University of South Carolina Libraries
ILITICAL. jetic Petersarg pic. It may be profitable for us to enquire into the pretensions of the individuals who are spoken as the most prominent candi dates before The Convention of 1844. for the prsidency of these United States, and as the most prominent. because, he is =de so by the force ofcirrumstauce, we wilU begin with Mr Van Buren: There arefw men in -the course of a long and active public 3ife. wbe can look back on thope"t and God they have done no one ast which may be objected to; in this re Mr. Van Buren stands almost un ,ialled as to any act or commision, but he was content to have the mantle of that great man who preceded him in office placed upon his shoulders, and with whom 1A s glory enough to have served one term as his chief-and that great man, with alihis high bearing. known patriotism and honesty of purpose, had his faults too, which drove from his administration many of the sait of the laud. To use a cant ex pression 9Mr. Van Buren had not been promiesen per ; and however great his owa pretenesons may be in this land of freedom and intelligence. they will not be .permitnod to reflect continued influence from any other source. There as, at least in Vi3na, a very large and respectable body men who separated from General Jackson's administration about the time of hiefsoelamatios and the Force bill, who have identiaed Mr. Van Buren so com -pl:eli with these measures, and all the objectouable parts of that administration, that they will be uncompromiingly op posed to his re-election; and if he does Selsve the nomination, will either cast their votes upon his Whig competitor; or else give no votes at all. Besides, in a community of20,000,000 of souls, when the aveiage life time of man is estimated the years of but two terms of the Presi ,; it would be too much like monopoly of hbiagbest olice in the gift of the peo ple to nominate Mr. Van Buren or a iecond term--nless his claims were most undoubtedly superior to those of all others spokes of as candidates; which will not be conteuded for ba the most zealous par tian It has always been too much the fashios in this land of liberty to heap office Upos-okes upon political aspieants, even down to our own County candidates and hmbmers of Congress, when many ot bers f far mon merit are permitted to remain in obscurity---because they do not them seles, nor select trumpeters to sound Ibeir prae before the people. The highest 45 of the Union should be the exclusive reward of merit, and services which may beweUkmown to the whole coun:ry. Men are osen more indebted for fame to the times in which they live, than to any tran Susndatr virtues, or peculiar endowments. 7Few men carve out their own Yortunes few by their own talents, by original .n tive fore, attain a distinguished position. Such sand at long intervals inthe space eftime-and such a man we will have in .ran C. Caesou, who will come into the Y of this Union identified with States Rcht Republican principles and anbamene by the petty party conside atns of the times. There can be no objection to MI Van Baron as a politician. He is clearly the Ngorthern man with Southern principles. But it must be admitted by all, that the =sost efficient lever made use of by the Whigs in the canvass of 1840, was the one term principle. General Washington set the example to remain in office only two iennsofthe Presidency, and Genefal Hiar siee most avowedl came into office on tha ane term princile and is equally en sitledtotheredlt ofthatprecedent. Such is the fore. of this consideration with the poethat it in to he lamented .3lr. Tyler did ot. nor is it yet too late for him to say, - bat he will not he a candidate for re-elec ties. There are no doubt many reforms *aosslto be made in .11ec. and if tbis isomcoul he be divested of the charge .teletio ~senemKO ing, it would have . ~most salutary influence upon the body -o ti, qad would give him a claim at e. future day, when his services will be prpry appreciated by all Republicans m ade there would be no semblance of enSiet with the one term principle. Mr. * Yan Bure. has been Minister to London. an~d has bees rewarded for his proscription of a factious Senate by the V ice Presi * se.of the United States, for one term of Jackson's admiaistrati~n; then by the amssso to the Presidency for one term cand aflerwards bythe unanimous and suapport ofthe Republican party when be was badly beaten by the bamaned. laron. Is net this enough ootfqr one man in the short term of a'eisteneat Is it fair to set aside * ebh.mes as Calhon and Cassand Bu asesa and Johnson for the exclusive hger of one man who has already