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Advertisements not having the ober of insertions marked IL on.them, will be continued until ordered out, and charged accordingly.. All communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. 1ISCELLANEOUS. From ilk Charleston Mercury. To THE HoN. DANIEL WEBSTER: SIR-In your speech on the 19th of September on Boston Common, you are pleased to declare that Mr. Clay is, by the conditions of his Raleigh letter, pled ged in the event of his election, to the people of the Nortb,-to go against the an nexation of Texas, and that Mr. Polk is pledged to go for it. As a democrat, al low me to say, "be it so!" On this the Democracy joins issue with the Whigs, and now "let the hardest fend off." With the hope that this communication may scale that Chinese wall of prejudice north of Mason and Dixon's line, which shuts out from the. people of the North altogether the public opinion of the peo ple of the South, and that it may even ap pear in' the Boston Atlas, I address you "in no unfriendly voice," simply with the view of presenting some statistics for your consideration, %hich I have not seen stated elsewhere, having special reference to the value -of Texas to your portion of the Union. These plain stuns are brought forward for the particular notice and attention of the manufacturers and shipowners of New England and the Middle States.. What do you thirk in the next century, in case Texas' is annexed to the Union, lier five Custoin Houses of Sabine, Gal veston, St. Louis, Matagorda and Corpus Christi, would be worth to that favored country which lies nortbof the Potomac ? Wby, five times the amount of the debt p re incurred in our last -war with Great Britain. Testimate the revenue in Texas, under our Tariff' or any one we are likely to impose, would be worth to the revenue of the U. S., two millions of dollars per annum for the next 50 years. On a series oflow duties, the customs of Texas yield at present about $150,000 per annum with our Tariff they would go up to $800, 000 the first year. and for twenty-five years afterwards, by a consequent aug mentation of trade, vould, increase in 'a ratio at least 15 to 20 per sent annuafly; nor reach a point of repose -inder a nni form rate of impost, until they wouldgive five millions annually to -our goremnuent. - But what would it give to your-:, mini factures and ship owners? Whistiiee times as mtch more. in the direci-liiaitfY1 resulting fraaour Tarif'imposed on-TexZ ian impor**d the profit to the Nortlern nanufacto ' d producers on their in--. dustry;'and.j 'tild the 'same:exorbi'tant duti.escort to be levied by-ot'r laws, Te 'iWmii'-be worth to Ne'i England it larger sa'm than can- be 'measured by uiy power of youra-over the combin'ation el figures, altho' in your recent Newv Eng~ land statistics, in calculating the cormump" iun of old Massachusetts Bay, in for,. pork, beef and rice, this power on your part altogether seems prodigiouse - 1(1 mistake not,'you-must have allowed in yoar -calculation -upwards of one thou sand pounda averdupuis to each sucking infant per annum.- - -- But: to he .erious. What, sir,:-.would. - be the value of the immense coastwise. tonnage :which New. Engliand and 'New York- woulda suppl~y to Texas? or-thme benefit under: aigation. of - the laws of carrying her 'vastlye augmenting crops to- Foreign -markets? -When. ihe Val Icy of the. Brasos- alone is capable.. of producing mnorzeotton and sngar than the wyhole valley of~thatMississippi ! Ithink, if you-donot -appreciate this sum in:- political, arithmetic, your friend MrJ. A bbottLawrenceand my most.~wor-' thyand excellentiriend I Mr. WillianiAp. pleton of Bostoa..