Evansville Journal, Volume 11, Number 12, Evansville, Vanderburgh County, 13 March 1845 — Page 2

THE JOURNAL,

NotCniurwcal,bat that f Rome.' THURSDBY MARCH 13, 1845. OCT We are so crowded wilb Advertisements, lhat we are obliged to leave out our Receipts and Shipments, tin week. EVANSV1LLE. LYCEUM. LECTURES FOR MaKCH. Qa Saturday 15 John J. Chandler, Esq., " f ... 22 Thomas Towles, Jr. Esy . . 29 Jarhes Jones, Esq.", Mr, Jones' Lecture will close the . Course for the present season. - - 03"We call the attention of our readers the ladies particularly to the advertisement of Mr. Mooney, for the sale of flowering shrubs and vines, imported J'rom the cetebrated gardens of Messrs. Prince & Sons, pf Long Island; Mr. Mooney offers them very Jow although of splendid varieties and entirely new in this region and will give ample instructions as to the best mode of planting and cultivating them. ; Q7 The National Theatre at Washington City, was destroyed by fire on the night of the 5ih inst., together with six or seven other buildjngs los3 from .$ 10,000 to $50,poo- ' Westekn Wateus. The' River still con tinues to rise, and is within about seven feet jof the mark of 1832. The Wabash is also in a fine stage. The Louisville Courier of Tuesday says: The River continued to raise rapidly yeslerday,'and at dusk las; evening was within a few feet . of the curb stones on Water, be tween 4tl and 0th sljeets. It will require a still further rLspjufG or 7 feet to take. the pater in the Commercial Row: aud present appearances indicate that there will be at Jeast that much cf a rise. There was a driz jr.ling rain falling all day yesterday. The I?ntticky River has risen to a great height. The Tom Metcalfe, during her last trip, passed over Dams No. I and 2, ascend ing and descending. " The river at and above Cincinnati, is still rising rapidly, THE NEW CABINET. Wo were in .error in giving the names of Mr. Polk's Cab. jnet as published on our fourth page. The National Intelligencer of the Gth inst. says: niade by the President of the United Slates with the advice ahd consent of the Senate: Secretary of Slate, James Bnchana i. Secretary of the Treasury, Robert J. Walter. - Secretary of War, William L. Marty. Atterney General, John Y. Mason. Postmaster Ge neral, Cave Johnson. George Bancroft was uominated to the 3cnate, in connexion with the above, to be Secretary of the Navy, but that nomination was laid over by the Senate until the next (Jay. - ' 0C? The National Inleliigetcer of the 7th makes no mention of the confirmation of Mr. Bancroft as Secretary pf the Navy. 03" The Wabash .Courier says that travelling East by way of the Lakes will soon be open for the season.' The water, we understand, is shortly to be let into the Wabash nd Erie Canal. The. rapidly increasing commerce of our great lakes, says the Toledo Blade, has made the business of vessel building along their shores one of great importance. Almonte. The Washington correspondent of the N. Y-Advettiser, alludes to the report of Almonte having demanded his passports, and says: "In making the demand, I further understand that he advised the Presi- ' dent that his government construed the act into a hostile declaration on the part of the United blates. ana mat consequences of a serious nature would probably forthwith enc.l .: r., i sue. ouvii ucm mo ian, aim consequences thus prefigured taking place, the com inercial interests of this country must suffer severely, trom trie uemenaons neet ot privateers hat would hover along the length of the Atlantic coast, making their piratical dcpre: . Nations on the commerce of the United tl:. n- :ii UIUIV3. A v, .j iiiui villi nt. ti iii 1 1 J j " .country $1,000,000,000 before it is done with.1?' '' ' ' ; The New York Mirror also say3 "We have seen a letter giving the highest a uthorily tor the truth of the rumors of the warlike stand taken by the Mexican Minister ' Almonte" The writer says, "Do nJt be surprised to hear of the receipt, by the Execu - live, of a resentful and warlike P.P. C. from Almonte." A little farther on, the writer asks the ouestion: "With what crace will England submit to the loss of her trade with Mexico, by an American blockade of ..Vera Cruz and other ports?' ... "... T The New York Herajd says Senor Almonte ihe Mexican Minister, has taken passage in jhe barque Eugenia to sail from New York t,a the 15th.

