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Liberal deductions made t? those advertising by the year. .W, All Communications should bo addressed 9 we runusnew post paid. I THINK OF THEE. By Geo. D. Prentice. I think oftheo when ovo'b last blush Falls mournfully on heart and eye; Of thee whon morn's first glories gush In gold and crimson o'ertho sky; My thoughts aro thine 'mid toil and strife; Thine when from toil nnd jmji it fuse? Ay thine?forever thine?my life I think of thoc 'mid spring's sweet flowers And in th? summer's brighter glow; Of thee in autumn's purple bowerB, And gloomy wintcr'p waste of snow. My thoughts arc thine when joys depart, And thine when nil life's sorrows flee? And thine?forever thine?iny heart Is but a living thought of the. America and Austria. A communication from Vienna, tin dor date of March 21st, which appears in tlio English papers, says: "The American Charge d"1 Affairs, Mr. McOurdy, accompanied by two attaches, arrived here a few days since, and has been very favorably received by Prince Schwartzenberg. l lie affair of Mr. Dudley Mann ap pears to have l>eeii satisfactorily explained; but I believe Mr. Mann was .nnllfi I <1 A^aiijr uiiojiaii/Jirii iu m niu^ai y > uim> in case she should assert her independence* America might he the first to acknowledge it; He had not, however, u.< -v authority to assist directly or inu i'Actly in the struggle. It is fortunate, moreover, that he did not take any steps in the matter, or even proceed to Hungary, for as affairs turnod he might have met with unpleasant reception. His imperial liiirlmPAS thf* nm.lirlulro Ronlinaiifl A&x will leave Vienna this afternoon for Trieste, whence he iviM start on his long-projected voyage to America. The iCmperor, his brother, will accompany him to Trieste; so I suppose we may consider that Austria and the United States are shaking hands." ^ 4'tirrau. We clip the following from a splen*li/l nrti/>ln unnn f!ur?*iin_ tliA nrroal \IIU '?? ?"V?V ???V/ VUI Irish orator: "Curran sprang from the people. He was born at Newmarket, an obscure town in the county of Cork, in 1750?being thus four years younger than Grattan. On the father's side he was descended from one of Cromwell's soldiers. Passing his childhood in the couu.ry, he was thrown much among the people. He loved to recall the days wnen ho played marbles in the street of Newmarket, or assumed the part of Punch's man ti vuuiiujr ?!? iw iuvcu ui viaii the peasantry in their cabins, and to ' listen to their tales: There he saw the Irish character?its wit, its humor, its sensibility to mirth and tears There, too, those rough natures, which appear so sullen and savage. When, brought face to face with their oppressor*, he found Ihe finest and ter^Jrest affections of the human he$rt. There, too, he found a natural poetry and eloquence. He was ijL CUnilKlll illlKlliiniH til lilt; TrvuuuiH? and wakes of the neighborhood. It was customary at thai time to em(p4oy hired mourners for the dead, and th<nr wild and solemn lamentations struck bis youthful imagination. In nfter years, he acknowledged that 1i?8 firjst fed^aa of eloquence Woredeiriv<vi listani&u- to the lamenta of mourners at the Irish burials." bm"t Qrumlrfe.?5e is a fool that jrruinWea at every little mischnnce. Yisi the best forward is an old and good maxim. Don't run about and tdl acquaintances that you have I wen unfortunate; people do not like to hpve unfortunate men. fc/ acquaintances, Add to a vigorous determination & cheerful spirit; if reverses come toeftr them liko a j?:?'?U>aopher, ?n<i get rid of them as. soon as you can.? Poorly w like a pnother: look it stea dily in the face, and it will turn from Union Pnrtie* at the South, j | There is much good sense in the following remarks made at a meet-1 ing, in Oxford, Miss., of the Southern Rights Association of La Fayetle county, by the Hon. Jacob Thomp son. We copy from the Constitution, a Southern llights paper published in 4i.ni tlltll 1U W !! Hon. Jacob Thompson submitted the following resolution which was , seconded by Hon. Jas. M. Howery. j Resolved, That the formation ol'a j Union party at the South in this crisis, is to be deprecated and ought to l>e discountenanced by every patriot nnrl Dflmni>pnlin Sloto - ?