Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 2 May 1857 — Page 1

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FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-THREE DOLLAR

PRIZE TALE!

[Writte wcpressly for the Rarisw and will positively appear in Mo OTHER PAP*B.]

TEE ELOPEHENT:

OR, INTRIGUES OF A COLLEGE HUCKSTER. or o. i. Nkm, ESQ.

FIRST CHAPTER.

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VU ten o'clock—the iron tongue of bell upon the lofty steeple of the Manu-

m.TExertion

Institute rang out dismally up­

on the thick mists which shrouded its gray and timo worn summit, warning those who trod the rugged paths of knowledge, that the hour had arrived when the weary might rest and the wicked might engage in deeds of deepest darkness.

The tall wind howled among the leafless branches of those forest monarchs—fearfully as the moanings of the tormented in the sulphurous vaults of pandemonium.— It was a December night—a drear December night. The old year—palsied and stricken with age tottered upon the verge of the grave and all nature animate and inanimate appeared to mingle in a common sympathy. There was no moon—the rushing messengers of storm as they rolled up terribly from the west had shrouded it.— No star hung out upon the darkness to guide the wanderer.

Amid the elassic groves which surrounded the Manual Exertion Institute, a solitary footmnw

slowly

wonileil his

way.

As he

approached that venerable pile, the lightning's flash cast a lurid glare over the surrounding scenery and anon the thunders peal reverberated between Egypt and the South Division, appalling the stoutest heart.

This solitary footman was none other than Alphonso Snale—a youth—in height, about the usual stature of small men—in appearance, nothing different from men who looklike him. His flaxen hair, long and disheveled floated wildly in the breath of the storm, lie was enveloped in a huge gray shawl, known familiarly to those who tread the lower walks of life, as a "Shanghai," which was so tastefully disposed as to show each beauty of his fragile form to Lhc best advantage.

The thunders muttered— His good right arm was bared to the ftmpest and in his hand he nervously duelled a ten cent bar of rosin soap.

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Again a red hot thunder-bolt hurled from the hand1of Jove cast its fierce glance over the gloomy scene. Alphonso's knees smote wildly together—he leaned his exhausted frame heavily upon the faithful bar of soap and inhaled the sweet fragrance which stole from its saponacious recesses like a breath from paradise. He revived and again erect

cd his manly form and strove to press forward through tho thickening gloom. Another flash more deeply terrible—another peal more terribly deep and Alphonso in the agony of despair, cried wildly:—

SECOND CHAPTER!

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Katarina! shall the rude passions of heaven's vengeance thus rudely tear me forever from you—shall I not again wander amid these sacred groves with you at my side, and pour into thy listening ear, while thy bright eye shall glance and thy lovely countenance brighten at my story, .as I recitc to thee the pleasures I antici pate Troin tho ponderous upheaval of the poultry market. Oh, Katarina! how little ^thought I one shbrt hour ago as I unwillingly tore myself from thy herculean embraces that I had experienced for the last .(time that pleasure. Oh, Katarina! Rata rina! Katarina! and his voice grew fainter with each sobbing ejaculation and he wildJy exploded in a torrent of tears. A crash! and he bounded forward as the arrow sped by'the hand of the skillful Archer from the bow. Another! and he stopped in-his wild career. Still another! and his wearied limbs refused to perforin their office.— Gently he settled down as the sun sinks at the decline of day. Artistically and ten? derly he placed the ever faithful bar of soap under bis throbbing head—twice he groaned, thrice lie turned upon his side—his limbs gyrated wildly "in the tempest for a moment and darkness fadedfrom his vision and he lay as one entr*aced, beholding •mid gorgeous lights that lit his vision with unearthly splendor

CHAPTEtf THIRD!

A vision of Katarina! Katarina in tears! Katarina in agony! Katarina dejected—^

sad—in gloom. Angel of mercy, how kind thou wert to blnnt the physical sensibilities of Alphonso else he had died of the intensity of anguish. Upon the ground, in the midst of that forest—pillowed upon that fragrant bar of soap, we, as a faithful historian, are how compelled to leave the fainted ^lphonso. Breathe gently over him, spirit of the tempest, wake him not until thy fury shall have abated—murmur but gently about him and let no sound awake him to sorrow again.