Wabash and Ohio Canal. It ' was the Senate Bill and not the one that originated in the House assiaicd by us on our fourth

page that passed the House -on the 1st. inst., as will be seen by the following letters: . editor of the jox'rn al.IIov'se of Representatives,) , March 1, 1815. A - 5 o'clock. ) Sir: Our Canal Bill, after a three hours struggle, spent in - an endeavor to load it down vyith amendments, has this moment passed, without amendment; under the yeas and nays, 82 to 05. It requires but the sig nature of the President to become a law. ROBERT DALE OWEN. Extract j ram a private letter, Washington, March 1st, 1845. The Canal Bill has just passed the House as it came from the Senate ayes 82, noes i)i. iwenty-seven majority. It . only requires ihe signature of the President to bo. come a law, aud with the decided majorities in both Ifouses. I do not doubt he willsantion it. - " . Our delegation desreves all praise, Owen has behaved most manfully. 0- We have been requested lo publish the Bill which will be found below. There lias been a rumor in town lor a day or two that Tyler has 'pocketed' the Bill, but we can hardly ielieve it. We shall keep back our paper until the last hour of going to press in hop?s of learning something positive. , a" bill To grant certain lands to the State of Indiana, the better lo enable the said Slate to extend and complete the Wabash and Eric Canal jrom Terre-IIaitte to the Ohio river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Stitcs of America in Congress assembled, -That there be, and hereby is, granted to the State of In diana, for the purpose of aiding said State in extending and completing the Wabash and Erie canal from Terre-IIaule, in the county of Vigo, in said State, to the Ohio river, at Evansville, in said State, as the course there of has been established and surveyed by the authority of said State, one moiety of the public lands, (remaining unsold, and not otherwise disposed of, encumbered, or ap propriated,) in a strip five miles iu width on each side of said canal; to be selected by an agent oragen's to be appointed by the Gov ernor of said State, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury of the Uni ted States; reserving to the United States al(prnrt QPfMinn tnr rohnr nrnnnr cntidivi8ton of said land,) from one end ofsaid - . ..... wt.,v. . - . -. i - T ' 1 I I v ' r- , - . . canal to the other; and before the selection, lo bo made as aforesaid by such agent or agents, shall be deemed to have been made and perfected, a chart or charts, showing the courses and distances and points of termination of said canal, shall be reported, or caused to be repotted, by the Governor of Indiana, or by some person or persons by him appointed, to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. Skc. 2. And be it further enacted, Tint, for the purpose hereinbefore mentioned, there be, and hereby is, granted to the said State, in addition to tiie grant hereinbefore provided for, one moiety of all the other lands in the Vincennes land district, in said State, and which remain, as aforesaid, unsold,' and not otherwise disposed of, encumbered, or appropriated, to be selected under the authority and by the direction of the Governor of said State: Provided, That, in the se-' lection of the lands by this section provided for, no lands shall be comprehended whxh, in and by the first section of this act, are (in alternate sections or other proper subdivisions) directed to be reserved as aforesaid; and tne lands so selected shall be reported,' or caused lo be reported, by the Governor of said State, to the register of the land office at Vincennes. before such selection shall ' be deemed to be made and completed. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the lands, by the first and second sections of this act granted as aforesaid, shall, after the selections thereof shall have been made and completed as aforesaid, be subject to be disposed of by the General Assembly of said Stale, for the purpose aforesaid, and no other;, and the Piesident shi.il direct the further sales of the public lands, in the Vincennes land district aforesaid, to be suspended until the Governor of said State shall have caused the selections aforesaid to be made and perfected as aforesaid, and shall have notified the Secretary of the Treasury thereof: Provided, That such suspension shall not continue longer than twelve months from and after the passing of this act. , Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said canal, when completed, shali be and forever remain a public highway for the use of the Government of the United Stales, free from any toll or other charge whatever, -for any property of the Uuited States, or persons in Ljeir service, passing through or along the same; and shall be completed with in fifteen years from and after the passing ofj this act, or the State shall be holden to pay to t'ie United States the amount of the price or prices for which any and all of said land whicrvTOay have been disposed of by said