*(iv xvi^iiio anuii every where. Because it must operate as an encouragement to the enemies of Southern Institutions to make still further aggressions upon our rights, which will force these boasted Union men to become Disunionists, or prove recreant to their own sense of duty. Jfsuchaparty should prove triumnhnnt in lln> Snntli f ?... ... ...V ! IV* IIIUVIIU" l)lc result must be consolidation and the overthrow d!" our cherished institutions. If unsuccessful, yet it will still'damp the ardor and prost* ate the pride of our people nnd stay the arm which left uutramelled, would carve out for us the security and integrity of our rights. Mr. Thompson* in support of the above resolution, said: That the resolution had been prepared without consultation with any of his frier.vis, but it expressed his I own opinion, and he wtshed to make a short explanation. It is not to be disguised that it is sought to form a now party in this State, whose professed object is to maintain and strengthen then Union of these States: its name is expressive of its purpose. Jt is called the Union party; and this generic term will cover all description of politicians, from "snowy white to sooty." Whigs and Democrats, Abolitionist uiHi me cn'vairic compromiser, can meet on a common platform which professns attachment lor the Union? an undying devotion to the Union ; o i??vw for nothing but the Union I? \li are invited to forget their past deferences, and form a glorious Union Party. Rut above all, not to forget in the distribution of office, the great founders of the party. With this movement, he said that he had no syu pathy : indeed, he re Swarded the formation of surhaparty or such an object, at this time in the South, as most unfortunate and much to be deprecated. This "glorious Union" had already grown so great as to over-shadow and overawe everything; "it doth bestride the narrow world, like a Colossus; and we petty men walk under its huge leers, and press about to find ourselves cTis nonorable graves and the States and the rights of the States, so dear to the republicans of 98 and "99, are little valued. This Union at this time, gathers from the people fifty millions annually, and disburses the same among its favorites selected from that people ; an amount ten times as large as the aggregate a mount disbursed by all the 31 States: Offices by the ten thousand are nt her command, and the eves of all who seek honor and profitable places, are rivetted upon this centre. A State Judge will leave the bench in his own State, 10 become a clerl in one of her departments. At such a uiiiut nun uiiiiur sucu circumsmiiices, why should the South seek to strength en the only power on earth that dares io our rights ? Is it desirable to make our demands for the full acknowledgment of our rights, still more hopeless? Is tho power of the Union to be held in terror over us, to hush our complufnJB? P?ir *nd itist men, both north and south, admit thai in the late nroceedintfB of Con gress on the subject of slavery, the ouiiih \o the aggrieved party; and are those who have a right to complain of the injustice of these acts* to be held up as traitors to the Union, and to be placed under the. ban of its high authority. If so, there are among us hosts of traitors; and he hoped this race was to grow in number until justice, right, and equality were secured. In defending a walled' city, what prudent general would direci his attention, and station his forces, at that position of the city already so impregnable as to defy all enemies without, and oven endanger the city itsejf. But on the contrary, would not every man of sense direct all his thoughts to the weakest part of the walla, where he knew the attack would tie made, and which required vigilance* steadiness* and courage, to ward off the aaaaults. The Tights of the States, the rights of the South, form the subjects of attack* Every child of the South knows this. Shnll wc here go over to those who, under the covcr of the Union, make these attacks and aggressions, give them and nerve their arm; and then turn with discouragement and denunciation upon those who would enter the lUts of defenders of these assaulted rights? Mississippians ! this is impossible for you !! Your own gallant hearts will scotu such a desertion of your firesides and the spirit of your