FOURTH CHAPTER.

Katarina Brigetina O'Cafferty was born at the place of her nativity a half score of years before she arrived at the age of ten. When a child she was observed to act somewhat as other children do. Her precosity was nothing unusual. Before she was four years old she could walk and talk. She was reared in a flourishing village on the lake shore, noted for the large quantity of water near it—its unsurpassed level sccnery and the almost exhaustless amount of land conveniently adjacent. Her parents were in medium circumstances.

Katarina budded into womanhood without accident as far as we arc informed and as most young womtyi do, formed an attachment. Rodregio Snale, a senior brother of our hero, was the object of Katarina's love. His keen discernment soon disclosed to him that to fit Katarina for the society in which he designed her to move, it would be necessary that her mind should receive a slight polishing, for which purposo, he magnanimously sent licr in care of Alphonso to the Athens of a certain independent State adjoining that of hc^ativity. Meanwhile Rodregio toiled in the arduous duties of his profession, that of a dealer 'in Poultry, mature and incipient. Ah, Rodregio! how faithless, liow ficklc, how frail, how faulty, how eminently feminine is woman! Toil on Rodregio! yet know that from thine own parent stock a thorn has grown which shall yet rankle in thy bosom.

At the time of our writing Alphonso was exercising his prerogative—a guardian over the affianced bride of his brother. It was his duty to see that all the comforts of life were hers—that all she desired was freely to be given. During the evening of the memorable day, the events of which we have so thrillingly and truthfully narrated, Katarina expressed a desire tluit Alphonso would procure for her toilet a package of Jules Ilaulc's saponacious compound. Alphonso hastened to obey. The hope of spending an hour in the society of the beautiful Katarina gave him as it were the wings of the wind. Eagerly he sought the desired article in each shop, and store located in the village, yet none was to be found. It was then that despair seized his trembling heart and sorrow like an avalanche burst upon him, and as he mournfully turned his steps toward the mansion where Katarina was provendered, his wild cry was borne upou the fitful gusts—Oh, soap! soap! soap! thou bane of my existence—destroyer of my fondest anticipations—blight of my brightest hopes.

As ho pursued his way, scarcely knowing whither he went, lie chanced to pass the far-famed bazar of Mons. Hailing Johnsing lie cast a hurried glance through the stained glass of the windows and doors of this famed establishment. He started back as one overcome again he strained his vision to its utmost tension, and joy! he beheld by the mellow light which was softly diffused, huge boxes of soap. Eagerly he grasped the knob, and in a moment the ponderous door swung back and ho entered. "Hast Soap?" he inquired. "We have, Alphonso was the prompt reply. "Proceed then, as you value my existence, to meet out to me such a quantity as will require the disbursement of a dime." "It shall be done, Oh Alphonso," replied the vender and quickly the soap was plac ed in the hands of the eager Alphonso, and the delicious perfume which arose from that soap were dearer to him than the spice loaded breezes wafted from an eastern caravan. The storm was gathering, yet he heeded not its threatenings. The winds howled hoarsely through th (^streets of the village, yet Alphonso lightly and gaily pursued his way until he had approached near the mansion where he was shortly to meet his adored Katarina. "Ah, Katarina!" he eagerly cried, "each moment I am from thee appears an age!"

And he clutched the soap more tightly and strove to quicken his pace. At this, the moment when he felt that all the bright anticipations which for months had clustered about his heart in brighter union the grapes of Eschol were soon to be realised, ho was suddenly and rude ly grasped about the throat. He struggled manfully to free himself, yet the grasp relaxed not,—he essayed to cry out, but the sound died ere it was articulated. The grasp tightened! Fainting with exertion and suffocation, yet clinging faithfully to that precious soap, Alphonso, struggling, fell to the

FIFTH CHAPTER!