-ean; and they ill per ceivofbat it issmwhat' more- to iheath terests of youropeople.:that-Lowell, Tatu ton, Pittsburg, New York,-Pattereon and Philadelphia should supply Texas, and. through her, the northern and eastern pro vinceslof Mexico,;With woollens and cot tons, hardware? and. c astings, than Bir mningham and Manchester,- and that it ts not exactly the samia~thing.to .ottr country, wvhether 'Kennebhek,i .Boston, Nantucket, Providence, New York;.Pliiladelphia, an~d Baltimore, furnish the ahips to 'transport the cotton, sugar, tallow- end peltry of Tezs soiforeign ports instead of the barks'ofIAuonentverpool or Hull -The truth is,iIr.Mebster, there never was so gross a'misapprehesih-in.- the world, as ha. existed in relation to the character and truevalue-of the late' iteaty annexation, which from party' considerations .alone, aud-inrobedience to Mr. Clag's- lead, the Senate of the Unmited States rejected. My knowledge of the resources of Tex as, (I speak from a thorough knowledge of the country),enables me t: say that it was the most stupendously advantageous compact our Government ever made. The public lands of Texas, under our land laws, and settled by our people, would be worth more than one hundred millions of dollars, at the Government price; as the amount not covered by grants exceeds a hundred millions of Acres. k has been said, that all the good lands have been granted. But, it is not taken into account that the conditions of the grants in at least two-thirds of the cases have not been complied with. and would be annulled by the Supreme Court of the United States, and consequently revert to the Govern ment. And all this Empire with its ad vantages direct and collateral could have been purchased for the comparatively pal try sum of ten millions of dollars. To be paid for too out of the proceeds of the sales of these very lands thenselves ! ! ! But, after all, Mr. Webster, what in the vast advent of ages, is the privilege worth to our Government, of planting its Custom House in Texas, and hoisting on its flag saff the close fiet of our American system and excluding Great Britain from all com petition ? When you have squared the circle, you can answer this question, but not before. Yet you pledge your friend Clay to go- against this acquisition to your own section of the country, and ask your people and posterity to pay, in the long run five hundred millions of dollars as the price of his elevation to the purple, and that probably like the mantro of Elisha, in your owr hope it may afterwards grace fully fall on your own shoulder. This is indeed laying a large- sum upon your riends! Let me ask you what has the Annexation of Louisiana to the Union done for your constituents ? Why, more than it hat done for the Creoles of that country. Yet your federal politicians were as mucir opposed to that meaure then as they are to the Annexation of Texas no. To- the South the Annexa tion in a pecuniary point of view is not worth a groat. but, as in the war of 1812, he is influenced by none other than those national considerations, which affect the interests, the security, honor and indepen Ieuce of the whole country. The London Times, you know the most Wnlightened and powerful public jourUali Ihe world, in speaking of the fatuity of ur Senate in rejecting such a boon from be influence of sheer faction, very justly -emarks, that it only proves what a rope )f sand our whole systeri ii. tbat howev r much they may tve the Treason which Lhe Senate conmitted against the best in erest'of their own country, they never heless cordially d'espise the Traitors. That a' statesman like yourself who ex presses so cordial a love for the Union, should play. the small game of thrusting the slave qbestion' into the balance against the interests of every part of that Union, is altogether untwortlay of you. You )ught to have left this to your remarkable riend Mr. John Quincy Adams, whom, by a most felicitous sobriqet, Mr. Cheves :alls th nacharies Clootz' of America. Yes!' let his baptismul namoe Anachar is Cloot' heneefo-ti and' forever,-as much ;o as if he had been dipped in the waters Df Jordan. But for you, who are constant ly dwelling on yobr fove for the " Union, the whole Union, and' nothing but the LJuion," it is " the unkindest cut of all," hat tbi's thrust should come from such a orshipper at its-shrine: Your Maguds Apollo, Mr. Clay, has old us that the slave question, htarnoh' ng to- dowitti the'great national consider pions, whieh enter into this subjct.