fathers, would rise to rebuke the ignoble act. In every age, and in every country, the defenders of the right, nave been covered with opprobious epithets.? Our own history is full of example* 'J "lie term Whig was originally a term of contempt, applied to a handful of true men, now more than a century ago, in England. After wards it wns assumed there by a powerful party, which has exerted a f>ervad ng influence upon the Engish Government. Oui heroic ancestors who contended for, and made good their claim to lilierty in 1770, were denounced as rebels. The republican fathers, whose clear minds early saw the vital importance of iimiiiiiuiiiiiK mc rignts 01 ino states* and who produced the immortal resolutions of '98 and '99, were denounced as disuuionists, as democrats! They braved the denunciation, finally assumed the contemptuous title of democrats; and have since that time, for the most part, controlled the Government. Now there are those supercilious air and a contemptible audacity, who wish to fix the name of disunionists. nnnti nil tlincn who will not endorse the slavery proceedings in Congress. To avoid the denunciations of those men, a Mississippian must say he is satisfied with what nine-tenths of them., in their hearts, feel to he unjust. All the Abolitionist of the North asks of you is obedience, and quiet submission to the will of the majority; and all the South lias to do to put itown the Abolitionist in the north and secure our equality and our rights, is to give tneir true friends, and the friendsof right and justice in the North, the power to show to the. -people there, that the Abolitionist and the Free-soiler, and their coadjutors are the Disunionists ; and they will trample them under their feet. THa II tvnn naHv ic fnrmin/* oi tlm I ? ? - ? f ? y " ??> "" B ??? ????-wrong end of the Union. The South is in a majority in the Union. Then we ought to have union in defence ol our rignts to defend the Union. But so soon as the Union party triumphs, so sure will the enemies ?f our institutions claim that their predictions have been verified; that the love of the Union is stronger in the South, 11 ?i e :?i i 1 - uinii men miiuicu lovf ui liittir DglllS ol property. As the plans of aggiesson arp but half completed, tbey will soon put our Union men, south, to the test. They cannot believe, nor did hi- bolifTt!, limi men who *!?<! not o<Jn sider the surrender of an Empire worthy of comnlaint, will dissolve 'this glorious Union' for the repeal of the fugitive slave law; when it is known and admitted such a repeal ...i 1 1 TtWUlU UU CUHSII UllUIIUh unci me South had been content to live without that law for fifty years. Yet these Union men say they wili fight when an act is uont?, which the North is invited to perform. Can any man in his senses, regard otherwise than as the idle wind that sweeps by us, the threats of that man to di ?solve the Union when slavery is abolished in the district ofColuinbia, when he advocates and supports a law which abolishes slavery in certain cases, in that District? The idea is preposterous. ai._n At *.j? tJMitui wo v?cr iu iiiv Biue ui me oppressor aj*ainst the oppressed?? Snail wc jojng the aggressor against the aggrieved? He said it was possible for nitn to be deceived, but lie con ceived it was impossible for ourpeoI)le to oppose an association which ooked (o the defence of the weakest part of the form of our government, the rights of ihe States and the rights of the South* If a Union party in the South olenitis! ift ?atsva? 1.1 ?i l V1IVMIU VTUUIU OMU Itl VV11" solvation, an evil as disastrous as the abolition of slavery. If it should fail* it would still destroy the efficioncy of the true men in obtaining the full measure of their rights. Therefore, ail gqod men everywhere, ought to discountenance the formation of such a party, a9 pregnant of evil, and in 110 eventproductive of good. Mx Tknmncinn,li pasnlniinn tiiao then put to tho Association and adop* tod. Henry Clay oV*Saturday was 75 years old, and his friends had a great festival in New Yorft, at the Apollo room. V ' rTI rn The Nicaragua Outrage*#. VVc annex some further extracts from the narrative of Mr. Hall io iiie editors of the Picayune, in relation to the outrages committed on American citizens at Nicaragua:?Carolin. w A . -I