Earth, Earth! he cried upon reviving, how heartily tired I am of thee, and in a manner entirely original he prepared to arise. Those, who far out on old ocean's foam-crested bosom, have seen the glorious

serenely prepared to erect his physical sys tasis. Leaning the weight of his body upon his fragile hands, then gently drawing his feet beneath his body and leaning for a moment that he might more perfectly gain his equilibrium, he made one giant effort and arose. Katarina stood beside him!— Magnificently he brushed the polluting dust from his soiled garments, tenderly he cast one glance through the gathering gloom on the lovely form which stood beside him.— When his agitation had in a measure subsided, he thus tenderly addressed the majestic yet beautiful Katarina: "Fair creature, what perils, what dangers have I not braved—what toil, fatigue and suffering have I not encountered, that I might win thy smiles." "Be then repaid, O, Alphonso," she rejoined, and her smile gleamed upon him as a ray of softest sunlight. "But come—we must away, the hour has now arrived when we may fearlessly enjoy each other's society. The window is already raised and the rope ladder adjusted. Haste! each moment lost, is a pearl from the crown of my rejoicing."

Softly Alphonso stole 'neath the window. Eagerly he clutched the silken strands by which he was to ascend to the paradise above. Hoarsely the watch-dog bayed.— Fearfully extensive were Alphonso's exertions to ascend. The enraged and terrific monster thirsting for blood rushed wildly forward! Alphonso renewed his exertions, but in preparing to climb the giddy height he had unfortunately unwound one end of his ponderous shawl while the other was securely fastened about his manly waist. With a tiger's ferocity the dog seized this unlucky garment Vainly did Alphonso strive to free himself from its tightning folds. In'vain the entreaties and tears of the fair Katarina, who from the window above was an almost distracted spectator of Alphonso's terrible suspense. Alphonso felt his breath grow short—liuge drops of perspiration gathered thickly upon his pale brow as he thus hung a martyr to his year to the creditors of Indiana.

love between the Heaven's and the SIXTH CHAPTER. Insatiate jaws of iii»t bcrrlblc Tjcast loose now thy uncharitable grasp!

Alphonso, though the agony of his despair had well nigh overcame him, luckily

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shrine of fair Katarina's appetite. Drawing it from his bosom where it had nestled near his heart, Alphonso cast it to the vile dog. He was appeased—Alphonso released—and amid the tears of his adored Katarina, he leaped lightly into an elegant ipartmcnt occupied by the object of his admiration—nay love.

After Alphonso had recited each thrilling adventure through which lie had passed, and had received from Katarina such sweet approving smiles as amply repaid him for all the terrors lie had encountered, he modestly drew from beneath the folds of his shawl the coveted but dearly bought soap, and with a low obeisance laid it at Katarina's feet. The fair creature with a tylph-like motion stooped, raised it to her lips, her eyes uplifted and swimming in tears. Tenderly she embraced the manly Alphonso while tears of gratitude dripped down his flaxen locks. She then hastily tore off thc paper coverings which enveloped it, but no sooner had she done so than fierce passion proclaimed its sway. Her eye, which but a moment before beamed tenderly upon Alphonso, now gleamed upon him with demoniac fury. Raising her finely rounded form to its full height, and darting upon the terror-stricken Alphonso glance which caused him to cower beneath its fury, she exclaimed in a tone which filled him with dismay, "Alphonso are you— (TO BE CONTINUED.)

ADDRESS FROM GOVERNOR ASIIBEL P. WILIIARD.

To the People of Indiana Having received many letters of inquiry concerning the present condition of the State, asking how far thc failure of the Legislature to pass the General Appropriation, Revenue and Assessment laws, will affect the interests of Indiana, I take this method of replying, without waiting until the laws and journals are distributed.

