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II Ife will cling to the Pillars of the Temple of our Liberties, and ifit must fall oe iill Perish amidst the Ruins." VOLUE XIV-, PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY B Y WM. F. DURISOE, 1' t O P R I E T 0 R. NEW TERM11S Two DOLTAss and FIFTI CENTS, per annium if paid in advance-S3 if not paid withinsix months from the date of substrlption. and $4 if not paid before the expiration of the year. All subscriptions will be continned, unless 6therwise ordered before the expira tion of theVear , but no paper will be dis continued nntil all arrearages are paid,un less at the option of the Publisher. Any person procuring five responsible Sub scribers, shall receive the paper for one year, gratis. ADvFRTISENETS consplenone7tnsertedat75 cents per square. (12 lines, or less.) for the Stinsertion. and 37, for each continuance. Those published monthly or quarterly. wil be charged $1 per square. Advertisements not having the niumber of iiisertions marked on them, will bn continued uutilor dered out and churged accoidingly. Communications, post paid, will be prompt ly and strictly attended to. The trite Aristocrats. BY C. D. STUART. Who are the nobles of the earth The true Ar;stocrats Who need not bow their heads to Lords, Nor doff to Kings their hats ? Who are they. but the Men of T-il The mighty and the free. Whose hearts and hands subdue the earth, And compass all the sea! Who are they, but the Men of Toil Who cleave the forests down, And plant amid the wilderness The hamlet and the town ? Who fight the battles. beat the scats, And give the world its crown Of name, and rame, and history, . And pomp ofold renown: There claim no gaud of heraldry, And scorn the knighting rod: Their coats of arrs are nohle deeds; Their peerage is from God! They t ike not from ancestral graves The glory of their name, But win, as erst their fathers won The laurel wreath of Fame. The Yankee Girls. The pretty gals in Yankee land You'll find exceeding handy; For doing chores. or making pies. All know they are the dandy. And if you wetd our Y.inkee gan, They're Pimed frr wit and heaty, You'll find they make the best of wives, And always do their dtity. Who clothed our soldiers in the war Which mcde of is a nation ? The Yankee gals worked night and day, Nor thought it dcgradation.' And now they still make up new clothes, Btit not for fighting brothers; They're making litle tronserloons, Like good and faithful mothers. God bless the Yankee gals at home, God bless their emigration; If married, widowed, or unwed, They beat all other nations. "Crow, I want to ax you a conunder dum." "W%Vell, Julius, succeed, l's open for the queshuni." *-Can you tell me why de art of self defence anm like a ribber al low tide." - "No. Julius, I dosenm't see no simii;ri, ty in do two subjects, so darfor a gtuys urn up;" "WVell den, I'll tell you--it is simnly bekase it developies de musces ! You is the most ignumous nigger I nebber - seed." !Ikoe l otn - "Yah-yah nwd l etm what dat was, only I didn't want to say nuffin. Jist nx me again, an see if I can't told you." Oe PSHAW.-A good joke is told of a young couple riding home after their marriage. The day had been cloudy, and tho young main seeing the clo,uds break away, said-"I hope we shall soon have a little stun." The yotung wife .. replies very honestly. "As for me, I should rather have a little daughter-." When we see a neat, pretty, girl, wiha free but innocent air--with ~cheeks which we can hardly help kiss ing, a nd with pair oh heavenly blue eyes, which seemt to repose perfect serenity beneath their silken hashes-wve alwnys 'wish that she wvas near- a nmtd-ptuddhe, and that we had to lift her over. Go away strawberries you've losi your- taste. -Albany Dutchman. WOtA's Powen.-A "Daughter" of 4Temperance writing ini the Southwrn WVaich-Tower. says: "And although we would not boast, we are certain that if wo could but he united we would exert an influence that would Make society to its centre, and cause a!l erroneotus and vicious practices (long es tablished thotugh they may be) to evapor ae likte ise of an October morning." TRUE POLITENESS. It is a graceful habit for children to say to each other, "Will you have the good ness ?"