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~7 -~4 ~.4. We will cling. to he Pillars of the Temple of our L~lberfles, and if it most (all, we will Perish naladss the Ruins."v -V*V I vm . M iL- A f LCOU SCC) 3D.EPrELDADVEi3c'SEasa - - ST - W. F. DURISOE.PROPRIETOL T*RNS. Tbise DoTiwsper annum. irpaidin edeJmc .nireo Dollars and Fifty Cents. if not paid be the epiation of Six Months onthe dae o Subscriptioand. Poor Dollars. if not ad withbi twe Months. Subcribers out ofthe Stat. artreqnsed to pay in dMaa="W . No subscriptioo received for less than one yar, and no paper discontined until allarrear ago are paid, except at the option of the Pub All subscriptions. will b. 'ontinued unles otherwise ordered before the expiration of the year. - Any person procuring five Subscribers and behanagtesponabls for thesame .shalt receive heAixth copygrt. _M2 ojnseicuoms inverted at 6W4 Mentsp J12lines. or ) )fortherit hsertios, and cents, for each ontinuance. These Published Monthy, oquatnesl Will be $1 per qare foreac ns Ad. $vfiie gats not-baving the number ofa.'ser. -s.pi-madred *a them. will be don ' anitil out. and ctrgaecor .. J5ebWork done r.persoTuivng at a ncmst bep AidrarietbtinMeth work is dome, d paymentw cttin, the' illage. Altenmmunmentionerddresed to the Editor, pvid.wllbe presipdy and stictly attend. - --L2s..ikLLAN OUSd. 'OMPETENCY OF WflNESSES. .o the last, Spartabuirg Journal there is . en aticl from the pa of(James E. ien- i Iy al. we ' from the initials SIp to it, uposthe compoiency of wit esesin a court of justice. we will make a few datrets:. "All persons ate estitled to be sworn as Witnessea.es o .the rules -of ex 'lsuon be ainst thsm. Idiots, Lumatiesand lnfan61s tender age may nit be sworn on account of a want of ca H. usband and Wife cannot, gen- I erafy be sworn for or ainst each other en account of their relaionship and sop. r tdidentitymof inteiest.. All persons aving a direct pecuniary interest in the cause are excluded. Persons having beebi convicted of certain of'ences arp tendered ereb infamous and inedsgpteat. Char aeter, oever bad, does not eclude butI gosto tbe-Cedibty. of frbish h yc are to judge. A1 b. lawbooks lay dows another exclsi. le who does sot be. ga, in the esiutence and the Pawvidence 1 ,a God' is in to To t t"st Wm- tdteeaie .isima ateitoriaffas bees,. ao yo j iisve .ln future iewaid'.and pjnuisments?' a abeuber ail n1e II mact sde if 'oding questig would be, 'D on believe IExi tence and the Pridence of a. God ad that be fe is the.Avene of falseood ' la eihrfrinofpm prpid"timqu on certainly no memotje bristian sect t coud be excluded jp;his Swe., Men sita beliVe' tht. - -bt " ygr ,, in lk ftt'. at ii sambedi stely si o the irpetrqtion of the beod hyn'A future' that exteids to ano- t ther state oexistence and is to the la;t; throughout eternity. The law does not c limit the bhelef. extindoieontro it.. ... . b "Aceordinj io .ie hie of the cointmod law whichs considered of force in this State, an Atls is undoibtedly incompe teat to testiy in Cour of Justice.: "y an Athst I understand 'one who denes the Existence and the Providence of'g God and tfie immortality of the soul -, an.' Woec reed ii t hal 'nwan owc .ot b iesponsbility tp a 4siperior Being; but who wheu e .dies lshes toggber like beasts.' Men have held snd do hold these opinions so revolting to he v.nat mewsof Christendom. .Yet are they pgateerd in e holding teseepinions by the Constitutsion a n4m-si Uaited Smae' and cY ism $uimte. 7rledthat she liberty of conscienceb ~be7declared, shall not be soconstrut- :I ese res. acts of licentiousoess or jusi~jpe neui stenL with the peace e and dte State. . .1 "I isnot beeg decided by the Sn-. t premecutf thse tate babany one is sncompeen~ fi.tstl . because he or she d seleves in God-tn'Providenee, or in agiewards or punititentts in this world or son the world to comte? When that enes-. tionssbanariselIhave no doubi what will y tie thelias'ein-what oight to be tas d4-e sinlaid of the Comss:u*ioal authori- q ty ofthe Court to make the deersioi. d Snebmn or wosm -wil he declared in-. ssi o: tifid-uos og the ~ amd that -nths .adsis rattien of justice.e eu amt ae ses e conence if t wlliseues r estAmony are de- l penant ' .Jbety ami property. .andt whoseropn inw O. td so linen sionsems ad proe newith the poe and safety-of the, State in thsie p. ,4o0s of thee itai e * -"To invoke the manction of a being in tes istence we do aiot believe, to ask Dmto haar witness to the tth of hat we say.inYue we declare our appeal ad drease .to emimagisary being, is, to say1 tbe teali...eery alsurd and foolish. To ad-. unithieams f wiegsseswee must lay the adopted. To be 'rsiouiaile and consistent '%d must reject God in'our Courts iar 3ns-, WeO, anod instead of concluding the-Onth. 