By laws which were passed by previous Legislatures, provision is made for sustaining every department of the Government, excepting thc Benevolent Institutions The tax ia levied for the support of the Common Schools, and two cents upon each one hundred dollars for the purpose of paying the principal of the public debt. As long as there is money in the Treasury belonging to the State, it is believed that there is an authority to pay the interest on said debt.

orb of day wheel up majestically from the that on the 19th day of January, 1846, the on the last night of the session they found world of waters, spreading a sheen of glory Legislature passed "an act authorizing the ample time to pass the Specific Appropria- .. erection of suitable buildings for the use of tion Bill, which provided for the payment over all, lighting.with golden tints the wi Indiana Hospital for the Insaneand of their own employees, and, by a direct expanse of heaving liquidity, can form no

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just conception of Alphonso's rise—for he cation of the indigent Blind of this State." ue or General Appropriation Bills. Every rose not so. Alphonso had been lying up- These Institutions have had appropria- appeal which either humanity or patriotism 1 on ad or he up or to 1 8 5 7 as as ad in a in he on his back-turning completely over, he

Hospital for the Insane^... 092 93

Institution for the Education of tho

Blind 257,135 76

Institution for Edncation of Deaf and

omy—that their unfortunate inmates could be supported with more comfort to themselves, and with less expense, in the State Institutions, than in the county prisons and poor houses..

So careful were you to protect and sustain them, that you provided in sec. 1, art. 9, of your present Constitution as follows: "It shall be the duty of the General Assembly to provide, by law, for the support of Institutions for the Edncation of the Deaf and Dumb, and of the Blind, and also for the treatment of the Insane and no man in the State imagined that there would be found at any time a majority of either branch of any Legislature so reckless as to lay their destroying hands' upon these proud monuments of your charity, after you had given them their solemn instructions in the Constitution.

The House of Representatives, at the last session of the Legislature, on the 5th day of March, 1857, passed "an act making general appropriations for the years 1857 and 1858," which on the same day was reported to the Senate. This act contained the necessary allowances to support these Institutions but a majority of the Senate refused to pass said act.

Thus you find yourselves in this condition. While you have paid your taxes for the year 1856 into the State Treasury, part of which you intended should be applied to the support of these Asylums for the present year, this majority in the Senate has refused to allow it to be paid out for that purpose, thereby compelling the return of the pupils and patients to their various counties—thus burdening you with additional expense and taxation.

Again on the 19th day of January, 1846, tho Legislature passjed an act to provide for the funded debt of the State, in which your faith was solemnly pledged for the payment of the interest on said debt and on the 27th of January, 1847, another act of the Legislature was passed, repeating the obligation given in the previous

Ever since these acts were passed the State has maintained her faith and credit,

the result of which has been to encourage xiic nf copulation and capital into the State. Every Jovmniraent ot business revived and prospered. Your splendid system of railroads was carried on—

the improved facilities for transporting the

remembered that during the previous day's products of your soil increased rapidly the 1 1 1 1 A 1 1 1 I 1 operations in poultry he had selected from value of your real estate. Yet this same among his stock the most beautiful, tender majority of the Senate refused to passany ... ir j- law providing for raising any r^^enue toi and delicious clncken as an offering at, the

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You see the patients from the Insane Asylum and the pupils from the Deaf and Dumb, being returned to* the various counties, and inquire why this is done.

You arc aware that on the 13th day of February, 1843, the Legislature passed "an act to provide means to support a Deaf and Dumb Asylum in the State of Indiana

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jority of the Senate

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by which the

interest on said debt could be paid for the

year 1858. The House of Representatives, on tho 27th day of February, 1857, passed "an act to raise Revenue for State purposes, for the years 1857 and 1858, and on the same day, said act was reported to tho Senate. This act provided for assessing fifteen cents on each $100 worth assessing ui meu uuiiuo uii

of real and personal property in the State,

and the majority of the Senate refused to pass said act. So that if the officers of State shall be able to borrow an amount of money sufficient to pay tho interest, as it may come due, you will in the future necessarily have the taxes of three years assessed in one, the inevitable consequence of which will be, to encourage migration from the State, and depreciate the value of your property.