Slate may have sold; and such of said lands as may not have been thus disposed of shall,

from and after said fifteen years, if said canal should not then have been completed, revert to and again become the property of the United States: Provided, always, That it shall not be competent for the said General Assembly lo dispose of said lands, or any of them, at a price lower than, for the time being, shall bo the minimum price of other public lands. , . Santa Anna in Mexico. A gentleman just from the city of Mexico, informs the ed itors of the New Orleans Picayune that it is impossible, for those who have not witnessed t, to conceive the full measure of indignity, which is now heaped upon the head of the tyrant. Santa'Anna himself says that the . i . - t r n -i r . treatment no received in lexas, wnue a prisoner, was infinitely more humane than that he experiences at the hands ofliis own countrymen. . Every portrait, every statue, everything, iu short, that might keep alive a remembrance of the tyrant, has been insulted, mutilated, and destroyed. Still Another. A petition has been presented to Congress from the citizens of Maine, requesting the annexation of New Brunswick. What objection can be urged against this proposition by gentleman who are so eager for the extension of "the area of freedom?" - - , New Post Office Bill. The following are the main provisions in the new Post Office Bill: ' ' - ' . 1. Al lsingle letters withoutregard lo dis" tance, shall pay the uniform rate of postage of 5 cents. 2. Every letter weighing not more than than half an ounce shall be deemed a single letter, no matter how many pieces it may contain, and if weighing one ounce shall be deemed double, and so on. 3. Members of Congress to receive and send letters, newspapers, packages, &c, not exceeding two ounces in weight, free, dnring the sesion, and for thirty days before and after. The excess of postage on packages &.C., weighing more than two ounces to be paid out of the contingent fund. Members to send letters from themselves free all the year. " ,' - . 4. No one else to frank, except ex-Presidents and their widows. 5. 'All letters and packets &.c, which pass free through the mail, and all Government postage, to be paid tor out ot the lreasury : ; : G. Newf-ptporstogo out of the mail, with out subjecting the senders or Carriers to any penalty. 7. Private posts, for carrying newspapers, are allowed. 8. All deficiencies between the revenue of the Department and the expenses, (limit ed to four and half millions,) to be paid out of the public Treasury. Or Wc see and hear of new things every day, wise old Solomon to the- contrary notwithstanding. The ediforof the New York Republican states that on Friday last, he saw a new and , very beautiful machine, on the point of being packed up lo start for Washington for a patent, which certainly must produce a sensation when it gets to work, if it operates as the Inventor stys it does. It is moved by electro-magnetic power, and will print letters of the alphabet at any dlatance, thousand of miles, if a wire is extended to convey the magnetic fluid. The letters ol the alphabet are marked on keys, like (he keys of a piano, and the operator may sit down in New York and touch the keys with his fingers," and the machine at Washington, or elsewhere, at the other end of the Uuion, will print the letters as fast as he touches them. When will wonders cease? A WHIG FAMILY. ' . A correspondent of the Rochester Democrat says that there is now living in lhat city a man,' who, with his sons, sons-in-law, grandsons, grandsons-in-law, number thirtyone votes all ichigs, and all teetotal temperance men. This family had twenty votes for the lamented Harrison in 1S40, and in 1811 twenty-sixof them voted for Henry Clay, three were absent from home, and two from conscientious scruples, could not cast their votes for a man. holding slaves. This venerable father, loo, " was a eoldier of the Revolution, and served his country faithfully, having at five different times volunteered lo march and meet the enemy, and was present at the capture of Gen. Burgoyne, at Saratoga, in 1777. A Treaty. The Washington correspondent of the New York Courier is informed, that Mr. 1'olk will adopt the alternative of negotiating a treaty of cession with Texas, which, in all probability, will be ready to be submitted to the Senate some time in July next, lor their ratification, and for which purpose that body will be convened. (r Some of the Washington letter writers predict a war against Mr. Polk's administra tion, from some of his own parly.

