Indiana American, Volume 16, Number 23, Brookville, Franklin County, 2 June 1848 — Page 1

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O OUR COUNTRT-OUR COUNTRY'S INTERESTS-AS n OUR COUNTRY'S FRIENDS. BY C.F. CL-AlUvSOX. mtOOKVILLK. fXDIAVA. FRIDAY, JUNE 2. 1S4S. V OL. XVI NO. 23.

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RELIGIOUS.

From the Nshville Christian Advocate. IIcII and the Devil. When the preachers and warm christians talk of heaven and allow themselves to fall into raptures about it, the wicked mock "Whit do you know about heaven? You talk of its loveliness and sublime beauties and joys as though you had been there." Not only are the children of God denied the gratification of speaking freely of their father's house, and the bliss iu reversion for them, where its mansions all fitted op and adorned for the habitation of immortal and sanctified spirits, shall be thrown open for their reception;but their pious efforts to win the wick ed heavenward by enticing description, meet with the same heartless rebuke. Now we have always been of opiuion that neither facts nor coloriugs need be drawn from imagination in describing heaven. Enough things have been revealed about it, lawful to utter, which if pnt together, make it a most desired place. Iu the face of this surly habit of the wicked, forbidding us to be happy, there now is a singu-

Iar practice. These sons of perdition speak of in the organization of the Cadets ofTempertheir future abode and their master with flippant ' ance. freedom. To hear them talk of hell, one might j The ceremonies in the Order, in opening and suppose them to have sounded its depths, and to initiation, are most beautiful and Impressive, have gaged it ina'l its dimensions. They know, . and in the most direct and simple manner, ador seem to know, how deep it is, and how hot, dress themselves to the hearts and minds of the and how red and black, and are ready in all these members, and force impressions upon the heart

the Devi,, were he their own Lniliar friend, i they could not be better acquainted with his pnvate movements and personal peculiarities. la his case, though they are generally str.k.ngly true, yet it occurs to me the comparisons instituted between his Majesty and otl, rs, are not always duly respectful. A horse or steamboat nr seared riotr. runs like the. devil. An pnrsml 5 ml "Ul l"- m,ul" , ort of their tribes either, nor the meaner sort in their nobler actions. The most opposite and conflicting characters all find ready illustration in him. It would be no injustice for the evil to chide the good, were they to ma.e so light and hraU use of the. master snanieBy the way th.s habit of thoughtless compar- , isonslsa bad one. People get in the way of, beginning them without knowing where they ! 6'ia!!end. Then there is a painful and aukw.rd a-h-m !-a pausing to cast about for something, which being peeked up in haste, is not a!- ; ajs very ch.ste or e.Mueive-sonWimes ' hurtful-sometime extremely ridiculous. An instance of the ridiculous occurred not long ago! In a preacher of my acqnnintatice. He wa? dis- ' coursing on the Majesty of God; an.! endeavor-; Ing to ri with his subjt, said-' Oar God is ' great indeed, and awful in Majesty. I tell you he can thunder he can thunder he ran thunder like anything." I hae sometimes heard eentenses cnuir.g just no where. After getting started on a blind comparison, there was no retreat backward; but in altering the form of expression, and for completing the comparison, nothing could be found. The straight forward style of expression is generally more forcible and easy. I never saw a wicked man, however, provided he was also a vulgar one, caught in

buJ.sasmaaas-tneflevu. A mule kicks like Church, than well conducted Sabbath Schools, to her brothers and sister, q L7iT . ., the devil. Anass brays devilish, on. and long. So in the temperance reform. Here we have namblr oJ tZ ! t - An unprincipled sharper cheats you l,ke-the our West Point establishment. We have a 'one evening at tea he said relations, devil. A game chicken is the very devil in a young army in this school under the most rig- I Mv dear I thought tu ' . , ,u fight. And so I have heard the Devil compared id discipline, who graduate at eighteen vears. 1 vn g n'y f