A wain there has been no revaluation ot your real estate since 1851. In thc intermediate time, the relative value of this class of-property has materially changed, so that the burthens of government fall unequally upon the tax payers. The

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the same day, "an act for the Edu- vote, refused to consider either the Reven-

did not

*|ard

the

busiliesg before them

as so important that it could not be post-

poned, while they appropriated $15,000

for the payment of the employees of the

Legislature but yet so important that not

Diimb-.-."vr"rv,:-v288,106 80 one dollar could be appropriated to sustain the deaf and dumb—blind and insane

lows: "The Lieutenant Governor shall, by virtue of his office, be President of the Senate," by endeavoring to elect a Senator to act as Lieutenant Governor. So satisfied were they of the illegality of this attempt at usurpation, that they did not record it in the journals of their proceedings.

They refused to attend in the Hall of the Housd of Representatives in accordance with the usual custom, to hear the message of my predecessor.

Section 4 of Article 5 requires that the Speaker of thc House of Representatives shall open and publish the returns for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, in the presence of both Houses of the General Assembly. They refused, when duly invited to attend, and have said returns opened and published in their presence.

Afterwards, on the 2d day of February, when the Senate had been adjourned by its presiding officcr, less than a quorum ot the Senate assembled in the Senate Chamber, and," upou motion, without even the form of an election, placed one of their number in the Chair, and proceeded to expel the Senator from the County of Clark from his seat. Well knowing that their proceedings were in direct violation of the constitution, they did not even certify to the Executive Department that said seat was vacant, go that an election could be ordered. But from said 2d day of February, until the close of thc session, the Secretary of the Senate, chosen by these men, refused to call the name of the Senator, when directed by the President of the Senate.

Thus, after the Legislature had been in session for the fpll constitutional term of Gl days, after they had expended more than $90,000, they adjourned, leaving Indiana without the law's essential to mainKin her honor and credit. And from the day of said adjouvumctiu uj have seen nothing which inclines me to believe that thc 40 days of a called session would not be as fruitless of good as the 61 days of the last. I do not believe that it is either for thc welfare or honor of the State that a special session should be called, and $60,000 more of your money expended in re-enacting the scenes ot last winter. If you desire thc passage of these laws, you have it in your power to make your Representatives obey your will.

The State was brought to its present condition by no act of the Executive.— There has been no interference with thc rights and privileges of the Legislative Department. One branch of that depar­

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unequally upon mo measures alluded to are concerned, they House of Representatives passed an act

providing for such revaluation, but it fail- ,g

ed to command the approbation of a ma

these measures indeed, for the last twdve ASHBEL P. WILLARD. years, however much they may have differ-

ed concerning the policy to be pursued in

the administration of the Federal Govern-

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in no haste, but after calm and ma-

ture deliberation, has declared that they would not sustain the Constitution. It is to be regretted by all good citizens that Indiana, while she is growing in wealth and influence, should be struck down from her proud position, without giving to you, the people, any right to pass judgment upon thc action of the men who gave the blow

that your Representatives, without giving

you any earning, should proceed to fasten & on you all the odium of repudiation—throw back upon you the inmates of your asy lums where they were being restored to reason or educated for usefulness.

To all men I have said, that as far as the

commfmd my approvai.

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

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ment, they have generally agreed upon our domestic policy. This conclusion will be A PLEA

fairlv arrived at when you reflect with It was wisely said by the greatest of whafunanimity you adopted your present German philosophers that, We should enMK?Sklh expressly provided for oo,,rnge similar measures. And no man elected as take care of itself. ihe sen»e in wlncn a Representative to either branch of the this aphorism is received and carried out General Assembly, while canvassing for in this country, is widely different from

sufrage, occiipied the position of hos- that intended by Goethe Lavish expentilitvto anv of them. If then, you, the diture, reckless and ridiculous extraspeople of the State, arc in favor of these gance, are as far from tending to cncoyrmeasurcs, and your Representatives have age the beaut.ful, as miserly economy or

failed to carry out your will, you inquire what is the remedy for this failure to act on the part of thc Senate? I see none, unless thc Senators, upon reflection, shall change their opinions on these questions, or those entertaining different opinions are elected by you.