FURNITURE OF MR. POLK. Is there a man "or woman in the country

who does not remember the "abuse heaped upon General Harrison, because Congress appropriated six thousand dollars towards new furniture for the President's House? but which the venerated patriot promptly refused to have expended, declaring that the White house was then too extravagantly fur nished for the home of a Republican President. Recollecting this;, what will the people say when they learn that the present Locofoco Congress have appropriated TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, to furnish the President's House for this Polk, the Grandson of a Revolutionary Tory!! and EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS to improve the ground around "the White House making in all TWENTY-EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS? Let the people who pay tax es and make Presidents, look at that fact! Gen. Harrison, who fought for his country, repelled British and Indian foes, and was elected President by the WHIGS, refused even the $3,000 voted for furnishing the the President's House.. Polk, who is the decendaut of a Revolutionary Tory, that wore a British red coat, and took protection under Lord Cornwallis, was elected Presi dent by the Locofocos, and is to have 2S, 000 expended towards furnishing his resi dence, ornamenting the grounds about it! Which of the two men is a Republican, Dem ocraf, or Patriot, the fiiend of the People! f , California. How can we who are stealing Texas from Mexico, raise an outcry, if Great Britain is planting herself in California, intercept us" in trade on the Pacific when our population is strong in Oregon? Nay, what can we say, if Great Britain takes possession of Cuba, and raises the flag of emancipation there? A people who like ours, arc now committing a great outrage upon , Mexico, by first colonizing a terrilory of hers, then declaring its independence of its owner, and subse quently appropriating the territory and peo pie lo ourselves, must be dumbfounded if Great Britain lakes California or Mexico, or wretchedly inconsistent should we com piain. . If we do right, the world will hear us, and we will be heard, in court and counci through the thunder of cannon, if necessary, araiust the aspirations of Great Britain. But if we lead the way in national plunder. who can but drop his head iu shame? New York' Express.-'- -- J. Such is the language of the New York DO Express in allusiou to the news, pretended to have been lately received by some invisi ble agency, from Mexico, of the discovery, since Santa Anna's capture, of a Treaty between him and Great Britain for the cession ofCalifornia to the latter. The commeiil of the ENptess loses none 'of its force as an argument from the fact that the news . is false . . PRICES. Mr. Grecly, in a letter Horn Washington) the New York Tribune, siys: "I have a transcript of some of the- bids paid by McNulty, late Clerk of the House, to Jas. F. Secor, and olhers, of New York, for stationary for' Congress The charges are atrocious. Quills at $10 per thousand; sperm candles at 48 cents per pound; fl.it cap paper "i per ream (several hundred teams,) and then $50 for cutting down two hundred -reams of it. (Whoever heard of the like?) Cartridge paper at $3,75,. and medium at $'J,50, form an array of hard prices, such as I' never saw before. - If Mac buys forhise.Ifas he docs for congresi, no wonder he is used up." Quills $10 per thousand!!! Whew! That's plucking the goose to some purpose. ' j WAR STRIPPED OF ITS DISGUISE. The friends of Peace in England have a novel but exceedingly effective method of exciting in the minds of the people an abhorrenceof the absurd and wicked custom of War. In those places to which the oicers of the .Government are sent to obtain recruits for the army, the opponents of human butchery post at the corners of the streets and at other public places placards like the following, displayed in large letters so as to attract universal attention': WANTED!! ; Several Thousand Able Bodied Men, To Shoot or to be Shot at!! . Or perish miserably by thirst and starvation on the plain of India. ..- Nota Bene!! The Duke of Wellington says that no one who entertains nice scruples about religion, has any business in the Army.- No such need apply. ; It is said thousands, tempted by poverty and discouragenient, have by this means been deterred from .enlisting in the army, and the Governments officials have been thereby put to their wit's end in hunting up recruits. Heaven speed the day when not a man can be found willing to fight the bloody and disgraceful battle by which the Governments of the earth are prone to scourge their unfortunate subjects Q7-A Rail Road is now talked of between Dayton, Ohio, and Richmond, Indiana.