I r* jntrtii unaii^c im? uoine over ! the friendly feelings formerly enter-! tained by the inhabitants of Nicaragua and Mosquito towards the Amer icans. The governor himself formerly acknowledged to Mr. Hall that this 'country was certainly destined to become incorporated either with England or the United Simes, and that he and the Nicaraguans generally infinitely preferred the latter. "Since the last trip of the Prometheus. however, that is. within nhmit six weeks, a feeling of hostility of so decided \ character has sprung up against this country, that the Ameri< ans on the Isthmus, from llealejo to San Juan, have thought it best for their interest and personal safety to leave. About eight hundred of them who had established themselves in the towns and villaws. and vvhn .~nn. fided in the 'riendslup and protection of tin* Nicaraguan Government, have been go ill treated?the natives refusing to buy from them or sell them provisions?that they all broke up their business arrangements, many at much loss tn themselves, ramn rlnivn to Shu Juan and embarked for this port or New York. The few Amer-1 ican merchants in San Juan (or Grey town) have on hand provisions and other stocks for sixteen months, which they had made sure of soiling, hut are now forced to let remain in the warehouses useless, or rotting and ruinous. "Our informant did not remember the names of all who were murdered; he however cited those of two, one of whom was killed and the other was left for dead in the road. The nrst was Mr. A. U. Maynard, from the western part of New York, where he leaves a family. He wrs travelling to San Juan, carrying with him several thousand dollars. On ilie morning of the 5th March, between 8 and 9 o'clock, he Was attacked by an ambushed party a league this side of Materics, a ^mall town between Leon and Granada, and literally cut in two with blows from mar.h#?tns. His body was found in the road in this mangled and mutilated stateThe money was stolen. "In the the other instance, Daniel H. Mooney, of St- Louis, was attacked in a similar manner on the same road. He was left for dead, with his head dreadfully cut in several places. He regained his consciousness, however, and reache San Juan, nrmgmging the news ol Maynard's murder. "In these, as in other cases, redress was sought for from the authorities, but they everywhere turned a cold shoulder to the petitioners, and answered their just demands with pre' texts too gross to deceive the most ignorant. 'Our informant gives some particulars of the hypocritical manner in wnicn ilie English really govern San Juan and the Mosquito territory, whi|st protending to he under the dominion of a trumpery king. "An English stripling, about twenty or twenty-one years of age, named Grant, is Captain of the port of San Juan. He is also one of the Supreme Judges of the Mosquito Kingdom, the English Consul sitting with him on the bench, with two native Nioaraguans, not native Mosquitoes, as associates. The fines they inflict are charged and collected in pounds, shillings and pence* the currency of the country never being heard of. TllftV tul'O nnacnocinn r>f t(ln nnnnm ? v j>v/?7v/\'uuixfii v/i mu o ui all vessels entering (bo port, keep them during detention there and return them at departure, though San Juan, they assert, is a fiee port. "They have six strapping Jamaica negroes, dressed in blue and armed 1: nru__ mill UUiifwi (lUlll)Lr {?" ?lUIU'-KIllOU. 1 Ije I poor Mosquito King nas gone up the I coast, and will l>e absent for a year, leaving these sham subjects of his to manage tilings their own way. The English Consul will only receive such communications as are addressed to him at 'Greytonwn, Mosquito, to Her Britannic Majesty's acting Agent and Consul General,1 not in the least recognising San Juan de Nicaragua as the name of the place. "It is certainly time that our Government should take decisive steps, if not ic put down these absurd protectorate claims of England in Nicaragua, at least, to protect the lives ana property of our citizens there. We should have a Consul?an energetic, determined man?in the country; whilst the frequent visits to San Juan of an American vessel of war should tend materially to retrain Bri tish machination and Nicaragua!! aggressions. Keeping Paec with Us. . [An eye