- Yet u declare that'he is opposed witliyotr ef to 'the further eztention of slavery her that vast Territory west of thte~Sa Iite hWomn'are wve to believei the wot' shipper or big idol ? .-:Areyon making n'p a'st'ave question for the~ next-Presidential efetion? L et me ie~llyo,4i..there is sense enough'ii Bos ton to know .what a Pistareen is, (whichi I rather guess there is) the Laurences and the A ppletonswiH .not allowyoty to, tender snh an issue; for ff your'object'is'-l~sun ion;if this .event occurs, they bauye fore ast etiough to see thaL grass must growv in Bosin in less than half a century, on Cornhiand in front of .Old' South; and' that it would be. as well to keep the-Clore' patchei verdlant and prodtictive at'-Lowell, Cileidfrd.~T~on-and' Dover. .W. In' geolliaff'ordiedgyod' a- view of this sub ject, which is characterised by the intelli gent spiri f tastesman. If slavery ii to be graduallly aboltshedl in our country, i may be, as he more tan plausibly con ectured b its passover through Trexas.. There he ithi mstlitnger for a time, buat ast it aold lost in the immense Pampas of Mexic1b anmalgamationi ail rae thee ivorgrd a sable E bo th6 jhese a~thxou or I wvould alivgt ~ ~ enus de.Medici. '-Hava dd t~idsir, wilh this silly mishiew -ofdisunion to your section oU6' racy, and with those narrtt etional views ; they are uinwot adtry to bring yourself p, n' iihe'standard oftle ta oopair countryman, Mr. Alexan erverett.:wh4 in a reenat article, bas'exaast~dedargument, anad done equal hor' to'-liinself, bya the deep philosophygwith which he bars treated this sbect, and hinoble and-enlight'enhed na~ troism w iec 'he "has brouight 'to its die -I'aiI'i were 'to weigh -with- he inus' accuracy, the future rela tir po-er offthe slavehiolding ad "~eolig-States, after the act quiti Ta# the States yet 'to.-De created out of our immense North We$ tern Territory, extending to the shores of the Pacific, the preponderance must be vastly in favor of the latter. it is true, that by your speech on Boston common, you have driven the last nail in the coffin of your friend Clay, (without, I fear, shed ding -one penitential tear over his remains) but you' may suivive yourself to make some "three score and ten" large and small orations, to be the passing wonder and adoration, of those in " the Athens of America," who happen to have empty heads and long purses, and a curious sub ject for the speculation of men of sense: how so much genius should be combined with such an utter want of all discretion and steadiness of principle but that you should even he able to raise political capi tal enough out of the mere question of sla very to make you any thing more than an Alderman of the town of Boston, is quite as improbable as that your friend Ana charsis Cloot's should again be President of the United States. I owe you no malice Mr. Webster; on the contrary, I have none other than the kintest feelings, personally towards you. I like you as a boon companion, and am attracted by the strongest social sympathy towards you. I have listened too often to the rich variety of your great colloquial power, and have been warmed too fre quently by your fine convivial flow, to wish you any other harm than that you should do none to our common country by a pernicious cant, that is altogether be neath the level of your genius and excel lent heart, when