been iseAsa hosored by the Nation. Since * bb days eWsington,. there has been sis an prescrnptive right to office .tbeongsala alike to the people ; and lt wlbe~weB to give some heed to tbe psiasiple of rotation In offie as more con oenan to Republicanism, more particular ly in oefees of Ezeensive appointment, where-there is so peuliar talent nor ex perience required for the discharge of the d'uties, and where the pay is often-times ot of allpooto to the services ren dered: once in ofie always in office seems to be the motto. Is conclusion it will be acknowledged nae alihands, that Mr. Clay and Mr. Cal mee ae te ost inent leaders of the whIosw diidesbis nation; and which have eendosned esod. so since the Airst for mities of the Goverumest, nder she zusof several diferent denominations, -la as matter by what name, they have -all been theesame thinlg. And as it will bowell to have sope permanent and set .. ted policy, anter vacillanieg for such a bIsetweea the two extremes, let us all bmeyand injood faith, as Re ossnae JkaC atoua; veasis a fairAeidhby the Yed, = enilae, is as quietly acquiesce la'the ,lll efimtg~ . JACKSON. Thej who talk de~ang.of women, haenot suffeient tsse sterslish their useecies, or parityenoughtloteart their Iemaintance. From the Alaeause Beacon. In an able communieation from the pen or an Alabamian. published in the Globe of the 29th alt., we find the following sentence : The down trodden democracy of South Alabama, sader the ' spirstoas ofthe amere ckaxec a of Als (Mr. Calhoun s) nomination is rousing i itself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking I his half grown locks. Slake him tie candidate i of the party, and soon the familiar shouts of I victory of the sturdy democracy of North Ala bama would be re-echoed bhsill SOxder peals I from the regenerated south.' The writer, whoever he may be, of the com manication from which the foregoing extract is taken, is a man of clear discrimination and, withal, a close and logical reasoner. We q=eote t as evidence of the correctness of a imilar * pinion expressed by us in ie two last numbers of our paper. If-we may Judge by the annexed paragraph the eastern coons are disposed to show their 1 teeth at the "watchword !" The Mercantile Journal expresses the following opinion:- I - In New England, it is now pasta doubt i that he will be unable to obtain the vote of a single State. His nomination in this Com monwealth to the Presidency, carried discord and paralysis into the Whig ranks. The en ihusiasm of his friende and adherents are not responded to by the great body of the People of New England, who are opposed to his eetion su various grounds, satisfactsrg, at least, to hexmstres. It is not only unwise, but impolite to press with pertinacity upon his countrynen the claiis of this distinguished individual te that high office." The opinion of theJournal was given before the late election had taken place, and we sus- I pect it will be rather strengthened than weak eied by the overwhelming defeat which Whiggery has met with, with -Henry Clay for its watchword," proving, as it must, that " the enthisiasm of his friends and adherent is not responded to by the great body of the peu ple of a- of the states." Evea Kentucky lame broken loose, and the Farmer of Ashland feels the earth trembling beneath him at the very door of his dwelling.-Bal. RrpaUican. Th6 -- Watachord."-The National Intelh gencer, alluding to the late election in Tennes see. says - at every point the name of H enry Clay was the watchword of our party." This was the reason, we suppose, why the Demo crats carried a majority of the members of Con gress in that State, and other States where the "1 watchword" was Ileary Clay aud his na tional policy and nmearures. The name of Henry Clay was the " watchword" in Louisi ana ; and,'in order that the - %atchword" m'-ht have more virtue in it. the ' Great Em oimnent' bimself paid a visit to that State and aiding his friends in starting the August cam paign, the result of which has been a total route of the coons by entire States. In Lou isiana. Indiaosa. Illinois North Carolina and Alabama, - the name of Henry Clay was the watchword of the party," and in each of these State there is not as much fur left on the coons as willsutlice to stop the bleeding of the wound ed. -Old Doeinion, The Roast Beef of the Tarif.