-and "I thank you." I do not like to see prim, artificial children ; there are few things I dislike so :nich as a minature beau, or belle. But tlhe habit of good manners by no mets im plies affectation or restraint. It is quite as easy to say, 'Please give mo a piece of pie,' as to say, '1 want a picce of pie.' The base idea that constant politeness would render social life too stiff and res trained, springs from a false estimate of politencss. True politeness is pcrfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you would like to be treated yourself. A person who acts from this principle will al,vays be said to have 'sweet pretty ways with het.' It is of some consequence that your daugh ter should know how to enter and leave a room gracefully ; but it is of piodigious. ly mote consequence that she should be in the habit of avoiding whatever is dis gusitig or offensive to others, and of always preferring their pleasure to her own. If she has the last, t very little intercourse with the world will teach her the fist. I believe nothing tonds to make peo ple so awkward as too much anxiety to please others. Nature is grac2ful ; and affectation with all art, can nevet pro duce anything half so pleasing. The very perfection of elegance is to imitate it as closely as possible ; and how much better is it to have the reality than the imitation. I shall probably ie remind ed that the best and most unaffected peo ple are constrained and awkward in company to which they are unaccus toned. I answer, the reason is, they do not act themselves, they are afraid they shall not act right, and that very fear makes them do wrong. Anxiety about the opinion of others, fetters the freedom of nature. At hotme, where they act from %,,ithin themiselves, they would appear a thotis-and times better. All would appear well, if they did not try to assume what tly lid not possess. Everybody is respectable and pleasing so long as ie is perfectly natural. I will :rake io exception-nature is it ways graceful. The most secluded and the niost ignorant have some char ms about them, so long as they affect no thing; so long as they speak and act fronm the impulses of their own honest hearts, without any anxiety about what others think of it. Coarseness and vul(ati-y are the effect of edocation and habit; they cannot he chargud upon nature. Tue politenets may be cherished in the hovel as well as in the palace, and the most tattered drapery cannot conceal its winning charmus. As far as consistent with vowr situation and duties, early accustom your children to an intercourse with strangers. I have seen young persons who were respectful ind polite at home, seized with a most painful and uibecom ing bashfulness as soon is a guest en tered. To avoid this evil, allow your children to accompany yoit as often as possible when you make calls and social I visists. Occasional interviews with in telligent and cultivated individtals have a great iniltuence on early characters and ntanners, particularly if paren ts eviden t ly place a high value upon acquintarn ces oh that description. I htave known tIhe destiny of a whole family greatly changed for the better, by the friendship of one of its nmenibers with a prston of superior ardvantages and correct princi ples.-Mrs. L. 11. Chil. AN TNcrDo:.-DJing the trial of Cogzell, for kidnatpping, whlich took place a fewv days since, int Ilillsborough, an incident occurred which crieared con siderable fun at thre expense of big wigs and cotunsel. A Miss Sloan was testiv ing arnd was requested to state all sIte knew about a certain transatction. "Witness-I was in tIhe .sitting room wvhen Mary came from the kitchenr htr riedly, nnd Cogzell, arfter her, Ile caught hnidd of her at the sitting room door, antd said: Mary yout ha-.