'with 'So help met God,' might 'as well emuelude Wit aSo help me, devii,'-~itig obbiua~jobligatory for neither a fideotb conscience of the A y,Nbtion.-From au ex tract pohu te Isthe Albainy Argus, and. derived from the Narraidve of Mr. Wilson, a missionary in Afica! iire learn that he has. discovered'a nation of Ethiopians I Dovr -before seed or described by any I while man. Mr. Wilson isit ationued on the Gaboon River. which empties in the Atlantic ab twe n miles'north of the 1 issioi is at the- month of Ihe river c but having a fine opportunity, Mr. Wils'un r accompanied Toko, a distinguishedtegro r merchant up the Gaboon-and its tributary t the Big Orombe, to Kobangai's town; fify n miles from the ocean. on the Bawke, a t branch of the Big Orombo. This was as a .or up the river as he ascended. .While b there. he met with a new nation of Afri- Ii cans; 'Iome of whom were.said to come a fe days'joiirney and othe's ien to twelve ti daysjourney 'nom the interior"-that is, I front 2W to 460 miles from the sea coast. v He calls them the Panpwe peole,brcause ' they came from the irection in which a y country of that dame lies . The distance a from the coast indicates that they came from Ethiopia; -and poeibly that this pen- II ple may spread over the vast unknown re- A gi off Africa. b 'The existence nid uie of iron of their fi awn manufacture. seems very rentrka- ft le, at.d pbilosopher would say, indicates it in advanced stateof civilizatijon, for it is Ii known.hat a barbarous or savagn pcopk . mover have iron of their own mansifature r otil it has been first introduced b the al irhites.. The non-existence of slavery and the slave trade among them, shows a fea- tI ire stillanmore distinenve from. the ordina- 41 y African. - ' . a We are furnished by the Argus with the rr lillowing passage from the journal of AIr. rr Wilson. aI sDuring our short sojourn in this place, bi 1e met with a number of men entirely hI lifferent in their features and general ap- in iearance from those in this part of the hI :ontry. Some of whom were sai4 to bi tave come five, and others ten or twelve ho lays- journey from the interior. They fa were known by the name of the Pangwe wr eople. They were ona visit to Jbis part W if the country, which is as neal to the w ea coast as they have ventured. Hear- w og of us at this place, they came in con- rr iderable numbers to see white man and id Toko. one of whom was as much an object of curiusity as the oher. Those orthem whomt we saw, both men i dil *6we, were vastly superior in their ol ersonal appearance to the maratime w ' l~s~~iif they may he regarded as a cc xa) ~'ofltheir people.I shbuld have Ir 9 .esitation in pronouncing them the m Inet Africani whom I have ever met of wit. They. wear no clothing, except a lo teei a anth. trqade of the inner bark of a Ia rei. -,This isdiawn lietweon the legs and lb lastened around the loins by a cord Nor at Io they covet cloth. On tike other hand bi hey jeer the bushmen of this region, by ls OlILg, that thp wear cloth. to conceal es heir personal defects, and their eaternil oti isease'Both foen and women braid In ier haii with a great deal of taste. The id women braid.the hair on the forepart of na he tiend in two rows, a bich lie over the C orehead not unlike the frill of a cap. That 0 in the hack part is pletted into Eve or six th raids which reach below the shoulders. . T The men are of medium stature,- Si narkably well formed, healthy in their C ippearance. and many in.. their deport- nc net. They had knives,spears, travelling P ags, ad other articles of crious and in - a! epious workmanship, specimens of which sp re procueed for a very small quantity of a eads. .All of their inplements are made ith f iron of their own, which is considered te 1tstly :ueritir to :tny brtigh! to the coun- t ryby trading vessel.. T-- n ae cn 1pe cloth, and as yet have n v r .