ANDREW STEWART, OF Pa A corespondent of the Baltimore Clipper who styles an "Ex-Editor," writing from - Washington, furnishes a'sketch of the Hon Andrew Stewart of Pennsylvania:

,This gentleman is well known throughout the country, as the strong fiiend and .sustainer of the 'I ariff. During the last session of the present Congess when party ex citement was at its highest pitch, he stood forward iii defence of the protective system, and manfully battled with its opponents; its i - '.:. i . l . - t . salvation 13 mainiy auriuuiuu io ins uiiuuu exertions. Mr. Stewart was born in Fayette county Pennsylvania, where he now resides, in June 102; he is consequently y2 year3 of age His lather Abraham btewart wa3 a native of York county, Pa., and removed to Fayette county when a vounsj man, where ho held many years the oflico ofJustice of the Pea and was afterwards elected Sheriff of the county, but having became security for the manufacturer of arms for the United States, who failed, he was ruined. In this state of his father's aflair3 Andrew Stewart, who was the oidest son, went to the blacksmith's trade at which he worked several years, but his father haviui in some decree recovered from his embarrassmentsvsent his son, (who preferred books to' the sleclge and anvil.) to school, where lie remained about a year ami a Jiaif. . Unwilling to depend on his father for the means to prosecute his studies, he for some timo taught a country school, w hile there engaged he commenced the studv of law under the direction of the Hon. John Kennedy, now one of the Superior Judges of Pennsylvania. Whilst reading law, he was obliged to perform the duties of a clerk at a Furn ace owned by a Mr. Oliphant, who as a compensation for his services, gave him the means of prosecuting his studies. In 1815, Mr. S:ewart was admitted to the bar, and in. the same year elected to tho Legisla ture of Pennsylvania, where he continued to serve 3 years. In 1313 he was nominated for the Siate Senate, and would have been elected without opposition, but just before the election, he was appointed by President Monroe District Attorney of the United States fbrthe Western District of Pennsyl vania, of which the Hon. Robert J. Walker, now U. S. Senator from Mississippi, was the Clerk. In 1820 he was fleeted to Congress and resigned his office of District Attorney. He continued toservc in Congress for twelve years, and as a proof of his popla:i;y I will barely state that although Gen. Jackson had a majority or three to one in his district when Mr. Adams was elected, notwithstanding Mr. Stewart's opposition to the democratic party. (not principles) Lis constituents elect ed mm against all . opposition. Iu 1823, when party spirit was in its height, Mr. beat Mr. H nvkins, the speaker of the Senate of Pennsylvania, the regular Jackson candidate, although Gen. Jackson 'obtained over Mr. Adtms, at the same time, a m jorily of nearly 3000 voles, being neatly two to one in the District ! In Jo2l he was married at Wheeling, Va at the a;e of 31, to -LAIiss SkrjyerJne only daughter of David bhriver; Esq., now otUumtieTtan(f,M'J7--ta lS3.Vhe left Congress, and hiving retired from the bar, engaged in ngriculiuro and manufacturing, iu which, as in his other pur suits, he was eminently succes3:ul. His attention was mainly occupied in this way until 1813, when he was again elected to Congress, and likewise re-elected iu 1314. Mr. S. is emphatically a self made man. 1 1 is speeches on the protective system and internal improvements form a largo volume, and abound in that stronj, practical sonsa and general intelligence which are "characteristic of him.; He is a highly, useful member, being, what' is not lie pien ly met with in ii -i .-i . puunc councils a-practical in m, in .appearance, his figure is tall and rather inclined to be muscul ir If I have any judgement hi miuly beauty, I should say Mr. Stewart was a huud-i'ome m in, and one too who docs not seem to be awaie of it. In manners ha is urbane and gentlemanly wssesiii'T a hiyh sense ofhonor rninjled with the kindest feel ings and good humor. Thushiva I given your re vjors i sketch of a srll-madi in in; the hardy blicksmith is how one of the leading stars in ihe -national legislature. 