-e been here long enough; comne and go homte nowr. Attorney for defendant-What did Mary say ? Attorney for thre State-Stop there --I object to tIhe question !" Here a disctussion of nearly t wo hours took place, in wvhichr four or five lawyers participated. After wvhich the tIhree judlges held a long, serious and excited d iscussion on rhe subject, and finally, in a very formal and pompous manner stat ed rirat it was the opinion of a tmajority of tire cour t that the question must be answered. The cour t room was crowd ed almnost to suffocation, and the most intense interest wvas manifested at this stage of tIhe pr oceedinge. Thre qtuestion was repeatedl-"Whlat dlid Mary say ?" end the witness answered - "She did'nt say a word ? s A TRUE STORY. Cast thy bread upon the waters, and after many days it shall return to ilae." This is a Scripture trtith, which, lik.- all truth, has been verified a thou sand :imes. The following little story may serve to illustrate the verity of thii text. Allow me to premise that my story is a true one in all particulars: Some thirty years since, a lad of one nfour Eastein States, about ton years of age, was sent by his employer to car ry a basket, very heavily laden wil,, wares, to a purchaser-while staggering under its weight up a somewhat steer hill, a gentleman of about thirty years profTfred his assistance, and beguiled the tediousness of the way by pleasant anec dotes, good advice, and kin: words, They parted : fifteen eari passed away -the senior of these two, now nearly fifty years of age sat in his study with a melalcholly countenance and heavy hear. His door opened, and his young and fascinating daughter, just blooming. inte womanhood, entered to announce that a gentleman, desired to see her father. "Show hii in, my darling daughter,' said her father, " and do you, my child, leave us to ourselves." "6 efl, sir," was his salutation, "have you considered my proposition ?" "I have; and have determined, hap pen what may, I will not force or sway, by an act of mine, the will of my child; She shall alhays be left, sir, to her owu free choice." "Then, sir, to-morrow by 3 o'clocl; your ptoperty must go into the hands ol the sheriff, unless you find some friend to pay the twenty thousand dollars." This ie said with a sneer, and coldly bowing left the house. The poor father's heart was racked " I am ruined-mv daughter is homelesi -1 have no friend to ofher assistance ir ihis hour of my severest trial." In the midst of these bitter rilections, again his daughiter entered, introducing a gentleman of some twenty-eight year of age-a stranger. " Am I it, thf, presence of Mr. 0.' was his (pwnig remark, which beiti afl iraijtivt; answered, he continued, sayiug th lie was a soccessful tier chmot of New York-had heard of tht misfortune of Mr. G., and had conte or purpose to ask the amount of his liabili tif4s, and the necessary funds to reliev( his vants.-Nor was he shocked at the mention of the large amount of $20,000 lie handed hiim his check, which wa duly honored, the father was once mort a happy man; his daughter was noi homeless; he had found sona friend i pay despito the sneer of his hard heat ten creditor. " But pray sir," said the agnate father, "1 to whom am I indebted for thi, unusual, this munificent kindness fron an ntiro stran ger ? Perhaps you have forgotten," wm the reply; 'that some eighteen yearn since, you aided a friendless boy of ter years of age to carry his loaded bakel up the hill-that you ga-e him good advice and kind words. I am i at boy I followed your advice-l hwve lived honstly-I hve gained wealth, and naow, after ma.ny years, have come tc return to you, kind sir, the bread whicli you then cast so freely .upon the wvabers, I t is s;aid, gentlo reader thtat our y'ouns friend caught a glimpse of a bieautifu girl of nineteen, as he passed througl: the entry, and that h.e called agaita, and still again, and gained at last dhe htearl of the ola man's daughter, I say thlis is said-and I know they were married. Sat. Gazette, IDL.E lAWouTRtS.-lt is a most pain. futl spectacle in families where the rmothe-r is thie drudge, to see the daugh, tems elegantly dressed, reclining at their ease, with thteir drawing, their m'isic, their fancy work and their reading, be gumiling themselves of thme lapse of hours, days atnd weeks, and never drearring ol their respionsibilities ; but as a necessary consequence, of a naeglect of duty, grow. ing wveary of their useless lives, lay haold uf every newly invented stimulanat to rotuse their drooping energies, and bla ming their fate wvhen thtey dare not bla mte heir God for haaving them where they ire.