-The pheno menon of a prhibitive tariff to keep out the results of-' pauper labor of Europe," followed immediately by a general reduction of the wages of the operatives to the lowest point. has been noticed and commenteid upon through !be country. It has been the cause of many 'strikes.' in most of which the laborers have merely made the discovery of their helpless nm, and been speedily starved intosubmission. In Lowell where the 'lords of the loom, are strongest, the 'rehels' were outlawed and not altowe-d to returned to any employment in any of the factories. We find a new ease in the Boston papers a 'rebellion' of the journeymena tailors against a grievous reduction of their wages. No part of the tariff is more onerous than that upon woollens and upon all kinds of read made clothing. If any body can be beneItted by protection, those who made woollens, and work them into clothing, ought to grow rich. In the meeting of the journeymen tailors alluded to, William C, Patterson, an reply to a call, addressed the meeting, and declared that certain proprietors of extenasi ye clothing estab lialunents had combined together to reduce the lrices, and had so far succeeded, that for months past industrious mensk kept fauiehfalfg atatork uigkt and da ,had bera a~letocearn oaly (ross $3 top 5eak At these rates, he said at was amos:'le for men to support their fa miies; while at the prices proposed by the society nmen would only be able to earn from $7 50 to $9 peer week, working full hours. And at s for this "-$3 to $5 a week" that the laboring classes of New England sell them selves to the protective par'ty ! And they will find, as they have found, that each ste p of this factithots , systemc is upon their ncethat each aequisition of power is a power to grind them. and that the rivalry ver soon will he between -"the pauper laboir ofEurope" and the pauper labor of Amnerica.-Chamleston Mfer The A behtionists.-These gentry held a Convention at Bnf'alo, last week, at which James G. Birney, of Michigan, was nominated as a candidate for Vice President. A resolution was passed in which they assert that they do not feel hound to respec't the third clause of the fourth article of the Constitution, when ever applied to the case of a fugitvo slave. They say they will treat it "as utterly null and void, and consequently. as form ing no part of the Constitution of the Unii Sod States, whenever we are called upon, or sworn to support it." We hope the the Constitution may serve this attack Balt imore Sua. Fatal aifruy at Elki on, Md-.T he Baltimore Patriot says a fatal rencontre took place at Elkton, Cecil couty, AMd. between- Amos T. Forward, a lawyer of that village, and formerly a democratic member of the Legislature from Cecil county. and Palmer C. Ricketta. editor and proprietor of the Cecil Whig, pu b!ished at Elkton. The Patriot says, Rikett's bad leen the Post Office with his papers when be was met by Forward whbo seized him by both arms. Ricketus quickly disengaged himself and drew a revolyang six barrelled pistol, from which he discharged four barrels, the first mis sing and the three otbers taking effect and causing death son after. Forward was armed with a pistol, dirk and cane. but had not an opportL.-ity of using any of them.-Norfolk Beacon, 24 inst. Newo use of the Tomato.-T he Cheraw Gazette stales that, in addition to the advantages ofthe Tomato for table use, the vine a ocgreat value as food for cattle. especially cows. It is stated that a cow fed on Trouato vines will give more milk ad yield butter of a finer flavor and in greater abundance than of any other long reed ever tried. It is thpught, too that I more food for cattle, and at less expense I :an be raised from a given qaatit~y of ground planted in Tomatoes than from 1 ey other vegetable known in the South- I . FOREI~iI. Nuw OLZashs SueT. 7. From Mferieo.-By the Pachr. Amazon. which strived here from era Crux, yestcrday evcn rig, we lave received our files of papeers fron be citv of Mlexjco to the 19th August. The ,ouner Francais contains several items of in elligence which we transcribe. Santa Ana published on the th uni ,a decree elative to the right and privileges of loretgneris if which the following are the provisions: Art. lt. The favors, privileges or franchises Iranted by the civil law, and which are not in :luded within the spheT'e of the comtronto law, hall extend solely to lexican subjects, to the :xclusion of foreigners. Art. 2d. The said exclusion shall not prevail n cases in which said favors. privileges, or iranchises shall be ezpressly graited to foreign irs by the laws, or shall he fixed by reLpectre reaties. The sanme principle shall apply to iranchises accorded, not through personal con ideration, but on arouot of public benefit ac ruing to the Republic from such concessioti. Ar 2. The said exclusion shall moreover not pply to die pnvileges granted for the exercise f any profession or business