- ly 5 a tasme oftobacco or rum., Beads.p.o 'i* and brass they prize very highly. and pc rere wiltieg to lve away sony thing shey pr ad for the smallest quantitis of either of bs bese. They represent their country as th uountainous and healthfpl. and affirm that of usaneous anda other ,dlseases commosto be hem maaieregions are unknown among th hemr.hey.bhave never partidipated in hi be slave trade, and regard it. as is by no ar neans unnatural in those in their circum- ih lances, with the umnst aibhorrence. er Oneor two instances are knownu where ce~ hey have visited attempts to enslave lheir in eople with signal vengeance. It is Tiffi- as tilt so define th lim'itsa and extent of their w oiltry.. Perhaps the most westerly hor- a< or of what is known as the Pangwe ter- vi innry was eqthin one hundred and fifty S abifes gr the coals, and from thence it may rii iteDe jninny hundred mile~s into the in- ti erlor, and peibly spread itself over e B] argo portion of the south side of the Moun sins of the Mion. ,Theair country is repro ented as immetisely popiulous, but I could hi sot learnm that ?hjy had auf very large or di merful organiantionse. . hey are aware hi hat vessels vidt the opoiecrast and i hey affirm that they hvsenarticles uf ol nerebuaodi~e ormeght from thtat qiuarter. .I ol amn inclitned to think that the Par'gwe jieo- i sie are emigtatieg in lajge bodies stos a sards the coast :i sothe intermediate tii muahmen. *0akqnued.es they are by the h< laveisrade, must inevitabiy be supplan- hi liope.-Hope is likeY'pobular beside a it -iver-..undermined by that which feeds is E -or. like a butterfly, ernitliod by biing fi eaught-or like a fox-chase o wich 'the sa pleasujre is in the pursuit- r like revenge, i wiW is generally converted inuti diap- b ~tdor tomorse as soon as atis agpom- o ps4-od like a will-o'-tbe-wisp, 'a rutn- V n 6 lfter which, through poohs ad p'ud- s tle.dpae niot ikely to catch any think zi From the Baptist Advocate. The way Pedo-baplibts make Baptists. n the last Advocate, I perceive a letter rom Athens, in relation to a Rev. Mr. lafe preaching to his people " a course ,f lectures on the mode and subjects of Rptism,-not so much to show the pen la that the Baptists were wrong, as to novince them that thev themselves were ight." The writer has-very properly cor ected come slanderous statenents in rela on to the Baptists, but I hope he feels o alarm lest the cause of the Iible-hb-p sm ahould suffer in conseq'aence or the ttenptb of this Ptdn,biptist brother to nlsterup the sinking cause of infan' sprink ig. If he does, I can aseure him .uch a alarm is unnecessary. The cause of uth on this subject is in no danger, for ,aptist principles were never advancing 'ith greater rapidity thain'tiey now are. 'his cause is safe enough already. and our correspondent may rest assured that tempts lik- that of this good brutlier are will render its safety still more cer in. I candidly believe that the most ef ctual way to make Baptists is for Piado spaits to present befure their penple the imay arguments by which they defend in it 'prinkliug; and I have reason to think at the shrewdest among the Pario-bap. it fretds understand this too. In cofirmatimos of this remark, I witl Into a circumstarc tiint !a:ely occurred Welitn;;on, in the Stare of Connecticut: The celebrated Seth Vinton, graudfa ier ofone or our misioraries in lHurmah, id: for. tiany years been connected with Pedo-baotist Cerregation.. A few onths since htr called upon the Baptist inister, and addressed him in subsiance follows: Mr. C. are you willing to iptize we? our minister, Rev. Ur. B., s been preaching two serions to prove rant ba ptism, and these two sermons Ive settied my mind on the subject of iptiam. - If on arguments except such as - employed can be used in defence or in ni apritnkling, I am satisfied.the Baptists tut be right." HIis request was complied ith, -and in his old age, he was buried ith Christ in baptism. My informant as Deacon Hosea Vinton, father.of the issionary, and son of the old gedtleman. DELTA. Repeaters and the Priest.-Theri hai ien quite a flare-up among the members the Repeal Association of this .city, bich is attributed to certain expressions ming from Mr. O'Connell, the great ish Repealer.. wherein he reflects,in a ost ungracious manner upon the aitizeiis this country for not being abolilionists; r instance, he pronounces "every man a ithles miscreant who does not take part. r the abolition of slavery." and says in iother place, "shame and disgrace upon M." By one portion of the Society this tguage was not to be borne, and they pressed their earnest dissent from any ch ultra views. - Another portion sus Iced him in ttese mischievous serti eats. The consequence was. after a isy debate on receiving the report of the )mmittee, *hich disapproved of Mr. 