open to the pr*>gress of the great movements conl-.nporary with ourselves, is necessary to a knowinnr or.et: nation nf our nlnrn on **? planet Earth, and wo therefore .. y a word or two upon Mormonism, first quoting a well known verse: "Whorover God erects a house of prayer, The dovil always builds a cliapcl there; vlml 'twill b? found, upon exruuintuUiu., The l?tU>* *'? lAT^cat couifi'iieatkni." rriiu9 runs the extract wo speak of:] "'Mormonism,' says the Editor of the Christian Watchman and Reflcc- \ tor, (Boston,) 'grew up amid scenes familiar to our boyhood. The elevation on which the golden plates are said to have been found, was well known to us before it received its present name of Bible Hill. The store in which we performed fi short clerkship, used to he occasionally swept by the father of the Prophet, ior n glass ol grog, or such articles as would sustain his needy family, who were mere vagrants, making shift to live as they could, and spending much of their time in nocturnal money-digging. The men whose testimony .md affidavits concerning the family nre contained in the book I alluded to, which is to expose the | fraud, were several of them our fa miliar acquaintances. Wo know that what they say of the moneydigging, sight-seeing, fortune-telling, lying and drunkenness of the family, is reliable. Martin Harris, whose farm was mortgaged to print the Golden Bible, ami some of the printers themselves, are names familiar to our youth. Those acquainted with the enterprise in its ince ption, Smiled at the clumsy cheat as a thing too contemptible for a thought, and that mncl rim ??* uauoi uic ill IIO Ull til* To us, therefore, its subsequent; history is one of the most unaccountable things of this unaccountable age. To see Joe Smith nailed us u Prophet of the Lord by seventy-five or a hundred thousand people; to trace his footsteps through Ohio, Missouri and Illinois ; to see his followers threading their way, amid privations inconceivable, across the Great Western Desert, and planting themselves i <* XT. i % in m? ricn vases 01 uian and on true borders of the Great Salt Lake; to know that gorgeous temples have risen under their hands in Ohio and Illinois, and lhat another, the largest structure in the world, is projected at their new home; to observe their missionariea traversing this country, Great Britain, and making their way even to Palestine, multiplying thenproselytes by hundreds, and snipping them to their nromised land in thn West, suggests the idea that some powerful spirit from the other world must preside over the movement, lik<> the devils whom Milton represents as dividing themselves among th$ gods and religions of the ancient heathen nations. ^ I fPa wen rrrv " k/AiCiUk 1U JLS irj? 11UVUI was there a more pmctical and terrible application of Hamlet's memorable doubting questioning, life-or-death soliloquy than in the case of the three negroes in Texas, two of whom ?a man his wife?were latelv found by a return party of the Mexican Boundary Commission in a state of starvation, having killed and nearly devoured their comrade. Tho Lavaca paper says they had lived for many weeks on roots and such things as they could pick up but finally be uuiiiui^ ou uuany k.iiiidiiuu vvhii null" ger that one of the men proposed thajt thfy should cast lots in wc which of the threo should be killed and eaten by the others; but Henry would not agree that his wife should cast lots, for if it should fall upon her to be killed he could not cat a mouth ful of her. So the two men agreed thfif the first one that got to sleep fthouhl be kiltecl by the other. Henry who had his wife to help him 1 4? - ^ I- /"- ? proveu urn mosi whkuuii, nnn ine other fell a vicUm to the demand of hunger. A Fugitive as is a Fugitive.?A mulatto girl, at Exeter, N. H., represented herself as a fugitive slave, was received into the house of the aboliti 'iiists, who petted her enormously. They fed her on the best; even plum cake and sausages were not denied her, to say nothing of quartered quinces>and calves foot jelly. In short, they fed her like a fighting cock (or one week, when accidentally, they discovered she was other than what sne seemed. She was* accordingly* ordered to make tracks.?-iV. Y. Morning Star. -.aoaaa?^tt A. Kins:. A letter from Nicaragua says:? 