I this ugly fix: hell and the devil are ready at

Not only vulgarity, but stupidity is to be blamed with the oft-repeated and unmeaning use of these terms. The mind, really at a loss for intelligent expression and unable to find something truly illustrative, is relieved bv "Hell and the Devil." "Because he had naught else to say He swore." Tims I account for it that this sinful practice is confined ptincipally to the lower and uneducated class, and those who stand in the higher by the aid of birth or wealth, without brains. My ears are principally offended with this coarseness from the stable boys and draymen, praising or abusing their beasts or their bullies. I hear it also in passing through the fish mar ket, and occasionally from t'le "gem'men" who smoke cigars, nurse mustaches, and whittle the merchants' pine boxes. Twelve months ago, I was unfortunate in my company on a stage route. Finding it had to be endured, I put myself to noticing the appliiVoleness of these Hell and Devil comparisons. Said one as he grunted at a snre bump "These roads are devilish bad." Tretty good, thinks I to myself; the devil carries you and ail his over a rough road; for it is written, "The way of transgressors is hard." Said another "Why don't they drive along! I want to get to M , for I am thirsty as hell." Toor Dives came into my mind. A pet spaniel hurt another who was playing w ith his sharp teeth "Go to the devil," said he with a cuff. That is correct, thinks I to myself for "Without (that is, where the devil is, I suppose) are dogs and sorcerers, &:c.," and doubtless such persons as the profane speaker. The returning stage coach was anxiously looked for. Important news from the seat of war was expected by it. The driver announced "the s'age." One of my travelling companions put out his head and exclaimed, as the stage was descending with fearful rapidity a long steep hill which we were slowly climbing, "Yes, yonder she comes like hell." Then, thinks I to myself, that is a capital hit; the man must have reference to Isaiah when he describes hetl as moved to meet the sinner at his coming. A IMrtnre. A fair young girl is leaning pensively on the casement, gazing with thoughtful brow, upon the scene below. The bloom of fifteen summers tint her soft cheeks, the sweets of a thousand flowers are gathered upon her round lips, the curls cling to a spotless brow, and fall upon a teck of pprfect grace, the swimming eyes seem lighted by the tenderest fire of poetrv, and beauty hovers over her as her own most favored child. What are her thoughts? Love cannot stir a bosom so young, nor sorrow yet have touched a spirit so pure. Innocence itself seems to have chosen her for ita own. las! has disappointment touched that voulful heart' Ye. it must be so; but hist! she starts, h-r lips part; fchespsks: listen "Jim. von nisty

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TE3IPERANCE.

From the Family Visitor. Cadets of Temperance. Tl. 1.1! .!.... ' , r, , " -..s the new forms of organization for the promotion A lie uu.jut: nm Hw im m wja i irr in.t amnnjw ....g. i-F rauue reformation, mere nas .. a ju.ciiuc uiurr luuuueu unner me name and stvle of t!ie "Cadets of Temperance" rj,. ' , . "r "MrenAscE. The object and necess.ty of this order must be obvious to all. The order of the "Sons of Temperance" receive none into their body under the age of eighteen years; this excludes a very large class of youth who ought to be under training and restraints of temperance discipline. To answer these objects theOrder of Cadets was organized. It seems to be a universal law of nature, to unite simphcity and utility, in all great and , controlling systems for the government of mind ! or matter. There is not a discovery made in trlanlinniAn ! I a. i mri.iiauit.s! ur suieuue, uut mere is an approach! tosimolicitv of structure tn ,1... Z ! chinerv emnWeH ( .h. .uli J I " " ...V lA,IIlUil01ilIlCUfc VI the objects desired. This princiole holds srnnA It .eT ' r, scheme, to organize; in connection Church, a Sabbath School, in which a course of elementary religious instruction, adapted to the youthful mind, should be taught; and experience ha, proven that there is no instrument, now iu use, in the Church, that is productive of more nm..l a n o...:i: .1.- . .... nu.viiiaij iu me great wors 01 trie auu arB l,len aay in the active field, to fill the stations of engineers and chief gunners in leading our forces to the strong holds of the enemy, surveying their ramparts, and playing our batteries upon them. The Order, for the time it has been in opetion ,s progressing finely in many States of the Union, and will, doubtless, soon extend to all parts of our country, and is destined to do incalculable good. " i,.i.,.. riNo ?reat lnora, reform ever dJdi pr eyer forward without the aid of the hu'ies Thev hold, and ousrht to hold, a most controlling infl nonce over the elements, order, and well-be-ing 0f society. It has been said by a wise Philosopher and Commentator that there never lived a wise and great man without a ereat r;ther. Moses. Weshv & W.sbin.nn L1 to have their chief training from ,,r m.i, It is certain ...) . ," the minds t h im, JLi 1.. . . vi wise ana pious mnt idk. nonun:..n 1 1 are their own beloved sons and dau 1 He " i As it is a universally acknowledged fact that theladies hold so heavy a sway over the locia and moral inters f L.:-.- i ... , 1 . -."J B1IUU1U HOI uiatinnuence tie embodied in some judiciou s organization? Whv should socie.v b- rA . of the greater amount of good, which would j . . ' l" oe result from a general union of names and influ ence in the promotion of a cause which 1 les at the very core of the cause of humanity 7 Whv ' should the ladies themselves be deprived of the ' great aids to be secured by an interchange of opinion in council, under a well organized soci- ! ety, where the weight of their hei iJ, 1 j . ... and experience can be had in discharge of the great duties devolving upon them? There is no good reason against such union of effort, in-

terest and influence, in a good cause. No one'", Z'V 1 7 T pretends to give a reason afaiast such; the oulv ' Z!rZ n"", U ' "" remirk , n.A .a i. , : imProved by it. If you miss one paper, you remark ever made adversely, is by w?y of cant .i i . . n,rii;n..u .i,:i. .i . , , . t think very hard of the pnnter--vou would rath-