-These individuals will often tell y'ou with an air of affected compassion [for who can believe it real) that poor :lear mamma is wor king herself to death; vet no sooner do you propose that they ihould assist her,. than they declare site s quite in her element-in sh'ort, that the would never be happy if she had )nhy half so- much to do.-Yan. Blade, RoMAaTrC REvENGE.-In Kentucky, ploughmasa became enamored of a nilko miaid on a neighboring farma. His iddresses were rejected; anid the disap aoitated swanin, full of melanchoaly and evenge, procurcd a rope-we'nt to the arm,, and-aied all the cows' tails' to, refher ? A CAhE OF SUPPOSITION. A Texan who was returning home after the.:ale of Buena Vista, having got seperated front his companions and had hisMhooe stolen by the Inidans, was abligedlto take it afoot. Walkine along leisurelyori Sunday morning, wiih his rifle oni his shoulder, looking out for game to-imako a breakfast on, without knowing what day of the week it was, he suddnly came to a small stream on the confines of Texas, not knowing. that lie had yet reached the border of his natir State. Perceiving that the stream abounded in fids, took a hook and line from iii pocket. and procuring some worms for bait, lie set down patiently on the bank, wrapped in a brown study, thinking of his little farm at hame, when a preaclier who was on a circuit, rode suddenlj up and thus accosted him: "Hillo, stranger! what are you do ing thre" "Fishing for my breakfast," replied lie imperturbable Texan, without deign ing to look around at his interrogator. "Well, do you know you are viola ting the Sabbath ?" said the preacher, in a dawling, psalmn-singing tone. "No,"sid the Texan, turning around and looking up at the preacher fCr the first time with an air of surpise, which the preacher took fur consternation, 1I must be semewhar neat the white settle, ments, then ?" "Yes, you are," rep7-J the preacher, &"and violatiig die Lord's Day, for which you will have to answer hereafter on tho great day of judgmnit." The Toxani looking up with a soip plicating air, and the preachier. thinking his penitent mood a good time to make him a convert, continued : "Do you know, my young friend, that yu are sitting on the verge of the broad stream of iniquity, and that with, out you leave here and turn into home paths of virtue, that you will be lost 1 WiVere do .ou think you would go to now," said the preacher, warming with his own, r;-.c0,'-uPPosing the An. ^gel Gabriel as t low his he,aT' his hdriiT' - The Texan coolly hatled ini his line and, putting it in his pocket, rose to his feet, and fronting the preacher, said "You ask me whar I think I would go to IF the angel Gabrel should blow his born ?" "Yos," replied the preacher. "Well, you see, wharever thor is an IF tho case admits, ofan .riutment now you are SuPPoSiN,' ain't you 7 Well, now, mtvbe you know what a bee gum is? AYbe you've hearn tell of these big black bar hireabouts, and ma y be you've seen Injiusi Well, now, supposin you was after a bel gom, and one of these big black bar was after you and a smart chance of red skins was after the bar. Now, what would you do-keep the tree from the bar, gine the bar agin the Injins, gine the Injins agin the bar, or grease and slope ?" Tih preacher gave the Texan one look,and rode alonL? TARIFF FACTS.