carried on by oreigners in the Republic Signed,) ANiTouns LorXi OR SA1vA ANA. By a decree of 14th August, the 1it of ar cles, tie importation of w~ich has been pro ibited, is increased to an enormous extent. ['he Courier Francais gives the general featurps f this ordinance. Carriages, cabs, and every pecies of fore'gn vehicles; harness, hats, fua ture, pianos, dohlls and toys: goeld. silver. cop. er. gilt and plated manufactures ; iron and teel do.; tin and zinc do., aie all prohibitea inder psnalty of coniaenation. The ordinance goes ito force four months fer its publientioni in the capital, in respect to argoes arriving at portS onil the Gulf ofllexico, ned s.it nionthlis afner. in re.pect to those rriving in pirts tin the Pacific, Gulf of Carli ornin anel Califnia Sea. One year is given for the removal of the ,,ols i,'cluded in thi.i prohibitory decree and ow in lexico, nater which period.they will be nfieated, Since penning the above, we have received ntelligence aniwuucing that the primary elec iotns For Consgrese hail taken place, and in all bie depoartmsent heard froin up to the 22d ult.. Io Saista An party load lost the day- Santa tiea was shortly expo-eted at 1anga de Clavo, sis hacsenda ieear Vera Cruz, where it was selieved lie would make his arrangements fur he ovelthrow of this Congress. The law prohibiting die importation of vari me articles hitherto allow ed. is looked upon by hie ncreantile conmunity in Vera Cruz, and hronghout Mlexico, with great dissatisfaction. We learn that seventeen of the Perote iritoners have made their escape, and orders lave been forwarded to the various seaports in blexico. t, leave every vessel that leaves strict y seaicbed.-Bee. From St. Doningo.-Captain Mann, of he brig Mohican, eighteen days from Port u Priuce. reports that when he left in lligence had been rc:cived that a revolt ind broken out at Aux Cayes. Thie re >els were headed by one calling himself Kink Solomon the Jrst," and their num ,ers were said to be two thousand. The National Guards and all the citizens of Port au Prince, capable.of bearing arms, ere ordered to prepare for in mediate march, to assist in subduing the rebels, and were waiting for the return of Gene al Rivera, who was at the noith of the stand. quelling an insurrection caused by he Spaniards. The patriots at Aus 'ayes were under the command of Gen. Luzara. On the 9th of August, a hattle was ought near Aux Cayes, which resulted n the defeat of the rebels, having ono iundred. The patriotism of Gen. Lazara as questioned by the mulattoes; he be. ng black, but if he should prove true to le cause of tho Pat riots, the rebels would indoubtedly he obliged to capitulate. We are inifurmed that the cuase of the nurrection was a jealosy existing on the part of the blacks, occasioned by the fact hat when the mlantoes filled all the most onspieuous offices of Government, while he blacks were obliged to be content with he inferior grades. Up to the hour of the brig's sailing no urther advices had been received from rux Cayes, and Getn. Rivera had not ar rived frotm Purt au Prince, but was hour 7expected. All was quiet there at the me of sailing.-N. Y. Cour. 4f Eng., 3tk inst. Through the politeness of Ca pt. M'Crea y, of brig New England, from Aux Ca rs, we are favored with an extratet of a etter from a gentleman residing in that ity to his frientd in New-York "On my arrival I learned that a second revolution ad broken out and of a more dangerous :iaracter than. the former one, inasmuch as that was for a strife for powerhbetween the mulatto and negro, both fighting for he supremacy, but peace and tratnquility will never lie restored to the people so long as there ate two grades of color among lhem, The major part of those noW in power are mulattnesa;of these the blacks lave a well gro'.nded jealousy, and de mand an eqtual share of pub lie trust, which hey have refused to them; yet as they number four-flfths of the whole populs lion, the policy of the former has enlisted som few of the most ambitions blacks by a few unimportant offices. The Insur gents are headed by a Judlge Solomon. and his two sons ; they occupy the top of a hill near this place, and are said to be urrounded by a large body oef Govern nent troops, whor are waiting he arrival of Gen. Lozar from Jerimie with a reinforce' ment. He is Commander-in-Chiefoit the Divisioc. and is said to be a man of' eaner y; his appearance is anxiouesly looked or. The cily is under martial law and very man is under arms: the GI re "n~tines ire filled with water and manned night and day ; every avenue leaditing :o tiue city completely guarded ; for a few days usineess was almost wholly suspended. I'he inhahitants removed their tnost valt. able effects on board the shipping in the arbor; large numbers of wonten and hildren also went on board. Continual kirishing take place between: the hel igerets ; rumbers of prisoners have been aken and sent to Port au Prince. The :offee crop, which is nearly rire, will rail lii tie, as most of the cultivators are oseripted into the army."