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jjhu uirui, vi mey aeny mem uie niph of- . i i . finr. t- , , . g ol yon taken as much pains to furnish the printer nee or station assigned them by those who ad vo- .v L- , , 1 ... ... loauvo .with his money, as he has to furnish you with cate their organized action. I , ' . , ., lyour paper? Have you paid him for his type, I nder the conviction it was not ouly proper, u- t- u j i tr i. . .... . , , I rll ; his press, his hand work? If you have not, go but a bounder, duty to enter ,nto some efficient' Blm nfr nmr l?

organization, to aid in the great work of the tern - perance reform the ladies have, in great numbers, in many States of the Union, entered into asmular organization to that of the "Sons of Temperance," under the name of the" Dauith - tersofTemi " vi tut? I'augn- " ' The Parent "Umon" of the Daughters, (for this is the well settled titled is locoated for the present at New York city; and, until a Nation - al Union is organized, the general super vision of the Order is delegated lo the Grand Union of ivik. out ins in contemplation, soon to organize a National Body. Tk . 5 .... , . . 1U tnis tate, nve i mons ot the daughters iu active operation, and a Charter obtamed for the sixth. Tl.eir locations are as fo lows: Cambridge No. 1, Richmond No. 2, Indianapoho.3, New Albany No. 4, and ivising c-un io. o. i ne new union is to be lo c ated at Mooresville. We have not been able to obtain a list of the proper names of the Unions, nor of their officers. When we can do so we will give them a place in our columns. We hope the P. P. or R. S. of these Unions, will send us a report of their statistics for publication. All petitions for Charters for the organiztion of new Unions of the daughters, must be ad dressed to "Miss Lucy Graves, G. R. S., New York city ." Simplicity. An old lady being at church, entered as the congregation were rising for prayer. "La!" said she, courtseying, "don't rise on my account." j A lteolntioi. j "I will be married ere the year is out,' : Exclaimed damsel, with an air devout; . "And if I can't do better, thereupon, i I'll e'en ttke Hobsol's choice, and marry John!' ! "A resolution worthy to be praised," 1 RplW a friend, who heard her, much amazed- ' "You might do worse than marry John, 'tis

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FUN AND FANCY

Simple Division. We heard a story the other night on the subI . - - . ..... jeci or "vision" that we thought "sum" at the time, and never having seen it in print we are tempted t0 give our readers the benefit of it. I a c .u i . , A Southern planter named P., pretty well to do in the world nw. . v tmj jrn ia ago a poor boy on the Eastern shore of Maryland. One of his strongest and most marked traits of character was his inordinate love of money. This, however, is characteristic of the people of "them diggins," where they practice skinning strangers during the brisk season; and skinningoneanother during dull times. Indue , course of time, P. was of age, and thought it abmit timfl tn m rried. He went to a neiehhoTia vi,lalr. am1 , the course of events was o introduced to a daughter of Judge Bnan fin- -j .u I . .?" fin." . "ld the embry Culator (!MUw fr,end wh had gained him an entrance among the elite "Very." "How much might Judge B be worth. " tiy, about $10,000", was the reply. "And how many children has Judge B!"con tinued the inquirer. "Only three." i nree into ten goes three times and a third over," mentally ciphered P Here wa, . Comr JVT S .the variation, Strange to say-fcf he was as uncouth a lonkina . ,. . " C!!r" unl,ckedI Th 'hZI Tb n eyoo'ns dT, and t were SpTv T Z tZl I . ' ""i'l'i 1 lie onae was Iivelv and chattv. anH nften mnA oil "So there are by mv Ma but Pa's fir, rf had eight more " " ' ' I "Eleven fro fnt u . j a, . 'over-cried the astonsheJ P """h ' y"- ,ed he astonished P., who jumped up, 1.1 cheaper than an old bellwether sheep, at that' . ,d nelu e see it stated that the widow of the cele.brated Dr. Rush is still living at the age of DO, ,n hilade phia; she ,s the mother of the Hon. 1 ,w JIm,Sler ,0 Fnnce a,,,, Doctor ""'T ? Rsh-the first of whom is , M m0St Prrund and ng treatises ever published on the voice. '"j W''dW f LeWi" lT"S' We beUeVe Bti11 n 8 Vici"Uy f New York- MrsMaa,son ,s in ''iington. Mrs. Bradford widV .? hrst and SKUst Attorney General 0 tl,e Um,eii states, is in Burlington, New . ,,(,,, al, ru ucn. ccnuyier, sans Penr et sans P". and wife of the immor- , W-h," d ! "TT the trinity of human COnCert' w a few Ays Mnce Broadway. Here are five of Kolloa 1. 1 I. . t - . , v.., Bioi me it-vees 01 tne nrsi rres,he :.it wi i . . .... party, coum they assembled! Literary World Short Patent Mermon. Perhaps it may not be amiss to remind vnn r ,u r .. . . . 7 - Z ' TI 'n " V"7 ASh f110"; " trusta 'y he X" V. fc.'J ' L lr " ' . T7" , Vr- . ' . V " r1'"""3 ",K n,s ",s Journeyturns liiuui j id for 'F. . mens' labor, his living, &c, must be punctualYou, Mrand Mr.and a hundred others I could name, have taken .:,!, i, i ,u. u. newspaper. Have you ever complied win. in? ui juur Miusurinuuu i nave a i n nr - l :...:i vr 1 nY V ILU "otCOME. '..0 kiss me and gr myd the maid of my heart, j And her Bs ,ny pay ,0 d art: '. - ri i- .1 n u iThe morn is approaching.my mother will know, I My kindest and dearest, O kiss me and go!" cl . , , . Sl PW AeWingl.ohiiwt y iTh'tthe thri of its P,?asure"'tiwd metostay: i0 Wg1(JkJ.SSed tiU cameinwilh its ; For she ra'id every momt, "O kiss me and go!" ad lison, Indiana, April, 1843. (Jood AalTire. j ,Iave vott Wn ,njttred in purse orin character? ,he f miIing anr, of forgiVeness find L. p0se in your bosom. Study not how you lnav wp, but U,e best way to return good for"evil. It was the constant habit of Bishop Boulter to forgive all who injured him, and he always enjoyed true peace of mind. After his death, the following lines were written by one of his friends. They are no less beautiful than true: "Some write th.'ir wrongs in marble: he, more just. Stooped down serene and wrote his iu the dust; Trod under foot, the sport of every wind, Swept from the earth, and blotted from the mind; There, buried in the dust, he bade them lie, And grieved they could uot 'scape th' Almigh ty'e eye." n. c. c. O "Its my luck," exclaims every man when he meets with misfortmne. An Italian poet once said in a fit of despair, that, if he had been bred a hatter, men would have been bom with out heads. Kxtrrmea Ttret. We notice in the late Washington Union that the Hon. Mr. Tillsbury, Member of Con gress from Texas, was on the ISth inst., married to Miss Rebecca S. Carpenter, of I enobscot. Maine. Mr. rillsbury, according to the old saying, might "have gone further and fared wor"e:" but h could nt hav gone a great