You provided in Sec. 29 of Art. 4 of thc Constitution, that the regular session of the General Assembly should continue for 61 days. That session was duly held and continued for the full cunstitutional term, and vou have seen the result. You provided also, in Sec. 9 of said Art. 4, that "if in the opinion of the Governor, the public welfare shall require it, he may at any time, by proclamation, call a special session." I entertain no doubt that the public welfare would be promoted by the passage of the acts which the Senate rsfosed to pass all of which could be done in a session of not exceeding ten days.— But what is die hope of such a result?— There was no want of time for the Senate to pass these laws. The House of Representatives placed all these bills in the possession of the Senate, many days before the adjournment of that body. And even

the

power vested in me under the Constitution,

I am satisfied, that a laige majority special session of thc General thc citizens of the State are favor of all

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niggardliness. As a nation we are lamentably ignorant as to what constitutes the Beautiful. While we consider ourselves fully equal in cultivation to the most enlightened nation of the globe, it cannot be denied that our public exhibitions of {esthetic taste arc not different in kind, though they may be in degree, from those of savage tribes who value glittering baablcs far beyond meritorious works of art. Tho pretty girl is not content with her chaste lovlincss of face, but she must needs decorate it with meritricious coloring nor with her modest attire, but she must needs ornament herself with flaunting furbelows and feathered fopperies. Comfort is everywhere sacrificed to display, and overornament predominates from the kitchen to the parlor. Purity of taste is as rare as it is admirable, while money enough is squandered in display to place us on a lev el with the palmiest days of Grecian art.

It may be worth while to inquire how this state of affairs is brought about, and what is the rationale of it. It is susceptible of demonstration that a capacity for the highest exercisc of {esthetic taste is not wanting, in this country. "A statue by

Powers, or a picture by Page," will command the. consideration of thc first minds of any country, yet unfortunately Powers and Page, Crawford, and Cole Stuart and Sully, and a hundred others," must go abroad to find the inspiration, a^d to gain the consideration which gives them their rank among artists. Ana besides these there are hundreds of others, equally talented in every department of art, who are actually starving at home for thc lack of

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Nor was it alone during the last days individual encouragement, when the Na- leaves much to legislative discretion, and hours of the session that a majority of tion itself sets the example by importing The questions to bo decided seem to the Senate disregarded the Constitution talent to represent its nationality, literally be— you had established as the fundamental law under foreign colors. Scenes in American 1. Whether a territorial restriction bo of the State. On the first day that the history are to be painted by the pencil of an assumption of illegitimate power or, Legislature assembled, this same majority an artist who, whatever may be his talents, 2. Misuse of legitimate power and if undertook to organize the Senate against belongs to a school of art the most at va- the latter only, whether the injury thrcatthe provisions of the Constitution, as found riance with his subjects, and the least ad- ened to thc nation from^an acquiescence in Sec. 21 of Art. 5, which reads as fol- mired by true artists in both hemispheres.

Startling as the proposition may be, it is

certain that the perversion of taste is main ly due to the prevalence of wealth. There is no country in the world, where mere wealth holds thc sway which is cheerfully accorded to it in this. The question, "What is the man, and what has he done is never asked but if, "Who is the man, and what does he possess?" is favorably answered: his word at once becomes law on all subjects, from the boiling of a pot to the building of a cathedral. Professing to scorn any aristocracy, America makes for herself the most ridiculous of all aristocracies. She gives to wealth what she denies to talent, and compels her greatest minds to sing pasans to her deepest pockets.