'Does not ths show to every young mechanic a beacon light .which points to honor and famef The road may be rugged and up-hill but it is free lo all.; our glorious government has no honors thai the humblest of the people any not aspire to. 1 - - . - - .. BRITISH PII S L AN rilitOPY. ' ; It is fiequenily cast into our leeth, even by Americans, that England is ahead of lis, in her regard io the condition of the African race, and that she is anxious for the immediate abolition of negro slavery ihioiighout the world. The following extract from the letter of a correspondent of tho; Philadelphia Public Ledger, dated. London,.!; h of Jan uary'of the present year, places this subject in its true light, and shows, that in this, as in all questions of national policy, 'avarice and self-aggrandisement have been the Reading incentives to actloti, by'lhat nation, aiid no! a regard for the condition of ihe' negro, which is rather worsted than bettered by tier mock philaitthrop.iy. The. writer , rcm uks: ' Sentinel. The only huo and cry tint England ; "can raise against America, is that oftdavcry; but, unfortunately, even in-this respect, her conduct is any thing but fice from reproach even since the emancipation of the negroes in the West Indies. That emancipation, it is now admitted by nearly every British statesman, was nothing but a great blunder. It was a miscalculation of her true commercial and colonial interests for, without an error of this kind, you may depend on it, Ministers would not have yielded this or any other question to what they are pleased to call "mere popular clamor." . Her legislation since that time has amply shown the recognition of her error, and her strenuous eudeavor to atone for if. She has established, under the guise of the apprentice system, anolher worse kind of slavery; because a slavery which, at the end of 14 years, absolves the master from all obligations of support, and obliges the negro, whose labor is undersold by the apprentices, to work as aj

mere hired servant, at such prices as the master thinks fit "to pay. The master, who

is only sure of 14 years labor, will assuredly make the most of it and as, alter? that period, he is not obliged to supply his warits,he cares little, if, at the close of the apprentice-' ship, the slave is worn out or unfit for labor. The master, during the poriad of 14 years lhat he hires the negro of the" government," will take good care lo keep him in that state of ignorance and dependence "which will render him harmless, when, aHast he obtains his nominal freedom, and compel him, for his mere existence, to, work harder than he did during his apprenticeship. The apprentice system is, in fact, but another form of slavery, infinitely worse than that which is i nf r(-iiiifff! In I hf Sinn I lirn St-ifoo - I.An.n.. L. Vu k. vsv. ... Mvy,iiiii.ni l ii ii. j j uc-wauou the negro, in return for his labor, -does not receive me support anu protection ot hi 3 master; the system is quite as compulsory in regard to the negro?, and it leaves the master entirely at liberty to turn hia disabled laborer out of doors, to miserably perish, like the docrepit operatives of Manchester or Leeds., And supposing the other English plan that of importing Coolies from the East into the West Indies, to be hired out as agricultural laborers is adopted, would not this be an-' otherspecie3 of slave trade? a transplanting of the vilest despotism of Asia to the shores of America? And what is the nature of the Treaty England has concluded with the Imam of Muscat? Is it not the revival of the slave trade itself in another form,-joiued to the crime of hypocrisy? England is anxious for the immediate abolition of negro slavery throughout the world, because she is the only country in the woild so'situated as immediately io replace slare labor by the substitur tion of nn infinitely more oppressive feudal