-Ibid. Late from Compechy-An American Taptain A rrested.-Captain Sturdivaut. of he brig Charlotte, which arrived at Port ad of Monday night, from Cape H aytien, ports that a few days before he sailed, r. Usher, the Amentean Consul there, ad received a letter from Gonaives from !ant Thomas, of the br'ij 7ebra, of, North Yarmouth, sating tihat The Cap) rain of an English vessel hail made ceve veral attempts to entice away his crew, and had come alongside of the Zebra in his boat for three evening to take them of, the crew consenting. That on londay evening, when he had come alongside again for this purpose, Capt. Thomas advised him not to prosecute his attempts, huti to go fran hi, vessel; but the Eng lish Captauiu still persisted, encouraged Nv the Zebra's crew. "Capt. Thomas had employed a Hay lien to assist him in preservi:; Iis mien. mad had placed a loaded mausiet within his reach. Capt. Thomans and the hlay lien both warnei' him that if he did not go sway he would he fired at. But while the English Captain was within a few fa hoins of the Zebra, he exclaimed that if me was fired at he would return the fire, it the same time raised sonmcthiing in his land which probably the Hlaytten suppo ied to be a musket; on seeing this, he fi red, and so wounded the English Cap ain. that he died soon after. Captain T. ind his mate were examined the next orning by the Haytien magistrates, and :ommimted to prison, there to await the decisions o, the authorities at Port an Prince. Capt. Thomas had written to $1r. Usher to come immediately over to h's issistance, which he had learnt the de rision at Port au Prince, his presence ihould still be needed. No further infur nation had been received on the subject ben Capt. S. sailcl.-Boston Times. Fmm the National latdligencer of Monday. NEws FROM THE l'aAtaIEt. We have been politely furnished by a ;entleman of thais place (says the Exposi or, published at Independence, M issouri.) with a letter from a gentleman at Fort William, New Mexico.) who is well ac luainted with the movements of the Texi nso and the Mexicans. We commend it o the attention ofour readers: FORT WILLAa Aug. 8, 1843. We have been on the qui viva for the ast two months in consequence of the rexians being on the river below us. rhey captured a party of Mexicans, and when the news of their capture reached Santa Fe there was a very great excite ment. The foreigners were much abused. As they make no distinction between A. mericans and Texians. they are all Tex inns with them. Lea and Beauben, of Tons, narrowly escaped with their lives rom the mob; the house of the latter was plundered of most of its contents. Some of the Americans of less note wero tried and otherwise ill-treated. On the 4th of July I had intelligence of the crossing by the Caravan of the Big Arkansas, since then I have had no further inforamation from them, but I am inclined to think that they have gone through safe. There was a Texian here some ten or fifteen days, on his way to the mountains ; he inform id me that there was a general dissatisfac ion in the Texian camp, and that in all probability they had broken up and dis persed When Armejo. the present Governor of Santa Fe. received intelligence of the cap ture of his party sent to the crossing of the Arkansas, hie retreated to Santa Fe with all speed, as the account given him of the number of Texians had been much exog g erated. On his arrival at Santa Fe be ad information by express that a part o the Texians had been captured by the United States Dragoons, and that the Texians had not at any time, exceeded two hundred in number. H e then ordered twvo hundred troops to protect the Caravan, but his orders were disobeyed, and the troops refused to march. From the last information I have fromt Santa Fe, Armejo was in great danger, and there wore strong symptoms of a re volution against the Goverannt. YfIMCE L LANE OUS. Prospectsof thec United States.