w) farther in thi eouutrr for a wife

I Love Yon. I love you 'tis the simplest way The thing I feel to tell; Yet if I told it all the day, You'd never guess how well; You are my comfort and my light My very life you seem; I think of you all day; all night 'Tis but of you I dream. There's pleasure in the lightest word That you can speak to me; My soul is like th Eolian chord, And vibrates under thee. I never read the love song yrt, So thrilling, fond, and true, But in my own heart I have met Some kinder thought for you. I bless the shadows on your face, The light upon your hair I'd like for hours to sit and trace The passing changes there; I love to hear your voice's tone,

Although you should not say A single word to dream upon When that has died away. Oh! you are kindly as the beam, That warms where'er it plays, And you are gentle as a dream Of happy future days And you are strong to do the right, And swift the wrong to flee And if you were not half so bright, You're all the world to me. Mart. What They sit for. A quaker who was examined before court, not using any other language than thee. 'thou.' and 'friend,' was asked by the presiding judge, pray Mr , do you know what we sit here for?' "Yea verily, do I, said the quaker 'three of you for two dollars each a day, and the fat one on the right, for one thousand dollars a year." Treatment of Domestir. A lady will never speak harshly to her servants -she will not even "hint a fault," in the pres ence of company. Any person can fall into a rage, and say rude, disagree able things, than wnicn, at such a time, nothing is so utterly contemptible. To reprove calmly and judi ciously, that is at proper times, and on proper occasions, is the mark of a real refinementWhen one sees a lady so far forget herself, as to be angry with her servants before her guests, one is apt to wonder if she really boxes their ears when no one is present. .Hake your Iteds, Young Indies. When you leave school, take care of vour own chamber. It is a good plan to strip the clothes off y our bed, and shake it up as soon as you rise from it; by doing it then, your cap protects your hair from lint and feathers; and being lightly clothed, your movements are per fectly free, and theglow occasioned by exercise, manes you on a cold morning feel less dread of cold water. You can finish making your bed and (lust your furniture after you are dressed. and before breakfast, if there is time; but if not, return and do it as soon as possible after that meal is over. Too food to be Ihmi. A young man at a social party was urged to sing a song, lie replied that he would first tell a story, and then if they persisted in their de- i man Is he would try and execute a song. When a boy, he said, he took lessons on singing, and !