system, and because negro sUve'labor is the only one wit h which the Asiatic slaves," ov-' ing to the enormous .taxaliou in Iudia, cannot, as yet, and perhaps never, successfully compete. I will not here impugn the , lionesty of her leading philanthropists, nor doubt the sincerity of her enthusiasts, but I maintain that the British Government has no"other views in regard to abolition, except such which are calculated to promote the industry and prosperity -of Great Britain, either by di' rect encouragement, or by the oppression and confusion of her rivals. " A glance at her policy in reference to the slave question will show the correctness of this assertion. - A NEW ! DEA OREGON AND CAN , ABA. - '- : . , The editor of the Detroit Advertiser, alluding to tho difficulties which have attended the negotiations on the Oregon qucsiion, proposes to settle the matter by exchanging Oiegon for Canada. Oregon, he says, though too valuable to abandon, Would, in eveiy lespect, be far less valuable to us than Ihe Ca--nadian provinces; and lie goes on to argue the matter thus: is in itself a far Tcsa fertile and desirable country, h is separat- " ed from us by dieary w.iteis and almost impassable mountains. Neatly all present, if. not all future intercourse must be carried on by long voyages round by Cape Horn.-. The possession ot the country, too, must after all be temporaiy, for Oregon would never long reaiaiiLajiJiiUiimi-oaJJ.xui.c Iluioiw A soon na it was wen setiled and began to acquire importance, its inhabitants, would .assert and maintain ihcir independence. Lyinrr (in ill.. lV. I . ..I . ... ii.i. utvii ii, oui on iiom - uic continent by moiintaiirand desert, and dealing chiefly witlt ihe Eisl fiidicsihcir inter: ests would be A.-i uic rather than Ameiican. Aud their na ionalily would inevitably follow these laws of nature. We need not Doiutout ' tfie superior advantages of Canada in everv conceivable point of view. It lies almost iu our inidsi on both sides of tho St. Lawrence, and along these Lakes. Our intercouise. social and commercial, is immediate, daily and of the utmost importance. Our interests, pursuits and habits, are almost identical. We should at once merge into one na tion, as the snow flake melts on the bosom fif I Tir lvn1r!5 nn.1 onr ..i...l.t ' 1.... -.1.1 ' " 5 . j vui WUUiU OUtttvJUto the solidity and compact of the Uuiou. And what a field, would be opened to American industry and enterpiise. t The wholo vast tegioujstrelching wide on both sides from ihe very head of Lake Superior to. jhe month of St, Lawience, would fce its quickening impulse. An inland commerce, unknown in the world, would spiing up, and spread its fertilizing streams. Te valley of the Alississpputself would be outstripped. Aud what is Oregon to all this?" We find the following in one of our exchange papers: .. - V ., ' , . "We have just heard a story told ofa man who was the possessor ofa very ragged coat who immediately started off to aQuaker meeting-house. - On beingasked his reasons, he said lhat where least was said his coat might stand a chance of being soonest amerrdedl"' The man was evidently :right. ; He. had taken a philosophical - and practical view of the subject.- There is nothing so likely to mend bad habits, as assocaling .with the Quakers. ' GO"The Washington correspondent oflhe Boston Courier, says that the nomination of Mr. A. II. Everett to China, has been confirm cd by the Senate. " - .' ' - -. . -From the Evj Mirror. . WIFE. Of all the titles, woman fairDear woman here can ever beThough all are holy words to me,' Associate in my heart to be . - v With holy thoughts and things ,1 Yet one among them ever brings Such gushing feelings on its wins ' Such memories of Love and Care ; Of Trust and Faith in days that were Of Hope and Joy for time to come v Of Truth of Chastity and Home " That of all others, that I feel,-, I love the best, in wo or-weal; - . - - It is not Sister Lover Bride - " d i 'Tis dearer far then all beside ! ' ; -'; In all the checquered way of life, i4 Her hand in mine Til whisper Wife!