-In 1840, the Utated States had a population of 17, 068,666. Allowing its future increase to be at the rate of 33 1-3 per cent, for each succeeding period of ton years, we shall umsber, in 1940,303,101,641. Past ex paience warrants us to expect this great indrease. In 1790, our number wvas 3, 927.827. Supposing it to hove increased each decade in the ratio of 33 1-3 pea cen it would. in 1840, have amounted to 16,560,256-being more than half a ama lion less than our actual number has shown by the census. With 300,000.000, we should hove less than I50 to the square mile for our organized States and Terri tories. England has 300 to te square mrile. It dloes, then, .com probable that our progressive increase will be material ly checked wvithin the one hundred years under consideration. A t the end of that period, Canada will probably number at least 20,000,0. If we suppose the por tion of our country east and west of the A palachtian chain of mountains, known as the Atlantlc slope, to possess at that time 40,000.000. or near five times its present number, there will be left 20,000,000 for the groat central region between the Apa. lachian and Roc k mnountains and be tween the Gualf of Mexico and Canada, and for the country west of the R'acky mountains. Allua ing thme Oregon Territory 10.000, 000. t here will beo left 2501.000,000O for that portion of the Atmerican States lying i~ the basins of the Mobile, Mlississippi, and Sr. Lawrence. If to these we adld 20, ti00.000 for Canada. we hove 270,000, 100 as the prubable unber that will itaha the North American valley at the end of the one hundred years commencing in 1840. If 'we suppose one-abmird, or 90. 000,000, of this number to reside in the country, as cultivators and artivators anal artisans, tihers will be 180,000,000 left for the tow ns-enough to people 360, each containing~ halfa anmillion. This does not sent as incredible as that ato valley ofi the Nile. scarcely twelve miles brosad, should have, as historians tell us, cuntain ed 20.000 cities. But lent one hundredl years seem toc lng to be relied on, in aculation havit"5 go many elements, let us see how mat ters will standl ffty ye.trs from 1840, or for ty-seven years frotm this time. Thle ratit f increase we -have adopted cannot be abjected to as extravagant for thais period, In 1890, according to that ratio, our num irwill be 72,000,000. Of those 22,.. 00,000 will be a fair allowance for the Atlantic slope. Of the remaining 50, 000,000. 2,000,000 may reside west of the Rocky mountains, leaving 48,000,000 for ithe great velley withing the States. If to these we add 5,000,000 as the population of Canada, we have an aggregate of53. 000,000 for the North American valley. One-third (or say 18,000,000)being set down as farming lalorers and rural ar lism., there will remain 35,000,000 for the towns, which might be seventy in number, having each half a million of souls. It can scarcely be doubted, that within the forty-seven years, oor agricul ture will be so improled asto require less than (one-third to furnish food an raw materials fur manufacture for the whole population. Good judges have said that we are not now more than twenty or thir ty years behind England in our husban dry. It is certain that wo are rapidly adopting her improvements this branch of industry ; and it is not to be doubted that very many new improvements will be brought out, both in Europe and Ameri ca, which will tend to lessen the labor ne cessary in the production of food and raw niat erials.-Hunt's Merchants' Magazine for July. Progress of Surgical Science in New York.-A case occurred the other day which is remarkably illustrative of the ra pid progress of surgial science in this re gion, and the singular tact and dexterity which some professors of the scalped min ifest, as well in operating on the minds as the corporeal carcasses of their fortunate patients : For the benefit of the present generation, and the races which are to come, and actuated by the purest anxiety to give all due publicity to the triumphs of an important science, we will give this case a place in our chronicle of, the times. A Irish laboror who had been employed on the aqueduct, and lost his health, whether from har& work and the aliasmata of the swamps on the upper part of the Island, or devotion to the boule, we are not informed, applied for advice to a tole rably well known surgeon and physician, who hangs out a shingle in a very respect able street in this good city. - What's the matter with you, my good fellow ?" asked the Doctor, in a tone in which con descension and dignity seemed to struggle for the supremacy " Troth your Honor, I came to you to find out that," said the invalid H ibernian, 'Show me your tongue.' maid the Doctor. " Here it is," said the Irishman, and he thrust the rebel organ out of his mouth till he got black in the face, while the surgeon stared at it through n pair of gold barnacles with an air of the rost prorofnnd