clay.of Ken macy, detcethat he would to-mor row mDistribution Bill, and Mr. Henders n~totice that he would in trduc&' 'to itablish a general Bank rupt La jg*rli Calhoun submitted-a re solution as' agreed to directing the Se o State to transmit to the Senate .coinmunication from the Go. verum t2rushia to our representative at therU inireference to the duties laid on toba difthe German .Stsates of the Custof owhich may be in the State Mr.V Jiioffeted a'resolution ta th e h~i e United States ber quested .iihmthe Senste if any appli cain made oflicially to him,. or he St& i sfpury Department, by the holder oJtt sts, or others on theii count, ifltig the pyetor as supnai fJen-ain':tournish copiesai any c.ajO pft hich has taken lf in rehasd* subjects. ir. Rw eo~ d that so muchM 9the