its fountains are not pol luted by the bitter waters of faction and party spirit. If I have subscribed 'my own name to this commnnication. it has been from no idle vanity, but that the public might, for tlpe facts I have stated in relatida to the resources of Tex-as, have sonde other secu rity than the nmere irrbsponsibility of an anonymous signature. It is- something certainf'y, that liorders on audacity,- that I should venture to take the " Lion- of the Norh 'by the beard. But I have niet you' in times gone by on the floor of Congress in defence of the rights of that colonial portion of the Un ion, and, on this subject, I am not afraid tor meet you again on any aivna-. 'Truth, my good sir, is more mighty-than your voice, and more invincible than .yQur arm. In hoc signo Vincemus. .have the houorto femain, Very respectfully, Your ob't. ser't, JAME-S HMIM TON. OswczEE 1Er+W, eussott' Co. Ala., Oct. 7th., 1844. From the N. 0. Picayune, 16tk inst. GlLEAT HURRICANE IN CUBA. Awful Destructwn of Line and Proper y.-By two arrivals from Havana yester day, we received our correspondence and files, which are full of the details of the destruction caused by a terrific hurricahd which swept over Havanna and. other ci. ties of Cuba on the 6th inst. The dbarit tion to the shipping was enorm6us-, and the loss of life very great, though not yet ascertained in full. The- city of Havada, as will be seen by our correspondent's etteifsuffered' great itjury both within end without the walls, but more partieu arly in the latter quarter. M'atnz'a suf fered yet more, and Cardenas is almost destroyed. From every little towin? ity the country itdlligentie' Was- daily reaching Havana of the destruction of houses and' crops- Our corres'pondents- lettei'datails the injurice dhne to' Ainerit'an' shipping; the Havaaa'papbrs aVe full of the' patrichz lars of the losi of Spanish coasting vies els. Such a hurricane ist not - recollected' upon- the hland. Ohrcoenimerci'at' t'oadbi will nfot fail to- note' tht passage in our corrspoldende. in- whichi' ikr ther Capt. Genral's order admitting certaih' l'dinbe, provisions &e., duty free, into Havana. We will not furnher detain the reader from the following let ter of" our correspondent:: H AVANA, Oct. 8. 1844. Dai- Pic The Storm Spirit has visited us, and'iii hswildest~ mood. The year iS14 will lhg he regpemtiered in the annals of the devoted I'sland' of' Caba. First intestine commotions and a threatehtd' abr~ild#ar, then. di-ought' and~ fariie;' adir dow we have to record one of'the most devastating gales that have ever visited this country. On th~e2d'it. v're had' a light gele froin the N'.-., whlclicontiuuedl until: the mordt ing of-thle 3d, when it abated'. The wiind as a' I egh during that day and the next, a.d ouz the night of thie .ith it cona; meneed blowing fr'om the S' E:, abdiabout 3, A. 1W., of the Sib it hauled to 1. W., and became a perfect hurricane.- The worst of' the gale wat rdflt between 7and 10, A. M. of the 5th, when the baroineter stood at 28 degrees,-its lowest point. rThe destruction on shore has been he yond .description: Hbuses on ~ all sIdes blown down, burying their inhabitanns under the ruins, the largest troes stripped of.their branches, or thru up by the roots, everything flooded with water, that pour. ed, in torrents, and almost every known bridge within. twenty miles eawrried' away. Within a small circuit of three' tilles, where stoodl four hundred royal palms-. the crowvnof the vegttable wvorld~b~utt thirty are now left. rThe tres.on the Pase Were.all blown down, one. side of the Ta con. theatre: uitroofed, thd buil'dings at the Railrroad. depnsj..laoa,,tnroofed, and the shmed n j b~,vhr hng.down-killing th pns and sertously. wounding e ,ot the country te acdounth-.art Mfau. Ctet attlhlled ha the fulling oj their stables-the houses demolished-eof