'Conell's views as regards slavery in is country, that the report was rejected. Nis brought about the resignation of Mr. okes, the President. and Mr. food, the >rresponding Secretary. But at the it meeting Dr. Atoriarty, a Catholic riest, appeared on the stand; the whoic semt. ly cheernd his presence. and his eech acted like magic. After presenting resolution for reconsidering the. vote otn D rejection of the report of the. Commit 1, which was carried enthusiastically, lie oo moved the adoption of it, which was rried by acclamation almost unanimous Wea notice this occurr.e for ti.e par-. cse o 'owing the power of~ a [Romtisth i n Catholic pi.. '-ould have worked e changeo wicht took. p!:,en in the minds those individ ur.1s who.only ::few nights fore. had vioced :0 reject the r of a committee ! Tue Very Rev. Dr. mur' ye seen and feared then breaking up of organization which, if not no~w under s sway of the Porpe, may very soon be me a strong arm of his power in this utry, and he no donht considered it portant to ptut a stop to nov rupture id unite them as one tman. llis success is unboundd. The meeting could hear one but Dr. Moriarty. ie was the lb. red hero of tho evening, and should Mr. okes decline to withdraw his resigns. in, it would not surprise us If Dr. M'ori ty be elected president in his place. riptist Adlvocate.. A ,Paing Question.-Rosseau asks a humane, moral, and enlightened rea r, what isu would do if he could enrich mielf, withfott moving frem Paris,. by zoinr, the death warrant of an innocent di Mandaritn of China?' A conscientious d Frenc~hman might urge that we have right to do wrong in crder that. good ny come of it ; hut he would at the same nre moot the question, whether it would wrong to put an old Mandarin not of 'a misery. taking it for granted, that he uqt be in a wretched state of health from o inordinate use of opium. supplied to mn by the unfeeling arid unprincipled nglish. ' And the pious Gaul would rther argue, that, though it wrould be andulous to procure the death -of a fel W eiature to enrich himself he was nund,.ss a father, to consult the interests f his eftttdre: whereupon a tear-of pa. snial love would start into his eye. and lhe ronld sign ihlis delath-warrant with a sen mental ejaculatiotn. ded to a plain English John Bull. durinj the late war with the Celesial Empire ie would probably exclaim. "Whal !' have Inot always been laugh! to make money-honestly if I could, but atall events to make money-aud are not the Chinese our enemies. whom w< are bound to destroy by every means it our ower ?" "True," might be rejoined ; "but thit Spodr old Mandarin is a non-conbatant : he has never done you any harm, and it would hardly be in conformity with the laws of religion and humanity to put him to death for nothing." "But." retorts John Bull, "it would he inperferted cinformity with the laws ol war. Besides. I don't put him to death for nothing. I should scorn such a mean anl crual act-I do it to enrich nyseell'. lad I been but a physician. I might have done.uhe same towards.scores of my fel low-countrymen. only the warrant would have been written in Latin-so give rue the pen." Let us imagine the nsme question sub miuted to the decision of a pour devil of an author. 4 "How-what !" he .would excrlaim "get suddcnly rich by my own writing,.und none Of the money to go to the publisher ? Dune-done! Where's the pen and ink. where's the paper 1 As to the Mundai. he need noi shake his gory locks at me. The day of his death shall he the happiest of his life, for I'll write his E'pieediutn.and imor'iralize him by publisbing it in the New Monthly M3egazinc. Fair Ikaling.-N' dineovery in relation to an intimate i% more pav:..al than that your conlidencein him haas bcco' mis!placcl -that he has been converting your seerl-d of which he has been '1r rposntory.*to the benefit of an enemy. or ihw l-e' hhnq misinformed and deceived you in rela:iqn to himself. All lasting and profitable so cial intercourse rests upon the iasis of truth-and no oi her foundation will suffice. A false or indiscreet friend is worse than a declared enemy-for you are on your guard against the latter, while the specious dissimination of the first disarms caution, and !hrows you completely in the power of his concealed malice or reckless care lessness. , K fat Brake! spoke' all the agony of deieived friendship. Atlhough there might have been -Roman virtue" in the immo lation of Cesar by his friend, there was the.abseuce of that fair which no conven tional ereed of morals can fiud a substitute -.the .danral, honest virtue of sincerity. All the plaudits of parisans--all the var nish of cotemporary fiatterers, could not, it seems to us, have erased from the mind's eye of the false friend the reproachful look of anguish of his dying victim. How cut ing is the repeated sarcasm in the reputed speech of Anthony "And Brutus is an honorable man !" ,1 -- Filial Afection.