mystery. " Now let me feel your pulsu," continued the Doctor, and pulling out his watcb, be very attentively counted the pulsations. "'You hve got a severe pain here," said Galen, and be poked his forefinger against the patient's stomach. " Yes, your Honor," said the patient. " It's a bad case," said the Doc tor, shaking his head- " It is," repoated the libernian, with his eyes considerably well opened. " Do you know what's the matter ?" asked the Doctor. "Anan," said the terrified patient. "Well then," said the Doctor, looking as grave as an owl-" my poor man, 1 must tell you, that the palate of your stomach is downl" - Good God !" exclaimed the poor Irish man, 'you can't say so doctor-Old musha. I'm a doad man!' " Oh! no-I can cuie you," Oh! the blessing of the Virgin and-" broke in the Irishman. " How much moncey havo you got 1" asked the doctor, cutting short the ptous aspiration of his patient. The Irishmans countoo ance fell somewrhat. as he replied-" I've got a dollar, sir, and three small childher." 'Well," said the doctor, rising and look ing very storn, " If you bring me five dol lars ll put the palate of your stomach in its place-hut you'd better get it done soon if yon wish to live ay time." The Irishman staggered home as well as he could and related the doctor's opin ion to his wife. " Well Pat," said she with the ready devotion of her sex and her country. - Ill get the five dollars." She started that day, and with a child in her arms begged for a fortnight till she collec ted the doctor's fee. The poor Irishman then returned to the dloctor's oflice-paid down the money-and the doctor, nish an infinite deal of ceremony, deliberately proceeded to make an inc ision on the chest of his victimn, from the sternum to the ensi form cartilluge-cutting, of course, ouly the skin. A few straps of adhesive plais ter wvere then pl::ced on the wound, and the patient dismissed with the enusolat ry assurance, delivered with a gracious smile, that he wvas now quite well, and "the palate of his stomach returned to its pro per place." This is the veritable report of a recett case, It is not to he found, however, in " the Journals." But it is too good to be lost. ' There are more things in Heaven and eath than are dreamt of in your phi losophy, Horatio."-Newo York Hlerald. Insanity in the. Negro race-Startinug Fact.-An article in a latu magazine, on the subject ofthsecensus of 1840 establishee, from the statistical returns, some very important and curious facts as to the rela tive3 condition, tmoral and physical, of our African population, free and slaves. It seems that in Ohio. Indiana, and Illinois, (free states,) the proportion of the insane among the colored population is one in eighty -eight; a bile in Virginia and Mlary - land. it is one in one thousand two hundred and ninety-nitne. A still more terrible inequality~ exhibits itself in the older northern states, where the negro has been longer free. In Mlassachusetts. Mlaine, New [Hampshire and Vermont, the color ed insane are one in thirty-four. If the proportion were as crest among the whites of the same states, ">5030 lunatics. Mlaine iseems. his even a morel shocking ,ii troportion-one in every fourteen in her b)lack population being insane. filas.a chusetts has a white population about equal to that of Virginia. Had she an equtal black one, she would, upon the ratio whuich holds there, have 1i,600 lutratic. for whose accomedationi she would he obligedl to lay out above nine millions in building asylums, and to inicur annual charge for their maintainance of about $l,740,000-probably' some four or five times the present entire expense of her .sta govermont. The facts as to tl'decay of the black population in the free states, and the e nortuous prevalence of crime among them ;a comparisn with the whites of the samo region, are equally strihing The wh6lo picture is appslling, and must, when men will cunsent to look at simple fact, aford a perfectly decisive argument as to the fitness of that unhappy race for freedom and the benefits which it confers upon them and the commuoties in which they are fouud.-New York Aurora. Immnae Product.-We learn (hat lill Carter, Esq. of Shirley. on James River, reaped from 160 acre., 5,28 bushels of wheat, averaging SJ bushels per acre ! this is unequalled in Virginia agricuhere. His whole crop of whea. (on 270 acres) reached the large quantity of 8.000 bush els being and average of nearly 30 bushels per acre. At Westover, the seat of John N. Sel den, Esq. on James river, 100 acre of wheat averaged 30 bushels per acre-al so a noble product ! Language for the Duasr.