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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
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conspiracy against the i>r?>s<?n|.fiv>v*
ernment of Hayti. j '
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