feelrees, cane and everything prostrated -the corn crop almost wholly destroyed, auia plaintaia tree is not be found. Ip the harbor the destruction has been horible. Seventy-six schooners are coun ted on.shore; the steamer Natchez driven up almost dry. Thirty coasters are al ready known to have sunk ; a Spanish schooner of war dismasted ; and the brig Trenton. of Boston, has nothing standing higher than the puMps-the bowsprit even being broken off. The men of wdr stea mers had to get up steam to help their an chors to hold, The American vessels that have sufer ed serious injury are the following -Brig Trentonof Bostod, entirely dismasted;, ship C. Color. of New York, horribly chafed and disfigured ; barque Chief of Boston, stern stove in, and otherwise bad ly injured ; barque Louisa, of Philadel phla,llarboard side cut down, and .other serios damage; schooner Mary Shields. of Saiannah, cut down, of Mobile, arrived day afer the gale-threw over deck load, split sitls and vessel strained ; brig Titi, of New Orleans, horribly chafe: and cut up; brig P ". Blount, of New York, stern bad ly chafed through. The ship Ebro, Cros by, from your port for Ravre, was lost about twenty miles to leeward-vessel gone to pieces, some little cargo saved on the.beah ; ship Perddunet, of Boston, from your port, arrived to-day, dismasted and leaking; Spanish brig of war Cubano, .10st about twenty miles to windward: Spanish, brig Aviso, lost about one mile from the Moro-sh.e left this port the day before with 30' soldiers on furlough, and about 20 other passengers and'crew - only five have been saved, and their lives are despairedof, from bruises received in get ting on shore ; SpanihA brig Sargossano lost-three persons drowned.-What other calamities may have occurred, I am not now ilbrn'ed. When the tempest began to calm, and efety one was still in consternation, bands of negroes began their dreadful work of murder aand pillage, and about one thou siid troops were called out to patrol. In Ma t zas, of twenty-nine vessels in port, only Y.o remain afloat ; the rest are gone to piece"'.or ashore. The damage to the town is-in alculable. The rivers rose aud' enph side'lof the town was under wa ter; 5000 bois sugar lost. Cardenas is wfiolly'destred. it order to assuage the burJens of the people, die fo!1 wing order has been issued. Inpotation- ror six montis"'rroin dtarte, p the folloawing articles, free of duty : 'Jtijting ji.mbor (tpitcb pine) of all kinds; brick and tile ; corn meal, corn, beans, lPAnroes. rice, Sweet potatoes, yams' and plaintain -into the port of Havana, and to be exfended, if found necessary, to ot r Irts. 1\hare not time to write further, You will d in the papers full particulars. Yours,-, ARIFL. the shock of an eatbquake experienced in the West India Islands on the 30th of August is said to have been longer in its duratidh tian' any ever felt in' that quarter before. In the island of Trinidad all tLie clocks stoped, indicating tlie neif mbfo ing: the moment of the occurrence. The t'rdnaloub'niotioh- Was froi S. E. to N. W. air calm, and a' right moon. The waters of the Gulf were extremely agitated. At Grenada the shock was very severe, and its duration is sai: to have been alarmidgL ly long. At St. Vincent it waa'eqiially aw ful. At $t Lucia- the und'ulations contin ubd'for fihy'secoud's. At D'embrata many of the chronometers stopped, and all'revs of vessels on' the river thought they wdie rub' foul of by other vesselh;'bl'idk-building's' wvere rotit apial';: the iohabitants-were in' gl'eat' temror. it Was' felt with the msost. sereitja~at' the penal settlement in Dems erara, thie sight of which is rocky. The concussles ofthe buildings themselves and the heaty iron fastenings of their doors and gates,- created a tremendols n'proar, hijgh above which, howe~er; rose the saieamns' and'bullowings of the'prisoners; prayiby th' be released. Ohe' of' them, an obdurate ruffian, told'theg grd who'opendthe cell: as the day d'awned, that ha had'tever bb fore known that there was aGod, Almighty. 