on Sunday morning he went into his father's ! American has ever been the consistent advocate garret to practice by himself. When in full of despotism, which ever fits men for the basest play he was suddenly sent for by the old gen- ' personal sycophancy of power. You and they tleman. j have ventured to call my letter "infamous and This is pretty conduct, said the father, pretty atrocious." If it be infamous, it ss so in it employment for a son of pious parents to be "facts," not iu its "words." H. Clay is responsawing boards on the Sabbath mornjtig loud sible for the "facts," I only for the "words." enough to be heard by the neighbors. Sit down The facts neither you nor they have ventured to and take your book. The young man was ex- deny. The affectation that "my" Mter was cused from singing the proposed song. too bad for publication, is the shallow pretence A Cure Tor Uearnem. (of knaves! Outside calumny was all that was The Boston Bee tells the following story of left you. In this you were decidedly at home! JoeH. who formerly drove an express wagon j The American was smart enough to deal in from the head of Commeicial wharf. Joe was "generals;" you were wily enough to "specify."

not only deaf, but stuttered. He likewise had j Your "three" allegations stand branded with the failing of borrowing money and forgetting the "lie." The allegations bassed upon the testo pay it again. One msrning he was dunned , timony of Borland and Davidson, were disproved

by a person to whom he owed five dollars. "Come Joe, can't you me pay that money to-day?" "T-t-t-the horse has g-g-gone to the b-black-smith's." "I dou't want the horse, I want your money." L-L-Lewis' "T-t-t-the truck is down to wharf for a 1-1-load of p-p-pork." "I don't want the truck," said the man, "I waut those five dollars vou owe me." I m-m-made," replied Joe, "a g-g-good peck ou s-s-some b-b-boards I sold to the Su gar refinery." The man then wrote what he wanted on Joe's slate. "I-I-can't see," said Joe, "I l-left my specks at h-h-home." Finding all his efforts useless, the man nsked Joe, in a low tone of voice "What will you have to driuk?" "A l-l-little b-b-brandy and water," replied Joe, promptly. Xj Helloa Tim, I wants to ax you -a qiiestun. Well, exceed. What's the most like a man not to be a man? Well a nigger I reckon. You're a liar, it's a great big boy. (Tj Pending the recent discussion In the United States Senate on the mission to Rome, one of the Senators, not very active in the de bate, amused himself with the following epi grammatic diversion: "Pope's Kssay on Man" Was a wonderful plan. With which but few can cope: But here, I'm afraid, It is thrown in the shade, By the essay of man ou the Pope. Poland. BT CAMrBF.LI.. Yes thy proud lords, unpitied land! shall see That man has yet a soul and dare b free! A little while, along thy sadening plains, Ths starless night of Desolation reigns; Truth shall restore the light, Tyrants! in rain ye trace the wizard ring; In Tain ye limit mind's unwearied spring; What! can ye lull the winged winds asleep, Arrest the rolling world, or chain the deep? No! the wild wave contents your seeptered band It rollM not Wck when Canute pv command!

THE TIMES.

C. n. Clay. We publish to-day the letter of Cassius M. Clay. We have no intenion of meddling with the quarrel between Cassius and Henry, lnt having published the original letter and the charges, we cannot help publishing his answer, as a matter of news in which our readers are interested: Itter from CasiT !W. Cloy. For the Lnuiivillt- Conner To the Eds. of the IjonMTille Jottrnnl. Madison CortTT.Kv .i May 18th, lf43) Sirs. As humble as you seem to deem me, I am not so fallen in self respect, as to enter into a war of words with you. You have never done me, or any henorable man.justicee Your course therefore towards me was such as I anticipated. If all the Union knew you, as well as the people of Kentucky, I should not take the I unci nnriAA nf rnn. .1. .ft......: I 1 .. : T

. ..i.0 . ucin iiniit-u uaiuuimrs. j uu ui uvuiiuaiang a party candidate lor the rresinot, however, affect indifference to public opin- dency. Iu a few days a Whig Convention will ion, as made by t he press of our country. Ev- . meet in Philadelphia for the same purpose, and

ery man's usefulness may be impaired or destroyed even by such editors as yourselves; and whilst I shall always rather struggle to be right, than rightly represented, I shall not loose any proper occasion to vindicate my character and mv rtublic nets. Vdii DAom in ti.:.,!. 1... it- !