-Thegreat argument ofthe protec-ionists in favor of a iig!h tariff is its creciiori of a "home market" for the sale of agricultural products of the cotintry. This view is utterly fal, lacious, when we observe that even in Massachusetts the manufacturing inter est has, unider the p)resent system, in creased more rapidly thtan it didl under the high and oppressive taxation of the tarifi of 1842. Durinig the first three years of the tariff of 1842, capital to the amsount of $11,675,000 was applied to mnufacturing purposes in Masssachsu setts; wvhile the amount so applied ins that Staste during three y'ears that thie revnue bill, of 1846 has been in opera. tion, reaches the enourmous sum of $41, 199,000-being abotut ono half of thie whole amlont which has been applied to manufacturing purpose in Massachusetts for thirteen years. The amounit of cot son taken for home consumption duhing the last year of thin tarriff of 1842 was accoriling to the Boston Shipping List, 422,597 bales--while the amiount of cotton taken lasr year, (1848-9,4 was 1518,039 bales--beisng an ir ct eise of 5S, 448 bales under the revesnue bill of 1846. Such signa! facts uipset all the fine-spssn thereories of the Tariffites.-Richmnond E upuirer. Queen Victoria's kitchen is officered' by two larderers, a chief cook and three master cooks, whh four approntices,-a store-keeper, t wo green office men, three kitchen nmaids, two steami engineers and' a chief clerk on a- salary of $8,500 a year. The apprenticest pay nia high nr $1000- premium to be admitted into-the chief cook's emphloymnt. ON MISS ANNA IIREAD. While belles their lovely graces s pread' And fops arousid them fluster, ill he8 conienst with Asinaa Bread Andl wont hnvea nny butdsr" From the Southern Baptist. I TH1E IUGUENOTS OF AMERICA. Iistory has celebrated the persecutions and virtues of the Huguenots. In all her stored pages, she has recorded of no peo ple, sallerings more unjustly and terribly infliered, ad has draw no character so grand and heroic than that ihich they present. Louis XTV was trembling on the brink of the grave. In the fierce phrenzy of his superstition, he imagiined himself the chosen in-trument of lleaven. for the con version of the Protestants of France. He accorditgly with the weakness and fully of a tyrant, endeavored to accomplish by bribery and f;orce, that which he could not do by just and honorable means. He caused the Edict of Nantz which for more than eighty yeats had secured the religious freedom of the Hluguenots, to be revoked, and commenced those enormities and per secutions which made the land turn pale with horror, and drew upon his memory tihe curse of mankind.--Vain and futile however were his elffrts. With at eqdal success he might have endeavored to chain the winged winds, or arrest the blazing comet in its fiery course as to allempt to crush, 'when once awakened, the spirit of religious freedom. The persecuted lugue. uots would not submnir to the decrees of the tyrant, and were sacrificed by the butch. ries of Itis agente, or like Convicts escapig frotn their dreary dungeons, embarked for other shores. In the midst of darkness and temposts, they evaded the guards that lined the coast, antd committed Themselves to the storn tossed ocean. I n a few years after the revocation of the Edict of Nants, not less than ive hundred thousand succeeded thus In escdplug from their country. Many took refuge d iaEng land, Holland and Switzerland; some were captured by ihe Corsairs, others were east upoi the inhospitable shores of Spain, while tmany wandered to the asylums of the oppressed in America. Our American colonies gave the war mest welcome to those who reached our shores, for they felt them to be sufferers it the glorious cause. Some of.them settiedl in MaN-machustts and Rhode Islaud, others itn New York, while the greater number preferred the more genial climate and fer. iiie soil of the Carolinas, - 'Two-_y faith mriimJaeb..yrnt 1ra. By hope supported And by God inspired, "'wna thus these pilgrims left their fAther's graves, To snek a home beyond the waste of waves; And wherth it rose all rough and wintry here, - They swelled devotiui's sog, and dropped devotion's tear. Seldom at a period was witnessed along our Atlantic coast a more picturesque and heauttifrl scene than that which these ear ly colonies presented. Their neatly pain ied houses surrounded with gardens nod orchard-, showed that abundance and con tent were not stran2ers to their homes, while their welt cultivated farms attested their industry and skill. Nor did they neg lect the refreshments and arcomplishmenta of education an art. Their dwellings were ornamented with paintings, and