'hile the flu of terror lasted; an infant might haVeled him. -NEW' OkEA!s5 O'ct.i6~ 1$nportant from Mexico-Release of tha Perote Prisoner.-By the wray of Ha vana we have advices frhnr Vera Cruz' up to tbe 80th of September-,'being eightben dajater thsh'we' hayeveceived' direet. ~hywere taken to Hbvana by the Bri tzhoal'mail stpametn Ttieat. ' Quite' the 'uaViportant iht'elligehderedeived is the *lOsse of the 104 remaining Texan priso nersiconfined in the Castle offerote. The gaevent took' place on the 16th nlt. ~Y'il it with' uufirecte'd pleasure.' It nog~jl iri-stbtes to freedun-.- a' hndd begts, as'lbrave ne eierf bii lint'.vill re hteve a patnful solicitude 'i6.their'hbhalf existing tn thienilnds-of hundireds ofrela ttvsufand'friends;- bothain' Uniied<.Siate'i 1Ve presiume this act of eetiidr mi qalie.recently Mounled~ by. a severeAo. mestiegffliction) may havo sought' fut~ng allevanioo in this deed of mneray j'$~ shortly expect the .cutter' . .~m)(a ibisportr'and,-wO'ptesume,til1 an~f these poot' prisonet's ot~beard.: They wil sternlin~ nOEdtof succor, abd shelter-let all be preparedto gi'e thiei-6oth. In no partiorn oftth&' siah receied by the ivaty of'H avaaldhew ihd any_:ena tion made of the tireparations aeinel Texas, nor do we learn that the Chatnbers have taken any further step towards rai sing the $4,000.000 voted for, the war. From the retirement, however temporary; of Santa Anna, and the recall of Canali_ zo, we are more ind more convinced the President sees the bopelessiie !; contest with the Republic of Ih Xiiinl Star."-Picayune. Proni the Gerfnan of.Ga The Accuracy of the An aston ishing feature of the word of God ii, not withstanding the'timea'- 4h -its compo sitions were written aii fuheuiltiftides of the topics to which ifiinldes, there is not one physical error- Lnot' one assertion or allusion disproved "j the progress of mo dern science. -Noe'4of' those mistadke -which the sciencesa.ath isueteedihg-ace discovered in the .6dks of the preceding:' above all, otre eifbiha absurdities which modern astron a idlifites.in ouch great numbera in-the wriingsof the uniedts-in their sacred-in t:-heir'. philosophy, and even in the, finest ::pages df the fathers of 'the 'church.-noni-of1hese errors is to be found ia a'ng of our sacred books. Nothing there.'will ever contradict that which, after so.'many ages, the investiga tion of the learned world havie been able to reveal to u3 on the state of our globe, or on that of rhe heavers. Peruse with care our Scriptures from. one end to- the otheri to fnd there such spots. and, whilst you apply yourselves to this examination, re member that it is a book which speaks of everything, which describies naturei which recites-its creation, %hichtells us ofihe water, of the atmosphere,.of the moun tains, of the animals, and of the plant. It. is a book wbich teaches ts the first revo lutions of he world, a'fo foretells its last. It recounts them in the circumstantial lan guage of history, it exports them in the sublimest strains of poetry & it thants' them in the charms fapt're, ellefatibb,.V riety-and boldis. it its' book whib' speaks of the 'heavenly dnd in'vissible world, whilsi'it also speaks of the earth' ami things vissible. It is a book which' nearly fifty writers'of every degree of cul tivation, of every state of every condition and livia;; through the course of fifteen hundred years have conctired to nake. It is-a boole which was written in the cen treff Asi'a, i'n tl'e* and'of Arabi' a'dnd in the deserts-of Judea ; in the court of the temple of the Jews, in the music rchools' ofte prophets of Bethel and Jericho, in the sumptuous palace of Babylon, and on the i'dolat'rou5 