-A dutiful and obedient daughicr alw ys makes a devoted and faithful wife. Let no man, as he values his own happiness, marry a woman of tin unfilial nature. In spite of the guide of lago, there was much wisdom in his re mark to Othello. when exciting the Moor to - snspicion of Desdemona's integrity : "She has deceived her father, and may thee!" There is no trait of endearment more pleasing than the confiding tenderness of a young maiden in the care and vigilance of her mother. If site be an only child, the pleasure with which we contemplate her silent anti cheerful acquiescence in every maternal dictate, is greatly en hancel. When the sentimen: of love is first awakened it. the heart of such a one, t seems rather o deelgen titan t',diver; the stramu of her filial eletion. No mnn should b~e so acltish 0r S) noswice as to de sire the lessening ofl that pure and hoty obedince, which is the best assur:unee of his own enduring felic'ity. lliappy is lhe wio has wvon for hitmsetf th3 l'mnd love of a vungi~ creature, whose life has bieeni guarded lby a mother's prayers. andI irto who'" spirit the genttle infl..ences oh. a mother's praya'rs, and into whose spirit the gentle itnfluenect af a niner's mindi have descended, like dews erto the pet als of a flower, which might else lhave faded in the mnerning of life. Young rt-llp Your-srle -s.-Pro vidence." we are toh'i, "helps them who help themselves.' A trute proverb. and worthy to be stamped on every heart. Passing on through life, you will find many a stream that wilt cross yom- path-but don't sit down and mourn, if you cau't wade acrossithrow in stone a to stand upon or bring forth a dead tree from the forest, and you will soon .make a bridge and be ifo on the epposite side. To-day you are opposed in your project. Don't stop -don't go back-smeet the opposer-per severe and you will conquer--Providlence will assist yoU. You have failed in bulss ne,-eome out from under the toad stool of despondency and try again ! Zoundst if you dlon't help-yoursoir and piersevere you will do nothing. and be punched at lby every beggar, n'nd ever pauper on crutch es, who passes along. Your friends have died-bury .them-htit don't linger -in the church yard mourning hecause they are gone and you may go tnext. Up with yon throw off your tears and-go to work and be happy-'tia the-only way. in Gnue, help yourselves in all places-at all times, and Providence will' assait y0ou, smile on you. and make life a scene of active enjoymtent and reat~pleaure. *The people, the otly sourse of legii ma nower.' The Light Fantasjic Toe-No Go. We are told by the Osorver, a sectarian I per. published in ihiscity, thattbe Taird ' .resbytery of New York iat a recent ses sion. after a very full discussion, unanii- i mously adopted a resolution, declaring it a as "their judgment, that the prevalent I practice of dancing as aln amusement is t sinful, and ought not to receive any coun- ; tenance from the friends of virtue and good r order. Andfurther. that any participa tiOn therein on the part of professing Chris- a li:us, must result in serious iujury to their v spiritual state, scandal to the Christian ii cause, and peril to the souls of unconverted g men. Hence iho Presbytery judge tha a Ithe practice is not to be admitted in the it church of Chiist ; an-i that cases of mem bers engaging in, it personally, orsuffering p it ill their children in a state-of minority. fr either in fatmily parties, schools, or places is of umu-ement. ought with prudence and al in the spirit of Christian smeekness, yet It with energy. to bO taken cognizance of by cl the proper church authorities and ccrrec- ir ted."-N. Y Erening Post. ii { Comets and Jlomen.