-C. T. Tay for writes to the I.ooisville Whig that the Rev. Mr. Andersoo, near Oak Grove, Kentucky, has discovered a method by which he can teach the deaf and dumb to, read and speak. A deaf boy who had been under his tustion but four meaths. was examined in the presence ofr Mr. T. and it was found that he read venI correctly. and pronounced distinctly w of two sylables. It is usual for mates to make ejaculatiuns indicative of fear, hoE, pleasure, pain, and suprise; and from is Mr. Anderson is said to have discoyee a language for the dumb. Enterprize of the Yankest.-Some onor of the editorial fraternity, (we do not know who,) says, that if you tell a Yankee that it is impossible to do a thing, he is sure to, try it. As an illustration, a cunning dow. easter hearing the old proverb, "it is im possible to make a whistle out or a pig tail," determined to try whether that me dious instrument of music could not be thus manufactured; he accordingly cut off his pig's tail, stripped the skin careful ly off, and gxing on a mouth piece, has a pig-tail whistle that squeaks equal to a young Berkshire. In Philadelphia the girls who make caps for the salesmen, have held a meeting and struck for higber wages. The Spirit ot the Times says the dealers haye taken advantage of the dull times and reduced the girls' wages to 30 cents per week ! Can this be possible. We sincerely trust the " turn outs" may bring these Shylocks to fair terms. Thirty cents a week! Shame! shame! Newspaper Borrowers.-It isan opinion we have often expressed, and we believe it pretty generally ectertained, that the meanest of all kinds of borrowers is the borrower of a newspaper. Some not only put their neighbor to the expense of far nishing them with the ne ws. but they are loth to allow him the privilege of looking at it himself and seem to consider they are doing him a favor by borrowin g it, not that they have received a favor in the neighbor lending it. Let the borrower, when he reads this paragraph, consider whether it is not just as cheap for him to take a paper, a9 his neighbor, and whether it would not be more just to allowl the priv~ege of reading what he pays for, without the annoyance of being asked to lend it. before he has half completed the perusal.-Chekee Advocate. Lore Powders-A beautiful woman, now, living in the vicinity of Bards town. Ky., ran away from her husband's house, a short time since in company with his brother, a youth of seventen. A fter an absence of a week or more, the lady returned homne and begged to be taken hack to the arms of her injured husband, ns she said the boy had givcn her love powders. which compeled her to go with him against her will. An amiable old lady on reading a recommendation i-i a newspaper that sal soda shotuld he used in washing paint, and tl'at by following rhis advice work conk! be done hetter and morn speedily, remark ed that "'her daughter Julia could do w~ore at washing paint in one hour than Sail Soda could in three, ntwithbatauding the printer puffed bar up in her~smartnese so much. A Bull beating a Bear.-On Thursday. the ears that c >ntained the orphans from an asyluam and a large number of ladies that hadl been with them on a pie-nic to Pratt's Garden, were arrested, on enter ing Broad street.by an empty car going out on the same track. The driver of the latter refused to turn back; and as it was late, say eight o'clock. much uneasiness was felt by the company. Threiatnings by the returning driver, and coaxings by the ladies appeared 'o be in vain, and it was final!,' agreed that the whole com pany should alight and return afoot. Before this last painful course should be adopted, one of the ladies deemed it right to make one more appeal to the ungallant atnd obstinate driver. "My good friend,oaidl she, "why will yeou not run your car back a little ways. it will take you but a fea minutes I" "If there is any turning back to be d.one," saiud the obstinate Jehu, -youa'll have to do it yourself an.d it will not take you more thon an hour. "But my friend,"said the lady, "bere are a great many orphans and widows, whonm you are detaining by your uankind .aes,. The children are out too late al ready and their fathers may visit upos you this offeneet and she ladies -are anxious-to get homne to look afler their sick hushands. Je'hu gave his whip a tremendousecrack th~ereby covered an oath: and as he clam beredl down from his elevation, he said, "I don't care thaot for an orphan's father, but if the imiddios are out after husbands, {give u p."-Ul. S. Garele. ' The weight of the Prioress Augnsta's bride-enke made ley her Majesty's yeoma. ennfectioner. was upwards ofeone hundred and sixer pounds.