To have acquired wealth by industry and sagacity is ccrtainly honorable, and deserves as much respect as should be accorded to the highest forms of art. Thc principle which enables a man to wring its treasures from the world, is near akin to that power which makes thc great artist, whether in letters or in colors. Few American fortunes, however, are constructed by this means—the man-milliner of to-day is thc millionaire of to-morrow. Once that his wealth is attained, his antecedents are forgotten, and in virtue of his divine wealth, he arrives at the dignity of arbiter in matters of taste, which are as new to him now as the spring fashions were a year ago.— Yet who dare question his right to judge— who so bold? He builds his library, and fills its shelves with the classical productions of Fanny Fern, Sylvanus Cobb, Geo. Lippard, Harriet Becchcr Stowc, and all the like worthies of his country's literature, passing over the lesser lights of Prescott and Bancroft and Irving, and thc forgotten "old fogies" of his yesterday. He erccts his galcries of art, and points with tians by Mistress, his his Claudes by Melnotte, and his long line of landscapes by Mr. Dusseldorf. He is a liberal patron of the players, prefering thc purity of Camille to the purility of Cordelia. The tower of his mansion is surmounted with a telescope, through thc big end of which he views thc microcosm around him. If these playful absurdities affected only himself, it would matter little to socicty or thc world at large but as all thc world wore hoops to conccal Eugenie's motherhood, so all the world reverses the tclescopc to see with the eyes of thc millionaire.

If Art is not absolute it is nothing if it is to be subject to the caprices of uncultivated wealtii it is impossible that it should flourish. Favoritism will not produce it— mere money will not buy it. Vu calth is a proper basis for all social relations, but wealth unaided by talcut, can do nothing but render those relations abortive. iEsthetic art, of all kinds, demands money as its medium of exhibition. The one is as

dependent on thc other as is the polished glass of the mirror on thc quicksilver bethrow

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sist in its dimensions alone, or Mrs. Potipliar will instantly put it out of the pale of art by curling her delicatc'nostrils as she sweeps by it in her emblazoned carriage.

Let the real wealth of the country consent to be directed by men of truly aesthetic taste and then, and not till then, will we have learned to "encourage the beautiful," while "thc useful" is left to take care of itself.

.UlESonri CoRiproniiBc—Imporlant Letter from Mr. Madison. Black Republican papers have stated times with out number that Mr. Madison had given it as his opinion that the Missouri Compromise was constitutional, and that he was in favor of thc measure. The following extract from a letter written by him, Feb. 23d, 1820, to Mr. Monroe, speaks for itself. It will be seen that he gave his opinion against it, not only on thc grounds of unconstitutionality, but on the grounds of inexpediency:

MONTPELIEK,

Feb. 23, 1820.

I received yours of thc 19th on Monday. The pinch of the difficulty in thc case stated, seems to be in thc words "for ever, coupled with the interdict relating to the territory north of latitude 36 deg. 30 min. If the necessary import of these words be, that they are to operate as a condition on future States admitted into the Union, and as a restriction on them after admission, they seem to encounter, indirectly, the ariruinents which prevailed in the Senate for an tthconditional admission _of ^ssoun.. I must conclude, therefore, from thc jsaent of the Senate to thc trnrds. nftor the

strong vote, on constitutional grounds, against the. restriction on Missouri, that there is some other mode of explaining them in their actual application."

As to the right of Congress to'apply suoh a restriction during the territorial period, it depends on the clause specially providing for the management of those subordinate establishments.

On ono side it naturally occurs, thai the, right, being given from the necessity of the

means to execute the very works, which, case, and in suspension of the great prinif completed, would render their producers ciple of self-government, ought not to be and their possessors alike famous. A extended further, nor continued longer, whole generation could be instructed in the than the occasion may fairly require. ill Vvrtntilt Ail frt* fli r» ftf tliA On ffin if. AflflVIAf K/*

the misuse, or from a frustration of it, bo the greater. On the first point, there is ccrtainly room for difference of opinion though, for myself, I must own that I HAVE ALWAYS LEANED TO THE BELIEF THAT THE RESTRICTION WAS NOT WITHIN THE TRUE SCOPE OF THE CONSTITUTION.

On thc alternative presented by the second point, there can be no room, with tho cool and candid, for blame on those aeffuiescing in a conciliatory course, the demand for which was deemed urgent, and the course itself deemed not irreconcilablc with the' Constitution.