'Some one said once, 4What is majesty, stripped of iis externals, but a jestr Here, with all its externals, and means to boot, it is a sorry one. His Majesty the King of Mosquitot arrived at this port, under a salute of once gun from H. B. M. schooner Bermuda, on the evening of the l ..! T__ >r* i 1.JUI nisi, in me morning me vessel was dressed with signal flags, and he proceeded ashore, after receiving a royal naluto. Tho English authorities mnlin much of )iis Iliw-hneas, (he is five feet five,) and, although ho ma}- not be 'every inch a king/ he is a very intelligent and amiable youth, of some ninety or twenty years of ??QV JL V/UUIU IIUI 1IUI |i UIIV I1UI1V/U how much out of his element he seemed, strapped down in the dress of an English midshipman. He is under the spiritual instruction of the Rev. Mr. PhiefTer, a Moravian divine from Minefields. Mr. Coates, his commissioner, also accompanies him. Those who havp. r.ontinnprl ninnnnint unce with the king, speak highly of his character, and give him credit for considerable historical and general in formation. 1 state these facts, as there lb an erroneous impression of him in the States."?Herald. The Fugitive Slave Case.?The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Clipper, speaking of the late Boston case, says: Our anxiety to hear the result of the proceedings growing jout of the f*ims lugitive case in lioston, has been gratified. The departure of the slave for Savannah, at four o'clock this morning, as the telegraph informs us, will not be so satiefactory to the South as if he had been shipped in open day. However, a rescue was apprehended, and hence the selection of this early hour, when the fanatics were locked in aromatic slumber, dreaming, perhaps, of the contemplated conflict with the general government; but they awoke to their own r* 1 _ : A - * i coniusion, ana wiii,oi course, emu an extraordinary quantity of spleen forthwith, or Jorthwith-er. A gentleman who recently came from Boston to Providence says, that the abolitionists all along the way and in the last named city, were also prepared to rescue the fugitive slave, should he pass that way. But 'The best laid schemes of mice and men, fvannr off o ' f5?"6 ?'1 At Modena, in Italy, about four miles around it, wherever the earth is dug, when the workmen arrive at a distance of sixty-three feet, they come to a bed of chalk, which they bore with an augur, five feet deep. They then withdraw from the pit hpfnm llm mirrm* i? romftvnrl. nrurl upon its extraction, the water bursts upon with great violence, and quickly fills the well thus made, which is I affected neither bv rains nor droughts. ' At ih& depth of fourteen feet are found the ruins of an ancient city* houses, naved streets, arid ninsnir. ivork. below this again, is a layer of earth, and at twenty-six feet, walnut trees are found entire, and with leaves and walnuts still upon them. At twenty-eight feet, soft cha,k is found, and below this, vegetables and trees as before. New use for a S&rmnt.?The complaints we have heard from Washing ton, this winter, touching the ruin of carpets and curtains by the spitting iriemfc 3rs, have reminded us of an example in history which we hasten to quote for the Honorable tobacco cllowers:?Hoivic Jouma!"Tho Ambassador of the King of Sp&in went onr.e to the houso of Iraperia, th? great Roman beauty- Tmperia met him in the hall and conducted him into the saloon. He ad miren tne oeauty 01 tnc lady, ana the splendor of the mansion, and having occasion to void his iheunr, he tufned round to a servant and spat in his face, and said that he really must not be offended, but every thing was so fine that his face was so fine that his face was the only thing he could spit upon. Imperia, it is said, was highly pleased at the comnliment that was thus paid to tho mfc/rnificence of her hous<^." Accounts from Hrtytf state that in ho month of March last, Juan Bap tiato Frances, the Minister of Justice under tho Emperor Souloque, was, with nnven nlnnr nnrsnns nf hinrh standing?all of titer,* black?publicly shot near Port au Prince, by order of the Emperof. The charge against them, and for which they suffered, was for havliiir rnnr?rn?l in a C , ' , ? ?* T 4 conspiracy against the i>r?>s<?n|.fiv>v* ernment of Hayti. j ' ' X