bhnks pf Chebar;- and', final ly, in' the dentre of Wesierd'civiliz'ation, in' the' midst of polytheism and its idols, as in the' bosom of phantheism' and its sad phil osophy. Ft is a book whose first writer had been forty yeas a' pupil of the magi cians of Egypt; in whose opinion the sun, the stars, and' the elemfents, and governed the world by a' perpetual allu'vium;' It is a book whose first writer preceded by more than nine hiuudI-ed fears, the niost: ancient philosophees'ofancieht G'reede and' Asia, the Thalesses;-a'nd the P'ythagorases, the Zaluecuses; the pnbhonw, and the Confusdiusbs.- ft is a ok which carries its narrations even to- t hleirdhieiof an-' gels, dven' t6 the most distant epbchs of the future, and tho glorious sdenes' of the last day. Well, seqtrch among 50 authors search amona its 66'books.- its 1,189 chap ters; and its 31,713 verses, seach for only one of these ihree thousand errors,. which the ancients and' mbders'ecommitted when they speak of the heavenso'r of the earth, of 'their eVollutions,' of their elements search' but you will find none. i6tality of Error.-In the spietate+ of last week is'un' article on "The Vitality of S'eeds":- . "Flowsers a're m'ade the type of t'hat'i's f'aibg; but the moralist does not look' deep ebsobgh--the seed of the flbwer is forever reproduced, and as we often see, retains its vitality for ages. A' pea taken- from a vase found' in an Egy ptian sardophagas, and sujposd' th' be 2840' yeah's' old has gerninated.ih the garden of Mr. Grimstone at H~ighgatg,: and- there are now ninetech pibds'on it' iemarkabl'e ah tb e albonsta errient'min appear, they are nethertheless phenomena to be observed in' the political world qinite as astohading.: in' certain' weHl kniown' jour-nse are .to-be s'een, abhobst daIly, el ticlee which belong not, to the present day,' but which bea-r strong internal' evidened.of iht flourishted' iii tlib dar'kerperiods of mani's- histor'y, butwliich the diffusibi'oP intelligence . has'fot cenituties'dohkigtned'to the sarcophagtua of oblioh, ar'e fotil'ger tnihetih' at thepi-eseot' time in's'od espe dially adapfed or such production. There cos' bb ab'doubt as'to-the antiquity of the arficles to which we refer. The barbai'ous' character of the natonsthey contain; their' uter' inahpplmcablimty toia state'of advanced i'ntlligenoe and civilizatio'n, and the crude nss iths which' tliey are sat fortH; ino testabig profe that' they belbngzto dark, very dark ages. Corn ffaust.-Its isa gladdening sigl0t tb standgon on eminsence and behold the yellotV hhesof haivest amid. the dark relief of hedges' dhd tr es, to. see -the shocl e standing 'tbillk in a land oFpOac'e,-t pjordir ae4 fils amhe.ecyeur, cloud lessakyhdmjIal iislustre. Thsi-e is?. a solemn, melwes iarilyfbat ~ oer'the lbbde ecape hie Whcopzshiison the hills and slopbs, as Wodwrth expresses it, '"like golden ~sb;h ~dowdfrom.tha rdun.". For the:Jo* osoiaryambles; fo l Iols~ r:ti idii Iat.petdras ora happin~ss n iii no* is ui i i * WaIV.lff s aboiditga n t " F llies-'irwers eping 'down e aele barlepeisfy sjiked 6a 6f lately lookIng up hravely ahle sun bbntdoirnwards ina modti ad enrver ae "if abaShed at IrS treiltab j tessant, gaze. Thef-will fidd ih ting down 4e rustling klts, aEfbl 4 by. an - attendant" rustie, -wbogii-est swath into'sheafes, fr m the'tedee of the young clover'fi hfish,-ddih sown rith' oats, tone.ustitute ifiaaIO crop,' is how sAidwibg itseflYuUfranIy. 0ut it-is in the wheat-field that ail thebi y and ,gladness' and ptesuenes hattes are'dnceditated. Wheat is more particulatj the food ofindh. 'Barley 'af. fords .hint . wholesome, but much abused potauion; the oti Is *elamne to the'homilf board' of th hardj inodniaineos; -Nut wheat is especially, and every where, thei. "staff of life."