This is the hasty view I have taken of thc subject. I am aware that 1 may bo suspected of being influenced by thc habit of a guarded construction of constitutional powers and I have certainly felt all thc influence that could justly flow from a conviction that an uncontrolled dispersion of, the slaves now within the United States, was not only best for thc nation, but most favorable for thc slaves also, both as to their prospects of cmancijialion, and as to their condition in the mean time.

DISAPPOINTED LOVE—DEATH—AND AM ATTEMPT TO COMMIT SUICIDE.—We

have

been placed in possession of some most melancholy facts in relation to a young man and lady, the former a resident of Prebblo County, Ohio, and thc latter a resident of Oxford. It appears the young man is a student at West Point Military Academy, and the young lady was his bethrothed.— Being absent from her along time, he returned home some two weeks since, and found her married, and in her second confinement. Although a correspondence had been regularly kept up between them, she had concealed thc fact of her marriage, and of course he was startled to find how mat--J?'s

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quietly, and seek friends ~ancr"forMMflj iff" another place. In view of this detcrmina-r tion he concluded not to see thc lady, but unwise counsels of friends prevailed with him, and he went to the house where she resided. While in a room adjoining to that of thc lady, she heard and recognized his* voice and expressed a desire for an inter-, view with him. He immediately repaired to the room, where a most affecting scene occurrcd. She asked and obtained his pardon thc interview closed and they separated. But what she had gone through was beyond her powers of endurance, and that night licr spirit passed from earth.— The young man was not informed of her death until morning, when he attempted self-destruction by jumping into a mill race, not far from where he resided. He would have succceded in drowning himself but for the accidental appearance of a gentleman wending his way along thc race to thc mill. Immediately after he was taken from thc water and resuscitated his friends sent him to Cincinnati, where he would be away from the scenes which would bring to his memory thc unhappy circumstances which had overtaken him at his home.—Liberty (Ind.) Herald.

COLD WEATHER AT TIIE SOUTH.

Great sculptures, great paintings, great ^g^ta (Ga.) correspondent of the New monuments, can never, and will never be ,^orkJow?iatoJ

We make the following extract from an

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,adc to satisfy the demands of wealth Commerce, wno writes tbis alone. Thcparvenu, just referred to, would under date of April 10: refnse to accept the grandest epic poem in Thc recent cold weather has destroyed marble, unless its magnitude was so colos- our fruit, and killed no inconsiderable sal as to attract the vulgar eye for twenty amount of young cotton in this State. On miles around. Its magnificence mustjeon- the morning of the 7th instant, the mercu

Commerce who writes this

ry wak down to twenty-five degrees, or seven degrees below the freezing point.— Corn will probably grow again where it is cut down by frost, but cotton must bo replanted and as many do not keep seed for such a contingency, all the ground cannot be replanted, even if there were time for so much extra labor.

The low temperature of March and the first week in April has operated advantageously on growing wheat, keeping it from shooting into head too rapidly, and .causing it to a tiller well and spread over the ground. In southern and central Georgia, wheat harvest usually commences tho third week in May, so that in six weeks you may expect samples of our new crop in tho New York market. Prices were calculated to cause an unusual breadth of land- to be sown in wheat at our last seeding time, and we arc expecting a fine harvest. One cultivator has $2,000 worth of Peruvian guano at a cost of over $70 a tun, delivered.

S.^crelaiart of Legation to Rcs»ia.

It is now generally regarded as a "fixed fact" that Gov. Wright is to go to Prusia as 3Iinister. Theodore E. Buchlcr, Esq., formerly of this State, but now of Louisville, is favorably mentioned for Secretary of Legation. He is a native of Prussia, and is said to be amply qualified for the position.

THE WEATHER AND TOE CATTLE.—Tho

late wintry weather, and the scarcity of fodder, has been very calamitous to cattle in Michigan. In some counties they are dying off at thc rate of a thousand head per day. ..