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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