-Td fede 66d gatherit in, every eatufe of the hamlei Is gasembled.' rhe farmer is in the field., like a rural king amid his people-4be labdurer, old'or young, is there io' c6te6t #fat he has sowns with toil, and watched if hti gtowth with pride; the dame has letfii *hineel atd. her shady cottag'd, sad, with sleeve-defend-. ed arms, scorns to do flss thin the.best of' them; the blooming damsel is thire, adding: her sunny beauty to that of universaL natate; the' Sols c't's dowd ite ttalks: which overtop 'his ead*J' children 'glamn; aiong'st the shocks- and even the unwalkw able infant,- sits propt with sheaves, aid plays with the stubble; and "With a i iti twined flwers, Such groups are' often seedl in the *Miaf ield as deserve the immortality of the pen il.-Howit's Book of the Seasons. Literdry incdotes.-A prinweiai #6r1 ish wrote a tra'gedy,called Josiua whicht he printed in' the m'os beautiful type, and gave a copy to' the eebra'ted Bodia,4a brother' printer at Parama. 'What do. yo'u think of m'y tagedy? asked! tilauthor 'Fulfof bbihties.exclaimed Bodonia; 'yonu tharacteirs' prfeet-'quisite--spee tilly the capitals! It is impossibe io avoid tita 0is otterm#, or art. s 'sthk'o.widle diseissinp the eofi raw qfe'swi'o ai ef ask what price bread was publislied a, ipan [er's boy, just returu from' delivering i let ter, declared that he found the placdoWtE at last, 'but it was' at tb, fo of thi si'se, and he had- to optir half a' quire of door* before h got to it." Impoflai Dcisioi'Dise~areofSlawe -The Boston Post of iIotula contains a report or a slave case decided in that-sity by Chiefrustice' Shatw, of tuib Supieni' Cout on' Fridhy fast, Which- of wbo than ordiuary importance - "It ednifs' that Robert T. Lu'cas, a'4live ar Ed ware Fitzgerald, punser on' banid the U. S. frigate United S'tates, was, in 184r, by Written' oksent-of Mr. Upsbdra Secretary of the Navy.received'abd inter id as' a lndsman- n' board'said' frigate. it Norfolk, Virginiq. The frigate i'ailed )n a cruise to the Pacific, and Wai thence )rdered to the port or Bbston, Where she arrived on the'3d inst. A writ of kaWea corpus for the delivery of the slaie was' served on the mhster without' the klnw ledhe or authority of the former. rwo points were presented' f# discus sion, viz: First,-as-to'the slai ' if the codi mandei of the frigate to the services of the' slave;-and' secondii.whethier, hishaving been 'brought'H ivoluatily itiis the6 limits'dr Masbddlii, withdits the con-, s'ent'pdhitimaketer, whao'Was abo'ut to'retukn' to Virginial the Couirt' could itnerfdi-e'ti seti him free.. "J'udge Sha'w ,deieedld that' dithough Luca'was Ihw ful~i et'er/d'abd'ii'pola4 asa'laddstnan oi board' the' fr t'e,th right of the commander t' -ll.s s'ervices q a slave aguW' obt'extand befand thern takial! of, slavery,- mid were a eajnd wvhenevef the sii-vide to' biiT Ituk hinl out af'iese ibts~ Jndge held that iheihester hiigbb ba. rily placedd his-le ini a situattn'fie~' ho would be ilile to be ta~iI~~t& l'niitis of a'I'rde Siste, lcould i "g bim/to return ag'ain to-a'alaveSab With' out li'conseut. diustody .:aiid~ binghofbIlig,M ab leftt! r'etui-n to Virgihia of 'edihinb as liesiikh elect. . ' ' previbds' d~eistons in siinilai' daest ar may beregarded as limitiogj the' ilail of the mpsater strictly to'the' case of ,a'fugt. tive." FromnZheKentuckj CommvnIdeaft*t Ot Kidhappsre Cag ht.- mn dt~~t and' a w'dian ndined IWebs ;hT iee njipreheuded and ewoimmittdi al - LEaingtda,- haviog-1ea'deirikid. napping- severhi t las fri 'this" .cit which'they successfiat Ilt hded af'Ripgey on the Ohio 'sidh. J$b'dodbt they wnilb shot'tg theP Pentiiidt-ffor the Felony., At .onie.tiU~ued'ahdeistood that 1i~ lik reptesbritedhiiniself as aPresbteri mid -at 'adoithr' af~ a Methodist prYe and :*e'hear'th' t'he preached 'ii Pirsb'ifrhureb, in Lex ati4 wvlich Di. 11 lia the pastor. 'Teoid ',io has' been'tdhthit 'a~eu ale~ Shar' in IEeinagtb isd raaar