Jt- . , ... . .,,. u iiuinuin i Tiiuuiis are gotten up, and lite motives man like myself of little importance In the world, j l"ich govern them iu their conventional caIn one sense it is true. Yes, ou may add, that ' parity. A nominating convention and lb

if I, and even II. Clay, were blotted out of exis-1 niode cf selecting delegates to form such convenience, the world would move on unconscious of ( tion, are unknown to our constitution and laws, its loss! But, however unimportant I am to the . Hence they have nol-gal existence; whether world, it is important that justice should be done j they do or do not r present th will of the

me. It is important that the humblest riliron ! i in the republic should be sustained in a fiee and j manly avowal of his views, however feeble, of men and measures. I have not yet, and I trust this people have not yet, subscribed to the faith that the world was made for Ca-sar. We are all freemen; eqnal in the eye of the Constitu tion and the laws, we call noVian master. As a member of a republic, whilst many have displayed more abilities than I have, I deny that any one has been more ready to make self-sacrifice for the country's cause. In venturing, then, to give my opinions of men and measures, however you may reguard me, I do not deem myself an intruder upon the public. Whatever I may say I expect to be estimated according to its truth and its power. If 1 utter nothing worthy of being heard, or the contrary, it is sure at last to be reckoned according to its worth, In selecting some other man than II. Clay for my candidate for the Presidency, I trust I have not proved false to the Whig party, far less to the country. The sentiment that it is "belter to be defeated with II. Clay, than to win with any other man," is worthy only of the followers of a Ca-sar or a Cromwell! I am confident it meets no response in the good sense, or the good feeling, of all republicans. If then, a man mH5r De nolleflt a"l patriotic, and jet not a blind follower of II. Clay, I trust it Is Bot trea son to give reasons for such a conroo. m. The denunciation of a portion of th press was to have been expected. I knew full well that of "parisites," II. Clay had a goodly 'portion. Of these the Ppiladelphia North American and Louisville Journal are not the least in bitterness of words- If rumor be true, the N. American was'the "cat' s paw" of H. Clay "in inviting" to the Lexington speech. The N. not only by distant and untrammelled witnesses, but by the "impossibility of circumstantial evidence." In your alligations with regard to II. Clay's debts, you are equally unfortunate. The public will see that In the word "we," I meant the Whig party. Whilst in fact the five I dollars I gave to H. J. Bodley for II. Clay's benefit, "to raise monuments and pay debts," gets you again on uie nip: You first gave Maj. Borland as authority for my saying that I was the son of H. Clay. But when I had came out in the Courier and Enquirer, and proven that Borland could not have possitively known any thing about it, your sneak : ing calumniator tells us that he heard Danley land Davidson sav so! How can the public ' know but that this is as base a lie as the oth-r? Wheu Messrs Danley and Davidson come for ward with their calumnies, if ever they do, I am ready to meet them There Is something exquistely ridiculous in the idea of Maj. Borland's endorsing for the hoxor of others. When I first met this Arkansas man Borland he was going about in the hacienda of Encarnacion with his "honorable" men robbino the house by breaking the doors and chest. He had been three days and nights in the hacienda, and Major Gaines was courteous enough to al low him to take me and my command, the forth night, into the same trap, contrary to my most ... energetic and angry protest. I told him next day, when a prisoner, in Gaines' presence that if I was on a court martial I should be bound by mv oth to sttoor bin, for asshin sTPrmiTV. -

Thehovlsh o-reediness with which he volunteers'ocrats hold Whig doctrines, and

to retail his second hand slander, proves that the executive" Senator is yet sore under my contempt. At Mexico he revenged himself upon me by violating his parole of honor; and by run .' Cl ning off like a felon, he endangerd once more my life, and repaid me for saving his own, by becoming my ungrateful slenderer! I say there is smolhing exquisitely "rich" In Borland s vouching for the"H00R" of any body! As an Arkansas repttdiator, before any Impartial tribunal In Christendom, he would be immured In a dungeon! For his assinine stupidity as an offi - cer, he would, if justly dealt with, have long since been shot! As a violator of his parole of honor, he stands a felon in the eyes of natioos. and he has escaped a rope only by cowardly and flight!