their libraries were stored with the choicest pro. dutctions of atcient and modern literature. Music with her enchanting strain added new atractions to their happiness, and the forest often resounded with the enlivening song. or echoed ;tck the solemnt chati, On no occasion did they present a more attractive appearance than ont the Sabbath, when old age with his silvery Idek, and youth with hig sprightly rep andi joyful coutitenabce, might be seeni winding their way together to the house of God. Their flourishing condition antd estirra ble character were the natural growth of thte printciples they had cherished, and the suffesrings thtey had endured. Thtey hatd abjured their antcestral balls, their bteaui. ful itand, t he banks of the Loire atnd Rhtone, the vine-clad hills whero iudustry and art had m'ade them opulenit and happy, tiot as the adventures of Cor:cz antd Pizairro, stimulated by a thirst ftr gold, not to con, quer a vast territor-y and enislave its inhabi tanits, but to secure for themselves and clil dren inalienable rights of coniscience, the enjoymnent of their own opinionis and thte practice of their own worship. Atnd when settledl in thcir new found lhomes, they did ntot forget the glorious heritage altbteir virt ties. Tise nnMre hearted victimd of irrench intolerat,ce far sturpass in the moral gran deur of teir cha-racter. all that has been falied of the hteroic ages. In their early history tbrej suffr.ted hardshiis, anti trialis, and persecutions, which camte upoir thtem as the strokes of the sculpjtor otn (he matr ble block. formin2 it to the ima'ge of life and loveliness. They have exarted tno un imnportantt influence itn moulding ouir nation al character. F.ormned as it is tby mta terials diverse in their niatures, yet combined h:armooiousiy to.gethier, thdt character bears the imtipress tof the genius anid the spirit of dil'eret races, just as- the several colors of the raintbow, are so united and blenided- to. gelier asm to form one beautiful bow of proimis. WVheni the American Revolution broke out they were among- the fo'remtost to es pause thte cause of independencee. 'They as cheerfully const.ecrated thteir forttunes, thteir lives ant satcredi htonor, upon the al tar of civil libetrty, as they had dedicated thema a few years previous to the cauae of religiotis freedom. They wvere ainm-'ted by otie spirit, anti rose in, their strengthi to s,upport the doubtful fortunes of the t'evo lutimn I-t was-tnt: fot' them to bear the yok-e, or submait to-the decrees of tyrainny, for thte dark hours of persecutiton w'hioit they hatd oxperieniced itt thteir own landi, had served to show mtore clearly thte hid ,den ,nioht nr the ou,. as the ,,i.ht ....l. ot the larnio,nici 6 sireaiia that ibil, uri.. heard by (lay ? They had cherished the Alorious t0-ilis oF civil and religious libetiy. Uil they had become inseparaffly linked nithi their lives. They had 'iiiwined theth dlinut their fei-y hearts, anil engravei th6iii in characters or living fire on their nisthories It was as imptissible to iepa'ratb thesE gieri principles i-om their chttraiei- ivith out destroying them, as it was to silder 1he ivy from the oak around which it' had cluno amid the storm of A luidrbd Mun ters. Among the diA'tingui4hd saemen, warriors ind seholfrs, % ho have rehidered erhhn"e,ait iservice, and conferred iuihortal fame upon onr countory, ile dei6eidants of the Huguenots hold a conspi6dopi rank. The ntimes olJay and Laurens, ljd*doia and Legare, are among the brightest in, our histot v. nnd they are but Pecimens of the race from which they sprang. Their monuments are All arodnd nit, siid will herald fhei' Praises to other times. The name of one of Aur oldeAt COlleges in New Englatl, bears a piensii; testi. mony to thir lihei-ality ; and ith-d hall inj BoArn, whie the in'nkmi tiirli o lit'depen. dence was nursied by t16 elo4tjdhce of Otis and Adams, was eref:i'8d and given to the city by the son of.a Hugu'e'iil. What the Puritans were to the North, the liuguenois were to tile Soyth, and .while we cheriih wi'th reVereptia'care the glorious legacy which the firmer have bequeathed