-The subjert of C the nature olcomets has probably never o< excited more study or inquiry, than bitnce re the appearance of the retarkab1le comet p of 1834. which lately, Don Quizote-like, al ran at the tilt of the sun. But after all the calculations and in vesgat ions of learn- te ed philosophers andl astrononers. the result ti will probably not vary a great deal fram oi the conclusions at which a philosopher and ci a wit arrived some five and twenty years at ago, viz : - p: "Comets doubileis answer some wise su and good purpose in the creation : so do women. Comets are incompreheusible, es beautiful, anal excentric ; so are women. re Cumrta shine with peculiar splendor, but w at uight .pp.7t maost splendi-l; so do wo- de mn111. Con!s ar eelnped with a lucid aco neuls. t'arough which their forms ar viii- rsii ble: so are those of the woton through as their light and elegant attire. Cornets confound the most learned men when they si< ntteipt to le:trt-their nature ; so do wo- th men. Comets equaIly excite tho admira- at tion of the pAilosiopher and of 'the clod of nz the valley;' PA) do women. Comets and ju women, are tiercfore closely analagous, ce but the nature of each being inscrutable. pr all that remains for us to do, is to viei A, with admiration the one, and almost to sh admiration love the other." at Oregon Convention.-A. conAntion of o delegates from States in the valley of the de llissisaippi. was held at Cincinnati on the pt 3d. 4th and 5th inst, to take intonoansider- pt ation the pmprietv.&c.,ofim medintely set to iling the territorv,w ith other matters which pc might be brought hefoge it, in relation to a that interesting section of our republie. T1ls th thowin- resolutions and declarations E comprehcd the matiared deliberations and pc fital action of the convention. They are the most important documents put forth. de Col. Richard M. Johnoi was president of th the canvention :-Ball. Sun. Resolzed, That the right of the U. Statec to the Oregon Territory. fro-n 42" to 454 dc 40' north latitude, is unquestionable. and that it is the imperntive duty of the Gener- ch al Government.. forthwith, to extend the laws of the U States over said territory. de Recolted further, That to encourage migration to and the permanent nod so- rc care settlement of said Territory. the Con - tic grss 'F the U. States ought to establish a line of forts from the lissouri river to the ch Pacific ocean-and provide a!so an effi- de cient naval force for the protection of the - territory and its citizents, Pc Resolred, That for the purpose of mak ing known the causes and principles of tic 4ut1r action, the following declaration is unanimously adopted and now signed by the members of this convention, witz -in- tit s -urin to the' ofBeers thereof to transenit acptothe President of the U. States, nad to ach member of Congress-ond also to the Executive of th~e everalStates, Iwith a reuest to present the same to their lit respective legislatuires: .4 adlation of esti~ens nf the M1ississipp d i Valleyj. assembled si Coarention at (in cinanati, July 5th, l843. for the purpese lie of adopting such maeasuresaa may int duce the immediate occupatiamof the v Oregon*Territory, &j'y the arms and lawes of the U. States of North Amseria. sil We the undersigned. citizens of the .'.'sissippi valley, do hereby declare ,to cc our (cuo~w citizens of the whole Republic. cc that in urging forward measures for the immediate occupation of the Oresom Te-r ritory antd the north-east coast of. the Pa. Si ci~e ocean, fromt 42* to 5-1* 40' north lati- to tueo-.we are but performing a duty we H owe. to -ourselves-to the Republic-to the c@ commercial nationgof the world-to pos- UI terity and to the people of Great Britain ht and Ireland, not ns we believe to be bene- bc fitted by the further extension of her Em- di pire. m Duty to ourselves requires that we hi should urge immediate occupation of the he Oregon, not only for the increase and*ez- hi tension of the west, but for the security of ot our peace nnd safety, perpetually threaten edl by the savage tribes of the north-west. That ibis deity is required of us as due to G the whole Repuiblic-all parts of whlich di may not appreciate as they seem not to u have appreciated the value of the territory hi in qusstion and its political importance to a the .honor~ prosperity: and --power of the hi Union, tosay nothing of our commer'eial , interests and naval predominance, threat- it ened as they are with injury or diminu- fi tion should the north east coasts of the u Pacific ocean pass into possession of a I great naval power. That na an inepnant rneanher of tha ei :rest family or nations, it is due from as o the whole commercial world, that -the rtis on both coas-sof this continent shold e hield by a liberal goveroment. able and rilling to extend and.racilitato that social r.d commercial intercutirse which an all vise providence nas . made necessary for Ne intellectual improvement, @be social appiness and moral culture of the humaa ee. That we owe the