From the past, I think I may treat your fu

ture calumnies with silent contempt. Yon were a leaden stilletto. Your silly attempt some years ago to kill Daniel Webster, by gross and infamous lies, should teach you to confine your blows to men who are on your own vulgar. beastly level! ou have already injured II Clay enough by writing his life; your maudlin attempt at a defence now will hardly atoue for me past: If any man is curious to learn more of your nuhappy life, I ref,r him to the Campaign Uemocrat of May 1st inst. He has turned my indignation into pity; which causes me, more in sorrow than iu, anger, to commend you to a pint of new milk and a wet sheet! Your obedient servant, C M. Clay. I residential !'ominntieits. Mnuday was the day of meeting of the Deinocratic Convention in Baltimore for the purpose Af . . the whole country will be calied on to support ! oneorthe ollierof the candidates thus nomiiiaud. vith this certain result of these conventional nominations, it may not be iuopportua at the present time to inquire into the inans bv which iIiod. . : , , people. To assume ih:il th.-v t ; . " J "v 1" it tlier fore, the question is opn. "Tim- is money," and the honest and industrious portion of the community seldom leave tVir business to attend meetings to appoint del- gates to a convention. This is proven by the insignificant vote given at the general election. It may be said that the honest, industrious and patriotic should atteud these meetings; but as we said before, they are unknown lo our laws, and industrious, business men cannot, without pecuniary loss, attend such meetings as are gotten up by the drones of society for the pnrpow of foisting themselves into office. Those who have watched the maneuvering of the gtters-up of conventions, know that, previous to the meeting, the liizy and worthless who have no busius to engage iu them, busy themselves in drowning up those they can rely on as tools, who, like themlselves, have little to do, and can generally be found where they had better not be. Thus pre pared, the lenders attend the meeting at an ear ly hour; the appointments are airbed on previous to the meeting, and the resolution written out. The whole matter is agreed on in secret conclave, by the few before the meeting, is suf ficiently proved by the appointments of the chair. The works of the different committees are always prepared, and iu their pockets, when appointed and in almost every instance, these leader have are:nJ tliem tKe same plana to which they belong, a suffiVle'dt number of still more debased iuen,whom they use to carry their points. The appointment are then put forth, with the most brazen effrontery, as th act of the party. Now that the deleg ites are all appointed by both parties, and the sense of t'le people known, so faras itcan be made known by these primary meetings, ns they are called, who will be the nominee of either, U as far from being known as it was before the fiM deleg ite was appointed. The meeting of the delegates of both parties, is for the purpose of parcelling out the offices of the country which are asined to the different individutls in advance. This accounts for the tardy action of congress The members of all the parties Hre scheming and in triguing for the division of the spoils for the next four years, to the utter nepleet of the best in teresis oi tne country. iniess me j ii'jian war in Oregon. The near approach of an Indian war there, has been known throughout the United States for many months, yet Congress has neglected to do any thing, because the mem bers could raise no excitement on the subject to bear on the elections, and the people of Oregon are left to struggle for their own existence with out aid or couutenance ofnnv kind from our government. This is chargeable ti the organization of par ties as they now exist the leaders of which, have in too many cases no object in view but the spoils of office, and this slate of things will continue until the honest portion of the people hurl from power the incubusss that have long weighed them down, and elei t t oifiVe such men as they would confide their private basiness to! We make these reina k s to stamp the falsehoods that will lie iu lustriously circulated in a few days, that the nominations which will be made will be nominations of the people. The people, as we sid before, do not know who will be nominated by tlm respective parties to which they belong consequently the nomination cannot be theirs, nor are t'lev bouud iu any way to respect these nominations, as the choice of one or the other party. The assertion that the people are the nominators of the enmiidates which will be put forward for the pret-idenoy, is the m-hme of imprudence, and we advise all patriots to cut loose from the political charlatans, who rule the country through base means. and vote as treemen snouio tor me nest man presented. The more so as there is no principle of government at issue between the parties, as we have frequently shown. The tlividon ofi . ....... :.., wi,:. .-a tt... i,.,o pa"" i ' iia imimi.aiiuu iu L'rcal Liuimuai i ru-iuirs 11 i loumiauon in gre at poot.ca. .nc-ures .t . kept upmere.yasan instrument to must ...to office a set of men unworthy the confidence of 1 the country. In one part of the country Demin another Wbigs hold Denn cratio doctrines. For instance Democratic Pennsylvania is for the tariff! So ' is Whig Massachusetts! Whig Georgia is op- ' posed to a tariff! lug Louisiana in favor of i one! Democrat. c New Himpshire is in favorj of a tariff! Democratic irgima is opposed to a1 ... . . , , tariff! Does not this show conclusively, that taint. " ' there are no party lines founded on general rrlnr,i"' " - - " to the great evils of party, and compel politicians honertly and fairly. Cm. Com. ! llappiuim A Birman soldi -r being asked Ihe definition of happiness, answered "Being turned into a Buffalo, and lyiug down in a mellow of high gnu- higher thxn the head, to it all day long wl'hout rowquito to annny." . , i ii" . . . i. ... 1 1 i

CorresponoVnce of the American. Lexington, Kr.t Mat IS, 15 19. Dear Clarkson-We need not talk of the magnet,c telegraph being auy great things any more. W e have something among U9 far in advance of all the world ever saw in telegraphic communication. Professor Keely, known in your regiora some years ago, in familiar parlance, as "Iko Keely," has been for the last month giving lectures and demonstrations, on Animal Magnet