to us, let us remember the humbler, but not less honorable achieve. ments which tile latter have ac'coiplished. Biolh alike were'educated in th Muiool of adversity. Boih drank of the fountiin of religious freedoti. Both deserted their native larid for tle sam6 gloripus princi. iles.. The Puritans better dnderitobd the principles of republicai govertitnent. The liguenots %4ere better versed in the na ture of religious freedomi The Pu-i ans were gloomy, austere, and sometimes in tolerani. The iiuguenots were cheerfuli liberal, chivalrous, and alwa.7 iolerant. Tte character of the one wis the Aifspring of n sitirn, unbending principle, which yielded to no circumstance, and brooked uno dissent.- That of the otheri *ds the child. of chivalry ivit9uit itl dibeolUieness 6f rerinetidnt, with d the enersiiig. luetnce of.lnxury. - eroerhe tiugnenotg;t ite dr* per secution- drove to our si res t th" "ie of the ' seveteentih century. Tlieir 'iames and their language have mirijid add lost amid those of the English ra e6, Uli their influence has aided iff M"ioulding out ria. tional character; an-I our wids spread land, wherever science and dr't shall flud F retreat -wherever peace and industry dhall be respected ; wherevter ihi loie cit clil and religious liberty shall glo'v in the he-rt of the patriot and philanthropist; wherever iian's higher and nabler faculties ghall be culuivated and esteemed,-therd iillj the his,ory of the exiled t-86.tvenot# of Ameri ca be recited-their sufferings conmisse, rated and their virtues admired. FLiN RoAos.-We take tle following extract from ad able article, Wtritten by Joseph S. Wi6ter. esq. of Modtgomery, and published iti the o'Flag ard Adver tiser." of the 2nd inst, on the gentral bene ftis of Planks Rotds: "Wero I to occupy your entire columns, I could not entmerite one half the ad val)4ged, p*e-haps, which Planks furnish. I will therefore cnuisigri the task to other and more elnicfien: linl?. For the pre sent contienting myelf with addinj that I our years since there was not a single Plank I{road in the State of New York now there are over o'e hundred! That three years snce, the oiiy or Utica had not a single Plank Road-now with Railroads and1 Catnals leading td her, she bas also' five hundred tidilea af Plank Road, andt their abil.itj io'.co-mpete with Railroads, e'ern is that a Plank Road of one hnidred. miles is about being ennistructed alongside the H udson and IErie catnnel, with a Alaca' demized turtikpike, anid the Erie Ra,iroatd, within sight,- fhr almost its entire l'engthm, unde~r expectafiun that ii w'ill successfully. a.nd profita bly copete with all there i Agaiun, it ma-y be iuteresting perhaps tre - sute, thiat h';tulig is do.ie under contract on Northuernu Plank Roads, long distances. for less tltan' the charge of transportatioit 0n0n'ny Southeorn itaiready; atni. 'iot in stages passengers-are corn5eyed~ on Planik Roads 1or tt#0 cents per mile. Seing less than half the earst on any Ratilroad soutlr of the Po:omac. And whtat do all these' facts tend to prove ? Clearly that Plank Roads. in considera' ion of their cheapness, their quick conlstruction, their great elftacy and the matty pectiaritnes of our position, (which seem to make them indhispensale necessary to us) are what we require. whlat we must have emdl whhont thent' we shallt tie compa;ratively no'thing, n ith themn,... every thmitt! The opponents of Pland R<ads wouh? perhaps reply (as 1Ittave beard intimnatedp that the country is too' thinkly populated' to warrant Platnk Roads. Wonuld nit the' - samne remark if justified (and I hmld that this catnnot lie thme catse) apply wvith much greater force to the constructioni of Rail, toads?- And as for l'he argument, all ex.. perience has proven,. thai Plank Roads itre every whete well sust air.ed,- an-] pros fitable it all instances int which th 'y hard been tried beyond all-expectation. An experimenting in Plank Roadls (if experi mnent' it should- be ti rined) wotuld be at tended with no tithe of the Cost of Rail. road buildinig and the damage, should dis. mppoimt ensue, would be comnparativn iy but triing.~" Do not inst the p.