entirp and absolute reupation of th.Oregoon to that pisterity -hich withoutleach occupation 'by the c. zens, laws and free institutions of an rent Republic could-not profit or make rilable to themselves or- to Ih world the mportant considerations above set firth. That however indignant at the, avarice ride and ambition of .Creat Britain, so egnedy, lawleesly andotatelyevinced, e yet believe thai it is for the beneit of I civilized nations that she-should futial gitimate dr-tiny : but, that she should be se-ked in her career of aggrssfon with 2punity anti dominion withmou righ. That for tie independence and centrali. of the western coast of the American ontinent, and the Islands of the Pacific rean, itls iimportant that she should be strained in The further extension of her )wer oa these coasts, and in the middle A eastern portion.of that oceade . That so far-as-regards our rights to the rritory in question, -we are assured of air perfect integrity-blased as they are disCSery and exploration by our owa izens and Government, and on purchase d cession from those powers having tha etence or the reality of any right to the me. That beyond these rights, so - perfectly tablisbed, we - would feel compelled to loin the whole territory in accordance ith Mr. Monroe's universally approved. claration of 1832.: that the American otinents were not thenceforth to be eon fered subjects for future colonisation by .yforeign pwer. Influeuced by these reasons and con lepations so important tI-the West and a whole Republic-to liberty-to justice 6 d free govertnments, we do subscribe our n3es to. this declaration wittibthe firm. it and matured determination never td men our exertions till its intentions and inciples are perfected,. ad the north nerican republiW whose etieus we are, all have,-established its. laws, its arme d einttutlions frtu the storesof the Icifie to the Rocky Mountalas. thongh. t the territories abve specie"d, and we .,3e11byprotest as'we shall continue to otesi; Tainst ay set or negoeiatien, st, in process, or hereafter to be perfec i*hich ihal give passessio. of any rtion of the same to any .ogn power, d above nl do - wb remdenstae Against D possession of any part' of the Northr. st coast.of the Pacific Ocean by the wer of Great Britain. o. .# - . . ... tSigued by Col. R. M. Johnson, Presi. ni, and ninety citizens of six States in Missisippi Valley.j - Democratic Principles.-Jeferson lays tin the 'ollowing principles a - - - - *'The absolute and lasting severance of urch and State.' -The freedom, sovereigty, and itdepen. nce of the respective States., -The Union, a confederacy, a compact. ither a consolidation uor a centraliza 'The Constitution of the Union, a speJ i written grant of powers, limited and finite.' 'The civil paramount to the military wer.' of 'The representative to obey the instruc as of his constituents.' - 'Elections free, and enrage unaiversal." 'No hereditary office, nor order, nor le.' 'No taxation beyond the pubtic wants.* 'No national debt, if possible.' 'No costly splendor of adminaistration.. 'No proscription of opinion, nor of pub disenssion.' - 'No unnenessary interference -'with in ridual-conduct, property, or speech.' 'No favored classes; and no monopo 'No public moneys expended except by srnt of dyecifie a ppropriatloodi 'No mysteries in . Gov'ernment inaces tIe to the public'eye.'' 'Public compensation for public ser'vi a, moderate salaries, and pervading e nomy and accountability.' A Female Deceier.--A (armer, in thes ate of Ne w York, recntly fell anyletim the tender passion and an artful woman. a was a widower, and smitten with- the, irnas of-a fascinating widow, who took' bser reideonce in that guarter, heclfered r his hand and borne. She accepted, rrowedt 400 est her unsuspecting lover,' parted for Roehester to receive some oaey she said was due her there, and s not sinep returned.- -She has ,nl en heard of to know that 'this mase 4 is been successfully practised by her at liar places. Anecdote of General Lee.-When the. eneral was a prisoner at Albany.,be ned with an irishman. Before enterias on the wine, the GJeneral remnarked. -to a bost, 'that, after drinking he was very' a itto iss frishmen-or which he hopied s bost would. axcose him in -advance. Ity myj soul, General, K will do- that,", td his host, '-if you will excuse astilling nit which 1 have myself. It is this henever I hear a man abasing Ireland, have a sad fault of cracking his' sesees ith ngy shilelmugh." ,The General was 'eI dueringthe whole eveniag'