ism to large classes. Professor Keelv is no or dinary man. He has pushed his wav from h. scurity and poverty to distinction vea. fame. and wealth. Mesmerism is not now, in his hands, what it was a few years Bgo, when in Brookvilh, he put Miss in a magnetic state, from 'thich the sweet singing of bro. Joe. W., could not even arouse her. But snnersedn. to a great extent, the studv of Therapeutics and medical practice, it now cures what even the renowned Dr. Noodlesoup never pretended more than to help a little. Deafmss blindness, paralysis, spinal affections, lame legs, crippled f-et, rheumatic affections, and many other ilia that flesh is heir to," disappear before the mngneiic power of Professor Keely. While the Professor remained in Lexington, he had pa tients from several surrounding counties, who flocked to him, as to the good Samaritan. In a few week yea, days, they professed, in pubslied certificates, to be able to see, hear, walk. ump and run. &e. Sec, to the astonishment of themselves and all the surrounding natives. Respectable citizens, professional gentlemen, and many of the beautiful and the fair, who have professed scepticism heretofore, now say, "I ieio, i yield, 1 can hold out no m ire;" and thev ha-e beside certified that Mr. Keely is a gentleman a proficient in the scieiire and comes among them well sustained in character as a gentleman, and a man of unblemished honor. The professor, after having ma.le, in the eonrse of some 4 or 5 wetks, by bis leetnars, the revelalion of the secret and cures, perhaps 2.0C0 dollars, we regret to larn, was called home to Ohio, to witness the death of his father. In Louisville, and New Albany, ns we las in Lexington, Mr. Keely has b-en well received. and to the astonishment of thousands, has wrought wonders iu this new remedial science. There are three weekly papers, one semi-we-kly, and one daily published in this city. Of the 3 offices, where these publications are made, two are whig and one di m tcratic. I pre sume that none of them are very liberally sus tained. The democratic paper is very poorly edited, and I presume tha editor can't afford to write inu h. The other editors spin it out by the yard, and sometimes give pretty gcod specimens of correct editorial. Tulitics is rather stagnant, I guess, in and nboiit here just at this time. Many who have been ardent for Mr. Clavs elevation to the Pres idency, are not so sanguine of his nomination now, as they w?re a month or two mo, and hence they have relapsed Into a kind of mesmeric state, from which, noiliing will aroufe th:m but the announcement of ti e nomination next month. I am not a politician mt self, but I think I may safely say that Gen. Taylor can got more votes in Kentucky, than any other living man. Thousands of whig and democrats are tired of, and di-gusted with, the offica seeking patriotism of party leaders, and if Gen. Taylor is not ruu, they will uot even go to the polls, this f ill. Tiie convention question, at this time, Is exciting no particular attention. It will be carried by an overwhelming majority. "The Constitution must be changed," is the language of the great mass. And to it will be. But what the MethodUt discipline calls "the groat evil of Livery," will uot be very materially interfered with. Slavery is fastened upon the states south, by la a, interest, domestic habit, und prejudice, and the time of ils abolishment is, I presume, fariu the future. No doubt if the question were put directly to the people slavery or no tlavery the latter would, even now, prevail in Kentucky; but that is not the way it will be done. Slaveholders, though a minority in the state, will have a majority in the Convention. They uill make a Constitution which the people will accept and "the peculiar institution" in Kentucky will not pass awny during the present age. This the north may condemn, but v ill they consent to the burning to ashes of thtir mammoth distilleries, hie!) are proving such a curse t't th whole country? Why not? Is interest in such establishments any more sacred than that which is invested in fieh and blood onder 8 black skin? To make whiskey for gain, is always a Mn; but It is uot true that the slaveholder is always a sinner. In many instances tho slaveholder is the best friend and protector of the poor slave. This the slave k nows, and hence he could not be per-uaded, und. r present circumstances, to leave or forsike his master. And until some extensive and feasible plan of freedom and political equality and privilege connected with their colonization is ngreed upon fy the whole American people, north and south, the peculiar institution will exit in the south. Even then, emancipation must be gradual, or many thousands of families now comfortable and happy, would be ruined. The wife, iu innumerable instances, iu the svulh, never made a cup of coflee a loaf of bread or even made up her own bed, iu her life, and so we might say of the daughters. Truly, si lvery is a "pe culiar institution;" one that will require a prud nt and delicate hand in its eradication. Tho j difficult as the task may be, it is now plain to bo . . r . . , ... . seen, iroui me spirit w men prevails, both north and south, that either slavery must cease, iu the south, or the Union of our Federal Republic will be dissolved. May Elhiopa stretch out her hand unto God, that our country may be saved from such a political death such an overwhelming overthrow j of all national glory Yours, Connecticut senator. Tll t . I,,... ,.( r....,.acl.ei,, r. V.;A. . ' . ' last elected Roger fcherman Baldwin (who now , ,, T . . . , , hnlila Ih. tmiM ntfiea hi' mnint)iuint . f tl. Cl m. viuo ,.iv ' ' " ' J .. j - j ii . ... v ii t ui i;ic UUf " ernor) to the United Slates Senate, for the unexpired term of Senator Huntington, deceased; and Tiuman Sm.h fof Qf fi om 4lh of Mareh nmj-ority ;f Bjx 1 votes. Mr. Baldwin's term will expire on tha 4ili of March, 1S31. Mr. Smith is now a inemrot the Lower House of Copies, from Litchfield and FairfiM counties. He will succeed Mr Nll(W) m8k(f a Jrh;g p(in pf pp jn Senate.